There may be extremely exotic and advanced methods of cooling the planet down, but no matter how effectively a technique can cool the planet down it won't happen.
The response to "global warming" is strictly going to be in the form of energy taxes.
Real estate expense instead of product expense
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So basically instead of spending huge amounts of money on products, the machine tools of the future will make us spend huge amounts of money on space to use them. Maybe it isn't the machines but the availability of useful floor space which gives India/China such an advantage.
It costs $4 for 1 sq ft of useful floorspace in U.S. every month, with power, allowable noise levels, acceptable environmental impact, and proximity to a day job to pay for these machines.
You'd need at least $4000 of floor space every month to run the machine tools to produce anything useful. There's no way anyone can afford that unless they're a CEO.
Meanwhile kids in India are buying mansions by the age of 25 from their lucrative software testing jobs.
When having personal machine shops becomes necessary, it's going to make success a matter of who can afford the floor space. It definitely isn't going to be u.s..
You may think poverty is temporary, but it doesn't get any easier after college. Get used to rigging your own water cooled fans. Maybe Canadia has it easier. If you're one of the suckers who joins u.s. down here you'll be rigging a lot more on the long, hot road of survival.
Buying laptops in the Bermuda Trapezoid is a ripoff. These corporate front ends jack up the price for the priviledge of buying through them. At least in my case, it took 5 weeks to order a $2400 laptop from Taiwan, the American front end charged a rediculous markup to put their sticker on it, and it was obsolete by the time I got it.
Eventually this is going to go away and we'll be able to deal directly with Taiwan businesses, paying the fair market price.
10 years ago the democrats said, "No more nuclear power. Buy energy from overseas." and no-one wanted radiation within 10000 miles of themselves. Now the democrats say "Don't buy energy from overseas. Buy nuclear power." and no-one has a problem with radiation in their pocket.
So if I went to an Indian college I would probably see these floortop clusters in the same places SGI Onyx's used to occupy in the 90's. It's the first time since 1995 you could actually see a quantum leap occuring in the same environment as standard PC's.
Since they don't name the CPU, it's probably a 32 bit Chinese x86 chip. Combined with the gigabit ethernet, it's hardly enthralling. If they upgraded it to 96 Opterons and 10 gigabit ethernet with an NVidia Quadro FX card, it would be something.
So IBM had 5% of the PC market compared to others which had 16%, yet economists feel the PC business was a tiny part of IBM's income. How can 5% of the world PC market be a tiny part of anyone's income? It sounds more like the same thing which every other American company is doing.
They're getting out of perfectly profitable businesses because they're not interested in it.
Now they resell software contracts from Infosys and resell computers from Lenovo. Only 1% of the total value of that place is actually IBM.
So much for massively overhauling NASA after an accident to focus on lofty goals. Now they're back to taking unnecessary risks on projects which have extremely small value. Never mind it would cost less and be less risky to put a brand new telescope in orbit or that their ambivalence to disasters has grown as their disasters have increased in number.
Still generating 386 assembly?
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It seems aside from extremely rare cases, gcc still generates exclusively 386 assembly. The commercial compilers have long since migrated into MMX, MMX2, SSE, SSE2, 3DNow instructions. The new versions of Windows software are all compiled with modern instructions but GCC and all of Linux is still using old 386 instructions.
If the amount of energy being spent on redesigning the kernel architecture, redesigning the compiler architecture, and redesigning the command usages was spent supporting new instruction sets, it could probably catch up to MSVC from 2000.
It's sort of sad that instead of improving the computer's ability to perform a certain amount of work in a certain amount of time, all the energy in GCC has always gone towards the study of compiler design itself.
Study neither hardware or software engineering. The "engineering" companies only staff engineers because someone up the chain of command is forcing them to, but all of your future software managers are more interested in marketing and sales in the future and desperately want to get rid of engineering.
So the current darlings of slashdot, IBM, Apple, and Pixar, are on to doing the professional services thing and hiring celebrity programmers to win the contracts, just like VA I.O.U. and Redhat did.
In the last round VA I.O.U. and Redhat had developers who were also celebrities and hiring celebrity programmers was the way they got contracts.
Now all the celebrities are executives and programmers are fairly anonymous. There aren't many AOL programmers making headlines the way Rasterman and Mandrake used to. Today the headlines are always made by executives.
