Pope John-Paul the First would have come pretty close to doing that. He was as close to a real saint as the Catholic church has. His election to pope was an accident and they changed the rules after his death to prevent a re-occurrence.
Rumour is John Paul 1st was killed because he would have upset the apple cart regarding the catholic church's involvement with the mafia in money laundering back in the 80's. The catholic church refused to allow an autopsy even though he died under very suspicious circumstances. John-Paul also wanted to go back to a simpler catholic church that concentrated on doing services for poor people. Among other things, he wanted to revisit the ban on contraception, something that might have significantly reduced the ravages of AIDS in Africa and Asia. If any recent pope deserves to be recognized for saint-hood, he does.
Sure, the guys had a lock on a revolutionary new industry for some time. Then like all good "IP" it expired.
Yep and for most of those 20 years development in that field stagnated until the patent was expropriated by the Army during the First World War. Public Key Cryptography deployment also stagnated during the 17 years it was covered by patent.
Now, it's arguable that PKI might not have been developed if it were not for patents, but there were plenty of people who would have been willing to push forward the development of flight with or without patent protection.
Actually, the charge is usually manslaughter, which is not the same as murder, since the latter indicates intention to kill whereas the former usually indicates negligence. Of course manslaughter is still a very serious offense that will lead to hard time.
Of course the very people who you would think would support this, the anti-abortionists, are religious fundamentalists who will decry this solution by claiming you are encouraging promiscuity. The only thing that will make them happy are promises of abstention from sex and chastity belts.
Of course to be fair, the men should have to wear chastity belts too...
1) It's worthwhile pursuing other avenues of research in case this avenue doesn't pan out
2) It's worthwhile pursuing other avenues of research that use stem cells from normal sources until this method is more reliable in producing the raw materials for those complementary avenues of research. Those other avenues of research also add to our understanding of cell differentiation which might provide positive feedback into your favoured avenues of research.
3) The pharmaceutical industry is a lot more interested in producing treatments than cures. You can make a lot more money out of an ongoing treatment than from a one shot cure. Private industry generally also isn't interested in funding multi-decade long term research projects but want much shorter time frame ROI. Even in the pharmaceutical industry, where safety testing causes development times that can exceed a decade, the amount of research that remains before these approaches can be commercially viable are too long to attract the necessary investment.
4)...
5) Keep your religious and capitalist ideology to yourself and out of the way of scientist trying to further our understanding of whether it's possible to make this work. Once we start havign a reasonable understanding the fine grain mechanisms of cell differentiation and start looking at widespread clinical trials, then you can bring out your hobby horse.
My understanding is that GCC doesn't perform as well as ICC because ICC uses a number of patented algorithms in its optimizations which GCC cannot yet legally use. Not sure if somebody in Europe might be able to fork a version of GCC that uses those algorithms for use outside the US. The problem of course is that many of the maintainers of GCC work for Cygnus Software (now part of Redhat?) and are based in the US.
By your narrow definition of pure parallel coding - like supercomputing itself - it always was, and always will be, a small niche market. An important one to be sure, but a very small one compared to the amount of business application and general purpose application development. And a shrinking one as well. There are whole classes of problems which would require, high-end supercomputers in the 70's and 80's which can be dealt with by modern-day general-purpose computers. Not very well admittedly, for some of the reasons you outline, but well enough that the price premium is no longer justifiable. And certainly there are new classes of problems that could be dealt with by the modern day equivalent, but grant and budget committees seems to be willing to wait until those can be tackled by more general purpose computers as well.
Pure parallel programming is dying -- it's far more efficient to have the OS divide up the work and rely on multi-CPU, multi-core, hyper-threaded systems to take care of all the tracking than it is to mess with very advanced programming techniques, message-passing libraries and the inevitable deadlock issues.
Yeah, because applications like DBMSs don't deal with advanced programming techniques like multi-threading and locks to deal with large loads, they let the OS take care of that. Sure
The O/S can't split up a sequential workload into independent pieces that can be run by multiple cores. At best, processors do a small-grained version of this with super-scalar architectures, but that has limits due to significantly diminishing returns for the resources used.
If you run a lot of independent processes or threads then they can be load balanced on multiple cores. If you want to take advantage of the multi-core processors that are increasingly being the direction of processor hardware development, you're may have to get your hands dirty in the very programming skills you decry.
Any time you have a shared resource that must be accessed by multiple clients, the only way to optimize access to that resource is by minimizing the amount of time that resource is exclusively accessible by a single client. The O/S can handle that for resources it knows about, but it can't do it for the logical resources that an application may need to define.
