It does lessen the effective value of the USD debt to Japan, China etc. And any country holding USD reserves.
There is also a lag - it takes a finite time for prices of commodities traded in USD (oil, wheat, CPUs etc) to go up. So meanwhile you are indeed richer.
Printing money is a way for a Gov to tax anyone holding its currency.
For most countries, the amount of their currency held by "outsiders" is very little, so it just transfers wealth from residents in the country to the one printing the money.
But in the case of the US, it also transfers wealth from other countries.
At least until people start switching to the Euro or something else.
So I do find it interesting that apparently lots of people are buying US treasury bonds at the moment.
The odds of us having children are lower than the world ending in our lifetime.
So in the subconscious hope that some bits of our genes will "go on", we care for our siblings, cousins, distant cousins, some random joe, the entire species, and maybe other species too.:)
"without religion (whether it be theological like Muslims and Catholics or ideological like patriotism and communism) there wouldn't be a reason for war"
Maybe the US and Europeans should tell Pakistan and India:
"You know what, we've changed our minds. How about you two just completely nuke each other and be done with it? That'll help us a bit with that global warming stuff. If you do not have enough nukes, just say the word and we'll send as many as it takes to both of you. No charge and free shipping via ICBM."
I bet that'll make the two of them think a lot before starting a war with each other anytime;).
1) The "Don't mate with my female(s)" instinct is wired pretty strongly in most males, many would be willing to kill even if they themselves would be killed in the end.
That's a minus to society- two or more people become nonproductive. At the other end you might even have tribal warfare.
2) You end with many young males without females, and not all of them are going to be spending their time on Slashdot.
If you allow polygamy even if the ratio goes 2:1 it means the "studs" will get all the females:).
The young males might blow themselves or other stuff/people up, or try to sneak a few attempts with someone else's harem, in which case see 1).
From that account, she (an amnesiac) didn't want to shake Dr. C's hand but didn't know the reason why.
Does make me wonder about our "gut feel" stuff and how accurate it is, and how it might be subverted. A lot of our decisions are not based on the "declarative" stuff.
Whether you choose chocolate or vanilla, fried chicken or something else. You might make up the reasons later (justify your decisions), but maybe your gut has already chosen. Of course if you see something gross, your gut gets informed about it and then you don't feel like eating anymore.
As I mentioned, many powerful companies and countries may realize there are good reasons to stay with IPv4. The "problems" with connectivity you point out are features for them. They don't have to explicitly block v6, there are lots of things they can do and choose to not do.
AFAIK, 6to4 is for IPv6 hosts to talk to IPv6 hosts (albeit over an IPv4 network). You cannot talk to IPv4 only hosts using it.
Lastly automatic hole punching sounds rather strange in a corporate network. Which company actually does that? Approved devices that need bittorrent would be on the "DMZ" or have a static NAT. VoIP would be via approved gateways.
If I were in charge of a corporate network, users wouldn't be able to automatically send packets out. Only certain things would be allowed out. Being allowed to automatically send packets out = getting blackholed ; complaints from ISPs etc about your IP range sending spam, DDoS and other crap.
Translation: will be used in a strategic _offensive_.
It's a defense system, as much as the shield was for the Roman Legionary.
Is installing a "defensive gun" in your enemy's neighbour's house really more a "defensive behaviour" than threatening to use nukes/WMD if you are attacked?
So who really is the defender and attacker? It's not always so clear as the military propaganda will have you think;).
If you wanted to use nukes to hurt the USA, sending a conventional missile at the USA is suicide and stupid.
While the poor dead beat muslims might be convinced that suicide bombing will get them to heaven, the typical "muslim" leader in power would rather continue having a great time on earth - they've got power, wealth and lots of goodies to lose (go take a close look at the political leaders some time).
There are more effective ways to hurt the USA if you had a nuke.
It's better to just keep them and use them defensively. Naturally the USA won't like this, after all imagine how things would have turned out if Iraq really had nukes.
That may be fine for personal calls made by private individuals.
The problems with bittorrent and VoIP phones NOT being able to "just work" would be regarded as a feature to many organizations. Then they can control what works, and when.
Similarly, the Big Media companies (and certain countries) might be quite happy for a world where only a relative and "blessed/vetted" few can broadcast to many.
To them a scarcity of IPv4 public IPs resulting in more and more users having to be behind NATs and thus not being able to behave as "servers" to the rest of the world would be a feature;).
The odds are the people with power are going to realize that staying with IPv4 benefits them.
Keep in mind, any _practical_ IPv6 transition path is likely to involve NAT or some form of proxying.
