Given they are not a charity, I don't see the issue. Maybe they have 200 people just fetching coffee that they just realized don't really contribute to the company. Layoffs are often a way to gid rid of dead weight.
Yes. And that's one of the reasons why we need regulated capitalism. It's a means of harnessing sociopaths. In unregulated capitalism, the sociopaths will run rampant with their businesses. In communist societies, lacking other outlets, the sociopaths seem to take power in the government where they tend to do a lot more harm.
When Amazon says that they'd like to sell some books below wholesale, and claims that the agency model prevents that, they are lying their asses off. They could easily get around that restriction. The simplest way being by offering an account credit on certain books. The problem with that approach from Amazon's perspective is that it would reveal how large the subsidy is. Doesn't matter to the consumer, but it is competitive information they wouldn't want public.
On the other hand, if the agency model prevents Amazon from negotiating a different wholesale price than Apple pays, then that is collusion. I'm not sure it rises to the level of needing a government crackdown, but it is slimy none the less.
And the flip side of this is that Amazon of course would be happy to subsidize book sales and Kindles to drive people to the Amazon store to buy other things. Which in turn could have the anti-competitive effect of making tablets from Apple, Samsung, and others over priced by comparison and push them out of the market.
It doesn't matter which way the courts rule on this one, the consumer loses.
I was completely convinced by his argument until you replied with using bold letters and completely blew his argument out of the water. I'm totally on your side now.
I've told this to several of my friends, that mining Bitcoins is a mechanism to convert carbon into currency. Where I live, that life cycle looks like coal -> electricity -> Bitcoin. Of course you have to pay for that electricity, which pretty much guarantees that while you're melting the polar caps due to your mining, you're also loosing money at the same time.
Of course, you're probably not paying for the electricity. Your parents, or employer, or some other unwitting person probably is. Which means your shitting on the environment and stealing at the same time. Way to go!
I'm a bit of a literalist when it comes to laws, so I don't like this judges ruling. That said, he should have never been put into this position in the first place.
We shouldn't have laws specifying cell phones and driving. Distracted driving laws should be sufficient. If the penalties for distracted driving are two weak, then fix that. There's no need to specify exactly what distracted driving is. I'd rather leave that up to the cop and a jury.
Why does everyone keeping thinking you have to have enough flash to store the whole os? Hybrids are sector based, not file or application based. They only needs to cache the frequently used bits in flash. Which might not even be a whole file.
If they are real clever (and I'm not saying they are), they could hide the seek time for a file by putting the first few sectors in flash. That would allow the drive time to find the rest of the file on disk.
There is obviously a cost performance tradeoff here. How much flash is needed to achieve a desired performance level can not be derived simply by using data from pairing an SSD with and HDD. It is also a function of the caching algorithm used.
There are only two things that can be surmised for sure about this drive. It's large file sequential transfer rate is going to be slower than a 7200 rpm drive. And pure random accesses will be slower than an SSD, because you can't fit everything into those 8GB of flash.
So, obviously if you are doing those two tasks a lot, this is a poor drive for you. On the other hand, that doesn't sound like a typical work load for the average user.
The only fault I find for this drive is they don't offer a 7200 rpm model in the 2.5" form factor. Was that a good decision? I don't know. They will might lose out on some aftermarket sales because of it. But then again, if those aftermarket purchases were so concerned with performance maybe those were going to be pure SSD sales anyways. I'm guessing this compromise is what Dell, Acer, HP, Samsung, and company were asking for.
So, if I had the cash to upgrade my laptop to 750 GB SSD, I'd do that. But I'm seriously thinking of giving one of these a try. I'd buy a 7200 rpm model if it existed in the 2.5" form factor, but this still has the potential to be a lot faster than the 5400 rpm drive I have now.
A penny can have more than one state, but a finite count of them. A transistor can have one state unless you add a method to change it, such as a sine wave generator or another transistor. Then it is a transistor + input generator make a computer. The penny has itself and a small image (signal) that make it a computer.
