Never mind Seoul... 23.8 million people and one of the fastest internet infrastructure services in the world. I know that London and NY are big, but you'd be going gray before you were about to drive around all the streets in Seoul. Not to mention the tens of thousands of high rises where a wifi signal won't be detectable.
RSA is full of shit and pushing the usual corporate agenda. Now we know they fudge statistics.
I wonder which of our pasts will be the first to be 'eradicated'? The whole stolen generation seems to cost the government. That can go. Those debates showing Howard with his anger twitch? That can go... as well as his attempt at bowling.
So, do you think that there are three people, quite rightly, trembling in their boots at the moment? Shouldn't be too hard to find. And if it is shame on the organisations.
I'd be interested to know what the consumption would be when measured with a power meter.
My Macbook pro (battery almost 3 years old) gets about 72 hours of sleep time with intermittent wakeups for quick email via wi-fi. I would not even attempt that with my ubuntu thinkpad - unfortunately.
I think that's one of the better solutions i've seen here. The original poster is NZ and I saw another NZ post that they'd got 100GB for $95. Five people, a simple proxy server (to ensure everybody gets 20GB) and they could get a 40x cost benefit.
I really like the idea. Has community stamped all over it.
I don't necessarily agree with stereotypes, but I acknowledge that we need them. See, the nerds make sure that the Internet works and that our computers can connect to it. The engineers build the electronics that make the stuff work. All of it stereotype, and all of them are individuals that are standing out from the pack. I fail to see the contradiction. You or I may not see that as a stereotype, but I'd bet you that people that have little to do with computers see it that way.
The political correctness has gotten to the point that governments are starting to censor what we are and are not exposed to. It started with the little things. I'd prefer to adhere to a common decency, where common sense is applied. Now, that's going to vary from culture to culture and even subcultures, and that's good.
The great, great grandparent made a joke. It was funny. Now, I don't know the sex of the person that made it, but it shouldn't matter. It was posted for the amusement of others and probably the poster as well. They don't deserve to be shot down. One person finds it offensive so we should all suffer? So much for democratic way. I see more and more examples of the minority dictating terms to the majority. On a long enough timescale, that path will converge to a pond with no ripples... how boring.
Ahh, political correctness gone mad. You must be a city dweller right? Born in a city, raised in a city and will die in a city. Problem is that none of you like it when somebody stands out. Now, you all like to say the reason for it is the greater good of the human race. But really, you're all squabbling for the scraps and if somebody stands out from the mediocre, you jump in and pull them down. When your friends go home from some party, you and whoever you live with start bitching about somebody that had something to say, right?
We need stereotypes. You claim it as a manifestation of hate, but it is not. It is how we calm ourselves that jobs we don't want to do, nor the ones we don't want to know about, are being done.
If you take personal offense to a joke, state that you don't like it. Don't try and point out the doom of humanity and it's relationship to an abstraction.
Don't be such a pussy.
Except that soon, the sun will be setting at 7pm, with light another 30 minutes after that. September and October are just an adjustment period.
Everybody talks about wanting to do extra activities after work but, apart from people with kids, who *really* does that? Clearly demonstrated by nobody being out and about after 9pm. Daylight savings will not change this. It's a culture thing.
Maybe it's because I grew up in the country. I set my body clock around daylight hours. I get extra sleep in winter while in Summer I get a lot more done. And the sun is extremely powerful during the day. I want to stay away from the peak UV periods as much as possible. You can get a sunburn with just one minute of exposure during these times: I don't want cancer scars covering my body. Look closely at people over the age of 40 on the Gold Coast.
May as well talk about the Greenie thing while I'm at it. You can take a stab at the architecture of houses in Queensland; they're not built for retaining constant temperatures. What is better for the environment? Thousands of people at work in buildings built for retaining constant temperature with industrial water cooled air conditioning or thousands of people sitting in uninsulated houses with reverse cycle air conditioners going flat out?
I hate it also. I live in Queensland, Australia and we don't do daylight savings. The southern part of Australia, Sydney and Melbourne do have it and constantly complain that we don't. See, they are the centre of the universe and because they do, we must.
Never mind that we live closer to the equator, it is bloody hot outside during the day and who on earth, apart from tourists, want to go out in that sun in the middle of the day. It burns!
I'm an early riser. I get up hours before I have to go to work. That's when I clean and shit, so when I come home I can chillax. Many do the same. If you want daylight savings so you can see more daylight, adjust your own clock.
Progressions in science and medicine have allowed us to cure these viruses/diseases...
We haven't cured anything yet. But we have immunisations, treatment of symptoms, etc. Your point is still the same.
Perhaps the evolution of human biology may be declining [clearly remains to be seen] but humans have not stopped evolving. I see it as we are evolving faster than we ever have before. We live longer. We can survive greater temperature windows. Bloody hell, we've even managed to evolve to a point where we can fly and go to the moon. And I don't see that stuff in decline anytime soon.
You realise that history dictates that you're meant to post as anonymous, right? An accompanied link or ascii images of description to be supplied also. But a nice twist, I'll grant you.