Are they really looking for a celebrity manager to come from AOL and saying the word developer to get on the blogs, or are they still thinking programmers are going to make headlines today just like they did in the 90's?
The common belief everywhere else in the world besides u.s. is the reason you try to make money on services instead of products is because you don't have enough capitol to invest in products.
Unlike a service, says the rest of the world, a product requires vast amounts of capitol to design and test. It takes capitol to build a factory to make a product. It takes capitol to build initial batches of the product for the initial sales.
Being a debtor economy, u.s. doesn't have the capitol needed to make products so it's invented a new type of economics where you don't need products as long as you can provide a service for a product that someone else invents far far away.
Most of u.s. thinks services are the way to go. bls.gov says differently. The trade deficit says more money is being spent on buying the products than is being made servicing them. The consumer price index has outstripped wage growth for 2 years, showing people value products from elsewhere more than they value their own services.
In the 4 years since u.s. started evangelizing the value of services over products, the data has never backed it up.
If you put money in a bank you have to face it. Your personal information is being stored in either Bangalore or Beijing and subject to the laws of those countries.
We all know it but we still act suprised whenever identity theft happens and it ends up unpunished because India and China don't have the same notion of private property that we have.
The #1 problem in all of human history has been putting roofs over people's heads. Unfortunately the problem hasn't been the cost of labor but the cost of building materials. If a robot built a wall 3000 ft long and 10 ft high, it would take under $30,000 for the robot and $5,000,000 for the concrete.
The problem isn't making a robot to build structures but making a robot to generate the building materials for less money than it's taken for all human history.
Because of the number of obstructions, no sonic or propogation delay mechanism would work. No stationary cameras would work. Electromagnetic mechanisms would only be accurate to feet. You could put barcodes in random locations and get a camera on the vehicle to automatically detect the barcodes.
So the latest crop of CS graduates is now worshipping Google, Apple, and Pixar the same way the previous group worshipped VA Research, Redhat, and Cobalt.
Given all the things these current hot companies do right and the previous hot companies did right, is anything about the current batch of hot companies a net improvement over the previous batch of hot companies or is this a different patch of the same ground being retreadded?
Salaries are a fraction of what they were in 2000 but maybe software development processes have improved. Pensions and health benefits are gone but now the company intranet is transparent. Dot com parties are gone but there's 20% time for personal projects. Is this round of companies really better than the last iteration?
They've been on KPIX news many times so I'm well familiar with the facilities.
First of all, in the movie business you're only as good as your last movie. It's real percarious in places like that, not good when owing $1000 on rent every month.
Secondly, doesn't your gut tell you there's way too much open space in that place? If having so much unused space on the most expensive land in the entire world seems a bit inefficient, imagine how inefficient their other practices are.
The reason u.s. can stay afloat despite having the world's largest trade deficit and the world's largest federal deficit is that every single u.s. dollar is spent in the most efficient way possible. Pixar just doesn't seem even remotely efficient enough to be viable.
If you give away your source code and promote the open source aspect of it, you need to live with the fact that you're not going to be in charge of it. The only way to own it is to release only binaries and write all the supporting libraries from scratch so you're not restricted by the GPL.
Not sure about the lack of strength part, but that heroine expects results. Good luck buying the gas for her 5000000 SUV's. Too bad there are no images of the actual arm wrestling competition.
Non technical managers in technical companies is the way it's done in Us. It's so unique to Us, there's even a term "entrepreneurial management" to describe us. To determine if it's successful, compare countries which use technical managers to countries which use non technical managers.
India is the world's largest IT producer. China is the world's largest semiconductor producer. Japan is the world's largest consumer electronics producer. Us has the highest engineer unemployment in the world, highest trade deficits in the world, and the lowest quality of life in the world.
India is currently the world's knowledge superpower mainly because they have a value system which emphasizes knowledge. Other countries emphasize style, image, and symbolism to achieve technological superiority. India emphasizes knowledge to achieve technological superiority.
Her time as CEO was the least productive time for the company since it was invented. In that single time they shifted from creating new wealth to reselling the same thing everyone else was. Nevertheless she was there longer than most CEO's.
My personal observations are that MXF is primarily used as a container for DV, the Jpeg 2000 codecs are too slow to do much good, and MXF is hardly in use anywhere except trade shows.