Because if you want to talk to IPv4 _only_ servers, you will need IPv4 public IPs, you cannot just use an IPv6 only client _alone_. This is a fact.
Given an IPv6 only client with no public IPv4 addresses, you will need a proxy or some form of NAT to talk to an IPv4 only server. And that proxy/NAT device is going to have to have a public IPv4 address.
So if "NAT" is going to have to be used anyway, there will be great temptation for an ISP to just stick with IPv4-IPv4 NAT instead of investing $$$$$$$ in less tested IPv6 to IPv4 NAT/proxies. After all IPv4 to IPv4 NAT has been around for many more years than IPv6 to IPv4 NAT. If someone gave the ISP some encouragement to be "half hearted" with IPv6 plans, who knows what will happen.
The way I see it, this 300% adoption counts for little as long as the popular servers (websites, game servers, search engines, news, social, blogs etc) are all IPv4 only. Can people play WoW if they don't have an IPv4 public IP and only have an IPv6 address? Can they check their webmail? Use IM? Does slashdot have an AAAA record? Does gmail? As it is, IPv6-only hosts are about as much part of the Internet as Novell IPX only hosts - i.e. they are not part of the real Internet at all.
Lastly, I'm curious - which VoIP phones can work completely without IPv4? In short which phones are VoIPv6?
A company I was in used VPNs between locations (BTW most of the VoIP tech does not use crypto).
Internal calls = "free".
When making external calls to different countries, the company can in theory pick the "best" location for each call to "exit" from (to that location's phone networks).
IMO another reason functional languages haven't taken off is because most lack decent (and well documented) _standard_ libraries for doing many common things, and even if there are decent libs there's typically no way to know which is the standard one to use.
Between picking a programming language that is powerful (expressive/concise) for all the code you have to write (insert random FP language here) and picking a programming language that is powerful for all the code you don't have to write (perl, python etc), I'd pick the latter in most cases.
Even if an FP language is 2x more concise than perl for a given task (AFAIK it isn't), without lots of decent libs, you usually have to write a lot more code.
The more code you have to write, the more code someone else later on has to read and understand. And worse the more code that has to be documented and maintained.
Standard libraries are important, even if they are only defacto standards because if you use a standard library, even if it's buggy, when an experienced programmer looks at your code, they know what the lib does (and hopefully its bugs), so they only need to read your code, they don't have spend time looking at the lib.
Whereas if you were writing your own custom libraries, or using one of 100 possible libraries (with no defacto standard) out on the internet, the person taking over or helping out will have to spend extra time trying to debug/understand it.
Some of the FP languages are catching up in terms of standard libraries, but for many you either have to write your own crap or have to waste lots of time finding and evaluating libraries to see if they are worth using.
Nobody in their right mind wants to deal with 10 different print commands (ok maybe the php people are different;) ). So similarly who wants to deal with 10 different database abstraction modules, or 10 different networking libraries, or 10 different signal handling libs? Or worse, having to write and debug from scratch your own lib after spending time to find out the libs out there are crap.
I'd rather be able to get on with writing the more "interesting" bits ASAP.
I think it should be pretty clear enough to anyone familiar with English and technology.
He said "power _of_ a chip", so it means processing power.
He didn't say power used by the chip.
Power consumption was only mentioned in the next paragraph, that's clearly the other meaning of power.
While there is a relationship between information processing and power usage, he would be saying some rather different things before I'd think he's talking about that.
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It does lessen the effective value of the USD debt to Japan, China etc. And any country holding USD reserves.
There is also a lag - it takes a finite time for prices of commodities traded in USD (oil, wheat, CPUs etc) to go up. So meanwhile you are indeed richer.
Printing money is a way for a Gov to tax anyone holding its currency.
For most countries, the amount of their currency held by "outsiders" is very little, so it just transfers wealth from residents in the country to the one printing the money.
But in the case of the US, it also transfers wealth from other countries.
At least until people start switching to the Euro or something else.
So I do find it interesting that apparently lots of people are buying US treasury bonds at the moment.
But the Taiwanese may still pass the jobs to China.
After all they have lots of factories in China[1].
[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1181993.stm
We're slashdotters you insensitive clod!
:)
The odds of us having children are lower than the world ending in our lifetime.
So in the subconscious hope that some bits of our genes will "go on", we care for our siblings, cousins, distant cousins, some random joe, the entire species, and maybe other species too.
"without religion (whether it be theological like Muslims and Catholics or ideological like patriotism and communism) there wouldn't be a reason for war"
You have great Faith indeed.
Also, fewer jobs would be outsourced to India ;)
;).
