All very tough questions. Alas, I don't know the answers but they will have to be addressed sooner or later.
It was all a lot simpler (and sometimes wrong) back when an athlete's gender was taken at face value and prosthetics weren't nearly good enough to compete with able bodied athletes, but times change.
You're pretty clueless. Intel would beg to differ. No one that matters compiles high performance code on GCC, they use the Intel compiler.
And wonder why their code is so slow on an AMD system...
Not the only time Intel has been caught red handed playing games with the compiler. It produces fast code (usually), but you need a reference compiler around to validate your code.
There have been no other credible compilers for Linux throughout the majority of its existence
You're pretty clueless. Intel would beg to differ.
So you're saying Linus should have used the Intel C compiler for Linux to develop Linux? You should probably know, Linus isn't a Timelord. He needed something he could first cross compile with, then port and GCC fit the bill. Icc didn't exist and couldn't have been used anyway. Be careful when calling others clueless.
GCC absolutely is a solid production compiler. The bug in TFA is a serious one, but it hasn't had a lot of those. I would say GCC changed the landscape for compilers.
Compiler bugs are the worst. No matter how carefully you analyse the program you wrote, you can't see the bug, yet the crashes keep happening.When the code being run isn't the code that was written, all bets are off.
They move for the imagined savings. The shiny is what keeps them from examining the 'savings' as closely as they should. It frequently turns out to be much smaller once you see past the dazzle.
It has it's place, it's just not all it's cracked up to be.
The leg has a lot of spring due to the tendon and muscle attached at the ankle. With the ankle extended, it does a very good job of storing and releasing energy. That's one reason the runners who don't normally wear shoes do better, they don't get in the habit of heel striking.
In the prosthetic, the spring is trying to compensate both for the spring action of the tendon and muscle AND the contraction of the calf on takeoff. He doesn't get that last instant energy boost, he has to 'save up' for it in his stride up to the line.
Or their management is from the cult of MBA and fears actually owning anything, or they just saw an ad for the cloud and got sparkly eyes and said "ooooooooh, shiny!".
Meanwhile, a good admin will normally be just a bit bored because everything is running smoothly. It doesn't hurt if they have a zero priority thing to fiddle with as long as they continue working on the real mission.
The human leg provides a spring effect as well. He is missing all of the springiness of his achilles tendon. He is also missing all of the contribution of his calf muscles to the jump. It really is quite hard to calculate with any precision if his prosthetic is giving him an advantage or if it is simply replacing some of what he has lost.
Down at the bottom line though is that privitization can never be as cheap as optimal government services. Function X costs at least Y to perform. Even under ideal conditions, a private contractor can at best deliver it for Y+a profit. Supporters of privitization believe that the private corporation will be so much more efficient that that higher amount will still be less than it costs to do internally.
Of course, once you add all the overhead of dealing with the many checks and balances and all the metrics and paperwork to make sure the private contractor isn't cheating, you inevitably drive those nimble and efficient private contractors away leaving NG and their ilk to win the contracts. Every last bit of that bureaucratic bloat plus a hefty profit will be added to the bill. That includes the small army of lawyers on retainer to make sure that if anything goes wrong, it will somehow be the government's fault so they can tack the overruns on to the bill. Eventually, that procedure becomes easier and more profitable than keeping costs down. That happens with or without a legislated contract.
There is a balance to be struck. For example, while it is probably cheaper for the government to buy the toilet paper itself, it is probably not a good idea for it to actually manufacture the paper.
That's the second level. Your barely hidden assumption is that the contractor is easier to fire than an individual employee (so why hasn't anyone been fired for the F35?) and actually will be fired by the guys who look bad if they have to fire the contractor they hired.
At least the government employee can be made the permanent latrine officer until he quits.
So you claim that the guys that import and sell the illegal drugs (CIA, proven) to fund illegal wars and the guys that use spy tech and then lie about it in court (DEA, parallel construction, proven) are good guys? I don't think so.
