"Our Environment. Sure launching a rocket into space take huge amounts of carbon."
So what takes a large amount of carbon?
Burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen?
Manufacturing the liquid oxygen and hydrogen?
Manufacturing the aluminum?
Perhaps it takes a lot of *energy*, but I don't know where a huge amount of carbon is involved. Help me out.
I have no problem with it. He has no responsibility to microsoft, or to anyone who has purchased microsoft software. He did the research on his own time. He owns it, and is responsible only to himself.
I see nothing inexcusable about it. If you don't like it, you should pay someone to find bugs with the software you use.
You can do that, but I bet you don't. If some bugs are found by someone, it sucks to be you. Get the source code and audit it yourself.
You do have a microsoft windows source code license, right? If not, whose fault is that?
I write software. Sometimes I publish it. It is my work. Sometimes I find bugs. I have reported bugs to DEC, prime, microsoft, sun, redhat, fedora, suse, mandriva, mageia, and others. If they listen to me and respond, then I report more bugs. Since microsoft ignores my bug reports, I have stopped sending them bug reports. My choice.
Was he under any obligation to show it to google? to microsoft?
I don't think so.
This 'protocol' you speak of is just what some people want. That doesn't make it correct, common, or required.
He has done nothing that should get him fired. If he were, he could sue someone's a$$.
Get a clue.
Is he on microsoft's payroll?
If not, why should he inform them?
Because they screwed up and didn't find their own bug?
He can do whatever he wants to do with his research. He can tell Microsoft. He can post the info. He call sell it to the highest bidder. It is his work. If microsoft really cared, at least they could offer a bug bounty. That would show they are serious about getting bugs out of their software.
It was a blue pick up truck, not a van, but it certainly was not a nissan titan, nor was it the correct color.
I suspect that the people who shot up the 2 vehicles, will end up paying a high price, which really means that the people living in the cities will end up paying a high price.
There is no car made that has a more powerful engine than the brakes.
What is interesting, is that even if you are going 200kph, have the throttle fully depressed, it only takes about 10-15% longer to stop the car using the brakes.
I think that Jay Leno made a car with a monster engine of around 20+ liters that had crappy drum brakes. For that car, I don't think the brakes would stop the car if the throttle was fully depressed.
A few years ago, car & drive did a test using a 400+ hp corvette. Stopped just fine.
If the brakes are defective, of course all bets are off.
Do your 'workstations' have intel xeon cpus or amd cpus? Otherwise, it is quite unlikely that they have ECC memory, which is pretty much required of real workstations.
Real workstations are reliable (and quiet). Just being quiet doesn't count.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
"After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[34] Erds won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use."
By rare, you mean all Asus motherboards. You have heard of Asus? I presume they are in the consumer space? Look at any AM3+ motherboard, or even AM3 or AM2+. All of them support ECC.
I am not sure what you mean by 'comically thirsty'. Mine usually gets 60 miles per gallon.
The worst mileage I got was when I drove in the desert when it was well over 100 degrees F, and I was driving 80mph. I got about 48 miles per gallon.
I suppose there are some turbo diesels that get better mpg, but they are not sold in my country.
I think you are a bit confused.
Your custom solar panel produces 600w?
Where? In outer space? I have 200w panels, and I don't think 2 would fit on top of a pathfinder. And mine are 18% efficient at the panel level, which is pretty efficient.
Perhaps if you use multi-junction space grade cells, you could get 600w, but that would cost more than a new pathfinder.
That is because Neil Armstrong was being interviewed by Sir Patrick Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore
Moore is a pretty famous amateur astronomer, who is quite well educated in astronomy. Sorta analogous to Carl Sagan.
If you had a contemporary interviewer of similar stature fo Moore, I suspect they would ask similar questions.
The only question is would it air on prime time TV. In my opinion, British TV is generally far more scholarly than US television.
I am not sure what an 'expensive expensive' gun safe is, but the gun safes i have seen that weigh 500 come from costco or sams club and are not expensive.
It is hard to imagine a house fire hot enough to melt steel. Even 9-11 only partially melted the steel structure.
You would think a large steel box should be easy to spot after a fire...
It is trivial. I wrote a python script to do it.
It is licenced under gpl 3.
It uses hard links, and I run it every time I backup a significant amount of data to my 10tb fileserver.
As it uses hard links, it is designed for storing backup data, not for general usage.
It can be found at http://jdeifik.com/ under 'Disk deduplicator'
You say you checksum EVERYTHING. I wonder what type of intel i3 processor supports ECC?
