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[SteelBird]

Correction..I did not follow the building of CVN-78 on facebook regularly. Only as people posted they found photos there I'd check out the photos.

I do look at grand kids photos on facebook as my wife finds them..honestly that's about it....

OK, whatsoever. An off-topic but honest remind to all Facebook users; do not post too much privacy on Facebook or whatever website because after you post, they are no longer your privacy. Your photos belong to Facebook after you post them on it. End of off topic!

 

[solarz]

For example, if I go out she will ask me what I did.. Then who i went with... Then is that person a girl/guy... Then ultimately what's his/her name( she don't even know them of course)

She even asked what's my ex's name and for their pictures, which obviously I ain't gonna give her. It's this point I don't tell her anymore, and blocked her. However she added several of my friends who she doesn't know, and then one of my close friends when she saw a picture I put on Facebook of me and that friend. That creep went to my friend, start asking questions, asked my fd if she knows my ex, said she wants to meet her. Obviously my friend thinks she's a fucking stalker and told me.

Maybe "she" isn't really a "she", lol. Maybe "she" was trying to hook up with your ex.

 

[Air Force Brat]

OK, whatsoever. An off-topic but honest remind to all Facebook users; do not post too much privacy on Facebook or whatever website because after you post, they are no longer your privacy. Your photos belong to Facebook after you post them on it. End of off topic!

I am mobile whats the deal with Malay 777

 

[Jura The idiot]

we're looking forward for a cool air in the Czech Republic, country high on Sunday was:
34.2ºC = 93.560ºF (in downtown Prague!), on Monday:
35ºC = 95.000ºF (in Pilsen, yeah the beer town and today, I just checked:
35.9ºC = 96.620ºF (at the Slovak border in a small town known because of the heat, something like Miami heheh)
Speaking of the US, the problem here is most people can't afford to drive to work and they commute in buses, trains without air conditioning, and most of them work in various production/assembly/storage etc. halls which are not air-conditioned either (only if it's necessary for the business -- not so that workers felt cool LOL) ... but things can be worse like in a takeaway pizza joint, which is situated on top of a subway station at which I change: there's a digital thermometer, under a roof so it's shadowed, by that joint (I mean outside of it) and was showing 43ºC = 109.40ºF around half past six pm. I can't imagine fixing pizzas in there today.
But personally I'm fine, I keep 24ºC = 75.200ºF in the room I work
Here, fortunately, the humidity is relatively low, though (about 50%, so the "Feels Like" figure is almost the same as the measured temperature).
I know I know, a long post, but Real Life

... and we haven't had 95 since then (posted 06-10-2014 -- was an unusual heat for that period of the year) until today:

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shows the temperatures in the country at a convenient moment in the sense that you can guess where mountains are; the highest temperature (yellow circle) in downtown Prague (35.6ºC = 96.080ºF), the lowest (but still pretty high; cyan circle) at about 5 thousand feet, 20.5ºC = 68.900ºF ... the map is for 1600 hours so it's unlikely the temperatures will increase ... hey I just checked to be sure and the updated map shows 35.9ºC = 96.620ºF as of 1700 hours in Prague LOL

so briefly now: the longest straight line East--West is 493 km = 306.3 miles (and you could almost travel it by taking a Night Train -- I did it twice -- takes about ten hours though); North--South 278 km = 172.7 miles (no easy traveling in that direction) ... the highest peak 1602 m (5256 feet) ... check wikipedia for the rest

 

[Miragedriver]

Wider car parking spaces for women drivers in China spark accusations of sexism

Chinese shopping mall reserves spaces 30cms wider because women "have a few issues with parking"

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I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

 

[solarz]

Wider car parking spaces for women drivers in China spark accusations of sexism

Chinese shopping mall reserves spaces 30cms wider because women "have a few issues with parking"

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I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

This is so typical of women. You try to help them out and they still complain!

 

[blacklist]

I just browse some sites today and found these :

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for those who doesnt understand... this is how a smart nation make free super computer. i can only imagine if some country get smarter and adopt bitcoin and surely keep the value to make ppl attracted to give computational power that can be used to simulate protein/dna/nuclear/coldfusion whatever...

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I wonder why no chinese university ever think about this ???

 

[solarz]

I just browse some sites today and found these :

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for those who doesnt understand... this is how a smart nation make free super computer. i can only imagine if some country get smarter and adopt bitcoin and surely keep the value to make ppl attracted to give computational power that can be used to simulate protein/dna/nuclear/coldfusion whatever...

btw :

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I wonder why no chinese university ever think about this ???

There are limits to distributed computing. Two major issues that I can think of are control and setup time.

First, you can't predict how many people will install your distributed computing program, and thus you can't predict when you will be able to get results back.

Second, distributed computing takes time to setup. You need to publicize your program and convince people to install it. This by itself can take months or even years.

Those two issues means that you can't use distributed supercomputing for time-sensitive tasks.

 

[blacklist]

There are limits to distributed computing. Two major issues that I can think of are control and setup time.

First, you can't predict how many people will install your distributed computing program, and thus you can't predict when you will be able to get results back.

Second, distributed computing takes time to setup. You need to publicize your program and convince people to install it. This by itself can take months or even years.

Those two issues means that you can't use distributed supercomputing for time-sensitive tasks.

i can agree about the control and predicting total hashing speed, but if the price of the coin keep rising or stable then ppl will surely jumping in. like bitcoin some ppl will join for the money and other will join for the cause.

about your second problem... well... i have seen this :

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a not very convincing coin, even the author admit it then you see this :

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then again you still can use it for non time sensitive task.

 

[solarz]

i can agree about the control and predicting total hashing speed, but if the price of the coin keep rising or stable then ppl will surely jumping in. unlike bitcoin some ppl will join for the money and other will join for the cause.

about your second problem... well... i have seen this :

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a not very convincing coin, even the author admit it then you see this :

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I suppose if you could piggy-back an algorithm onto a widely circulated program, then it would be much easier to setup and predict. However, we are still far from having any such infrastructure.

As for the future, keep in mind that we are slowly moving toward cloud computing. This means that in the future, the real computation power will be in server farms and not in individual homes.

In essence, distributed computing is kind of like taking advantage of computing power nobody is using. As computation becomes more efficient, distributed computing will have less computation power to work with.

I am sure there are also other advantages to having a single supercomputer vs large numbers of normal computers. Data transfer speed, for example, could be a major bottleneck in complex calculations.

Moreover, I think supercomputers also serve as a way to pioneer advancements in computers. The advancements in computation power that we get in normal computers come from the things we learned by building supercomputers.