I don't really see any way the latency hit could be worse than (or even as bad as) the hit Intel took from FB-DIMMS. AMD wouldn't be hyping this if it had the same Achilles' Heel that Intel's solution has.
Would it really be that bad for the world if the most xenophobic states engineered their own isolation and economic collapse? It seems more and more that we have many significant sub-populations that need to learn humility and sharing the hard way.
I'd be fine with gifted kids being left alone to educate themselves. The problem comes from the fact that the regular, mundane classwork won't get out of the way. If you're going to require a kid to sit through a class, you owe it to him to make it worth his time.
Of course, we already know that most schools won't bother with that.
Sadly, even schools with much better programs than yours still can't appropriately handle even moderately gifted students. (I went to several such schools in the span of a few years.) One of the universal idiocies I have noticed is the tendency to force gifted kids to do the mundane work too. I can't imagine a much more effective way of killing a kid's intellectual curiosity.
Also, (and you're probably already aware of this) you are quite mistaken on point 3: Gifted kids can have good friends at school. For me, the best thing about being in a system that was segregated based on academic performance was that I had a real peer group. Putting the gifted kids in a class of their own might isolate them form the rest of the student body, but it actually makes them less lonely. Especially for younger kids, that is really important. (You need to learn how to make friends before you can worry about having a diverse group of friends.)
Wikipedia already has bots in place to automatically revert vandalized articles. Almost anything that spammers would do to a page has already been tried by regular vandals, and Wikipedia already has effective ways of dealing with them.
The real dangers are from paid corporate shills who post "articles" that are adverts or introduce bias into existing articles. Fortunately, those modifications are hard to make in volume.
I put my urlfilter.ini on my website so others can benefit from it. It was lovingly butchered together from various lists I found, and it's much more effective than Firefox's Adblock extension. I checked out your urlfilter.ini. There isn't a single rule in there that couldn't also be loaded into Adblock. If you were to actually import those rules into Adblock, it would be just as effective as Opera. Last time I checked, Adblock didn't have any default rules, so it is absurd to say it doesn't work as well as Opera's ad blocking.
CD-R, CD-RW was one schism... No, it wasn't. CD-R is a write-once medium. CD-RW is a re-writable medium that is significantly more expensive and less compatible. The two have never been in direct competition, because they are not in the same market niche.
DVD-R[W] vs. DVD+R[W] vs. DVD-RAM was a true format war, but it has been completely resolved. (ie. -RAM is completely dead and almost all burners on the market support +/-R.) The only active format war right now is HD vs. Blu-ray, and while it far from over, there are drives that support both.
I wouldn't be so sure about the Adobe brand. Consider that no office suite will be able to catch on in the enterprise market unless the regular employees are already familiar with it. That means that Adobe absolutely must market to regular consumers, even if their main target is business users.
Think about what the average consumer knows about Adobe. They know Adobe mostly as the company that does PDFs, and mostly for producing the infuriatingly bloated and slow Adobe Reader. Some, but not all, also know that Adobe is the company behind Photoshop (an expensive, powerful application that has nothing to do with an office suite). I don't see how they could do significantly better than StarOffice (which is now free).
Actually, the only heated intellectual debates I regularly get into are on camping trips, where cellular reception is very rare. Worse yet, my friends often expect me to have encyclopedic knowledge with which to settle such debates.
[Ignoring the fact that the off-road contest has already come and gone...] Insight Racing is modifying a Lotus Elise. It's done pretty well so far on the track, and shouldn't have any trouble with tight mountain roads. Unfortunately, it doesn't have any cargo space. Oh well...
Well that's misleading. If you don't accept the terms of the GPL, you have to acquire a separate license from the authors on their terms (if they are even willing to license it under non-GPL terms). It isn't like you can just choose to throw money at the problem to make it go away. If the authors aren't willing to grant you a non-GPL license, then any use in violation of the GPL is piracy.
2560x1600 and beyond. Personally I feel 1920x1200 is enough, I don't need that huge a workspace and it's highly unlikely above-1080p will become common in the next decade or two. What about the 30" displays from Apple and Dell? Are you saying they will be so unsuccessful over the next decade that we shouldn't even standardize on a single-link protocol that can support them? That sounds like a recipe for a format war to me. It also sounds like you can't comprehend the professional and academic markets. 8MP cameras are common, and you don't see a need for a display with more than 2.3MP? Talk about short-sighted.
Completely wrong. None of the Linksys WRT routers have upgradeable hardware. Cisco simply chose to save money by switching to VxWorks, which enabled them to halve both the RAM and Flash memory. They kept the old configuration around as the -GL for those who want to tinker (a small minority of WRT users). There's nothing underhanded about that.
