Realistically though, on 1GB of RAM you're likely to notice a slight performance degradation moving to 64 bit due to the larger pointer sizes taking up more of the limited RAM.
If I recall correctly . . . when HP-UX moved to 64-bit, HP had to pull some published benchmarks, and adjust them down.
The IBM AIX folks saw this, and supported both 32-bit and 64-bit for while, instead of going full 64-bit right away.
Am I the only one that still uses the original Raspberry Pi?
A follow up question:
Has anyone owned one that broke down . . . ?
I've got three or the original B's, and all of them are going strong. If one breaks, I'll replace it. Otherwise the resources are fine for the things I use it for.
China is achieving great results with enlightened leadership and this cut in pollution is a shining success story.
Yep, I just can't wait for the next Trump Tweet announcing that he has declared himself, "President-For-Life", in the Idi Amin sense of the term. That would certainly fly well with the Hillary Clinton crew.
Who's to say the Times is wrong?
"I am!" . . .
. . . "Spartacus!"
The NYT is paywalled, which is just plain wrong. They should look at The Economist ( https://www.economist.com/ ) as a shining example. They have a free section for headline news, but a paid, subscription service for folk who want to dive deeper.
Our one-party democracy is worse.
The US has a two-party duopoly . . . and both the Democrats and the Republicans like it that way, and, barring an armed insurrection, it ain't no never gonna change.
This prevents alternative voices to be heard in Congress. Let's say that 10% of the voters in the US are concerned about clean air. Nation wide, a "Green" party would get 10% of the votes . . . and some seats in Congress to push for clean air. But with the current system, these votes get lost on the local level, where the "choice" is between a Democrat and a Republican.
Your local Democrat or Republican has obligations to, in no particular order: Big Unions, Big Pharma, Big Coal, Big Hollywood, Big Banks, Big Cars, Big Guns, Big Oil, Big Google (H1-Bs!), Big Facebook (more H1-Bs!), Big Fast Food, Big High Fructose Corn Syrup . . . and several other "Bigs" that I failed to mention.
The obligations to the ordinary American voter . . .
"Thank you for writing to your Representative in Congress! Your opinion is very important to us! We will see what our staff can do about your concern."
"Please donate to our campaign contributions! It's tax deductible!"
After singles between the ages of 22-30, nutjobs are the biggest target of the advertising industry.
YouTube wants to open to the maximal amount of viewers. A lot of folks think Google is hell-bent on diversity. Not true. They just want to own everyone.
Axe-murderers, Neo-Nazis, pedophile pepperoni pizzagate Hillary Clinton lovers and "Donald Trump turned me into a Newt Gingrich!" folks . . . c'mon in . . . your videos, and advertising potential are most welcome at YouTube!
How is it that Stephen Hawking won every prize there is except the Nobel?
Well, the Nobel Prize is only awarded to folks who are still living. Stephen Hawking was supposed to die "tomorrow" for most of his adult life.
I always thought that this was the Nobel Prize committee's way of keeping him alive. They didn't want to give him the prize . . . because then he would die. The hope of receiving the prize kept him alive for so long, despite an illness that would have finished off most folks much earlier!
But why on earth has it taken them nearly two years to allow accessory makers to use this through MFi?
Oh, that's easy:
1. (Skip)
2. (Skip)
3. Profit!
Personally I feel that Cook has and always will act as a caretaker, wanting to make the smallest changes possible in the belief that the spirit of Jobs lives on.
Oh, the spirit of Jobs really does live on:
"We can do whatever we want and annoy our users, but they will still buy our products anyway . . . because we're Apple!"
What would be the rationale for putting Alexia into any business that would justify initial purchase and deployment costs?
. . . handling guest requests usually served by the concierge: "Where's a good restaurant? Can you get me some musical tickets? Can you order me a pizza and some 'female companionship'?"
The financial gain will be booting your concierge and maybe a few other staff, as well.
Maybe not the thing that Marriott guests would want, but OK for the Motel 6 crowd.
Hey, there are even "Express" hotels with no visible staff at all! Just pop your credit card in, and the vending machine will give you your key.
The longer people stay on YouTube, the more money Google makes.
So it makes the most sense for YouTube to activate the addiction receptors in viewers brains. I'm guessing that YouTube employs neurologists specializing in addiction disorders to tweak the algorithm.
