Uh please cite your sources. Everything I've read about NHS indicates the rationing (which is on going) causes far more problems than an insurance company that doesn't want to insure someone for basically nothing at all.
You make some great points here about process size, however one thing to remember is the Atom line processors are already 64 bit with very good performance to power draw ratios. Paired along side of Intel's graphics offers this allows for extremely low power / reasonably good performance devices to be produced in house.
I tend to agree with the others here who suggest this is a solution looking for a problem, that said, I'm always excited to see innovations which push Intel's glass prices down:)
Does this mean the mobile chips will see an improvement as well? It sure would be nice to watch HD video without huge amounts of page tearing.
It's gotten better of the years, but it's still a rather large and annoying issue with these chips. Though it could be worse, I could be stuck with an AMD (ati) chipset.
So what's 'normal'? It seems the political GW fanatics are all over this as a big "see I told you so" kind of event.
I'm not suggesting GW does or doesn't exist, just that looking at a tiny slice of time and then sensationalizing an event which happens (time scale wise) some what regularly just pollutes the 'issue' even more and leads to bad assumptions being made (on both sides of the issue).
Actually it sort of does. Theres so much legacy garbage in the current X protocol that just wastes resources and makes it nearly impossible to maintain.
As I don't actively maintain X I have no stake in this, but if it helps to motivate new generations of developers to dive into thats great.
I can also note that I think the model Wayland is employing seems more sane, given what we've learned over the years of model and X driver development (DRI anyone?).
Sorry but in the world I live in you cannot create 'new jobs' until you've replaced the ones you've lost already. This logic is based on the fact that our popular continues to grow, and new workers continue to require jobs.
Sorry but this statement is completely wrong. HPC (Super computers) are a moving target and the term represents the top 500 (or less) machines world wide.
This statement is also wrong in respect to I/O limitations as bottle necks have nothing to do with whether or not a system is considered a "Super computer".
Sorry but doesn't even crack the top 10,000's in machine performance, not exactly a super computer.
A cluster yes. Super computer, HPC machine, etc. no.
Agreed, though any manufacture would be fine here so long as it supports OFED. Ethernet and worse, TCP/IP over Ethernet is technology of the past. Yes it works, but the overhead is HUGE and the performance isn't.
So out of 20 million people out of work we have ~150K (which from the article notes is ~2% total) ?
When we're talking about a nation of 310 million people, though 150K is a lot but not "all over the place" as was asserted earlier.
Also, in general higher income earners tend to send their kids to private school to avoid the generally overall poor performance of public schools (yes there are some good ones, but they are RARE).
And I'm honestly not surprised your teacher friends are having a hard time finding a job. Pretty much everyone that's not in the IT field is having a hard time finding a job.
At the risk of being modded under a bridge I'll comment here..
> In a time of massive layoffs of teachers and restricted education budgets, how the hell are you going to pay for this?
Huh? Where is this happening? Maybe private sector teachers, but deficiently not public sector ones.
> The current system is shit, but it is paid for. In every debate on education, people talk about results, results, results and how we need to improve them. But the only thing the legislators and taxpayers care about is the cost. If you don't have a revolutionary idea on how to pay for your program then don't even bother with it, or it will end up in the junk-pile labeled "one million and one education reform ideas".
We can't talk about the single major factor in the deteriorating education system in this country. Teachers Unions. How was it we successfully educated generations of students prior to the unions and now we consistently produce students which can barely read, write, and spell.
My own experience in the California public school system was HORRIFIC. Some of the newer teachers were good, however they lacked funding to really do anything, that said, the rest of them where HORRIBLE and should have been fired long ago.
With the current system in place, the unions will not allow for a longer school year, and no amount of additional funding you dump into the smoking hole known as public education will fix this. More money in, more money to get redirected into union dues and pensions.
But on a bright side, failure at this level is impressive, and doing it so uniformly is also a major accomplishment.
Reading the Ad offer, and actual ToS from the time this will probably be an uphill battle, consult your local lawyer but likely they'll point out the many ways they can wiggle out of this deal.
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Uh please cite your sources. Everything I've read about NHS indicates the rationing (which is on going) causes far more problems than an insurance company that doesn't want to insure someone for basically nothing at all.
You make some great points here about process size, however one thing to remember is the Atom line processors are already 64 bit with very good performance to power draw ratios. Paired along side of Intel's graphics offers this allows for extremely low power / reasonably good performance devices to be produced in house.
I tend to agree with the others here who suggest this is a solution looking for a problem, that said, I'm always excited to see innovations which push Intel's glass prices down :)
+1 for Velcro cable ties. They can be picked up at your local big box store for next to nothing and do a great job wrapping bundles of cables.
