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Do you have any idea how GPS works? |
"Broadly speaking, in Raytheon’s words, the ground system which collates signals from the satellites to deduce the user’s location is the 'brain of the entire GPS system'." |
There's a reason rail systems run on the surface whenever possible; bridges and tunnels are difficult, expensive, and maintenance-intensive. |
"Our content is meant to highlight unique products and offerings, find open-minded alternatives." |
I used to think Goop was some kind of ironic parody where Paltrow was plumbing the depths to which IQ's will sink when people read stuff endorsed by a celebrity. But in a world where Donald Trump can get elected president, I don't think that any more. |
Courts are allowed to take judicial notice of evidence of unsavory things about the defendant when deciding which of an allowed range of sentences will be imposed. You need not be convicted of a crime for evidence regarding it to be used in your sentencing. |
Cut-through routing (where you don't wait for the whole thing to arrive before transmitting) has been used in switch products for years. |
I agree that I can think of few things more annoying than some blowhard marketroid yakking on the phone while I'm confined in a small metal tube hurtling above the ground. |
But this also shows what a hypocrite Pal is; when it comes to being a lapdog for his corporate masters, nearly any regulation at all is too loose; he's all too willing to strip anything even vaguely resembling consumer protections. But when it comes to HIS precious hide being annoyed on an aircraft, he's willing to do ... |
He's claiming 95% reductions in memory usage and 75% reductions in CPU usage that are somehow universally applicable, and you are asking him about why the module plugs in from the rear? Why there's a *bleep*-ing window on top of the chassis? |
What the hell is going on with you and this company? This is your fourth (at least!) article about these guys, and you have yet to, even once, dig into the most fantastical claims for their product. |
- Clock signals are never 100% accurate or synchronized. To get around this, all data receivers use something called a Phase-Locked Loop to "lock on" to the proper timing. But for this to work, it needs some volt transitions to detect. Encoding usually forces a certain minimum number of bit transitions onto the wire; w... |
- The threshold for the receiver can drift. This is called "DC Offset". If there's a continuous stream of, say, 1's, the receiver will start to have problems telling the difference between 0 and 1. Encoding tries to nudge the number of 0's and 1's to be roughly even. |
And again, how is this not compression? |
Every time these guys get asked "how is this not just compression", all that comes back is a bunch of ridiculous arm-waving. 95% reduction in RAM usage? Seriously? This is at least the second time you have written about these guys, and STILL not prodded them for answers to these basic questions. I'm rather concerned th... |
I read a blog (The Billfold) that happens to be hosted by Medium, but yeah, overall their content is awful. I figure either the lions-share of their most popular content consists of SV-types congratulating each other on how awesome they all are, or their engine for recommending content for me to read is awful. |
On another note, I WOULD like to say the business model of "We lose money on every one we sell, but make up for it volume" applies here, but that actually requires selling something. |
I thought the "eyeballs-only" so-called "business model" kinda died out with the 2000 .Com Bust... where did they find the VS's to invest in this? |
Memristor, Photonics, and The Machine all MIA... shocker. |
How many years have we been hearing about the Memristor, and seeing absolutely no progress towards actually shipping? |
And I didn't know that HP Labs was even pursuing photonics, but Sun/Oracle has been promising those for a couple decades now, and has yet to deliver, so it doesn't surprise me that HP jumped on that particular vaporware bandwagon. |
Don't get me started on The Machine; it always seemed like a bunch of nebulous crap criminally light on details as to exactly what it was, other than something to do with memory-mapped I/O, which is not exactly a new innovation. |
They weren't calling for the report to be pulled entirely; anybody that cared to look could plainly see that the exploit existed. |
IBM's request was made informally, but it was polite, and not phrased as a demand or threat. Perhaps both you and the researcher are reading a little too much into it. |
There were some real questions that could have been asked of ICANN and the DoC about the transition, specifically persistent issues in ICANNs accountability. |
