What the article doesn't mention is that the smaller the die, the more vulnerable it is to radiation flying through and flipping bits. The older chips are more resistant: they're bigger, and so can take more.
And yes, I do have this from friends at places like NASA and JPL and Fermilab....
If they can get signals from the "electric skin" to normal nerves, this might be seriously important to folks who've had burns over a large part of their bodies, so that they can feel again (house or industrial fires? car wrecks? wars?)
IANAL, but have you spoken to the feds? This is fraud and identity theft, which is a criminal offence, I believe. Someone asked "who paid for the registration" - unless they've stolen your credit cards, that's a backtrace... and if they're not in the same US state, that's interstate wire fraud, and gee, that's within the purview of the FBI.
There's no "shortage" of programmers with "cutting edge skills", nor do we "go stale" the longer we're off, like bruised fruit. The tech companies are lying through their teeth, because they don't want to pay US wages; rather, they prefer paying a fraction of what we get... then throw their hands up in the air when things don't work, or the economy's not recovering because there's so much unemployment.
Then there's HR departments, and at least a third of recruiters, who have no idea what they're hiring for, or what translates to what skill, and don't care to learn, even though it would improve their job performance.
There are a lot of near-Earth asteroid, like Toutitis a few years ago. Send a mission to one, and alter its orbit so that it enters near-Earth orbit, say at geosync. Then we'd have a *real* space station, once we dug into it, and used it for raw materials, one that would have real protection against solar flares, and that could be used to base true deep-space ships (that only go from orbit to orbit) to the Moon, Mars and beyond. This would make interplanetary travel for humans far cheaper.
For that matter, we could use nuclear (steam) rockets from there, which would make trips a lot faster.
Um, where does RedHat (RHEL) fit in there? Every company I've worked for in the last few years uses either RedHat, and more up and coming, CentOS (RHEL - RH proprietary stuff).
And SuSE is commercial, too, so you can't try to keep out RedHat.
Something that's only existed for a couple of years, and this year's are "obsoleted" by an overpriced piece of crap that doesn't have a keyboard, but fingerprints all over the screen?
I just adore all this fuss about the special high tech needs of high tech trains. What they *really* need are:
* for Congress to change the contracts where Amtrak leases trackage everywhere
except in the northeast corridor, so that
a) passenger trains have priority over frieght trains, and
b) trackage used by passenger trains are maintained to high-speed
standards, not frieght standards.
* Give Amtrak the funding to reclaim the rail right of ways that are currently
unused.
* Fully fund Amtrak... or did you think that every airport and every highway
were built and maintained for free?
* Make Amtrak actually run *limiteds*, and not have everything but the Acela
Express be milk runs.
Oh, and does anyone here know about how the Pennsylvania RR's Broadway Limited hit 127.1mph in June of 1905? (and no, that's *not* a typo, yes, a century and five years ago).
Then, of course, there the "speed" issue: after 9/11, even the pilots' union was saying that for trips under 300-400 mi, trains were *faster*, esp. since they all come right into every downtown, and aren't way the hell outside cities.
But you'd rather sit in traffic jams and watch the price of gas go through the roof.
You're "not advocating going back to carburetors"? Why?
I had a 1986 Toyota Tercel wagon, and before it died in 2000, it was still getting about 35-36MPG, *and* passing emission tests. And it had a carberateur, and I could tune it, as opposed to needing to replace an expensive unit....
Right. How many folks here make six figures? I've had a *long* career as a developer and as a sysadmin, and I'd need a 10% to make six figures for the first time in my life.
Then there's the incestuousness of it all: I used to live in Chicago, and I know, from innumerable resumes sent out and phone calls that unless you have experience in programming in the trading industry, you can't get a job in the industry.
Yes, you do note that there's no entry point to that loop.
We know, for a fact, that there's a *lot* of material being classified that has *ZERO* relation to national security, and every relation to embarrassing or revealing criminal malfeasance by those doing the classifying.
Let's see the documents that Cheney and Bush used to justify invading and conquering Iraq. Let's see the ones explaining the real reasons that the US did *not* use our troops to take Tora Bora.
I am not a gun fan... but I do know something about them. The giant economy size superguns in some games are ludicrous - all the bad guys have to do is wait five minutes, and then they can walk over an bash your brains out, while you're lying on the ground, utterly exhausted, from carrying that much metal that way.
The same is true for the fantasy swords, many of which - esp. in games, but including the ones I see in dealers' rooms - way more than a great weapon (which requires two hands), and folks expect to use them standing out front being brave (and not having people in front with shields and one-handed weapons protecting you.
