Thanks for the support. I wish Slashdot made it as easy to talk up a comment as it does to flame it down. Every little bit helps, especially when telling fools that they're on the losing side of history.
It occurs to me that a good storage driver could grab RAM from main memory to do this with any HD, or any Flash drive for that matter. A really good storage driver could grab RAM added on PCI-e, so it wouldn't consume main memory. And, taking it to an extreme, that driver could map the PCI-e RAM into main memory.
Maybe the metapoint here is that storage HW is strangely inflexible and compartmentalized.
Since you're admitting that you'd still elect the Republicans who lied to you, meaning either you're an abject partisan regardless of what Republicans tell you or you just like the catastrophes they wrought, your projections of how Slashdotters will vote next year is meaningless. Even less meaning than your projections of what will happen next in Iraq.
I mean, you're the people who let Osama go. You predicted not just WMD in Iraq, but flowers and applause from "liberated" Iraqis. You people know nothing about any future except the fantasy ones Republicans put on your TV while you vote for them. And evidently, even knowing about the future by living in it and looking back into its past doesn't do anything for your decisionmaking skills.
Fortunately, despite your complelling fantasies, Slashdotters will be like most of America. Vote in a continuing wave for Democrats, like the 11.6% national margin last November. Giving Democrats a power monopoly trifecta.
The problem with Flash (~$12:GB) drives as replacements for rotating magnetic hard drives (~$0.18:GB) is that Flash is a lot more expensive, and Flash wears out after relatively few rewrites. RAM (~$35:GB) is even more expensive, but it doesn't wear out and has much faster performance.
For smaller storage (<10GB, for mobiles), what about a Flash drive with a RAM cache? That gets flushed to Flash once every hour or day or so. For that matter, how come we never saw magnetic drives with builtin RAM caches in the GB scale, occasionally written (in parallel) back to the magnetic disc for reliability? We can set up RAMdisks in SW, but that eats main memory and takes extra configuration. Magnetic or Flash drives with big RAM caches would have much higher performance, and HD vendors could diversify in their extremely competitive market.
As for a specific case, I cite the two patents both granted and defended by the company I just stopped working with. One was for one-time pad distributed on CD, the other was for registering URLs and retesting them for matching specific patterns. Both patents were granted without the company actually creating the invention, just describing it. And trying to peddle patent licenses (without success) for several years, while stopping others (including their successful defense of the patents in court) from "infringing" by acutally making devices.
I hope you'll go out and campaign for your Republicans. Because you're almost the only one left in the country who isn't disgusted by what you people have wrought. Show your pride. So it's easier to see you as warning signs for how not to govern a country.
So much fun to push you around, I'll do it some more. Even though you're so egotistical that oppressing only you, who deserves it so much, will get you squealing that I'm "antidemocratic". I can barely hear you, so here's another spanking.
I pointed out that you're wrong about me being antidemocratic. Which you didn't support, which you cannot support because it's so wrong. You're wrong about other things, but your ignorance of democracy is the most fun to spank you with.
Like Congress. It is indeed superior to the Executive Branch. Congress can make laws without Executive permission - overriding vetoes. It can remove an Executive, or any other official, despite the Executive's opposition. The Executive's only power is in "faithfully executing" the laws that Congress makes. If the Executive does not, Congress can remove them. There is no corresponding power in the Executive over Congress.
I have killed every one of your misbegotten "ideas" you've had the nerve to display in this thread. I've bothered to reply to your namecalling and insults because you are a stupid twat who thinks you're the only one who can do it. You are so afraid of the beatings I've regularly given in this thread that you blurt out your baseless fear that I'm an actual killer. Because you wish that you were. Except you're too much a coward.
