Comment Re:Blow to NoSQL movement (Score 1) 334
cheap performance trumps pointless reliability in a surprisingly large number of cases.
cheap performance trumps pointless reliability in a surprisingly large number of cases.
Using dropbox or any cloud data storage provider to store sensible information is not a good idea.
Most people put total nonsense in their cloud storage, so that's fine... (hint: foreign speaker alert! "Sensible" does not mean the same thing it means in French (at least, perhaps some other language in question. for Spanish speakers, try translating "No me molestes!" for fun...)
Everything possible will be done to ensure that the same thing doesn't happen again, to avoid liability and/or a satire piece (like the Pinto gas tanks) that will kill the model involved. So a autonomous car accident will look more like an airline accident, with an investigative team coming in from wherever, and really nailing what went wrong, because just like an airline crash, hundreds of lives, sales, and big-time law suits will be on the line. That focus will change the numbers.
Look at fatality stats. When are normalized by distance travelled, it is 7.97/0.03 --> 266 times more likely to die in a car today than an airplane. That's where the direction things are going to go, only more so, because airplanes are still driven by humans, and there is an upper limit of reliability of humans that is much lower than can eventually be achieved by automation. So the airline numbers should continue to improve as automation is further refined.
If almost everyone shouldn't work, the value of human labour being practically nil, maintaining social stability and order become a problem and you need more labour to maintain order, robotic labour. Expressions like "Peace, Order, and Good Governance", "the american dream", "social justice", "life, liberty, and the pursuit f Happiness" change their meaning.
Hard to say how it will turn out...
It isn't about whether Insteon works, It does. And it is here now... and it will be crushed by wifi and homeplug as adapters for those get cheaper/easier to incorporate into hardware because they are far more flexible future facing. What these people are doing, using existing networks instead of inventing your own is just a better way to solve the problem over the long run.
What I suspect they are really about is assigning (ie. dedicating) groups of processors which are geometrically localized (patches or polygons on the compute surface) together, so they can run multi-processor apps on the surface without getting bogged down by noise of general purpose processes. This is well known in supercomputing, and is often termed reducing OS jitter, and is very important. It is about reducing contention for scheduling by undoing the last 50 years of OS work to share CPUs. CPUS are cheap, so dedicate them. It is typically the job of the batch scheduer, but I can see how pushing this down to the OS itself, in these days of many core on a chip, is a useful improvement.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.