From what I know, only intel xeon processors support ECC. Of course all amd processors support ECC and many cheap amd compatible motherboards do also. I bought a 3 core amd processor, a motherboard and 4gb of ECC ram for under $200, over a year ago.
How reliable can a huge disk array be without ECC memory for the cpu?
Perhaps the AC Propulsion parts are expensive. That is what happens when you build in quantities of 1 to 10 at a time. Perhaps they aren't identical. Again, they don't do large scale manufacturing.
I have driven most of their cars, starting with the Honda CRX, forward, except the E-box and the t-zero (though I have ridden in it). They have been building electric cars for close to 20 years. They have invented siginficant techonolgy. Has tesla? It is a stretched lotus with a modified AC Propulsion drivetrain. It is well marketed and financed. BTW, you get much better regenerative braking when you use front wheel drive, though perhaps less sports car performance.
I wrote a simple python program that does file based disk de-duplication.
It will work anywhere python runs as long as the filesystem supports hard links.
With the hardware solutions in the article, prices start at $25k or so, and you are beholden to the hardware vendor. Doing it in software will work with any reasonable OS, any reasonable filesystem, and any hardware. Sure, block based de-duplication is more efficient, but it is filesystem specific, and right now ZFS is the only somewhat reasonable filesystem that supports it.
I think you are clueless when you say "Generally his ideas aren't taken very seriously by academia in Computer Science".
Lets list what he invented:
Decent optical character recognition.
Text to speech synthesis.
Speech recognition.
CCD flatbed scanner.
High quality music synthesizers.
All of these inventions were quite innovative, commercial successful, and revolutionized the ideas of what AI was.
I think any real computer scientist would take these quite seriously.
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My bad. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V#S-IC_first_stage the first stage uses RP-1 (aka kerosene) and LOX. I thought it used liquid hydrogen.
As for most exotic and difficult to handle fuel, I think that would include liquid fluorine (FLOX) or nitrogen tetroxide.
"Our Environment. Sure launching a rocket into space take huge amounts of carbon."
So what takes a large amount of carbon?
Burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen?
Manufacturing the liquid oxygen and hydrogen?
Manufacturing the aluminum?
Perhaps it takes a lot of *energy*, but I don't know where a huge amount of carbon is involved. Help me out.
I have no problem with it. He has no responsibility to microsoft, or to anyone who has purchased microsoft software. He did the research on his own time. He owns it, and is responsible only to himself.
I see nothing inexcusable about it. If you don't like it, you should pay someone to find bugs with the software you use. You can do that, but I bet you don't. If some bugs are found by someone, it sucks to be you. Get the source code and audit it yourself. You do have a microsoft windows source code license, right? If not, whose fault is that?
I write software. Sometimes I publish it. It is my work. Sometimes I find bugs. I have reported bugs to DEC, prime, microsoft, sun, redhat, fedora, suse, mandriva, mageia, and others. If they listen to me and respond, then I report more bugs. Since microsoft ignores my bug reports, I have stopped sending them bug reports. My choice.
So how was it wrong?
He did some research.
He published it.
Was he under any obligation to show it to google? to microsoft?
I don't think so.
This 'protocol' you speak of is just what some people want. That doesn't make it correct, common, or required.
He has done nothing that should get him fired. If he were, he could sue someone's a$$.
Get a clue.
Is he on microsoft's payroll? If not, why should he inform them? Because they screwed up and didn't find their own bug? He can do whatever he wants to do with his research. He can tell Microsoft. He can post the info. He call sell it to the highest bidder. It is his work. If microsoft really cared, at least they could offer a bug bounty. That would show they are serious about getting bugs out of their software.
It was a blue pick up truck, not a van, but it certainly was not a nissan titan, nor was it the correct color.
I suspect that the people who shot up the 2 vehicles, will end up paying a high price, which really means that the people living in the cities will end up paying a high price.
There is no car made that has a more powerful engine than the brakes. What is interesting, is that even if you are going 200kph, have the throttle fully depressed, it only takes about 10-15% longer to stop the car using the brakes. I think that Jay Leno made a car with a monster engine of around 20+ liters that had crappy drum brakes. For that car, I don't think the brakes would stop the car if the throttle was fully depressed. A few years ago, car & drive did a test using a 400+ hp corvette. Stopped just fine. If the brakes are defective, of course all bets are off.
I heard the high end nvidia cards have ECC on their video memory. They found there were too many errors when doing computation...
