"The vast majority of Palestinian voters did not and have never voted for any HAMAS-affiliated MP."
Hamas won 76 out of 132 seats the Jan 2006 elections. Whether the US or Fatah liked it, Hamas won.
Abbas (who belongs to Fatah) was voted in the year before - Hamas boycotted that election.
Fatah has been accused of collaborating with the CIA, and I won't be surprised if that is true. History has shown that the US has a habit of just paying lip service to democracy. Go look at the history of Chile, Guatemala, Iran, Ecuador, Syria etc. The US has been "better" at overthrowing democracies than dictatorships.
The only "legitimate government" is a US Gov approved one. If they could diebold all elections they would (but not all voters will tolerate such crap).
It's a strange game the US is playing- they give Israel money and weapons, and they give Fatah money and weapons, who then both fight each other and also fight Hamas (whose backers include the Saudis - who are propped up by the USA).
It suggests that Fatah also has some support from the CIA.
Whether it's true or not it was obvious that Bush and Co were rather displeased when Hamas was elected into power, I suppose they would have preferred Fatah? Unfortunately for Bush and Co they didn't used Diebold machines for those elections, otherwise they might now have a US Gov approved democracy;).
I'm well aware of that. If you actually read what I posted, I was talking about typical servers: webservers, fileservers, database servers. So no panic there - fix the I/O problem and IBM et all can sell massively multicore machines.
As for the link, people who keep clicking on it and never learning from their mistake, or never figuring out how to log back in again are probably the sort who should be "beneath your current threshold" in typical Slashdot discussions.
People like that would probably have use for multicore machines to: a) run all the malware they pick up from randomly clicking on stuff. b) transparently and automagically run stuff in many different virtual machines/environments to try to check if it is bad or not, before actually running it in a more "real" virtual machine. c) continuously run increasingly resource intensive editions of McAfee/Symantec and anti spyware stuff.
While you can parallelize a bzip2 of a file, it's hard to do it when you try to bzip2 STDIN;).
If you run a perl/python program doing the same thing as a C program, you often use 20x more CPU.
That said, I'd rather they make fast IO cheaper - mass storage has had very poor random seek times for decades. When I search through a disk, no matter how many CPUs I have, the drive is too slow. Same for when I run stuff for the first time.
If the hardware people make mass storage I/O much faster and still affordable, I'll find things to do with the multicore CPUs.
"Yes there are some classics that do still stand out decades after they are produced "
I don't see that a concern.
What would be a valid concern is if turns out there are many people who _keep_ writing classics that are only discovered (big time) AFTER the copyright expires.
But I think this would only happen to a very very unlucky few - nowadays with the pace of society, better networking etc.
In my opinion if you can only write one classic, you should be doing a different job;).
Sure but they'll start to tolerate standing in your vicinity and even pat you on the back from time to time;).
"In the social phase of the trials the non-specialists gave more grooming to the food producers and maintained spatial proximity even in this second phase."
Now if some attractive lady started giving me "more grooming" because of my "special skills", I won't care if I didn't achieve a rise in my dominance status, but I'm sure I'll get a rise somewhere else:p.
Well what you could do is become a _100%_ Microsoft shop.
Then you'll need more staff, larger budgets and more hardware.
And you'll have higher downtimes - since patches and updates often require the entire system to reboot, and the standard troubleshooting/fixing method is to restart and reboot stuff.
The result?
You would be a _boss_ with a significantly higher salary with many people working for you, rather than a sysadmin with time to post on slashdot because he knows how to keep stuff working.
Now if you knew all this and still did it, it counts as sabotage, if you didn't know then I guess it's what people call choosing the "Industry Standard";).
Physical library: Minus- hundreds can't read the same book if there's only one copy. Plus- hundreds can decide to borrow other books and read them.
Digital library: Minus- _each_ human reader needs to use an expensive device, and due to copyright and DRM you might still only be able to have one copy floating about:). Plus- someone gets rich out of selling those devices and DRM;).
If it weren't for copyright most stuff would be digitized then the library would just put books onto CDs or paper on demand (or in anticipation of demand).
If copyright were 7 years, authors would still make money from people who can't wait 7 years to read some book, or queue up for that one copy the library has.
For servers the real problem is I/O. Disks are slow, network bandwidth is limited (if you solve that then memory bandwidth is limited;) ).
For most typical workloads most servers don't have enough I/O to keep 80 cores busy.
If there's enough I/O there's no problem keeping all 80 cores busy.
Imagine a slashdotted webserver with a database backend. If you have enough bandwidth and disk I/O, you'll have enough concurrent connections that those 80 cores will be more than busy enough;).
