Presumeably we're talking about quality support here, not phone monkeys to read out of a manual. Finding a large number of qualified support staff would be hard as the grandparent said.
One time pads have been proven to be unbreakable, but implementing it securely (ie moving the one time pad to the other person securely) is the hard part.
Weird, there were no first generation kinks with my Dell Inspiron.
I'm not trolling, and I know I'll get modded down for this, but I can't help but enjoy seeing so many problems with Apple's products. We all know someone who looks down their nose at non-Apple PCs, and each one of these stories knocks these people down a peg.
eg "Did you hear about the recent root-my-mac-mini competition? Apparently there are loads of critical undisclosed vulnerabilities in OS X."
"Really? But OS X is UNIX [so how could it be vulnerable?]"
The worrying thing is that this was a doctor of Computer Science, my lecturer!
Maybe after enough of these problems are found fanatics will start to realise that we're using non-Apple PCs because we prefer them.
That's true. I don't like Macs at all but in my experience every laptop has at least one flaw. My Dell Inspiron 2200 has a faulty sound chipset which gets interference from a capacitor. Dell replaced it, the problem remains, and although they said they were working on a revised version they ended up e-mailing to tell me that they couldn't sort the problem out.
If it was a Mac that'd probably be news here, but it's a Dell.
Mac- Hello I'm a Mac
PC- And I'm a PC
Mac- Y'Know I can do a lot of fun stuff like arrange pictures and--
PC- Err what's that huge lump growing out of your side? And why are your clothes covered with yellow stains?
The cellphone comparison was valid; the 500GHz chip isn't a general purpose CPU it would be more like the DSP in a cell phone, a general purpose CPU at 500GHz would have a massive cycles per instruction ratio. You just can't run the sorts of data required through logic gates in 2x10^-10 of a second so the pipeline would have to be massive.
"This is a very valid point, and well taken. However, the criteria for a lunar mining colony are different. There is no need for a completely sealed, self-sustaining ecosystem. Assuming we can solve the problem of getting O2 et al out of lunar soil, then there's no problem with tweaking the gas levels as needed. One hopes that there will at least be *some* sort of bio-cycle handling much of the C02/O2 turnover, as well as providing food and helping with waste management... but there's no reason you can't add more O2 at some point as needed."
Even if you do have a source of oxygen up there you still don't want to have an oxygen leak; however we extract oxygen it'll cost energy, and oxygen input may be slower than output. Also leaks in a biosphere on Earth would leak much faster in the vacuum of space.
No, I agree with the grandparent that we have to get it working flawlessly on Earth before trying it elsewhere.
Yes, but when you compare this to other simpler ways of saving power like turning off lights when you leave a room these savings are nothing. Also the difference in standby power usage between these consoles and any AC-DC converter isn't that great, so why target consoles specifically?
It's like a gambler trying to save money by using newspaper for toilet paper; compared to the gambling the savings on toilet paper vanish into nothing, so why not quit gambling first?
RTFA, or use your common sense; to turn it off fully you have to unplug it. A better question would be "Who the cares about a $2.68 per year saving on electricity?"
So worst case scenario $2.68 per year to leave the console in standby? Not factoring in the discount for power use during off peak times?
When the difference in console prices can be hundreds of dollars and the average life of a console is 4-5 years, and there are much more effective ways to save on your electricity bill, I just don't see what the point of this article is.
Get a life? Some people enjoy programming(/doing things which are constructive), Open Source has come about largely because of this. Do you actually think that enjoying your work is a bad thing? Some people suggest playing video games or going dancing; maybe/they/ should "get a life"?
Not because they're trying to hide it of course, DigitalGlobe provides the images, but because when the pictures were taken the center wasn't constructed.
They won't be ignoring them, far from it, even in the article they didn't say they would be ignoring them. They're probably pretty worried about Ubuntu and Windows Cluster.
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I find Australia a better place to live than England (and I like England too). I'm satisfied/impressed with laws, taxes, police, employment, public services, culture, etc, etc. The only thing I'm not impressed with is internet access, but as I said I think we have a good excuse (and they're rolling out 24mbit at the moment too).
I don't know what you're referring to, or why you got modded up.
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You could argue that Australia has a better excuse; a massive, empty country makes laying down telecom infrastructure a less fruitful investment, and we're in the middle of nowhere so we have to connect through other countries.
But yes, it's terribly expensive, and hopefully that'll change when the country gets upgraded with DSLAM.
To get it accepted you should have added a stupid question, like "Will this be the end of screenshots?", or "Do video reviews mark the beginning of the end for reading?"
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Presumeably we're talking about quality support here, not phone monkeys to read out of a manual. Finding a large number of qualified support staff would be hard as the grandparent said.
One time pads have been proven to be unbreakable, but implementing it securely (ie moving the one time pad to the other person securely) is the hard part.
MySQL (port 3306) and all those other apps on a phone? That would be a pricey phone. Phone != PC just because it's running linux.
Weird, there were no first generation kinks with my Dell Inspiron.
