I take it they don't have economics classes in Europe?
No history lessons either. The Euro is at the same price it was introduced at, no higher. It's roughly like saying pets.com stock is at an all time high.
"It isn't as if any other humans would do any better though, so foreigners shouldn't think themselves superior - we're all born with pleasure centers, and predictable outcomes to them, and this results in addictions, etc"
I thought that was one of the most insightful and truthful comments I've seen in a while. Europeans and others like to rant about the US 24x7, but the reality is they are just as screwed up, and perhaps more so because they spend all their time obsessing about the US instead of trying to fix their own problems.
You have to admin Linux is in a pretty sorry ass state for end users. I spent the better part of a week trying to get a wireless card running. You have to scour the net for HOWTOs and beg and grovel more experienced people for help.
And who was the brain surgeon that architected the kernel? Who decided you should have to recompile the goddamn thing every time you add a card or device to the goddamn computer?
I really enjoyed this article. The author is correct that this saga has played out hundreds of times between the US and Europe over the years, almost always ending up in European humiliation.
Many examples exist, including Britain's "comet" aircraft, which had a tiny problem with explosive and fatal decompression, leading to the domination of Boeing and the collapse of British aerospace. Then the humiliation of the Concorde being soundly defeated by the Boeing 747, even though the concorde was entirely developed at taxpayer expense.
The europeans now barely even register in the computer industry, with no computer operating systems or chips to speak of, and only minimal software being developed there.
After centuries of global imperialism, the Europeans have been relegated to little more than a mop up crew for the US, even in their own back yard - Yugoslavia.
They are now desperately hosting a "Constitutional Convention" to form a "United States of Europe" (their words) in a vain attempt to compete with the US.
And they are desperate to launch their "Galileo" GPS system as an alternative to the US GPS, but even that is tied up in intra-EU catfighting.
It makes for quite interesting reading and conversations with Europeans, who can't quite cope with their demise in global leadership.
Simplistic Fool. There will be no "freedom", least of all in China.
To build those chips, all the equipment, processes, etc are dependent on patents. And the chips will almost certainly be inferior, as they don't have the expertise or the large R&D budgets of established players. The only way they would be adopted is through government mandate, which will result in inefficiencies.
The Russians tried many of the same things and failed every step of the way.
What's pretty sad is to see the scientific dogma that pervades our culture. Your statement reminds me a lot of the Vatican in the 1700s. Anyone who dared say the earth was not the center of the universe was in big trouble.
Yes, it is pretty sad - that the scientific community hasn't changed all that much since the dark ages. They've always thought they had it figured out, even when major holes and inconsistencies were staring them in the face.
You could be right. 10-12 years ago, when Japan was buying up the entire USA and they looked like they were going to overtake us technically and financially, we got our act together fiscally and organizationally, and now Japan is a faded memory.
The US needs some competition in order to keep from stagnating.
First, a government can never truly go bankrupt. They can simply print more money and inflate away the debt, or create a new tax of 100% on bondholders. It would be painful, but it's not bankruptcy.
>National debt at around $6 trillion
I hate to see this brought up all the time by uninformed people.
The US has a debt ratio of about.6 ($10 trillion economy), as opposed to the average European debt ratio of.7, japan at 1.1+ and Canada at 1.1+.
Fiscally, the US is in very good shape relative to most other countries, and we spend only 3-4% of our HUGE GDP on military.
So despite the doomsayers, the US really isn't that far in debt and we don't really spend that much on military, as compared to our enormous economy.
The US could easily afford to build moon and mars bases, with minimal or no effort financially or technically. The only problem is political willpower.
The best thing that could happen to the US right now, is to have some real competition in the world.
That's especially true of the space program. If the ESA or China were to put together projects to put a man on Mars, you can bet the US would work to get there first.
The cold war was a good thing, as far as aerospace goes. The terror business may not be as beneficial, but who knows....
You vastly underestimate what it would take, in terms of knowledge and materials to create an actual functional craft meeting these requirements.
There aren't any companies that would risk that kind of capital and then risk not having anything purchased by Uncle Sam.
If you read the various "black project" pages, you can get a pretty clear picture that the Air Force is well ahead in building a reusable launch vehicle (next generation shuttle). Oftentimes, expensive projects like the F22 and JSF are used as cover for these black projects.
I decided to let go of the wreckage called VA Linux about 2 1/2 months ago, so I'm not involved.
The switch to closed-source and Oracle is a result of the... shall we say... lack of success in the sales department while the open source code was available.
What a lot of people don't realize is that the earth will, over the long run, correct itself.
If humans heat it up too much, diseases, storms, droughts, etc, will eventually kill off a lot of people, reducing the heat they produce, and cooling it off.
10,000 years ago, people were probably concerned about global warming too, when the land bridges between alaska and asia started being covered with water again, among other massive changes in climate.
"How many probes did they lose or mishandle in the last few years? "
The answer is, the US has lost more probes than the rest of the world has even tried to launch.
A better question is how many other countries have even launched a probe anywhere?
