That is and has been being done for quite a while. The Airbus that went down in the Atlantic Ocean was sending telemetry information back to Air France as each system failed in turn before it hit the drink.
The Airbus is one of the most technologically outfitted birds in the air and yet even those go down no and then. Remember what goes up must come down well unless we are talking about helium.
As to a constant stream of all critical system information it would not be that hard. Lets say for example you monitored 1000 critical data points about each plane and each data point was a 32 bit value, that is only 32,000 bits or 4000 bytes. Assume 50% compression now you are down to just 2K of data. So how often to send it, well that will have to be balanced with the number of planes in the air at any one time and satilite capacity.
The SINGLE cardinal rule at BM ( I should know, I was a Black Rock Ranger for 5 years ) is:
"Do Not Interfere With Anyones Immediate Experience"
Or at least is used to be... I was thinking about going back as a participant, but I am really afraid that if I was sitting in the center camp cafe' having a chi and some idiot was yammering on their fucking cell phone I would rip it from their hand and smash it into a as many pieces as I possibly could.
This reminds of a story that may be more tech myth and legend and if it is not true it should be and it goes something like this:
Back in the early days of the net when the major interconnects were MAE East and MAE West and other interconnect points had not been established almost everything routed through these two points.
So the story goes that there was a tech who dutifully monitored the system during his shift. He had noticed that someone from another country was trying to get access to files on a certain server at major university. Now he was curious because he saw the same attempts over and over again over a rather long period of time. Now since we all forget password or thing we know them and then try and try without success this is not that unusual and normally after fumbling around we will just contact the machines owner and ask for the correct password. Now in those days it was still a relatively small group of folks so there were not a whole lot of questions asked.
But the tech in question started noticing the pattern was limited to times when the people attending these machines would not be there.
So he sent off an e-mail to the admins he knew and they had not been requested to change or provide any passwords.
So our intrepid tech sent off an e-mail to the administrators of the location of the seeming intruder and asked that they have him stop. Well the admins said that it was really none of their business anyway and being in a foreign country our admin had no say over what anyone there did. The long and short of it was that the apparent intruder kept it up.
So one night our intrepid admin had had enough, so he did what he thought might get peoples attention. He simply unplugged the cable that was the source of the problem and effectively disconnecting an entire country from MAE West!
Well in a few hours phones started ringing into MAE West asking questions and trying to figure out what was wrong? He told them he had asked, many time for the admins of the network that the rude behavior was originating from to kindly ask the owner of the machine to stop and had been rudely rebuffed to say the least.. He also said when the attempted intrusions stop, he would plug them back in. To say the least they stopped in fairly short order and he plugged them back in.
Now that is a bit far flung because I doubt there is any one cable that could disconnect an entire country but I am pretty sure you could simply route class A's to/dev/null. Perhaps that what it will take to get ISP's to get serious. Just pull their plug until they behave. Everyone peers in someplace so it should not be that hard to go and find that Ethernet cable and simply unplug it and leave it dangling until their behavior changes/
Dude reference that is laughable. I have been doing this shit for 30 years and I don't know a handful of people ( personally ) that even come close to being "Level 3" on much more then one of those lines.
Whoever wrote that is living in a dream world. I personally know people who have written quiet excellent code to the OS HAL that don't even understand half of the buzzwords in that document really mean.
to jump from language / framework De Jere at the drop of some PHB's hat, ("Yeah I know I just came on board,.and I know you guys have been doing all of this in Ruby but, well, I just don't like Ruby so we are writing all new code in MindFuck).
BIG plus if you can be an expert in ALL of them.
Even bigger points if you can write a web-server ( with all associated modules) in MindFuck.
Extra Bonus if you have absolutely no life away from a computer.
Even BIGGER extra bonus if you will work for $15.00 an hour!
Please do not think that I am not a supporter for the armed force personnel, I just don't think the decisions by government have been good ones
And I agree with you. Fortunately we are given the opportunity, by law, to overthrow our government every 2,4 and 6 years (not that many people take advantage of that).
But my opinion about WikiLeaks is not going to change. What they did was wrong and so was that E3. You don't do shit like that, you just don't. If you want to expose things then there is a right way to go about it and they did it in the most wrong way possible and they should pay a heavy price for it due to the consequences of their actions.
I tend to agree with what you say with some reservations...
The cost of building rail is enormous somewhere on the order of a million dollars a mile.