Instead, it appears Cruz decided to hijack the hearing so he could well, do whatever it is he does. |
Since not even his GOP brethren like him (dickish individual grandstanding is par for the course for him), and since nobody even asked the important questions on accountability, we can guess that there will be no rider preventing the contract handover, and it'll happen at the end of the month on schedule. |
I find the arguments that it would be a good thing to see how well the very latest round of accountability reforms work before handing it over to be very persuasive. Previous rounds of reform have proven to be utterly ineffective, why should we believe that these will actually work? |
And, in any case, what's the rush? Why is this happening at all? What problem is ending the DoC contract trying to solve? To my knowledge, the DoC/US Govt. in general, has done precisely nothing to interfere with ICANN/IANAs operations. |
It's astounding that they are continuing to act as if Medicare/Medicaid suspension, the closing of their largest lab, the disappearance of their largest source of customers, and the CEO being banned from the industry is no more than a minor setback. I guess since Holmes herself firmly has her hands on the reigns, and i... |
It would be one thing if they had a huge pool of cash with which to complete a promising technology, and then turn themselves into an IP licensing business. But given the HUGE liability from all those tests they had to throw out, I'd say any cash they have is already spoken for. And there's no evidence they have yet to... |
What I don't get is how she got all that money to begin with. I mean, she was hailed as some sort of visionary, despite there being no evidence that she had any actual product plan beyond a rhetorical question: "What if we could run a bazillion tests with a drop of blood?" Yes, that would be a wonderful thing, but at n... |
If I get my wife to dress up in black turtlenecks, have her enroll in a fancy school to drop out of, can she also get billions of dollars in funding by holding a press conference? "What if you could drive an SUV 100 miles on a single gallon of gas, and no batteries?" |
You know what else is MIA? The mythical optical interconnect Sun/Oracle dusts off every year or so for what, the last twenty years? |
Maybe it'll ship at the same time MS's DB-based FS does. |
"He also cited mysterious forces in "the world of medical insurance" and "the people in government who are going to be very much affected by a really cheap, really effective, wonderful solution." |
And "people in government"? What dog does the FDA have in that fight? If he has some evidence of links between the FDA and incumbent testing companies, he'd do well to present actual evidence instead of vague conspiracy theories. |
Nobody's expressing rank incredulity at the idea of a performance improvement; it's the hard-to-believe data reduction claims that are "not compression or deduplication, and are guaranteed" that are either impossible, or suffering from a bad game of Telephone from a clueless marketing hack. |
If it isn't compression or dedupe, then what are we to make of the "data reduction" claims? You know, the ones where they both claim they can get "deterministic" results AND run the output through a compression scheme afterwards to get further reduction? (Given that they allege that the output is encrpyted, color me a ... |
Q: "How is this not compression/dedupe"? |
A: "Well, yeah, it sounds like compression/dedupe but isn't." |
Q: "But what is it then?" |
A: "[Unexplained phrases that look a lot like technobabble] It's so amazing, you just wouldn't understand." |
Compression scams that look a lot like this one are literally decades old in computing, and have likewise featured credulous testimonials by investors/beta testers that had been hoodwinked. |
This smells very strongly of B.S. |
"Data can be ingested from a local memory channel or any wire such as USB, Direct Wire, TCP/IP Packets, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand, iSCSI, etc." |
Huh? I was not aware that "TCP/IP Packets" were a way to ingest anything. Somebody needs to go back and fill in the blanks on his OSI chart. And what's "Direct Wire"? |
" The conversion process consists of primary data (D’ [prime]) that is dismantled into substrate components called “fractals” and processed into SbM (Symbolic Bit Markers). Unlike other technologies an advanced algorithm allows for substrate fluctuation." |
This reeks of something a Star Trek scriptwriter would toss together. It appears to be word-salad that hints at data compression. |
