Comment Re:Downloading the intertubes, Daily (Score 1) 264
Just curious. How do you burn through 300 GB in a week? I think an hour of Netflix programming ~= 1GB, so 24x7 use of Netflix would be about 100 GB in a week. What's a bigger bandwidth hog than that?
This is actually an important question I would have asked myself yesterday.
Today, however, I have been trying to find a way to build an image for some android development kit. Every try for every different version pulls 60GB off some branch of codeaurora.org. Most likely something could be improved, but as of now that is how it goes.
In any case, while it seems insane, the faster the devices we work with, the 10x more insane the data we collect and need to move. Compressed video is ridiculously small compared to the TBs I have to deal with all the time. Waiting for these transfers are costing, especially when you know they would zip through in many other parts of the world.
It is very frustrating to wait for data when there is a fire to fight.
And I am sure ISPs have loads of b/w available. A few months ago, my connection was switched to 100Mbps, and it was that fast all the time. My provider must have realized its mistake and I am now back to 30... giving me back time to waste on
Not good. I mean I like this site, but I would rather be productive. And yes, after hours, I work from home, like I am sure many of us.
Comment Re:How about a decent open-source web browser? (Score 1) 421
Firefox on Android is now very good, no more need to use anything else.
No certificates
Chrome is the only browser I found on Android which was able to use them
Comment Re:That's a smidge under 4" for the entire state (Score 1) 330
$ rpm -qi units (edited)
Name : units
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/un...
Summary : A utility for converting amounts from one unit to another
I do live in the SF bay area and it feels likes most of the rain gets immediately back to the sea. Clearly we have not reached 97 rainfalls yet, when the water went over the levies in the Sac delta IIRC. In a pile of subjective opinions, it is nice to find a rose.
Comment Original press release from four months ago (Score 1) 60
Sharp Develops Free-Form Display:
http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/140618.html
Looks like one edge has to be straight
Submission + - Stanford bioengineers develop "Neurocore" chips 9,000 times faster than a PC
Stanford bioengineers have developed faster, more energy-efficient microchips based on the human brain – 9,000 times faster and using significantly less power than a typical PC. This offers greater possibilities for advances in robotics and a new way of understanding the brain. For instance, a chip as fast and efficient as the human brain could drive prosthetic limbs with the speed and complexity of our own actions.
Boahen and his team have developed Neurogrid, a circuit board consisting of 16 custom-designed "Neurocore" chips. Together these 16 chips can simulate 1 million neurons and billions of synaptic connections. The team designed these chips with power efficiency in mind. (...) The result was Neurogrid – a device about the size of an iPad that can simulate orders of magnitude more neurons and synapses than other brain mimics on the power it takes to run a tablet computer.
But much work lies ahead. Each of the current million-neuron Neurogrid circuit boards cost about $40,000. (...) Neurogrid is based on 16 Neurocores, each of which supports 65,536 neurons. Those chips were made using 15-year-old fabrication technologies. By switching to modern manufacturing processes and fabricating the chips in large volumes, he could cut a Neurocore's cost 100-fold – suggesting a million-neuron board for $400 a copy. With that cheaper hardware and compiler software to make it easy to configure, these neuromorphic systems could find numerous applications.
Comment No support either (Score 1) 2
Comment Re:Use Google-like monopolies to your advantage (Score 1) 174
On Android, you can use the AdAway application from F-Droid.org unrooted. It uses a proxy and work pretty well.
From both the app website (http://sufficientlysecure.org/index.php/adaway/) and F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway), this statement seems incorrect.
"Requires root: Yes. The hosts files is located in
Comment 1000% == 11 times (Score 2) 357
Submission + - Milky Way is Surrounded by Halo of Hot Gas (nasa.gov)
Comment Re:$232.49/month for phone-tv-internet is not enou (Score 1) 329
s/at a/at/ Sorry.
Comment $232.49/month for phone-tv-internet is not enough? (Score 1) 329
Only because they have a monopoly can they charge this much for their services _and_ the upload speed is still capped at a 100KB when I am lucky, so forget hosting anything.
Only positive point: customer service has improved a lot in the last 5,6 years.
I tried AT&T, but their service is the worst I have ever experienced, from cell phones data to dsl.
Sometimes I really wish I could teleport to Seoul...