Or, how many probes has nasa successfully landed as compared to all other countries on the globe? Of course, the answer is NASA has had more successful such missions than all other countries combined.
The source code to SourceForge is available in CVS and you are very welcome to make suggestions about how to reduce the number of queries on that page. As the author of much of the sourceforge codebase, I'd love to see a patch come in that somehow magically reduces the database load.
Also, the article clearly states that these are worst-case scenarios, chosen to test the database, not the PHP code.
Stable on huge databases? Geocrawler has 10GB of text in a giant table and runs with only 750MB RAM on a single server. Since updates/inserts/deletes can happen simultaneously, geocrawler does not shut down when new emails arrive.
Stability from an impure shutdown? This is definitely a win for MySQL. Postgres has completely self-destructed for me a handful of times when the machine it was on hard-locked. The only recovery method is to create a fresh database from a backup dump.
Huge RAM and multiple CPUs? This is probably a function of the OS more than anything. MySQL is limited more simply because of its locking problems, right? So no matter how many CPUs you have - only one can update a given table at a time. That's a pretty important limitation if you have a database that has any updates simultaneously with selects.
I don't think the/contrib/ code for full text indexing in postgres counts as real FTI. There's no relevancy ranking and it's kludgy to set up and select data out of it.
However, it does make good use of postgres' triggers and someone with some time could enhance it to make it useful.
In particular, someone should enhance it to make the "noise words" list selected out of a database table, instead of hard-coded in the C-code of the.
As the guy who oversees handling of patch submissions to sourceforge, I can tell you we DO make a great effort to accept and use quality patches. The original poster was wrong on several counts, but I'll address just the patch situation. The fact that "patches sit for months" means they are either unusable or we don't want them in the main tree, but we do want them available for other people to use. One example is a postgres support patch. We use MySQL so are we really going to apply a postgres patch to our main code base? I receive most patches via email, not the patch manager, and have actually applied and used at least a couple dozen patches, most of which were included in the 1.1 release of SourceForge. No, not every patch was accepted, nor should they be. As far as docs and the handling of the code release, why not pitch in and help if you're such a wonderful OSS advocate and wizard of documentation?
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Considering that NASA already has color maps of all the water, this was non-news.
http://grs8.lpl.arizona.edu/latestresults.jsp
Considering that NASA already has color maps of all the water, this was non-news.
http://grs8.lpl.arizona.edu/latestresults.jsp
In usual ESA style, the completely failed to mention that.
Tim
I take it they don't have economics classes in Europe?
No history lessons either. The Euro is at the same price it was introduced at, no higher. It's roughly like saying pets.com stock is at an all time high.
Basically retarded.
"It isn't as if any other humans would do any better though, so foreigners shouldn't think themselves superior - we're all born with pleasure centers, and predictable outcomes to them, and this results in addictions, etc"
I thought that was one of the most insightful and truthful comments I've seen in a while. Europeans and others like to rant about the US 24x7, but the reality is they are just as screwed up, and perhaps more so because they spend all their time obsessing about the US instead of trying to fix their own problems.
You have to admin Linux is in a pretty sorry ass state for end users. I spent the better part of a week trying to get a wireless card running. You have to scour the net for HOWTOs and beg and grovel more experienced people for help.
And who was the brain surgeon that architected the kernel? Who decided you should have to recompile the goddamn thing every time you add a card or device to the goddamn computer?
I really hoped this interview was going to die and disappear. I said a lot more than I intended. Steve can get a lot through flattery.
May the ddos against osdir continue...
I really enjoyed this article. The author is correct that this saga has played out hundreds of times between the US and Europe over the years, almost always ending up in European humiliation.
Many examples exist, including Britain's "comet" aircraft, which had a tiny problem with explosive and fatal decompression, leading to the domination of Boeing and the collapse of British aerospace. Then the humiliation of the Concorde being soundly defeated by the Boeing 747, even though the concorde was entirely developed at taxpayer expense.
The europeans now barely even register in the computer industry, with no computer operating systems or chips to speak of, and only minimal software being developed there.
After centuries of global imperialism, the Europeans have been relegated to little more than a mop up crew for the US, even in their own back yard - Yugoslavia.
They are now desperately hosting a "Constitutional Convention" to form a "United States of Europe" (their words) in a vain attempt to compete with the US.
And they are desperate to launch their "Galileo" GPS system as an alternative to the US GPS, but even that is tied up in intra-EU catfighting.
It makes for quite interesting reading and conversations with Europeans, who can't quite cope with their demise in global leadership.
Simplistic Fool. There will be no "freedom", least of all in China.
To build those chips, all the equipment, processes, etc are dependent on patents. And the chips will almost certainly be inferior, as they don't have the expertise or the large R&D budgets of established players. The only way they would be adopted is through government mandate, which will result in inefficiencies.
The Russians tried many of the same things and failed every step of the way.
>It's pretty sad.
What's pretty sad is to see the scientific dogma that pervades our culture. Your statement reminds me a lot of the Vatican in the 1700s. Anyone who dared say the earth was not the center of the universe was in big trouble.