Do your 'workstations' have intel xeon cpus or amd cpus? Otherwise, it is quite unlikely that they have ECC memory, which is pretty much required of real workstations. Real workstations are reliable (and quiet). Just being quiet doesn't count.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s "After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[34] Erds won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use."
By rare, you mean all Asus motherboards. You have heard of Asus? I presume they are in the consumer space? Look at any AM3+ motherboard, or even AM3 or AM2+. All of them support ECC.
I am not sure what you mean by 'comically thirsty'. Mine usually gets 60 miles per gallon. The worst mileage I got was when I drove in the desert when it was well over 100 degrees F, and I was driving 80mph. I got about 48 miles per gallon. I suppose there are some turbo diesels that get better mpg, but they are not sold in my country. I think you are a bit confused.
Your custom solar panel produces 600w? Where? In outer space? I have 200w panels, and I don't think 2 would fit on top of a pathfinder. And mine are 18% efficient at the panel level, which is pretty efficient. Perhaps if you use multi-junction space grade cells, you could get 600w, but that would cost more than a new pathfinder.
That is because Neil Armstrong was being interviewed by Sir Patrick Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore Moore is a pretty famous amateur astronomer, who is quite well educated in astronomy. Sorta analogous to Carl Sagan.
If you had a contemporary interviewer of similar stature fo Moore, I suspect they would ask similar questions.
The only question is would it air on prime time TV. In my opinion, British TV is generally far more scholarly than US television.
I am not sure what an 'expensive expensive' gun safe is, but the gun safes i have seen that weigh 500 come from costco or sams club and are not expensive. It is hard to imagine a house fire hot enough to melt steel. Even 9-11 only partially melted the steel structure. You would think a large steel box should be easy to spot after a fire...
I don't know what year you live in, but toyota does sell a pluggable prius. I will have mine this month.
Pretty sure it was written by Isaac Asimov
It is trivial. I wrote a python script to do it. It is licenced under gpl 3. It uses hard links, and I run it every time I backup a significant amount of data to my 10tb fileserver. As it uses hard links, it is designed for storing backup data, not for general usage. It can be found at http://jdeifik.com/ under 'Disk deduplicator'
You say you checksum EVERYTHING. I wonder what type of intel i3 processor supports ECC? From what I know, only intel xeon processors support ECC. Of course all amd processors support ECC and many cheap amd compatible motherboards do also. I bought a 3 core amd processor, a motherboard and 4gb of ECC ram for under $200, over a year ago. How reliable can a huge disk array be without ECC memory for the cpu?
Perhaps the AC Propulsion parts are expensive. That is what happens when you build in quantities of 1 to 10 at a time. Perhaps they aren't identical. Again, they don't do large scale manufacturing. I have driven most of their cars, starting with the Honda CRX, forward, except the E-box and the t-zero (though I have ridden in it). They have been building electric cars for close to 20 years. They have invented siginficant techonolgy. Has tesla? It is a stretched lotus with a modified AC Propulsion drivetrain. It is well marketed and financed. BTW, you get much better regenerative braking when you use front wheel drive, though perhaps less sports car performance.
Why license the technology from tesla when the motor and motor controller tech is based on the AC Propulsion design?
I wrote a simple python program that does file based disk de-duplication. It will work anywhere python runs as long as the filesystem supports hard links.
It is available under gpl at: http://jdeifik.com/
With the hardware solutions in the article, prices start at $25k or so, and you are beholden to the hardware vendor. Doing it in software will work with any reasonable OS, any reasonable filesystem, and any hardware. Sure, block based de-duplication is more efficient, but it is filesystem specific, and right now ZFS is the only somewhat reasonable filesystem that supports it.
I think you are clueless when you say "Generally his ideas aren't taken very seriously by academia in Computer Science".
Lets list what he invented:
Decent optical character recognition.
Text to speech synthesis.
Speech recognition.
CCD flatbed scanner.
High quality music synthesizers.
All of these inventions were quite innovative, commercial successful, and revolutionized the ideas of what AI was. I think any real computer scientist would take these quite seriously.
He got a PHD from CMU in CS, which is likely the best college for CS.
He invented the scribe text formatting language.
He invented the router, which became the first cisco router.
He co-founded what eventually became Adobe.
While at DEC, he and his group invented the altavista search engine.
There is more, but he clearly has serious computer science talents and vision.
I am a tiny bit off on the timeline. The motto was 'Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970'. See http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/ProjectOrion.html