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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:That's a smidge under 4" for the entire state (Score 1) 330

Off topic but thanks to open pipes in between different minded individuals. 15 years of linux in an international biz and I had never heard of units.

$ 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.

Submission + - Stanford bioengineers develop "Neurocore" chips 9,000 times faster than a PC

kelk1 writes: From the Stanford News Service:

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

I did look for a "support" link somewhere on the front page but could not find any. "Ask Slashdot" seemed to be the only place to send my question.

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://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ff-droid.org%2Frepository%2Fbrowse%2F%3Ffdid%3Dorg.adaway), this statement seems incorrect.

"Requires root: Yes. The hosts files is located in /system which is normally read-only."

Submission + - Milky Way is Surrounded by Halo of Hot Gas (nasa.gov)

kelk1 writes: If the size and mass of this gas halo is confirmed, it also could be an explanation for what is known as the "missing baryon" problem for the galaxy [...] a census of the baryons present in stars and gas in our galaxy and nearby galaxies shows at least half the baryons are unaccounted for [...] Although there are uncertainties, the work by Gupta and colleagues provides the best evidence yet that the galaxy's missing baryons have been hiding in a halo of million-kelvin gas that envelopes the galaxy.

Comment $232.49/month for phone-tv-internet is not enough? (Score 1) 329

xfinity bundled (digital premier) services 209.95 additional xfinity internet services (modem) 7.00 additional xfinity voice services (mandatory taxes) 1.60 service protection plan 2.99 taxes, surcharges and fees 10.95 It is my only possible internet provider, and the only shows I occasionally watch are on these premier channels satturated with crappy soft porn. Seriously, that is a lot of money to get internet and occasionally watch a football or a tennis game. $10 for 50GB really is a rip-off at this point.
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...

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