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Interesting point. I wonder if the article includes the power reduction for data center cooling into the equation - although you cant run the AirCon on the same kind of latency - there must be an aggregate effect thats worth noting.
Anyone know the ratio of Rack power to DC power in a data center?
"Why should "percentage of tech startups founded by women" be an interesting number?
Why should it be a more important number than "percentage of houses painted in green"?
Coz you dont get grant/corporate sponsorship money for studying green houses?
If you are referring to Star Carrier 3 singularity - apart from the vague connection with Kapteyn I'm not sure what your point is.
Reynolds is high end Hard-ish Sci-Fi.
Keith/Douglas - seems more Journeyman Mil-sci fi from a quick google.
ie totally different sub-genres.
Would you complain about every book that mentions alpha centuari?
I think its more likely that $GREED and $STUPIDITY are more likely to scupper it.
So far the Bitcoin "Industry" has totally failed to demonstrate stability and safety that would persuade the public it has any future.
Ironically the lack of a $POWER who is willing to ram through past the teething troubles looks like its going to be its undoing.
Exactly - you just move the inspection point from the binary source to a stream monitor post decryption.
Not saying it would be easy but since you would have full control of the machine the code is running on - you would be the ultimate man in the middle.
The whole PC code base from firmward upwards would have to be globally encrypted for this to be fully secure.
Edit:Foxyshadis made the same point below but with better in depth knowledge.
Does it also handshake and forward calls/texts/data to the real network - or does everyone on the same network who connects to this fake cell (presumably at least ~1/2 mile radius to cover a building) get no calls/texts/data for the duration?
And if it does forward calls/texts/data what logging does it do? How are these managed and destroyed?
Im hoping this is just a basic bit of kit that does just enough to capture a phone signal - ie basic challenge response on the network level. The cynic in me suggests it could be much more complex.
Surely this is the same as any other bit of police kit - the public have a right to know that its safe and used legally.
I would agree with this. I think the 2 biggest crimes commited by the last 2 governments were Educational
1. Labour convincing everyone they had the right to get a McDegree regardless of whether they have any benefit to society or the economy.
2. ConDem's ramping tuition fees to £21,000.
(3. allowing Michael Gove anywhere near anything important the gobshite)
Isnt this a very simple argument at the end of the day.
1. Its always been very easy to get the mob riled up with the right rhetoric.
2. If that rhetoric is "Capital Inequality" (hello new socialists) or "Immigration" hello UKIP.
3. The are only 3 fundamental choices:
a) Aspire to be on the right side of the in-equality.
b) Look around - be content with your lot.
c) Eat the rich/immigrants or do something else to drag them down to a level that pleases the mob.
Now c) has a whole range of responses ranging from mild taxation tweaks to public flogging, but lets not pretend we are doing anything but dressing up Envy in fancy clothes or "economic debate".
Fact of the matter is there is a certain level of inequality that a society will tolerate, but there are plenty of people who will magnify that in-equality so they can get power.
Oooo lots of downvotes but no-ones arguing with the basic point.
Face it Peak desktop/laptop was reached years ago, the average home and enterprise use cases have barely changed bar a bit more VC, and the only thing driving the need for more performance is the latest cruft filled blob from Microsoft be it office or windows.
So typical El Reg users aside - since most of us fall into some sort of power user cagegory - which gives me more utility? A laptop that sips power with all day battery life for workshops/meetings/commute and that starts instantly or one that can run a massively parallel data visualisation that I will never do.
Note Im not saying that AMD's arent as good as Intel in these use cases - frankly I havent a clue - but there is no point in AMD Marketing pointing out USP's for which there is a only tiny market.
Isnt it funny when all you've got is a graphics core everything looks like a graphics problem? (ok a bit harsh but you get my point)
Sounds like AMD's boffins have hit the spot on their design briefs - I just question how much of that design brief covers real world usage.
Will my outlook searches, excel and word docs run faster on AMD or Intel? All this visual stuff is a red herring for 90% of use cases. The only grudging point I will give them is more video optimisation in this realm of skype calls is always good, although given the low-ish res of most non-dedicated VC feeds I suspect the peak of tuning for them was reached years ago.
Will they do "instant on" as well as haswell? Do I have week long standby power?
Dear AMD less TLA and FLA nerdgasms more real world use cases please.
I presume this is tightly linked to having a mature agile development and automated testing processes in place?
Is anyone doing this with short bursts of waterfall?
I find the concept intruiging - Im not sure it can be any worse than 3 months of impenetrable shite going live all at once. I presume it all depends on development and testing discpline. If you fudge your SIT and UAT (as so many do) you will be screwed no matter what.
Does anyone have any feedback to how well userland adjusts to these kind of cycles?
Whats the typical end to end from requirement to go live?
Newsflash commentard Apple doesn't source from any of the smelters directly - its their suppliers suppliers suppliers.
Also has it not occurred to you that the smelters are placed near to where the resources are - whilst I'm sure there are a few in the west too - it just depends on the distribution of the relevant ores.
