If you use C or C++ you are an idiot. Archaic shit obsolete before it was introduced long ago. And responsible for a huge number of bugs, both security and stability.
Nonsense. The cost of maintaining the gird is about 1/2 the total cost. Generation about 1/4. Batteries in your home compete at retail price, which is typically 4 times the wholesale price of power.
Here in Oz, aboiut 1/4 of the cost is generation, 1/2 transmission and distribution, and 1/4 admin overheads, old solar subsidies etc. So the fixed cost does not even begin to cover the transmission and distribution costs.
The other thing to note is that home solar power needs to compete with the 28c/kwh we pay for power retiail, and not the avg 6c/kwh that is paid wholesale. So batteries start to become economical at about AU$1,000/kwh. And a natural gas generator will fill in the cloudy days.
So we are in for bg changes. And I think there would be a riot here if any government tried the US trick of forcing people to be on grid.
P.S. Facebook is brilliant in the last regard. Personal posts from all over the world are centralized in one place for easy analysis. The value of that for intelligence agencies is beyond measure.
With no competition from Google, Facebook's data will be more valuable.
(Note that the original article talked of a slowing of the *rate of growth* of profits, not the profits themselves.)
What is really needed is a more distributed web. There should be no central holder of social medial. Something like web feeds with some intersite authentication. But that never took off.
Maybe initiially, to build the plant and install the robots. Certainly 100s of jobs which is still better than nothing.
But hey, the Sun has risen in the East every single day since Trump was elected. It is really, really important that the sun rises every day, and on that, Trump has delivered in spades. Not a single day missed. And always, the Sun rising in the East, which is much better than the alternatives. Trump gets the important things right.
Interesting that nobody on this thread, nor Hawkins, realizes that the age of man is almost over. Maybe 100 years, maybe 200 years, but over.
Why would intelligent computers want to keep parasitic humans around? Computers need humans today to build and program them, just like an Apple tree needs humans. But once the computer can do that for itself, the humans are expensive appendages.
Yes, they warn you about taking off from high airstrips on warm days. Everything feels OK, except the airspeed is not increasing very fast and the end of the runway looks mighty close...
You do not answer the question, probably do not know the answer.
To restate the question, is this a good use of research funding? Is computation a serious limitation. Obviously we all want faster computers so that we can write slower software, but that does not actually advance anything. Is it like the atom smashers, were every extra bit of energy adds a bit more knowledge? Or is it polishing a round ball, with much better uses for the funding, like AI research for example.
You would not be in a position to answer unless you actually work on the sorts of problems that needs this sort of grunt. E.g. AFAIK most molecular modelling is done with ordinary GPUs, although there are models which require more.
Vague statements about progress do not address the question. The International Space Station is about progress, but it is also almost completely useless from a science perspective.
And Apple makes money. So if Apple does something it must be the right thing to do, and all the other MBA run manufacturers will follow suite. Make it a sealed product. (In this case MS has got ahead of Apple.)
Sure, there are problems that need some serious computation, but could they also be done with smaller (large) computers working longer? Super computers are generally a shared resource anyway.
One wonders whether this is a real investment in progress, or just a keep up with the Chinese project. Or like the international space station, nothing to do with science.
Tabs can mean one of two very different things. Namely indent to the 8th tab stop or indent one level (might be 2 or 4 chars). IDEs cannot reconcile them, nothing can.
And Git (now the only SCCS) will scream if tabs and spaces are changed -- lots of noisy diffs.
In theory an IDE could ignore leading white and just display what it thinks is correct, but not one of them does that in practice.
Personally, I prefer my code to just be justified. None of this indenting nonsense. Illiterate programming.
Must be a lot more than vehicle deaths given the attention and funding that terror achieves.
When living in the US, I was surprised how little media coverage road deaths get. Here in oz, each one is reported, and there is a big safety push. That said, I do not know if the stats are much different when one considers we do not have ice and snow here.
From your article looks like a loss of power for a few seconds.
Here down under we have possums that use the power lines as highways. Every so often one gets fried, trips the breakers for a few seconds. But no way a possum could shut down the high voltage transmission lines, it would just be vaporized.
And I reckon the story is a beat up, because a possum is much heavier than a plastic drone with maybe a few grams of metal in it.
I did once hit transmission lines with a Glider cable. I was driving the winch, glider blew off course and dropped the cables on the lines. Huge and spectacular bang. But no real damage to the transmission. Might have tripped the breakers for a few seconds but we thought it best not to enquire. A small bit of cable was left dangling from the lines, but nobody would volunteer to clear it.
That cable was about 6mm think, MUCH more conductor than even the largest drone. (Fortunately, one drivers a winch from inside a metal cage.)
