The unfortunate part is that there is no technical reason for a PCIe device not to appear to be an additional drive controller, and thus be bootable. Back in the day my first HD was a 32MB "Hard Card" that simply slotted into a 16-bit ISA slot.
Many objects deal with so small number of records it doesn't matter. I do understand O() notation, but honestly I've never needed to go beyond this page which tells me QList is almost always what I want unless I insert a lot in the middle, then it's QLinkedList.
Why do you think that any of those generic containers offer performance anywhere near optimal time complexity for a specific problem set?
THIS is the problem. You have no idea what algorithms and data structures would be better than those right there. Instead you choose the best from that list..
Sure canned solutions are often good enough, but when someone who thinks that 'they don't need to know', THAT person is fucked when the canned solutions aren't. There is a distinct lack of a data structure in that list that does both O(1) lookup and O(1) insertion..
..and to top it off many problem sets arent limited to lookups, and insertions.
In the late 1980's, GM and the other American automakers got raped by foreign competition, and it is the SUV that saved them. They lost market share nearly every year since then on compacts and sedans. By 2003, GM was making nearly 700,000 SUV's per year in the United States alone. Their largest American factory was producing a quarter of a million SUV's annually. GM was still producing several million SUV's per year globally until the first quarter of this year. Yes, GM made other vehicles besides SUV's, but it was less than half of what they produced globally, and the majority of them were not produced here in America with UAW labor.
This shit shouldn't be a surprise to you. Its why the Federal Reserve now owns General Motors.
Pumping oil up from the ground is a great value. When we talk about revenue from oil wells, we speak in millions, billions, and trillions. When we talk about solar panel sites, we rarely get to millions and never get to billions.
Your back of the envelope math fails to take into account facilities and maintenance I suspect.
It accounts for every employee they had in North America (includes Mexico and Canada), and they seem to have sold 32 vehicles per employee in North America in the same time frame, 2008.
The $10,000 to $15,000 in profit per SUV was stated by GM themselves. Thats above all production/facilities/maintenance costs.
If you make your employer a yearly profit greater than a quarter of a million dollars per year, wouldn't you expect.. even demand.. a decent health-care package?
Why are you looking at major vendors? Whos to say that the other major vendors are not also guilty of overpricing their shit?
The argument wasnt and isnt that other major vendors do it cheaper. The argument is that the shit Apple sells is overpriced.
Unlike the other major vendors, there are no alternatives in the case of apple computers. In the case of HP, Dell, etc.. you actually have other choices.
Keep in mind that the halting of permits was specific to PUBLIC LAND. Why should these things be built on public land right now, exactly? Wouldnt it be in the publics best interest to let this technology (and others) mature to the point of being actually competitive before tying up the land for decades?
Indeed. The idea that the UAW is the reason that the automobile industry cant turn a profit selling $20,000 and up vehicles is amazingly ignorant.
Doing a little back-of-the-envelope calculation, GMNA (GM North America) sells at least 32 vehicles per North American employee per year (based on their worst year in recent history, 2008)
GM had been reporting between $10,000 to $15,000 in per unit profit for SUV sales, so each employee was *making* the company between $320,000 and $480,000 per year.
Well cry me a river if the employees wanted a raise every once in awhile and a decent health insurance package. When you mame your employer that kind of money in profit each year, you deserve to be treated well.
It is also unlikely that they would do that because for the most part, Microsoft does not rewrite things from scratch that already work. They have tried to do full rewrites before, such as with their Pyramid project (an attempt to rewrite Word for Windows from scratch,) but while doing so they figured out that it would take many years before they could catch up to the feature set they would have had had they not done a full rewrite. The Pyramid project was eventually canceled and work continued on the original Word codebase.
sudo does not trap access violations and trigger an escalation prompt. The linux kernel doesnt do this either. Hell, I dont know of a single distro that has a version of this either.
There is an operating system which does something similar to the patent, and thats Windows (both Vista and 7).. the only difference between that patent and the existing UAC is the inclusion of a list of users with rights.
This has nothing to do with sudo-like behavior, because sudo simply doesnt catch access violations and act on them.. it never did, and it never will. sudo must be invoked prior to launching the application, while UAC (and everything detailed in this patent) has no such requirement.
I wouldn't say that its never been tried. Windows already does it with UAC.
Its not exactly a clean solution, because there are some things that wont trigger UAC just because the session doesnt have the rights to do something.. (registry and folder virtualization, for instance)
I believe the term you were looking for is Stereo Images ,br>
Anyways, this is just nVidia's attempt to come up with market for its soon to be irrelevant GPU business.
note: I actualy LIKE nVidia video cards, but the writing is on the wall. AMD is going to be putting out a veritable monster with CPU + GPU on a single chip, and Intel is going to be doing similar with larrabee (more general purpose, tho.)
nVidia can't compete without its own line of x64 chips, and they are just too far away from that capability right now.
