Actually, Apple is one of the few companies that is actually environmental conscious. I don't see Dell, HP or Asus with any Glass & Alu or BFR free products or hounding their suppliers for better work conditions. Dell charges the exact same price as Apple for cheaper, less environmentally friendly plastic stuff. China is stuck in the industrial age right now - 100 years ago we weren't any better - they will become better much faster (hopefully without blowing the now-closed hole in the ozone layer) thanks to the experience and technology we used to make living conditions better as well as both internal and external demands of environmentalism and fair worker treatment.
I hate button-icons. Ribbon brings that to a whole new level. 100 pixels wasted on buttons I never use. On the old versions I could move and delete toolbars as necessary, make it look small and out of the way in a menu.
Ribbon may be great for frequent MS Office users but the only reason I use MS Office is IF someone requires me to send something in DOC format (like my once a year HR review). I send out stuff in PDF and use the appropriate tool to generate my documents. Office is an amalgam of things that try to do everything but do nothing well.
You can also create an OR (cross 2 redstone wires) and a NOT gate (wire to a block with a redstone torch). But what do you think your current computer is made out of? At the very low level they're all very basic gates of the same type.
I studied electronics design and while doing the high-level stuff is fun in a simulator, to build a unit we were at some point required to condense all of our logic to as few chips as possible because a single chip can have 4-16 gates but they'll be 4-16 of the same gates and chips are expensive and wire (on a circuit board at least) is cheap (it has to be there anyway) while chips (even though they may be only 50c) are expensive and take up a lot of space which helps a lot to save costs in mass production.
NeXT was a GREAT product but Jobs forgot to market it (I think the real goal was to license it), he then bought his own old company out and created Mac OS X with it.
Woz created a great computer and Jobs sold it very well, not because he was a great marketer as back then everybody had a CPU-with-stuff to sell but because it was a great product.
Scully wanted to sell the brand first and overpriced a lot of the stuff he sold. Some of it was good and innovative (like the Newton) but by then people were already burned by the brand (like I won't ever buy HP, Nokia or Dell again even though the N800 was good).
If you're like me and far enough from it so you're only forecast is rain & storm, you should still get provisions for a few days. I can live without power and survive even though it's going to be hot, humid and I have a newborn in the house.
The US grid is simply not prepared to handle several sudden cuts from both power sources and power drains. NYC is a big power drain and has a few power sources as well.
You may be out of the way from the natural forces but the forces of forgotten human greed extend well beyond it.
It's universally accepted (by computers) and easy to calculate with. If everybody used unixtime there wouldn't be any date conversion bugs (as Outlook is so famous for).
Maybe not messing with TCP traffic would incentivize the creators of those stacks (and I know exactly who you're talking about) to update or write better systems. It's never a good idea to mess with someone's TCP traffic no matter what the problem is. TCP does a VERY good job at handling bandwidth issues, routing problems and a host of other problems any type of connection might have.
IPv6 is being implemented way too late. If you as a carrier didn't implement IPv6 about 5-10 years ago when everybody started NAT-ing as a solution to an ever growing problem then you were too late when the first iPhone's came out.
By the time they get to that user base (10,000 is easily handled on any modern server, 100,000 not so much) they have either already failed or been bought out leaving someone else with the mess to clean up.
They might also use Amazon or something similar to host their data and not care about the overhead. Then they'll also complain that it's "expensive" to run a hosted app and that Apple, Google or whoever they distribute through takes too much of their money.
That's what I've always been told (probably an urban myth). I think the myth goes that if you drink distilled or deionized water for more than a few days that you remove/decrease certain minerals and electrolytes which could be dangerous to your health (which is the reverse of drinking too much water which is also deadly).
Funny that both Oxygen and Hydrogen are both dangerous to your health when pure but not as a combination.
That is most likely for a heat exchanger type system then. There are indeed data centers that use chilled water for cooling but they are either used in combination with special purpose racks (with a sealed internal system) or each rack/server has a heat exchanger that uses another fluid inside the guts of the servers. You won't see water in a system that have high risk of component, connection or user failure or running through the electronics of a server.
Given that 'water' cooling in computers is never done with water (and most other closed systems besides cars are neither) but with an inert fluid it's not really that big of a problem.
Even in home computers, "water" in water cooling (as some dweebs have indeed used tap water) has been known to calcify, have algae growths and/or corrode the components and there are a lot of other liquids that are better at transferring heat than water.
Not everybody has more than 400MB in their e-mail account and a LOT of that can be compressed or de-duplicated (spam). Google doesn't need THAT much. I think for ALL their data they're probably close to 100 PB which is again, not all that impressive these days. Off course they have it redundantly in every data center so their capacity is much larger.
