There is some good science on there, as well as some fun stuff. You are always going to get two sides. I do think that doctors need to change their ways if they don't want people's trust to fade even further.
I have a five month old and I've been observing his progress since birth. It is quite interesting how he learns. First of all, you have to understand that long before a baby is born it is moving around in the dark, learning muscle control (feedback loop). When it is born, the senses of touch, smell, hearing and sight are already there and developed. The baby just doesn't know what to make of the stimuli. Learning is when the baby starts associating one or more of these inputs with satisfying it's needs (hunger, changed, sleep, general attention). Babies "see" with their mouths, since the mouth is the most sensitive touch center, so they are constantly trying to bring things to their mouths, or their mouths to things. I heard about a project (Deb Roy at MIT) to capture literally every input a baby recieves while he/she is developing. He wired his house with cameras and microphones so all stimuli are being captured. They are also in tandem storing developmental milestones in the baby's life. From the resulting data warehouse they are hoping to find patterns that will help develop language learning models.
Motion is quite a bit simpler, only with language do we truely understand why we want to grab something, and that influences everything about our grasp. We know to grab a rock with both hands, and an egg gently.
You could have a very long train, because your train basically costs $100M per mile also. It doesn't cost any more to make a larger train. These trains could hold thousands, possibly tens of thousands of people. For a long straight run done by a lot of people all at once, such as LA-Vegas, it's very economical. $50 a seat x 3000 passengers is $150K a trip. Total cost in energy is very low, per passenger. Somewhere around $1. About 10 million people a year do the LA-Las Vegas trip, so $50 x 10,000,000 = $500 Million per year, each way. So, you'd gross 10 miles a year of track, the trip is 200 miles so 20 years to return your investment (gross). You'll have other costs such as employees, security, etc.
Not to mention you could have dynamic loading, so you could carry cargo, etc, which you could charge more for. A Typical Person is 180 pounds, so you could move cargo at the same rate for 27 cents per pound, well below truck rates..Fedex charges $1.85/pound at 10,000 pound packages...
Vegas has the I-15 corridor, why not fill the empty seats with cargo that's going anyway? And I heard they could move customs processing to Vegas also. So the ships in Long Beach could unload right onto this thing and customs, warehousing, etc can be done on cheap land in the middle of the desert. Take all the truck traffic off the coast (except local) and you'll have a mighty pleasant place to live..
The problem with trains since the beginning has been the continental divide. Check out BNSF's route maps. You have three major crossings, the hi-line (ID-MT), medium line (UT-CO) and low line (AZ-NM). But notice there is no midwestern North-South route that follows I-15. This area is mainly high desert and represents the next major boom area of the U.S., in 10-20 years.
East Coast has many opportunities for a fast train, it's surprising they don't have much yet.
I have a Vista box at work, which I am using for testing along with Office 2007. One thing that stands out from an IT perspective is the fact that NONE OF THE RESOURCE KIT TOOLS WORK WITH VISTA. Well, most of them don't. A lot the command line tools which you absolutely must have to do any REAL administration work on a Server 2003 domain do not run under Vista. I think this is due to a change in the network driver API and they moved some system libraries around, among other things.
Even with the fix in the above knowledgebase, you have to work around a lot of issues. Now, I have disabled all of the fancy graphics, so it runs pretty good. The major differences are the file browser, they are finally moving away from "Drive Letters"! Also, the "start menu" is improved. Performance-wise, it doesn't seem that much better than XP, because you have a lot of extra stuff running.
Vista is the last 32-bit OS Microsoft will release, as they have said publically. The 64-bit kernel has a lot of new stuff that the 32-bit does not, since they have been concentrating all development on that side of things. Vista is mainly a beta test of the new interface, while they finish the new kernel. If you have messed with the 64 bit versions of Vista, you will see how unstable it is;) This is mainly due to driver problems. As vendors come on board, 64 bit will be the new wave. In parallel, they are releasing IPv6 on by default, I would bet that IPv4 is mysteriously off by default in a future version of the desktop os...
Of course, Server 2008 is being released simultaneously with Exchange and probably a new SQL server, and all of these are moving to 64 bit also. Obviously this is necessary as we hit native addressing limits. They need to do this since they are moving to a flash-based system for the OS. Basically, a big flash disk will be addressed like regular memory. The flash disk will hold the OS files, drivers, DLL's, etc. that are rarely written, with magnetic storage for long term data storage. You've heard of "readyboost", well, that's an automatic version of same. They are going to have a new "system score" which will require you to have onboard flash for a disk "cache". Since 64 bit will allow a theoretical maximum of 2 billion+ Gigabytes, we are probably set for 20 years at least.
So, no, do not run Vista at your company, unless you have sales people that want to look flashy. Sure, it's usable, it works ok, but I wouldn't want it as my primary box just yet.
These could be used with some sort of intelligent prefetch (ala ReadyBoost) with good results. I know they use them currently in high-performance systems to swap out table indexes and the like. Since the indexes are relatively small files--but there are many of them--seek time becomes the bottleneck, rather than throughput.