And we all thought Big Tobacco was bad, for trying to produce an even more addictive product.
If we are going to be putting these images on deep space probes, that might be found by aliens, we need to ensure that the images do not portray us as being "tasty".
Otherwise, the aliens might visit us with Soylent Green intentions.
We need to dress up the images of humans with huge pointy teeth, porcupine spikes, eagle claws and a nasty Stegosaurus tail.
Or, just plain giant armadillo pictures might work:
Well, we all know the dangers of Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Coal . ..
The board, which typically has about 45 members,
. . . now meet the terror and horror of Big Boards! You'll never "settle" anything with that many members.
Whack the size down to 10. Make monthly meetings mandatory . . . otherwise you get booted from the board and lose all the privileges and compensation that goes with it. That would make the board effective in no time.
That, of course, assumes that you want the board to be effective.
Hopefully this will also prove that the Electric Universe is real.
No, the Electric Universe is virtual. The real universe is not electric but rather wind-up. The spiral galaxies are the springs which store the wound-up energy. The universe works like a gigantic cuckoo clock. With cables and weights winding up the spiral galaxies.
Instead of pine cones for weights, the universe's cables are connected to the turtles.
There have been papers published recently that prove that it is real, but everyone in Physics ignores them.
But unfortunately, the authors were short on cash, and needed to use the papers to roll their smoking materials.
However, the papers read like the authors were smoking before they wrote them. Which raises some interesting questions about the direction of the Arrow of Time.
I don't think the Arrow of Time points forward or backwards.
Timezones and Daylight Savings Times are subjective and a personal preference. Some folks work best early in the mornings, others late at night. Now matter what system you come up with, it will annoy a significant number of people.
We live in the Internet age, where everything can be tailored to our personal preferences. So why not give everyone in the world their own Timezone and Daylight Savings Times option . . . ?
If someone wants to schedule a meeting with me, a simple Web Service call would sync up our times, based on UTC as a reference. I might live right next door to you, but I might be +/- 3 hours different from your personal Timezone.
No one would be able to complain about the Timezone and Daylight Savings Times settings anymore . . . because they pick them themselves!
Having lived in China, the average citizen does not feel oppressed and is quite proud of the country.
China should crowdsource this operation and provide these glasses to average citizens and open access for all to the database. With cash prizes for catching criminals!
Then, anyone can make some spare money on the side while helping law enforcement by playing "Amateur Glasshole Bounty Hunter".
Of course, Google has probably already patented "Amateur Glasshole Bounty Hunter", so China will need to pay some royalties to them.
Yeah, all these astro-folks have been asking the wrong questions about Mars:
"Is there life on Mars . . . ?", "Is there water on Mars . . . ?", "Is there oxygen on Mars . . . ?"
Instead, they should have been asking, "Is there electricity on Mars . . . ?"
This is why Elon Musk is planning to fly his Tesla to Mars. He will plug it into Mars, and see if it charges.
Then we will have the electricity on Mars question answered.
These electric astrophysical plasmatic jet thingies are also good news. We can build spacecraft like electric trains and trolleys, and they can tap into the space currents to zip them around!
We need to be careful, though. The electricity inside could be the theorized "Dark Electricity", causing the spacecraft to travel backwards in time.
So he's going to be locked in a cell and SWAT teams will randomly terrorize him for years, day and night, without warning, at random hours?
No, he's going to walk.
He's not capable of understanding that he has done anything wrong. Any good lawyer will play that like a fiddle. He's a narcissistic psychopath or some other melange of serious mental disorders. No judge or jury will be able to hold him legally accountable for his actions.
He'll maybe get a stay in a psych ward somewhere, and then be freed when the psychiatrists get bored with him.
Actually we don't need them, since they are the problem and the reason that no sensible progress on this issue will be made. They've taken something that shouldn't be political, and polarized it into extremes that cannot be resolved. In fact, the politicians are not really interested in what is better for the people . . . they are only interested in how they cause use the issue in their political strategic game.
The Republicans are against Net Neutrality, because the Democrats are for it. The Democrats are for Net Neutrality, because the Republicans are against it. The politicians simply vote along their party lines. No one knows why. It's like the Hatfield and McCoy feud . . . they don't stop and think about why they are fighting . . . they just like to fight.
