I bet your conversion to AC also changes the voltage to allow higher throughput. You could use DC same way as you use AC. DC to DC converters might just be more expensive or not so widely available compared to AC to DC converters.
I think rural areas should be left out of this kind of comparisons because their service level is highly dependent on government regulation of minimum level of service. Finnish rural customers are right now stuck with somewhat working 3G connections for broadband, because most of the land lines have been cut away. On the other hand city broadband users are much better off in Finland than in US. US allows each provider to gain almost monopoly access to the area they are serving the customers. Finnish government regulates that "last mile" including electricity delivery has to be shared with fair market price. That allows consumers to pick cable, electricity, phone, and broadband providers from a number of companies that are competing with each other.
Right now I have internet HDTV (fiber) and 10/10mbit connection for 19 EUR per month, all fees and taxes included. It includes network based "TIVO" and possibility to purchase channel packages, rent movies, as a normal cable TV would. In US just to get the cable TV working was much more than that and any internet connection was extra.
I honestly believe that there is artificial (or at minimum exaggerated) threat assessments done to get funding for various military projects. It may not be F-XX project that gets the funding, but I'm sure UAV development projects will suck up easily same amount of money as full blown fighter jet.
Shh... the point is to get approval for F-XX uberstealth fighter project that will maintain the US air supremacy. Military-industrial complex needs bigger and better enemies as the wars in the middle east can be fought with current low tech equipment. If you read the news articles they are wondering if this will offset new arms race, several companies are counting on that.
Saving 10 thousand is a lot easier than giving up things for that long time. Once comfortable cushion is established (say 500 dollars) and credit card debts are under control spending starts to decrease significantly. No overage charges, no high interest rates, no late fees, no leases, no monthly payments, no extra fees for low credit, etc.
Going from living paycheck to paycheck to accumulating wealth is surprisingly fast if there is some sort of steady income available.
He needs to only do 50 similar cuts to save 1 billion (a year!) direct spending and most likely close to 1 billion of indirect spending is saved at the same time from managing these programs.
Even if he were to declare bankruptcy and nullify the state employee contracts and pensions those obligations would still survive in one form or another. Cutting someone off from their earned pension is just not possible for a state to do, even private companies such as GM and Chrysler were not able to get rid of the pension plans without paying up. California state pension plan is just too big to fail. I believe state pension plan was kind of automatic 401k that was invested into the state without possibility to invest otherwise. The voters are responsible of the current situation where spending increases were passed and any income generation was not. It's not the state employees fault.
Uh, what's the difference between HPC and "general purpose" supercomputing?
General purpose supercomputing is one specialized field of supercomputing. There are vast numbers of computational problems that are solved best with highly specialized supercomputers. In many cases a benchmark that runs on one type of supercomputer won't run (or runs poorly) on other kind.
Term supercomputer can cover tasks such as data warehousing, calculate fluid dynamics, run seti search, play chess, etc. Benchmarking all of these through one benchmark is silly, but that doesn't make any benchmark that covers only one aspect of the supercomputer performance useless.
Are you saying that you work in a place with highly incompetent management? That's hardly top500 benchmarks fault.
What comes to the real codes you keep repeating is that there is no such thing as a standard for real codes. LINPACK provides one benchmark and is a good tool for that. Benchmarks are excellent for the true HPC where more and more tasks can be done extremely fast with highly specialized machines. If you need general purpose super computer you must not aim for a top spot in LINPACK.
If you thought about the parent poster you wouldn't call it bullshit. Basically you are saying that all of your friends are potential millionaires, so in fact you being rich is because all your friends and family are potentially millionaires. In general you working your ass off only makes you live financially slightly better than your peers. Same is true in most parts of the world, only the wealth of your peers changes dramatically.
The issue that Google has wasn't about any particular feature that is required. I'm pretty sure that FIPS 140-2 (if it was a requirement) would be implemented for any Google product if at all possible. Main issue is the requirement to use Microsoft BPOS-Federal product as the basis of the service.
I think the bottom line here is/should be that locking a consumer live account for inserting a purchased game is not a valid course of action. Even if the game was bought from a retailer who let it go out some time before the live date it's still not acceptable. I assume from the article that the firmware update wasn't successful because something was missing and whole system is still in it's original state. Only thing broken is the way Microsoft locked live accounts of these people.