From a scientific standpoint, this would be capable of storing video of everything a person has seen in his life or when running a simulation of the Universe, store all the properties of the Universe in the first few seconds after the big bang.
It would be 122PB. 2PB lost on bad marketing. Gimme my 1024 bytes back. But all-in-all this isn't that surprising. You can get 1PB in a 42U rack these days.
As a fun side note: You'll also need 122PB of tape storage (or 1.5 systems like this) just for backups. That's a lot of tape.
Thanks a lot Linus. A lot of the industry's heavyweights are getting older though. Linus, RMS. Jobs, Woz and Gates already semi-retired. Malda is moving on.
The big question is going to be: who will be as influential in the next 20 years as those guys and is it even possible or necessary?
The problem is they're trying to imitate an already established or hot product. Imitating is fine if you can keep the price well below the 'original' product or you make massive innovations to it. Microsoft Kin and HP TouchPad were not only knockoffs, they were bad knockoffs with inferior UI, software and performance and cost as much as the original.
The Android model has fared better because it's going on much cheaper phones and a lot larger choice of phones (sometimes even better phones) than the iPhone and it has as a result flourished among developers. Symbian was a decent smartphone system predating the iPhone but it died because they actively excluded most of the home-brew developers and only targeted their own phones which were decent but because they didn't foresee any competition stagnated in features and performance.
There are actually explanations for the creation of the universe out of nothing. When there is nothing, there are still quantum thermal fluctuations that could've triggered a universe to exist.
You're right on the rest though. The 'observed' universe (even with the Kepler telescope) is currently less than 1% of the estimated size of the universe. So your statistics could easily double or even triple in the next decade.
I used to live in a first world country where $2000/year funded an entire year of non-government health care. I don't think you understand how much insurance companies are fleecing you now until you see how much they actually don't pay out.
My US employer now gives out ~$12,000 for my health insurance and I pay ~$3000 on top of that from my salary. My wife went into the hospital (which is run by my employer by the way) for 2 days, the bill was $7000, the insurance company made me pay 20% of it in copay and they sent me a letter that besides what I payed, they 'agreed' to pay the hospital $700 extra for all services rendered and the rest gets picked up by the state.
Actually, they're not using 'secret' lists anymore. They're just going after people because they have been granted the authority to do so. I live about 100 miles from a US border (within the 200 mile from any border that the DHS has been granted full authority) and even though it was promised to only be used for external threats, recently the US Border Patrol in conjunction with local police recently used heat seeking drones to find pot plantations in the area and made arrests.
The VLK license codes are usually the ones used in pirated Windows. The VLK codes are easy to mask when the system dials in (it's not unusual that multiple machines have the same code), they usually unlock all the different flavors Windows comes in and not easy for Microsoft to de-active (unless they want to piss off a major client).
It doesn't prevent them from doing so, the institution I work at is at it's 3rd or 4th VLK for WinXP and at least one of them is easily found in Google and will fail the 'Genuine' test.
The problem I find with pushing OS code is that when (not if) a flaw is found in the system or a private key gets found it opens the way for malware to enter into the system and masking as OS boot code it won't be easy to find or remove until it's too late. It's a security incident waiting to happen. The other obvious problems are when the system is not on a network or their systems are not available besides bandwidth. If they allow for systems to run without 'checking in' a crack for the system will easily be built.
If you haven't already migrated away from Windows, I would recommend doing it soon. There is no reason anymore to stay with it. I have successfully phased it out at my place of employment for both Mac and Linux. Sadly people still depend on MS Office so I still have to donate to Bill Gates' trust fund but it's a bunch cheaper than having to buy Windows, Windows Server, CAL's for every single piece of server software they sell etc.
If you don't believe me: - Anybody can create an SSL certificate for any domain given the right access and if you or your computer accepts a certain CA - There are many in the list on your computer that you probably haven't ever heard of and aren't really trustworthy - my computer has AOL, GoDaddy, Verisign, several state-run from Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands, China,... Visa, RSA (lost some of their keys recently), DoD - you're still not protected against any of them. - Given enough resources somebody could find a collision with the root certificate. With current GPU clusters this seems to be a matter of years now. - CA's that were trusted before might not be trusted now (ipsCA) but still their root certificates are valid until they expire.
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Luckily the moon is only a few minutes away at the speed of light.
Or will we see disclaimers in their commercials: Not applicable on the Moon.
