Which doesn't make it any better unfortunately. Metro's sole purpose is to streamline phone and PC interface, so that MS can market "exactly same interface for both smartphones and desktop, you don't have to learn new interface!".
Come on guys.. this isnt rocket science.. the strategy is plain as day, but you dont seem to have a clue what it is.
Metro's only purpose is to populate Microsofts app store with lots of apps so that their mobile offering dont lack the one thing that mobile users require.. a well-stocked app store.
The value of this good is inflated by governments backing of the credit which purchases it. Both the lenders and universities only incentive is to maximize the amount of money transfered from one to the other. The university gets the money immediately, the lender gets the principle and interest from the government in the event that the student cant repay.
The market is dominated by otherwise unfordable rates, something that doesnt even happen in monopoly situations but does happen through the intervention of brute force.
... If the colleges raise the rate at which they charge students to a degree where it doesn't make sense to go to school there, (but they go anyway because of promise of a good job) there will be a massive amount of defaults.
Now these defaults are more or less guaranteed, which eases the problem....
The guarantee does not ease the problem. It creates it. It is the availability of massive amounts of student loan credit that entices colleges to raise rates, and that credit is extended precisely because the student cannot dismiss it via bankruptcy.
Government interference in credit creates yet another credit bubble, and as typical a large percentage of the people refuse to see it.
Any trivial fact about you that sounds the slightest bit suspicious can be used against you to get an indictment or just a search warrant.
Thats why the only fact you give them is that you want a lawyer.
Anything that you say to the police during an investigation can be used against you, but nothing that you say to the police during an investigation can be used to help you.
The fact is not that he ate McD's and paid cash.. the fact is that he announced that he ate at McD's and paid cash. The group that announces that very thing can be statistically modeled regardless of the veracity rate of the announcement.
When millions of people are making announcements, the models become extremely good. You and a hundred thousand other people have made that announcement and it turns out that there will be a strong correlation between that announcement and other facts about the group, facts that you individually may have intended to keep private, but none-the-less with a high degree of certainty are revealed.
The fact that those technologies are proprietary, not universal, require OS support, but do not require the OS to "know the workload ahead of time" (a direct quote of your claim of necessity) is *the point* which seems to have completely eluded you.
The OS simply does not need to know the workload ahead of time. Period. Your claims to the contrary are wrong, and no wiggling room is going to be afforded to you by me on this matter.
Your entire premise was and still is a fabrication, completely made up nonsense that doesnt pass even the slightest bit of critical thinking by anyone with any actual knowledge on the matter. Current technologies discredit your theory about the demands of future ones. Period.
And how would the OS know the workload ahead of time? It's not like there are hints in the binary that it's going to be doing floating point work or that it's going to be CPU bound.
The OS doesn't need to know the workload ahead of time.. it just need to figure it out quickly (because the short run doesnt matter.)
We already have "ad hoc" Down-Clocking (Speed Step and Cool'n'Quiet) and "ad hoc" Over-Clocking (Turbo Boost and Turbo Core), so why not "as hoc" Core Assignment as well?
The best solution is likely for the OS to continuously explore scheduling strategies in real-time, making it adaptive.
Every N scheduler quanta, collect statistics about the last N quanta (perhaps Instructions Retired) assigning those statistics to the strategy employed during that period, and then decide on a new scheduling strategy (95% of the time go with the "best" strategy in the list, 5% of the time "explore" by choosing a strategy at random)
A method such as this could prove superior than current methods even on legacy gear where the only shared resource is cache, especially when the OS is juggling more threads than there are cores. The trick would be to have a large number of strategies to try such that one of them will actually be near optimal.
Oh, but you do benefit from them. You benefit by having an educated workforce. You benefit by having more people in science discovering new things.
We are talking about people that will default on their loans. How exactly do I benefit from people that aren't taking advantage of their education, that wont be discovering new things because they are flipping burgers or worse, that will be in the class of people that wont even pay a fucking income tax? How?