If you still have spare cores and mem, you can run a few virtual machines.
As for desktops - you could just use Firefox without noscript, after a few days the machine will be using all 80 CPUs and memory just to show flash ads and other junk;).
The whole thing is actually more of a "show" nowadays, put on to make people feel safe and that the government is doing something. I mean banning liquids= joke.
After 9/11, the odds of such an incident being repeated went down a lot. In fact one of the planes didn't hit the target because of the passengers (who learnt what was happening), so that proves my point.
Now: 1) Cockpit doors are reinforced 2) The "unwritten rules of hijacking" have been invalidated- so more than a few passengers might think it is worth losing their lives to take down hijackers (esp if they think the hijackers are going to kill them all anyway). More importantly, serious hijackers know that (the crazy ones are a different matter). 3) The bomb scanning stuff has already been around for years, so the small stuff is invalidated by 2).
So, if terrorists now wanted to use planes to kill lots of people, they'll use private aircraft like you suggest;).
AFAIK private planes don't have as stringent luggage requirements as long as you know the pilot (or are the pilot). Those stars don't appear to have problems putting illicit drugs and stuff on their planes.
You're being overly dismissive. That site does present some valid info, at least at the start (not so sure about the rest:) ).
It is correct to say that it's harder to detect if your white screen suddenly went black for 1ms, than if your black screen suddenly flashed white for 1ms.
If you were in a pitch black cave and used a camera flash, you'd be seeing the inside of the cave for _seconds_ after the flash has long gone off.
"brightness eats darkness" is one way of saying it, even if it sounds silly. I'm sure the "scientific" sorts would be able to come up with the appropriate "Science Journal-ese" phrase for that using lots of fancy long words, but that'll also be silly for an article targeted at "joe average".
Yeah and wonder why they keep asking for more women to join the IT field etc, even though it is _obvious_ that most women just aren't as interested in the IT fields as they are in other fields.
Many animals willingly engage in potentially risky behaviours to increase their odds of mating.
Fanning out a brightly coloured tail, making loud noises, dancing and many many other things that make them more obvious to potential mates, but at the same time more vulnerable to predators.
Posting pictures of yourself in panties, passed out or french kissing on a "social" website is about the same thing.
Yeah, PCs are "useless gaming machines" for the games the "Unreal" creators keep trying to make.
But they are perfectly fine for WoW, Counterstrike, Warcraft 3, Starcraft, The Sims, Bejewelled, Freecell and many other games that millions around the world are playing _NOW_.
I've been playing Guild Wars on my years old Athlon XP system, and what bothers me more is network latency than system "grunt" - high ping makes playing hard.
If the latest UT didn't sell well or doesn't work on computers that 90% of the _target_ market own, I think it's more Tim Sweeney's fault than Intel's fault.
If they weren't targeting the mass market then no problem right? If they were, then maybe they should start giving out free 8800GT video cards with their game. But that costs $$$? Uhuh, so why should customers subsidize your game when it's not really better than UT2k4?
Many people aren't downgrading to Vista from XP for similar reasons.
I know that more than one colleague upgraded their vid cards to play games like Crysis and Bioshock. And after a few days, one said he was spending more time playing Warcraft 3 "DOTA" and the other was playing the GTA series. They both agreed the Crysis and Bioshock were nice to play, but I suppose they don't have as much "staying power".
"we really don't need 6 billion articles covering what we all had for lunch, or thought of sports, or what music we liked..."
Sure we have blogs for that.
But that's rather "strawman": 1) The wikipedia admins delete all sorts of other articles which are not that trivial, and many here obviously find of interest. 2) I haven't encountered that many _articles_ like that on Wikipedia (the discussions may be full of crap but they're a different thing).
Sure there's lots of "trivia" and not encyclopedia style stuff, but I think a lot of us like those bits, if we didn't we'd be looking at the "real" online encyclopedias (e.g. Encarta).
quote: to replace a frivolous name given by their parents (e.g., old name James Bond, new name Jason Bond; a well known example is Elton John, who changed from Reginald Kenneth Dwight in favour of a career in the Music Industry)
I like that last bit. You won't see that sort of stuff in the Encarta or Britannica, but too bad for them.
In my opinion, Wikipedia grew _despite_ many of the admins and the Jimmy Wales cronies.
I personally won't be sad if the corrupt pretentious lot actually succeed in making Wikipedia more "encyclopedic", because contributors who can't be bothered with all that politics crap would be forced to move elsewhere, and that might be a good thing in the long term.