I've even seen these used in very large (peta scale) compute installations for the same task.
Does this mean the mobile chips will see an improvement as well? It sure would be nice to watch HD video without huge amounts of page tearing.
It's gotten better of the years, but it's still a rather large and annoying issue with these chips. Though it could be worse, I could be stuck with an AMD (ati) chipset.
Right,
So what's 'normal'? It seems the political GW fanatics are all over this as a big "see I told you so" kind of event.
I'm not suggesting GW does or doesn't exist, just that looking at a tiny slice of time and then sensationalizing an event which happens (time scale wise) some what regularly just pollutes the 'issue' even more and leads to bad assumptions being made (on both sides of the issue).
I figured they just went out of business. I guess it's this hurricane thing this time..
Am looking forward to warmer weather and ocean front property here in Colorado :)
Actually it sort of does. Theres so much legacy garbage in the current X protocol that just wastes resources and makes it nearly impossible to maintain.
As I don't actively maintain X I have no stake in this, but if it helps to motivate new generations of developers to dive into thats great.
I can also note that I think the model Wayland is employing seems more sane, given what we've learned over the years of model and X driver development (DRI anyone?).
I like /etc/hosts, I find it useful. :-)
Because it's hard =)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscated_Perl_Contest
Right, because 150K people entering the work force monthly is easily handled by 110k - 140k new jobs?
You're demagoguing this issue though. The fact is your job creation graph doesn't give the whole story.
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000/
Sorry but in the world I live in you cannot create 'new jobs' until you've replaced the ones you've lost already. This logic is based on the fact that our popular continues to grow, and new workers continue to require jobs.
Nice graph, except it fails to show the reduction in over 3+ million jobs in the last ~4 years.
So you can buy an expensive, rare piece of kit to build a some what crappy laptop with?
Other than an exercise in rPi development this seems like a solution looking for a problem.
I own a Moto Razr phone (for which this dumb idea was intended) and opted to buy a very cheap ($50 off CL) eee pc for my tinkering...
How long until Apple `innovates' this feature? :)
Sorry but this statement is completely wrong. HPC (Super computers) are a moving target and the term represents the top 500 (or less) machines world wide.
This statement is also wrong in respect to I/O limitations as bottle necks have nothing to do with whether or not a system is considered a "Super computer".
Sorry but doesn't even crack the top 10,000's in machine performance, not exactly a super computer. A cluster yes. Super computer, HPC machine, etc. no.
Agreed, though any manufacture would be fine here so long as it supports OFED. Ethernet and worse, TCP/IP over Ethernet is technology of the past. Yes it works, but the overhead is HUGE and the performance isn't.
Thanks for the figures!
So out of 20 million people out of work we have ~150K (which from the article notes is ~2% total) ?
When we're talking about a nation of 310 million people, though 150K is a lot but not "all over the place" as was asserted earlier.
Also, in general higher income earners tend to send their kids to private school to avoid the generally overall poor performance of public schools (yes there are some good ones, but they are RARE).
And I'm honestly not surprised your teacher friends are having a hard time finding a job. Pretty much everyone that's not in the IT field is having a hard time finding a job.
s/deficiently/definitely/g UGH! Stupid spell checker.
At the risk of being modded under a bridge I'll comment here..
> In a time of massive layoffs of teachers and restricted education budgets, how the hell are you going to pay for this?
Huh? Where is this happening? Maybe private sector teachers, but deficiently not public sector ones.
> The current system is shit, but it is paid for. In every debate on education, people talk about results, results, results and how we need to improve them. But the only thing the legislators and taxpayers care about is the cost. If you don't have a revolutionary idea on how to pay for your program then don't even bother with it, or it will end up in the junk-pile labeled "one million and one education reform ideas".
We can't talk about the single major factor in the deteriorating education system in this country. Teachers Unions. How was it we successfully educated generations of students prior to the unions and now we consistently produce students which can barely read, write, and spell.
My own experience in the California public school system was HORRIFIC. Some of the newer teachers were good, however they lacked funding to really do anything, that said, the rest of them where HORRIBLE and should have been fired long ago.
With the current system in place, the unions will not allow for a longer school year, and no amount of additional funding you dump into the smoking hole known as public education will fix this. More money in, more money to get redirected into union dues and pensions.
But on a bright side, failure at this level is impressive, and doing it so uniformly is also a major accomplishment.
Surveys suggest most surveys are wrong :)
Spam continues to be an annoyance to anyone without an active probabilistic filter.
dCache is probably what you want.
Reading the Ad offer, and actual ToS from the time this will probably be an uphill battle, consult your local lawyer but likely they'll point out the many ways they can wiggle out of this deal.
You read my mind. Plus the 'powder' and chemical bonding agent will surely not be allowed right now.