Go look at *real* weapons in a museum.
mark, who remembers learning to fight heavy in the SCA, and discovering, while
in *good* shape, how exhausted you are after 5 min of trying to beat
someone with a baseball bat equivalent
They show you can pass a test. Further, depending on them to gauge people's knowledge indicates possibly that the folks doing the interviewing, and CERTAINLY the HR department, have no idea what they need, or what might show someone is qualified, and is used in place of actual knowledge of what is needed.
HR departments, esp., are 90% (at a guesstimate, based on my personal experience, and from my friends and acquaintences) not merely utterly ignorant of what they're hiring for, and so have no idea what transfers and what doesn't, but don't *care* to learn (which would let them do their jobs better, and be better for the company they work for).
Come the Revolution, we won't waste ammunition, we'll lead the HR depts into the parking lot, throw asphault on them, and *pave* them into the roadway.
In the US, doesn't can-spam act allow us to go after spammers? If so, who's the responsible party: the spammers... or the sites being advertised? *They* can't have disposable domains, and they're the ones who are paying the spammers.
Reality check time: who pays to not merely install them, but also for regular maintenance and parts? Quick, what are the budgets on your local public transit, and how well are the vehicles maintained? (Don't get me started about here in Washington, DC....)
And let's not forget: where have you seen moving ways exposed to the weather? Were you figuring in complete weather coverage, including blowing snow and rain?
mark "only where there's perfect weather control, like the old pulp covers...."
All final tests, from the developers on out, should be done on two generation old computers, and those *have* to be connected to the outside via non-commercially rated broadband. Then we'll stop seeing pages with multiple megabyte pictures, and megabytes of friggin' flash videos*, and bloated java apps.
mark
* Flash videos on *corporate* web pages while you're trying to use *their* search for *their* available jobs!
Twits, er, tweets, are 140 chars so as to fit ON A PAGER.
In the mid-nineties, I worked for a couple of years for Ameritech, a Baby Bell (since swallowed by SBC/AT&T). For 80% of those years, I wore a pager 24x7, except for the month or two when I wore *TWO* pagers 24x7.
When some moron is willing to pay me time and a half, based on my full, loaded rate, they can tweet me. If you're not paying *me* real money, I am *NOT* available 24x7 for your idiotic 140 chars, when you're not capable of sending me an email that I can deal with at my convenience, or you're afraid to pick up a phone - you know, that piece of louse reception that you have with you at all times? - and call me, to talk to an actual person.
It really ought to be twits, because that's who uses it. They can't speak in sentences, nor hold an actual thought in their (alleged) minds.
mark "or would you like me to tell you what I *really* think of twits?"
Now, I despise spam at least as much as anyone here... on the other hand, I *really* have issues with some of the blacklist projects. I think spamhous, and definitely dnlsorbs, has blacklisted *me*... or, rather, as near as I can tell, they blacklisted an ISP more than once... and the last time, I was on RCN in Chicago, which provides 'Net access for much of the city, and they blacklisted all or part of their *entire* address range.
That's not acceptable.
And it was a pain to get off. At least they're "slightly" better than five or so years ago, when cogeco in Canada used them, and I couldn't email a friend, even though I was on my friend's whitelist.
Don't look out from under your rock, do you, Timothy?
Lessee, was it Amazon I interviewed with about five years ago, who told me they had over half a *million* servers?
Meanwhile, around ten years ago, an engineer at IBM maxed out a serious mainframe, using VM (their VM, which has been around for over 30 years) with over 48,000 vm's running Linux. The machine was quite happy, the report said, with "only" 32,000 instances of Linux.
One machine.
Every ten years or so: report 1: Mainframe declared dead!!!; report 2: IBM selling more mainframes than ever.
First, they're *games*, whose minimal story line, in general, is to fight and beat your enemies, and gain the treasure. That's fine for a game, but doesn't exactly have anything to say beyond that.
Secondly, it's *Hollywood*. We like it, but we'll have our scriptwriters rewrite it (coming soon: a movie of the same name as the book, with no other relationship, other than possibly some characters' names), and besides, it's skiffy (they can't distinguish between sf & fantasy, and don't have a clue how the RW works, anyway), so we've got $$$PECIAL EFFECT$$$, and *maybe* a Star or two, we don't need story. I mean, who cares about that, anyway, since anyone going to see this will watch anything we give them, and pay us for the crap.
The *entire* point of patents, as defined in the US Constitution, is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Notice it says "limited time", because it does *not* promote progress by giving unlimited time. In fact, you could argue (and I'd love to see someone take this to court) that the DCMA violates this clause, as well as the current patent law, since it prevents progress.
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What the article doesn't mention is that the smaller the die, the more vulnerable it is to radiation flying through and flipping bits. The older chips are more resistant: they're bigger, and so can take more.