"One of the most compelling elements of Bit Marker technology is that it is lossless and does not require any additional overhead, unlike traditional compression schemes. The output of the conversion process is to store, transmit or both depending on use case. This entire conversion process does not require any delayed... |
Symbolic IO refers to the ingestion conversion process as the “constitution” of data; whereas the data being stored or transported has been converted into this proprietary and unique language format and will remain in that state until a recall or read-back/read-request is received from the system. " |
Errr... explain to me again, and please use smaller words, how this is different from Real-Time Compression? |
Ahh... here it is (well, not really): "Symbolic IO’s patent is based on being a non-compressive algorithm. Compression is a non-deterministic algorithm that requires many CPU cycles and no guaranteed results. By reformatting binary we see consistent results that de-duplication and compression cannot achieve. There is n... |
BZZZZTTTT!!!! Wrong answer. If you claim you can reduce data size (with "guaranteed" results), for starters, that is, in fact, "compression" in any sense of the word. When you claim you can then further compress the data afterwards? That's the classic compression scam, with a lot of fancy words around it. There IS NO S... |
The god-awful state of Android security patching to me signals that you really should not consider any Android device but a Nexus. Or, I suppose, any manufacturer that sells unlocked devices (and therefore not dependent on carriers) and vows to roll out security patches quickly, and keep them coming for at least a coup... |
However, I don't know where this leaves the vast Android entry-level market. I don't know of a single entry-level phone at the moment where I would expect prompt and long-lasting patching. |
Google really needs to fix this problem, or somebody else will come along who will. |
Customers want storage, and they want it reliable, cheap, and flexible. I do not think a nebulous concept like "openness" is really on the priority list, because few customers want to deal with the inevitable integration and interop headaches that result from mix-n-match. |
And I love the yammering on about Mom 'n Apple Pie ideas of treating customers well... that sounds like an argument for sensible pricing, quality service and support, etc. I don't see how it ties into needing to deliver storage in a different fashion. |
I strongly suspect that what does move out of the cloud back into the DC will move into "private clouds", or "cloud-in-a-can" solutions that remove most of the complexity of traditional IT solutions. |
A cloud-in-a-can requires sophisticated software. Hardware? Not so much. |
On a lark, I took a cheap AWS Architect course, and it totally dawned on me: My entire profession, IT infrastructure, is toast. Kaput. Kablooie. There are few reasons for anybody setting up a new IT shop to use the sort of environment I've spent nearly a couple of decades becoming a fairly well-paid expert on. The flex... |
Now I know what the proverbial buggy-whip makers felt like. |
And just like EVERY previous prediction of some unfathomably huge percentage of the US workforce being let go in one day, it didn't happen. I'm pretty sure IBM would have a NEGATIVE number of people by now if all these predictions were true. I guess we can add Conrad the list with Cringely on it of the folks that eithe... |
I'm guessing that the number of hackers that are going to mount a mass MiTM attack on a cute toy (outside of a hacker convention) is pretty small. |
While external open e-mail clients have a loyal userbase, most business users use Exchange, and most consumers have shifted over to webmail. It makes sense to direct resources away from a project that has lost it's userbase. |
What kind of settlement would NOT preclude further litigation? What kind of a settlement would that be at all? |
"The names" tell us everything? Really? And what precisely would that "everything" include? |
Price-per-page is a lot more fair for everybody. If you, author, can't hold your reader's attention to read more of your longer book, write better books. |
Given how the total payout remains the same, it's hard to argue that the new method is a worse way of splitting up the pool. |
Keep in mind that for obscure reasons clear only to the IBM bureaucracy, SVC is classified as a "software" product that happens to be sold with some (relatively cheap) hardware. In an SVC order, most of the dollar value is in the software product. |
This is contrast to, say, the DS8k or XIV, where the software licenses are explicitly H/W feature codes. |
>> It's a common mistake, to think it's a common mistake, what is a "computer"; memory, stored programs etc. was defined by Turning way before we had the technology to do it. |