I do not benefit from them defaulting.. I benefit by having the obligation to repay follow them their entire fucking life until its paid off.
The list of patents that Microsoft holds is public information, ergo another invalid question.
Don't ask why a private list requires an NDA, on the supposed grounds that its public information, because its not public information.
Don't ask why a public list requires an NDA, on the grounds that somebody is keeping it a secret, because it doesn't require an NDA and nobody is keeping it a secret.
Why is it so hard to form your query as a valid logically consistent question?
As a pensioner you don't get to say what corporations make up your pension plan
Irrelevant. The GGP talked of thousands of owners, not millions. The pension is an owner.
You failed to invalidate his point, and are now failing to turn the conversation on its head in order to try to trivialize his point. You are the one being trivial here.
On average, that person you paid for is going to wind up paying significantly more in tax than you ever will.
You have no idea how much I pay in taxes. To be a bit informative my individual income is a bit higher than the household median, and I didnt get here by stealing money from others via the government, nor did mommy and daddy pay for my college.
..and who the fuck do you think you are kidding? If some asshole pays more than average in taxes but has the balls to attempt to not pay off their college loans.. then fuck them.. because they are assholes that clearly have the means to pay the loans back.
Oh, you meant that I should pay for people that wont default, too? What a fucking asshole you are.
it's quite surprising that there's such a high number.
Its only surprising if you havent been paying actual attention. Every time there is a big merger there is a crowd of people talking about how the corp is becoming too big, but whenever there is a big spin-off you instead hear the crowd talk about how the corp is in financial trouble or some such.
You never see the opposite.. you never see the crowd say that the merger is because of great successes.. you never hear the spin-off being championed as the downsizing of corporations.
So no, it is not surprising that there is such a high number. What isnt surprising is that those that listen to the crowd think its surprising.
More than a few pension plans are individually bigger than Apple in terms of net worth. Combined the pension plans probably rival the combined wealth of the fortune-500's... in other words they are not to be shrugged off like you are attempting to do.
Google is paying only for ActiveSync, but is certainly paying more than a phone manufacturer would (because Google Apps Sync uses it too, not just Google's Android phones.) Microsoft would have to endanger its current arrangement with Google in order to seek revenue on patents that Google has not licensed in their Android phones.
So yeah.. you don't know why its significant.. Duh.
The list of patents that a given company is claiming another to be violating is NOT publicly available until a lawsuit progresses into the courts, at which point its publicly available and you have your information (see Microsoft vs Motorola)
Motorola had the list prior to the lawsuit, because unlike Barnes and Noble, Motorola isn't the stupid newbie to the industry.
Wage-slave before college, wage-slave (with a higher wage and much more debt) after college. I don't see the difference.
My proposal is to formalize the slave-nature of this.
Anyone may elect to have the federal government pay $25000 (adjusted annually for inflation) for their education, but anyone who elects to have the federal government pay for their education in this manner must then pay an additional 3% (of their annual income, including capital gains) in federal income taxes (deposited directly into the general fund) to the government for the rest of their life without the possibility of ever being removed from the +3% list, and without the possibility of writing off or deducting that 3% from any other obligation in any manner at all.
Combine this with the removal of student loans from any federal handling, and I think its win-win-win. Win for the federal budget. Win for the 3% wage-slave. Win for those that dont take the 3% option.
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Which doesn't make it any better unfortunately. Metro's sole purpose is to streamline phone and PC interface, so that MS can market "exactly same interface for both smartphones and desktop, you don't have to learn new interface!".
Come on guys.. this isnt rocket science.. the strategy is plain as day, but you dont seem to have a clue what it is.
Metro's only purpose is to populate Microsofts app store with lots of apps so that their mobile offering dont lack the one thing that mobile users require.. a well-stocked app store.
geeesh...
Anyone who has used it knows that there is no debate.