Near the ground, their first thought should have been where they can glide to and land. By 2,000' they have passed the dead zone and should easily make it back. Now, if there had been the river in front of them, and the airport behind, and only 1,500', then they could have been well excused for going for the river. But the river actually led back to the air port, so there was no conflict.
Engines do not stop without good reason, so it is very unwise to bet on being able to restart them. And they did the right thing there, with the co-pilot trying to get the engines going while the pilot flew the plane. But the pilot stuffed up monumentally in not turning promptly. 30 seconds is a long, long time. Count it out and see.
I suspect that very few of the people commenting on this thread have ever flown any airplane. Otherwise this would all be obvious. And I do not know why the investigation let the pilot off. But a turn even after 15 seconds would have got them back OK. I would have thought 5 seconds would be heaps after a dual engine failure to figure out what to do. And remember, pilots are supposed to be alert during take off and landing, precisely because things can happen relatively quickly.
Which again raises the question of why they did not see the geese.
They can software emulate anything. ARM, 16 bit, anything. They would emulate 16 bit faster than the original processors, and they could also do on they fly binary translations if necessary as well. That is how VMs worked before the new instructions.
A bigger reason is device drivers. They need to be written in the same bitness as the OS.
The other aspect is the genius that decided that System32 should hold the 64 bit binaries. And changed the name of the Programs folder for 32 bit apps. And the registry mess. And then added a bunch of hacks that sort of work for 32 bit applications. If the application was not written the way MS had considered it will not work under "WOW64". No *nix or Apple O/S did such stupid things, to my knowledge.
I think that ending up near the ferries was mainly luck. There is no evidence that he manoeuvred to be near them. Just went straight in. Fortunately, the river is long and in the direction he was then flying, so the plane just went down in a straight line and eventually met the water.
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If you use C or C++ you are an idiot. Archaic shit obsolete before it was introduced long ago. And responsible for a huge number of bugs, both security and stability.
Nonsense. The cost of maintaining the gird is about 1/2 the total cost. Generation about 1/4. Batteries in your home compete at retail price, which is typically 4 times the wholesale price of power.
+1.
Here in Oz, aboiut 1/4 of the cost is generation, 1/2 transmission and distribution, and 1/4 admin overheads, old solar subsidies etc. So the fixed cost does not even begin to cover the transmission and distribution costs.
The other thing to note is that home solar power needs to compete with the 28c/kwh we pay for power retiail, and not the avg 6c/kwh that is paid wholesale. So batteries start to become economical at about AU$1,000/kwh. And a natural gas generator will fill in the cloudy days.
So we are in for bg changes. And I think there would be a riot here if any government tried the US trick of forcing people to be on grid.
P.S. Facebook is brilliant in the last regard. Personal posts from all over the world are centralized in one place for easy analysis. The value of that for intelligence agencies is beyond measure.
This is good news for Facebook shareholders.
With no competition from Google, Facebook's data will be more valuable.
(Note that the original article talked of a slowing of the *rate of growth* of profits, not the profits themselves.)
What is really needed is a more distributed web. There should be no central holder of social medial. Something like web feeds with some intersite authentication. But that never took off.
Maybe initiially, to build the plant and install the robots. Certainly 100s of jobs which is still better than nothing.
But hey, the Sun has risen in the East every single day since Trump was elected. It is really, really important that the sun rises every day, and on that, Trump has delivered in spades. Not a single day missed. And always, the Sun rising in the East, which is much better than the alternatives. Trump gets the important things right.
Nope. Not how Stuxnet happened. Wikipedia is your friend.
Tell that to the Iranians.
Their centrifuges were not attached to the Internet. Physical security. But Stuxnet got them anyway.
When the intelligence is a computer program.
Interesting that nobody on this thread, nor Hawkins, realizes that the age of man is almost over. Maybe 100 years, maybe 200 years, but over.
Why would intelligent computers want to keep parasitic humans around? Computers need humans today to build and program them, just like an Apple tree needs humans. But once the computer can do that for itself, the humans are expensive appendages.
http://www.computersthink.com/
I would have thought that the environment was the point.
Only -20 this winter, what disaster...
If I were a Swede, I would be pumping as much carbon in to the air as I could!
Yes, they warn you about taking off from high airstrips on warm days. Everything feels OK, except the airspeed is not increasing very fast and the end of the runway looks mighty close...
+1
You do not answer the question, probably do not know the answer.
To restate the question, is this a good use of research funding? Is computation a serious limitation. Obviously we all want faster computers so that we can write slower software, but that does not actually advance anything. Is it like the atom smashers, were every extra bit of energy adds a bit more knowledge? Or is it polishing a round ball, with much better uses for the funding, like AI research for example.