Over long distances, a decent cyclist will always go faster than a horse and rider. Certainly when it comes to leisurely trail riding, cyclists go much faster (10-17mph) than horses (5mph). Even the Kentucky Derby winners are only going about 37.5mph (for two minutes), which a cyclist can easily top on a downhill stretch. (And that's not even considering what a recumbent bike can do.)
Also, horses are much more dangerous near motor vehicles because of their tendency to spook. That far outweighs any visibility benefit (which, considering the styling of modern bike jerseys, is probably small).
I know - I never accused it of being caused by a problem with the iPhone. It was simply an issue of the iPhone exposing flaws in the existing infrastructure. It would almost certainly be the same way with AT&T. (Certainly no network like theirs should be vulnerable to a flawed client.) The usage patterns for the iPhone are likely to be quite different from the devices currently on AT&T's cellular network, so it stands to reason that it is more likely to expose flaws that haven't been found yet.
You seem to have missed the part where listening to an audio book doesn't impair driving. It is quite reasonable to assume that listening to music (at a reasonable volume) would be even less distracting. Similarly, receiving verbal instructions from a GPS or occasionally looking at it shouldn't cause significant problems. The only really dangerous distraction you listed would come from carrying on a two-way conversation with a passenger. In practice, any sensible passenger is likely to shut up when the driver starts losing control. But all that really needs to happen is for the driver to stop trying to participate in the conversation.
I like how you took the time to look for a potential source of bias via funding, but you didn't even take the time to understand the conclusions of the study. If I had to guess who had the preconceived notions and bias, I wouldn't pick the scientists.
Microsoft once made a port of Windows to Xen... So what? Applications on VMs are isolated, MS's selling point was always integration. Did you read the other sentence, the one about Parallels and VMWare? Take a look at the Coherence mode for Parallels and tell me integration will be a problem for Microsoft when they have all the source code.
you seem to have forgotten about.NET as a migration path No, I haven't -- but MS.Net is only important for custom software. There are very few off-the-shelf applications on MS.Net, most are still W32 or else went Java. And it is off-the-shelf software that keeps MS going with its proprietary lock-in. Last time I installed Windows XP from scratch, I couldn't get very far before I had to install the.NET frameworks. True, most apps are still using Win32, but I think you've underestimated how widely used.NET is in commercial software. Besides, that doesn't really matter to MS. What matters is that.NET has already been out there for years and companies wouldn't have to start from scratch with a completely new API.
Microsoft once made a port of Windows to Xen (before the VT extensions, even). Parallels and VMWare are shipping products with tight integration for Windows guests. Retaining the backwards compatibility won't be hard, and if the new OS were worth shipping, it would have to be a lot more efficient than Vista.
And you seem to have forgotten about.NET as a migration path. It would only take a single press release for Microsoft to make.NET into their own equivalent of Apple's Carbon - an api supported on both old and new platforms. Sure, it wouldn't be as smooth or as quick as things were with Carbon, and MS might lose a few people along the way to Mono, but it wouldn't be a herculean task.
What are you doing with that computer? It sounds like you have a pretty large working set, or a really stupid swapping policy. What operating system are you using, and are you sure that the disk thrashing you hear isn't just background defragging or something like that?
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I don't really see any way the latency hit could be worse than (or even as bad as) the hit Intel took from FB-DIMMS. AMD wouldn't be hyping this if it had the same Achilles' Heel that Intel's solution has.
Would it really be that bad for the world if the most xenophobic states engineered their own isolation and economic collapse? It seems more and more that we have many significant sub-populations that need to learn humility and sharing the hard way.
I'd be fine with gifted kids being left alone to educate themselves. The problem comes from the fact that the regular, mundane classwork won't get out of the way. If you're going to require a kid to sit through a class, you owe it to him to make it worth his time.
Of course, we already know that most schools won't bother with that.
Sadly, even schools with much better programs than yours still can't appropriately handle even moderately gifted students. (I went to several such schools in the span of a few years.) One of the universal idiocies I have noticed is the tendency to force gifted kids to do the mundane work too. I can't imagine a much more effective way of killing a kid's intellectual curiosity.
Also, (and you're probably already aware of this) you are quite mistaken on point 3: Gifted kids can have good friends at school. For me, the best thing about being in a system that was segregated based on academic performance was that I had a real peer group. Putting the gifted kids in a class of their own might isolate them form the rest of the student body, but it actually makes them less lonely. Especially for younger kids, that is really important. (You need to learn how to make friends before you can worry about having a diverse group of friends.)
Wikipedia already has bots in place to automatically revert vandalized articles. Almost anything that spammers would do to a page has already been tried by regular vandals, and Wikipedia already has effective ways of dealing with them.
The real dangers are from paid corporate shills who post "articles" that are adverts or introduce bias into existing articles. Fortunately, those modifications are hard to make in volume.