The good news is that, nowadays, it's primarily the tool and general-purpose app designers that need to worry about it, and not so much the vertical market app designers that build on top of those tools. Just because the market has effectively "outsourced" those skills to some application vendors doesn't mean that they are dying. It does mean that you're likely to get some very poorly performing apps when you have systems which require those skills but few developers who understand when and why they are required.
For example, the 'myth' on chaotic systems - the whole definition of chaotic system is that if you have two very similar sets of input data, you can get two very different sets of dissimilar outputs - so using the kind of prediction that the global trend in a chaotic system will remain the same is bullshit.
This should probably be Myth #0.
Thermal noise is the symptom of molecular movement being a chaotic system. That hasn't stopped people from developing statistical mechanics and thermodynamics which, ask any mechanical engineer, are still highly deterministic and useful with sufficiently large sample sets. While weather is a chaotic system, and localized climate is relatively unpredictable, the average behaviour of the Earth's system as a whole is much more predictable.
You have no understanding of strategy or politics.
First, the subordinate happens to be the head of the Justice department. Replacing him with someone who will actually do his job properly is important if you want to be able to get the information needed to properly prosecute an impeachment instead of having every step you take challenged. Yes, Congress has independent subpoena power, but it will look better in front of a judge if the Justice Department isn't fighting everything they do. You must know by now that the Bush administration will fight everything in the courts under the guise of Executive Priviledge. This is laying the precedents to weaken that position.
It also weakens Bush politically by sapping his support through exposing further the corruption of the administration. In a corrida, you weaken the bull before the matador steps in. Before you can impeach Bush, you have to convince the 30% of Americans that still drink the Kool-Aid to stop. When polls say 60+% of Americans think it's time to impeach Bush, it will happen. You're not there yet.
If you're looking up gauge theories or computability, you had better be prepared to deal with a fair bit of math if you want more than a 1 paragraph overview description. If you try to put something complex and advanced in layman's terms, you're as likely to wind up with something open to misinterpretation as something useful. Laymen's "interpretations" like the Dancing Wu Li Masters belong even less in a reference work like wikipedia than mathematical formulae do.
In France (and Belgium), BD is Bande Dessine'e (comics). Given that Disney are an international company with a very young target market, perhpas they wanted to avoid the possible confusion.
AFAIK, Safari is only available on the Apple Mac, so that implies the restricted CLI will also be ported to that platform. But, yes, it says nothing about Linux; it wouldn't be surprising if Microsoft failed to port it to that platform (and probably Unices in general) to keep a competitive advantage against what it considers a major threat.
Well, part of it is that I dance a lot of West Coast Swing and usually no more than a song or two per album is appropriate to that dance. While I'll sometimes really enjoy the rest of the album and buy it (John Mayer's Continuum being a good example), that doesn't happen too often. My personal musical tastes often run quite differently from what I would dance to. I like a good melody and harmony and a little instrumental (or vocal) complexity, and I don't find too much of that in a lot of modern hip hop unless it's been sampled from somebody else's work.
Yes there are some very good blues bands, some very good bands doing interesting stuff (Paris Combo rock!). But a few summers ago, I heard some musicians do a jam in a backyard near here that sounded better than most of what I hear on the radio.
why not buy CDs and rip them?Maybe because most CD's only have one or two worthwhile song on them these days. So $3 [+3] $16, not counting time for ripping the album and the convenience of web-based sampling and instant gratification.
On the other hand, Intel FSB has a sane bus-based snoopy protocol that does not result in unnecessary data responses.
That works fine for a few processors (4) if you put in a really big cache. However it fails to scale as well as HT in a machine with more processors and NUMA, when you have a workload that's god good localization.
I didn't mention that because that wasn't well publicized back in 2004 (and isn't even that well known no). Everything else I mentioned had gotten a LOT of airtime and newspaper exposure. If you have some links on where that faith-based hiring has been reported on, I would appreciate it.
It depends. Does the crash only close down that document? Or does it also crash and lose the changes to the other documents that you've been making for the last two hours? I'm betting on the latter since all open Word documents seem to be managed under a single process. And to me losing pending changes to other documents is a DoS.
How would you feel if you opened a word document, which you received in an e-mail from a co-worker, that then crashed Word and made you lose some important work you had just been entering?
Since he was reelected though, it's like he misplaced his... humanity or something. He doesn't stand for what he did the first term, he doesn't stand for freedom or justice, he doesn't even seem to stand for the conservative principals that got him elected in the first place.