The Net Neutrality issue would find a better solution if politicians were not involved in it.
Why would anyone target The NRA? Seems really suspicious.
It stokes up conflict among the pro-Second Amendment camps and ant-Second Amendment camps internally in the USA, and generally weakens democracy there. The right will blame it on the left, and they will all get into a massive huff over it.
International shits & giggles.
Why would anyone target Amazon, Google or Pornhub . . . ?
Why not, if someone else is footing the bill to disrupt the Internet.
Well, the folks who "win", will be the employees of the project who succeed in dragging out their project the longest. If they pad the project out correctly . . . they can make it last until their planned retirement, and never need to look for another train construction job again.
If they finish on time . . . they will need to go out and look for a new job in a few years.
Now, which option do you think they will choose . . . ?
Anyway, when rail construction in the western got stuck in the late 1800's, they solved the problem by importing Chinese workers.
Maybe California and Texas could try that again . . . ?
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Realistically though, on 1GB of RAM you're likely to notice a slight performance degradation moving to 64 bit due to the larger pointer sizes taking up more of the limited RAM.
If I recall correctly . . . when HP-UX moved to 64-bit, HP had to pull some published benchmarks, and adjust them down.
The IBM AIX folks saw this, and supported both 32-bit and 64-bit for while, instead of going full 64-bit right away.
But then again 90% of the people write a comment after reading only the first 10% of the article.
But then again 90% of the people write a comment after reading only the first 10% of the summary.
The real pros don't even read the post that they are replying to . . .
Am I the only one that still uses the original Raspberry Pi?
A follow up question:
Has anyone owned one that broke down . . . ?
I've got three or the original B's, and all of them are going strong. If one breaks, I'll replace it. Otherwise the resources are fine for the things I use it for.
I would like Google to tell us whether they have seen any customer benefit at all.
Beat that title:
"Google's director of sustainable ads"
I'm guessing that title gets him to the front of the line at restaurant queues in Silicon Valley:
"I'm sorry, Madonna, but we have to serve the VIP Director of Sustainable Ads first."
Actually, I would rather have a beer with Google's Director of Unsustainable Ads. He's probably more amusing and more fun at parties.
NY's Subway costs more to build an operate than just about anywhere else.
. . . what about scenic New Jersey . . . ?
Their labor cost is $140K/year/worker on _average_.
Tony Soprano's crew need to eat, too!
When New York City is capable of cleaning up the Fish Market . . . "transport" . . . get back back to me.
I guess the folks in NYC could vote in candidates who vow to fight corruption in the city . . . but too many profit from the corruption!
China is achieving great results with enlightened leadership and this cut in pollution is a shining success story.
Yep, I just can't wait for the next Trump Tweet announcing that he has declared himself, "President-For-Life", in the Idi Amin sense of the term. That would certainly fly well with the Hillary Clinton crew.
Who's to say the Times is wrong?
"I am!" . . .
. . . "Spartacus!"
The NYT is paywalled, which is just plain wrong. They should look at The Economist ( https://www.economist.com/ ) as a shining example. They have a free section for headline news, but a paid, subscription service for folk who want to dive deeper.
Our one-party democracy is worse.
The US has a two-party duopoly . . . and both the Democrats and the Republicans like it that way, and, barring an armed insurrection, it ain't no never gonna change.
This prevents alternative voices to be heard in Congress. Let's say that 10% of the voters in the US are concerned about clean air. Nation wide, a "Green" party would get 10% of the votes . . . and some seats in Congress to push for clean air. But with the current system, these votes get lost on the local level, where the "choice" is between a Democrat and a Republican.
Your local Democrat or Republican has obligations to, in no particular order: Big Unions, Big Pharma, Big Coal, Big Hollywood, Big Banks, Big Cars, Big Guns, Big Oil, Big Google (H1-Bs!), Big Facebook (more H1-Bs!), Big Fast Food, Big High Fructose Corn Syrup . . . and several other "Bigs" that I failed to mention.
The obligations to the ordinary American voter . . .
"Thank you for writing to your Representative in Congress! Your opinion is very important to us! We will see what our staff can do about your concern."
"Please donate to our campaign contributions! It's tax deductible!"