The cost of obtaining the land for the rail bed is going to put that previous figure to shame. The San Francisco Bay Area is the land of some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
If those costs were not bad enough, upon arriving at ANY destination there is no connecting transportation.
Take San Francisco for instance. The ONLY train that terminates in that city is CalTrain which ONLY runs from San Francisco to San Jose on the peninsula and farther south. So to get to SF by train from anywhere other then San Jose you can either:
Arrive in Oakland and or Emeryville and then take a bus to BART ( No baggage car you have to lug everything so if you are making a x-country trip and you happen to arrive at rush hour you are screwed because they are like sardine cans ) then BART into San Francisco.
Watch San Francisco go by your window as you travel another 40 miles south to San Jose, Take a cab or whatever to a Cal Train Station, get on the Cal Train and go 40 miles back north to the Cal Train Station that is nowhere near Bart or any other transportation or downtown for that matter.
BART only runs until midnight so if you are arriving late it is a VERY expensive cab ride across the Bay Bridge from Oakland or Emeryville.
A fun fact. BART is a different (wider) rail gauge the Cal Train or Amtrack a BRILLIANT move aye?
Ok an Australian Asshole, I don't care what country he is from, an asshole is an asshole.
Newsflash! War is a very messy business and people get killed. When the enemy hides in the civilian populace you have two choices. Go home and let the chips fall where they may (not the best option in a country where a very small and very violent minority wants the population to revert to the 6th century), or you can do the best you can with the best tech and intelligence you have, to kill them without killing anyone innocent.
You want to talk civilian casualties read up on the bombing of Dresden. or the fire bombing of Japan.
Want to talk civilian casualties? Lets talk about the pre-teen and teen girls who get blown up for the temerity to want to have an education! I am not talking masters degree's here, and am talking learning to read and write their own god damn language.
Journalists? give me a break. Those guys KNOW what they are getting themselves in for when they go there. Get in the way of a bullet or a missile headed toward the guys you are hanging with and you are going to get yourself killed, simple as that.
Does the US fuck up? You bet WE do. Do we try and fix it? You bet WE do. Does ANY of that give the right to some E3 ( the 3rd from lowest pay grade in ALL of the armed forces ), who volunteered into the Army. Who took an oath of allegiance, who swore and or affirmed that he would obey the orders and those of superior to his, to leak classified documents? No it does not, but I guess he does not think giving his word means anything.
And another thing. I was in the military, I new the military I joined was doing things that were questionable. Guess what, I kept my word, did my job and then got the fuck out and my first legal opportunity.
So while you sit there comfortably second guessing and praise some asshole who has done something that is pretty much guaranteed to get people killed for standing up for what they believe in, that E3 is going to go to prison but he is going to get 3 meals a day and a place to sleep. Julian Assange gets his 15 minutes and his website gets more hits. You know what that poor bastard who did the target spotting is going to get? If he is LUCKY he will get an AK-47 round in the head, if not he is going to get his head cut off by some fundamentalist with a sharp but not very big knife.
Nope, but I care about the fact that some poor Afgahn or Pakistani cares enough about their country to get from under the yoke of Muslim fundamentalists aka the Taliban, you know those wacky guys who don't believe women should be educated, think that if their daughter gets raped it is an insult to their honor and so killing their own daughter to restore their honor is just fine and dandy is going to get himself killed because some E3 decides to dump raw intelligence to WikiLeaks and the french asshole says, Ehhh fuck you American's, I am French, you cannot fuck with me but I am going to fuck with you!
I was one of those people in the military that thought it was doing some of the stupidest shit imagined. But you know what? I joined I took an oath I gave my word, and unlike that worthless piece of shit E3 giving my word means something to me.
Guess what, I got fed up and got the hell out.
But guess what you ignorant miserable piece of shit, when the shit hits the fan the next time, if the war comes to your fucking doorstep you are going to be crying for the military to come and save your sorry ass and the rest of your family.
And I am not talking about the shooting war you dipstick, I am talking about the war of resources, I am talking about the ENTIRE middle east run by Muslim Fundamentalists (and no, I am not talking about the vast vast vast majority of Muslims that are a great and wonderful people). I am talking about the ones who are just like the bible thumping idiots in THIS country who want to force you to be like them, deciding that us infidels don't deserve oil to heat our homes, to run our transportation system to make EVERY fucking microchip in the computer you are using to spew your ignorance all over/. with right down to the plastic keys on your keyboard.
