You can just see it in the amount of charitable giving, the lower crime
Do you have stats on that? I think the subway is the greatest means of transportation ever devised, and NYC is far from the highest crime city in the country (always has been), but your portrait of Paradise in Gotham is a serious overstatement. It's also the first time I've heard New Yorkers described as gregarious. Even people from Chicago, which is not exactly a small town, think New Yorkers are rude.
Of course there can be even worse evils involved with the accumulation of large blocks of real estate without Eminent Domain.
Using eminent domain on property that isn't condemned, and/or doesn't have serious back taxes owed, for anything other than public projects, is a violation of the Constitution. Unfortunately SCOTUS decided otherwise in Kelo, but it's certainly not a principle I'd endorse. BTW, I lean left, so don't get the idea that I say that just because it was a right wing rallying cry. We do have property rights in this country, and having the government essentially force one private party to sell to another private party violates that.
Ironically, in NYC Google paid $1.9B for the old Port Authority building in Manhattan, which is 2.9M sq. ft. I don't know why they took opposite approaches in SF and NYC.
I personally was so happy when I could afford to live in stand alone houses. I now, don't have to listen to other peoples noise (stereo, crying babies, fscking, etc)...and I don't have to be terribly cognizant of my own levels of noise production.
Since I have kids, I also like having a house. The noise problem that so many people (especially me!) hate about apartments is unnecessary though, and could be fixed for only a few percent more in construction costs. I'd think it'd make business sense, as you could charge at least a modest premium if you advertised good soundproofing. My wife and I once lived on the 4th floor of a decently constructed apartment building. There was literally a baby's crib on the opposite side of the wall from the head of our bed, and we never heard him. If I didn't have kids, I'd happily live in an apartment like that.
marketers decided every American should have a single family home
And the mindless drones just unquestioningly followed the whims of the evil marketers?
No. Single family homes have always been desirable for most people with kids, and even many without. Look at all the brownstones in NYC. They were originally single family homes for the (upper?) middle class. Now they're either carved into apartments, or sometimes inhabited by the wealthy, because that's the only way they're affordable.
Having more area is nice, especially when you have kids. I'm not talking about 3000 sq. ft. McMansions either. I'm happy w/ my 1500 sq. ft. house, and 1/4 acre yard, for a family of four. It's bigger than almost any apartment. It's also nice not to have to listen to my neighbors screaming, or having them complain about our screaming.
Any major city... has a pretty nice immediate downtown and a ring of shitty stuff out of that.
Which means there isn't a decent affordable place to live near downtown, because downtowns are mostly business, and any decent housing in or near it is exorbitantly expensive due to demand. That's how much of Manhattan is. Lots of business, and some nice places to live, but nobody can afford them anymore. You also have some decent areas a short commute away, but they're still expensive. I wish I could afford Brooklyn Heights.
I'm not as familiar w/ the Windows stuff, but I'd be surprised if it didn't work like Xenomai. Xenomai doesn't turn Linux into an RTOS - it allows Linux to be run under an RTOS. It's a clever solution for some designs, but it doesn't make Linux real-time. I have to wonder if it makes much sense in this era of cheap processors though. We typically run Linux and an RTOS (or even bare metal) separately, which makes things simpler. Smartphones do the same thing - the real-time stuff for controlling the wireless runs on a separate processor that's part of the wireless chip set, not the "main" processor that runs Android or whatever. Having worked on some of the lower levels of wireless protocols, I'd be very skeptical of running it on the same processor that people use for playing video game apps.
Linux corner cases have greater latency than many RTOS's have, but the average latency of occupied traces through the kernel are usually a LOT lower
Which is another way of saying that Linux is not real-time. In real-time only the max latency or execution time matters - average time is immaterial if you exceed the max times. The right design decisions for a general purpose OS like Linux are different from the right ones for an RTOS.
Android has RTOS requirements for the signalling. You know, that phone thingy stuff.
No, the level of signalling handled by Android is not that time critical. All the truly critical real-time stuff is handled by a separate processor that's part of the wireless chip set, and doesn't run Android or even Linux. Android doesn't even have to dial or answer a call any faster than you can.
Because "American" car companies are stuck using union labor, while Japanese ones aren't.