It is for this reason that the CEO's responsibility to its shareholders right now is to make this guy disappear, by any means necessary that costs less than those fine.
First, the radius of the visible universe is 4.65E+10 light-years according to wikipedia (for what thats worth)
The mass of the visible universe is 3.0E+52 kilograms according to the same wikipedia article (does not account for dark matter or dark energy.. just stars!)
The event horizon of this much mass is at 4.71E+009 light-years based on R = 2Gm/c^2
So the stars in the visible universe contains enough mass for a black hole that is about 1 order of magnitude smaller than the visible universe. If we add in the theoretical dark matter and such then the radius should grow to larger than the visible universe... thats some crazy shit right there. We are probably living in a black hole that does not have a singularity (that we know of)
If you do the proper maths, the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole with the mass of Earth is about 9mm.
An interresting thing to note is that the larger a black hole is, the less dense it is. It is conceivable for a black hole no more dense than the vacuum of space (which isnt empty, after all.)
The really interesting stuff is that if you run with that idea and calculate the radius of the event horizon of a black hole that has the mass of the entire visible universe (of course, we only estimate its mass), that radius is amazingly close (within a few orders of magnitude) to the radius of the actual visible universe. Since we start with only a guess at the mass of the universe, it is quite possible that the universe IS a black hole.
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Explain to me why ioXtremes driver is mutually exclusive with a regular one.
It sounds to me more likely that they skimped big time on the hardware end, than that they met up with a technical limitation.
The unfortunate part is that there is no technical reason for a PCIe device not to appear to be an additional drive controller, and thus be bootable. Back in the day my first HD was a 32MB "Hard Card" that simply slotted into a 16-bit ISA slot.
Many objects deal with so small number of records it doesn't matter. I do understand O() notation, but honestly I've never needed to go beyond this page which tells me QList is almost always what I want unless I insert a lot in the middle, then it's QLinkedList.
Why do you think that any of those generic containers offer performance anywhere near optimal time complexity for a specific problem set?
..and to top it off many problem sets arent limited to lookups, and insertions.
THIS is the problem. You have no idea what algorithms and data structures would be better than those right there. Instead you choose the best from that list..
Sure canned solutions are often good enough, but when someone who thinks that 'they don't need to know', THAT person is fucked when the canned solutions aren't. There is a distinct lack of a data structure in that list that does both O(1) lookup and O(1) insertion..
You sir, do not grok.
..or a professor whos last real experience as a programmer was putting his punch cards back in order after he dropped them on the floor.
So how do I buy into this one of these largest of corporations?
Perhaps the government will have the treasury print the money for you... oh.. wait.. they are too busy printing money for the largest corporations.
They manufacturered mostly SUV's.
In the late 1980's, GM and the other American automakers got raped by foreign competition, and it is the SUV that saved them. They lost market share nearly every year since then on compacts and sedans. By 2003, GM was making nearly 700,000 SUV's per year in the United States alone. Their largest American factory was producing a quarter of a million SUV's annually. GM was still producing several million SUV's per year globally until the first quarter of this year. Yes, GM made other vehicles besides SUV's, but it was less than half of what they produced globally, and the majority of them were not produced here in America with UAW labor.
This shit shouldn't be a surprise to you. Its why the Federal Reserve now owns General Motors.
Pumping oil up from the ground is a great value. When we talk about revenue from oil wells, we speak in millions, billions, and trillions. When we talk about solar panel sites, we rarely get to millions and never get to billions.
Your back of the envelope math fails to take into account facilities and maintenance I suspect.
It accounts for every employee they had in North America (includes Mexico and Canada), and they seem to have sold 32 vehicles per employee in North America in the same time frame, 2008.
The $10,000 to $15,000 in profit per SUV was stated by GM themselves. Thats above all production/facilities/maintenance costs.
If you make your employer a yearly profit greater than a quarter of a million dollars per year, wouldn't you expect.. even demand.. a decent health-care package?
Why are you looking at major vendors? Whos to say that the other major vendors are not also guilty of overpricing their shit?
The argument wasnt and isnt that other major vendors do it cheaper. The argument is that the shit Apple sells is overpriced.
Unlike the other major vendors, there are no alternatives in the case of apple computers. In the case of HP, Dell, etc.. you actually have other choices.
It costs more to build computers than it costs to copy a bunch of disks...
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft sells more hardware than Apple. (hint: xbox360, xbox, mice, keyboards, windows home server, and so on...)