But... but.. we've got some dangerous critters as well! Our jellyfish are considered badarse! They don't even need lasers. They're more touchy-feely. Much worse in a basement. One full of sea water that is.
Look, sorry, I was probably a little too brutal with the sweeping generalisations, but I just checked my email (3 minutes ago), noticed that there are 7 emails from monitoring software telling me that a couple of nodes of a cluster have load warnings. Given 16 cores per node and a load of 430, log on and see the usual suspects with their 'threaded java programs'. These guys are gonna get phds.
Got a citation for that? Because I call bullshit. I know that you Americans have a fair percentage of the top500 but I severely doubt that a machine like this would sit idle. It would be attracting all sorts from out of the wood works. It may take a while to get to a sustained load greater than 50% (takes a while for people to tune codes) but then it'll start to fly.
but I don't think they let "buy more RAM" idiots to use such super computing power.
There are a few of those idiots around here. They're infecting the system with their 'document classification' and are completely unwilling to acknowledge that there are other techniques for dealing with large dense (usually only 10% in these cases!) matrices. Hilarious when they start telling the linear and non-linear algebraic mathematicians that they don't understand the complexities.
Here's a great example: finding various subsets of "1-2-3" in "1-2-3-2-4-5-1-7-6" (but gigabytes of the stuff stored in a mysql database) with the code in Java, data represented as String and perform a String.split("-") inside very large nested loops (runtime in months on a single cpu).
Turning them away is not an option. I get frustrated when you then have some other dudes that will milk every single flop, parallelise but can't have more than 30% of the machine because the other morons have submitted hundreds of jobs.
Cool thing about the globally addressable petabyte. That way people writing really crappy code that don't bother thinking about their memory storage can just thrash away. And who cares about pipeline stalls.
I find it funny how the people who have never been formally trained with writing in a language (Mathematics, and just science in general) write the best codes while the majority of the IT people I see write the most appalling code I've ever seen. I think it has something to do with the fact that the science people don't pretend to know everything and are much more willing to learn something new while the IT people already know everything.
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Never mind Seoul ... 23.8 million people and one of the fastest internet infrastructure services in the world. I know that London and NY are big, but you'd be going gray before you were about to drive around all the streets in Seoul. Not to mention the tens of thousands of high rises where a wifi signal won't be detectable.
RSA is full of shit and pushing the usual corporate agenda. Now we know they fudge statistics.
Not to mention the tens of thousands of high rises in Seoul. You know, that country with nearly the fastest broadband in the world.
These RSA guys are idiots and are just pushing their own agendas.
It certainly speaks for itself, doesn't it.
I wonder which of our pasts will be the first to be 'eradicated'? The whole stolen generation seems to cost the government. That can go. Those debates showing Howard with his anger twitch? That can go ... as well as his attempt at bowling.
So, do you think that there are three people, quite rightly, trembling in their boots at the moment? Shouldn't be too hard to find. And if it is shame on the organisations.
I'd be interested to know what the consumption would be when measured with a power meter.
My Macbook pro (battery almost 3 years old) gets about 72 hours of sleep time with intermittent wakeups for quick email via wi-fi. I would not even attempt that with my ubuntu thinkpad - unfortunately.
I think that's one of the better solutions i've seen here. The original poster is NZ and I saw another NZ post that they'd got 100GB for $95. Five people, a simple proxy server (to ensure everybody gets 20GB) and they could get a 40x cost benefit.
I really like the idea. Has community stamped all over it.
I don't necessarily agree with stereotypes, but I acknowledge that we need them. See, the nerds make sure that the Internet works and that our computers can connect to it. The engineers build the electronics that make the stuff work. All of it stereotype, and all of them are individuals that are standing out from the pack. I fail to see the contradiction. You or I may not see that as a stereotype, but I'd bet you that people that have little to do with computers see it that way. The political correctness has gotten to the point that governments are starting to censor what we are and are not exposed to. It started with the little things. I'd prefer to adhere to a common decency, where common sense is applied. Now, that's going to vary from culture to culture and even subcultures, and that's good. The great, great grandparent made a joke. It was funny. Now, I don't know the sex of the person that made it, but it shouldn't matter. It was posted for the amusement of others and probably the poster as well. They don't deserve to be shot down. One person finds it offensive so we should all suffer? So much for democratic way. I see more and more examples of the minority dictating terms to the majority. On a long enough timescale, that path will converge to a pond with no ripples ... how boring.
Ahh, political correctness gone mad. You must be a city dweller right? Born in a city, raised in a city and will die in a city. Problem is that none of you like it when somebody stands out. Now, you all like to say the reason for it is the greater good of the human race. But really, you're all squabbling for the scraps and if somebody stands out from the mediocre, you jump in and pull them down. When your friends go home from some party, you and whoever you live with start bitching about somebody that had something to say, right? We need stereotypes. You claim it as a manifestation of hate, but it is not. It is how we calm ourselves that jobs we don't want to do, nor the ones we don't want to know about, are being done. If you take personal offense to a joke, state that you don't like it. Don't try and point out the doom of humanity and it's relationship to an abstraction. Don't be such a pussy.
