No, just many pretend to be. Those that do don't even know how storage works.
oh bullshit.
The frequency of access of a sector on the disk is not a proxy measure of my wait time. Its a proxy measure of the OS wait time.
I wake up..
I walk over to the compute..
I turn it on..
I then go make coffee and maybe even take a shower.
So far, I have waited for nothing. Nothing the computer has done so far has been at all representative of my wait time. Yet all of these hybrid cache solutions have been factoring in all those reads (and writes) in its cache strategy.
The ultimate problem is that there are rapid diminishing returns on cache size at any level you care to consider, and that this sort of hybrid drive with 8GB of flash isn't orders of magnitude larger than the OS's ram cache right below it. Its not the sort of size change that can offer large benefits through the use of oblivious caching algorithms. If I want 8GB to give me large benefits that address my wait times, I've got to do it myself by making sure that only things I actually wait for are cached.
It may not be externally RISC, but that in no way means that it is inferior.
x86 wins in code density (which does translate to performance at the highest clock rates) precisely because of the CISC instructions.
When the kings of RISC began falling behind, their bottleneck was the instruction fetch throughput, which essentially boils down to how much useful work per byte can be encoded into the instruction stream. Sure, some of the instructions are 8 bytes, but lots of them are only 1 byte, and many of the longer ones do 2 to 3 times more work (such as the infamously powerful address generation instruction LEA, and any read/modify/write instructions) than any RISC instruction.
So, Google can scan through emails anonymously and target ads based on that.
This continuing anonymous claim is horseshit. If it was anonymous then they wouldnt be able to target ads at you specifically based on the data they collected about you specifically. There is absolutely nothing about the process that is anonymous. They have the data and they know who to associate it with in order to deliver the targeted advertisements.
Still further, a lot of Googles advertising isnt the google-served adsense. Suppose I want to deliver advertisements to pregnant teens. Google offers that service. Guess what I learn when my banner is pulled off my server due to googles targeted advertising services? I learn the IP address of a likely pregnant teen, which can then be cross-referenced and correlated with everything else I have stored about that IP address. This isnt anonymous either, is it?
Now more and more Google properties are requiring real names. Google+ requires a real name and if you have ever given Google+ your real name then now Google has a real name to include with all of its "anonymous" data about you specifically. That doesnt sound very fucking anonymous either.
tl;dr - Stop claiming that stuff that is the opposite of anonymous is actually anonymous. It actually isn't.
He is claiming without any evidence that Microsoft scans emails in order to target ads in spite of the fact that they deny it.
In this case, the mere claim has gotten modded +5 insightful. Evidence-based critical thinking has gone the way of the dodo and has been replaced by skeptical and cynical thinking.
He is also pretending that he has a choice about gmail.
I dont have a gmail account, but I receive lots of emails of gmail accounts. Even if I were to block these emails, google would still be reading them before they were sent in my direction.
I said what I meant. Do you always assume that people don't say what they mean? In fact, you seem to have gone to lengths to show that what I did not say was wrong and that what I did actually say was right, but then I have to wonder why you mentioned it at all.
Was this some sort of laughable attempt to appear knowledgeable prior to changing the subject?
480P youtube H.264 uses about 100KB/second. This is more than enough quality for baseline educational resources..... its been good enough for PBS for 40+ years.
So, no, not everybody has access to basic broadband service if they want it, 1.5mbps was barely acceptable 10 years ago.
Thats almost twice the bandwidth needed for 480p youtube as tested just moments ago using the free educational video made by sixtysymbols on transistors (link to video)
Note that the MAXIMUM quality of these videos is 480p, and the final raw badwidth count (includes packet overhead and so on) was 98.1KB/sec which is about 785kbps.
It seems to me and I think I have shown it to be true that people are actually crying about the availability of highest quality media, and not so much access. That these two distinct things get equated is the consequence of people so easily stooping into the realm of intellectual dishonesty in the name of wants instead of needs.
That guy writing excel macros isn't a professional programmer. He's a professional bean counter or mid-level manager. Somewhere along the way he picked up some simple VBA skills that were needed to get the job done.