You're confusing transistor with flop-flop or flash cell or something which is slightly more than just a transistor. Which by the way, a transistor does not have a finite number of states. Transistors are analog devices with continuously infinite number of states. It just happens that digital computers use them in arrangements of multiple transistors where we generally only use 2 states.
Interesting article. However, it only affects software FDE implementations. FDE implemented in hard drives don't store keys in DRAM, and sector data stored DRAM (cache memory on the drive) is encrypted.
That said, for the described attack to work they'd have to steal a running computer. Which quite likely means they'd have access to all of your data without going through all the trouble.
I love the concept of network transparency, but in many cases VNC-style screen scraping seems faster. I've exported the display of apps from our Linux farm to my desktop. However it is painfully slow. VNC on the other hand operates with barely any noticeable lag. Exporting the display of a Linux app from one machine in the farm to another seems to work fine though.
It seems that network transparency in X requires a very high bandwidth and very low latency network connection, where VNC does better with less bandwidth.
I hope they maintain network transparency in Wayland. But I also hope they can improve it so I don't need VNC anymore.
I interpreted the poorly written article to mean. The forming rocks could absorb the other noble gases just fine, but not xenon. I infer this would have left an atmosphere (at the time) that was rich in xenon since very little of it was absorbed into the rock. The article speculated that some form of meteorite collision or solar event blew off the atmosphere. Leaving me to infer that the atmosphere we have today is the result of the rock releasing gas into the atmosphere. Since the rock was xenon poor, today's atmosphere is also xenon poor as a result.
What's needed here is to turn this technology against those who are currently wielding it.
Since newspapers are making false claims of copyright ownership over material, we need to somehow submit false claims. Primarily on political material. We need to politicians to be greatly inconvenienced by this. There's nothing like self interest to create change. But if you can take down all the videos on YouTube that have adds with this method, that might get some favorable change as well.
It's a sucky deal for the share holders, but a great deal for the company. Use all that cash they were just given to buy back all of their publicly traded shares at the discounted price. Then you send out the net gain as bonus checks to compensate the employees for their restricted stock now being worthless.
The press release says the user doesn't need to know anything about how their tool works. So obviously it will infer the appropriate solution and implement that too.
Actually the printf example is one of the easiest to implement. You'll receive a sheet of paper with "Hello World" printed on it in 6-8 weeks.
If I only had a video camera every time I heard someone say, "Man didn't evolve from apes, God created man. It says so right here in the Bible!" ? However, I thought comments like this occurred so often, that no one would ever deny they are made.
If you've never heard something close to that said, you obviously have never encountered fundamentalist Christians.
Getting a Bachelor's in Education (or alternatively, a Math or Science Bachelor's with a Minor in Education) and becoming a certified, employable teacher is a 5 year minimum process pushing 18 credit hours per semester (above 15 is considered overload BTW) or realistically, 6 years.
Wha wha wha. The EE (electrical engineering) program I attended was designed as an 18 credit hour program in order to graduate in 4 years. I knew several students taking 20 credit hours. I did the program in 5 years, but that's because I took a year off to work an internship.
I thought the guys taking 20 were crazy (but brilliant), and 18 was certainly a heavy load, but 6 years for a 15 credit hour program is B.S. I know several teachers, and they easily completed the program in 5 years, some in 4.
The "death panels" are quite real... though they aren't necessarily called that. They do make decisions in those systems regarding what they will and won't do based on a person's age, condition, etc.
In the USA we have them too, they are called insurance companies and HMOs. No matter what you call it (death panels vs health board), or who is doing it (insurance company vs government), it is rationing. Rationing is not an evil word, it is simply a description of reality.
When there is limited supply (of resource or money) the amount of the resource consumed (health care) is rationed. In a purely market based solution the rationing is accomplished by those with $$$ buying up the supply and leaving those without, well without. In a regulated (insurance or government) system, some panel will determine the rationing.
In the USA, we pay a lot more per subscriber for our insurance, so the insurance company will provide more services before cutting you off. However we do not distribute this evenly over the entire population, as those without insurance get poorer (although they still get emergency) service. Europe smears the service evenly among its citizens, but funds it at a lower level per subscriber so they have to ration it earlier.