Fair point.
Except that soon, the sun will be setting at 7pm, with light another 30 minutes after that. September and October are just an adjustment period.
Everybody talks about wanting to do extra activities after work but, apart from people with kids, who *really* does that? Clearly demonstrated by nobody being out and about after 9pm. Daylight savings will not change this. It's a culture thing.
Maybe it's because I grew up in the country. I set my body clock around daylight hours. I get extra sleep in winter while in Summer I get a lot more done. And the sun is extremely powerful during the day. I want to stay away from the peak UV periods as much as possible. You can get a sunburn with just one minute of exposure during these times: I don't want cancer scars covering my body. Look closely at people over the age of 40 on the Gold Coast.
May as well talk about the Greenie thing while I'm at it. You can take a stab at the architecture of houses in Queensland; they're not built for retaining constant temperatures. What is better for the environment? Thousands of people at work in buildings built for retaining constant temperature with industrial water cooled air conditioning or thousands of people sitting in uninsulated houses with reverse cycle air conditioners going flat out?
I hate it also. I live in Queensland, Australia and we don't do daylight savings. The southern part of Australia, Sydney and Melbourne do have it and constantly complain that we don't. See, they are the centre of the universe and because they do, we must.
Never mind that we live closer to the equator, it is bloody hot outside during the day and who on earth, apart from tourists, want to go out in that sun in the middle of the day. It burns!
I'm an early riser. I get up hours before I have to go to work. That's when I clean and shit, so when I come home I can chillax. Many do the same. If you want daylight savings so you can see more daylight, adjust your own clock.
Thanks for that. I get a little tingle down my spine when I see the Ubuntu logo and "Digital Education Revolution" on the same foil.
Progressions in science and medicine have allowed us to cure these viruses/diseases ...
We haven't cured anything yet. But we have immunisations, treatment of symptoms, etc. Your point is still the same.
Perhaps the evolution of human biology may be declining [clearly remains to be seen] but humans have not stopped evolving. I see it as we are evolving faster than we ever have before. We live longer. We can survive greater temperature windows. Bloody hell, we've even managed to evolve to a point where we can fly and go to the moon. And I don't see that stuff in decline anytime soon.
You're right. Apparently you can only have a 99 year ban.
I find your lack of faith ... disturbing
Yeah, real funny. Except that those crazy scientists thought it'd be hilarious to wire it up to a speaker that makes wet fart noises.
dunno, I hit refresh a couple of times. Maybe this time ...
But you know these crazy scientists ... they're all having a snigger because they swapped the instructions when he wasn't looking.
You realise that history dictates that you're meant to post as anonymous, right? An accompanied link or ascii images of description to be supplied also. But a nice twist, I'll grant you.
But ... but .. we've got some dangerous critters as well! Our jellyfish are considered badarse! They don't even need lasers. They're more touchy-feely. Much worse in a basement. One full of sea water that is.
Sick! Tell me there are black choppers to get them into secure data centres ... located in exotic countries on mountain tops?
Look, sorry, I was probably a little too brutal with the sweeping generalisations, but I just checked my email (3 minutes ago), noticed that there are 7 emails from monitoring software telling me that a couple of nodes of a cluster have load warnings. Given 16 cores per node and a load of 430, log on and see the usual suspects with their 'threaded java programs'. These guys are gonna get phds.
Got a citation for that? Because I call bullshit. I know that you Americans have a fair percentage of the top500 but I severely doubt that a machine like this would sit idle. It would be attracting all sorts from out of the wood works. It may take a while to get to a sustained load greater than 50% (takes a while for people to tune codes) but then it'll start to fly.
but I don't think they let "buy more RAM" idiots to use such super computing power.
There are a few of those idiots around here. They're infecting the system with their 'document classification' and are completely unwilling to acknowledge that there are other techniques for dealing with large dense (usually only 10% in these cases!) matrices. Hilarious when they start telling the linear and non-linear algebraic mathematicians that they don't understand the complexities.
;)
Here's a great example: finding various subsets of "1-2-3" in "1-2-3-2-4-5-1-7-6" (but gigabytes of the stuff stored in a mysql database) with the code in Java, data represented as String and perform a String.split("-") inside very large nested loops (runtime in months on a single cpu).
Turning them away is not an option. I get frustrated when you then have some other dudes that will milk every single flop, parallelise but can't have more than 30% of the machine because the other morons have submitted hundreds of jobs.
Just need to vent
Cool thing about the globally addressable petabyte. That way people writing really crappy code that don't bother thinking about their memory storage can just thrash away. And who cares about pipeline stalls.
I find it funny how the people who have never been formally trained with writing in a language (Mathematics, and just science in general) write the best codes while the majority of the IT people I see write the most appalling code I've ever seen. I think it has something to do with the fact that the science people don't pretend to know everything and are much more willing to learn something new while the IT people already know everything.
In that case, does safesearch filter out the fat guys? :P
Unfortunately, the US gov only wants you to see the fatties. Why do you think there is the 50cm limit?