Do you eve know what a false dichotomy is?! Because you are doing it... It is about black and white thinking which is exactly what Open Source/OpenStandardsin Software vs Proprietary Software is... that sort of thinking excludes the thinking that leads to BSD and MIT like licenses.
You imply that there are only two choices... Good Libre software and bad Non-Libre software... the fact is maximum efficiency in production of software requires some minor risks. Also you'll find that "developers" that get dragged into the legal issues of GPL and friends cease to be developers and become full time prosecutors. Taking GPL fully to heart.. is a major risk on it's own... you risk excluding yourself from development entirely to become a pure political element.
it is not "fast, sandboxed VMs running in your users' browsers" it is just barely fast enough to be able to drag a window around and almost isn't fast enought to run a terminal. Performance bounces somewhere between 5-80Mhz equivalent depending on what you are running. I would imagine large chunks of contiguous code run reasonaly well but once it gets branchy performance plummets... its interesting to see how the varios demos perform.
But once it is published.. it is then an open source project like any other.
And of course it isn't open source yet... they haven't gotten paid yet;-)
all in all I think its a great idea... and might actually lead to some open source traction in this area. Everything else has failed so a project based on designs once implemented in ASICs is a pretty good head start.
Therein lies the problem... Its far too big to share an FPGA unless the FPGA is massive.
from what they say it will fit on a 100-120k LUT Xilnux device... those run around 100-150 USD. Also any bigger than those devices and you must have a licensed version of the tools (costs 5-10K USD). I think the same applies to other FPGA vendors but I'd love to be wrong.
Well even if it were your hand written paper diary. You wrote that on 3rd party paper right? So clearly you have no expectation of privacy. Now had you made your own paper from your own trees we may have considered allowing you to slip by however that is not the case at all.
You have a point. However all those things have been abused as well... And they don't exist because of the federal government they exist because good people in the government acutally cared about other people. Do you really thing anyone in the current crop cares one bit about anyone but themselves?
There are a few I personally think might... but in all reality its probable they don't care either. They're just riding on the other side of arguments because it is a comfortable niche for them.
Oil burned... is releasing additional carbon into the atmosphere that was sequestered in rock. So while the ecosystem probably can resequester some of it you would essentially have to plant and maintain a larger number of trees to sequester all of it.
The idea that you can waive your constitutional rights is just absurd.. they are fundamental and innate. That said I don't see what it being a crime to lie in any case has to do with your rights. Lies always have consequences... in some form or another.
The idea of combining polygraphs and beating is mind boggling. If I ever found myself in such a situation they'd probably beat me just because I was nervous in anticipation of being beaten for failing the test.
At first I thought you were talking about cannibalism, gnawing on 'bones' and all... then I realised I've been watching too much start trek. Sigh... prolly should have read the article.
All valid points...I do also know that MRIs are quite alot cheaper as well.
Electricity is cheaper here in the US so while it is a valid point that it has a cost.. its lower here though. Electricity is so expensive in Brazil (mostly hydro power and some nuclear) that hardly anyone runs Air Conditioners and lights get run sparingly by many people even stores don't have AC them for the most part unless you are in a big box store in a large city. Another factor is most can't buy and AC so there isn't demand to sell them. I mention AC because its probably the biggest power user here in the US.
Here in the USA on average it would cost ( 200 * 480/1000) * (12/100) = $11.52 to run it for an hour at the max power draw you suggest assuming that is the electrical service requirements for the unit... it can me assumed it would actually cost much less since it is probably overrated at least by 20% and probably doesn't pull that constantly though I wouldn't be surprised if it did. Even if you left it on for a year... thats only about 100k in power bills.
I just looked it up and 1Kwh runs you about 0.33 Reais which is roughly 14 cents so thier costs are comparable but slightly higher and much higher relative to average wage 95% of the population.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080513200318AASqIzq.... from that it seems like it takes 2 years of school and 2 years of apprenticeship to become a MRI technician as a minumum. I think its safe to assume at least 45-50k as a base salary possibly a good bit more (I'd want someone pointing a giant magnet at my head to make decent money heh...) Thanks for the cool reply:)
Sigh... the scans are probably quite cheap just gotta pay for a person to run a machine that was paid for since 20 years. They just charge you an arm and a leg for them. My parents being missionsaries they live in Brazil. A few years ago due to thyroidism, unknown to us at the time. My mom had an electrocardiogram which had cost around $500 where we live in the states and there it was $50 for the same exact test and same machine in a commercially supported hospital. They bought the machines and I am sure they were sold at a profit.
That machine does nothing all day but sit there and make $50 bucks a pop ($150+ is the going rate I understand in the USA)... now how many weeks would it take to pay off that same machine here in the US I could probably count them on my hands.
I know machines need upgrades and repairs and the nurses running them have mouths to feed... but the current medical system has no mercy let alone desire to benefit mankind beyond making a quick buck.