Last time I checked there is no law against "American" car companies building plants in "right to work" states. In fact they have. You're making a BS excuse for the "American" car companies.
Linux is an RTOS as long as you select the proper configuration.
No, it's not. They've done some very clever things to reduce Linux response latency, but it's not deterministic, and hence not (hard) real-time. I add the word "hard" only because some people have mistakenly conflated real-time with responsive, leading to the oxymoronic term "soft real-time". Also, even with the clever mods Linux's latency is much longer than many RTOS's.
I love embedded Linux, but if you need an RTOS, it's not the right tool.
BTW, why would Android even need to be an RTOS? What purpose would it serve?
And for entertainment based systems, you don't really need RTOS - just a reasonably fast system.
Yes. I only mentioned RTOS's to counter the common notion that there can be a universal OS for embedded work.
If the tariffs are what make them do it, then I'm all for the tariffs. However, the average tariff on finished cars is something like 2% - not exactly protectionist. "Light trucks" are another story - I think they have a 25% tariff. As for Mexico, if the "American" car manufacturers can dodge the tariff by building there, then so can the "Japanese" car manufacturers. It's the furriners who have more faith in "Made in USA" these days.
Careful with that - I think you mean "crank my windows down". Also GPS can be useful, even if it takes some of the fun out of things, but GPS goes in your smartphone these days. The rest I completely agree with. These needlessly "clever" UI's, and the profusion of them for non-essential functions, are enough to make a real ergonomics designer wretch. I can't wait for the retro craze where you can tune the radio with hard buttons.
Automakers have been writing quality software for decades. It's used in engine and tranny controllers, ABS, and other things that are actually useful and, believe it or not, a part of making the car function.
The profusion of buggy "entertainment systems" and whatnot is the problem. What friggin' purpose do they serve? If you want to listen to music, or do just about anything else in a car, the last thing you want is some needlessly "clever" UI that varies from car to car. Thank goodness the people who design the functional parts of the car don't think that way.
No joke at all. My wife's Toyota Sienna has 85% value added in the US (that's 85% of the cost of building it, not just final assembly). That's a much higher percentage than most American cars. Engine & tranny made in WV, assembly in Kentucky, etc.
Why do the Japanese have more faith in American manufacturing than the "American" car companies? Maybe Motorola Mobility being bought by Lenovo is a good thing. They'll probably continue to design and build them in the US. If they'd continued under "American" ownership they'd probably have offshored everything.
Cry me a river. NYC sends $4.1B more to Albany than they get back. The NYC suburbs (Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland & Westchester) send $7.9B more to Albany than they get back, yet the upstate "we're getting screwed" refrain never ends. How much more of a subsidy do you want?
Whatever happened to the idea of people paying for the true cost of living where they are? The North Country is pretty rural, and like any low population density area it's more expensive to deliver things like broadband. Why should the government subsidize the cost of living in a place like that? Broadband has been readily available in my downstate area for over a decade, but my overall cost of living is much higher. Should the NYS government subsidize that by indexing the state income and sales taxes to local cost of living? Sounds fair, right? $100k household income down here is hardly rich, but it goes a lot further in the North Country. So shouldn't somebody in the North Country who is much better off with that income pay a higher tax rate? If you disagree, do you also not believe in progressive tax rates?
Property Tax, doesn't really fairly cover the population so a Farmer
Property tax on farmland and undeveloped land is generally much lower than for residential real estate. And since you point out that real estate taxes are levied at the town and county level, you have to specify where you're talking about in order for your comment to make much sense.
Wall's training as a linguist is apparent in his books, interviews, and lectures. He often compares Perl to a natural language
And that's the downside to the language. I love Perl and use it as my scripting language of choice. However, as somebody I know who was trying to learn it said, "too much syntax". You don't need, and aside from a little syntactic sugar generally don't want an unnecessary profusion of different ways to do the same thing. It's a nice characteristic for poetry, but not programming.
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You can just see it in the amount of charitable giving, the lower crime
Do you have stats on that? I think the subway is the greatest means of transportation ever devised, and NYC is far from the highest crime city in the country (always has been), but your portrait of Paradise in Gotham is a serious overstatement. It's also the first time I've heard New Yorkers described as gregarious. Even people from Chicago, which is not exactly a small town, think New Yorkers are rude.
bad-mouthing something else by calling it tax-dependent
If you don't think the MTA is tax dependent, then you know nothing about the NYC area. They even get to levy taxes on people outside of the city.