All true, but this does not detract from the OP's point that the Bombe incorporates none of those principles, It was a straightforward electromechanical device that does not in any way resemble a general-purpose computer. |
A total of 1,770 flood victims and 2,081 “poorest” of the poor in EB Magalona received cash assistance from the Department of Social Welfare and Development in a ceremony held at the Wilkinson Social Court in the town yesterday morning. |
The DSWD gave P875 to each of the flood victims from 12 out of the 23 barangays in EB Magalona, an EB Magalona press release said. |
Fernando Alabado, project development officer of the DSWD Extension Office in Bacolod, said the beneficiaries were those flooded in January and March this year. |
Aside from the flood victims, 2,081 families from 18 villages also in EB Magalona availed of cash assistance under the Cash-for-Work Program of the same agency. |
There are two sets of beneficiaries – those who worked in their respective barangay for five days at a rate of P175 per day; and those who worked for 11 days at a rate of P233 per day, the press release said. |
Those in the first set received P875 each, while those in the second set got P2,563 each. |
Mayor David Lacson said the selection of beneficiaries under the CWP was totally free of politics. |
The band's second album is set to release March 25. |
NEW YORK, March 4 (UPI) -- Synthpop band Future Islands made their television debut on the Late Show With David Letterman Monday night. |
The band seemed to impress Letterman, who raved about their performance of "Seasons (Waiting on You)." Future Islands released a second song from their upcoming LP, Singles, the next morning. |
The band is set to start a 48-city headlining tour on Tuesday. Singles will be released on March 25. |
A man who was staying just a few doors down from the hotel room where Stephen Paddock unleashed a hail of gunfire on Sunday night awoke to the sound of what he thought were fireworks. |
Sonny Morgan, who flew to Nevada from his home in Lawrenceville, Georgia, to attend a work conference, was fast asleep on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino when Paddock opened fire. |
"I kinda thought that it may have been some fireworks...and then it just kept going and going and going," Morgan told 11Alive. |
The smell of gunpowder wafted into his room, and Morgan called the hotel's reception to report sounds of gunfire. |
Staff members told him to barricade himself in the room, and Morgan built a pillow fort before getting down on the ground. |
Police and SWAT officers burst onto the scene after the gun smoke set off the fire alarm and helped authorities pinpoint Paddock's location, according to Randy Sutton, a former lieutenant with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department who spoke to the Washington Post. |
Morgan, still unaware what was happening amidst the chaos, thought someone was trying to blow up the hotel in a terrorist plot, and called his wife to tell her he loved her. |
The 64-year-old gunman fired at the officials through the door, although he was found dead by the time a SWAT team managed to breach Paddock's room with an explosive. |
Paddock used a hammer to break the windows of his room before he opened fire on the 22,000 concert-goers across the street from the hotel, killing 59 people and injuring 527 others. |
It remains unclear what his motives were, although his actions and cache of weapons suggest the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history was planned in advance. |
Morgan said authorities eventually broke down the doors of his room and "made sure that I wasn't a bad person" before he was evacuated. |
Morgan, who has since been relocated to a new room in the hotel before he heads home on Thursday, says he's still coming to terms with what happened after piecing together the night's events from news reports. |
"The view out of where I am now is probably very similar to the view the guy had...I can see down into exactly where the folks were. I can see the windows where they were broken out….It's really weird," he said. |
The Pentagon's new Avatar project, unveiled by Danger Room a few weeks back, sounds freaky enough: Soldiers practically inhabiting the bodies of robots, who'd act as "surrogates" for their human overlords in battle. |
But according to Dmitry Itskov, a 31-year-old Russian media mogul, the U.S. military's Avatar initiative doesn't go nearly far enough. He's got a massive, sci-fi-esque venture of his own that he hopes will put the Pentagon's project to shame. Itskov's plan: Construct robots that'll (within 10 years, he hopes) actually ... |
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