You might not be able to tell the difference between 30fps and 120 fps. I can (and I'm not superhuman). I probably can't tell the difference between 85 and 100, but I've been playing games long enough to know there's a perceptible difference between 30fps and 60fps. 30fps is just "playable", >= 60fps = "good.
Just find a game, play it at a low FPS and then compare it at a high FPS. I used to play Doom and Doom 2, and believe me in many cases low res high FPS was better than high res low FPS. Plenty of other games allow you to lock the fps, and unlock the fps etc. If you can't tell the difference, well good for you and bad for you, good = you don't need to spend so much on graphics cards, bad = your eyes are probably below average in that.
33ms is a substantial amount of time for games. Even though the picture gets "smeared" in the time domain due to the way eyes work, there's a difference if you are seeing some stuff 25ms later, because it's just "not time to show the frame yet".
"And all Java 'solutions' must somehow involve XML, because it's standard, and enterprisey"
The Java program = Lisp interpreter. The XML config/instructions/data = the actual "Lisp" like program:).
People/programs actually end up coding in XML (aka New Lisp)
That's how you get flexibility and power in Java.
It's still a lot more work than doing it right in the first place, but I guess that's how Java programmers feel like they deserve all the $$$$ they get paid - they had to work hard for it (excolleagues had to write so much more code or go sift through so many more libs to do simple stuff).
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"The vast majority of Palestinian voters did not and have never voted for any HAMAS-affiliated MP."
Hamas won 76 out of 132 seats the Jan 2006 elections. Whether the US or Fatah liked it, Hamas won.
Abbas (who belongs to Fatah) was voted in the year before - Hamas boycotted that election.
Fatah has been accused of collaborating with the CIA, and I won't be surprised if that is true. History has shown that the US has a habit of just paying lip service to democracy. Go look at the history of Chile, Guatemala, Iran, Ecuador, Syria etc. The US has been "better" at overthrowing democracies than dictatorships.
The only "legitimate government" is a US Gov approved one. If they could diebold all elections they would (but not all voters will tolerate such crap).
See: http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html
For the others the following are good _starting_ points:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_intervention_in_the_Middle_East
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_U.S._regime_change_actions
http://members.aol.com/bblum6/American_holocaust.htm
It's a strange game the US is playing- they give Israel money and weapons, and they give Fatah money and weapons, who then both fight each other and also fight Hamas (whose backers include the Saudis - who are propped up by the USA).
Well if you believe worldnetdaily then read this: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56174
;).
It suggests that Fatah also has some support from the CIA.
Whether it's true or not it was obvious that Bush and Co were rather displeased when Hamas was elected into power, I suppose they would have preferred Fatah? Unfortunately for Bush and Co they didn't used Diebold machines for those elections, otherwise they might now have a US Gov approved democracy
I'm well aware of that. If you actually read what I posted, I was talking about typical servers: webservers, fileservers, database servers. So no panic there - fix the I/O problem and IBM et all can sell massively multicore machines.
:).
As for the link, people who keep clicking on it and never learning from their mistake, or never figuring out how to log back in again are probably the sort who should be "beneath your current threshold" in typical Slashdot discussions.
People like that would probably have use for multicore machines to:
a) run all the malware they pick up from randomly clicking on stuff.
b) transparently and automagically run stuff in many different virtual machines/environments to try to check if it is bad or not, before actually running it in a more "real" virtual machine.
c) continuously run increasingly resource intensive editions of McAfee/Symantec and anti spyware stuff.
So no panic there either
While you can parallelize a bzip2 of a file, it's hard to do it when you try to bzip2 STDIN ;).
If you run a perl/python program doing the same thing as a C program, you often use 20x more CPU.
That said, I'd rather they make fast IO cheaper - mass storage has had very poor random seek times for decades. When I search through a disk, no matter how many CPUs I have, the drive is too slow. Same for when I run stuff for the first time.
If the hardware people make mass storage I/O much faster and still affordable, I'll find things to do with the multicore CPUs.
"Yes there are some classics that do still stand out decades after they are produced "
;).
I don't see that a concern.
What would be a valid concern is if turns out there are many people who _keep_ writing classics that are only discovered (big time) AFTER the copyright expires.
But I think this would only happen to a very very unlucky few - nowadays with the pace of society, better networking etc.
In my opinion if you can only write one classic, you should be doing a different job
Sure but they'll start to tolerate standing in your vicinity and even pat you on the back from time to time ;).
:p.
"In the social phase of the trials the non-specialists gave more grooming to the food producers and maintained spatial proximity even in this second phase."