It's a regular template among the privatization crowd. Government only had to accomplish X but screwed up here, here, and here. Privatize and that won't happen. Barely hidden assumptions include: private operations never screw up, private operations never cheat.
Verizon is paid for carrying the data, by it's customers. Nobody will pay them anything is they only connect their own customers together (see how that worked out for Prodigy).
Unless you know of some reason why bytes from Netflix cost more to carry than bytes from (for example) Hulu, then the rest of the world is pretty much in agreement, they shouldn't charge more.
Rural and many suburban people would be OK as long as they boil the water somehow, but what about people in NYC? Surely you don't think they can drink from the Hudson?!?
In other words, it's fucked up market math. The same screwy math that claims adding $0.05 cost to a bill of materials will magically increase the retail price by $5.
0.7% profit may or may not be worthwhile, but it is not a loss. They can run forever on that.
There is no such law. They are only required to make a best effort at a profitable company. Since nothing dictates the timeframe, they are free to play a long game so long as they can credibly claim that they genuinely BELIEVE that their actions will lead to long term profits.
Investors that were looking for a fast turnaround are free to look elsewhere. Investors that don't believe their plan will succeed are likewise welcome to move on.
The problem is, we as a civilization are no longer set up to live without those things. Before air conditioning, windows in office buildings could be opened and there were fans everywhere. The fans are gone and the windows don't open now. People live in apartments way too far up to be practical if you have to take the stairs. Nearly nobody has a well and bucket anymore, so yes, we depend on water pumps. In theory, we could, given time, adapt to do without (+/- having centers of population too dense for that) but 24 hours really isn't enough notice.
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Actually, I was just expanding on the list of possible reasons.
All very tough questions. Alas, I don't know the answers but they will have to be addressed sooner or later.
It was all a lot simpler (and sometimes wrong) back when an athlete's gender was taken at face value and prosthetics weren't nearly good enough to compete with able bodied athletes, but times change.
Sure, nobody is perfect. It is a serious bug, but it looks like it is being addressed and all will be well.
Yes. He was going to say shit but got distracted when a penguin bit him.
You're pretty clueless. Intel would beg to differ. No one that matters compiles high performance code on GCC, they use the Intel compiler.
And wonder why their code is so slow on an AMD system...
Not the only time Intel has been caught red handed playing games with the compiler. It produces fast code (usually), but you need a reference compiler around to validate your code.
There have been no other credible compilers for Linux throughout the majority of its existence
You're pretty clueless. Intel would beg to differ.
So you're saying Linus should have used the Intel C compiler for Linux to develop Linux? You should probably know, Linus isn't a Timelord. He needed something he could first cross compile with, then port and GCC fit the bill. Icc didn't exist and couldn't have been used anyway. Be careful when calling others clueless.
GCC absolutely is a solid production compiler. The bug in TFA is a serious one, but it hasn't had a lot of those. I would say GCC changed the landscape for compilers.
Compiler bugs are the worst. No matter how carefully you analyse the program you wrote, you can't see the bug, yet the crashes keep happening.When the code being run isn't the code that was written, all bets are off.
They move for the imagined savings. The shiny is what keeps them from examining the 'savings' as closely as they should. It frequently turns out to be much smaller once you see past the dazzle.
It has it's place, it's just not all it's cracked up to be.
The leg has a lot of spring due to the tendon and muscle attached at the ankle. With the ankle extended, it does a very good job of storing and releasing energy. That's one reason the runners who don't normally wear shoes do better, they don't get in the habit of heel striking.
In the prosthetic, the spring is trying to compensate both for the spring action of the tendon and muscle AND the contraction of the calf on takeoff. He doesn't get that last instant energy boost, he has to 'save up' for it in his stride up to the line.
Actually, no. Some beowulf clusters such as the Stone Souper are built that way. Most are built from brand new top of the line hardware.
Or their management is from the cult of MBA and fears actually owning anything, or they just saw an ad for the cloud and got sparkly eyes and said "ooooooooh, shiny!".