In Europe, if you bought private insurance on top of the public health, you can get USA style health care for similar cost. Although due to the small number of people participating it can be hard to find private providers.
My grandfather died recently. He was 91 and had been in extremely poor health for 5 years. After a recent infection the doctors wanted to go to drastic measures to treat him. Why? He was miserable, wanted to die years ago. After the infection he was in much worse shape and the little quality of life he had was completely gone. They would have done exploratory surgery to find the source of some bleeding in his urine. Most likely he had a cancer of some sort. They would have wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on a procedure that would have put him in much greater pain, and in his condition would probably have killed him anyway.
Thankfully grandpa's health directive was clear, and all his kids supported it, so the doctors were fine with putting him in hospice. However, they told us if one of his three children would have complained, they would have treated him with heroic efforts even despite his health care directive and the objection of the person assigned as power of attorney.
They said it happens frequently, they don't even agree with it, but they have to do it to protect themselves from wrongful death law suits. I don't have statistics to back this up, but my gut feeling tells me its this last 2 weeks of futile expensive health care that is going to make Medicare insolvent. And the reason it's expensive now when it didn't used to be, is simply that the surgery technology now exists to be used and it didn't before. 30 years ago, the only option for someone in my grandfather's situation was hospice.
Its an awful moral dilemma. Assume that 20% of those procedures turn out well. Well then it seems horrible to not try it on everyone in case they're one of that 20%. But if we simply can't afford it what do we do?
So, I say the good outcome rate for the procedure needs to be greater than 50% for Medicare to pay for it. Lower than that and you have to pay for it yourself. Assuming I'm right about the cause of Medicare insolvency, this probably would solve it.
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Given they are not a charity, I don't see the issue. Maybe they have 200 people just fetching coffee that they just realized don't really contribute to the company. Layoffs are often a way to gid rid of dead weight.
The thought had crossed my mind that I would love Craig Ferguson as the Doctor. "I know!"
Yes. And that's one of the reasons why we need regulated capitalism. It's a means of harnessing sociopaths. In unregulated capitalism, the sociopaths will run rampant with their businesses. In communist societies, lacking other outlets, the sociopaths seem to take power in the government where they tend to do a lot more harm.
I already saw Philips version of this called the Hue at the local hardware store.
When Amazon says that they'd like to sell some books below wholesale, and claims that the agency model prevents that, they are lying their asses off. They could easily get around that restriction. The simplest way being by offering an account credit on certain books. The problem with that approach from Amazon's perspective is that it would reveal how large the subsidy is. Doesn't matter to the consumer, but it is competitive information they wouldn't want public.
On the other hand, if the agency model prevents Amazon from negotiating a different wholesale price than Apple pays, then that is collusion. I'm not sure it rises to the level of needing a government crackdown, but it is slimy none the less.
And the flip side of this is that Amazon of course would be happy to subsidize book sales and Kindles to drive people to the Amazon store to buy other things. Which in turn could have the anti-competitive effect of making tablets from Apple, Samsung, and others over priced by comparison and push them out of the market.
It doesn't matter which way the courts rule on this one, the consumer loses.
I was completely convinced by his argument until you replied with using bold letters and completely blew his argument out of the water. I'm totally on your side now.
I've told this to several of my friends, that mining Bitcoins is a mechanism to convert carbon into currency. Where I live, that life cycle looks like coal -> electricity -> Bitcoin. Of course you have to pay for that electricity, which pretty much guarantees that while you're melting the polar caps due to your mining, you're also loosing money at the same time.
Of course, you're probably not paying for the electricity. Your parents, or employer, or some other unwitting person probably is. Which means your shitting on the environment and stealing at the same time. Way to go!
I'm a bit of a literalist when it comes to laws, so I don't like this judges ruling. That said, he should have never been put into this position in the first place.