Yes, in Finland it's possible to marry at "maistraatti", which is similar to a city hall. Also the discussion about the church not allowing the gays to marry is slightly misunderstood. The real issue is that Finnish law doesn't allow gays to marry, they allow them to form a "registered union". Registered union is very close to a marriage in all but few issues:
* Ability to adopt children outside of the family. (if there is already a child in the family they can adopt him/her) * Automatic right to take a new last name, application form needs to be filled by the couples in registered union. * Being "silently" discriminated. In many forms that people need to fill there are options for marriage and registered union, where the nature of the relationship is revealed and enables discrimination.
Kristillisdemokraatit (christian democrats) just happen to be the most vocal opponent against recently introduced new marriage law which would make the marriage gender neutral in all of Finland. That's why church gets involved and the show in question of course had pretty intolerant church representatives presenting their views.
I just read the original article that said they used 8 6-core processors to _simulate_ 48-core processor. It would be hard to experiment on a real 48-core processor as those are not readily available.
To be honest a simple regulation could solve this issue. Make a rule that usage fees for overage charge cannot exceed 2x the price of the closest available plan that would cover the usage. Not very hard to figure out this and would help a lot the people who want to limit their costs. I think US regulators should make a mandate that the wireless operators fix the issue or the regulators have to take action. In Europe similar ultimatum was given regarding roaming fees and I believe wireless operators did fall back in line and made the terms more reasonable for consumers.
I once got hit with $1000 bill on data, because some sales rep forgot to add a data plan on my service. Fortunately I bought iPhone so I was able to argue that it's impossible to purchase iPhone without the data plan and they had to withdraw those charges.
That is actually based on international law. Taxes are paid to one country always, refunds or reliefs might be available for the taxes paid to other countries. The country that is your main taxing country is decided on various international treaties.
I'm not sure how private airplane terminal works in that particular airport, but nobody should be able to bring dangerous weapons into the area where everyone are screened for these items. Who would prevent Steve from giving these items to someone who is not travelling in his own airplane. This is clearly security issue and doesn't have anything to do with lack of common sense.
So legally no, I don't think he's got a leg to stand on.
I think he summed up his feelings about this as "I don't really care". On the other hand this sort of publicity stunts by US are not good in the long run. I know my friend was denied visa to travel to US for honeymoon, they went to Italy instead and loved it. Arrogance shows and national image is at stake, legally not a problem.
Even the article states that "They found that, even though prices stayed relatively constant, the quality of service rose through the years—for example, in 2004 the median cable modem contract price was about $45 with an upload bandwidth of 3000 bits per second, while in 2009 the median contract cost $53 but had an upload bandwidth of 8000 bps." Doubled the bandwidth per dollar over 5 years. I wouldn't call that insignificant.
Second reason is that there are price points that people are willing to pay. If ordinary household would prefer to have $10 per month broadband or none at all then there would be $10 broadband providers out there and average price would skew towards that. The bandwidth and service wouldn't be as high as it is now or the broadband would be more limited in other ways. The price points are formed over time and they can be wildly different from country to country based on available income and culture.
Home owner association should purchase this line and provide it for everyone living in an apartment building. That's how it works in Finland at some apartments, the HOA makes a deal with an ISP to provide minimum 1M/1M service included in HOA fees and then add 10M/10M and 100M/10M speeds for extra charge. Everyone is happy and nobody needs to bother with getting some cable or ADSL connection themselves.
Besides the calculation of having 5mbps/person is not really valid. It's rare that everyone in an apartment building is using internet at max speed, the top speed should be capped at 100M per location so people wouldn't reserve the whole bandwidth but other than that it's quite hard to fill up that 1GB in consumer use.
Even lawyers with knowledge of domain don't really know what you want if you don't tell it to the lawyer. Drafting contracts and other legal matters are pretty co-operative situations where lawyer will point you to the right direction while covering his/her ass in the process. The person hiring a lawyer will make decisions on any and all even remotely suspicious details of the case or contract.
To continue the doctor example, if you are sick you go to see a doctor with some domain knowledge. With that knowledge he/she will discuss with you to figure out the actual issue, ultimately he will tell you benefits and disadvantages of each treatment while you make the decision on how to proceed. Doctor covers his/her ass with signed piece of paper and you take the risks of the treatment.
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That's why they call the middle as "The Real America".
I bet your conversion to AC also changes the voltage to allow higher throughput. You could use DC same way as you use AC. DC to DC converters might just be more expensive or not so widely available compared to AC to DC converters.
