MS has said they're aiming to get Windows 7 down to running on more embedded/smaller platforms. That's what this is really about.
Intel is going to release even more efficient atom processors and they'll probably also get some of the design benefits from Larrabee. Stick some wider SIMD units on Atom, hey presto, embedded system on a chip and MS is already most of the way there to supporting it.
Combine it with dense flash storage and the new battery technologies on the way... Suddenly have some very compelling compact devices running Windows 7. And here I was thinking MS was hypersensitive to picking up MS's plotting.
Actually, random reads are a very big strong point of SSDs, because they have 2 orders of a magnitude less seek time than a platter drive.
Random writes are good on SLC SSDs (the expensive variety) and average on MLC SSDs (although, many MLC drives cause a pause after too many random writes at the moment).
No, fascism is not just total authoritarianism. You can have a totally authoritarian communist state that is not fascist. Basically, fascism is the combination of "right" and "authoritarian" where as most implementation of communism have been "left" and "authoritarian".
Fascism is an expression of a particular kind of nationalism (a kind associated with the right), subverting the will of the individual to the will of the state and that of the elite which are the meritocratic rulers of the father land. The meritocratic rulers have control of the means of production and operate in it's interests. Fascism also persecutes those with left wing ideologies, because they endanger the ability of the meritocratic elites to safely rule.
The economics of fascism involve a state corporatist coalition, where by the state grants the elite writs by which they can build a monopolistic corporation that owns the means of production and can work for the fatherland.
Oh noes, it's the communist boogey-man! They must be ideologically hard-core communists, worried about losing their sponsors and all (a little ironic, communists with sponsors).
If you invited me over to your house and I started protesting you, putting anti-you posters on your wall, calling you a Microserf and generally being a douche then you would well be within your rights to call the police and have me removed. Of course, if the cops were heavy handed (they often are) I could pin everything on a conspiracy by the "man".
I mean, if you're going to make it a story, someone at least has to get exposed to high voltage (hopefully while saying "bro").
Really, you should do some research about what you say before you say it. Chomsky was cited as a source more than any other living scholar between 1980 and 1992. He's still cited a huge amount, because he (and this bit is important) made some of the most influential intellectual discoveries of the 20th century.
To suggest that people like Chomsky, no matter what his political leanings, didn't contribute to the American success story is ignorant in the extreme.
Also, re your "great" economy, I recommend looking at the human development index. Notice all those horrible left leaning countries with their public health systems and subsidized government education above the USA? It's funny that.
There is a reason it's called the black *market*. Corruption exists when you can transfer capital for goods and services that aren't legal, i.e. it is an aspect of capitalism.
Given that the black market really is unregulated in the true sense, it really is unfettered capitalism. That's right, the black market is freer than the market of any Western Democracy.
Capitalism itself can exist inside pretty much any other economic or political system, even if it's not legal. It's a blind and amoral economic device.
Actually, Ubuntu 7.10 didn't run out of the box on 2 of my fairly average machines. We're not just talking about "didn't support" either, we're talking about "hard crashes on start up and or resets".
A few looks around the forums etc cleared it up... but it was still not really that different from having a similar problem on windows and looking for a KB article.
What makes you think that they don't think their own best interests and that of their community is going to be best served by Obama? African Americans in the large majority already vote Democrat.
More importantly, why do you assume that it was the race of Obama alone that lead African Americans to vote for him? Hispanic Americans also turned out for Obama in the majority.
Maybe it's partly because McCain, yet another silver spoon fed Washington insider who war hero or not was still given a golden ticket before and after the war because of who his daddy was and Palin related to those groups of people incredibly poorly. What policies or attempts to relate to the African Americans or Hispanic Americans did they make?
Requiring candidates be displayed in random order (or grouped random order if you want the "major party" candidates displayed first, which is a bias in and of itself) is an easy way to remove that bias.
Of course, it doesn't solve the actual UI problem.
All you do is put a reference number on the receipt that is pre-printed and covered by tamper-proof tab. Add a bar-code to the receipt so the machine can read said number.
That way you (or a machine) can verify the card. You can even link the reference number back to the particular voting machine it was cast on. This way you can spot problems with a particular machine.
What are you talking about? Windows Mobile has a BSD style sockets API, just like Windows does. You can write for it in C compiled directly for an ARM compatible processor. Of course,.NET's low-level networking layer is built around this and is a very simple object oriented wrapper for the sockets library.
Now, if you'd chosen to bash the UI, it might have seemed like you knew enough about the platform to dismiss it.
FDR didn't follow Keynes advice. It was notorious that they had a falling out because FDR refused to spend into deficit.
Many historians link the 2nd World War and the deficit spending it caused as the real triumph of Keynes's ideas in turning the USA into the economic powerhouse of post war period. It also should be noted that economies which spent in deficit such as Sweden (which followed a full Keynesian policy) and Germany (which was gearing up for war) recovered much more quickly from the depression.