DVD-R[W] vs. DVD+R[W] vs. DVD-RAM was a true format war, but it has been completely resolved. (ie. -RAM is completely dead and almost all burners on the market support +/-R.) The only active format war right now is HD vs. Blu-ray, and while it far from over, there are drives that support both.
AOL should block the download if and only if the appropriate parental controls are enabled. It's that simple.
I wouldn't be so sure about the Adobe brand. Consider that no office suite will be able to catch on in the enterprise market unless the regular employees are already familiar with it. That means that Adobe absolutely must market to regular consumers, even if their main target is business users.
Think about what the average consumer knows about Adobe. They know Adobe mostly as the company that does PDFs, and mostly for producing the infuriatingly bloated and slow Adobe Reader. Some, but not all, also know that Adobe is the company behind Photoshop (an expensive, powerful application that has nothing to do with an office suite). I don't see how they could do significantly better than StarOffice (which is now free).
The issue is not whether Linux distros include VMWare. The question is whether VMWare itself is based on Linux, and thus required to be open sourced.
Actually, the only heated intellectual debates I regularly get into are on camping trips, where cellular reception is very rare. Worse yet, my friends often expect me to have encyclopedic knowledge with which to settle such debates.
Conversations around a campfire can go anywhere.
[Ignoring the fact that the off-road contest has already come and gone...] Insight Racing is modifying a Lotus Elise. It's done pretty well so far on the track, and shouldn't have any trouble with tight mountain roads. Unfortunately, it doesn't have any cargo space. Oh well...
Well that's misleading. If you don't accept the terms of the GPL, you have to acquire a separate license from the authors on their terms (if they are even willing to license it under non-GPL terms). It isn't like you can just choose to throw money at the problem to make it go away. If the authors aren't willing to grant you a non-GPL license, then any use in violation of the GPL is piracy.
He is not "innocent until found guilty." He is presumed innocent until found guilty. Big perspective difference.
Completely wrong. None of the Linksys WRT routers have upgradeable hardware. Cisco simply chose to save money by switching to VxWorks, which enabled them to halve both the RAM and Flash memory. They kept the old configuration around as the -GL for those who want to tinker (a small minority of WRT users). There's nothing underhanded about that.
Who wants AIX support? Seriously, what AIX systems even have an ATI 3d chip? Or did you mean AIGLX?
Over long distances, a decent cyclist will always go faster than a horse and rider. Certainly when it comes to leisurely trail riding, cyclists go much faster (10-17mph) than horses (5mph). Even the Kentucky Derby winners are only going about 37.5mph (for two minutes), which a cyclist can easily top on a downhill stretch. (And that's not even considering what a recumbent bike can do.)
Also, horses are much more dangerous near motor vehicles because of their tendency to spook. That far outweighs any visibility benefit (which, considering the styling of modern bike jerseys, is probably small).
I know - I never accused it of being caused by a problem with the iPhone. It was simply an issue of the iPhone exposing flaws in the existing infrastructure. It would almost certainly be the same way with AT&T. (Certainly no network like theirs should be vulnerable to a flawed client.) The usage patterns for the iPhone are likely to be quite different from the devices currently on AT&T's cellular network, so it stands to reason that it is more likely to expose flaws that haven't been found yet.
You seem to have missed the part where listening to an audio book doesn't impair driving. It is quite reasonable to assume that listening to music (at a reasonable volume) would be even less distracting. Similarly, receiving verbal instructions from a GPS or occasionally looking at it shouldn't cause significant problems. The only really dangerous distraction you listed would come from carrying on a two-way conversation with a passenger. In practice, any sensible passenger is likely to shut up when the driver starts losing control. But all that really needs to happen is for the driver to stop trying to participate in the conversation.
I like how you took the time to look for a potential source of bias via funding, but you didn't even take the time to understand the conclusions of the study. If I had to guess who had the preconceived notions and bias, I wouldn't pick the scientists.
The iPhone already took down a large Cisco powered network - and that was without 3rd party software. I'd expect AT&T's network to be less robust.
None of the drivers come from GNU. They are all in the non-GNU Linux kernel.
Microsoft once made a port of Windows to Xen (before the VT extensions, even). Parallels and VMWare are shipping products with tight integration for Windows guests. Retaining the backwards compatibility won't be hard, and if the new OS were worth shipping, it would have to be a lot more efficient than Vista.
.NET as a migration path. It would only take a single press release for Microsoft to make .NET into their own equivalent of Apple's Carbon - an api supported on both old and new platforms. Sure, it wouldn't be as smooth or as quick as things were with Carbon, and MS might lose a few people along the way to Mono, but it wouldn't be a herculean task.
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What are you doing with that computer? It sounds like you have a pretty large working set, or a really stupid swapping policy. What operating system are you using, and are you sure that the disk thrashing you hear isn't just background defragging or something like that?