Thats it. Thats all there really is to it. Converting the code to C/C++/Python/whatever isnt going to help, because he simply does not know those languages and neither will the guy that replaces him.
Nobody was questioning the merit of the government spending that has, per household, ballooned to over the median household income.
Wake up. Federal, State, and Local governments spend over $50,000 combined on your households behalf, per year. That figure is rounded DOWN significantly, by the way (too lazy to calculate it for another ignorant internet twat that hasn't a fucking clue as to the scope of the problem even though he has been told so many fucking times.)
This whole "but some of it is good" shit is just being used as an excuse to pander to particular constituents (of both parties.) You know what happens if government science funding stops completely? Life goes on exactly at the quality that you currently have it, unless of course you are one of the people receiving that money. You can worry about the state of future scientific knowledge all you want, but the reality is that the out of control government spending will hurt your future self far more than a lack of research grants today.
Spending is so far out of control that its simply fucking amazing that you don't see the problem. Perhaps this is due to you being one of the people that enjoys being spoon fed knowledge by the media.
You know who didn't tell you that government spending per household is over the median household income? The media didn't. I did. You know who I am? I'm just a fucking guy that looked at the freely available open to the public OECD numbers that have been there for years and years, while you are thr guy that didn't, and the media are the people that wont inform you.
What people want it to load an OS on to their computer with minimal fuss, which means having the signed bootloader, signed by Microsoft.
..and the reason that this is the case is because the user purchased a windows certified computer. If the user didn't want to run windows, then why did the user buy a windows certified computer at all?
The entire complaint is silly because of this very fact. The user purchased a windows certified computer with secure boot so amazingly its easy to install windows. This isn't some shocking revelation here.
You can choose what to buy and what not to buy. Your continued complaints just prove to rational people that you do not want to take responsibility for your purchasing decisions. Do you also throw a silly looking hissy fit when its hard to figure out the correct driver for a wireless card that Linux doesnt recognize?
It was the case that people could imagine a real use for more bandwidth than was available. Video streaming wasn't an innovation. The innovations were in making more bandwidth affordable so that the demand for high quality video streaming could be satisfied.
Where is your imagination now? Exactly what content do you imagine is going to require 100MB/second?
Don't say holographic movies. Seriously. Don't.
There is demand for more bandwidth, but unlike the case with video its not a typical demand. Its a niche demand.
Are you high?? Google doesn't pay M$ any licensing fee because it doesn't actually violate any of its bogus IP that M$ claims.
Yeah, thats why Google just announced (January 30th) that it will continue with the licensing agreement with Microsoft until at least the middle of the year (July 31st) in order to continue offering ActiveSync support.
But what do I know.. just the facts and shit.. not like you fuckwads that type 'M$'
A zero-sum game is where each participant expects neither to win nor to lose in the long run
Umm, no.
Thats called a fair game. To qualify as a zero-sum game, the only requirement is that for every play of the game that the sum of all wins is the same as the sum of all losses.
All casino games are zero-sum, but none of them are fair games.
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No, just many pretend to be. Those that do don't even know how storage works.
oh bullshit.
The frequency of access of a sector on the disk is not a proxy measure of my wait time. Its a proxy measure of the OS wait time.
I wake up..
I walk over to the compute..
I turn it on..
I then go make coffee and maybe even take a shower.
So far, I have waited for nothing. Nothing the computer has done so far has been at all representative of my wait time. Yet all of these hybrid cache solutions have been factoring in all those reads (and writes) in its cache strategy.
The ultimate problem is that there are rapid diminishing returns on cache size at any level you care to consider, and that this sort of hybrid drive with 8GB of flash isn't orders of magnitude larger than the OS's ram cache right below it. Its not the sort of size change that can offer large benefits through the use of oblivious caching algorithms. If I want 8GB to give me large benefits that address my wait times, I've got to do it myself by making sure that only things I actually wait for are cached.
But if I thought Apple killed children and unicorns then I wouldn't use OSX, even if it was the best tool for a job.