You pisspants Republican cowards are so easy to smash, even rhetorically. No wonder you're scared of your own shadows. But you've got to stop sending out the cops and the army to kill for you. Your enemies are accumulating with all your stupid talk of "evil" and your attempts to exterminate them. But at least we've swept you from Congress enough that all you've got is whining. Soon you'll be run out of the White House, too. And then you'll have to tell your ghost stories to the few of you stupid enough to be left in your Party to listen.
Republican TrollMods can't hear the truth. They need highway safety engineers silenced. They even need questions about their responsibility for silencing them silenced.
Republican freedom: the right to remain silent, and no others.
If you people who voted for Republicans for 6-14 years (since 1994 for Congress, since 2000 for Bush's White House) knew then what your Republican government would do with the power you were giving it, would you still have voted that way?
When they told you they would stand for freedom and "personal responsibility", would you have believed them?
And do you believe them now? Most people in Congress, especially Republicans, are the same people holding that office since 1994. And though Bush is on his way out, practically none of the Republicans trying to replace him (those who might actually be the Republican candidate, anyway) show any signs - like condemning him - of doing any different. Of course the Republican Party itself, the center of all the "government doesn't work" ideology, is still the same, with its same sponsors and think tanks.
Will you believe them next year, when they again promise you "personal responsibility", "small, nonintrusive government", "accountability", and all the other promises they've betrayed whenever you've given them the chance?
What about aerogels doped with metals that contract electromagnetically?
One valuable feature of muscles is their power:weight ratio. Aerogels are extremely light - now something like only 20% lighter than air. And they have lots of other valuable engineering properties, including high strength (up to their critical collapse point). And they're cheap to manufacture (in their current form).
Why go with mere "air muscles", when aerogels could offer a much more highly structured, functional material?
Why doesn't your car have a different symmetric password for each physical key? Make it easier to secure the car after losing a key. And to restore her personal settings for seat position, mirrors, stereo, etc.
For one, the US PTO has been granting patents on just ideas for years. That's perhaps its main problem.
For another, descriptions of the inventions, even in fiction, are indeed deemed enough "prior art" to challenge an applicaiton's required "novelty". So no, their patent isn't valid if I publish the idea before they "invent" it.
Why don't remote keys resync symmetric, unbreakable keys with the car every time they're physically inserted into the ignition?
When someone patents that device, just point to this post as prior art. If it's patent free, anyone can use it, and there's no excuse for not securing cars (and homes, and bikes, and...) properly.
Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Maybe the loudness increase is just a reaction to losing real speakers that shake the air all around our bodies. Little earbuds, and even circumaural cup headphones, don't give us the full sensation we want when we're really "getting into" music we like. We crank it up in our ears, longing for the real shake we expect. FWIW, I know I like listening to my car stereo more with the motor running, even when parked, and nothing compares to rocking out while blasting through traffic, screaming the words at the top of my lungs.
Maybe if we brought back the Bone Fone we could crank down the ear damage. Just as a subwoofer. Though those annoying people on the subway forcing their tinny little noise byproducts at the people around them will be a real pain in the ass when we sit on the seat next to them.
If you don't believe in yourself, you will fail, and it will be your fault, regardless of who else opposes you.
There are lots of laws restricting lawyers that lawyers don't want. So there clearly ways to get laws that restrict lawyers. Running for office promising to protect the public from too much lawyer power would be popular. Lawyers don't really protect each other when there's anything to gain from fighting each other: that's the main rule of the lawyer business.
So, where there's a will, there's a way. Just because it's hard doesn't make it impossible. Even your own experience, that evidently scarred you for life, shows that your mother, not a lawyer, could indeed divorce your lawyer father. The rest of us can get our jobs done, too, as long as we don't give up out of mere fear.
Google is using its network, including all that dark fiber it bought, and the new wireless spectrum, to make a new "phone company". That will include integrated email, video, social networks, maps and everything else Google offers. That's why it tried to force this 700MHz spectrum to be "all open", including requiring all mobile devices using it to be unlocked.
The Wizard of Oz stories were Midwestern socialist allegories. Warner, the great media corporation, will surely not make any movie "faithful" to that theme.