They know how to build a damn spacecraft!
It does make me wonder if there is a quality vs quantity debate to be had in the future of space exploration - i.e. once a certain level of technology is reached is one big instrument package on 1 big spacecraft the way to go, or is there mileage in the swarm/microsat concept.
For example is any work being on sats that have the sensor equivalent of the Square Kilometer Array. Say for example a network of low cost Camera's attached to a fairly widely dispersed set of microsats.
I suspect that the Yanks may be telling the truth on this one - however I would expect them to smear him in any event so the point is moot. If I was Snowden and already planning to collect this stuff there would be no way I would draw attention to myself by rocking the boat....
On the "trained spy" bit - true or Assange-like ego trip, although if he had some kind of black hat training it would help explain the extent of his p0wnage.
I'm sure you'll also be taking the first opportunity to moan when your favourite authors start bailing out if Amazon crush the publishers as the are trying to do.
2 wrongs don't make a right but investigating one wrong by apple and ignoring whopping wrongs by Amazon comes into that category too.
Just imagine the fun you could have if you mentioned to the NSA that copies of the Snowden files had been found on AWS, Googledrive or Skydrive.
If I worked for one of the cloud minnows I'd be tempted to start that rumour :D
Assuming of course that the NSA doesnt already know exactly what clouds have copies of the Snowdon docs. Im betting there are multiple NSA spiders crawling around the Interwebs right now looking for Hashes associated with the Snowden docs.
I suspect this is someone ultra ultra paranoid with little engineering background badly extrapolating from the old Van Eck phreaking from CRT's and the equivalent effect thats been shown to work at a CPU level.
I forget what the second effect is called but it was reported on El Reg a couple of years ago.
exactly. If they had bothered to spend 10 mins googling with the knowledge of the original PC the component came from they could have either found an image or a cheap spare part online and then got the serial numbers of the components involved.
Admittedly thats a bit of a stretch for a non-techie but you really need to get a second opinion on this type of stuff to use as a baseline if/when the manufacturers come back to you.
Whilst agreeing with your sentiment its kinda hard to agree with your somewhat lazy and crap examples.
1. Planning permission - provides a useful service to stop your neighbour building a mini-shard 2" from your kitchen window.
2. Council funding - this is just swings and roundabouts - the councils that apply the tax brush in a stupid manner sooner or later realise what the concequences are - empty high streets, no tax revenue from empty Theaters etc.
3. Labour laws and Minimum wages stifle production - really - how many offshored IT jobs were minimum wage?
agree Corporate squabbles with companies (and their groups) with over 100m dollars turnover should be paying the court the SUM of each sides legal fees. Then maybe the public courts and public defenders could get a chunk of that cash. Judges to be the sole arbitors of whether the company is worth 100m or not and what the lawyers are worth if they try a pro-bono dodge.
Its shit - crappy display - lots of ultrabooks do it better.
Its great battery life is amazing.
Its outdated but as an all round package its still as good as anything else out there. Especially if you have to remove Win 8 first.
Dislaimer - unashamed MBA 11 convert form 2 months and havent looked back even though I missed the price cut and would have liked a retina version. Although I find the mutiple desktops paradigm in MacOS and Unix a pretty good substitute for a bigger screen when compared with Win.
Biggest downside that pesky @ and " being substituted and Cmd being too close to the space bar for Copy/Paste etc. yes I know you can remap them easily enough - but Im refusing to be beaten by my own muscle memory.
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"Did Jos Whedon ever write or direct any films or TV that was any good? In the genre?"
Ahem - Avengers Assemble ring any bells? Arguably a sub-genre of the SciFi/Fantasy movie.
I believe he ruled himself out of the SW running early on - (although so did JJ until the moola was increased no doubt). Also I may be getting my timelines muddled not sure whether the grosses were in for AA at that point.
The only one slightly comparable to Star Wars in that list is 2001 - and even that is at the other end of the spectrum - its pretty damn opaque for the average movie goer.
The rest are undeniably great movies but very much of their time and therefore difficult to compare to the new Blockbuster era ushered in by Messrs Speilberg and Lucas and of which only SW and 2001 are examples of that canon.
I actually liked them both equally in a not a patch on the first 2 way! Its just that 3 had so many false starts and rewrites and it almost made David Fincher's brain explode. Google Alien 3 wooden planet for a hint.
I just felt 3 was a bit of an Alien rehash with the generation of british character actors prior to all those currently appearing in GOT. Also I've never quite gotten over the disappointmnent I felt when Hicks and Newt were killed off - offscreen. That still makes me sad :(
£42Bn on HS2.
vs a couple of Bn as our part of ITER.
Imagine a future where the UK was the first to generate self sustaining fusion by pumping £42bn into a UK only ITER, and became a net Energy and Energy Technology exporter to the WORLD.
With a bit of vision we could actually have been the next Energy exporting state with a worthy replacement to North Sea oil.