Some countries in Europe have it better than others. Lumping Europe as one entity is a little silly.
I think rural areas should be left out of this kind of comparisons because their service level is highly dependent on government regulation of minimum level of service. Finnish rural customers are right now stuck with somewhat working 3G connections for broadband, because most of the land lines have been cut away. On the other hand city broadband users are much better off in Finland than in US. US allows each provider to gain almost monopoly access to the area they are serving the customers. Finnish government regulates that "last mile" including electricity delivery has to be shared with fair market price. That allows consumers to pick cable, electricity, phone, and broadband providers from a number of companies that are competing with each other.
Right now I have internet HDTV (fiber) and 10/10mbit connection for 19 EUR per month, all fees and taxes included. It includes network based "TIVO" and possibility to purchase channel packages, rent movies, as a normal cable TV would. In US just to get the cable TV working was much more than that and any internet connection was extra.
I honestly believe that there is artificial (or at minimum exaggerated) threat assessments done to get funding for various military projects. It may not be F-XX project that gets the funding, but I'm sure UAV development projects will suck up easily same amount of money as full blown fighter jet.
Why does it need to be defense? How about spending on space exploration or any cutting edge R&D project?
Shh... the point is to get approval for F-XX uberstealth fighter project that will maintain the US air supremacy. Military-industrial complex needs bigger and better enemies as the wars in the middle east can be fought with current low tech equipment. If you read the news articles they are wondering if this will offset new arms race, several companies are counting on that.
Saving 10 thousand is a lot easier than giving up things for that long time. Once comfortable cushion is established (say 500 dollars) and credit card debts are under control spending starts to decrease significantly. No overage charges, no high interest rates, no late fees, no leases, no monthly payments, no extra fees for low credit, etc.
Going from living paycheck to paycheck to accumulating wealth is surprisingly fast if there is some sort of steady income available.
He needs to only do 50 similar cuts to save 1 billion (a year!) direct spending and most likely close to 1 billion of indirect spending is saved at the same time from managing these programs.
Even if he were to declare bankruptcy and nullify the state employee contracts and pensions those obligations would still survive in one form or another. Cutting someone off from their earned pension is just not possible for a state to do, even private companies such as GM and Chrysler were not able to get rid of the pension plans without paying up. California state pension plan is just too big to fail. I believe state pension plan was kind of automatic 401k that was invested into the state without possibility to invest otherwise. The voters are responsible of the current situation where spending increases were passed and any income generation was not. It's not the state employees fault.
sure, but the person who took the stuff will be fined or jailed for stealing.
Uh, what's the difference between HPC and "general purpose" supercomputing?
General purpose supercomputing is one specialized field of supercomputing. There are vast numbers of computational problems that are solved best with highly specialized supercomputers. In many cases a benchmark that runs on one type of supercomputer won't run (or runs poorly) on other kind.
Term supercomputer can cover tasks such as data warehousing, calculate fluid dynamics, run seti search, play chess, etc. Benchmarking all of these through one benchmark is silly, but that doesn't make any benchmark that covers only one aspect of the supercomputer performance useless.
BTW. What people actually do on supercomputers?
Are you saying that you work in a place with highly incompetent management? That's hardly top500 benchmarks fault.
What comes to the real codes you keep repeating is that there is no such thing as a standard for real codes. LINPACK provides one benchmark and is a good tool for that. Benchmarks are excellent for the true HPC where more and more tasks can be done extremely fast with highly specialized machines. If you need general purpose super computer you must not aim for a top spot in LINPACK.
If you thought about the parent poster you wouldn't call it bullshit. Basically you are saying that all of your friends are potential millionaires, so in fact you being rich is because all your friends and family are potentially millionaires. In general you working your ass off only makes you live financially slightly better than your peers. Same is true in most parts of the world, only the wealth of your peers changes dramatically.
The issue that Google has wasn't about any particular feature that is required. I'm pretty sure that FIPS 140-2 (if it was a requirement) would be implemented for any Google product if at all possible. Main issue is the requirement to use Microsoft BPOS-Federal product as the basis of the service.
I think the bottom line here is/should be that locking a consumer live account for inserting a purchased game is not a valid course of action. Even if the game was bought from a retailer who let it go out some time before the live date it's still not acceptable. I assume from the article that the firmware update wasn't successful because something was missing and whole system is still in it's original state. Only thing broken is the way Microsoft locked live accounts of these people.