They could simply ban nutjobs.
After singles between the ages of 22-30, nutjobs are the biggest target of the advertising industry.
YouTube wants to open to the maximal amount of viewers. A lot of folks think Google is hell-bent on diversity. Not true. They just want to own everyone.
Axe-murderers, Neo-Nazis, pedophile pepperoni pizzagate Hillary Clinton lovers and "Donald Trump turned me into a Newt Gingrich!" folks . . . c'mon in . . . your videos, and advertising potential are most welcome at YouTube!
They were flying at exactly 25k feet for the entire segment of that video?
Alien feet, not human feet.
There's an equation to convert alien feet into the size of Wales, but it's too big to fit in the margin of this page . . .
How is it that Stephen Hawking won every prize there is except the Nobel?
Well, the Nobel Prize is only awarded to folks who are still living. Stephen Hawking was supposed to die "tomorrow" for most of his adult life.
I always thought that this was the Nobel Prize committee's way of keeping him alive. They didn't want to give him the prize . . . because then he would die. The hope of receiving the prize kept him alive for so long, despite an illness that would have finished off most folks much earlier!
They could try piracy.
If you do it by yourself . . . you're a pirate.
If you do it in contract of a country . . . you're a privateer.
See Sir Francis Drake for details.
Sail the seven seas drinking, murdering and looking for booty, then selling it on the black market.
Booze is banned on US Navy ships. The other stuff is OK.
I can't image a French navy ship without a wine cellar, or a German navy ship without beer taps.
But why on earth has it taken them nearly two years to allow accessory makers to use this through MFi?
Oh, that's easy:
1. (Skip)
2. (Skip)
3. Profit!
Personally I feel that Cook has and always will act as a caretaker, wanting to make the smallest changes possible in the belief that the spirit of Jobs lives on.
Oh, the spirit of Jobs really does live on:
"We can do whatever we want and annoy our users, but they will still buy our products anyway . . . because we're Apple!"
What would be the rationale for putting Alexia into any business that would justify initial purchase and deployment costs?
. . . handling guest requests usually served by the concierge: "Where's a good restaurant? Can you get me some musical tickets? Can you order me a pizza and some 'female companionship'?"
The financial gain will be booting your concierge and maybe a few other staff, as well.
Maybe not the thing that Marriott guests would want, but OK for the Motel 6 crowd.
Hey, there are even "Express" hotels with no visible staff at all! Just pop your credit card in, and the vending machine will give you your key.
FTFS:
The longer people stay on YouTube, the more money Google makes.
So it makes the most sense for YouTube to activate the addiction receptors in viewers brains. I'm guessing that YouTube employs neurologists specializing in addiction disorders to tweak the algorithm.
And we all thought Big Tobacco was bad, for trying to produce an even more addictive product.
If we are going to be putting these images on deep space probes, that might be found by aliens, we need to ensure that the images do not portray us as being "tasty".
Otherwise, the aliens might visit us with Soylent Green intentions.
We need to dress up the images of humans with huge pointy teeth, porcupine spikes, eagle claws and a nasty Stegosaurus tail.
Or, just plain giant armadillo pictures might work:
https://www.google.com/search?...
No more wars, no more hunger, no more fear, no more poverty.
Yes, that can all be achieved by having no more humans.
Well, we all know the dangers of Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big Coal . . .
The board, which typically has about 45 members,
. . . now meet the terror and horror of Big Boards! You'll never "settle" anything with that many members.
Whack the size down to 10. Make monthly meetings mandatory . . . otherwise you get booted from the board and lose all the privileges and compensation that goes with it. That would make the board effective in no time.
That, of course, assumes that you want the board to be effective.
Hopefully this will also prove that the Electric Universe is real.
No, the Electric Universe is virtual. The real universe is not electric but rather wind-up. The spiral galaxies are the springs which store the wound-up energy. The universe works like a gigantic cuckoo clock. With cables and weights winding up the spiral galaxies.
Instead of pine cones for weights, the universe's cables are connected to the turtles.
There have been papers published recently that prove that it is real, but everyone in Physics ignores them.
But unfortunately, the authors were short on cash, and needed to use the papers to roll their smoking materials.
However, the papers read like the authors were smoking before they wrote them. Which raises some interesting questions about the direction of the Arrow of Time.
