That API is open. It's implementation is closed, and many auxilliary APIs are closed. Open means you can see inside. I can see inside the API, but not inside it's implementation. By publishing books on the subject, Microsoft has made the design open, to the degree that it is accurately documented, but not the code. OpenSolaris is open at the code level, but not at the process level: It does not use an open development process.
I think this is a common jargon use of the term "open", and it corresponds closely to its dictionary definition.
32 is a large number for SMP CPU heads, but it gets bigger. Consider that in roughly the same timeframe that retail chassis are available using these chipsets, quadcore CPUs will be on the market. That puts 128 modern CPUs in one box. Rare indeed is the whitebox application that needs to scale beyond that. And if you cluster *those*, you're rapidly approaching the top end of existing systems for HPC throughput.
Why is it sad? I command $75-$100/hr for short to medium-term 1099 work, and $50-60 for w2 employment with benefits. I think your $5-10 is pathetic. If I can't pull down 6 figures, I'd rather start my own business. And I'm several hours' drive from the nearest airport that can land a passenger jet.
What about my new recording system that encapsulates the performance in a space-time bubble and reconnects its starting time with the point at which you press "play"? Huh? What about that, then, Mr. Smartypants Webster?
> all electron energy levels are in multiples of the plank energy
to clarify my comment (should have proofread):
this is true in the sense that Pi is a multiple of 2. electron energy is equal to frequency times the planck constant. but frequency varies continuously.
> all electron energy levels are in multiples of the plank energy
not all photons comes from changes in the exitation state of electrons in an atom. any time you accellerate charges, you get photons, and charges can be accellerated with continuous forces. electron shell structure is discontinuous because it has to accomodate a standing wave according to schroedinger's equation, not because energy comes in atomic units. please do not confuse cause and effect.
moreover, this does not address the continuity of time. a kroenecker delta may be discontinuous, but it is not digital unless it is constrained to occur at discrete time boundaries.
The OP never said anything useful about price and performance constraints, scaling requirements, software constraints, etc.
1) connect them all to a fast switch using commodity hardware, OTS software.
- cheap, cheap, cheap, works now
- probably good enough
need faster?
2) connect them all to each other using commodity hardware, OTS software.
- cheap, will work once the wires are all connected
- almost certainly good enough
still not satisfied?
3) connect them all to each other using commodity hardware, and roll your
own user-space memory-mapped IO system with a sockets API (assuming that's
what your apps require), probably using Adam Dunkels' lwIP.
- expensive, behind schedule
- forsooth, it rocks thine world.
more money than time?
4) connect them to a proprietary fabric, running on boutique hardware and
software.
- you just won a brand new investor lawsuit
- ok, so its fast
every word you utter is ideolectically conditioned. that doesn't mean we give up on communication. "blue" is a highly culturally dependent category. that doesn't prevent me from talking about color with japanese people.
if you don't want to eliminate evil, then from my viewpoint, you are irrelevant. it's the only thing worth doing.
> assuming the DRM has been implemented in a reasonably strong way
It's a fantasy assumption. Has never happened yet, and I don't see a reason to think that it's ever going to happen. Check it out:
EVERY
DRM
SYSTEM
DEPLOYED
HAS
BEEN
CRACKED
without exception, every time someone releases a DRM system into the wild, it gets cracked. The pattern is long and consistent and obvious. If someone running a media business thinks that their content will not be copied freely, either they think their content is undesirable crap or they are an incompetent fool.
> Oracle wants you to use their database product for all of your data. > Nothing wrong with that, that's their business.
Nothing wrong with that from the vendor's viewpoint, but what about the customer's viewpoint? There's plenty wrong with that. I'm trying to run a business. I don't want to be chained to a stall and milked for cash until I die, thank you very much.
> I definitely don't believe in Hell, or a God who would threaten me with it to get me to love him.
Nor do most Christians, I would guess. But I don't think it matters much what they believe: It either is or isn't, quite regardless of their belief. And quite regardless of yours and mine as well.
It is exceedingly rare for a U.S. company to make money in China. What does make money is using China's cheaper labor to effect a savings. When entering into a business relationship in China, you have to remember three things:
1) They are smarter than you 2) They are lying to you 3) They make the rules
For this reason, it's generally better to just say no. Google is likely to make a lot more money off of little Taiwan than great big China, until this pattern changes.
