The thing about Tasmania is that it has a tiny population but an equal number of senators as any of the larger states (twelve). It's an ideal place for fringe figures to get elected, from the left or the right.
The thing is, this legislation was introduced years ago. But by the time it was signed into law, it had been so watered down that the only things remaining were (a) the requirement that ISPs inform customers that web filtering software exists, and (b) a government department to review complaints about content hosted in Australia, which has issued about a dozen "takedown" notices to date. Web hosting in Australia is absurdly expensive, so anyone who wants to run a porn site rents a server in the U.S. or Hong Kong - in which case they are not subject to this law.
I wrote a commentary that Apple would certainly launch a fully integrated iApp type solution within the year
You and ten thousand others.
I discussed the practicality of a Powerbook Nano. A totally solid state machine designed for instant on and robust handling.
You and probably a hundred others. Such things are already exist, but have never been commercially successful. It's not new in any way, which is why no-one is jumping up and down about it.
There are two main types of hardware multithreading, referred to as "vertical" and "horizontal".
Vertical multithreading works much like you described. Only one thread can be running in a given cycle, and when one thread is waiting on a memory access another thread can jump in. But the load balancing works out better than your example.:)
Horizontal multithreading picks out instructions from all the threads and then schedules them into the available issue slots to get the maximum throughput. IBM's Power5 does this.
Niagara is designed for servers running moderately complex interactive tasks. Dynamic, database-driven websites would be ideally served by it. Although the individual cores would be much slower than a Xeon or Opteron, there are 8 of them on one chip, and multithreading on top of that. On suitable workloads, this single chip could outrun a quad-processor Xeon. On unsuitable workloads, it will suck, because it's still only 1.2GHz.
What's the difference between companies like Verso, Yahoo, Cisco and Google which help the Chinese Communists oppress people, and the oil companies, industrial giants, and weapons manufacturers that have supported tyrants in exhange for access to their markets?
Well, the oil companies and industrial giants are amoral in that they ignore the oppression when there's a buck to be made.
Verso, Yahoo, Cisco and Google are immoral because they are directly contributing to the oppression.
In other words, the new-style scumbags are worse than the old-style scumbags.
(Leaving out the arms dealers for the moment, who are slime by any measure, but are often working for totalitarian governments themselves.)
Wouldn't it be better to be the first? You know, so you don't have to watch everyone else die?
What? I've already paid for the tickets!
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Don't they teach this stuff in the schools anymore?
No, they don't. They tend to gloss over the fact that socialist and worse, communist economic theory is a guaranteed one-way trip to misery and starvation.
Of course, China isn't a communist state anymore, but rather some bizarre fascist psuedo-capitalist nightmare. They eventually abandoned communism in all but name (but not until after they'd killed 50 million of their own people).
This sort of thing is all but impossible to do in a free society. It is completely impossible for China, but they don't have to admit it. When it fails, they'l just change the history books. Kind of like how the Soviets never had a manned lunar program...
Should bloggers, for instance, meet the same standards for accuracy as professional journalists?
You're proposing a law requiring bloggers to misquote people, get key facts wrong, present nonsense in the name of "balance" and generally make stuff up? Well, sure, if you're going to pay them for it.
Windows hibernate is actually a bit smarter than that. I tested it just now on my notebook (Celeron M 1.4GHz, 1.25GB memory, 100GB 5400rpm disk) and it took 26 seconds to hibernate and 15 seconds to restore. Still a long way from instantaneous, of course.
Well, that's just it. Convenient blogging software made it easy for people not just to create web sites, but to keep them updated.
So they do.
Now, it's true that some of them shouldn't, and many of them aren't worth reading, and many more are of interest only to a small circle - friends or family or people of common interested (whether that be politics or raising puppies or knitting pullovers).
But some of them really are good.
And remember that those millions in revenues are spread among millions of bloggers, and the average blogger is lucky to cover his bandwidth bill. A few make worthwhile amounts of money; one or two make enough to live on.
There are many alternative voting systems. Some may work better than others... in some circumstances. Germany's recent difficulty in choosing a new Chancellor shows the problems with parliamentary systems that give rise to numerous parties.
