I am a parent. Twice in fact. And I don't restrict the internet access for my children either except for the said host file. I know that all programming art of the world will not hold out for long against the will and the hormones of a teenager in puberty.
Cases are dismissed on grounds of public interest all the time. Every judge is entitled to refuse to take a case or to later drop it he or she considers it contrary to the public interest to follow through. And of course every party involved can later file a complaint because of an unfair dismissal.
Because Hallstatt is one of the main finding places for certain neolithican artifacts, which thus are called Hallstatt culture? It's like Neanderthal - everyone knows the neanderthals, but who actually ever was at the Neanderthal Train station or walked through the Neander valley, named after the german composer Joachim Neander (which ironically is a greek translation of Neander's original family name Neumann = new man)? Most of you only know the human species Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, whose remainings were first found there.
Yes, and new hardware will, if ever, be only slowly be released to Windows, because only Microsoft will be deciding which hardware combinations will be called platform I, II, III etc.pp. A hardware manufacturer with really nifty and novel ideas will have to release to *BSD, Linux or the Linux-son Android.
And there might be a point that most crimes (especially violent crimes) are performed by young male adults, who during war times are at the front as soldiers and thus not able to act criminally at home.
They tried and failed, as they mentioned in their paper. The believe in Hell or Heaven was an even better predictor for crimerates (they even tested for different types of crime) than GDP or wealth distribution.
The countries most close to an atheist country are Slovenia, the Czech Republic and the former East Germany. In all three atheists are the maiority, and none of them are known for an overly antisocial behaviour.
God's grace is actually a great motivation to take responsability of consecuences for past acts, as those consecuences dont inhibit being loved and signified by God. And it's a great motivation to take action in the present for better, as it gives meaning to efforts.
This is nice in theory, but in practice, it fails. That's what the study is all about. People who see a godly grace as a motivator for a better life seem to be by far outnumbered by people who see godly grace as an excuse to behave badly, because the big boss will forgive them anyway.
At least you save the time necessary for the concrete to dry, before you can cast the next block onto it. - so at least a day per block. Which is quite important if you want to built fast. With prefab blocks you can cast them all at the same time, and then you have pretty flexible building blocks.
Just do a quick calculation: a cube of 1 x 1 x 1 m (e.g. a cube of 3 feet side length) weighs about 2,3 metric tons. A normal trailer hauls about 30 tons, so you could haul 16 of those cubes easily with a trailer - pretty easy to prefab those then.
Not only the homes were built from prefab parts, also schools and supermarkets. The most used prefab school system was designed by Helmut Trauzettel. I went to a Trauzettel school building for two years, and I know some others, and they were all the same. I will still find Room 21 in a Trauzettel school by night:)
North American's, and Europeans partially are not yet used to prefab houses.
Europeans, especially East Europeans, are well used to prefab houses. In former East Germany, the predominant prefab housing system was called WBS70 (Wohnungsbausystem 70, "home construction system from 1970"), and about 1.7 million people lived in houses built from WBS70 modules.
That, if data in the traffic do not change much. From the ONF site, the router has to consult with the software what to do with the unrecognized packet. That cannot be fast. What's more, unless they change order of packets, the router would have to stall the traffic on the port. If change of order is deemed acceptable, they can go on routing other packets, but in the mean time other packets requiring software introspection might come and they would have to be buffered. Buffering on router is bad, because later comes the problem of how to insert the now-cleared-for-delivery packets in the stream.
All in all, I do not see how even theoretically it can be "at wire speed": either lots of out of order packets with selectively long latencies or long stalls. More flexible and complicated you want it to be, more exotic cases you want to catch - the more overhead that would introduce.
So you have never seen a Juniper router in action? That's essentially what they do, they take their routing table, lookup the MACs of the respective gateways on their ports and then generate a switch matrix which the routing component writes through to the switch.