I don't think the Arrow of Time points forward or backwards.
It points somewhere to the side.
Timezones and Daylight Savings Times are subjective and a personal preference. Some folks work best early in the mornings, others late at night. Now matter what system you come up with, it will annoy a significant number of people.
We live in the Internet age, where everything can be tailored to our personal preferences. So why not give everyone in the world their own Timezone and Daylight Savings Times option . . . ? If someone wants to schedule a meeting with me, a simple Web Service call would sync up our times, based on UTC as a reference. I might live right next door to you, but I might be +/- 3 hours different from your personal Timezone.
No one would be able to complain about the Timezone and Daylight Savings Times settings anymore . . . because they pick them themselves!
Having lived in China, the average citizen does not feel oppressed and is quite proud of the country.
China should crowdsource this operation and provide these glasses to average citizens and open access for all to the database. With cash prizes for catching criminals!
Then, anyone can make some spare money on the side while helping law enforcement by playing "Amateur Glasshole Bounty Hunter".
Of course, Google has probably already patented "Amateur Glasshole Bounty Hunter", so China will need to pay some royalties to them.
Electricity comes from other planets.
Yeah, all these astro-folks have been asking the wrong questions about Mars:
"Is there life on Mars . . . ?", "Is there water on Mars . . . ?", "Is there oxygen on Mars . . . ?"
Instead, they should have been asking, "Is there electricity on Mars . . . ?"
This is why Elon Musk is planning to fly his Tesla to Mars. He will plug it into Mars, and see if it charges.
Then we will have the electricity on Mars question answered.
These electric astrophysical plasmatic jet thingies are also good news. We can build spacecraft like electric trains and trolleys, and they can tap into the space currents to zip them around!
We need to be careful, though. The electricity inside could be the theorized "Dark Electricity", causing the spacecraft to travel backwards in time.
So he's going to be locked in a cell and SWAT teams will randomly terrorize him for years, day and night, without warning, at random hours?
No, he's going to walk.
He's not capable of understanding that he has done anything wrong. Any good lawyer will play that like a fiddle. He's a narcissistic psychopath or some other melange of serious mental disorders. No judge or jury will be able to hold him legally accountable for his actions.
He'll maybe get a stay in a psych ward somewhere, and then be freed when the psychiatrists get bored with him.
We need these legislators
Actually we don't need them, since they are the problem and the reason that no sensible progress on this issue will be made. They've taken something that shouldn't be political, and polarized it into extremes that cannot be resolved. In fact, the politicians are not really interested in what is better for the people . . . they are only interested in how they cause use the issue in their political strategic game.
The Republicans are against Net Neutrality, because the Democrats are for it. The Democrats are for Net Neutrality, because the Republicans are against it. The politicians simply vote along their party lines. No one knows why. It's like the Hatfield and McCoy feud . . . they don't stop and think about why they are fighting . . . they just like to fight.
The Net Neutrality issue would find a better solution if politicians were not involved in it.
Why would anyone target The NRA? Seems really suspicious.
It stokes up conflict among the pro-Second Amendment camps and ant-Second Amendment camps internally in the USA, and generally weakens democracy there. The right will blame it on the left, and they will all get into a massive huff over it.
International shits & giggles.
Why would anyone target Amazon, Google or Pornhub . . . ?
Why not, if someone else is footing the bill to disrupt the Internet.
Now who could that someone be . . . ?
I wonder who succeed first, or at all.
Well, the folks who "win", will be the employees of the project who succeed in dragging out their project the longest. If they pad the project out correctly . . . they can make it last until their planned retirement, and never need to look for another train construction job again.
If they finish on time . . . they will need to go out and look for a new job in a few years.
Now, which option do you think they will choose . . . ?
Anyway, when rail construction in the western got stuck in the late 1800's, they solved the problem by importing Chinese workers.
Maybe California and Texas could try that again . . . ?
Besides.. there are laptops with waterproof keyboards already, how is a dust free keyboard even eligible for a new patent?
Most of these keyboards advertise that they are "spill resistant."
This one from Apple is "crumb resistant."
Also, while the others protect against spills, Apple's protects against "liquid ingress."
Most keyboards only go up to 10. Apple's goes up to 11.