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/beh/1988/00000107/F0020003/art00006;jsessionid=3djuvxsodqd59.alexandra?format=print
Now if some attractive lady started giving me "more grooming" because of my "special skills", I won't care if I didn't achieve a rise in my dominance status, but I'm sure I'll get a rise somewhere else
Well what you could do is become a _100%_ Microsoft shop.
;).
Then you'll need more staff, larger budgets and more hardware.
And you'll have higher downtimes - since patches and updates often require the entire system to reboot, and the standard troubleshooting/fixing method is to restart and reboot stuff.
The result?
You would be a _boss_ with a significantly higher salary with many people working for you, rather than a sysadmin with time to post on slashdot because he knows how to keep stuff working.
Now if you knew all this and still did it, it counts as sabotage, if you didn't know then I guess it's what people call choosing the "Industry Standard"
Long duration copyright is an issue.
:). ;).
Assuming copyright the problems are:
Physical library:
Minus- hundreds can't read the same book if there's only one copy.
Plus- hundreds can decide to borrow other books and read them.
Digital library:
Minus- _each_ human reader needs to use an expensive device, and due to copyright and DRM you might still only be able to have one copy floating about
Plus- someone gets rich out of selling those devices and DRM
If it weren't for copyright most stuff would be digitized then the library would just put books onto CDs or paper on demand (or in anticipation of demand).
If copyright were 7 years, authors would still make money from people who can't wait 7 years to read some book, or queue up for that one copy the library has.
For servers the real problem is I/O. Disks are slow, network bandwidth is limited (if you solve that then memory bandwidth is limited ;) ).
;).
;).
For most typical workloads most servers don't have enough I/O to keep 80 cores busy.
If there's enough I/O there's no problem keeping all 80 cores busy.
Imagine a slashdotted webserver with a database backend. If you have enough bandwidth and disk I/O, you'll have enough concurrent connections that those 80 cores will be more than busy enough
If you still have spare cores and mem, you can run a few virtual machines.
As for desktops - you could just use Firefox without noscript, after a few days the machine will be using all 80 CPUs and memory just to show flash ads and other junk
The cake (or pie chart) is here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Planned_Spending_Distribution_2007-2008
Not sure what happened to the 2006 one.
"I want whatever is the middle size"
;).
Careful with that though, many companies realize people do that - that's why they keep making really huge burgers (and drinks).
So the big burgers start becoming middle.
And _your_ middle starts becoming big
That sort of thing is not their fault.
;).
The whole thing is actually more of a "show" nowadays, put on to make people feel safe and that the government is doing something. I mean banning liquids= joke.
After 9/11, the odds of such an incident being repeated went down a lot. In fact one of the planes didn't hit the target because of the passengers (who learnt what was happening), so that proves my point.
Now:
1) Cockpit doors are reinforced
2) The "unwritten rules of hijacking" have been invalidated- so more than a few passengers might think it is worth losing their lives to take down hijackers (esp if they think the hijackers are going to kill them all anyway). More importantly, serious hijackers know that (the crazy ones are a different matter).
3) The bomb scanning stuff has already been around for years, so the small stuff is invalidated by 2).
So, if terrorists now wanted to use planes to kill lots of people, they'll use private aircraft like you suggest
AFAIK private planes don't have as stringent luggage requirements as long as you know the pilot (or are the pilot). Those stars don't appear to have problems putting illicit drugs and stuff on their planes.
You're being overly dismissive. That site does present some valid info, at least at the start (not so sure about the rest :) ).
It is correct to say that it's harder to detect if your white screen suddenly went black for 1ms, than if your black screen suddenly flashed white for 1ms.
If you were in a pitch black cave and used a camera flash, you'd be seeing the inside of the cave for _seconds_ after the flash has long gone off.
"brightness eats darkness" is one way of saying it, even if it sounds silly. I'm sure the "scientific" sorts would be able to come up with the appropriate "Science Journal-ese" phrase for that using lots of fancy long words, but that'll also be silly for an article targeted at "joe average".
Yeah and wonder why they keep asking for more women to join the IT field etc, even though it is _obvious_ that most women just aren't as interested in the IT fields as they are in other fields.
More supply = lower cost to these rich companies.
Many animals willingly engage in potentially risky behaviours to increase their odds of mating.
Fanning out a brightly coloured tail, making loud noises, dancing and many many other things that make them more obvious to potential mates, but at the same time more vulnerable to predators.
Posting pictures of yourself in panties, passed out or french kissing on a "social" website is about the same thing.
Yeah, PCs are "useless gaming machines" for the games the "Unreal" creators keep trying to make.