Yes, in Finland it's possible to marry at "maistraatti", which is similar to a city hall. Also the discussion about the church not allowing the gays to marry is slightly misunderstood. The real issue is that Finnish law doesn't allow gays to marry, they allow them to form a "registered union". Registered union is very close to a marriage in all but few issues:
* Ability to adopt children outside of the family. (if there is already a child in the family they can adopt him/her)
* Automatic right to take a new last name, application form needs to be filled by the couples in registered union.
* Being "silently" discriminated. In many forms that people need to fill there are options for marriage and registered union, where the nature of the relationship is revealed and enables discrimination.
Kristillisdemokraatit (christian democrats) just happen to be the most vocal opponent against recently introduced new marriage law which would make the marriage gender neutral in all of Finland. That's why church gets involved and the show in question of course had pretty intolerant church representatives presenting their views.
Voting is essentially modern day "bread and circuses".
I just read the original article that said they used 8 6-core processors to _simulate_ 48-core processor. It would be hard to experiment on a real 48-core processor as those are not readily available.
To be honest a simple regulation could solve this issue. Make a rule that usage fees for overage charge cannot exceed 2x the price of the closest available plan that would cover the usage. Not very hard to figure out this and would help a lot the people who want to limit their costs. I think US regulators should make a mandate that the wireless operators fix the issue or the regulators have to take action. In Europe similar ultimatum was given regarding roaming fees and I believe wireless operators did fall back in line and made the terms more reasonable for consumers.
I once got hit with $1000 bill on data, because some sales rep forgot to add a data plan on my service. Fortunately I bought iPhone so I was able to argue that it's impossible to purchase iPhone without the data plan and they had to withdraw those charges.
That is actually based on international law. Taxes are paid to one country always, refunds or reliefs might be available for the taxes paid to other countries. The country that is your main taxing country is decided on various international treaties.
I'm not sure how private airplane terminal works in that particular airport, but nobody should be able to bring dangerous weapons into the area where everyone are screened for these items. Who would prevent Steve from giving these items to someone who is not travelling in his own airplane. This is clearly security issue and doesn't have anything to do with lack of common sense.
So legally no, I don't think he's got a leg to stand on.
I think he summed up his feelings about this as "I don't really care". On the other hand this sort of publicity stunts by US are not good in the long run. I know my friend was denied visa to travel to US for honeymoon, they went to Italy instead and loved it. Arrogance shows and national image is at stake, legally not a problem.
Even the article states that "They found that, even though prices stayed relatively constant, the quality of service rose through the years—for example, in 2004 the median cable modem contract price was about $45 with an upload bandwidth of 3000 bits per second, while in 2009 the median contract cost $53 but had an upload bandwidth of 8000 bps." Doubled the bandwidth per dollar over 5 years. I wouldn't call that insignificant.
Second reason is that there are price points that people are willing to pay. If ordinary household would prefer to have $10 per month broadband or none at all then there would be $10 broadband providers out there and average price would skew towards that. The bandwidth and service wouldn't be as high as it is now or the broadband would be more limited in other ways. The price points are formed over time and they can be wildly different from country to country based on available income and culture.
Home owner association should purchase this line and provide it for everyone living in an apartment building. That's how it works in Finland at some apartments, the HOA makes a deal with an ISP to provide minimum 1M/1M service included in HOA fees and then add 10M/10M and 100M/10M speeds for extra charge. Everyone is happy and nobody needs to bother with getting some cable or ADSL connection themselves.
Besides the calculation of having 5mbps/person is not really valid. It's rare that everyone in an apartment building is using internet at max speed, the top speed should be capped at 100M per location so people wouldn't reserve the whole bandwidth but other than that it's quite hard to fill up that 1GB in consumer use.
Even lawyers with knowledge of domain don't really know what you want if you don't tell it to the lawyer. Drafting contracts and other legal matters are pretty co-operative situations where lawyer will point you to the right direction while covering his/her ass in the process. The person hiring a lawyer will make decisions on any and all even remotely suspicious details of the case or contract.
To continue the doctor example, if you are sick you go to see a doctor with some domain knowledge. With that knowledge he/she will discuss with you to figure out the actual issue, ultimately he will tell you benefits and disadvantages of each treatment while you make the decision on how to proceed. Doctor covers his/her ass with signed piece of paper and you take the risks of the treatment.