You can for instance implement Layer 3 routing by dynamically changing the switch matrix on Layer 2. Essentially, IP adresses then become fancy MACs, and you know which IP adresses are reachable behind which port, allowing you to handle routing on Layer 2. Similarly you could implement higher level protocols to change your switch matrix, handle TCP errors already in the switch, saving hops and packets etc.pp.. In the end you get a box which seems to run each layer at wire speed. In some way this runs contrary to the Layer model, because you use higher level layers to just remap the Layer 2, but if you implement it transparently (e.g. the box looks correctly at each layer), it is just very fast without disturbing the layering.
If farmer A plants crops from company X, he has a contract with company X and works according to conditions company X sets. This is fine and dandy. If farmer B doesn't want the conditions company X sets, he uses different seeds, either seeds he got himself from last year's harvest, or he buys them from company Y, whose conditions he likes better. This is also fine and dandy. If he doesn't like all that patent licensing and the contractual obligations that come with genetically modified seeds, he surely will not use any genetically modified seeds. But then company X's seeds pollute farmer B's crops via the plants farmer A grows, and now they carry a patented gene from company X. According to patent law, farmer B now has to pay a penalty to company X, whose patent he violates, because he is producing crops whose seeds contain company X's patented gene combination. But is it really farmer B's fault? The brazilian court found that it's company X which is at fault for polluting farmer B's crops, and all royalities company X has collected so far are to be repayed, because company X was not entitled to get them in the first place. There might even be a liability for farmer A, because it was his crops which polluted farmer B's, and thus he was causing the damage.
If you are farmer A, and if you will be hold responsible for polluting farmer B's crops with pollen he didn't want because of licensing issues and contractual problems, would you continue to grow genetically modified crops?
And this is wrong exactly why? If I take money here and put it there, then here there is less money than before and there is more money than before. That's why it is called a transaction. Double bookkeeping tracks this, nothing more, nothing less. Your argument would be akin to a train time table, where it is bad if for every train not only the time it leaves is recorded, but also the time it arrives somewhere else.
I guess some people can't make a difference between money stored and money transferred, because both are called "money". But you shouldn't conflate them. It's analogous to energy and power. Power is energy transferred per time. They are not the same. There are systems with high power and low energy (say, lightning) and systems with high energy and low power (say an artificial lake).
Ok,. climate changes. Within ten thousands of years. Climate change within 100 years didn't happen before except after catastrophical events like continent wide volcanism or a large meteorite impact. And you know what? After such events, regularly 50 percent or more of all higher lifeforms vanished. Those events occur about every 100 million years and are called major extinction events.
In textbooks from the 1960ies, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere was given at 280 ppm. When I was in school, we learned that the CO2 level in the atmosphere is 330 ppm. Today we are at 400 ppm. So we managed to increase the CO2-level for 40 percent within 50 years. And today we have the highest amount of coal, gas and oil usage in history, far higher than in the 1960ies, pointing to an even higher increase in CO2 emittance than ever. If you still believe, we can't change the world wide climate, you have to have very strong arguments for the contrary. Just some handweaving "It won't be that bad as predicted" won't suffice.
I live in the Alps. We have the lowest glacier coverage here since recorded history (which partly goes back to the Roman Empire). Ötzi the Ice Man came uncovered after 5300 years in the ice of the glacier, because the glacier was at an all time low at that time -- obviously at least the lowest level since 5300 years. Don't give me anything of "anecdotical evidence", when we can measure the change.
No, we were already using MP3 to burn them to CD in 1994, because thus you could easily get the contents of 10-12 Audio CDs onto a single CD-RW. So space was not an issue. A 2-GByte-HD was able to take the contents of 30 CDs, which was completely ok at the time.
So why didn't we had that already in 1994 for instance? When amazon.com opened and all the other online shops started? Why did it take until 2003? The technology to compress a music stream was there, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 was standardized in 1992. How to download a file was wellknown in 1994, and how to handle payments too (see amazon.com). So where does the 9 years of postponing come from? People not being able to code online shops?