I don't care if you want to call this a war, a police action or an occupation it is ongoing and peoples lives are at risk.
This is not a game people. This is the real fucking world. What WikiLeaks and Julian Assange did is pretty much indefensible especially now that a person is dead because of it.
Even if that person named is NOT dead I can pretty much guaranty that some people are going to die because of this. The Taliban or whatever group that does not want the US in their country is doing everything they can to resist and that includes killing people they consider to be spies or traitors. What Julian Assange thinks does not make a bit of difference to them, they are going to go over these documents with a fine tooth comb and kill in the most horrendous way anyone they think has betrayed them. Remember there is no such thing as due process over there. Some guy who has a bunch of guys working for him is simply going to say, "kill him" and that is how it is going to go down.
As many have mentioned information is classified for many reasons one of which is to protect those people who obtained the information. When I was in the military I listened to a lot of audio recordings and all of those started with a classification and a tag line that went something like, "Warning sensitive sources and methods involved". It was telling you that people who are risking their lives and those of their family obtained this information for us because they believed in US the United states and that we would protect them.
Now some fucking E3 ( third from the lowest pay grade in the US military ) decided that this should be public and because of that people are going to die as in dead as in ain't coming back, as in widows and orphans or maybe whole families. Perhaps putting that asshole along with Julian Assange up against a wall and giving them a lead overdose might just make the next group of people think before they divulge unfiltered military intelligence documents. It is one thing to expose government or big corporations since normally no one dies because of it, but when this shit happens people fucking die.
Ever had a company issued laptop and been show the door ( aka fired )? No? Then let me tell you how it works. You show up to work one day and called in for a meeting. You leave your desk and then show up at the meeting only to find your boss AND the HR person there. At that point the IT folks are changing your passwords / disabling your account and fetching all company issued electronic items that are in your office / on your desk, including, if it is there, the company issued laptop. If you have a company issued cell phone it gets snatched in the meeting.
You can ASK if you can get at it before they escort you out of the building and depending on how acrimonious the firing was they MIGHT let you touch it, but that is highly doubtful. If you don't have it with you ie: it is at home they are going to hold whatever severance you have coming until you turn it in at the reception desk.
People, and it seems you, have this idea that because they issue you a laptop that it is yours to play with however you like. I know of at least two companies where laptops are turned in monthly and they are just re-imaged with the latest build of whatever OS and applications are required thereby wiping the hard drive and removing whatever encrypted data you might have.
The bottom line is that the equipment, cell phone, laptop, cell wifi card whatever belongs to them, not you.
right here right now. If you can't figure out how to have a cellphone of your own that you use for personal calls / photographs / email etc. etc. then you are to stupid to be believed.
In the State of California, at least, it is well established precedent that it is presumed that if you do it on your employers computer, them employer has unfettered access 24/7/365 with no notice.
If you are stupid enough to put "personal" things on your employers systems then you deserve whatever exposure and ridicule you get.
Never EVER write or store anything on your employers computer you would not want your employer to read/view.
People have had resumes and e-mails discovered showing they were actively looking to jump ship and have been assisted in doing just that, only slightly sooner then they had in mind.
You are among the clueless at least when it comes to music.
Try sitting and listening to a live orchestra, then sit and listen to a bunch of sampled instruments trying to replicate the same thing. The difference is apparent to even the uninitiated.
Speakers cannot take the place of a live performance. I know this because I have tried. I tried to taking a master tape with all the tracks on it and then playing it through individual speakers that were placed in the dame places the bands amps and instruments were placed. It wasn't the same, it cannot be the same simply because it cannot repeat the nuances of a amps particular state of bias that day. The speakers wont be the same, the speakers wont have aged like the original ones whihc colors the tone of an amplified instrument greatly.
Listen to Wynton Marsalis. Play the same piece of music that say Miles Davis played. The same notes are played and the two will be different in subtle styling and tone. You can't sample either one of them so you cannot reproduce them.
There are great musicians who play in the pits and those people bring their sound. Listen to the live recordings of broadway shows that go on tour and do long runs in different cities. The musicians are different at each long gig, they play the same music but each one has something slightly different and that is what makes it interesting. Canned computer based synthetic music is just flat out boring.
