Could it be possible to create a 3D image of your surroundings by some triangulation and delicate signal processing of WIFI signals? The more there are microwave sources the better the result.
I'd say that DIY computers will become more commonplace in the future, and the hardware specs will be whatever you want them to be. The hobbyist components will be hugely more powerful along with their mainstream counterparts. Virtualization abilities will smooth the borders between the operating systems and between the hardware. Miniaturization process will inevitably lead to more modular components and configurable options. For example modern BIOSes are beginning to offer a wealth of options to configure, and the memory products are quite different from each other, all tailored for a purpose.
To summarize: there is hope. Evidently there is a market to non-locked out computers too.
Maybe some mixed DNA as in Hot Plasma IIV - The Insertion, or as in Space Hotties IV - Fiery Plunge, to which there is also the legendary sequel Two Way Communication.
The risk depends on where the energy is produced too, so the metric is not absolute.
The procedures and technology can be improved. The solar/wind/hydro deaths for example are calculated from resource mining, construction and maintenance related fatalities (/resource or/profession in general population) : http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html That article precedes the one that OP referenced and provides the methodology.
The nuclear comes out as the safest probably because of the strict safety guidelines and the fact that not anyone can maintain a nuclear power station. Should the same kind of methods be enforced to all energy related activities in society the renewables (and coal too) would appear a lot more safer.
The point seems to be that the urban design (of Cupertino) is about to promote individual space rather than collective responsibility for the society and the environment.
The building itself is a detachment. It's essentially a decentralized and non-hierarchical design. The focal point is not in the managers but in people around you. The empty space is there to be filled with the collective ideas and thoughts. The shortest distance to the other side is via a nature oriented space where people can meet up. The values promoted by the design itself are distinct from typical offices.
It's evident that the building facilitates innovation. And like for many a innovator the external world is slightly distanced.
I find the claim that they were able to make people unable to tell the truth much more surprising than the one that they were able to make people unable to lie.
The results are no wonder if you take account the fact that Estonians used to float on the electromagnetic cross currents of giant Russian and Western early warning radars.
Important note was left out from the FreenNAS Hardware reqs:
NOTE: by default, ZFS disables pre-fetching (caching) for systems containing less than 4 GB of usable RAM. Not using pre-fetching can really slow down performance. 4 GB of usable RAM is not the same thing as 4 GB of installed RAM as the operating system resides in RAM. This means that the practical pre-fetching threshhold is 6 GB, or 8 GB of installed RAM. You can still use ZFS with less RAM, but performance will be affected.
From Freenas Hardware reqs: "The best way to get the most out of your FreeNAS hardware is to install as much RAM as possible. If your RAM is limited, consider using UFS until you can afford better hardware. ZFS typically requires a minimum of 6 GB of RAM in order to provide good performance; in practical terms (what you can actually install), this means that the minimum is really 8 GB. The more RAM, the better the performance, and the Forums provide anecdotal evidence from users on how much performance is gained by adding more RAM. For systems with large disk capacity (greater than 6 TB), a general rule of thumb is 1GB of RAM for every 1TB of storage. "
The FreeNAS people recommend at least 6 Gigabytes of memory for a system of my size, and when I do a large copy (about 100 GB OSX Image) it actually takes that much and reaches the top speed. The CPU cores hit 100% (the board Asus E35M1-I Deluxe, with AMD Fusion). If you have a large setup the extra memory will likely contribute to the transfer rate. I checked out the other NAS OS's but I like Ubuntu for the versatility. It's probably possible to have yet another performance boost by having a more optimized OS, but I'm no really after that.
I understand ZFS is mostly for RAID's then? Most probably I'm not doing things as they should be done, but I like ZFS and originally thought of using FreeNAS, which recommends ZFS anyway. I'll probably check back to it when the new version matures a bit. I'm not after meticulous performance tweaking though. It's just great to have a back-up system rather than a single back-up drive (most of my data is practically triple secured).
Yes it is (http://zfsonlinux.org/). I installed it from Darik Horn's PPA as instructed in the FAQ. I don't know how fast the disks should optimally be (100 MB/s reads from single disk, WD Caviar Green), but disk to disk rate peaks and goes a bit above 60 MB/s compared to 30 MB/s before. Average is somewhere a bit above 40 MB/s.
I first tried FreeNAS before installing Ubuntu, and ZFS was a natural choice (for the 2TB drives). I didn't want to use the SSD as a cache for ZFS so decided to install Ubuntu on it rather than having an unused HD. The SSD has the default Linux filesystem. I found a great ZFS driver, which doubled the disk to disk transfer rate from fuse-ZFS.