But since the books' copyright expired in 1956, anyone who wants will be free to make an adaptation telling a socialist story, promoted by the same hype machine Warner uses to turn its "property" into a huge moneymaker.
I work for the NY City Council's Tech committee, which I've been advising for about 4 years. And I'm now advising the Chief of Staff to the CIO of the NYC Department of Education. I know how the educational bureaucracy works. For a million kids or more, handing them a check for $1000 with their diploma wouldn't have to cost more than $1 per graduate.
And I was a kid for years. I also knew some kids who dropped out of highschool. They're perfectly capable of considering the benefit of $1000 for staying in school for another 6 months or a year or two, postponing screwing up their lives in favor of buying a beat up old car for a Summer.
Lawyers should be disbarred on failing an appeals review hearing after 3 frivolous or persecutory lawsuits they bring within any 10 year span.
And judges and juries should have the option of recommending that any extreme abuse of the system evident in any extremely frivolous or persecutory lawsuit send the offending lawyer straight to disbarment. And face criminal and criminal charges for damaging the defendant who has to deal with their unwarranted attack.
Their profit motive in bringing any suit, where their costs are paid by one side or the other, should be balanced by their interest in self-preservation.
You are exaggerating the cost of administering the program, then proposing a much more complex one that will cost a lot more to administer.
If we just give each graduate a $1000 check with their diploma, that will cost under a dollar per person to administer. We're talking about saving at least $250,000 with each successful avoidance of a criminal career.
We're going to have a lot of success just pushing over the fence those who'd just barely drop out. Once that pays off, we can tweak it, if we have data to do so. But making it any more complex than $1000 with your diploma gets in the way of making it a simple, clear, unambiguous goal to motivate people who just need a little extra motivation to make the difference in their lives.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for the support. I wish Slashdot made it as easy to talk up a comment as it does to flame it down. Every little bit helps, especially when telling fools that they're on the losing side of history.
It occurs to me that a good storage driver could grab RAM from main memory to do this with any HD, or any Flash drive for that matter. A really good storage driver could grab RAM added on PCI-e, so it wouldn't consume main memory. And, taking it to an extreme, that driver could map the PCI-e RAM into main memory.
Maybe the metapoint here is that storage HW is strangely inflexible and compartmentalized.
Since you're admitting that you'd still elect the Republicans who lied to you, meaning either you're an abject partisan regardless of what Republicans tell you or you just like the catastrophes they wrought, your projections of how Slashdotters will vote next year is meaningless. Even less meaning than your projections of what will happen next in Iraq.
I mean, you're the people who let Osama go. You predicted not just WMD in Iraq, but flowers and applause from "liberated" Iraqis. You people know nothing about any future except the fantasy ones Republicans put on your TV while you vote for them. And evidently, even knowing about the future by living in it and looking back into its past doesn't do anything for your decisionmaking skills.
Fortunately, despite your complelling fantasies, Slashdotters will be like most of America. Vote in a continuing wave for Democrats, like the 11.6% national margin last November. Giving Democrats a power monopoly trifecta.
That's the best news for nerds I've ever seen reported on Slashdot.
Moderation -1
100% Flamebait
TrollMods have gone completely insane.
The problem with Flash (~$12:GB) drives as replacements for rotating magnetic hard drives (~$0.18:GB) is that Flash is a lot more expensive, and Flash wears out after relatively few rewrites. RAM (~$35:GB) is even more expensive, but it doesn't wear out and has much faster performance.
For smaller storage (<10GB, for mobiles), what about a Flash drive with a RAM cache? That gets flushed to Flash once every hour or day or so. For that matter, how come we never saw magnetic drives with builtin RAM caches in the GB scale, occasionally written (in parallel) back to the magnetic disc for reliability? We can set up RAMdisks in SW, but that eats main memory and takes extra configuration. Magnetic or Flash drives with big RAM caches would have much higher performance, and HD vendors could diversify in their extremely competitive market.
