Not immediately but quite possibly it could indirectly. All the trivially accessible minerals, oil etc have been consumed. Another dark age and we're likely stuck there indefinitely, possibly forever since we wouldn't be able to boot strap through the equivalent of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Getting stuck in that state may prevent our ability to overcome the next hurdle. We're smart but we need resources.
I was at the LUG 2010 (Lustre Users group) and there was a very similar sense of disquiet where Lustre is concerned. The corporate line seemed to be: You'll be able to download Lustre for free but if you want any kind of support you'll have to install Lustre on a box from one of our preferred vendors running our Linux variant.
Granted it's not clear exactly what 'any kind of support' means. As it stands now the mailing list is very active and it doesn't really matter what your support status is. If that stays the same then wonderful. If the Lustre devs at Oracle are instructed to stop interacting with all but paying customers it's a real problem.
I suspect there's a great deal of truth to that. It doesn't ever require that much tin foil. They may not even be consciously aware they're doing it.
Much like the professor whose students paid more attention the closer to the edge of the stage and further from the podium he got. By the end of the year he was channeling Leonardo DiCaprio leaning out over the edge professing away.
Further there's no need to share any information at all for GPS directions. We know where we are, what we're asking is where is the place we're going. Nobody else needs to know where we are. Any sharing of where you've been data is not necessary for the product to function.
The point Tim seems to be missing is not 'can sharing info be good' it's: sharing my personal info should be solely at my discretion, not yours. If I miss out on some amazing feature that's a choice I made. If other more adventurous folks volunteer and benefit then good for them and maybe I'll follow suit.
There's something about this whole thing that simply doesn't ring true. I believe parts, I believe they have a 1980's main frame, I believe it's not terribly reliable but something about the whole: leaked memo according to Joe Leiberman, we need more money, they won't give us more money' spiel sounds off. I suspect they have huge chunks of computing that's much newer and reliable, I'd be shocked if that IBM serves any significant purpose.
If nothing else I predict a large percentage of the umpteen million dollar final cost somehow going to Connecticut, but I'm probably just incredibly jaded.
Implementation details are not equivalent to merely clarifying what the heck it does. In the case of cold fusion it's pretty clear what it does: cold fusion. In the case of this press release it does "algorithmy things to your data really fast".
Did you RTFA, they said right there it verifies data. Picture you have 400TB of HC particle data that you want to reduce but somebody stuffs some porn, pictures of their trip to Aruba and a loads of warez right smack in the middle of it. What are you going to do ?
Well IBM can help, they can verify that data and within mere hours remove that weird 399TB of noise and you're left with pure signal.
I think obsolete is way to strong a term since the real problem at this point is targetting and tracking. Once you have those problems solved it's really immaterial what flavor laser is being used.
Once there's a suitable FEL system slot it into place.
Nope. Somebody can still physically steal it. If you absolutely can't afford to have somebody steal a piece of data no matter what don't put it on a computer.
In fact best not to even know the piece of data or somebody might steal/torture you.
I believe this is what God/SM had in mind when he created Heisenberg's principle.
There was an ad masquerading as an article by Michael Krigsman the CEO of Asuret, Inc., a software and consulting company dedicated to reducing software implementation failures.
Oddly it looks like you could see the one computer with a browser booting. For a while they used firefox on it except for that one time they gave Opera a try, then in July all hell broke loose.
Hmm, well shame on me, I saw the talk existed but expected just a verbal representation of the article.
I had missed the point about stability around alpha. I have to admit the graphs of alpha vs events like the surge or elections are pretty interesting.
Equally interesting though is the rapid return to alpha=2.5. I guess the real question at this point would be: Can repeated examinations of alpha be used to measure the positive effect of a strategy or is it merely a measure of the temporary perturbation and inevitable return to 2.5 because humans are after all humans and 2.5 merely represents the steady state of humans desire for coalescence vs fragmentation.
In short it's a question of cause and effect. Would a different species have a different alpha that's just as stable because it's a reflection of their physiology and psychology.
The research is certainly more interesting than I originally credited, thanks.
I don't see what it is they think they've discovered. If you take a loose collection of 5000 people with a weak desire to cooperate you're going to get way more groupings of 10 than 100 than 1000. The desire for safety in numbers is offset by the risk of exposure by size. In fact I'd have drawn almost exactly their curve if somebody had asked what the distribution would look like.
If the likelihood of an event is a coupled with critical mass of groupings then the event distribution will follow pretty much the same curve.
If somebody understands what it is these folks found could you explain it.
The last 8 years proved that the set of states in the Union are, Not minor: Texas, East Texas, Dallas-FortWorth and California Minor: the other states.
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Not immediately but quite possibly it could indirectly. All the trivially accessible minerals, oil etc have been consumed. Another dark age and we're likely stuck there indefinitely, possibly forever since we wouldn't be able to boot strap through the equivalent of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Getting stuck in that state may prevent our ability to overcome the next hurdle. We're smart but we need resources.
I was at the LUG 2010 (Lustre Users group) and there was a very similar sense of disquiet where Lustre is concerned. The corporate line seemed to be: You'll be able to download Lustre for free but if you want any kind of support you'll have to install Lustre on a box from one of our preferred vendors running our Linux variant.