China kills people for "economic crimes" and drug offenses, then sends a bill for the bullet to the family of the victim, more executed prisoners each year than all of the rest of the world combined.
China forces abortions and sterilization on women every day.
China tortures peaceful, law-abiding people for practicing their religious freedoms guaranteed by Chinese law.
China imprisons journalists for offenses which are nowhere defined.
Yeah, China is evil, and on a vast scale.
The U.S. executes and imprisons its citizens unlawfully too, but the scale is dramatically smaller.
Where the U.S. surpasses China in evil is in the mass-murder of people living in other countries.
The Articles of Confederation were not in effect when the states of the Confederacy seceded. The right of secession is guaranteed by the 10th Amendment.
dopamine rush is very temporary. therapeutic doses of heroin for depression are much lower than cocaine, making it a sustainable treatment option. one can make a heroin patch with DMSO and bandage tape that's quite effective and discreet. goes well with sustained-release adderall to offset the slight nod.
Every apparent contradiction is consistent with a higher synthesis. The same guy who said that also said "I am the way, the truth and the life; no man comes to the Father except through me". In order to understand the intent of that, and simultaneously understand the intent of what he said in dealing with the young rich man, you need to develop a perspective that includes both, as your frame for understanding. There are many available, in the literature, but you if you regard Jesus' teachings as normative, you'll probably need to come up with your own, since the ones in the literature will probably be inconsistent with some dearly held personal tenet or another.
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That API is open. It's implementation is closed, and many auxilliary APIs are closed.
Open means you can see inside. I can see inside the API, but not inside it's implementation.
By publishing books on the subject, Microsoft has made the design open, to the degree
that it is accurately documented, but not the code. OpenSolaris is open at the code level,
but not at the process level: It does not use an open development process.
I think this is a common jargon use of the term "open", and it corresponds closely to its
dictionary definition.
32 is a large number for SMP CPU heads, but it gets bigger. Consider that in roughly the
same timeframe that retail chassis are available using these chipsets, quadcore CPUs
will be on the market. That puts 128 modern CPUs in one box. Rare indeed is the whitebox
application that needs to scale beyond that. And if you cluster *those*, you're rapidly
approaching the top end of existing systems for HPC throughput.
This might be a very good way to push a vehicle up a space elevator.
Why is it sad? I command $75-$100/hr for short to medium-term 1099 work, and $50-60 for w2 employment with benefits. I think your $5-10 is pathetic. If I can't pull down 6 figures, I'd rather start my own business. And I'm several hours' drive from the nearest airport that can land a passenger jet.
By *definition*?
What about my new recording system that encapsulates the performance in a space-time bubble and reconnects its starting time with the point at which you press "play"?
Huh? What about that, then, Mr. Smartypants Webster?
> all electron energy levels are in multiples of the plank energy
to clarify my comment (should have proofread):
this is true in the sense that Pi is a multiple of 2. electron energy is equal
to frequency times the planck constant. but frequency varies continuously.
> all electron energy levels are in multiples of the plank energy
not all photons comes from changes in the exitation state of electrons in an atom.
any time you accellerate charges, you get photons, and charges can be accellerated
with continuous forces. electron shell structure is discontinuous because it has
to accomodate a standing wave according to schroedinger's equation, not because
energy comes in atomic units. please do not confuse cause and effect.
moreover, this does not address the continuity of time. a kroenecker delta may be discontinuous, but it is not digital unless it is constrained to occur at discrete time boundaries.
finally, his name was planck.
Neurons fire in spikes of a curiously complex wavelet format which occur at continuously variable intervals. Where's the digital in that?
Spoken like a true professional consultant.
Here's my take:
The OP never said anything useful about price and performance constraints,
scaling requirements, software constraints, etc.
1) connect them all to a fast switch using commodity hardware, OTS software.
- cheap, cheap, cheap, works now
- probably good enough
need faster?
2) connect them all to each other using commodity hardware, OTS software.
- cheap, will work once the wires are all connected
- almost certainly good enough
still not satisfied?
3) connect them all to each other using commodity hardware, and roll your
own user-space memory-mapped IO system with a sockets API (assuming that's
what your apps require), probably using Adam Dunkels' lwIP.