Maybe the US and Europeans should tell Pakistan and India:
"You know what, we've changed our minds. How about you two just completely nuke each other and be done with it? That'll help us a bit with that global warming stuff. If you do not have enough nukes, just say the word and we'll send as many as it takes to both of you. No charge and free shipping via ICBM."
I bet that'll make the two of them think a lot before starting a war with each other anytime
What do you mean by "just espionage"?
:).
You can believe the propaganda if you want. I'm just pointing the correct terms.
If you have an espionage problem you don't usually fix it by going to war.
Countries execute spies every now and then, and people die in car/plane crashes etc.
As you should see the US is not going to war with China over espionage. They are using it as a propaganda opportunity though
The US is not going to war with its allies either, they spy on the US and the US spies on them all the time.
Maybe the US people like wars so much and thus only see things in those terms - War or not war.
And that's why they have "war against drugs", "war against terror", "war against cancer", "war against obesity".
Rain water isn't that clean.
Yep.
:).
1) The "Don't mate with my female(s)" instinct is wired pretty strongly in most males, many would be willing to kill even if they themselves would be killed in the end.
That's a minus to society- two or more people become nonproductive. At the other end you might even have tribal warfare.
2) You end with many young males without females, and not all of them are going to be spending their time on Slashdot.
If you allow polygamy even if the ratio goes 2:1 it means the "studs" will get all the females
The young males might blow themselves or other stuff/people up, or try to sneak a few attempts with someone else's harem, in which case see 1).
"Secure NASA systems were rooted by a guy who sent 30 gigabytes of data to a location in Taiwan,"
That's not war, that's the usual espionage. Happens all the time.
If it's really anything warlike, the US would make an announcement that China should stop messing about if they know what's good for them.
If that doesn't work, then they would be starting military exercises off the coast of Japan, with the usual aircraft carriers, fleet etc.
So all that talk about cyberwar is just propaganda and bullshit.
I agree. I don't see anything wrong with everyone being given a unique number.
It's very wrong to assume that if someone can spit out that number and name, they're that person.
The trouble is what is the alternative? A password? Someone will start recording/stealing the passwords and you have a similar problem.
A more scientific way of doing it would be to do a double blind test.
Of course the higher the number of samples, the larger the number of unpleasant incidents and the more potential for long term harm.
Perhaps you could try it for pleasant incidents to see if it works for that first.
Maybe not, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
USA ranks 45, Swaziland 221 according to the CIA.
USA ranks 38, Swaziland 195 according to the UN.
TMTOWTDDOS
From that account, she (an amnesiac) didn't want to shake Dr. C's hand but didn't know the reason why.
Does make me wonder about our "gut feel" stuff and how accurate it is, and how it might be subverted. A lot of our decisions are not based on the "declarative" stuff.
Whether you choose chocolate or vanilla, fried chicken or something else. You might make up the reasons later (justify your decisions), but maybe your gut has already chosen. Of course if you see something gross, your gut gets informed about it and then you don't feel like eating anymore.
As I mentioned, many powerful companies and countries may realize there are good reasons to stay with IPv4. The "problems" with connectivity you point out are features for them. They don't have to explicitly block v6, there are lots of things they can do and choose to not do.
AFAIK, 6to4 is for IPv6 hosts to talk to IPv6 hosts (albeit over an IPv4 network). You cannot talk to IPv4 only hosts using it.
Lastly automatic hole punching sounds rather strange in a corporate network. Which company actually does that? Approved devices that need bittorrent would be on the "DMZ" or have a static NAT. VoIP would be via approved gateways.
If I were in charge of a corporate network, users wouldn't be able to automatically send packets out. Only certain things would be allowed out. Being allowed to automatically send packets out = getting blackholed ; complaints from ISPs etc about your IP range sending spam, DDoS and other crap.
"deployable defense system"
;).
Translation: will be used in a strategic _offensive_.
It's a defense system, as much as the shield was for the Roman Legionary.
Is installing a "defensive gun" in your enemy's neighbour's house really more a "defensive behaviour" than threatening to use nukes/WMD if you are attacked?
So who really is the defender and attacker? It's not always so clear as the military propaganda will have you think
If you wanted to use nukes to hurt the USA, sending a conventional missile at the USA is suicide and stupid.
While the poor dead beat muslims might be convinced that suicide bombing will get them to heaven, the typical "muslim" leader in power would rather continue having a great time on earth - they've got power, wealth and lots of goodies to lose (go take a close look at the political leaders some time).
There are more effective ways to hurt the USA if you had a nuke.
It's better to just keep them and use them defensively. Naturally the USA won't like this, after all imagine how things would have turned out if Iraq really had nukes.
Obviously not enough geeks are garbage collectors, and thus still not good enough.
That may be fine for personal calls made by private individuals.