The value of this good is inflated by governments backing of the credit which purchases it. Both the lenders and universities only incentive is to maximize the amount of money transfered from one to the other. The university gets the money immediately, the lender gets the principle and interest from the government in the event that the student cant repay.
The market is dominated by otherwise unfordable rates, something that doesnt even happen in monopoly situations but does happen through the intervention of brute force.
... If the colleges raise the rate at which they charge students to a degree where it doesn't make sense to go to school there, (but they go anyway because of promise of a good job) there will be a massive amount of defaults.
...
Now these defaults are more or less guaranteed, which eases the problem.
The guarantee does not ease the problem. It creates it. It is the availability of massive amounts of student loan credit that entices colleges to raise rates, and that credit is extended precisely because the student cannot dismiss it via bankruptcy.
Government interference in credit creates yet another credit bubble, and as typical a large percentage of the people refuse to see it.
Any trivial fact about you that sounds the slightest bit suspicious can be used against you to get an indictment or just a search warrant.
Thats why the only fact you give them is that you want a lawyer.
Anything that you say to the police during an investigation can be used against you, but nothing that you say to the police during an investigation can be used to help you.
I don't think that several decades ago that anyone could have imagined how overwhelmingly seductive "1984" would be.
Indeed.
The fact is not that he ate McD's and paid cash.. the fact is that he announced that he ate at McD's and paid cash. The group that announces that very thing can be statistically modeled regardless of the veracity rate of the announcement.
When millions of people are making announcements, the models become extremely good. You and a hundred thousand other people have made that announcement and it turns out that there will be a strong correlation between that announcement and other facts about the group, facts that you individually may have intended to keep private, but none-the-less with a high degree of certainty are revealed.
The fact that those technologies are proprietary, not universal, require OS support, but do not require the OS to "know the workload ahead of time" (a direct quote of your claim of necessity) is *the point* which seems to have completely eluded you.
The OS simply does not need to know the workload ahead of time. Period. Your claims to the contrary are wrong, and no wiggling room is going to be afforded to you by me on this matter.
Your entire premise was and still is a fabrication, completely made up nonsense that doesnt pass even the slightest bit of critical thinking by anyone with any actual knowledge on the matter. Current technologies discredit your theory about the demands of future ones. Period.
And how would the OS know the workload ahead of time? It's not like there are hints in the binary that it's going to be doing floating point work or that it's going to be CPU bound.
The OS doesn't need to know the workload ahead of time.. it just need to figure it out quickly (because the short run doesnt matter.)
We already have "ad hoc" Down-Clocking (Speed Step and Cool'n'Quiet) and "ad hoc" Over-Clocking (Turbo Boost and Turbo Core), so why not "as hoc" Core Assignment as well?
The best solution is likely for the OS to continuously explore scheduling strategies in real-time, making it adaptive.
Every N scheduler quanta, collect statistics about the last N quanta (perhaps Instructions Retired) assigning those statistics to the strategy employed during that period, and then decide on a new scheduling strategy (95% of the time go with the "best" strategy in the list, 5% of the time "explore" by choosing a strategy at random)
A method such as this could prove superior than current methods even on legacy gear where the only shared resource is cache, especially when the OS is juggling more threads than there are cores. The trick would be to have a large number of strategies to try such that one of them will actually be near optimal.
At 10,000 per hour and growing there is only 1 kind of war that will have any meaningful effect. We dont have enough bullets.
Those 'Rockoon' links on "Hacker News" are about rockets launched from balloons you retard. What a fucking dipshit.
Oh, but you do benefit from them. You benefit by having an educated workforce. You benefit by having more people in science discovering new things.
We are talking about people that will default on their loans. How exactly do I benefit from people that aren't taking advantage of their education, that wont be discovering new things because they are flipping burgers or worse, that will be in the class of people that wont even pay a fucking income tax? How?
I do not benefit from them defaulting.. I benefit by having the obligation to repay follow them their entire fucking life until its paid off.
You still don't know why its significant. Duh.
The GGPP wonders why Google is silent. Duh. Are you even reading the thread?