1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1939 were all years of GNP growth where unemployment fell under FDR. I would call that a "recovery". Of course, it might just be that the disaster precipitated by laissez-faire policies before those years was so monumental that all that growth still wasn't enough to quite get the economy out of the hole dug for it by Coolidge and Hoover.
It's funny, but ideology seems to be particularly adept at re-writing history.
For the nth time, Coolidge and Hoover were both laissez-faire capitalists (Coolidge more than Hoover) who precipitated the great depression. Under Hoover GNP fell by 31%. Under Roosevelt GNP rose and unemployment fell the majority of years before the war that he was in power, often in numbers unheard of in modern times.
Now, I'm not saying the New Deal was responsible for this, but to say FDR prolonged the depression when the economy recovered under him (slowly) but failed to do so under Hoover is intellectually dishonest at best and deliberate ideologically driven revisionism at worst. One might also offer the opinion that the bubble of the roaring twenties, where stock prices and investments did not seem to be tied to reality, was not something to be repeated so soon after the disaster it caused.
It took the massive motivation of the second world war which created a new set of real growth (as opposed to a roaring twenties bubble) to actually get things on par again. Oddly enough, most economic historians equate this with Keynes, saying that if FDR had been more willing to spend into deficit (and had adopted a more aggressively interventionist policy), the economy would've recovered even quicker... although, if you can show me a modern Western economy growing at better than 14.1% (as the US did in 1936 under FDR), I'll be surprised!
Another Great Depression revisionist! How wonderful to see the kind of demagoguery that conflates government intervention in a time of crisis with Marxism. Would you call William Pitt the younger a Marxist?
The great depression was preceded by a laissez-faire Coolidge and came to fruition and worsened by a slightly less laissez-faire Hoover. GNP grew (unemployment fell) in the majority of years FDR was in power before the war at levels unheard of in recent times in the USA. He managed to grow the economy in those times during the dustbowl and other calamities.
So kindly take your pseudo-intellectual claptrap back to the revisionist hole it came from.
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It does however provide the backing to the money system to make it possible for you to exchange money for those services.
MS has said they're aiming to get Windows 7 down to running on more embedded/smaller platforms. That's what this is really about.
Intel is going to release even more efficient atom processors and they'll probably also get some of the design benefits from Larrabee. Stick some wider SIMD units on Atom, hey presto, embedded system on a chip and MS is already most of the way there to supporting it.
Combine it with dense flash storage and the new battery technologies on the way... Suddenly have some very compelling compact devices running Windows 7. And here I was thinking MS was hypersensitive to picking up MS's plotting.
Actually, random reads are a very big strong point of SSDs, because they have 2 orders of a magnitude less seek time than a platter drive.
Random writes are good on SLC SSDs (the expensive variety) and average on MLC SSDs (although, many MLC drives cause a pause after too many random writes at the moment).
I call shenanigans!
No, fascism is not just total authoritarianism. You can have a totally authoritarian communist state that is not fascist. Basically, fascism is the combination of "right" and "authoritarian" where as most implementation of communism have been "left" and "authoritarian".
Fascism is an expression of a particular kind of nationalism (a kind associated with the right), subverting the will of the individual to the will of the state and that of the elite which are the meritocratic rulers of the father land. The meritocratic rulers have control of the means of production and operate in it's interests. Fascism also persecutes those with left wing ideologies, because they endanger the ability of the meritocratic elites to safely rule.
The economics of fascism involve a state corporatist coalition, where by the state grants the elite writs by which they can build a monopolistic corporation that owns the means of production and can work for the fatherland.
Oh noes, it's the communist boogey-man! They must be ideologically hard-core communists, worried about losing their sponsors and all (a little ironic, communists with sponsors).
If you invited me over to your house and I started protesting you, putting anti-you posters on your wall, calling you a Microserf and generally being a douche then you would well be within your rights to call the police and have me removed. Of course, if the cops were heavy handed (they often are) I could pin everything on a conspiracy by the "man".
I mean, if you're going to make it a story, someone at least has to get exposed to high voltage (hopefully while saying "bro").
Bush did graduate from Harvard and Yale. Even with good connections, getting a C average at those sort of places probably requires some intelligence.
What Bush really lacks is initiative.
Then 2% of people are liars. Even morons know the world is full of morons.
Really, you should do some research about what you say before you say it. Chomsky was cited as a source more than any other living scholar between 1980 and 1992. He's still cited a huge amount, because he (and this bit is important) made some of the most influential intellectual discoveries of the 20th century.
To suggest that people like Chomsky, no matter what his political leanings, didn't contribute to the American success story is ignorant in the extreme.
Also, re your "great" economy, I recommend looking at the human development index. Notice all those horrible left leaning countries with their public health systems and subsidized government education above the USA? It's funny that.
Knuth, is that you?
My friends ax through to dx disagree with you!
The 8088 was actually a 16bit processor with an 8bit external bus.