Nope, it was pretty clear that he (and Cheney) had no humanity prior to the 2004 vote. Either you were blinded by 9/11 bloodlust, or you just wanted to be fooled by the propaganda that was put out by the administration and the media that uncritically regurgitated it as fact.
The whole Abu Ghraib scandal came out long before the vote and it was pretty clear to anybody who was paying attention that the administration had set the conditions that allowed that to happen by weakening the US's resolve to adhere to the Geneva Conventions and the humane treatment of prisoners. They deliberately sent a message out to the army to release the hounds because they thought they could control the media images that would come out through their "embedded" reporters.
Abu Ghraib was the most obvious sign of rot, but there were others. Closed-door energy policy making with the energy industry. The Bush handling of the California energy crisis. Funnelling fungible tax dollars to religious groups through state-sponsored religious charities to buy/pay off the religious vote in contravention of the US Constitution. Probable hiding of questionable deeds by administration staff under previous presidents through the re-classification of documents. The outing of Valerie Plame to hide the manipulation of pre-war intelligence. The signs were all there (or if you're more of an X-Files fan, the truth was out there) prior to November 2004 that you had a rogue administration that was a master the "Big Lie".
You just wanted to ignore it, up until the point where there was so much blood on your hands that it stained everything you touched and you couldn't hide from it anymore. Deal with it and make sure you (and your children if you have any) never fall for that crap again.
Or else keep muttering "I never knew there would be so much blood!" and "Out damned spot!"
Nah, it takes 150 Million dollars to make a Hollywood blockbuster where you spend 1/3 on whiz-bang special effects, 1/3 on salaries for "star" actors and directors, 1/4 for advertising, and the rest for actual preparation of sets and filming. You can still make decent movies today for about $10 million or less; it's just that you then need actual solid plotting, scripting, and acting because you don't have $140 million to paper over crap.
And as the price of Pro HDTV cameras and computers + digital editing S/W drop, you will be able to do a pretty decent all digital-straight to video for a lot less. Sure, you'll still have substantial costs for lighting equipment, audio equipment, makeup, getting filming permits, and so on. But you won't necessarily need to spend money on film and film processing. That's going to open the door to a lot more student and amateur film-making efforts. And yeah, it will still meet Sturgeon's Law, but there *will* be a lot more good stuff mixed in the avalanche of garbage that will fill sites like YouTube.
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Pope John-Paul the First would have come pretty close to doing that. He was as close to a real saint as the Catholic church has. His election to pope was an accident and they changed the rules after his death to prevent a re-occurrence.
Rumour is John Paul 1st was killed because he would have upset the apple cart regarding the catholic church's involvement with the mafia in money laundering back in the 80's. The catholic church refused to allow an autopsy even though he died under very suspicious circumstances. John-Paul also wanted to go back to a simpler catholic church that concentrated on doing services for poor people. Among other things, he wanted to revisit the ban on contraception, something that might have significantly reduced the ravages of AIDS in Africa and Asia. If any recent pope deserves to be recognized for saint-hood, he does.
Yep and for most of those 20 years development in that field stagnated until the patent was expropriated by the Army during the First World War. Public Key Cryptography deployment also stagnated during the 17 years it was covered by patent.
Now, it's arguable that PKI might not have been developed if it were not for patents, but there were plenty of people who would have been willing to push forward the development of flight with or without patent protection.
Actually, the charge is usually manslaughter, which is not the same as murder, since the latter indicates intention to kill whereas the former usually indicates negligence. Of course manslaughter is still a very serious offense that will lead to hard time.
Apparently, your knowledge of statistics is as good as your knowledge of human nature.
And, um, just how do you think developers in the US will test the code for those patented algorithms that can only legally be used outside of the US?
Of course the very people who you would think would support this, the anti-abortionists, are religious fundamentalists who will decry this solution by claiming you are encouraging promiscuity. The only thing that will make them happy are promises of abstention from sex and chastity belts.
Of course to be fair, the men should have to wear chastity belts too...
To answer your queries
1) It's worthwhile pursuing other avenues of research in case this avenue doesn't pan out
2) It's worthwhile pursuing other avenues of research that use stem cells from normal sources until this method is more reliable in producing the raw materials for those complementary avenues of research. Those other avenues of research also add to our understanding of cell differentiation which might provide positive feedback into your favoured avenues of research.