Mountain View is the middle of nowhere? That explains why property is so cheap there.
Of course there can be even worse evils involved with the accumulation of large blocks of real estate without Eminent Domain.
Using eminent domain on property that isn't condemned, and/or doesn't have serious back taxes owed, for anything other than public projects, is a violation of the Constitution. Unfortunately SCOTUS decided otherwise in Kelo, but it's certainly not a principle I'd endorse. BTW, I lean left, so don't get the idea that I say that just because it was a right wing rallying cry. We do have property rights in this country, and having the government essentially force one private party to sell to another private party violates that.
Ironically, in NYC Google paid $1.9B for the old Port Authority building in Manhattan, which is 2.9M sq. ft. I don't know why they took opposite approaches in SF and NYC.
Why do you want businesses to have to deal with that?
I personally was so happy when I could afford to live in stand alone houses. I now, don't have to listen to other peoples noise (stereo, crying babies, fscking, etc)...and I don't have to be terribly cognizant of my own levels of noise production.
Since I have kids, I also like having a house. The noise problem that so many people (especially me!) hate about apartments is unnecessary though, and could be fixed for only a few percent more in construction costs. I'd think it'd make business sense, as you could charge at least a modest premium if you advertised good soundproofing. My wife and I once lived on the 4th floor of a decently constructed apartment building. There was literally a baby's crib on the opposite side of the wall from the head of our bed, and we never heard him. If I didn't have kids, I'd happily live in an apartment like that.
marketers decided every American should have a single family home
And the mindless drones just unquestioningly followed the whims of the evil marketers?
No. Single family homes have always been desirable for most people with kids, and even many without. Look at all the brownstones in NYC. They were originally single family homes for the (upper?) middle class. Now they're either carved into apartments, or sometimes inhabited by the wealthy, because that's the only way they're affordable.
Having more area is nice, especially when you have kids. I'm not talking about 3000 sq. ft. McMansions either. I'm happy w/ my 1500 sq. ft. house, and 1/4 acre yard, for a family of four. It's bigger than almost any apartment. It's also nice not to have to listen to my neighbors screaming, or having them complain about our screaming.
Any major city ... has a pretty nice immediate downtown and a ring of shitty stuff out of that.
Which means there isn't a decent affordable place to live near downtown, because downtowns are mostly business, and any decent housing in or near it is exorbitantly expensive due to demand. That's how much of Manhattan is. Lots of business, and some nice places to live, but nobody can afford them anymore. You also have some decent areas a short commute away, but they're still expensive. I wish I could afford Brooklyn Heights.
Windows also has RT dual kernel systems
I'm not as familiar w/ the Windows stuff, but I'd be surprised if it didn't work like Xenomai. Xenomai doesn't turn Linux into an RTOS - it allows Linux to be run under an RTOS. It's a clever solution for some designs, but it doesn't make Linux real-time. I have to wonder if it makes much sense in this era of cheap processors though. We typically run Linux and an RTOS (or even bare metal) separately, which makes things simpler. Smartphones do the same thing - the real-time stuff for controlling the wireless runs on a separate processor that's part of the wireless chip set, not the "main" processor that runs Android or whatever. Having worked on some of the lower levels of wireless protocols, I'd be very skeptical of running it on the same processor that people use for playing video game apps.
Linux corner cases have greater latency than many RTOS's have, but the average latency of occupied traces through the kernel are usually a LOT lower
Which is another way of saying that Linux is not real-time. In real-time only the max latency or execution time matters - average time is immaterial if you exceed the max times. The right design decisions for a general purpose OS like Linux are different from the right ones for an RTOS.
Android has RTOS requirements for the signalling. You know, that phone thingy stuff.
No, the level of signalling handled by Android is not that time critical. All the truly critical real-time stuff is handled by a separate processor that's part of the wireless chip set, and doesn't run Android or even Linux. Android doesn't even have to dial or answer a call any faster than you can.
Because "American" car companies are stuck using union labor, while Japanese ones aren't.
Last time I checked there is no law against "American" car companies building plants in "right to work" states. In fact they have. You're making a BS excuse for the "American" car companies.