Perhaps this why even hairyfeet of all people can make you look foolish... because you dont even read the thread!
The list of patents that Microsoft holds is public information, ergo another invalid question.
Don't ask why a private list requires an NDA, on the supposed grounds that its public information, because its not public information.
Don't ask why a public list requires an NDA, on the grounds that somebody is keeping it a secret, because it doesn't require an NDA and nobody is keeping it a secret.
Why is it so hard to form your query as a valid logically consistent question?
As a pensioner you don't get to say what corporations make up your pension plan
Irrelevant. The GGP talked of thousands of owners, not millions. The pension is an owner.
You failed to invalidate his point, and are now failing to turn the conversation on its head in order to try to trivialize his point. You are the one being trivial here.
On average, that person you paid for is going to wind up paying significantly more in tax than you ever will.
You have no idea how much I pay in taxes. To be a bit informative my individual income is a bit higher than the household median, and I didnt get here by stealing money from others via the government, nor did mommy and daddy pay for my college.
..and who the fuck do you think you are kidding? If some asshole pays more than average in taxes but has the balls to attempt to not pay off their college loans.. then fuck them.. because they are assholes that clearly have the means to pay the loans back.
Oh, you meant that I should pay for people that wont default, too? What a fucking asshole you are.
it's quite surprising that there's such a high number.
Its only surprising if you havent been paying actual attention. Every time there is a big merger there is a crowd of people talking about how the corp is becoming too big, but whenever there is a big spin-off you instead hear the crowd talk about how the corp is in financial trouble or some such.
You never see the opposite.. you never see the crowd say that the merger is because of great successes.. you never hear the spin-off being championed as the downsizing of corporations.
So no, it is not surprising that there is such a high number. What isnt surprising is that those that listen to the crowd think its surprising.
Pension plans are bigger than you think. Perhaps you missed a relevant slashdot article detailing the power that pension plans toy with.
More than a few pension plans are individually bigger than Apple in terms of net worth. Combined the pension plans probably rival the combined wealth of the fortune-500's... in other words they are not to be shrugged off like you are attempting to do.
Google is paying only for ActiveSync, but is certainly paying more than a phone manufacturer would (because Google Apps Sync uses it too, not just Google's Android phones.) Microsoft would have to endanger its current arrangement with Google in order to seek revenue on patents that Google has not licensed in their Android phones.
So yeah.. you don't know why its significant.. Duh.
The list of patents that a given company is claiming another to be violating is NOT publicly available until a lawsuit progresses into the courts, at which point its publicly available and you have your information (see Microsoft vs Motorola)
Motorola had the list prior to the lawsuit, because unlike Barnes and Noble, Motorola isn't the stupid newbie to the industry.
Wage-slave before college, wage-slave (with a higher wage and much more debt) after college. I don't see the difference.
My proposal is to formalize the slave-nature of this.
Anyone may elect to have the federal government pay $25000 (adjusted annually for inflation) for their education, but anyone who elects to have the federal government pay for their education in this manner must then pay an additional 3% (of their annual income, including capital gains) in federal income taxes (deposited directly into the general fund) to the government for the rest of their life without the possibility of ever being removed from the +3% list, and without the possibility of writing off or deducting that 3% from any other obligation in any manner at all.
Combine this with the removal of student loans from any federal handling, and I think its win-win-win. Win for the federal budget. Win for the 3% wage-slave. Win for those that dont take the 3% option.
So you expect people to flip burgers for the rest of their lives?
You expect people with college degrees and massive student debt to do it their whole lives.
Keep your eyes closed tho.. its not like there is any evidence in the job market that indicates that this is exactly where we are right now.
You are aware that an physician is neither a minimum wage job, nor a job for which a degree is not needed, correct?
You are aware that when Ron Paul became a doctor that things werent as rosy for doctors as they are today, correct?
even if that means taking social security checks when the borrower is retired.
Without new legislation, only taxes may be withheld from social security checks.