Yes, it is pretty sad - that the scientific community hasn't changed all that much since the dark ages. They've always thought they had it figured out, even when major holes and inconsistencies were staring them in the face.
>It's hardly the sort of record that's going to impress future partners.
You mean partners like ESA who will contribute next to nothing and then piss and whine when the US has second thoughts?
You could be right. 10-12 years ago, when Japan was buying up the entire USA and they looked like they were going to overtake us technically and financially, we got our act together fiscally and organizationally, and now Japan is a faded memory.
The US needs some competition in order to keep from stagnating.
First, a government can never truly go bankrupt. They can simply print more money and inflate away the debt, or create a new tax of 100% on bondholders. It would be painful, but it's not bankruptcy.
.6 ($10 trillion economy), as opposed to the average European debt ratio of .7, japan at 1.1+ and Canada at 1.1+.
>National debt at around $6 trillion
I hate to see this brought up all the time by uninformed people.
The US has a debt ratio of about
Fiscally, the US is in very good shape relative to most other countries, and we spend only 3-4% of our HUGE GDP on military.
So despite the doomsayers, the US really isn't that far in debt and we don't really spend that much on military, as compared to our enormous economy.
The US could easily afford to build moon and mars bases, with minimal or no effort financially or technically. The only problem is political willpower.
I read Zubrin's "The Case For Mars" a couple of weeks ago. Very exciting and gets the imagination flowing.
If only we had politicians with a little vision, or at the very least, a major competitor to the US to get us back on our toes...
If indeed these claims are correct, and the chips can be made reasonably affordable, you are talking about a revolution.
1. Cheap, energy efficient refrigerators and air conditioners that slash energy use at a time when we need to think about global warming.
2. Radically increasing efficiency of combustion engines by converting waste heat into electricity for use in hybrid-electric vehicles.
Sounds too good to be true, or at least I will keep my skeptical wits about me.
The best thing that could happen to the US right now, is to have some real competition in the world.
That's especially true of the space program. If the ESA or China were to put together projects to put a man on Mars, you can bet the US would work to get there first.
The cold war was a good thing, as far as aerospace goes. The terror business may not be as beneficial, but who knows....
You vastly underestimate what it would take, in terms of knowledge and materials to create an actual functional craft meeting these requirements.
There aren't any companies that would risk that kind of capital and then risk not having anything purchased by Uncle Sam.
If you read the various "black project" pages, you can get a pretty clear picture that the Air Force is well ahead in building a reusable launch vehicle (next generation shuttle). Oftentimes, expensive projects like the F22 and JSF are used as cover for these black projects.
I decided to let go of the wreckage called VA Linux about 2 1/2 months ago, so I'm not involved.
The switch to closed-source and Oracle is a result of the... shall we say... lack of success in the sales department while the open source code was available.
Most americans drive everywhere they go. God knows we don't walk anywhere.
So we always have a government-issued ID that we are required to have if we are stopped by the police.
A foolproof form of ID is not a bad thing, especially if it is used to enter secure areas, such as airports, perhaps sports events...
What a lot of people don't realize is that the earth will, over the long run, correct itself.
If humans heat it up too much, diseases, storms, droughts, etc, will eventually kill off a lot of people, reducing the heat they produce, and cooling it off.
10,000 years ago, people were probably concerned about global warming too, when the land bridges between alaska and asia started being covered with water again, among other massive changes in climate.
It's all a great big cycle.
The answer is, the US has lost more probes than the rest of the world has even tried to launch.
A better question is how many other countries have even launched a probe anywhere?
Or, how many probes has nasa successfully landed as compared to all other countries on the globe? Of course, the answer is NASA has had more successful such missions than all other countries combined.
Also, the article clearly states that these are worst-case scenarios, chosen to test the database, not the PHP code.
Stability from an impure shutdown? This is definitely a win for MySQL. Postgres has completely self-destructed for me a handful of times when the machine it was on hard-locked. The only recovery method is to create a fresh database from a backup dump.
Huge RAM and multiple CPUs? This is probably a function of the OS more than anything. MySQL is limited more simply because of its locking problems, right? So no matter how many CPUs you have - only one can update a given table at a time. That's a pretty important limitation if you have a database that has any updates simultaneously with selects.
However, it does make good use of postgres' triggers and someone with some time could enhance it to make it useful.
In particular, someone should enhance it to make the "noise words" list selected out of a database table, instead of hard-coded in the C-code of the.
As the guy who oversees handling of patch submissions to sourceforge, I can tell you we DO make a great effort to accept and use quality patches. The original poster was wrong on several counts, but I'll address just the patch situation. The fact that "patches sit for months" means they are either unusable or we don't want them in the main tree, but we do want them available for other people to use. One example is a postgres support patch. We use MySQL so are we really going to apply a postgres patch to our main code base? I receive most patches via email, not the patch manager, and have actually applied and used at least a couple dozen patches, most of which were included in the 1.1 release of SourceForge. No, not every patch was accepted, nor should they be. As far as docs and the handling of the code release, why not pitch in and help if you're such a wonderful OSS advocate and wizard of documentation?