Granted it's not clear exactly what 'any kind of support' means. As it stands now the mailing list is very active and it doesn't really matter what your support status is. If that stays the same then wonderful. If the Lustre devs at Oracle are instructed to stop interacting with all but paying customers it's a real problem.
I suspect there's a great deal of truth to that. It doesn't ever require that much tin foil. They may not even be consciously aware they're doing it.
Much like the professor whose students paid more attention the closer to the edge of the stage and further from the podium he got. By the end of the year he was channeling Leonardo DiCaprio leaning out over the edge professing away.
Further there's no need to share any information at all for GPS directions. We know where we are, what we're asking is where is the place we're going. Nobody else needs to know where we are. Any sharing of where you've been data is not necessary for the product to function.
The point Tim seems to be missing is not 'can sharing info be good' it's: sharing my personal info should be solely at my discretion, not yours. If I miss out on some amazing feature that's a choice I made. If other more adventurous folks volunteer and benefit then good for them and maybe I'll follow suit.
I think that should be LoC/fortnight.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1572030&cid=31370054
Gah I hate these lame random units .. gigabits/second.
Could somebody translate that to a more standard Libararies of Congress/fortnight please.
The picture looks an awful lot like late 60's drives for an IBM 360 model 44.
I guess they needed a picture that screamed 'main frame'.
There's something about this whole thing that simply doesn't ring true. I believe parts, I believe they have a 1980's main frame, I believe it's not terribly reliable but something about the whole: leaked memo according to Joe Leiberman, we need more money, they won't give us more money' spiel sounds off. I suspect they have huge chunks of computing that's much newer and reliable, I'd be shocked if that IBM serves any significant purpose.
If nothing else I predict a large percentage of the umpteen million dollar final cost somehow going to Connecticut, but I'm probably just incredibly jaded.
They should use IBM's new algorithm, it's faster than the old one.
Was my post that confusing ... removing 399TB of noise from your 400TB HC data leaving the porn and warez .. hint hint.
Maybe I should have put /snark at the end of the post or something. I was agreeing with the OP that the article was entirely short on content.
Implementation details are not equivalent to merely clarifying what the heck it does. In the case of cold fusion it's pretty clear what it does: cold fusion. In the case of this press release it does "algorithmy things to your data really fast".
Did you RTFA, they said right there it verifies data. Picture you have 400TB of HC particle data that you want to reduce but somebody stuffs some porn, pictures of their trip to Aruba and a loads of warez right smack in the middle of it. What are you going to do ?
Well IBM can help, they can verify that data and within mere hours remove that weird 399TB of noise and you're left with pure signal.
He's wrong, a recent study showed it was only 88.342%.
I guess one could assume he rounded off but seems a waste to dump all those significant digits.
I think obsolete is way to strong a term since the real problem at this point is targetting and tracking. Once you have those problems solved it's really immaterial what flavor laser is being used.
Once there's a suitable FEL system slot it into place.
Nope. Somebody can still physically steal it. If you absolutely can't afford to have somebody steal a piece of data no matter what don't put it on a computer.
In fact best not to even know the piece of data or somebody might steal/torture you.
I believe this is what God/SM had in mind when he created Heisenberg's principle.
There was an ad masquerading as an article by Michael Krigsman the CEO of Asuret, Inc., a software and consulting company dedicated to reducing software implementation failures.
Something is horribly wrong in Antarctica. I think they're strapping browsers to the penguins.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-an-weekly-200827-200952
Oddly it looks like you could see the one computer with a browser booting. For a while they used firefox on it except for that one time they gave Opera a try, then in July all hell broke loose.
I think he did a study that showed if he powered it down 21.6 hours a day he'd save 90% of his energy bill.
Hmm, well shame on me, I saw the talk existed but expected just a verbal representation of the article.
I had missed the point about stability around alpha. I have to admit the graphs of alpha vs events like the surge or elections are pretty interesting.
Equally interesting though is the rapid return to alpha=2.5. I guess the real question at this point would be: Can repeated examinations of alpha be used to measure the positive effect of a strategy or is it merely a measure of the temporary perturbation and inevitable return to 2.5 because humans are after all humans and 2.5 merely represents the steady state of humans desire for coalescence vs fragmentation.
In short it's a question of cause and effect. Would a different species have a different alpha that's just as stable because it's a reflection of their physiology and psychology.
The research is certainly more interesting than I originally credited, thanks.
I don't see what it is they think they've discovered. If you take a loose collection of 5000 people with a weak desire to cooperate you're going to get way more groupings of 10 than 100 than 1000. The desire for safety in numbers is offset by the risk of exposure by size. In fact I'd have drawn almost exactly their curve if somebody had asked what the distribution would look like.
If the likelihood of an event is a coupled with critical mass of groupings then the event distribution will follow pretty much the same curve.
If somebody understands what it is these folks found could you explain it.
Sadly the server for viewing is a 486 with an AT1500-BT 10mbit coax connection.
Relatively geeky crowd, orbiting dead cat, Contact.
The last 8 years proved that the set of states in the Union are,
Not minor: Texas, East Texas, Dallas-FortWorth and California
Minor: the other states.
That position is a blame-taking position,' Spafford said."
Someone who's actually paid to be the goat.
I can do that! Were can I get a job like that.
Almost any computer/IT/network/[yourtermhere] security position in a Fortune 500 company would fit the bill.
I have nothing to add other than that my view of humanity went up 3 points when I saw this comment marked +5 insightful.