And yes, I do have this from friends at places like NASA and JPL and Fermilab....
mark
If they can get signals from the "electric skin" to normal nerves, this might be seriously important to folks who've had burns over a large part of their bodies, so that they can feel again (house or industrial fires? car wrecks? wars?)
mark
IANAL, but have you spoken to the feds? This is fraud and identity theft, which is a criminal offence, I believe. Someone asked "who paid for the registration" - unless they've stolen your credit cards, that's a backtrace... and if they're not in the same US state, that's interstate wire fraud, and gee, that's within the purview of the FBI.
mark
There's no "shortage" of programmers with "cutting edge skills", nor do we "go stale" the longer we're off, like bruised fruit. The tech companies are lying through their teeth, because they don't want to pay US wages; rather, they prefer paying a fraction of what we get... then throw their hands up in the air when things don't work, or the economy's not recovering because there's so much unemployment.
Then there's HR departments, and at least a third of recruiters, who have no idea what they're hiring for, or what translates to what skill, and don't care to learn, even though it would improve their job performance.
mark, fed up
There are a lot of near-Earth asteroid, like Toutitis a few years ago. Send a mission to one, and alter its orbit so that it enters near-Earth orbit, say at geosync. Then we'd have a *real* space station, once we dug into it, and used it for raw materials, one that would have real protection against solar flares, and that could be used to base true deep-space ships (that only go from orbit to orbit) to the Moon, Mars and beyond. This would make interplanetary travel for humans far cheaper.
For that matter, we could use nuclear (steam) rockets from there, which would make trips a lot faster.
mark
Um, where does RedHat (RHEL) fit in there? Every company I've worked for in the last few years uses either RedHat, and more up and coming, CentOS (RHEL - RH proprietary stuff).
And SuSE is commercial, too, so you can't try to keep out RedHat.
mark
Something that's only existed for a couple of years, and this year's are "obsoleted" by an overpriced piece of crap that doesn't have a keyboard, but fingerprints all over the screen?
Did Apple *pay* for this "story"?
mark
I just adore all this fuss about the special high tech needs of high tech trains. What they *really* need are:
* for Congress to change the contracts where Amtrak leases trackage everywhere
except in the northeast corridor, so that
a) passenger trains have priority over frieght trains, and
b) trackage used by passenger trains are maintained to high-speed
standards, not frieght standards.
* Give Amtrak the funding to reclaim the rail right of ways that are currently
unused.
* Fully fund Amtrak... or did you think that every airport and every highway
were built and maintained for free?
* Make Amtrak actually run *limiteds*, and not have everything but the Acela
Express be milk runs.
Oh, and does anyone here know about how the Pennsylvania RR's Broadway Limited hit 127.1mph in June of 1905? (and no, that's *not* a typo, yes, a century and five years ago).
Then, of course, there the "speed" issue: after 9/11, even the pilots' union was saying that for trips under 300-400 mi, trains were *faster*, esp. since they all come right into every downtown, and aren't way the hell outside cities.
But you'd rather sit in traffic jams and watch the price of gas go through the roof.
mark
You're "not advocating going back to carburetors"? Why?
I had a 1986 Toyota Tercel wagon, and before it died in 2000, it was still getting about 35-36MPG, *and* passing emission tests. And it had a carberateur, and I could tune it, as opposed to needing to replace an expensive unit....
mark
Right. How many folks here make six figures? I've had a *long* career as a developer and as a sysadmin, and I'd need a 10% to make six figures for the first time in my life.
Then there's the incestuousness of it all: I used to live in Chicago, and I know, from innumerable resumes sent out and phone calls that unless you have experience in programming in the trading industry, you can't get a job in the industry.
Yes, you do note that there's no entry point to that loop.
mark
We know, for a fact, that there's a *lot* of material being classified that has *ZERO* relation to national security, and every relation to embarrassing or revealing criminal malfeasance by those doing the classifying.
Let's see the documents that Cheney and Bush used to justify invading and conquering Iraq. Let's see the ones explaining the real reasons that the US did *not* use our troops to take Tora Bora.
mark "and where's the war crimes tribunals?"
I am not a gun fan... but I do know something about them. The giant economy size superguns in some games are ludicrous - all the bad guys have to do is wait five minutes, and then they can walk over an bash your brains out, while you're lying on the ground, utterly exhausted, from carrying that much metal that way.
The same is true for the fantasy swords, many of which - esp. in games, but including the ones I see in dealers' rooms - way more than a great weapon (which requires two hands), and folks expect to use them standing out front being brave (and not having people in front with shields and one-handed weapons protecting you.
Go look at *real* weapons in a museum.
mark, who remembers learning to fight heavy in the SCA, and discovering, while
in *good* shape, how exhausted you are after 5 min of trying to beat
someone with a baseball bat equivalent
I can hear the deniers of AGW screaming now... the article says the same location, but not the same date or time of year.
mark "please put those living in Cloud Cucooland to rest"
They show you can pass a test. Further, depending on them to gauge people's knowledge indicates possibly that the folks doing the interviewing, and CERTAINLY the HR department, have no idea what they need, or what might show someone is qualified, and is used in place of actual knowledge of what is needed.