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There may be extremely exotic and advanced methods of cooling the planet down, but no matter how effectively a technique can cool the planet down it won't happen.
The response to "global warming" is strictly going to be in the form of energy taxes.
So basically instead of spending huge amounts of money on products, the machine tools of the future will make us spend huge amounts of money on space to use them. Maybe it isn't the machines but the availability of useful floor space which gives India/China such an advantage.
It costs $4 for 1 sq ft of useful floorspace in U.S. every month, with power, allowable noise levels, acceptable environmental impact, and proximity to a day job to pay for these machines.
You'd need at least $4000 of floor space every month to run the machine tools to produce anything useful. There's no way anyone can afford that unless they're a CEO.
Meanwhile kids in India are buying mansions by the age of 25 from their lucrative software testing jobs.
When having personal machine shops becomes necessary, it's going to make success a matter of who can afford the floor space. It definitely isn't going to be u.s..
You may think poverty is temporary, but it doesn't get any easier after college. Get used to rigging your own water cooled fans. Maybe Canadia has it easier. If you're one of the suckers who joins u.s. down here you'll be rigging a lot more on the long, hot road of survival.
Buying laptops in the Bermuda Trapezoid is a ripoff. These corporate front ends jack up the price for the priviledge of buying through them. At least in my case, it took 5 weeks to order a $2400 laptop from Taiwan, the American front end charged a rediculous markup to put their sticker on it, and it was obsolete by the time I got it.
Eventually this is going to go away and we'll be able to deal directly with Taiwan businesses, paying the fair market price.
10 years ago the democrats said, "No more nuclear power. Buy energy from overseas." and no-one wanted radiation within 10000 miles of themselves. Now the democrats say "Don't buy energy from overseas. Buy nuclear power." and no-one has a problem with radiation in their pocket.
So if I went to an Indian college I would probably see these floortop clusters in the same places SGI Onyx's used to occupy in the 90's. It's the first time since 1995 you could actually see a quantum leap occuring in the same environment as standard PC's.
Since they don't name the CPU, it's probably a 32 bit Chinese x86 chip. Combined with the gigabit ethernet, it's hardly enthralling. If they upgraded it to 96 Opterons and 10 gigabit ethernet with an NVidia Quadro FX card, it would be something.
So IBM had 5% of the PC market compared to others which had 16%, yet economists feel the PC business was a tiny part of IBM's income. How can 5% of the world PC market be a tiny part of anyone's income? It sounds more like the same thing which every other American company is doing.
They're getting out of perfectly profitable businesses because they're not interested in it.
Now they resell software contracts from Infosys and resell computers from Lenovo. Only 1% of the total value of that place is actually IBM.
So much for massively overhauling NASA after an accident to focus on lofty goals. Now they're back to taking unnecessary risks on projects which have extremely small value. Never mind it would cost less and be less risky to put a brand new telescope in orbit or that their ambivalence to disasters has grown as their disasters have increased in number.
It seems aside from extremely rare cases, gcc still generates exclusively 386 assembly. The commercial compilers have long since migrated into MMX, MMX2, SSE, SSE2, 3DNow instructions. The new versions of Windows software are all compiled with modern instructions but GCC and all of Linux is still using old 386 instructions.
If the amount of energy being spent on redesigning the kernel architecture, redesigning the compiler architecture, and redesigning the command usages was spent supporting new instruction sets, it could probably catch up to MSVC from 2000.
It's sort of sad that instead of improving the computer's ability to perform a certain amount of work in a certain amount of time, all the energy in GCC has always gone towards the study of compiler design itself.
Study neither hardware or software engineering. The "engineering" companies only staff engineers because someone up the chain of command is forcing them to, but all of your future software managers are more interested in marketing and sales in the future and desperately want to get rid of engineering.
So the current darlings of slashdot, IBM, Apple, and Pixar, are on to doing the professional services thing and hiring celebrity programmers to win the contracts, just like VA I.O.U. and Redhat did.
In the last round VA I.O.U. and Redhat had developers who were also celebrities and hiring celebrity programmers was the way they got contracts.
Now all the celebrities are executives and programmers are fairly anonymous. There aren't many AOL programmers making headlines the way Rasterman and Mandrake used to. Today the headlines are always made by executives.
Are they really looking for a celebrity manager to come from AOL and saying the word developer to get on the blogs, or are they still thinking programmers are going to make headlines today just like they did in the 90's?