We shouldn't have laws specifying cell phones and driving. Distracted driving laws should be sufficient. If the penalties for distracted driving are two weak, then fix that. There's no need to specify exactly what distracted driving is. I'd rather leave that up to the cop and a jury.
Why does everyone keeping thinking you have to have enough flash to store the whole os? Hybrids are sector based, not file or application based. They only needs to cache the frequently used bits in flash. Which might not even be a whole file.
If they are real clever (and I'm not saying they are), they could hide the seek time for a file by putting the first few sectors in flash. That would allow the drive time to find the rest of the file on disk.
There is obviously a cost performance tradeoff here. How much flash is needed to achieve a desired performance level can not be derived simply by using data from pairing an SSD with and HDD. It is also a function of the caching algorithm used.
There are only two things that can be surmised for sure about this drive. It's large file sequential transfer rate is going to be slower than a 7200 rpm drive. And pure random accesses will be slower than an SSD, because you can't fit everything into those 8GB of flash.
So, obviously if you are doing those two tasks a lot, this is a poor drive for you. On the other hand, that doesn't sound like a typical work load for the average user.
The only fault I find for this drive is they don't offer a 7200 rpm model in the 2.5" form factor. Was that a good decision? I don't know. They will might lose out on some aftermarket sales because of it. But then again, if those aftermarket purchases were so concerned with performance maybe those were going to be pure SSD sales anyways. I'm guessing this compromise is what Dell, Acer, HP, Samsung, and company were asking for.
So, if I had the cash to upgrade my laptop to 750 GB SSD, I'd do that. But I'm seriously thinking of giving one of these a try. I'd buy a 7200 rpm model if it existed in the 2.5" form factor, but this still has the potential to be a lot faster than the 5400 rpm drive I have now.
Try using google my friend.
A penny can have more than one state, but a finite count of them. A transistor can have one state unless you add a method to change it, such as a sine wave generator or another transistor. Then it is a transistor + input generator make a computer. The penny has itself and a small image (signal) that make it a computer.
You're confusing transistor with flop-flop or flash cell or something which is slightly more than just a transistor. Which by the way, a transistor does not have a finite number of states. Transistors are analog devices with continuously infinite number of states. It just happens that digital computers use them in arrangements of multiple transistors where we generally only use 2 states.
Monthly contract, suckiest gift ever.
Black tape. Try finding a zero day hole in that biatch!
Interesting article. However, it only affects software FDE implementations. FDE implemented in hard drives don't store keys in DRAM, and sector data stored DRAM (cache memory on the drive) is encrypted.
That said, for the described attack to work they'd have to steal a running computer. Which quite likely means they'd have access to all of your data without going through all the trouble.
I love the concept of network transparency, but in many cases VNC-style screen scraping seems faster. I've exported the display of apps from our Linux farm to my desktop. However it is painfully slow. VNC on the other hand operates with barely any noticeable lag. Exporting the display of a Linux app from one machine in the farm to another seems to work fine though.
It seems that network transparency in X requires a very high bandwidth and very low latency network connection, where VNC does better with less bandwidth.
I hope they maintain network transparency in Wayland. But I also hope they can improve it so I don't need VNC anymore.
I interpreted the poorly written article to mean. The forming rocks could absorb the other noble gases just fine, but not xenon. I infer this would have left an atmosphere (at the time) that was rich in xenon since very little of it was absorbed into the rock. The article speculated that some form of meteorite collision or solar event blew off the atmosphere. Leaving me to infer that the atmosphere we have today is the result of the rock releasing gas into the atmosphere. Since the rock was xenon poor, today's atmosphere is also xenon poor as a result.
What's needed here is to turn this technology against those who are currently wielding it.
Since newspapers are making false claims of copyright ownership over material, we need to somehow submit false claims. Primarily on political material. We need to politicians to be greatly inconvenienced by this. There's nothing like self interest to create change. But if you can take down all the videos on YouTube that have adds with this method, that might get some favorable change as well.
Mod parent up!
Thank you for taking the time to post that.