There are plenty of bands who use synthesizers live but their performances are different every time because there is a human in control not a bloody computer.
Sorry if I was unclear. Yes thread based rendering is alive and well. Knowing which core gets the thread and all of that stuff is the fun part. ut it appears that apple has dealt with this from another reply.
IF and it is a mighty big one, your rendering program is written to take advantage of all those cores. Yes the OS can do some of the legwork, but the software has to be able to take advantage of all of that processing power by knowing that it can launch 11 rendering threads and keep them all in sync. That is the big problem, the software being aware of the numbr of threads it can launch.
In some of my multi-core code I try and detect how many cores are there, but it is still a rather large pain to manage all those cores. Hopefully the OS will take over that job and I simply get info from the OS that allows me to figure out how many threads I can throw at it but still keep reasonable user interactivity. It would be very nice to be able to throw as many cores as I can get at a massive matrix.
Bypassing a dongle is not about fair use by any stretch of the imagination.
While GE is not guilty of a DMCA violation they are more then likely guilty of a contract violation.
There are many many software programs that use dongles to control the number of machines using the program because it is the only way software manufacturers can keep people and companies honest. Companies like
Zmax use them because they sell very powerful software tools at very reasonable prices. Now their dongles do not expire but you have to purchase support for ongoing updates. If you don't the product will continue working.
Don't waste your breath, those language fanboy's cannot be bothered with actually understanding that it is the RT environment that is the problem, not the language.
Once again, the race to the bottom of the price bucket rears its ugly head
Back in the days when the flight industry was regulated, airlines made a decent profit and the service was stellar. Pilots ( the guys who your life depended on) made great money and so did everyone else, right down to the guy who fueled the plane. I remember flying form San Francisco to Hawaii just before deregulation was signed into law. The flight was called "United Champagne Service to Hawaii" and it was exactly what they said, as soon as the fasten your seatbelt light went out, the corks popped and it was a lovely flight, plenty of leg room in coach and bags just weren't even a question.
Then Deregulation hit, the problem was they didn't "deregulate" all the labor contracts along with the ticket prices. The airlines had kept everything in line with labor, operations, fuel and maintenance costs, uhm can you so Ohhh shit!"
So now we have a fuel market that is basically unpredictable ( Southwest had the foresight to but fuel futures ), airplanes are more or less as reliable as they ever were but the maintenance cost keep going up as do landing fee's. So all they have left to do is to drive the cost of labor down and start removing the plush.
The best data I can find says it costs around 2400.00 USD plus Fuel to operate a Boeing 737-300 per hour. One of thee configured for all coach seating ( Southwest style ) holds 130 passengers. Southwest regular fair ( Not specials etc. etc. ) is 189.00 from San Francisco to Las Vegas. That is 1 hour and 25 minutes of flight time, so for sake of argument lets call in 90 minutes. So 130 * 189.00 = $24,500.00 fully booked. Now en route fuel consumption is around 900 gallons per hour and Jet A is running about $2.00 a gallon so that means it costs $1800.00 per hour for fuel so our hourly is pushing up to around 4200.00 per hour. 1.5 * 4200.00 = 6700.00 to get the airplane from SFO to Vegas. So IF they have the airplane fully booked with NO web specials, discounts etc. etc. it is $24,500 - $6,700.00 = $17,800.00 in net income from that flight.
Now todays web special for a flight booked over a month in advance ( as the other full fair fee was ) is 59.00. If the fill the plane with those then it is 131 * $59.00 =$7,729.00 so now net profit is $1029.00 which is not so great.
All that aside those figures do not include things like pilots or flight attendant salaries or any other group of people being paid, not to mention all the other costs associated with running an airline like insurance etc. etc."
SouthWests net income for the most recent quarter was 11 million. Not a whole hell of a lot considering their Total Revenue was 2.5 Billion, and they are a publicly held company.
# While not being a disadvantage of the chemistry itself, a decent LFP battery management system can cost more than the battery itself[8] and many cheap systems can ruin the battery in a month or two.[8]
That is what I was referring to about associated costs.
As to "peer reviewed Papers"... Like I said, theory is nice but some quick math shows that those might just have a bit of weakness. Today Sat July 17th at 1534 hours PST that CALISO is reporting load at about 40.5 gigawatts with max available of just under 50 gigawatts, that is not a lot of headroom. Last night at 0300 hrs the load was about 26 gigawatts with a max available was 44 gigawatts. That does not leave a lot of headroom for massive charging.