I actually did quite thorough review of NAS/Backup boxes for home use and in the end decided to build one myself. Now I have a 4TB Ubuntu box with plenty of room to expand and connectivity and what's most important: total control of the system. The passively cooled mini-itx board and the case supports 6 sata III drives besides having eSata and USB 3.0, the OS launches from a small SSD. Raid is something that many people automatically implement even though it's not always necessary or convenient. I simply rsync the drives to mirror them. I'm not a filesystem guru, but ended up to have ZFS, which apparently has many great features. The file system loves memory though, I've seen it taking 6 gigabytes easily from time to time.
Exactly. The building should be the target. How about a kinect game where you control the ball of a demolition machine by swaying around? Or better yet a pong implementation for two players, where one tries to knock out the building of the other player. Although it would just be a 70s video game in essence. Maybe we should have some birds there to modernize it.
That's not terribly relevant to his point. His point is that we a) can't save every species, and b) probably shouldn't save every species.
The real question is why the some species are endangered and some die en masse. Can we do anything to the fundamental reasons or do we end up having a zoo of resurrected species ot species that can't survive, an ark sort of. That would be beautiful and tragic at the same time, a sort of testament to what we can do - in every sense. The truth is that many species are dying, and there's nothing unnatural about it. The Earth's resources are limited, and an extinction is a natural consequence to the resources running out. We ourselves will face an upper limit of sustainable population some time in the future.
We should not however need to fight for our survival anymore.
Are we supposed to save all of the species or just the cute furry ones that provoke empathy? On the other hand we are keeping cattle population for example at a naturally unsustainable level.
Massive amount of creepy insects and other strange and maybe extremely poisonous creatures are probably also on the brink of extinction. The ecological niches are not indefinite. The natural course is that species come and go. The humanity has sped up the process immensely too, and many can't adapt... If we try to save everything the endangered species of today will eat each other tomorrow.
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What exactly happens when an SSD dies. Are the cells just read-only then or complete garbage?
Could it be possible to create a 3D image of your surroundings by some triangulation and delicate signal processing of WIFI signals? The more there are microwave sources the better the result.
Oracle just gave us an 'affeine break.
I'd say that DIY computers will become more commonplace in the future, and the hardware specs will be whatever you want them to be. The hobbyist components will be hugely more powerful along with their mainstream counterparts. Virtualization abilities will smooth the borders between the operating systems and between the hardware. Miniaturization process will inevitably lead to more modular components and configurable options. For example modern BIOSes are beginning to offer a wealth of options to configure, and the memory products are quite different from each other, all tailored for a purpose.
To summarize: there is hope. Evidently there is a market to non-locked out computers too.
Maybe some mixed DNA as in Hot Plasma IIV - The Insertion, or as in Space Hotties IV - Fiery Plunge, to which there is also the legendary sequel Two Way Communication.
That would not have been possible without chroniton.
Maybe she hears about it on the local radio station.
I actually emailed them about BOINC, they responded that
..there's currently no plans to introduce this to Boinc but we're only just beginning so anything's possible at this stage.
The risk depends on where the energy is produced too, so the metric is not absolute.
The procedures and technology can be improved. The solar/wind/hydro deaths for example are calculated from resource mining, construction and maintenance related fatalities (/resource or /profession in general population) : http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html That article precedes the one that OP referenced and provides the methodology.
The nuclear comes out as the safest probably because of the strict safety guidelines and the fact that not anyone can maintain a nuclear power station. Should the same kind of methods be enforced to all energy related activities in society the renewables (and coal too) would appear a lot more safer.
And, as first-time accepted submitter.... The process seems to take about two years.
The point seems to be that the urban design (of Cupertino) is about to promote individual space rather than collective responsibility for the society and the environment.
The building itself is a detachment. It's essentially a decentralized and non-hierarchical design. The focal point is not in the managers but in people around you. The empty space is there to be filled with the collective ideas and thoughts. The shortest distance to the other side is via a nature oriented space where people can meet up. The values promoted by the design itself are distinct from typical offices.
It's evident that the building facilitates innovation. And like for many a innovator the external world is slightly distanced.
It seems that the outcome wasn't foreseeable.
I find the claim that they were able to make people unable to tell the truth much more surprising than the one that they were able to make people unable to lie.
The results are no wonder if you take account the fact that Estonians used to float on the electromagnetic cross currents of giant Russian and Western early warning radars.
Important note was left out from the FreenNAS Hardware reqs:
NOTE: by default, ZFS disables pre-fetching (caching) for systems containing less than 4 GB of usable RAM. Not using pre-fetching can really slow down performance. 4 GB of usable RAM is not the same thing as 4 GB of installed RAM as the operating system resides in RAM. This means that the practical pre-fetching threshhold is 6 GB, or 8 GB of installed RAM. You can still use ZFS with less RAM, but performance will be affected.