I'm not trolling, and I know I'll get modded down for this, but I can't help but enjoy seeing so many problems with Apple's products. We all know someone who looks down their nose at non-Apple PCs, and each one of these stories knocks these people down a peg.
eg "Did you hear about the recent root-my-mac-mini competition? Apparently there are loads of critical undisclosed vulnerabilities in OS X."
"Really? But OS X is UNIX [so how could it be vulnerable?]"
The worrying thing is that this was a doctor of Computer Science, my lecturer!
Maybe after enough of these problems are found fanatics will start to realise that we're using non-Apple PCs because we prefer them.
Is this really the world's fastest? It doesn't seem that fast; in Japan they're getting gigabit connections at home.
No-one's saying this should be put into practice. It's just an interesting study.
The disturbing thing is that this isn't the first Linux installation on a machine which is designed to destroy buildings..
Humanity has been thinking it has got an almost complete understanding of the rules of physics for a few centuries now.
That's true. I don't like Macs at all but in my experience every laptop has at least one flaw. My Dell Inspiron 2200 has a faulty sound chipset which gets interference from a capacitor. Dell replaced it, the problem remains, and although they said they were working on a revised version they ended up e-mailing to tell me that they couldn't sort the problem out.
If it was a Mac that'd probably be news here, but it's a Dell.
Mac- Hello I'm a Mac
PC- And I'm a PC
Mac- Y'Know I can do a lot of fun stuff like arrange pictures and--
PC- Err what's that huge lump growing out of your side? And why are your clothes covered with yellow stains?
Mac- Hello I'm a Mac PC- And I'm a PC Mac- Y'Know I can do a lot of fun stuff like arrange pictures and-- PC- Err what's that huge lump growing out of your side? And why are your clothes covered with yellow stains?
The cellphone comparison was valid; the 500GHz chip isn't a general purpose CPU it would be more like the DSP in a cell phone, a general purpose CPU at 500GHz would have a massive cycles per instruction ratio. You just can't run the sorts of data required through logic gates in 2x10^-10 of a second so the pipeline would have to be massive.
"This is a very valid point, and well taken. However, the criteria for a lunar mining colony are different. There is no need for a completely sealed, self-sustaining ecosystem. Assuming we can solve the problem of getting O2 et al out of lunar soil, then there's no problem with tweaking the gas levels as needed. One hopes that there will at least be *some* sort of bio-cycle handling much of the C02/O2 turnover, as well as providing food and helping with waste management... but there's no reason you can't add more O2 at some point as needed."
Even if you do have a source of oxygen up there you still don't want to have an oxygen leak; however we extract oxygen it'll cost energy, and oxygen input may be slower than output. Also leaks in a biosphere on Earth would leak much faster in the vacuum of space.
No, I agree with the grandparent that we have to get it working flawlessly on Earth before trying it elsewhere.
Yes, but when you compare this to other simpler ways of saving power like turning off lights when you leave a room these savings are nothing. Also the difference in standby power usage between these consoles and any AC-DC converter isn't that great, so why target consoles specifically?
It's like a gambler trying to save money by using newspaper for toilet paper; compared to the gambling the savings on toilet paper vanish into nothing, so why not quit gambling first?
RTFA, or use your common sense; to turn it off fully you have to unplug it. A better question would be "Who the cares about a $2.68 per year saving on electricity?"
So worst case scenario $2.68 per year to leave the console in standby? Not factoring in the discount for power use during off peak times?
When the difference in console prices can be hundreds of dollars and the average life of a console is 4-5 years, and there are much more effective ways to save on your electricity bill, I just don't see what the point of this article is.
Or more likely they'll decide they have to get even more patents on trivial/obvious features to stop this happening again.
Get a life? Some people enjoy programming(/doing things which are constructive), Open Source has come about largely because of this. Do you actually think that enjoying your work is a bad thing? Some people suggest playing video games or going dancing; maybe /they/ should "get a life"?
It would fall, but it wouldn't 'tank'. Lots of perhaps undervalued MS shares suddenly on the market, and even I'd be in the buying frenzy.
Not because they're trying to hide it of course, DigitalGlobe provides the images, but because when the pictures were taken the center wasn't constructed.
Attacked (liberated if you're optimistic) != "wiped off the map"
They won't be ignoring them, far from it, even in the article they didn't say they would be ignoring them. They're probably pretty worried about Ubuntu and Windows Cluster.
Examples?
I find Australia a better place to live than England (and I like England too). I'm satisfied/impressed with laws, taxes, police, employment, public services, culture, etc, etc. The only thing I'm not impressed with is internet access, but as I said I think we have a good excuse (and they're rolling out 24mbit at the moment too).
I don't know what you're referring to, or why you got modded up.
You could argue that Australia has a better excuse; a massive, empty country makes laying down telecom infrastructure a less fruitful investment, and we're in the middle of nowhere so we have to connect through other countries.
But yes, it's terribly expensive, and hopefully that'll change when the country gets upgraded with DSLAM.
To get it accepted you should have added a stupid question, like "Will this be the end of screenshots?", or "Do video reviews mark the beginning of the end for reading?"