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That is and has been being done for quite a while. The Airbus that went down in the Atlantic Ocean was sending telemetry information back to Air France as each system failed in turn before it hit the drink.
The Airbus is one of the most technologically outfitted birds in the air and yet even those go down no and then. Remember what goes up must come down well unless we are talking about helium.
As to a constant stream of all critical system information it would not be that hard. Lets say for example you monitored 1000 critical data points about each plane and each data point was a 32 bit value, that is only 32,000 bits or 4000 bytes. Assume 50% compression now you are down to just 2K of data. So how often to send it, well that will have to be balanced with the number of planes in the air at any one time and satilite capacity.
The SINGLE cardinal rule at BM ( I should know, I was a Black Rock Ranger for 5 years ) is:
"Do Not Interfere With Anyones Immediate Experience"
Or at least is used to be... I was thinking about going back as a participant, but I am really afraid that if I was sitting in the center camp cafe' having a chi and some idiot was yammering on their fucking cell phone I would rip it from their hand and smash it into a as many pieces as I possibly could.
This reminds of a story that may be more tech myth and legend and if it is not true it should be and it goes something like this:
Back in the early days of the net when the major interconnects were MAE East and MAE West and other interconnect points had not been established almost everything routed through these two points.
So the story goes that there was a tech who dutifully monitored the system during his shift. He had noticed that someone from another country was trying to get access to files on a certain server at major university. Now he was curious because he saw the same attempts over and over again over a rather long period of time. Now since we all forget password or thing we know them and then try and try without success this is not that unusual and normally after fumbling around we will just contact the machines owner and ask for the correct password. Now in those days it was still a relatively small group of folks so there were not a whole lot of questions asked.
But the tech in question started noticing the pattern was limited to times when the people attending these machines would not be there.
So he sent off an e-mail to the admins he knew and they had not been requested to change or provide any passwords.
So our intrepid tech sent off an e-mail to the administrators of the location of the seeming intruder and asked that they have him stop. Well the admins said that it was really none of their business anyway and being in a foreign country our admin had no say over what anyone there did. The long and short of it was that the apparent intruder kept it up.
So one night our intrepid admin had had enough, so he did what he thought might get peoples attention. He simply unplugged the cable that was the source of the problem and effectively disconnecting an entire country from MAE West!
Well in a few hours phones started ringing into MAE West asking questions and trying to figure out what was wrong? He told them he had asked, many time for the admins of the network that the rude behavior was originating from to kindly ask the owner of the machine to stop and had been rudely rebuffed to say the least.. He also said when the attempted intrusions stop, he would plug them back in. To say the least they stopped in fairly short order and he plugged them back in.
Now that is a bit far flung because I doubt there is any one cable that could disconnect an entire country but I am pretty sure you could simply route class A's to /dev/null. Perhaps that what it will take to get ISP's to get serious. Just pull their plug until they behave. Everyone peers in someplace so it should not be that hard to go and find that Ethernet cable and simply unplug it and leave it dangling until their behavior changes/
Dude reference that is laughable. I have been doing this shit for 30 years and I don't know a handful of people ( personally ) that even come close to being "Level 3" on much more then one of those lines.
Whoever wrote that is living in a dream world. I personally know people who have written quiet excellent code to the OS HAL that don't even understand half of the buzzwords in that document really mean.
to jump from language / framework De Jere at the drop of some PHB's hat, ("Yeah I know I just came on board,.and I know you guys have been doing all of this in Ruby but, well, I just don't like Ruby so we are writing all new code in MindFuck).
BIG plus if you can be an expert in ALL of them.
Even bigger points if you can write a web-server ( with all associated modules) in MindFuck.
Extra Bonus if you have absolutely no life away from a computer.
Even BIGGER extra bonus if you will work for $15.00 an hour!
Please do not think that I am not a supporter for the armed force personnel, I just don't think the decisions by government have been good ones
And I agree with you. Fortunately we are given the opportunity, by law, to overthrow our government every 2,4 and 6 years (not that many people take advantage of that).
But my opinion about WikiLeaks is not going to change. What they did was wrong and so was that E3. You don't do shit like that, you just don't. If you want to expose things then there is a right way to go about it and they did it in the most wrong way possible and they should pay a heavy price for it due to the consequences of their actions.