Or, as a direct result of Visual C++ 6.0 (and various extensions for it) which implemented most of the features way back when.
There is a reason it's called the black *market*. Corruption exists when you can transfer capital for goods and services that aren't legal, i.e. it is an aspect of capitalism.
Given that the black market really is unregulated in the true sense, it really is unfettered capitalism. That's right, the black market is freer than the market of any Western Democracy.
Capitalism itself can exist inside pretty much any other economic or political system, even if it's not legal. It's a blind and amoral economic device.
Actually, Ubuntu 7.10 didn't run out of the box on 2 of my fairly average machines. We're not just talking about "didn't support" either, we're talking about "hard crashes on start up and or resets".
A few looks around the forums etc cleared it up... but it was still not really that different from having a similar problem on windows and looking for a KB article.
Something like a 3rd of Obama's campaign was paid for by donations of 300 dollars or less. We're not talking billionares here.
What makes you think that they don't think their own best interests and that of their community is going to be best served by Obama? African Americans in the large majority already vote Democrat.
More importantly, why do you assume that it was the race of Obama alone that lead African Americans to vote for him? Hispanic Americans also turned out for Obama in the majority.
Maybe it's partly because McCain, yet another silver spoon fed Washington insider who war hero or not was still given a golden ticket before and after the war because of who his daddy was and Palin related to those groups of people incredibly poorly. What policies or attempts to relate to the African Americans or Hispanic Americans did they make?
As it has done since VC2003 thanks to the hard work of Herb Sutter? DUN DUN DUN.
I second that. Imagine Clarkson drifting the TARDIS around the moon, landing on E and then kicking an alien in the face! I think I just came!
Requiring candidates be displayed in random order (or grouped random order if you want the "major party" candidates displayed first, which is a bias in and of itself) is an easy way to remove that bias.
Of course, it doesn't solve the actual UI problem.
You could still keep it anonymous, very easily.
All you do is put a reference number on the receipt that is pre-printed and covered by tamper-proof tab. Add a bar-code to the receipt so the machine can read said number.
That way you (or a machine) can verify the card. You can even link the reference number back to the particular voting machine it was cast on. This way you can spot problems with a particular machine.
What are you talking about? Windows Mobile has a BSD style sockets API, just like Windows does. You can write for it in C compiled directly for an ARM compatible processor. Of course, .NET's low-level networking layer is built around this and is a very simple object oriented wrapper for the sockets library.
Now, if you'd chosen to bash the UI, it might have seemed like you knew enough about the platform to dismiss it.
FDR didn't follow Keynes advice. It was notorious that they had a falling out because FDR refused to spend into deficit.
Many historians link the 2nd World War and the deficit spending it caused as the real triumph of Keynes's ideas in turning the USA into the economic powerhouse of post war period. It also should be noted that economies which spent in deficit such as Sweden (which followed a full Keynesian policy) and Germany (which was gearing up for war) recovered much more quickly from the depression.
1934, 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1939 were all years of GNP growth where unemployment fell under FDR. I would call that a "recovery". Of course, it might just be that the disaster precipitated by laissez-faire policies before those years was so monumental that all that growth still wasn't enough to quite get the economy out of the hole dug for it by Coolidge and Hoover.
It's funny, but ideology seems to be particularly adept at re-writing history.
For the nth time, Coolidge and Hoover were both laissez-faire capitalists (Coolidge more than Hoover) who precipitated the great depression. Under Hoover GNP fell by 31%. Under Roosevelt GNP rose and unemployment fell the majority of years before the war that he was in power, often in numbers unheard of in modern times.
Now, I'm not saying the New Deal was responsible for this, but to say FDR prolonged the depression when the economy recovered under him (slowly) but failed to do so under Hoover is intellectually dishonest at best and deliberate ideologically driven revisionism at worst. One might also offer the opinion that the bubble of the roaring twenties, where stock prices and investments did not seem to be tied to reality, was not something to be repeated so soon after the disaster it caused.
It took the massive motivation of the second world war which created a new set of real growth (as opposed to a roaring twenties bubble) to actually get things on par again. Oddly enough, most economic historians equate this with Keynes, saying that if FDR had been more willing to spend into deficit (and had adopted a more aggressively interventionist policy), the economy would've recovered even quicker... although, if you can show me a modern Western economy growing at better than 14.1% (as the US did in 1936 under FDR), I'll be surprised!
Another Great Depression revisionist! How wonderful to see the kind of demagoguery that conflates government intervention in a time of crisis with Marxism. Would you call William Pitt the younger a Marxist?
The great depression was preceded by a laissez-faire Coolidge and came to fruition and worsened by a slightly less laissez-faire Hoover. GNP grew (unemployment fell) in the majority of years FDR was in power before the war at levels unheard of in recent times in the USA. He managed to grow the economy in those times during the dustbowl and other calamities.
So kindly take your pseudo-intellectual claptrap back to the revisionist hole it came from.