So where do you find that affordable electric car? There is currently no affordable alternative to gas. And even if today every car manufacturer released a viable alternative it will be at least a decade before a usable second-hand market comes about.
The depth of field has been a problem with the game since release. Things popping in and out, blurry distances. Check out TB's original review of the game; the game is simply bad (it's Ubisoft after all), there are no other quality differences between these higher settings and the original settings
The billing information is most likely right there in the control panel in order to make your cloud payments. It was stupid of them to not anticipate this attack but a lot of companies are vulnerable to this.
- Imagine this happens with an Amazon/Microsoft/Google... admin account; they could blow away entire data centers
- Imagine this happens to someone's Office365 hybrid account - now they not only have access to your Cloud products but also your linked local Exchange servers
Didn't the US do the same in Iraq?
QoS is different than Net Neutrality. QoS has to be set up by the sender of the packet and classifies the type of service for the same sender. It could potentially be a direct link between two (or more hosts) and typically the sender pays to set up dedicated bandwidth between end points. The rest of the network still gets the same amount of bandwidth as they had before and gets treated fairly among each other.
Net Neutrality is basically the absence of packet mangling by the providers. Net neutrality implies that when someone asks and pays for QoS priority access, they do not negatively affect other customers. It implies that the providers actually purchase an extra 1Gbps from their peering partners if a customer buys 1Gbps in access.
It also implies that nobody can pay to slow down competing access. If Netflix or Amazon wants a dedicated 1Mbps in my home, that's fine, but I shouldn't have to pay for it (if I want to pay Netflix for it, that's between me and Netflix); if you give up net neutrality, the provider would basically take 1 Mbps out of the 10/15/100Mbps you purchased and sell it (again) to the highest bidder without giving you a discount. So you end up with 9Mbps for the price of 10Mbps and they won't just stop at selling 1Mbps - TWC/Comcast wants to sell the entire bandwidth you already purchased over and over again to the big players and if someone doesn't want to buy priority access, they would get artificially slowed down until they do (see the infamous Netflix vs. Comcast graph)
Same goes for so-called 'volunteers' especially in the religious circles. There are those that get room and board, work for the corporation yet do not get paid a paycheck. And especially for articles on the high-control cults (Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientology,
Sure, all the rest of these languages are fancy and some startups are actually using them (when boiled down just ends up between node.js, Scala(Java) and a NoSQL database du jour).
No company uses python outside of scientific use (where it can be very powerful). No company uses Ruby anymore besides the odd legacy app.
Facebook, Google, Twitter, OkCupid
I just implemented an open source CRM with a bunch of custom work on a 300MB VPS - Nginx, PHP 5.5 with OpCache, MariaDB, JS, CSS, HTML - can sustain 50MBps of traffic to the CRM without a single drop (3ms response); 2000 complex queries on the CMS per second under 100ms response, I can simply throw more hardware at it if I need more but for a 300-member club, that's plenty.
These contracts are for like 30-100 years of service (no kidding). The providers would have to get 30y worth of monopoly-based income (eg. a city may have 500k customers which they can now charge $60 more per month than if there were competition for 30 years amounts to a contract worth $10B).
You assume actual computer experts are investigating this matter? These are the same people that when presented with non-Windows OS or any type of encryption will be expert witnesses that testify in court that you're a hacker/terrorist and obstructed the investigation.
And if they'll look on the server, they'll find a bunch of binary blobs. This is going to be Exchange after all and probably migrated to Cloud-Exchange so they have no access to the data on the servers.
It really depends on your calculations (yes, I work in academic research). You can get very large, very parallel problems and have enough with 56k modems in between nodes and there are those where 12x Infiniband is not enough. It also depends on the person implementing the system, how well versed they are in the subject matter and cluster programming, the languages they use and whether or not what they write is aware of what is happening where.
The fabric can be relatively cheap actually, 24 port 10Gbps and QDR Infiniband switches can be had sub-5k these days (unless you go Cisco off course) especially in blade systems. All-in-all the hardware for clusters has gotten very, very cheap. Amazon wouldn't be selling it at $5/h if it weren't profitable.
Large research clusters BTW (such as the ones at Fermilab, CERN or your average University) are usually large sets of 2/4/8 core systems, sometimes with a few very large nodes thrown in or these days a set of GPU nodes. 20-core nodes are rare in actual clusters a la Blue Gene/Q
I can get 8 core systems sub $1k. It depends on the type of hardware really which it doesn't specify; 20+ cores in a single machine has been available since at least the turn of the century they always cost an arm and a leg though because of the complexities of integrating that many CPUs in a single machine. A combination of boxes amounting to the same amount of CPU, RAM etc has always been cheaper but also larger and harder to use.
Doesn't really work. Even if you eg. find a quasar that sends out a very specific signal every 100 years, you need to record the noise in order to get the key, at that point your encryption system is vulnerable to replay attacks where someone simply replays the noise in order to unlock the secret.
One system that theoretically would work in such fashion (somewhat) would be to send off a probe with your key and a decryption algorithm into space near the speed of light (otherwise it could be taken over by a 'faster' craft) - make it go (time / 2) light years before it activates the decryption system, then you can send it the message and it should respond with the decrypted message.
The problem is obvious: We have no existing crafts that go that fast and once your message is decrypted, anyone in the general direction it's responding at will receive your message and it's quite expensive to launch a craft just to encrypt a 'drink your ovaltine' - if by that time your encryption method or key hasn't yet been broken by other technological advancement.
In a decent software design project I can't commit a single line of code without anyone noticing that I did so, sometimes (eg. the Linux kernel) requiring multiple sign off. He redesigned the system, he must have sent off the plans to someone to remanufacture the item, in between there nobody notices that there is a major change in specs? It's not like this engineer hand-built every single ignition system and installed it, it's a mechanical part, you can't just change something without restocking on different source parts.
a) There was no change management?
b) A single engineer can replace a critical component without anyone ever needing to sign off?
c) Not answering an e-mail does not make one culpable, it merely points to a time management problem or not enough time to respond
d) Even when an e-mail did not get answered, nobody cared enough to follow up?
These things point to serious managerial issues. Engineers can make mistakes, covering them up and pointing the finger is a managerial issue.
The dude just got $2B richer, the tax code (or any other laws) don't apply to him. If you make >$1M in the US, you simply stop paying taxes because you can invest whatever amount necessary and deduct it to cover your liability.
To thine own self be true. (If not that, at least make some money.)