Not only the global wheat production at that time, the global wheat production of the last century would not suffice.
You need 2^64 - 1 grains. There are about 100 grains in a cubic centimeter, and thus 100,000 grains in a liter, which in turn weighs about 800 g or 0,8 kg. The whole world production of wheat is somewhere at 650 million metric tons a year (let's use 640 million tons), so this makes 800 billion liters of grain, a.k.a. 80 quadrillion grains.
A quadrillion is about 2^50, so we need the grain production of 2^14 / 80 years, which amounts to a mere 200 years of wheat:)
And this is different from any other "political thought" exactly how?
Politics is the way you further your interests in the society. That's what politics is all about. "Conservative" political thought is the same thin layer of logical fallacies to cover your own interests. For each school of thought and each fundamental principle in it there is a counterexample where following this principle as proven to make things worse.
The steam engine was no game changer in itself, first there had to be machines that the steam engine could power like spinning machines and mechanical weaving looms. And it took centuries for the steam engine to mature, given the time from the early attempts (Denis Papin 1690), first patents (Thomas Savery 1698) over the all purpose engines (Thomas Newcomen 1712), the separate condenser (James Watt 1769), the tubular boiler (George Stephenson 1829) and the composite steam engine (Anatole Mallet 1874).
Which of those engines would be the game changer you are referring to?
Just because Pakistan is member of a South Asian regional association it doesn't necessarily mean that Pakistan is geographically located in South Asia. Kasachstan is member of the UEFA (Union des Associations Européennes de Football), while being a Central Asian country, and Marocco is member of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), while being north african. Pakistan is considered south asian from a geographical point of view, because the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalaya mountain ranges in the north form a natural border against Central Asia, and the Suleiman, Brahui and Kirthar mountains do the same against Western Asia (ok, Baluchistan is already west of the Kirthar mountains...).
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I am a parent. Twice in fact. And I don't restrict the internet access for my children either except for the said host file.
I know that all programming art of the world will not hold out for long against the will and the hormones of a teenager in puberty.
Cases are dismissed on grounds of public interest all the time. Every judge is entitled to refuse to take a case or to later drop it he or she considers it contrary to the public interest to follow through. And of course every party involved can later file a complaint because of an unfair dismissal.
There are now less but bigger banks. Just more too big to fail than ever.
Because Hallstatt is one of the main finding places for certain neolithican artifacts, which thus are called Hallstatt culture? It's like Neanderthal - everyone knows the neanderthals, but who actually ever was at the Neanderthal Train station or walked through the Neander valley, named after the german composer Joachim Neander (which ironically is a greek translation of Neander's original family name Neumann = new man)? Most of you only know the human species Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, whose remainings were first found there.
And Austria won't ratify it too. So what?
Yes, and new hardware will, if ever, be only slowly be released to Windows, because only Microsoft will be deciding which hardware combinations will be called platform I, II, III etc.pp. A hardware manufacturer with really nifty and novel ideas will have to release to *BSD, Linux or the Linux-son Android.
And there might be a point that most crimes (especially violent crimes) are performed by young male adults, who during war times are at the front as soldiers and thus not able to act criminally at home.
They tried and failed, as they mentioned in their paper. The believe in Hell or Heaven was an even better predictor for crimerates (they even tested for different types of crime) than GDP or wealth distribution.
The countries most close to an atheist country are Slovenia, the Czech Republic and the former East Germany. In all three atheists are the maiority, and none of them are known for an overly antisocial behaviour.
God's grace is actually a great motivation to take responsability of consecuences for past acts, as those consecuences dont inhibit being loved and signified by God. And it's a great motivation to take action in the present for better, as it gives meaning to efforts.
This is nice in theory, but in practice, it fails. That's what the study is all about. People who see a godly grace as a motivator for a better life seem to be by far outnumbered by people who see godly grace as an excuse to behave badly, because the big boss will forgive them anyway.