I tend to agree with what you say with some reservations...
The cost of building rail is enormous somewhere on the order of a million dollars a mile.
The cost of obtaining the land for the rail bed is going to put that previous figure to shame. The San Francisco Bay Area is the land of some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
If those costs were not bad enough, upon arriving at ANY destination there is no connecting transportation.
Take San Francisco for instance. The ONLY train that terminates in that city is CalTrain which ONLY runs from San Francisco to San Jose on the peninsula and farther south. So to get to SF by train from anywhere other then San Jose you can either:
A fun fact. BART is a different (wider) rail gauge the Cal Train or Amtrack a BRILLIANT move aye?
Ok an Australian Asshole, I don't care what country he is from, an asshole is an asshole.
Newsflash! War is a very messy business and people get killed. When the enemy hides in the civilian populace you have two choices. Go home and let the chips fall where they may (not the best option in a country where a very small and very violent minority wants the population to revert to the 6th century), or you can do the best you can with the best tech and intelligence you have, to kill them without killing anyone innocent.
You want to talk civilian casualties read up on the bombing of Dresden. or the fire bombing of Japan.
Want to talk civilian casualties? Lets talk about the pre-teen and teen girls who get blown up for the temerity to want to have an education! I am not talking masters degree's here, and am talking learning to read and write their own god damn language.
Journalists? give me a break. Those guys KNOW what they are getting themselves in for when they go there. Get in the way of a bullet or a missile headed toward the guys you are hanging with and you are going to get yourself killed, simple as that.
Does the US fuck up? You bet WE do. Do we try and fix it? You bet WE do. Does ANY of that give the right to some E3 ( the 3rd from lowest pay grade in ALL of the armed forces ), who volunteered into the Army. Who took an oath of allegiance, who swore and or affirmed that he would obey the orders and those of superior to his, to leak classified documents? No it does not, but I guess he does not think giving his word means anything.
And another thing. I was in the military, I new the military I joined was doing things that were questionable. Guess what, I kept my word, did my job and then got the fuck out and my first legal opportunity.
So while you sit there comfortably second guessing and praise some asshole who has done something that is pretty much guaranteed to get people killed for standing up for what they believe in, that E3 is going to go to prison but he is going to get 3 meals a day and a place to sleep. Julian Assange gets his 15 minutes and his website gets more hits. You know what that poor bastard who did the target spotting is going to get? If he is LUCKY he will get an AK-47 round in the head, if not he is going to get his head cut off by some fundamentalist with a sharp but not very big knife.
Happy now?
Nope, but I care about the fact that some poor Afgahn or Pakistani cares enough about their country to get from under the yoke of Muslim fundamentalists aka the Taliban, you know those wacky guys who don't believe women should be educated, think that if their daughter gets raped it is an insult to their honor and so killing their own daughter to restore their honor is just fine and dandy is going to get himself killed because some E3 decides to dump raw intelligence to WikiLeaks and the french asshole says, Ehhh fuck you American's, I am French, you cannot fuck with me but I am going to fuck with you!
Here is a news flash for you fucktard.
I was one of those people in the military that thought it was doing some of the stupidest shit imagined. But you know what? I joined I took an oath I gave my word, and unlike that worthless piece of shit E3 giving my word means something to me.
Guess what, I got fed up and got the hell out.
But guess what you ignorant miserable piece of shit, when the shit hits the fan the next time, if the war comes to your fucking doorstep you are going to be crying for the military to come and save your sorry ass and the rest of your family.
And I am not talking about the shooting war you dipstick, I am talking about the war of resources, I am talking about the ENTIRE middle east run by Muslim Fundamentalists (and no, I am not talking about the vast vast vast majority of Muslims that are a great and wonderful people). I am talking about the ones who are just like the bible thumping idiots in THIS country who want to force you to be like them, deciding that us infidels don't deserve oil to heat our homes, to run our transportation system to make EVERY fucking microchip in the computer you are using to spew your ignorance all over /. with right down to the plastic keys on your keyboard.
Go have a great big glass of shut the fuck up.
Needs to be hauled to the woodshed for this.
I don't care if you want to call this a war, a police action or an occupation it is ongoing and peoples lives are at risk.
This is not a game people. This is the real fucking world. What WikiLeaks and Julian Assange did is pretty much indefensible especially now that a person is dead because of it.