I was benchmarking internal disk to disk transfers, and the system really took a bit over 6 Gigabytes. The memory usage pattern was somewhat of interest, as it ramped up for some time until releasing, and the cycle was restarted. The default of ZFS seems to be that all of the system memory is used except 1GB: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#Memory_and_Dynamic_Reconfiguration_Recommendations
From Freenas Hardware reqs: "The best way to get the most out of your FreeNAS hardware is to install as much RAM as possible. If your RAM is limited, consider using UFS until you can afford better hardware. ZFS typically requires a minimum of 6 GB of RAM in order to provide good performance; in practical terms (what you can actually install), this means that the minimum is really 8 GB. The more RAM, the better the performance, and the Forums provide anecdotal evidence from users on how much performance is gained by adding more RAM. For systems with large disk capacity (greater than 6 TB), a general rule of thumb is 1GB of RAM for every 1TB of storage. "
The FreeNAS people recommend at least 6 Gigabytes of memory for a system of my size, and when I do a large copy (about 100 GB OSX Image) it actually takes that much and reaches the top speed. The CPU cores hit 100% (the board Asus E35M1-I Deluxe, with AMD Fusion). If you have a large setup the extra memory will likely contribute to the transfer rate. I checked out the other NAS OS's but I like Ubuntu for the versatility. It's probably possible to have yet another performance boost by having a more optimized OS, but I'm no really after that.
I understand ZFS is mostly for RAID's then? Most probably I'm not doing things as they should be done, but I like ZFS and originally thought of using FreeNAS, which recommends ZFS anyway. I'll probably check back to it when the new version matures a bit. I'm not after meticulous performance tweaking though. It's just great to have a back-up system rather than a single back-up drive (most of my data is practically triple secured).
Yes it is (http://zfsonlinux.org/). I installed it from Darik Horn's PPA as instructed in the FAQ. I don't know how fast the disks should optimally be (100 MB/s reads from single disk, WD Caviar Green), but disk to disk rate peaks and goes a bit above 60 MB/s compared to 30 MB/s before. Average is somewhere a bit above 40 MB/s.
I first tried FreeNAS before installing Ubuntu, and ZFS was a natural choice (for the 2TB drives). I didn't want to use the SSD as a cache for ZFS so decided to install Ubuntu on it rather than having an unused HD. The SSD has the default Linux filesystem. I found a great ZFS driver, which doubled the disk to disk transfer rate from fuse-ZFS.
I actually did quite thorough review of NAS/Backup boxes for home use and in the end decided to build one myself. Now I have a 4TB Ubuntu box with plenty of room to expand and connectivity and what's most important: total control of the system. The passively cooled mini-itx board and the case supports 6 sata III drives besides having eSata and USB 3.0, the OS launches from a small SSD. Raid is something that many people automatically implement even though it's not always necessary or convenient. I simply rsync the drives to mirror them. I'm not a filesystem guru, but ended up to have ZFS, which apparently has many great features. The file system loves memory though, I've seen it taking 6 gigabytes easily from time to time.
Indeed. A new universe shall be build to simulate life that simulates life that simulates life that...
Let's just admire the new photos of humanities first forays to the Moo
That's not a Moon.
Exactly. The building should be the target. How about a kinect game where you control the ball of a demolition machine by swaying around? Or better yet a pong implementation for two players, where one tries to knock out the building of the other player. Although it would just be a 70s video game in essence. Maybe we should have some birds there to modernize it.
That's not terribly relevant to his point. His point is that we a) can't save every species, and b) probably shouldn't save every species.
The real question is why the some species are endangered and some die en masse. Can we do anything to the fundamental reasons or do we end up having a zoo of resurrected species ot species that can't survive, an ark sort of. That would be beautiful and tragic at the same time, a sort of testament to what we can do - in every sense. The truth is that many species are dying, and there's nothing unnatural about it. The Earth's resources are limited, and an extinction is a natural consequence to the resources running out. We ourselves will face an upper limit of sustainable population some time in the future.
We should not however need to fight for our survival anymore.
Are we supposed to save all of the species or just the cute furry ones that provoke empathy? On the other hand we are keeping cattle population for example at a naturally unsustainable level.
Massive amount of creepy insects and other strange and maybe extremely poisonous creatures are probably also on the brink of extinction. The ecological niches are not indefinite. The natural course is that species come and go. The humanity has sped up the process immensely too, and many can't adapt... If we try to save everything the endangered species of today will eat each other tomorrow.