3) The pharmaceutical industry is a lot more interested in producing treatments than cures. You can make a lot more money out of an ongoing treatment than from a one shot cure. Private industry generally also isn't interested in funding multi-decade long term research projects but want much shorter time frame ROI. Even in the pharmaceutical industry, where safety testing causes development times that can exceed a decade, the amount of research that remains before these approaches can be commercially viable are too long to attract the necessary investment.
4)...
5) Keep your religious and capitalist ideology to yourself and out of the way of scientist trying to further our understanding of whether it's possible to make this work. Once we start havign a reasonable understanding the fine grain mechanisms of cell differentiation and start looking at widespread clinical trials, then you can bring out your hobby horse.
My understanding is that GCC doesn't perform as well as ICC because ICC uses a number of patented algorithms in its optimizations which GCC cannot yet legally use. Not sure if somebody in Europe might be able to fork a version of GCC that uses those algorithms for use outside the US. The problem of course is that many of the maintainers of GCC work for Cygnus Software (now part of Redhat?) and are based in the US.
A smart criminal doesn't get caught. Neither does a good evil genius, they find a plausible scapegoat.
Nobody said evil is always smart; sometimes evil is stupid, overconfident, or sloppy.
By your narrow definition of pure parallel coding - like supercomputing itself - it always was, and always will be, a small niche market. An important one to be sure, but a very small one compared to the amount of business application and general purpose application development. And a shrinking one as well. There are whole classes of problems which would require, high-end supercomputers in the 70's and 80's which can be dealt with by modern-day general-purpose computers. Not very well admittedly, for some of the reasons you outline, but well enough that the price premium is no longer justifiable. And certainly there are new classes of problems that could be dealt with by the modern day equivalent, but grant and budget committees seems to be willing to wait until those can be tackled by more general purpose computers as well.
Yeah, because applications like DBMSs don't deal with advanced programming techniques like multi-threading and locks to deal with large loads, they let the OS take care of that. Sure
The O/S can't split up a sequential workload into independent pieces that can be run by multiple cores. At best, processors do a small-grained version of this with super-scalar architectures, but that has limits due to significantly diminishing returns for the resources used.
If you run a lot of independent processes or threads then they can be load balanced on multiple cores. If you want to take advantage of the multi-core processors that are increasingly being the direction of processor hardware development, you're may have to get your hands dirty in the very programming skills you decry.
Any time you have a shared resource that must be accessed by multiple clients, the only way to optimize access to that resource is by minimizing the amount of time that resource is exclusively accessible by a single client. The O/S can handle that for resources it knows about, but it can't do it for the logical resources that an application may need to define.
The good news is that, nowadays, it's primarily the tool and general-purpose app designers that need to worry about it, and not so much the vertical market app designers that build on top of those tools. Just because the market has effectively "outsourced" those skills to some application vendors doesn't mean that they are dying. It does mean that you're likely to get some very poorly performing apps when you have systems which require those skills but few developers who understand when and why they are required.
For example, the 'myth' on chaotic systems - the whole definition of chaotic system is that if you have two very similar sets of input data, you can get two very different sets of dissimilar outputs - so using the kind of prediction that the global trend in a chaotic system will remain the same is bullshit.
This should probably be Myth #0.
Thermal noise is the symptom of molecular movement being a chaotic system. That hasn't stopped people from developing statistical mechanics and thermodynamics which, ask any mechanical engineer, are still highly deterministic and useful with sufficiently large sample sets. While weather is a chaotic system, and localized climate is relatively unpredictable, the average behaviour of the Earth's system as a whole is much more predictable.
You have no understanding of strategy or politics.
First, the subordinate happens to be the head of the Justice department. Replacing him with someone who will actually do his job properly is important if you want to be able to get the information needed to properly prosecute an impeachment instead of having every step you take challenged. Yes, Congress has independent subpoena power, but it will look better in front of a judge if the Justice Department isn't fighting everything they do. You must know by now that the Bush administration will fight everything in the courts under the guise of Executive Priviledge. This is laying the precedents to weaken that position.
It also weakens Bush politically by sapping his support through exposing further the corruption of the administration. In a corrida, you weaken the bull before the matador steps in. Before you can impeach Bush, you have to convince the 30% of Americans that still drink the Kool-Aid to stop. When polls say 60+% of Americans think it's time to impeach Bush, it will happen. You're not there yet.
If you're looking up gauge theories or computability, you had better be prepared to deal with a fair bit of math if you want more than a 1 paragraph overview description. If you try to put something complex and advanced in layman's terms, you're as likely to wind up with something open to misinterpretation as something useful. Laymen's "interpretations" like the Dancing Wu Li Masters belong even less in a reference work like wikipedia than mathematical formulae do.