HR departments, esp., are 90% (at a guesstimate, based on my personal experience, and from my friends and acquaintences) not merely utterly ignorant of what they're hiring for, and so have no idea what transfers and what doesn't, but don't *care* to learn (which would let them do their jobs better, and be better for the company they work for).
Come the Revolution, we won't waste ammunition, we'll lead the HR depts into the parking lot, throw asphault on them, and *pave* them into the roadway.
mark
Me: I want to know if you're self-aware.
Eliza: What if you never found out if I was self-aware.
mark, who passes the Turing test....
In the US, doesn't can-spam act allow us to go after spammers? If so, who's the responsible party: the spammers... or the sites being advertised? *They* can't have disposable domains, and they're the ones who are paying the spammers.
mark
But is it edible? One can see uses for that, ranging from being shipwrecked on a desert island, to late on a hot date....
mark
Reality check time: who pays to not merely install them, but also for regular maintenance and parts? Quick, what are the budgets on your local public transit, and how well are the vehicles maintained? (Don't get me started about here in Washington, DC....)
And let's not forget: where have you seen moving ways exposed to the weather? Were you figuring in complete weather coverage, including blowing snow and rain?
mark "only where there's perfect weather control, like the old pulp covers...."
All final tests, from the developers on out, should be done on two generation old computers, and those *have* to be connected to the outside via non-commercially rated broadband. Then we'll stop seeing pages with multiple megabyte pictures, and megabytes of friggin' flash videos*, and bloated java apps.
mark
* Flash videos on *corporate* web pages while you're trying to use *their* search for *their* available jobs!
Twits, er, tweets, are 140 chars so as to fit ON A PAGER.
In the mid-nineties, I worked for a couple of years for Ameritech, a Baby Bell (since swallowed by SBC/AT&T). For 80% of those years, I wore a pager 24x7, except for the month or two when I wore *TWO* pagers 24x7.
When some moron is willing to pay me time and a half, based on my full, loaded rate, they can tweet me. If you're not paying *me* real money, I am *NOT* available 24x7 for your idiotic 140 chars, when you're not capable of sending me an email that I can deal with at my convenience, or you're afraid to pick up a phone - you know, that piece of louse reception that you have with you at all times? - and call me, to talk to an actual person.
It really ought to be twits, because that's who uses it. They can't speak in sentences, nor hold an actual thought in their (alleged) minds.
mark "or would you like me to tell you what I *really* think of twits?"
Now, I despise spam at least as much as anyone here... on the other hand, I *really* have issues with some of the blacklist projects. I think spamhous, and definitely dnlsorbs, has blacklisted *me*... or, rather, as near as I can tell, they blacklisted an ISP more than once... and the last time, I was on RCN in Chicago, which provides 'Net access for much of the city, and they blacklisted all or part of their *entire* address range.
That's not acceptable.
And it was a pain to get off. At least they're "slightly" better than five or so years ago, when cogeco in Canada used them, and I couldn't email a friend, even though I was on my friend's whitelist.
mark
Don't look out from under your rock, do you, Timothy?
Lessee, was it Amazon I interviewed with about five years ago, who told me they had over half a *million* servers?
Meanwhile, around ten years ago, an engineer at IBM maxed out a serious mainframe, using VM (their VM, which has been around for over 30 years) with over 48,000 vm's running Linux. The machine was quite happy, the report said, with "only" 32,000 instances of Linux.
One machine.
Every ten years or so: report 1: Mainframe declared dead!!!; report 2: IBM selling more mainframes than ever.
mark
First, they're *games*, whose minimal story line, in general, is to fight and beat your enemies, and gain the treasure. That's fine for a game, but doesn't exactly have anything to say beyond that.
Secondly, it's *Hollywood*. We like it, but we'll have our scriptwriters rewrite it (coming soon: a movie of the same name as the book, with no other relationship, other than possibly some characters' names), and besides, it's skiffy (they can't distinguish between sf & fantasy, and don't have a clue how the RW works, anyway), so we've got $$$PECIAL EFFECT$$$, and *maybe* a Star or two, we don't need story. I mean, who cares about that, anyway, since anyone going to see this will watch anything we give them, and pay us for the crap.
mark
See/hear Tom Smith's "307 Ale"
or hear him at
"A bheer brewed in a tesseract..."
mark
The *entire* point of patents, as defined in the US Constitution, is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Notice it says "limited time", because it does *not* promote progress by giving unlimited time. In fact, you could argue (and I'd love to see someone take this to court) that the DCMA violates this clause, as well as the current patent law, since it prevents progress.
mark