In the American system, there are still numerous parties, it's just that the coalitions are permanent, and you vote for the coalitions. Both the Democrats and the Republicans represent a range of differing views that would be quite unusual in a single European political party, but to get elected in America they must present themselves as a single party. Division pretty much guarantees defeat. This tends to push both parties towards the center, which I personally regard as a good thing.
This only works as long as both parties have a credible chance of getting elected. If one party becomes weak, the stronger party tends to split along ideological faultlines as the differing groups see a chance to put their own policies into action. (See the Whigs, for example.)
Certainly America is a functioning democracy (and was even during the Civil War), so it has to be said that the system works in that respect. France's democratic history on the other hand is rather patchy - this is, after all, their Fifth Republic.
While I'm here, I'll just mention that I'm amused that George Clinton was twice elected Vice President under the Democratic-Republican ticket.
You do have a right not to be arrested. In which case, you also have a right to be shot for resisting arrest, followed by the right to lie bleeding on the ground.
Even if you have a right to do something, exercising that right has consequences.
You should have the right to protest when you want to.
You do have that right.
You also have the right to be arrested for trespassing or obstructing a public thoroughfare or creating a nuisance. You have lots of rights you don't really want to exercise.
Unlimited spending by the two bug parties acts as an effective barrier to entry to third parties.
Yes and no. The winner-takes-all nature of the American political system makes it almost impossible for third parties to get anywhere even if they do have money. Whether that's a feature or a bug is arguable.
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Right, it was Harradine, another Tasmanian loony.
The thing about Tasmania is that it has a tiny population but an equal number of senators as any of the larger states (twelve). It's an ideal place for fringe figures to get elected, from the left or the right.
The thing is, this legislation was introduced years ago. But by the time it was signed into law, it had been so watered down that the only things remaining were (a) the requirement that ISPs inform customers that web filtering software exists, and (b) a government department to review complaints about content hosted in Australia, which has issued about a dozen "takedown" notices to date. Web hosting in Australia is absurdly expensive, so anyone who wants to run a porn site rents a server in the U.S. or Hong Kong - in which case they are not subject to this law.
I wrote a commentary that Apple would certainly launch a fully integrated iApp type solution within the year
You and ten thousand others.
I discussed the practicality of a Powerbook Nano. A totally solid state machine designed for instant on and robust handling.
You and probably a hundred others. Such things are already exist, but have never been commercially successful. It's not new in any way, which is why no-one is jumping up and down about it.
Congress shall make no law.
The most beautiful five-word phrase in the English language.
Put down the crack pipe. US media varies from right wing to borderline neo-fascist from a global perspective.
Which only goes to show that there is something seriously wrong with the global perspective.
There are two main types of hardware multithreading, referred to as "vertical" and "horizontal".
:)
Vertical multithreading works much like you described. Only one thread can be running in a given cycle, and when one thread is waiting on a memory access another thread can jump in. But the load balancing works out better than your example.
Horizontal multithreading picks out instructions from all the threads and then schedules them into the available issue slots to get the maximum throughput. IBM's Power5 does this.
Niagara is designed for servers running moderately complex interactive tasks. Dynamic, database-driven websites would be ideally served by it. Although the individual cores would be much slower than a Xeon or Opteron, there are 8 of them on one chip, and multithreading on top of that. On suitable workloads, this single chip could outrun a quad-processor Xeon. On unsuitable workloads, it will suck, because it's still only 1.2GHz.
Specs here. Four 144-bit DDR2-533 interfaces. That's more memory bandwidth than a quad-Opteron system.
What's the difference between companies like Verso, Yahoo, Cisco and Google which help the Chinese Communists oppress people, and the oil companies, industrial giants, and weapons manufacturers that have supported tyrants in exhange for access to their markets?
Well, the oil companies and industrial giants are amoral in that they ignore the oppression when there's a buck to be made.
Verso, Yahoo, Cisco and Google are immoral because they are directly contributing to the oppression.
In other words, the new-style scumbags are worse than the old-style scumbags.
(Leaving out the arms dealers for the moment, who are slime by any measure, but are often working for totalitarian governments themselves.)
Wouldn't it be better to be the first? You know, so you don't have to watch everyone else die?
What? I've already paid for the tickets!
Don't they teach this stuff in the schools anymore?
No, they don't. They tend to gloss over the fact that socialist and worse, communist economic theory is a guaranteed one-way trip to misery and starvation.