Linux is an RTOS as long as you select the proper configuration.
No, it's not. They've done some very clever things to reduce Linux response latency, but it's not deterministic, and hence not (hard) real-time. I add the word "hard" only because some people have mistakenly conflated real-time with responsive, leading to the oxymoronic term "soft real-time". Also, even with the clever mods Linux's latency is much longer than many RTOS's.
I love embedded Linux, but if you need an RTOS, it's not the right tool.
BTW, why would Android even need to be an RTOS? What purpose would it serve?
And for entertainment based systems, you don't really need RTOS - just a reasonably fast system.
Yes. I only mentioned RTOS's to counter the common notion that there can be a universal OS for embedded work.
If the tariffs are what make them do it, then I'm all for the tariffs. However, the average tariff on finished cars is something like 2% - not exactly protectionist. "Light trucks" are another story - I think they have a 25% tariff. As for Mexico, if the "American" car manufacturers can dodge the tariff by building there, then so can the "Japanese" car manufacturers. It's the furriners who have more faith in "Made in USA" these days.
crank my Windows down
Careful with that - I think you mean "crank my windows down". Also GPS can be useful, even if it takes some of the fun out of things, but GPS goes in your smartphone these days. The rest I completely agree with. These needlessly "clever" UI's, and the profusion of them for non-essential functions, are enough to make a real ergonomics designer wretch. I can't wait for the retro craze where you can tune the radio with hard buttons.
Automakers have been writing quality software for decades. It's used in engine and tranny controllers, ABS, and other things that are actually useful and, believe it or not, a part of making the car function.
The profusion of buggy "entertainment systems" and whatnot is the problem. What friggin' purpose do they serve? If you want to listen to music, or do just about anything else in a car, the last thing you want is some needlessly "clever" UI that varies from car to car. Thank goodness the people who design the functional parts of the car don't think that way.
QNX is an RTOS, Linux is not.
No joke at all. My wife's Toyota Sienna has 85% value added in the US (that's 85% of the cost of building it, not just final assembly). That's a much higher percentage than most American cars. Engine & tranny made in WV, assembly in Kentucky, etc.
Why do the Japanese have more faith in American manufacturing than the "American" car companies? Maybe Motorola Mobility being bought by Lenovo is a good thing. They'll probably continue to design and build them in the US. If they'd continued under "American" ownership they'd probably have offshored everything.
It is not like they ever take Upstate seriously.
Cry me a river. NYC sends $4.1B more to Albany than they get back. The NYC suburbs (Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland & Westchester) send $7.9B more to Albany than they get back, yet the upstate "we're getting screwed" refrain never ends. How much more of a subsidy do you want?
Whatever happened to the idea of people paying for the true cost of living where they are? The North Country is pretty rural, and like any low population density area it's more expensive to deliver things like broadband. Why should the government subsidize the cost of living in a place like that? Broadband has been readily available in my downstate area for over a decade, but my overall cost of living is much higher. Should the NYS government subsidize that by indexing the state income and sales taxes to local cost of living? Sounds fair, right? $100k household income down here is hardly rich, but it goes a lot further in the North Country. So shouldn't somebody in the North Country who is much better off with that income pay a higher tax rate? If you disagree, do you also not believe in progressive tax rates?
Property Tax, doesn't really fairly cover the population so a Farmer
Property tax on farmland and undeveloped land is generally much lower than for residential real estate. And since you point out that real estate taxes are levied at the town and county level, you have to specify where you're talking about in order for your comment to make much sense.
Wall's training as a linguist is apparent in his books, interviews, and lectures. He often compares Perl to a natural language
And that's the downside to the language. I love Perl and use it as my scripting language of choice. However, as somebody I know who was trying to learn it said, "too much syntax". You don't need, and aside from a little syntactic sugar generally don't want an unnecessary profusion of different ways to do the same thing. It's a nice characteristic for poetry, but not programming.
English is universally derided among them for being the easiest to learn.
It's odd to deride a virtue.
Chinese should be a mandated prerequiste at every high school today
They said the same thing about Japanese in the 80's.
Just because the skills and brain activity of reading and writing code is more akin to math, doesn't mean the required knowledge is identical to math.