I'm the opposite. If someone can provide proof that Apple has been killing unicorns, then I will become a true convert and switch to OSX.
Hmm, are gAds served from Google's servers or from those who publish the ads?
For fuck sakes.. google owns DoubleClick. They have delivered malware within flash scripts to people THIS YEAR. End of discussion.
Bad design choices aside, the entire idea is flawed. The ecosystem is well beyond critical mass, that nothing can "replace" the x86.
x86 dies when the desktop market dies. No sooner.
It may not be externally RISC, but that in no way means that it is inferior.
x86 wins in code density (which does translate to performance at the highest clock rates) precisely because of the CISC instructions.
When the kings of RISC began falling behind, their bottleneck was the instruction fetch throughput, which essentially boils down to how much useful work per byte can be encoded into the instruction stream. Sure, some of the instructions are 8 bytes, but lots of them are only 1 byte, and many of the longer ones do 2 to 3 times more work (such as the infamously powerful address generation instruction LEA, and any read/modify/write instructions) than any RISC instruction.
So, Google can scan through emails anonymously and target ads based on that.
This continuing anonymous claim is horseshit. If it was anonymous then they wouldnt be able to target ads at you specifically based on the data they collected about you specifically. There is absolutely nothing about the process that is anonymous. They have the data and they know who to associate it with in order to deliver the targeted advertisements.
Still further, a lot of Googles advertising isnt the google-served adsense. Suppose I want to deliver advertisements to pregnant teens. Google offers that service. Guess what I learn when my banner is pulled off my server due to googles targeted advertising services? I learn the IP address of a likely pregnant teen, which can then be cross-referenced and correlated with everything else I have stored about that IP address. This isnt anonymous either, is it?
Now more and more Google properties are requiring real names. Google+ requires a real name and if you have ever given Google+ your real name then now Google has a real name to include with all of its "anonymous" data about you specifically. That doesnt sound very fucking anonymous either.
tl;dr - Stop claiming that stuff that is the opposite of anonymous is actually anonymous. It actually isn't.
He is claiming without any evidence that Microsoft scans emails in order to target ads in spite of the fact that they deny it.
In this case, the mere claim has gotten modded +5 insightful. Evidence-based critical thinking has gone the way of the dodo and has been replaced by skeptical and cynical thinking.
He is also pretending that he has a choice about gmail.
I dont have a gmail account, but I receive lots of emails of gmail accounts. Even if I were to block these emails, google would still be reading them before they were sent in my direction.
I said what I meant. Do you always assume that people don't say what they mean? In fact, you seem to have gone to lengths to show that what I did not say was wrong and that what I did actually say was right, but then I have to wonder why you mentioned it at all.
Was this some sort of laughable attempt to appear knowledgeable prior to changing the subject?
Video is bandwidth intensive.
Yes, but not as much as people seem to think.
480P youtube H.264 uses about 100KB/second. This is more than enough quality for baseline educational resources..... its been good enough for PBS for 40+ years.
Yes, lets worry about getting broadband to the impoverished instead of food, clean water, and antibiotics.
So, no, not everybody has access to basic broadband service if they want it, 1.5mbps was barely acceptable 10 years ago.
Thats almost twice the bandwidth needed for 480p youtube as tested just moments ago using the free educational video made by sixtysymbols on transistors (link to video)
Note that the MAXIMUM quality of these videos is 480p, and the final raw badwidth count (includes packet overhead and so on) was 98.1KB/sec which is about 785kbps.
It seems to me and I think I have shown it to be true that people are actually crying about the availability of highest quality media, and not so much access. That these two distinct things get equated is the consequence of people so easily stooping into the realm of intellectual dishonesty in the name of wants instead of needs.
Depends on the benchmark / workload. Throw random 4k IOs at both drives and the blue will get trounced.
14.5ms vs 15.7ms average 4K random read latencies.. making you look like a real tool right now.
It isn't just kludges...
That guy writing excel macros isn't a professional programmer. He's a professional bean counter or mid-level manager. Somewhere along the way he picked up some simple VBA skills that were needed to get the job done.