What about..."or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort",,, in that section. It would seem to me that many in congress have adhered to an enemy to the United States. Short of declaring the NSA an enemy body for thier secrecy and broad spying what about the arms that have been given to obvious enemy parties in Mexico and in the Middle East.
I imagine the lines of which group did what might shift right or left among the political parties but overall there is a lot of bad in both parties. I lean Libertarian but haven't been impressed by any candidates for office.
Is not the current judicial branch bending the laws to the breaking point in the opposite direction from my ideals already? Certainly I have misinterpreted the meaning of the constitution in this case. However, why not then take action against them on grounds on the violation of their oaths to the United States.
Of course its dangerous... its the real world where are you living
And on top of that for the most part only people who can profit from thier poitical positions care to have those positions.... so not only are they traitors they are crooked honorless traitors.
Fancy this, the US Federal government creates an agency that is illegal and outside the bounds of the government and by proxy not part of our government. Therefore, any US citizen who works for or has used their authority to create this institution is by definition traitorous.
If course that is a very naive view of the people that currently constitute our government. Since it basically means they have all committed treason against the government of the people by the people and for the people with the government of fear and false security.
Well, its is fairly obvious that you could create a data format that uses this as an advantage. Reduce the total data capacity in return for 1000 backups on the same media if one is corrupt just go to the next one. That is the major problem with current media... there isn't enough redundancy.
Then all you have to do is wait for it to seek though 999 corrupted versions to get to the good one! I was always a fan of MiniDisc mainly because of the floppy style case to keep even a poorly guarded disk relativly pristine.
So,,, what you are telling me here is that it has. PRISM built in? Oh well who cares about privacy... just as long as it doesn't have any blue LED's of doom.
What about LuaJit? http://luajit.org/ I don't see any reason why this couldn't be integrated into browsers and in addition to that it is extremely fast.
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Do you eve know what a false dichotomy is?! Because you are doing it... It is about black and white thinking which is exactly what Open Source/OpenStandardsin Software vs Proprietary Software is... that sort of thinking excludes the thinking that leads to BSD and MIT like licenses.
... Good Libre software and bad Non-Libre software... the fact is maximum efficiency in production of software requires some minor risks. Also you'll find that "developers" that get dragged into the legal issues of GPL and friends cease to be developers and become full time prosecutors. Taking GPL fully to heart.. is a major risk on it's own... you risk excluding yourself from development entirely to become a pure political element.
You imply that there are only two choices
it is not "fast, sandboxed VMs running in your users' browsers" it is just barely fast enough to be able to drag a window around and almost isn't fast enought to run a terminal. Performance bounces somewhere between 5-80Mhz equivalent depending on what you are running. I would imagine large chunks of contiguous code run reasonaly well but once it gets branchy performance plummets... its interesting to see how the varios demos perform.
....it could get the wrong idea about how to properly handle knives around humans!!!
But once it is published.. it is then an open source project like any other.
;-)
And of course it isn't open source yet... they haven't gotten paid yet
all in all I think its a great idea... and might actually lead to some open source traction in this area. Everything else has failed so a project based on designs once implemented in ASICs is a pretty good head start.
Therein lies the problem... Its far too big to share an FPGA unless the FPGA is massive.
from what they say it will fit on a 100-120k LUT Xilnux device... those run around 100-150 USD. Also any bigger than those devices and you must have a licensed version of the tools (costs 5-10K USD). I think the same applies to other FPGA vendors but I'd love to be wrong.
Well even if it were your hand written paper diary. You wrote that on 3rd party paper right? So clearly you have no expectation of privacy. Now had you made your own paper from your own trees we may have considered allowing you to slip by however that is not the case at all.
Down with privacy!
You have a point. However all those things have been abused as well... And they don't exist because of the federal government they exist because good people in the government acutally cared about other people. Do you really thing anyone in the current crop cares one bit about anyone but themselves?
There are a few I personally think might... but in all reality its probable they don't care either. They're just riding on the other side of arguments because it is a comfortable niche for them.
Oil burned ... is releasing additional carbon into the atmosphere that was sequestered in rock. So while the ecosystem probably can resequester some of it you would essentially have to plant and maintain a larger number of trees to sequester all of it.
"If bitten you have an irresistable urge to download cracked pirate copies of the latest games"
That particular subspecies is a Warezwolf.
The Warwolf bearing a striking resemblance to nigh every politician.
Indeed... my SparcStation ZX still runs happily. Sadly I was not the first owner when it cost 20k USD.
Sun made alot of interesting cards... one of them even has a java ByteCode processor.
Lots of interesting tidbits on Michael Deering's site http://www.michaelfrankdeering.com/ He had a hand in most of Sun's custom cards.
you realize there is free water roughly 40-100feet below you most areas?