;).
The problems with bittorrent and VoIP phones NOT being able to "just work" would be regarded as a feature to many organizations. Then they can control what works, and when.
Similarly, the Big Media companies (and certain countries) might be quite happy for a world where only a relative and "blessed/vetted" few can broadcast to many.
To them a scarcity of IPv4 public IPs resulting in more and more users having to be behind NATs and thus not being able to behave as "servers" to the rest of the world would be a feature
The odds are the people with power are going to realize that staying with IPv4 benefits them.
Keep in mind, any _practical_ IPv6 transition path is likely to involve NAT or some form of proxying.
Because if you want to talk to IPv4 _only_ servers, you will need IPv4 public IPs, you cannot just use an IPv6 only client _alone_. This is a fact.
Given an IPv6 only client with no public IPv4 addresses, you will need a proxy or some form of NAT to talk to an IPv4 only server. And that proxy/NAT device is going to have to have a public IPv4 address.
So if "NAT" is going to have to be used anyway, there will be great temptation for an ISP to just stick with IPv4-IPv4 NAT instead of investing $$$$$$$ in less tested IPv6 to IPv4 NAT/proxies. After all IPv4 to IPv4 NAT has been around for many more years than IPv6 to IPv4 NAT. If someone gave the ISP some encouragement to be "half hearted" with IPv6 plans, who knows what will happen.
The way I see it, this 300% adoption counts for little as long as the popular servers (websites, game servers, search engines, news, social, blogs etc) are all IPv4 only. Can people play WoW if they don't have an IPv4 public IP and only have an IPv6 address? Can they check their webmail? Use IM? Does slashdot have an AAAA record? Does gmail? As it is, IPv6-only hosts are about as much part of the Internet as Novell IPX only hosts - i.e. they are not part of the real Internet at all.
Lastly, I'm curious - which VoIP phones can work completely without IPv4? In short which phones are VoIPv6?
No problem with NAT there.
A company I was in used VPNs between locations (BTW most of the VoIP tech does not use crypto).
Internal calls = "free".
When making external calls to different countries, the company can in theory pick the "best" location for each call to "exit" from (to that location's phone networks).
IMO another reason functional languages haven't taken off is because most lack decent (and well documented) _standard_ libraries for doing many common things, and even if there are decent libs there's typically no way to know which is the standard one to use.
;) ). So similarly who wants to deal with 10 different database abstraction modules, or 10 different networking libraries, or 10 different signal handling libs? Or worse, having to write and debug from scratch your own lib after spending time to find out the libs out there are crap.
Between picking a programming language that is powerful (expressive/concise) for all the code you have to write (insert random FP language here) and picking a programming language that is powerful for all the code you don't have to write (perl, python etc), I'd pick the latter in most cases.
Even if an FP language is 2x more concise than perl for a given task (AFAIK it isn't), without lots of decent libs, you usually have to write a lot more code.
The more code you have to write, the more code someone else later on has to read and understand. And worse the more code that has to be documented and maintained.
Standard libraries are important, even if they are only defacto standards because if you use a standard library, even if it's buggy, when an experienced programmer looks at your code, they know what the lib does (and hopefully its bugs), so they only need to read your code, they don't have spend time looking at the lib.
Whereas if you were writing your own custom libraries, or using one of 100 possible libraries (with no defacto standard) out on the internet, the person taking over or helping out will have to spend extra time trying to debug/understand it.
Some of the FP languages are catching up in terms of standard libraries, but for many you either have to write your own crap or have to waste lots of time finding and evaluating libraries to see if they are worth using.
Nobody in their right mind wants to deal with 10 different print commands (ok maybe the php people are different
I'd rather be able to get on with writing the more "interesting" bits ASAP.
Yes that's how it works in most electronic stuff now.
When a bunch of precious electrons get "wasted" after representing a 1 or 0 (and get flushed or whatever), they generate heat.
Heat is a big problem with many electronic devices nowadays.
So some people think that by not wasting those electrons where possible, you generate less heat.
That's what he was talking about.
I think it should be pretty clear enough to anyone familiar with English and technology.
He said "power _of_ a chip", so it means processing power.
He didn't say power used by the chip.
Power consumption was only mentioned in the next paragraph, that's clearly the other meaning of power.
While there is a relationship between information processing and power usage, he would be saying some rather different things before I'd think he's talking about that.
But juveniles are the target market, and a fair sized one :).
Maybe it's time to sell my set of foldable[1] air guitars. They're still in mint condition since I rarely play them.
[1] Folds up and fits nicely in an envelope. Cool eh?
Incompatibility with bittorrent is often regarded as a feature by corporations.