I cite business patents. I cite math patents.
As for a specific case, I cite the two patents both granted and defended by the company I just stopped working with. One was for one-time pad distributed on CD, the other was for registering URLs and retesting them for matching specific patterns. Both patents were granted without the company actually creating the invention, just describing it. And trying to peddle patent licenses (without success) for several years, while stopping others (including their successful defense of the patents in court) from "infringing" by acutally making devices.
I hope you'll go out and campaign for your Republicans. Because you're almost the only one left in the country who isn't disgusted by what you people have wrought. Show your pride. So it's easier to see you as warning signs for how not to govern a country.
So much fun to push you around, I'll do it some more. Even though you're so egotistical that oppressing only you, who deserves it so much, will get you squealing that I'm "antidemocratic". I can barely hear you, so here's another spanking.
I pointed out that you're wrong about me being antidemocratic. Which you didn't support, which you cannot support because it's so wrong. You're wrong about other things, but your ignorance of democracy is the most fun to spank you with.
Like Congress. It is indeed superior to the Executive Branch. Congress can make laws without Executive permission - overriding vetoes. It can remove an Executive, or any other official, despite the Executive's opposition. The Executive's only power is in "faithfully executing" the laws that Congress makes. If the Executive does not, Congress can remove them. There is no corresponding power in the Executive over Congress.
I have killed every one of your misbegotten "ideas" you've had the nerve to display in this thread. I've bothered to reply to your namecalling and insults because you are a stupid twat who thinks you're the only one who can do it. You are so afraid of the beatings I've regularly given in this thread that you blurt out your baseless fear that I'm an actual killer. Because you wish that you were. Except you're too much a coward.
You pisspants Republican cowards are so easy to smash, even rhetorically. No wonder you're scared of your own shadows. But you've got to stop sending out the cops and the army to kill for you. Your enemies are accumulating with all your stupid talk of "evil" and your attempts to exterminate them. But at least we've swept you from Congress enough that all you've got is whining. Soon you'll be run out of the White House, too. And then you'll have to tell your ghost stories to the few of you stupid enough to be left in your Party to listen.
Moderation -1
100% Troll
Republican TrollMods can't hear the truth. They need highway safety engineers silenced. They even need questions about their responsibility for silencing them silenced.
Republican freedom: the right to remain silent, and no others.
Then you deserve the country you got. How do you like it?
If you people who voted for Republicans for 6-14 years (since 1994 for Congress, since 2000 for Bush's White House) knew then what your Republican government would do with the power you were giving it, would you still have voted that way?
When they told you they would stand for freedom and "personal responsibility", would you have believed them?
And do you believe them now? Most people in Congress, especially Republicans, are the same people holding that office since 1994. And though Bush is on his way out, practically none of the Republicans trying to replace him (those who might actually be the Republican candidate, anyway) show any signs - like condemning him - of doing any different. Of course the Republican Party itself, the center of all the "government doesn't work" ideology, is still the same, with its same sponsors and think tanks.
Will you believe them next year, when they again promise you "personal responsibility", "small, nonintrusive government", "accountability", and all the other promises they've betrayed whenever you've given them the chance?
What about aerogels doped with metals that contract electromagnetically?
One valuable feature of muscles is their power:weight ratio. Aerogels are extremely light - now something like only 20% lighter than air. And they have lots of other valuable engineering properties, including high strength (up to their critical collapse point). And they're cheap to manufacture (in their current form).
Why go with mere "air muscles", when aerogels could offer a much more highly structured, functional material?
Why doesn't your car have a different symmetric password for each physical key? Make it easier to secure the car after losing a key. And to restore her personal settings for seat position, mirrors, stereo, etc.
For one, the US PTO has been granting patents on just ideas for years. That's perhaps its main problem.