Meanwhile, a good admin will normally be just a bit bored because everything is running smoothly. It doesn't hurt if they have a zero priority thing to fiddle with as long as they continue working on the real mission.
The human leg provides a spring effect as well. He is missing all of the springiness of his achilles tendon. He is also missing all of the contribution of his calf muscles to the jump. It really is quite hard to calculate with any precision if his prosthetic is giving him an advantage or if it is simply replacing some of what he has lost.
Down at the bottom line though is that privitization can never be as cheap as optimal government services. Function X costs at least Y to perform. Even under ideal conditions, a private contractor can at best deliver it for Y+a profit. Supporters of privitization believe that the private corporation will be so much more efficient that that higher amount will still be less than it costs to do internally.
Of course, once you add all the overhead of dealing with the many checks and balances and all the metrics and paperwork to make sure the private contractor isn't cheating, you inevitably drive those nimble and efficient private contractors away leaving NG and their ilk to win the contracts. Every last bit of that bureaucratic bloat plus a hefty profit will be added to the bill. That includes the small army of lawyers on retainer to make sure that if anything goes wrong, it will somehow be the government's fault so they can tack the overruns on to the bill. Eventually, that procedure becomes easier and more profitable than keeping costs down. That happens with or without a legislated contract.
There is a balance to be struck. For example, while it is probably cheaper for the government to buy the toilet paper itself, it is probably not a good idea for it to actually manufacture the paper.
That's the second level. Your barely hidden assumption is that the contractor is easier to fire than an individual employee (so why hasn't anyone been fired for the F35?) and actually will be fired by the guys who look bad if they have to fire the contractor they hired.
At least the government employee can be made the permanent latrine officer until he quits.
So you claim that the guys that import and sell the illegal drugs (CIA, proven) to fund illegal wars and the guys that use spy tech and then lie about it in court (DEA, parallel construction, proven) are good guys? I don't think so.
Can you call it truly wrong when the 'old timers' in the trade do the same?
The front side bus duck comes in handy when the driver gets hurt and misses work.
It's a regular template among the privatization crowd. Government only had to accomplish X but screwed up here, here, and here. Privatize and that won't happen. Barely hidden assumptions include: private operations never screw up, private operations never cheat.
Especially while ISPs have no-server policies and provide connections that aren't suitable to servers.
Verizon is paid for carrying the data, by it's customers. Nobody will pay them anything is they only connect their own customers together (see how that worked out for Prodigy).
Unless you know of some reason why bytes from Netflix cost more to carry than bytes from (for example) Hulu, then the rest of the world is pretty much in agreement, they shouldn't charge more.
You're confusing transit where balance is a reasonable requirement and delivery where it is not at all reasonable.
Except Verizon accidentally admitted that it's not Netflix doing the damage.
Now we're getting somewhere.
Rural and many suburban people would be OK as long as they boil the water somehow, but what about people in NYC? Surely you don't think they can drink from the Hudson?!?
In other words, it's fucked up market math. The same screwy math that claims adding $0.05 cost to a bill of materials will magically increase the retail price by $5.
0.7% profit may or may not be worthwhile, but it is not a loss. They can run forever on that.
There is no such law. They are only required to make a best effort at a profitable company. Since nothing dictates the timeframe, they are free to play a long game so long as they can credibly claim that they genuinely BELIEVE that their actions will lead to long term profits.
Investors that were looking for a fast turnaround are free to look elsewhere. Investors that don't believe their plan will succeed are likewise welcome to move on.
The problem is, we as a civilization are no longer set up to live without those things. Before air conditioning, windows in office buildings could be opened and there were fans everywhere. The fans are gone and the windows don't open now. People live in apartments way too far up to be practical if you have to take the stairs. Nearly nobody has a well and bucket anymore, so yes, we depend on water pumps. In theory, we could, given time, adapt to do without (+/- having centers of population too dense for that) but 24 hours really isn't enough notice.