Of course, China isn't a communist state anymore, but rather some bizarre fascist psuedo-capitalist nightmare. They eventually abandoned communism in all but name (but not until after they'd killed 50 million of their own people).
This sort of thing is all but impossible to do in a free society. It is completely impossible for China, but they don't have to admit it. When it fails, they'l just change the history books. Kind of like how the Soviets never had a manned lunar program...
Well, the bunnies manage to compress it down to 30 seconds, which is more than half way there.
Service is usually good in Australia, but restaurants are the one place where you would leave a tip.
Pistols are difficult, because apart from sport there's no practical reason to have one
Pistols are designed for shooting people. Sometimes this is necessary.
If we could just conquer the world and force everybody to use the same laws, Apple would be able to have one big iTunes store.
Sounds good to me. When can you start?
P.S. We need an Amazon down here too.
Otherwise how can drug makers ship drugs to Canada who then sells them back to our own citizens for less than we can buy them here?
Simple.
U.S. sales are subsidising Canadian sales.
From TFA:
Should bloggers, for instance, meet the same standards for accuracy as professional journalists?
You're proposing a law requiring bloggers to misquote people, get key facts wrong, present nonsense in the name of "balance" and generally make stuff up? Well, sure, if you're going to pay them for it.
Windows hibernate is actually a bit smarter than that. I tested it just now on my notebook (Celeron M 1.4GHz, 1.25GB memory, 100GB 5400rpm disk) and it took 26 seconds to hibernate and 15 seconds to restore. Still a long way from instantaneous, of course.
If all of the Antarctic ice melted, sea levels around the world would rise about 61 meters (200 feet).
Nice work with the selective quoting, bub.
Very next line:
But the average temperature in Antarctica is -37C, so the ice there is in no danger of melting. In fact in most parts of the continent it never gets above freezing.
If we raise the average temperature on Earth by 37C, we'll probably all be dead anyway, so the flooding will be kind of irrelevant.
Well, that's just it. Convenient blogging software made it easy for people not just to create web sites, but to keep them updated.
So they do.
Now, it's true that some of them shouldn't, and many of them aren't worth reading, and many more are of interest only to a small circle - friends or family or people of common interested (whether that be politics or raising puppies or knitting pullovers).
But some of them really are good.
And remember that those millions in revenues are spread among millions of bloggers, and the average blogger is lucky to cover his bandwidth bill. A few make worthwhile amounts of money; one or two make enough to live on.
There are many alternative voting systems. Some may work better than others... in some circumstances. Germany's recent difficulty in choosing a new Chancellor shows the problems with parliamentary systems that give rise to numerous parties.
In the American system, there are still numerous parties, it's just that the coalitions are permanent, and you vote for the coalitions. Both the Democrats and the Republicans represent a range of differing views that would be quite unusual in a single European political party, but to get elected in America they must present themselves as a single party. Division pretty much guarantees defeat. This tends to push both parties towards the center, which I personally regard as a good thing.
This only works as long as both parties have a credible chance of getting elected. If one party becomes weak, the stronger party tends to split along ideological faultlines as the differing groups see a chance to put their own policies into action. (See the Whigs, for example.)
Certainly America is a functioning democracy (and was even during the Civil War), so it has to be said that the system works in that respect. France's democratic history on the other hand is rather patchy - this is, after all, their Fifth Republic.
While I'm here, I'll just mention that I'm amused that George Clinton was twice elected Vice President under the Democratic-Republican ticket.
That's easily fixed - though I'm not sure how long it would take for a new state to be ratified these days.
You do have a right not to be arrested. In which case, you also have a right to be shot for resisting arrest, followed by the right to lie bleeding on the ground.
Even if you have a right to do something, exercising that right has consequences.
You should have the right to protest when you want to.
You do have that right.
You also have the right to be arrested for trespassing or obstructing a public thoroughfare or creating a nuisance. You have lots of rights you don't really want to exercise.
Unlimited spending by the two bug parties acts as an effective barrier to entry to third parties.
Yes and no. The winner-takes-all nature of the American political system makes it almost impossible for third parties to get anywhere even if they do have money. Whether that's a feature or a bug is arguable.
Accountability, accountability, accountability.
Now that I'll agree with.
And that has nothing to do with the fact that I run 200 blogs.
Just another instance of the Wheel of Reincarnation.
Though this one is dumber than most.