At least you save the time necessary for the concrete to dry, before you can cast the next block onto it. - so at least a day per block. Which is quite important if you want to built fast.
With prefab blocks you can cast them all at the same time, and then you have pretty flexible building blocks.
Just do a quick calculation: a cube of 1 x 1 x 1 m (e.g. a cube of 3 feet side length) weighs about 2,3 metric tons. A normal trailer hauls about 30 tons, so you could haul 16 of those cubes easily with a trailer - pretty easy to prefab those then.
Not only the homes were built from prefab parts, also schools and supermarkets. The most used prefab school system was designed by Helmut Trauzettel. I went to a Trauzettel school building for two years, and I know some others, and they were all the same. I will still find Room 21 in a Trauzettel school by night :)
North American's, and Europeans partially are not yet used to prefab houses.
Europeans, especially East Europeans, are well used to prefab houses. In former East Germany, the predominant prefab housing system was called WBS70 (Wohnungsbausystem 70, "home construction system from 1970"), and about 1.7 million people lived in houses built from WBS70 modules.
That, if data in the traffic do not change much. From the ONF site, the router has to consult with the software what to do with the unrecognized packet. That cannot be fast. What's more, unless they change order of packets, the router would have to stall the traffic on the port. If change of order is deemed acceptable, they can go on routing other packets, but in the mean time other packets requiring software introspection might come and they would have to be buffered. Buffering on router is bad, because later comes the problem of how to insert the now-cleared-for-delivery packets in the stream.
All in all, I do not see how even theoretically it can be "at wire speed": either lots of out of order packets with selectively long latencies or long stalls. More flexible and complicated you want it to be, more exotic cases you want to catch - the more overhead that would introduce.
So you have never seen a Juniper router in action?
That's essentially what they do, they take their routing table, lookup the MACs of the respective gateways on their ports and then generate a switch matrix which the routing component writes through to the switch.
You can for instance implement Layer 3 routing by dynamically changing the switch matrix on Layer 2. Essentially, IP adresses then become fancy MACs, and you know which IP adresses are reachable behind which port, allowing you to handle routing on Layer 2. Similarly you could implement higher level protocols to change your switch matrix, handle TCP errors already in the switch, saving hops and packets etc.pp.. In the end you get a box which seems to run each layer at wire speed.
In some way this runs contrary to the Layer model, because you use higher level layers to just remap the Layer 2, but if you implement it transparently (e.g. the box looks correctly at each layer), it is just very fast without disturbing the layering.
It's a completely different thinking here.
If farmer A plants crops from company X, he has a contract with company X and works according to conditions company X sets. This is fine and dandy. If farmer B doesn't want the conditions company X sets, he uses different seeds, either seeds he got himself from last year's harvest, or he buys them from company Y, whose conditions he likes better. This is also fine and dandy. If he doesn't like all that patent licensing and the contractual obligations that come with genetically modified seeds, he surely will not use any genetically modified seeds.
But then company X's seeds pollute farmer B's crops via the plants farmer A grows, and now they carry a patented gene from company X. According to patent law, farmer B now has to pay a penalty to company X, whose patent he violates, because he is producing crops whose seeds contain company X's patented gene combination. But is it really farmer B's fault? The brazilian court found that it's company X which is at fault for polluting farmer B's crops, and all royalities company X has collected so far are to be repayed, because company X was not entitled to get them in the first place. There might even be a liability for farmer A, because it was his crops which polluted farmer B's, and thus he was causing the damage.
If you are farmer A, and if you will be hold responsible for polluting farmer B's crops with pollen he didn't want because of licensing issues and contractual problems, would you continue to grow genetically modified crops?
And this is wrong exactly why?
If I take money here and put it there, then here there is less money than before and there is more money than before. That's why it is called a transaction.
Double bookkeeping tracks this, nothing more, nothing less. Your argument would be akin to a train time table, where it is bad if for every train not only the time it leaves is recorded, but also the time it arrives somewhere else.
