Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
> most (if not all) crypto currencies are ponzi schemes and regulate them as such?
Because then they would be indistinguishable from a bunch of other financial instruments and the SEC or USSS or one of a dozen existing financial regulators would get them and the FBI wouldn't get the power/funding/cool of being the crypto regulator
They will be confined to an area of the city that has specially prepared wooden roadway, along with a charging infrastructure consisting of an overhead wire grid where that cars will charge via an advanced metal rod.
The production design will have large plastic bumpers in case of collisions with other cars
IIRC a lot of the black and white footage was wiped as part of union/contract negotiation
The broadcasters paid more for colour and the actors/creators/etc wanted to be paid the same increased rates for their old B&W stuff.
The Beeb argued that B&W was now worthless and so there should be little or no fee for rebroadcast - to demonstrate their point they wiped/destroyed a lot of old content.
There was also an increasing fee with each subsequent re-broadcast, so showing older content was increasingly expensive. And all this was before any idea you could sell content directly to consumers
Intel will also give you enterprise grade delivery and timescale support guarantees
I need to know I can buy this model for X years and be given Y years notice of a change.
I don't get that buying clones on Aliexpress
Another big advantage of Intel - when you combine the NUC into a product and go to TUV/UL/etc they aren't going to argue with the Intels approval stickers.
Also add in that the training are on arrested suspects and the scans are on general public.
If for some unaccountable reason the proportion of black faces in the 'arrest' set was higher than in the general population it will bias the results.
Train a model on 50% horses 50% zebras and send it out into a field with one zebra and it's going to pick your 'suspect'
You need geological stability, but also no tornadoes, hurricanes or winter snow storms that take out your power and block roads.
You can't build in California because of nimbys, or anywhere on the east coast north of Washington because of old-money nimbys.
It also helps if you have a local workforce who don't still point in wonder at aeroplanes - or is nice enough you can lure educated workers there.
That leaves you with the sun-belt (and Texas if you have your own generator) or the pacific north-west
They had an opportunity with OpenCL.
But nobody in the consortium really committed to it. They either secretly pushed their own propriety baremetal architecture to give themselves a commercial advantage or treat it as a box-ticking exercise to meet some purchasing requirement.
Whatever you think of NVidia (and CUDA) they did bet the company on GPU compute - before AI was a thing - and it paid off.
>In the GPU field, Intel's problem seems to be one of commitment, not ability -
That was always Intel's problem.
They were an early member of OpenCL but never actually supported it to the point that it was usable as an alternative to CUDA
They were/are the monopolist in CPUs but can't seem to offer any sort of commitment to anything else
The problem is that if they don't have customers willing to pay for regular satellite access so they are paying for all those satellites just for the free 911 calls.
Apple could do that because they paid a relatively small amount to Inmarsat just for the 911 calls and got a huge amount of press for "Wow the new iPhone is so advanced it can talk to satellites" it was just advertising spend
The trouble with charging per call for emergencies is that there aren't many emergencies.
SPOT and the other emergency beacons charge $100/pa because they are very rarely used. If they only charged per-emergency they would have to charge $1000 per call to cover the same costs - and would be ripped in the media if they went after the poor victims for this.
> I can't see much capacity expansion in that country, and precious little opportunities where the world's largest or fastest growing population centres are.
What about a $1.5Bn investment in building new fjords in Michigan ?
I think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent
Typically not, they are specialised and the system as a whole needs a lot of custom power and cooling.
Unless you want it just as a museum piece it's probably cheaper to build and operate a new system.
In addition it may have export restrictions on who you can sell it to.
>academic HPC facility is generally massively cheaper than buying a dozen nodes and 64 16GB DIMMs,
That's what changed over my using supercomputers career. When I started the mythical Cray was the only thing to run tasks beyond beyond the department Sun or VAX.
Then Linux+Alpha then Linux+Pentium Pro meant we built our own Beowulf clusters with shelves full of home made PCs and these were massively cheaper and fast - unless you had a single Fortran array that used Gbs (!) of memory and needed 400 cores to see all the data.
Interesting that massively multi-core ARM is swinging back to 'supercomputer' being the best bang/$
Unless this average somehow counts separate single core setup/test type tasks - this seems odd.
Why use <2% of a supercomputer for a job?
Wouldn't you just run that on a local workstation type machine?
Admittedly I'm very old, but in my day you only got to send jobs to the Cray that would be impossible on any other machine.
Because then customers and other insurance companies would be able to use the data to change purchases
If the model says that area X is going to be hit more/ less over the coming Y years then people can choose to buy more/less insurance. Paying for data is so the people setting the rates know this but the customers don't.
It wasn't necessarily time sensitive data about this particular event.
But incoming remote messages always showed up on the main workstation login window when the local user was logged in by a physical x-terminal (ask your grandmother)
So whatever her outgoing missives were sent to a remote boyfriend, his anatomically optimistic responses appeared on my screen