- expensive, behind schedule
- forsooth, it rocks thine world.
more money than time?
4) connect them to a proprietary fabric, running on boutique hardware and
software.
- you just won a brand new investor lawsuit
- ok, so its fast
Given their unshakable devotion to that stupid looking demon guy, maybe they should rename it Satanix.
That's just wrong. You can call 911 on VOIP. In some cases it's even E911, and the dispatcher will get your location information automatically.
I'd like to see Level 3 get sued for $100M wrongful death as a result of this action.
> Evil is a useless politically
certain presidents of the united states disagree
> and highly culturally dependent category
every word you utter is ideolectically conditioned. that doesn't mean we
give up on communication. "blue" is a highly culturally dependent category.
that doesn't prevent me from talking about color with japanese people.
if you don't want to eliminate evil, then from my viewpoint, you are irrelevant. it's the only thing worth doing.
> assuming the DRM has been implemented in a reasonably strong way
It's a fantasy assumption. Has never happened yet, and I don't see a reason to think that it's ever going to happen. Check it out:
EVERY
DRM
SYSTEM
DEPLOYED
HAS
BEEN
CRACKED
without exception, every time someone releases a DRM system into the wild, it gets cracked. The pattern is long and consistent and obvious. If someone running a media business thinks that their content will not be copied freely, either they think their content is undesirable crap or they are an incompetent fool.
> Oracle wants you to use their database product for all of your data.
> Nothing wrong with that, that's their business.
Nothing wrong with that from the vendor's viewpoint, but what about the
customer's viewpoint? There's plenty wrong with that. I'm trying to run
a business. I don't want to be chained to a stall and milked for cash until
I die, thank you very much.
> I definitely don't believe in Hell, or a God who would threaten me with it to get me to love him.
Nor do most Christians, I would guess. But I don't think it matters much what they believe: It either is or isn't, quite regardless of their belief. And quite regardless of yours and mine as well.
My final point tried to emphasize that comparisons of "who is more evil" are useless. The goal has to be to eliminate the evil, not to excuse it.
> you still have to prevent it being redistributed
And believe five or six impossible things before breakfast, too, eh?
Sorry, not going to happen.
It is exceedingly rare for a U.S. company to make money in China.
What does make money is using China's cheaper labor to effect a savings.
When entering into a business relationship in China, you have to remember
three things:
1) They are smarter than you
2) They are lying to you
3) They make the rules
For this reason, it's generally better to just say no. Google is likely to
make a lot more money off of little Taiwan than great big China, until this
pattern changes.
China kills people for "economic crimes" and drug offenses, then sends a bill for the bullet to the family of the victim, more executed prisoners each year than all of the rest of the world combined.
China forces abortions and sterilization on women every day.
China tortures peaceful, law-abiding people for practicing their religious freedoms guaranteed by Chinese law.
China imprisons journalists for offenses which are nowhere defined.
Yeah, China is evil, and on a vast scale.
The U.S. executes and imprisons its citizens unlawfully too, but the scale is dramatically smaller.
Where the U.S. surpasses China in evil is in the mass-murder of people living in other countries.
"He did it too" is not a defense.
Good and evil are not opinions. They are non-natural properties, predicates determined at their boundaries by ineluctable relations.
The Articles of Confederation were not in effect when the states of the Confederacy seceded. The right of secession is guaranteed by the 10th Amendment.
dopamine rush is very temporary. therapeutic doses of heroin for depression are much lower than cocaine, making it a sustainable treatment option. one can make a heroin patch with DMSO and bandage tape that's quite effective and discreet. goes well with sustained-release adderall to offset the slight nod.
Literally, "good spirits".
But again, that's a broad semantic field.
Every apparent contradiction is consistent with a higher synthesis. The same guy who said that also said "I am the way, the truth and the life; no man comes to the Father except through me". In order to understand the intent of that, and simultaneously understand the intent of what he said in dealing with the young rich man, you need to develop a perspective that includes both, as your frame for understanding. There are many available, in the literature, but you if you regard Jesus' teachings as normative, you'll probably need to come up with your own, since the ones in the literature will probably be inconsistent with some dearly held personal tenet or another.