But they are perfectly fine for WoW, Counterstrike, Warcraft 3, Starcraft, The Sims, Bejewelled, Freecell and many other games that millions around the world are playing _NOW_.
I've been playing Guild Wars on my years old Athlon XP system, and what bothers me more is network latency than system "grunt" - high ping makes playing hard.
If the latest UT didn't sell well or doesn't work on computers that 90% of the _target_ market own, I think it's more Tim Sweeney's fault than Intel's fault.
If they weren't targeting the mass market then no problem right? If they were, then maybe they should start giving out free 8800GT video cards with their game. But that costs $$$? Uhuh, so why should customers subsidize your game when it's not really better than UT2k4?
Many people aren't downgrading to Vista from XP for similar reasons.
I know that more than one colleague upgraded their vid cards to play games like Crysis and Bioshock. And after a few days, one said he was spending more time playing Warcraft 3 "DOTA" and the other was playing the GTA series. They both agreed the Crysis and Bioshock were nice to play, but I suppose they don't have as much "staying power".
AFAIK, lots of people heard Avril Lavigne before FIFA 2003 was released.
So I don't know what this story is really about.
If somebody says "three children live with me", they might be put on a sex offender list the next day, etc. ;)
The parasite may make you more likely to die of something else, and thus you are less likely to die from a heart attack.
It is hard to tell from the article what the overall rates of dying were for both sides, and what they tended to die of instead.
"Cat owners "appeared to have a lower rate of dying from heart attacks" over 10 years of follow-up compared to feline-free folk, Qureshi said"
1) Did they have an overall lower rate of dying over that period?
2) What did they tend to die from instead then?
Most people eventually die.
I'd prefer a heart attack than a slow death from cancer, or being half dead for years from stroke.
3) Did they check for other differences/correlations?
e.g. infection by toxoplasma gondii?
"we really don't need 6 billion articles covering what we all had for lunch, or thought of sports, or what music we liked..."
Sure we have blogs for that.
But that's rather "strawman":
1) The wikipedia admins delete all sorts of other articles which are not that trivial, and many here obviously find of interest.
2) I haven't encountered that many _articles_ like that on Wikipedia (the discussions may be full of crap but they're a different thing).
Sure there's lots of "trivia" and not encyclopedia style stuff, but I think a lot of us like those bits, if we didn't we'd be looking at the "real" online encyclopedias (e.g. Encarta).
For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deed_of_change_of_name
quote: to replace a frivolous name given by their parents (e.g., old name James Bond, new name Jason Bond; a well known example is Elton John, who changed from Reginald Kenneth Dwight in favour of a career in the Music Industry)
I like that last bit. You won't see that sort of stuff in the Encarta or Britannica, but too bad for them.
In my opinion, Wikipedia grew _despite_ many of the admins and the Jimmy Wales cronies.
I personally won't be sad if the corrupt pretentious lot actually succeed in making Wikipedia more "encyclopedic", because contributors who can't be bothered with all that politics crap would be forced to move elsewhere, and that might be a good thing in the long term.
I think many people don't really regard infringing on an mp3 patent as something morally wrong.
So just pay to display your products at a booth, get raided, hope you get some _extra_ publicity, $$$.
You might not be able to tell the difference between 30fps and 120 fps. I can (and I'm not superhuman). I probably can't tell the difference between 85 and 100, but I've been playing games long enough to know there's a perceptible difference between 30fps and 60fps. 30fps is just "playable", >= 60fps = "good.
Just find a game, play it at a low FPS and then compare it at a high FPS. I used to play Doom and Doom 2, and believe me in many cases low res high FPS was better than high res low FPS. Plenty of other games allow you to lock the fps, and unlock the fps etc. If you can't tell the difference, well good for you and bad for you, good = you don't need to spend so much on graphics cards, bad = your eyes are probably below average in that.
33ms is a substantial amount of time for games. Even though the picture gets "smeared" in the time domain due to the way eyes work, there's a difference if you are seeing some stuff 25ms later, because it's just "not time to show the frame yet".
"And all Java 'solutions' must somehow involve XML, because it's standard, and enterprisey"
:).
The Java program = Lisp interpreter.
The XML config/instructions/data = the actual "Lisp" like program
People/programs actually end up coding in XML (aka New Lisp)
That's how you get flexibility and power in Java.
It's still a lot more work than doing it right in the first place, but I guess that's how Java programmers feel like they deserve all the $$$$ they get paid - they had to work hard for it (excolleagues had to write so much more code or go sift through so many more libs to do simple stuff).
I'm too lazy for that.
I know exactly what you mean because we use MySQL and PHP at my workplace.