Will they sing the moon sailor song? "We are sailors of the moon and we carry a harpoon"
Actually, Apple is one of the few companies that is actually environmental conscious. I don't see Dell, HP or Asus with any Glass & Alu or BFR free products or hounding their suppliers for better work conditions. Dell charges the exact same price as Apple for cheaper, less environmentally friendly plastic stuff. China is stuck in the industrial age right now - 100 years ago we weren't any better - they will become better much faster (hopefully without blowing the now-closed hole in the ozone layer) thanks to the experience and technology we used to make living conditions better as well as both internal and external demands of environmentalism and fair worker treatment.
Well, from a purely capitalist viewpoint, the prices for labor and dumping waste material in a village are slightly higher here than there.
I hate button-icons. Ribbon brings that to a whole new level. 100 pixels wasted on buttons I never use. On the old versions I could move and delete toolbars as necessary, make it look small and out of the way in a menu.
Ribbon may be great for frequent MS Office users but the only reason I use MS Office is IF someone requires me to send something in DOC format (like my once a year HR review). I send out stuff in PDF and use the appropriate tool to generate my documents. Office is an amalgam of things that try to do everything but do nothing well.
You can also create an OR (cross 2 redstone wires) and a NOT gate (wire to a block with a redstone torch). But what do you think your current computer is made out of? At the very low level they're all very basic gates of the same type.
I studied electronics design and while doing the high-level stuff is fun in a simulator, to build a unit we were at some point required to condense all of our logic to as few chips as possible because a single chip can have 4-16 gates but they'll be 4-16 of the same gates and chips are expensive and wire (on a circuit board at least) is cheap (it has to be there anyway) while chips (even though they may be only 50c) are expensive and take up a lot of space which helps a lot to save costs in mass production.
Or you'd be really mad about the Geico commercials.
NeXT was a GREAT product but Jobs forgot to market it (I think the real goal was to license it), he then bought his own old company out and created Mac OS X with it.
Woz created a great computer and Jobs sold it very well, not because he was a great marketer as back then everybody had a CPU-with-stuff to sell but because it was a great product.
Scully wanted to sell the brand first and overpriced a lot of the stuff he sold. Some of it was good and innovative (like the Newton) but by then people were already burned by the brand (like I won't ever buy HP, Nokia or Dell again even though the N800 was good).
If you're like me and far enough from it so you're only forecast is rain & storm, you should still get provisions for a few days. I can live without power and survive even though it's going to be hot, humid and I have a newborn in the house.
The US grid is simply not prepared to handle several sudden cuts from both power sources and power drains. NYC is a big power drain and has a few power sources as well.
You may be out of the way from the natural forces but the forces of forgotten human greed extend well beyond it.
It's universally accepted (by computers) and easy to calculate with. If everybody used unixtime there wouldn't be any date conversion bugs (as Outlook is so famous for).
Maybe not messing with TCP traffic would incentivize the creators of those stacks (and I know exactly who you're talking about) to update or write better systems. It's never a good idea to mess with someone's TCP traffic no matter what the problem is. TCP does a VERY good job at handling bandwidth issues, routing problems and a host of other problems any type of connection might have.
IPv6 is being implemented way too late. If you as a carrier didn't implement IPv6 about 5-10 years ago when everybody started NAT-ing as a solution to an ever growing problem then you were too late when the first iPhone's came out.
By the time they get to that user base (10,000 is easily handled on any modern server, 100,000 not so much) they have either already failed or been bought out leaving someone else with the mess to clean up.
They might also use Amazon or something similar to host their data and not care about the overhead. Then they'll also complain that it's "expensive" to run a hosted app and that Apple, Google or whoever they distribute through takes too much of their money.
That's what I've always been told (probably an urban myth). I think the myth goes that if you drink distilled or deionized water for more than a few days that you remove/decrease certain minerals and electrolytes which could be dangerous to your health (which is the reverse of drinking too much water which is also deadly).
Funny that both Oxygen and Hydrogen are both dangerous to your health when pure but not as a combination.
That is most likely for a heat exchanger type system then. There are indeed data centers that use chilled water for cooling but they are either used in combination with special purpose racks (with a sealed internal system) or each rack/server has a heat exchanger that uses another fluid inside the guts of the servers. You won't see water in a system that have high risk of component, connection or user failure or running through the electronics of a server.
Crystals already give mW of power when deformed. It's used to weigh your fat ass on a digital scale.
Given that 'water' cooling in computers is never done with water (and most other closed systems besides cars are neither) but with an inert fluid it's not really that big of a problem.
Even in home computers, "water" in water cooling (as some dweebs have indeed used tap water) has been known to calcify, have algae growths and/or corrode the components and there are a lot of other liquids that are better at transferring heat than water.