In France (and Belgium), BD is Bande Dessine'e (comics). Given that Disney are an international company with a very young target market, perhpas they wanted to avoid the possible confusion.
....so I'll denigrate it"
AFAIK, Safari is only available on the Apple Mac, so that implies the restricted CLI will also be ported to that platform. But, yes, it says nothing about Linux; it wouldn't be surprising if Microsoft failed to port it to that platform (and probably Unices in general) to keep a competitive advantage against what it considers a major threat.
Well, part of it is that I dance a lot of West Coast Swing and usually no more than a song or two per album is appropriate to that dance. While I'll sometimes really enjoy the rest of the album and buy it (John Mayer's Continuum being a good example), that doesn't happen too often. My personal musical tastes often run quite differently from what I would dance to. I like a good melody and harmony and a little instrumental (or vocal) complexity, and I don't find too much of that in a lot of modern hip hop unless it's been sampled from somebody else's work.
Yes there are some very good blues bands, some very good bands doing interesting stuff (Paris Combo rock!). But a few summers ago, I heard some musicians do a jam in a backyard near here that sounded better than most of what I hear on the radio.
why not buy CDs and rip them?Maybe because most CD's only have one or two worthwhile song on them these days. So $3 [+3] $16, not counting time for ripping the album and the convenience of web-based sampling and instant gratification.
That works fine for a few processors (4) if you put in a really big cache. However it fails to scale as well as HT in a machine with more processors and NUMA, when you have a workload that's god good localization.
I didn't mention that because that wasn't well publicized back in 2004 (and isn't even that well known no). Everything else I mentioned had gotten a LOT of airtime and newspaper exposure. If you have some links on where that faith-based hiring has been reported on, I would appreciate it.
It depends. Does the crash only close down that document? Or does it also crash and lose the changes to the other documents that you've been making for the last two hours? I'm betting on the latter since all open Word documents seem to be managed under a single process. And to me losing pending changes to other documents is a DoS.
How would you feel if you opened a word document, which you received in an e-mail from a co-worker, that then crashed Word and made you lose some important work you had just been entering?
Nope, it was pretty clear that he (and Cheney) had no humanity prior to the 2004 vote. Either you were blinded by 9/11 bloodlust, or you just wanted to be fooled by the propaganda that was put out by the administration and the media that uncritically regurgitated it as fact.
The whole Abu Ghraib scandal came out long before the vote and it was pretty clear to anybody who was paying attention that the administration had set the conditions that allowed that to happen by weakening the US's resolve to adhere to the Geneva Conventions and the humane treatment of prisoners. They deliberately sent a message out to the army to release the hounds because they thought they could control the media images that would come out through their "embedded" reporters.
Abu Ghraib was the most obvious sign of rot, but there were others. Closed-door energy policy making with the energy industry. The Bush handling of the California energy crisis. Funnelling fungible tax dollars to religious groups through state-sponsored religious charities to buy/pay off the religious vote in contravention of the US Constitution. Probable hiding of questionable deeds by administration staff under previous presidents through the re-classification of documents. The outing of Valerie Plame to hide the manipulation of pre-war intelligence. The signs were all there (or if you're more of an X-Files fan, the truth was out there) prior to November 2004 that you had a rogue administration that was a master the "Big Lie".
You just wanted to ignore it, up until the point where there was so much blood on your hands that it stained everything you touched and you couldn't hide from it anymore. Deal with it and make sure you (and your children if you have any) never fall for that crap again.
Or else keep muttering "I never knew there would be so much blood!" and "Out damned spot!"
Nah, it takes 150 Million dollars to make a Hollywood blockbuster where you spend 1/3 on whiz-bang special effects, 1/3 on salaries for "star" actors and directors, 1/4 for advertising, and the rest for actual preparation of sets and filming. You can still make decent movies today for about $10 million or less; it's just that you then need actual solid plotting, scripting, and acting because you don't have $140 million to paper over crap.
And as the price of Pro HDTV cameras and computers + digital editing S/W drop, you will be able to do a pretty decent all digital-straight to video for a lot less. Sure, you'll still have substantial costs for lighting equipment, audio equipment, makeup, getting filming permits, and so on. But you won't necessarily need to spend money on film and film processing. That's going to open the door to a lot more student and amateur film-making efforts. And yeah, it will still meet Sturgeon's Law, but there *will* be a lot more good stuff mixed in the avalanche of garbage that will fill sites like YouTube.