The common belief everywhere else in the world besides u.s. is the reason you try to make money on services instead of products is because you don't have enough capitol to invest in products.
Unlike a service, says the rest of the world, a product requires vast amounts of capitol to design and test. It takes capitol to build a factory to make a product. It takes capitol to build initial batches of the product for the initial sales.
Being a debtor economy, u.s. doesn't have the capitol needed to make products so it's invented a new type of economics where you don't need products as long as you can provide a service for a product that someone else invents far far away.
Most of u.s. thinks services are the way to go. bls.gov says differently. The trade deficit says more money is being spent on buying the products than is being made servicing them. The consumer price index has outstripped wage growth for 2 years, showing people value products from elsewhere more than they value their own services.
In the 4 years since u.s. started evangelizing the value of services over products, the data has never backed it up.
If you put money in a bank you have to face it. Your personal information is being stored in either Bangalore or Beijing and subject to the laws of those countries.
We all know it but we still act suprised whenever identity theft happens and it ends up unpunished because India and China don't have the same notion of private property that we have.
The #1 problem in all of human history has been putting roofs over people's heads. Unfortunately the problem hasn't been the cost of labor but the cost of building materials. If a robot built a wall 3000 ft long and 10 ft high, it would take under $30,000 for the robot and $5,000,000 for the concrete.
The problem isn't making a robot to build structures but making a robot to generate the building materials for less money than it's taken for all human history.
Because of the number of obstructions, no sonic or propogation delay mechanism would work. No stationary cameras would work. Electromagnetic mechanisms would only be accurate to feet. You could put barcodes in random locations and get a camera on the vehicle to automatically detect the barcodes.
So the latest crop of CS graduates is now worshipping Google, Apple, and Pixar the same way the previous group worshipped VA Research, Redhat, and Cobalt.
Given all the things these current hot companies do right and the previous hot companies did right, is anything about the current batch of hot companies a net improvement over the previous batch of hot companies or is this a different patch of the same ground being retreadded?
Salaries are a fraction of what they were in 2000 but maybe software development processes have improved. Pensions and health benefits are gone but now the company intranet is transparent. Dot com parties are gone but there's 20% time for personal projects. Is this round of companies really better than the last iteration?
They've been on KPIX news many times so I'm well familiar with the facilities.
First of all, in the movie business you're only as good as your last movie. It's real percarious in places like that, not good when owing $1000 on rent every month.
Secondly, doesn't your gut tell you there's way too much open space in that place? If having so much unused space on the most expensive land in the entire world seems a bit inefficient, imagine how inefficient their other practices are.
The reason u.s. can stay afloat despite having the world's largest trade deficit and the world's largest federal deficit is that every single u.s. dollar is spent in the most efficient way possible. Pixar just doesn't seem even remotely efficient enough to be viable.
If you give away your source code and promote the open source aspect of it, you need to live with the fact that you're not going to be in charge of it. The only way to own it is to release only binaries and write all the supporting libraries from scratch so you're not restricted by the GPL.
Not sure about the lack of strength part, but that heroine expects results. Good luck buying the gas for her 5000000 SUV's. Too bad there are no images of the actual arm wrestling competition.
Sounds like a foreign concept to u.s..
Non technical managers in technical companies is the way it's done in Us. It's so unique to Us, there's even a term "entrepreneurial management" to describe us. To determine if it's successful, compare countries which use technical managers to countries which use non technical managers.
India is the world's largest IT producer. China is the world's largest semiconductor producer. Japan is the world's largest consumer electronics producer. Us has the highest engineer unemployment in the world, highest trade deficits in the world, and the lowest quality of life in the world.
Asians value technology and knowledge. Others value symbolism and image. It's as simple as that.
India is currently the world's knowledge superpower mainly because they have a value system which emphasizes knowledge. Other countries emphasize style, image, and symbolism to achieve technological superiority. India emphasizes knowledge to achieve technological superiority.
Her time as CEO was the least productive time for the company since it was invented. In that single time they shifted from creating new wealth to reselling the same thing everyone else was. Nevertheless she was there longer than most CEO's.
My personal observations are that MXF is primarily used as a container for DV, the Jpeg 2000 codecs are too slow to do much good, and MXF is hardly in use anywhere except trade shows.