For another, descriptions of the inventions, even in fiction, are indeed deemed enough "prior art" to challenge an applicaiton's required "novelty". So no, their patent isn't valid if I publish the idea before they "invent" it.
Why don't remote keys resync symmetric, unbreakable keys with the car every time they're physically inserted into the ignition?
...) properly.
When someone patents that device, just point to this post as prior art. If it's patent free, anyone can use it, and there's no excuse for not securing cars (and homes, and bikes, and
You're welcome.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Maybe the loudness increase is just a reaction to losing real speakers that shake the air all around our bodies. Little earbuds, and even circumaural cup headphones, don't give us the full sensation we want when we're really "getting into" music we like. We crank it up in our ears, longing for the real shake we expect. FWIW, I know I like listening to my car stereo more with the motor running, even when parked, and nothing compares to rocking out while blasting through traffic, screaming the words at the top of my lungs.
Maybe if we brought back the Bone Fone we could crank down the ear damage. Just as a subwoofer. Though those annoying people on the subway forcing their tinny little noise byproducts at the people around them will be a real pain in the ass when we sit on the seat next to them.
If you don't believe in yourself, you will fail, and it will be your fault, regardless of who else opposes you.
There are lots of laws restricting lawyers that lawyers don't want. So there clearly ways to get laws that restrict lawyers. Running for office promising to protect the public from too much lawyer power would be popular. Lawyers don't really protect each other when there's anything to gain from fighting each other: that's the main rule of the lawyer business.
So, where there's a will, there's a way. Just because it's hard doesn't make it impossible. Even your own experience, that evidently scarred you for life, shows that your mother, not a lawyer, could indeed divorce your lawyer father. The rest of us can get our jobs done, too, as long as we don't give up out of mere fear.
Google is using its network, including all that dark fiber it bought, and the new wireless spectrum, to make a new "phone company". That will include integrated email, video, social networks, maps and everything else Google offers. That's why it tried to force this 700MHz spectrum to be "all open", including requiring all mobile devices using it to be unlocked.
The Wizard of Oz stories were Midwestern socialist allegories. Warner, the great media corporation, will surely not make any movie "faithful" to that theme.
But since the books' copyright expired in 1956, anyone who wants will be free to make an adaptation telling a socialist story, promoted by the same hype machine Warner uses to turn its "property" into a huge moneymaker.
I work for the NY City Council's Tech committee, which I've been advising for about 4 years. And I'm now advising the Chief of Staff to the CIO of the NYC Department of Education. I know how the educational bureaucracy works. For a million kids or more, handing them a check for $1000 with their diploma wouldn't have to cost more than $1 per graduate.
And I was a kid for years. I also knew some kids who dropped out of highschool. They're perfectly capable of considering the benefit of $1000 for staying in school for another 6 months or a year or two, postponing screwing up their lives in favor of buying a beat up old car for a Summer.
Lawyers should be disbarred on failing an appeals review hearing after 3 frivolous or persecutory lawsuits they bring within any 10 year span.
And judges and juries should have the option of recommending that any extreme abuse of the system evident in any extremely frivolous or persecutory lawsuit send the offending lawyer straight to disbarment. And face criminal and criminal charges for damaging the defendant who has to deal with their unwarranted attack.
Their profit motive in bringing any suit, where their costs are paid by one side or the other, should be balanced by their interest in self-preservation.
You are exaggerating the cost of administering the program, then proposing a much more complex one that will cost a lot more to administer.
If we just give each graduate a $1000 check with their diploma, that will cost under a dollar per person to administer. We're talking about saving at least $250,000 with each successful avoidance of a criminal career.
We're going to have a lot of success just pushing over the fence those who'd just barely drop out. Once that pays off, we can tweak it, if we have data to do so. But making it any more complex than $1000 with your diploma gets in the way of making it a simple, clear, unambiguous goal to motivate people who just need a little extra motivation to make the difference in their lives.
What kind of corruption would it create?