It's a sucky deal for the share holders, but a great deal for the company. Use all that cash they were just given to buy back all of their publicly traded shares at the discounted price. Then you send out the net gain as bonus checks to compensate the employees for their restricted stock now being worthless.
The press release says the user doesn't need to know anything about how their tool works. So obviously it will infer the appropriate solution and implement that too.
Actually the printf example is one of the easiest to implement. You'll receive a sheet of paper with "Hello World" printed on it in 6-8 weeks.
If I only had a video camera every time I heard someone say, "Man didn't evolve from apes, God created man. It says so right here in the Bible!" ? However, I thought comments like this occurred so often, that no one would ever deny they are made.
If you've never heard something close to that said, you obviously have never encountered fundamentalist Christians.
Getting a Bachelor's in Education (or alternatively, a Math or Science Bachelor's with a Minor in Education) and becoming a certified, employable teacher is a 5 year minimum process pushing 18 credit hours per semester (above 15 is considered overload BTW) or realistically, 6 years.
Wha wha wha. The EE (electrical engineering) program I attended was designed as an 18 credit hour program in order to graduate in 4 years. I knew several students taking 20 credit hours. I did the program in 5 years, but that's because I took a year off to work an internship.
I thought the guys taking 20 were crazy (but brilliant), and 18 was certainly a heavy load, but 6 years for a 15 credit hour program is B.S. I know several teachers, and they easily completed the program in 5 years, some in 4.
If only Britannica would have patented cataloging a large amount of factual information in an indexed fashion...
The "death panels" are quite real... though they aren't necessarily called that. They do make decisions in those systems regarding what they will and won't do based on a person's age, condition, etc.
In the USA we have them too, they are called insurance companies and HMOs. No matter what you call it (death panels vs health board), or who is doing it (insurance company vs government), it is rationing. Rationing is not an evil word, it is simply a description of reality.
When there is limited supply (of resource or money) the amount of the resource consumed (health care) is rationed. In a purely market based solution the rationing is accomplished by those with $$$ buying up the supply and leaving those without, well without. In a regulated (insurance or government) system, some panel will determine the rationing.
In the USA, we pay a lot more per subscriber for our insurance, so the insurance company will provide more services before cutting you off. However we do not distribute this evenly over the entire population, as those without insurance get poorer (although they still get emergency) service. Europe smears the service evenly among its citizens, but funds it at a lower level per subscriber so they have to ration it earlier.
In Europe, if you bought private insurance on top of the public health, you can get USA style health care for similar cost. Although due to the small number of people participating it can be hard to find private providers.
My grandfather died recently. He was 91 and had been in extremely poor health for 5 years. After a recent infection the doctors wanted to go to drastic measures to treat him. Why? He was miserable, wanted to die years ago. After the infection he was in much worse shape and the little quality of life he had was completely gone. They would have done exploratory surgery to find the source of some bleeding in his urine. Most likely he had a cancer of some sort. They would have wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on a procedure that would have put him in much greater pain, and in his condition would probably have killed him anyway.
Thankfully grandpa's health directive was clear, and all his kids supported it, so the doctors were fine with putting him in hospice. However, they told us if one of his three children would have complained, they would have treated him with heroic efforts even despite his health care directive and the objection of the person assigned as power of attorney.
They said it happens frequently, they don't even agree with it, but they have to do it to protect themselves from wrongful death law suits. I don't have statistics to back this up, but my gut feeling tells me its this last 2 weeks of futile expensive health care that is going to make Medicare insolvent. And the reason it's expensive now when it didn't used to be, is simply that the surgery technology now exists to be used and it didn't before. 30 years ago, the only option for someone in my grandfather's situation was hospice.
Its an awful moral dilemma. Assume that 20% of those procedures turn out well. Well then it seems horrible to not try it on everyone in case they're one of that 20%. But if we simply can't afford it what do we do?
So, I say the good outcome rate for the procedure needs to be greater than 50% for Medicare to pay for it. Lower than that and you have to pay for it yourself. Assuming I'm right about the cause of Medicare insolvency, this probably would solve it.
For places with lower electricity prices, payback is questionable.
Or places with hail.