Even if that person named is NOT dead I can pretty much guaranty that some people are going to die because of this. The Taliban or whatever group that does not want the US in their country is doing everything they can to resist and that includes killing people they consider to be spies or traitors. What Julian Assange thinks does not make a bit of difference to them, they are going to go over these documents with a fine tooth comb and kill in the most horrendous way anyone they think has betrayed them. Remember there is no such thing as due process over there. Some guy who has a bunch of guys working for him is simply going to say, "kill him" and that is how it is going to go down.
As many have mentioned information is classified for many reasons one of which is to protect those people who obtained the information. When I was in the military I listened to a lot of audio recordings and all of those started with a classification and a tag line that went something like, "Warning sensitive sources and methods involved". It was telling you that people who are risking their lives and those of their family obtained this information for us because they believed in US the United states and that we would protect them.
Now some fucking E3 ( third from the lowest pay grade in the US military ) decided that this should be public and because of that people are going to die as in dead as in ain't coming back, as in widows and orphans or maybe whole families. Perhaps putting that asshole along with Julian Assange up against a wall and giving them a lead overdose might just make the next group of people think before they divulge unfiltered military intelligence documents. It is one thing to expose government or big corporations since normally no one dies because of it, but when this shit happens people fucking die.
Ever had a company issued laptop and been show the door ( aka fired )? No? Then let me tell you how it works. You show up to work one day and called in for a meeting. You leave your desk and then show up at the meeting only to find your boss AND the HR person there. At that point the IT folks are changing your passwords / disabling your account and fetching all company issued electronic items that are in your office / on your desk, including, if it is there, the company issued laptop. If you have a company issued cell phone it gets snatched in the meeting.
You can ASK if you can get at it before they escort you out of the building and depending on how acrimonious the firing was they MIGHT let you touch it, but that is highly doubtful. If you don't have it with you ie: it is at home they are going to hold whatever severance you have coming until you turn it in at the reception desk.
People, and it seems you, have this idea that because they issue you a laptop that it is yours to play with however you like. I know of at least two companies where laptops are turned in monthly and they are just re-imaged with the latest build of whatever OS and applications are required thereby wiping the hard drive and removing whatever encrypted data you might have.
The bottom line is that the equipment, cell phone, laptop, cell wifi card whatever belongs to them, not you.
I call bullshit
right here right now. If you can't figure out how to have a cellphone of your own that you use for personal calls / photographs / email etc. etc. then you are to stupid to be believed.
Site or it aint so.
In the State of California, at least, it is well established precedent that it is presumed that if you do it on your employers computer, them employer has unfettered access 24/7/365 with no notice.
If you are stupid enough to put "personal" things on your employers systems then you deserve whatever exposure and ridicule you get.
Never EVER write or store anything on your employers computer you would not want your employer to read/view.
People have had resumes and e-mails discovered showing they were actively looking to jump ship and have been assisted in doing just that, only slightly sooner then they had in mind.
You are among the clueless at least when it comes to music.
Try sitting and listening to a live orchestra, then sit and listen to a bunch of sampled instruments trying to replicate the same thing. The difference is apparent to even the uninitiated.
Speakers cannot take the place of a live performance. I know this because I have tried. I tried to taking a master tape with all the tracks on it and then playing it through individual speakers that were placed in the dame places the bands amps and instruments were placed. It wasn't the same, it cannot be the same simply because it cannot repeat the nuances of a amps particular state of bias that day. The speakers wont be the same, the speakers wont have aged like the original ones whihc colors the tone of an amplified instrument greatly.
Listen to Wynton Marsalis. Play the same piece of music that say Miles Davis played. The same notes are played and the two will be different in subtle styling and tone. You can't sample either one of them so you cannot reproduce them.
There are great musicians who play in the pits and those people bring their sound. Listen to the live recordings of broadway shows that go on tour and do long runs in different cities. The musicians are different at each long gig, they play the same music but each one has something slightly different and that is what makes it interesting. Canned computer based synthetic music is just flat out boring.
There are plenty of bands who use synthesizers live but their performances are different every time because there is a human in control not a bloody computer.
Sorry if I was unclear. Yes thread based rendering is alive and well. Knowing which core gets the thread and all of that stuff is the fun part. ut it appears that apple has dealt with this from another reply.
Thanks for the great post!