Oh... nevermind they regulate that too (you have to have well's tested in most places for nice fat fee).
Well, you are deadweight after all ;-)
Don't copy that Jalopy!
The idea that you can waive your constitutional rights is just absurd.. they are fundamental and innate. That said I don't see what it being a crime to lie in any case has to do with your rights. Lies always have consequences... in some form or another.
The idea of combining polygraphs and beating is mind boggling. If I ever found myself in such a situation they'd probably beat me just because I was nervous in anticipation of being beaten for failing the test.
At first I thought you were talking about cannibalism, gnawing on 'bones' and all... then I realised I've been watching too much start trek. Sigh... prolly should have read the article.
All valid points...I do also know that MRIs are quite alot cheaper as well.
/1000) * (12/100) = $11.52 to run it for an hour at the max power draw you suggest assuming that is the electrical service requirements for the unit... it can me assumed it would actually cost much less since it is probably overrated at least by 20% and probably doesn't pull that constantly though I wouldn't be surprised if it did. Even if you left it on for a year... thats only about 100k in power bills.
.... from that it seems like it takes 2 years of school and 2 years of apprenticeship to become a MRI technician as a minumum. I think its safe to assume at least 45-50k as a base salary possibly a good bit more (I'd want someone pointing a giant magnet at my head to make decent money heh...) Thanks for the cool reply :)
Electricity is cheaper here in the US so while it is a valid point that it has a cost.. its lower here though. Electricity is so expensive in Brazil (mostly hydro power and some nuclear) that hardly anyone runs Air Conditioners and lights get run sparingly by many people even stores don't have AC them for the most part unless you are in a big box store in a large city. Another factor is most can't buy and AC so there isn't demand to sell them. I mention AC because its probably the biggest power user here in the US.
Here in the USA on average it would cost ( 200 * 480
I just looked it up and 1Kwh runs you about 0.33 Reais which is roughly 14 cents so thier costs are comparable but slightly higher and much higher relative to average wage 95% of the population.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080513200318AASqIzq
Sigh... the scans are probably quite cheap just gotta pay for a person to run a machine that was paid for since 20 years. They just charge you an arm and a leg for them. My parents being missionsaries they live in Brazil. A few years ago due to thyroidism, unknown to us at the time. My mom had an electrocardiogram which had cost around $500 where we live in the states and there it was $50 for the same exact test and same machine in a commercially supported hospital. They bought the machines and I am sure they were sold at a profit.
That machine does nothing all day but sit there and make $50 bucks a pop ($150+ is the going rate I understand in the USA)... now how many weeks would it take to pay off that same machine here in the US I could probably count them on my hands.
I know machines need upgrades and repairs and the nurses running them have mouths to feed... but the current medical system has no mercy let alone desire to benefit mankind beyond making a quick buck.
What about ..."or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort",,, in that section. It would seem to me that many in congress have adhered to an enemy to the United States. Short of declaring the NSA an enemy body for thier secrecy and broad spying what about the arms that have been given to obvious enemy parties in Mexico and in the Middle East.
I imagine the lines of which group did what might shift right or left among the political parties but overall there is a lot of bad in both parties. I lean Libertarian but haven't been impressed by any candidates for office.
Is not the current judicial branch bending the laws to the breaking point in the opposite direction from my ideals already? Certainly I have misinterpreted the meaning of the constitution in this case. However, why not then take action against them on grounds on the violation of their oaths to the United States.
Of course its dangerous... its the real world where are you living
And on top of that for the most part only people who can profit from thier poitical positions care to have those positions.... so not only are they traitors they are crooked honorless traitors.
Fancy this, the US Federal government creates an agency that is illegal and outside the bounds of the government and by proxy not part of our government. Therefore, any US citizen who works for or has used their authority to create this institution is by definition traitorous. If course that is a very naive view of the people that currently constitute our government. Since it basically means they have all committed treason against the government of the people by the people and for the people with the government of fear and false security.
Well, its is fairly obvious that you could create a data format that uses this as an advantage. Reduce the total data capacity in return for 1000 backups on the same media if one is corrupt just go to the next one. That is the major problem with current media... there isn't enough redundancy. Then all you have to do is wait for it to seek though 999 corrupted versions to get to the good one! I was always a fan of MiniDisc mainly because of the floppy style case to keep even a poorly guarded disk relativly pristine.
So,,, what you are telling me here is that it has. PRISM built in? Oh well who cares about privacy... just as long as it doesn't have any blue LED's of doom.
What about LuaJit? http://luajit.org/ I don't see any reason why this couldn't be integrated into browsers and in addition to that it is extremely fast.
Perhaps this is more what you are looking for... http://www.chemringds.com/Products/ChemicalDetection/JUNO1/ seeing as its affixed with a 1 there must be more advanced versions planned or already in the works.