Keep in mind that the halting of permits was specific to PUBLIC LAND. Why should these things be built on public land right now, exactly? Wouldnt it be in the publics best interest to let this technology (and others) mature to the point of being actually competitive before tying up the land for decades?
Indeed. The idea that the UAW is the reason that the automobile industry cant turn a profit selling $20,000 and up vehicles is amazingly ignorant.
Doing a little back-of-the-envelope calculation, GMNA (GM North America) sells at least 32 vehicles per North American employee per year (based on their worst year in recent history, 2008)
GM had been reporting between $10,000 to $15,000 in per unit profit for SUV sales, so each employee was *making* the company between $320,000 and $480,000 per year.
Well cry me a river if the employees wanted a raise every once in awhile and a decent health insurance package. When you mame your employer that kind of money in profit each year, you deserve to be treated well.
Following the topic may require that I not only read the summary, but TFA as well. Fuck that.
containing irrelevant points which is easier to argue against than the original.
An easier thing to argue against, eh?
...such as a single instance where someone with a lot of money has his freedoms lost?
In other news, people with lots of money have more freedoms.
I dont have to "tell you again" about your straw-man. Its your straw-man, perhaps you should have given it the ability to speak.
Never-the-less, people with large sums of money have more freedoms than people who don't.
...people with large sums of money have more freedoms than people who don't.
It is also unlikely that they would do that because for the most part, Microsoft does not rewrite things from scratch that already work. They have tried to do full rewrites before, such as with their Pyramid project (an attempt to rewrite Word for Windows from scratch,) but while doing so they figured out that it would take many years before they could catch up to the feature set they would have had had they not done a full rewrite. The Pyramid project was eventually canceled and work continued on the original Word codebase.
How are they competitors? One is primarily a software company, and the other is primarily a hardware company.
Microsoft has been making software for apples since.. umm.. the Apple II (AppleSOFT Basic was a Microsoft product)
Their roadmap for larrabee is first as an add-in card, then integrated into motherboards, and finally integrated onto the cpu itself.
AFAIK, GMA is never going to be integrated into the CPU. Its going to continue to be integrated in motherboards.
You didn't read the patent application, did you?
.. the only difference between that patent and the existing UAC is the inclusion of a list of users with rights.
sudo does not trap access violations and trigger an escalation prompt. The linux kernel doesnt do this either. Hell, I dont know of a single distro that has a version of this either.
There is an operating system which does something similar to the patent, and thats Windows (both Vista and 7)
This has nothing to do with sudo-like behavior, because sudo simply doesnt catch access violations and act on them.. it never did, and it never will. sudo must be invoked prior to launching the application, while UAC (and everything detailed in this patent) has no such requirement.
I wouldn't say that its never been tried. Windows already does it with UAC.
Its not exactly a clean solution, because there are some things that wont trigger UAC just because the session doesnt have the rights to do something.. (registry and folder virtualization, for instance)
I believe the term you were looking for is Stereo Images
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Anyways, this is just nVidia's attempt to come up with market for its soon to be irrelevant GPU business.
note: I actualy LIKE nVidia video cards, but the writing is on the wall. AMD is going to be putting out a veritable monster with CPU + GPU on a single chip, and Intel is going to be doing similar with larrabee (more general purpose, tho.)
nVidia can't compete without its own line of x64 chips, and they are just too far away from that capability right now.
It is for this reason that the CEO's responsibility to its shareholders right now is to make this guy disappear, by any means necessary that costs less than those fine.
Doing a bit of spreadsheet magic...
First, the radius of the visible universe is 4.65E+10 light-years according to wikipedia (for what thats worth)
The mass of the visible universe is 3.0E+52 kilograms according to the same wikipedia article (does not account for dark matter or dark energy.. just stars!)
The event horizon of this much mass is at 4.71E+009 light-years based on R = 2Gm/c^2
So the stars in the visible universe contains enough mass for a black hole that is about 1 order of magnitude smaller than the visible universe. If we add in the theoretical dark matter and such then the radius should grow to larger than the visible universe... thats some crazy shit right there. We are probably living in a black hole that does not have a singularity (that we know of)
If you do the proper maths, the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole with the mass of Earth is about 9mm.
An interresting thing to note is that the larger a black hole is, the less dense it is. It is conceivable for a black hole no more dense than the vacuum of space (which isnt empty, after all.)
The really interesting stuff is that if you run with that idea and calculate the radius of the event horizon of a black hole that has the mass of the entire visible universe (of course, we only estimate its mass), that radius is amazingly close (within a few orders of magnitude) to the radius of the actual visible universe. Since we start with only a guess at the mass of the universe, it is quite possible that the universe IS a black hole.