IF and it is a mighty big one, your rendering program is written to take advantage of all those cores. Yes the OS can do some of the legwork, but the software has to be able to take advantage of all of that processing power by knowing that it can launch 11 rendering threads and keep them all in sync. That is the big problem, the software being aware of the numbr of threads it can launch.
In some of my multi-core code I try and detect how many cores are there, but it is still a rather large pain to manage all those cores. Hopefully the OS will take over that job and I simply get info from the OS that allows me to figure out how many threads I can throw at it but still keep reasonable user interactivity. It would be very nice to be able to throw as many cores as I can get at a massive matrix.
Bypassing a dongle is not about fair use by any stretch of the imagination.
While GE is not guilty of a DMCA violation they are more then likely guilty of a contract violation.
There are many many software programs that use dongles to control the number of machines using the program because it is the only way software manufacturers can keep people and companies honest. Companies like Zmax use them because they sell very powerful software tools at very reasonable prices. Now their dongles do not expire but you have to purchase support for ongoing updates. If you don't the product will continue working.
Come on dude, it's KDwason what do you expect?
Don't waste your breath, those language fanboy's cannot be bothered with actually understanding that it is the RT environment that is the problem, not the language.
Because it is really hard to remember your 128 or 256 or 512 or 1024 bit encryption key.
It might have something to do with whatever encryption package. But a better question is why is your ATM password limited to 4?!
Once again, the race to the bottom of the price bucket rears its ugly head
Back in the days when the flight industry was regulated, airlines made a decent profit and the service was stellar. Pilots ( the guys who your life depended on) made great money and so did everyone else, right down to the guy who fueled the plane. I remember flying form San Francisco to Hawaii just before deregulation was signed into law. The flight was called "United Champagne Service to Hawaii" and it was exactly what they said, as soon as the fasten your seatbelt light went out, the corks popped and it was a lovely flight, plenty of leg room in coach and bags just weren't even a question.
Then Deregulation hit, the problem was they didn't "deregulate" all the labor contracts along with the ticket prices. The airlines had kept everything in line with labor, operations, fuel and maintenance costs, uhm can you so Ohhh shit!"
So now we have a fuel market that is basically unpredictable ( Southwest had the foresight to but fuel futures ), airplanes are more or less as reliable as they ever were but the maintenance cost keep going up as do landing fee's. So all they have left to do is to drive the cost of labor down and start removing the plush.
The best data I can find says it costs around 2400.00 USD plus Fuel to operate a Boeing 737-300 per hour. One of thee configured for all coach seating ( Southwest style ) holds 130 passengers. Southwest regular fair ( Not specials etc. etc. ) is 189.00 from San Francisco to Las Vegas. That is 1 hour and 25 minutes of flight time, so for sake of argument lets call in 90 minutes. So 130 * 189.00 = $24,500.00 fully booked. Now en route fuel consumption is around 900 gallons per hour and Jet A is running about $2.00 a gallon so that means it costs $1800.00 per hour for fuel so our hourly is pushing up to around 4200.00 per hour. 1.5 * 4200.00 = 6700.00 to get the airplane from SFO to Vegas. So IF they have the airplane fully booked with NO web specials, discounts etc. etc. it is $24,500 - $6,700.00 = $17,800.00 in net income from that flight.
Now todays web special for a flight booked over a month in advance ( as the other full fair fee was ) is 59.00. If the fill the plane with those then it is 131 * $59.00 =$7,729.00 so now net profit is $1029.00 which is not so great.
All that aside those figures do not include things like pilots or flight attendant salaries or any other group of people being paid, not to mention all the other costs associated with running an airline like insurance etc. etc."
SouthWests net income for the most recent quarter was 11 million. Not a whole hell of a lot considering their Total Revenue was 2.5 Billion, and they are a publicly held company.
Apparently you didn't read this part"
# While not being a disadvantage of the chemistry itself, a decent LFP battery management system can cost more than the battery itself[8] and many cheap systems can ruin the battery in a month or two.[8]
That is what I was referring to about associated costs.
As to "peer reviewed Papers"... Like I said, theory is nice but some quick math shows that those might just have a bit of weakness. Today Sat July 17th at 1534 hours PST that CALISO is reporting load at about 40.5 gigawatts with max available of just under 50 gigawatts, that is not a lot of headroom. Last night at 0300 hrs the load was about 26 gigawatts with a max available was 44 gigawatts. That does not leave a lot of headroom for massive charging.