Thats it. Thats all there really is to it. Converting the code to C/C++/Python/whatever isnt going to help, because he simply does not know those languages and neither will the guy that replaces him.
It isn't a 5% budget cut. 85 billion is more like 9%.
Federal government spending is $3.940 trillion dollars (FY2011.) This cut is a measly 2.16% under that viewpoint.
Total government (federal, state, and local) spending is $6.251 trillion dollars (FY2011.) This cut is a measly 1.36% under that viewpoint.
I don't know where people are yanking these numbers from, but I have been getting mine from the OECD.
Nobody was questioning the merit of the government spending that has, per household, ballooned to over the median household income.
Wake up. Federal, State, and Local governments spend over $50,000 combined on your households behalf, per year. That figure is rounded DOWN significantly, by the way (too lazy to calculate it for another ignorant internet twat that hasn't a fucking clue as to the scope of the problem even though he has been told so many fucking times.)
This whole "but some of it is good" shit is just being used as an excuse to pander to particular constituents (of both parties.) You know what happens if government science funding stops completely? Life goes on exactly at the quality that you currently have it, unless of course you are one of the people receiving that money. You can worry about the state of future scientific knowledge all you want, but the reality is that the out of control government spending will hurt your future self far more than a lack of research grants today.
Spending is so far out of control that its simply fucking amazing that you don't see the problem. Perhaps this is due to you being one of the people that enjoys being spoon fed knowledge by the media.
You know who didn't tell you that government spending per household is over the median household income? The media didn't. I did. You know who I am? I'm just a fucking guy that looked at the freely available open to the public OECD numbers that have been there for years and years, while you are thr guy that didn't, and the media are the people that wont inform you.
What do you think will happen when Windows Update runs on the Windows 8 install on the other partition?
Nothing, idiot. The keys are not programmable outside the bios config. If they were, Linus's argument would be even more silly.
What people want it to load an OS on to their computer with minimal fuss, which means having the signed bootloader, signed by Microsoft.
The entire complaint is silly because of this very fact. The user purchased a windows certified computer with secure boot so amazingly its easy to install windows. This isn't some shocking revelation here.
You can choose what to buy and what not to buy. Your continued complaints just prove to rational people that you do not want to take responsibility for your purchasing decisions. Do you also throw a silly looking hissy fit when its hard to figure out the correct driver for a wireless card that Linux doesnt recognize?
Its different now though.
It was the case that people could imagine a real use for more bandwidth than was available. Video streaming wasn't an innovation. The innovations were in making more bandwidth affordable so that the demand for high quality video streaming could be satisfied.
Where is your imagination now? Exactly what content do you imagine is going to require 100MB/second?
Don't say holographic movies. Seriously. Don't.
There is demand for more bandwidth, but unlike the case with video its not a typical demand. Its a niche demand.
The problem with that 2560x1700 screen isnt the number of pixels or the quality of the hardware surrounding it...
The problem is how cloudy it is.
Are you high?? Google doesn't pay M$ any licensing fee because it doesn't actually violate any of its bogus IP that M$ claims.
Yeah, thats why Google just announced (January 30th) that it will continue with the licensing agreement with Microsoft until at least the middle of the year (July 31st) in order to continue offering ActiveSync support.
But what do I know.. just the facts and shit.. not like you fuckwads that type 'M$'
I'd imagine it would allow the train to tilt while turning at high velocity using centripetal force to stay on the tracks.
Trains already tilt while turning, by design.
Here is Richard Feynman describing it.
Seems to be a wasteful way to keep something that is in contact with the ground upright.
If there was no legal uncertainty Wynn Corporation, MGM and all the other big gaming companies would have been doing it 10 year ago.
There are different kinds of uncertainty. Something can be completely legal now but risky to invest in because it may not be legal later.
A zero-sum game is where each participant expects neither to win nor to lose in the long run
Umm, no.
Thats called a fair game. To qualify as a zero-sum game, the only requirement is that for every play of the game that the sum of all wins is the same as the sum of all losses.
All casino games are zero-sum, but none of them are fair games.