Also, pure water (the undrinkable kind) is inert.
Not everybody has more than 400MB in their e-mail account and a LOT of that can be compressed or de-duplicated (spam). Google doesn't need THAT much. I think for ALL their data they're probably close to 100 PB which is again, not all that impressive these days. Off course they have it redundantly in every data center so their capacity is much larger.
From a scientific standpoint, this would be capable of storing video of everything a person has seen in his life or when running a simulation of the Universe, store all the properties of the Universe in the first few seconds after the big bang.
It would be 122PB. 2PB lost on bad marketing. Gimme my 1024 bytes back. But all-in-all this isn't that surprising. You can get 1PB in a 42U rack these days.
As a fun side note: You'll also need 122PB of tape storage (or 1.5 systems like this) just for backups. That's a lot of tape.
Thanks a lot Linus. A lot of the industry's heavyweights are getting older though. Linus, RMS. Jobs, Woz and Gates already semi-retired. Malda is moving on.
The big question is going to be: who will be as influential in the next 20 years as those guys and is it even possible or necessary?
The problem is they're trying to imitate an already established or hot product. Imitating is fine if you can keep the price well below the 'original' product or you make massive innovations to it. Microsoft Kin and HP TouchPad were not only knockoffs, they were bad knockoffs with inferior UI, software and performance and cost as much as the original.
The Android model has fared better because it's going on much cheaper phones and a lot larger choice of phones (sometimes even better phones) than the iPhone and it has as a result flourished among developers. Symbian was a decent smartphone system predating the iPhone but it died because they actively excluded most of the home-brew developers and only targeted their own phones which were decent but because they didn't foresee any competition stagnated in features and performance.
There are actually explanations for the creation of the universe out of nothing. When there is nothing, there are still quantum thermal fluctuations that could've triggered a universe to exist.
You're right on the rest though. The 'observed' universe (even with the Kepler telescope) is currently less than 1% of the estimated size of the universe. So your statistics could easily double or even triple in the next decade.
I used to live in a first world country where $2000/year funded an entire year of non-government health care. I don't think you understand how much insurance companies are fleecing you now until you see how much they actually don't pay out.
My US employer now gives out ~$12,000 for my health insurance and I pay ~$3000 on top of that from my salary. My wife went into the hospital (which is run by my employer by the way) for 2 days, the bill was $7000, the insurance company made me pay 20% of it in copay and they sent me a letter that besides what I payed, they 'agreed' to pay the hospital $700 extra for all services rendered and the rest gets picked up by the state.
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Actually, they're not using 'secret' lists anymore. They're just going after people because they have been granted the authority to do so. I live about 100 miles from a US border (within the 200 mile from any border that the DHS has been granted full authority) and even though it was promised to only be used for external threats, recently the US Border Patrol in conjunction with local police recently used heat seeking drones to find pot plantations in the area and made arrests.
The VLK license codes are usually the ones used in pirated Windows. The VLK codes are easy to mask when the system dials in (it's not unusual that multiple machines have the same code), they usually unlock all the different flavors Windows comes in and not easy for Microsoft to de-active (unless they want to piss off a major client).
It doesn't prevent them from doing so, the institution I work at is at it's 3rd or 4th VLK for WinXP and at least one of them is easily found in Google and will fail the 'Genuine' test.
The problem I find with pushing OS code is that when (not if) a flaw is found in the system or a private key gets found it opens the way for malware to enter into the system and masking as OS boot code it won't be easy to find or remove until it's too late. It's a security incident waiting to happen. The other obvious problems are when the system is not on a network or their systems are not available besides bandwidth. If they allow for systems to run without 'checking in' a crack for the system will easily be built.
If you haven't already migrated away from Windows, I would recommend doing it soon. There is no reason anymore to stay with it. I have successfully phased it out at my place of employment for both Mac and Linux. Sadly people still depend on MS Office so I still have to donate to Bill Gates' trust fund but it's a bunch cheaper than having to buy Windows, Windows Server, CAL's for every single piece of server software they sell etc.
Does SSL? No? Well then.
If you don't believe me: ... Visa, RSA (lost some of their keys recently), DoD - you're still not protected against any of them.
- Anybody can create an SSL certificate for any domain given the right access and if you or your computer accepts a certain CA
- There are many in the list on your computer that you probably haven't ever heard of and aren't really trustworthy - my computer has AOL, GoDaddy, Verisign, several state-run from Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands, China,
- Given enough resources somebody could find a collision with the root certificate. With current GPU clusters this seems to be a matter of years now.
- CA's that were trusted before might not be trusted now (ipsCA) but still their root certificates are valid until they expire.