You would not be in a position to answer unless you actually work on the sorts of problems that needs this sort of grunt. E.g. AFAIK most molecular modelling is done with ordinary GPUs, although there are models which require more.
Vague statements about progress do not address the question. The International Space Station is about progress, but it is also almost completely useless from a science perspective.
The other 99.9% of people do not care.
And Apple makes money. So if Apple does something it must be the right thing to do, and all the other MBA run manufacturers will follow suite. Make it a sealed product. (In this case MS has got ahead of Apple.)
Sure, there are problems that need some serious computation, but could they also be done with smaller (large) computers working longer? Super computers are generally a shared resource anyway.
One wonders whether this is a real investment in progress, or just a keep up with the Chinese project. Or like the international space station, nothing to do with science.
Nonsense.
Tabs can mean one of two very different things. Namely indent to the 8th tab stop or indent one level (might be 2 or 4 chars). IDEs cannot reconcile them, nothing can.
And Git (now the only SCCS) will scream if tabs and spaces are changed -- lots of noisy diffs.
In theory an IDE could ignore leading white and just display what it thinks is correct, but not one of them does that in practice.
Personally, I prefer my code to just be justified. None of this indenting nonsense. Illiterate programming.
Rags, sticks and wires (or ropes). It is entirely possible that someone did, probably a sailmaker.
https://bitre.gov.au/publicati...
Australia 5
Canada 6 (They have ice and snow)
USA 11
Looks like the USA should be paying attention to something other than terror.
Must be a lot more than vehicle deaths given the attention and funding that terror achieves.
When living in the US, I was surprised how little media coverage road deaths get. Here in oz, each one is reported, and there is a big safety push. That said, I do not know if the stats are much different when one considers we do not have ice and snow here.
You do not have to speculate. Look at Australia. All properly scrutineered. And with a more complex multi vote system as well.
Cost is about US$4/vote to run the entire election, including the count. Much less than the computerized systems.
There is a reason that the US loves voting machines. And it is not cost. It is the fact that they CAN be hacked.
From your article looks like a loss of power for a few seconds.
Here down under we have possums that use the power lines as highways. Every so often one gets fried, trips the breakers for a few seconds. But no way a possum could shut down the high voltage transmission lines, it would just be vaporized.
And I reckon the story is a beat up, because a possum is much heavier than a plastic drone with maybe a few grams of metal in it.
I did once hit transmission lines with a Glider cable. I was driving the winch, glider blew off course and dropped the cables on the lines. Huge and spectacular bang. But no real damage to the transmission. Might have tripped the breakers for a few seconds but we thought it best not to enquire. A small bit of cable was left dangling from the lines, but nobody would volunteer to clear it.
That cable was about 6mm think, MUCH more conductor than even the largest drone. (Fortunately, one drivers a winch from inside a metal cage.)
And that was a very stupid thing to do.
Near the ground, their first thought should have been where they can glide to and land. By 2,000' they have passed the dead zone and should easily make it back. Now, if there had been the river in front of them, and the airport behind, and only 1,500', then they could have been well excused for going for the river. But the river actually led back to the air port, so there was no conflict.
Engines do not stop without good reason, so it is very unwise to bet on being able to restart them. And they did the right thing there, with the co-pilot trying to get the engines going while the pilot flew the plane. But the pilot stuffed up monumentally in not turning promptly. 30 seconds is a long, long time. Count it out and see.
I suspect that very few of the people commenting on this thread have ever flown any airplane. Otherwise this would all be obvious. And I do not know why the investigation let the pilot off. But a turn even after 15 seconds would have got them back OK. I would have thought 5 seconds would be heaps after a dual engine failure to figure out what to do. And remember, pilots are supposed to be alert during take off and landing, precisely because things can happen relatively quickly.
Which again raises the question of why they did not see the geese.
They can software emulate anything. ARM, 16 bit, anything. They would emulate 16 bit faster than the original processors, and they could also do on they fly binary translations if necessary as well. That is how VMs worked before the new instructions.
A bigger reason is device drivers. They need to be written in the same bitness as the OS.
The other aspect is the genius that decided that System32 should hold the 64 bit binaries. And changed the name of the Programs folder for 32 bit apps. And the registry mess. And then added a bunch of hacks that sort of work for 32 bit applications. If the application was not written the way MS had considered it will not work under "WOW64". No *nix or Apple O/S did such stupid things, to my knowledge.
I think that ending up near the ferries was mainly luck. There is no evidence that he manoeuvred to be near them. Just went straight in. Fortunately, the river is long and in the direction he was then flying, so the plane just went down in a straight line and eventually met the water.