I guess some people can't make a difference between money stored and money transferred, because both are called "money". But you shouldn't conflate them. It's analogous to energy and power. Power is energy transferred per time. They are not the same. There are systems with high power and low energy (say, lightning) and systems with high energy and low power (say an artificial lake).
Ok,. climate changes. Within ten thousands of years. Climate change within 100 years didn't happen before except after catastrophical events like continent wide volcanism or a large meteorite impact. And you know what? After such events, regularly 50 percent or more of all higher lifeforms vanished. Those events occur about every 100 million years and are called major extinction events.
In textbooks from the 1960ies, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere was given at 280 ppm. When I was in school, we learned that the CO2 level in the atmosphere is 330 ppm. Today we are at 400 ppm. So we managed to increase the CO2-level for 40 percent within 50 years. And today we have the highest amount of coal, gas and oil usage in history, far higher than in the 1960ies, pointing to an even higher increase in CO2 emittance than ever. If you still believe, we can't change the world wide climate, you have to have very strong arguments for the contrary. Just some handweaving "It won't be that bad as predicted" won't suffice.
I live in the Alps. We have the lowest glacier coverage here since recorded history (which partly goes back to the Roman Empire). Ötzi the Ice Man came uncovered after 5300 years in the ice of the glacier, because the glacier was at an all time low at that time -- obviously at least the lowest level since 5300 years. Don't give me anything of "anecdotical evidence", when we can measure the change.
No, we were already using MP3 to burn them to CD in 1994, because thus you could easily get the contents of 10-12 Audio CDs onto a single CD-RW. So space was not an issue. A 2-GByte-HD was able to take the contents of 30 CDs, which was completely ok at the time.
So why didn't we had that already in 1994 for instance? When amazon.com opened and all the other online shops started? Why did it take until 2003? The technology to compress a music stream was there, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 was standardized in 1992. How to download a file was wellknown in 1994, and how to handle payments too (see amazon.com).
So where does the 9 years of postponing come from? People not being able to code online shops?
Not only the global wheat production at that time, the global wheat production of the last century would not suffice.
You need 2^64 - 1 grains. There are about 100 grains in a cubic centimeter, and thus 100,000 grains in a liter, which in turn weighs about 800 g or 0,8 kg. The whole world production of wheat is somewhere at 650 million metric tons a year (let's use 640 million tons), so this makes 800 billion liters of grain, a.k.a. 80 quadrillion grains.
A quadrillion is about 2^50, so we need the grain production of 2^14 / 80 years, which amounts to a mere 200 years of wheat :)
And this is different from any other "political thought" exactly how?
Politics is the way you further your interests in the society. That's what politics is all about. "Conservative" political thought is the same thin layer of logical fallacies to cover your own interests. For each school of thought and each fundamental principle in it there is a counterexample where following this principle as proven to make things worse.
The steam engine was no game changer in itself, first there had to be machines that the steam engine could power like spinning machines and mechanical weaving looms. And it took centuries for the steam engine to mature, given the time from the early attempts (Denis Papin 1690), first patents (Thomas Savery 1698) over the all purpose engines (Thomas Newcomen 1712), the separate condenser (James Watt 1769), the tubular boiler (George Stephenson 1829) and the composite steam engine (Anatole Mallet 1874).
Which of those engines would be the game changer you are referring to?
Just because Pakistan is member of a South Asian regional association it doesn't necessarily mean that Pakistan is geographically located in South Asia. Kasachstan is member of the UEFA (Union des Associations Européennes de Football), while being a Central Asian country, and Marocco is member of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union), while being north african.
Pakistan is considered south asian from a geographical point of view, because the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalaya mountain ranges in the north form a natural border against Central Asia, and the Suleiman, Brahui and Kirthar mountains do the same against Western Asia (ok, Baluchistan is already west of the Kirthar mountains...).