I've heard about doing this in Linux by mounting a USB key and using it as extra swap. Here's how in Ubuntu (from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=395435:
1) Plug the USB drive in your USB connector; 2) If Ubuntu automount the device (usually in/media/usbdisk), umount the device (ie., sudo umount/media/usbdisk); 3) sudo mkswap/dev/sda1 (assuming/dev/sda1 is the correct device for the connected usb device) 4) sudo swapon -p 32767/dev/sda1
"cat/proc/swaps" to check if everything is ok; on my laptop I get the following output:
Filename Type Size Used Priority/dev/hda4 partition 2353512 116 -1 (standard HD swap partition)/dev/sda1 partition 1981928 123900 32767 ("ReadyBoost"-style pen drive)
Quite obviously, performance is not the same as with real additional ram; however, I feel REAL gain in speed while using eclipse+tomcat+mysql for development on my laptop (which is equipped with just 512MB ram).
To turn it off, type:
"swapoff/dev/sda1", assuming/dev/sda1 is the correct device.
Obviously you are going to be write limited due to the physical limitations of the flash disk, but reads will be very fast. ReadyBoost will keep a table of files that get read a lot, but written infrequently and then cache them on the flash device. It would probably be possible to do this at the disk driver level in linux with a fast database like BDB, keep a table of the last 1000 files read, if there's a write, remove them from the table. Then move those files up to the flash drive as a disk cache... there may be something like this already, like the Google Prefetch project that's in the works.
I see an opportunity to coin a term here... when you're engaged in multiplayer, and your teammate crosses streams with you, resulting in both your deaths... we'll call that streamkilling. Or teamcrossing. I'm still working on it.
I'd like to see Bill Murray return to humor instead of the droopy eyed sad guy role he's played since being typecast in the Wes Anderson flicks, Lost in the Translation, etc. I'd like to see some of that arrogant humor return, ala Scrooged. They are all older guys so you could work that into the script. Lots of aging boomer jokes, one of them can be haunted by a dead grandparent, etc.
A win to George W. Bush and the neocons would be for the apocalypse to break out in the Middle East and for the "rapture" to occur (ie: the second coming of Jesus).
You see, our country has been hijacked by Right Wing Christians, who we didn't even vote for, and they are doing all of this because they believe "God Told them To" and that their goal is to forment the mythical apocalypse during their lifetime. According to their 'book of revalations', the war that will end the world is going to be a fight between the Jewish and the Muslim in the holy land. So what better thing to do than remove the one thing keeping all of the Islamic Middle East from uniting (much like the EU did last decade) into one economy. Guess what, one strong form of currency is definitely better than dealing in dollars, which we use to rape the oil from their lands and pay them only minimally for it. So, one united "Islamic Union" from Turkey down through Egypt to Sudan, over through Yemen, Iran, and all the way to Pakistan (currently a military dictatorship, again, reminds me of Saddam for some reason), up through Iran again into Kyrgyistan, then over through Azerbaijan, and everything in between (oh wait, except Israel, that tiny little dot almost in the center). Anyway, look at the map. Not only is the area notably oil-rich, it's also aptly called the "Crossroads of Asia and Europe". They aren't going to go much further east, 2.6 billion Chinese and Indians are that way (although the muslims have expanded into SE asia, indonesia, and the U.S. colony the Phillipines. So they will either go up through Russia or into Europe or into Africa. So, thusly, you have the entire Christian world on edge due to some bullshit, so they are going to start forming alliances. No one wants this to happen, so everyone is going to do the politically correct (accepted anyway) thing of just going after the oil.
Anyway, they are wrong. An islamic union would probably filter out the radical Imams and replace them with moderates. They'll have everything they need, a strong currency and economy, land, shipping, mining, etc. It would probably be great for the world at large. Of course, that would mean the phophecy is wrong...
So, instead, the cards are played the most offensive way possible, ensuring the radical Imams DO take and hold power and thus radical islam flourishes, leading to a war with Israel. Now, Israel can hold it's own for maybe 30 days against the united islamic armies. So, naturally we, the U.S. have to rescue them. Then our lapdog Britian says yes also, then France, but wait, after we drive them back into Iraq, we have control of all this land. Who are we going to give it to?
So then Russia gets involved, and of course China is going to come in just to cause trouble and invade Taiwan. Thus, a new world war.
Of course, that's Rumsfeld/Cheney territory. They just convinced God Fearing George that this could for out for both of them. Here come the Germans, hopefully we can save this one. Of course, they can just detonate a small "nuclear" device somewhere in the U.S., nowhere near Texas or Wyoming, find a perfect, readable, unburned passport right at "ground zero" and we'll be so gung ho every asshole in california will have a flag on their car. We'll rush to Israel's borders so fast it'll take the paint off the planes.
And of course Bush will be sitting in the office with glee, waiting for everything to explode around him. Waiting to take it nuclear. Because what does he care. 30 minutes after he presses the red button that last white light he sees isn't going to be a 8000m airburst thermonuclear device with CCCP* painted on the tip; no, it will be Jesus, coming to take him away to heaven, while all the sinners perish below in the fires of destruction.
Uh, you mean Texas and Wyoming, right? And you know that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and almost everyone else in the cabinet and administration are all of German descent.
With newer advances such as Speedstep (or whatever they call it now), you can communicate to the servers that they are in a power outage mode and have them flip into a low power mode. Sure, they will run slower, but they won't go DOWN, and the resulting KW of power not being dissipated in the room will help keep things cooler, longer. Of course, in a colo, this means certain software that the server owner has to install. Better for this to be a hardware integration, with some type of network between the servers and the power management system and the cooling system. I know something like this would be fairly easy to implement, provided you had the right device in each server. I see performance adjustments which can downclock certain processors (laptops have had this for years), turn off hard drives, and blank all the monitors automatically (with an override of course).
Wife Alison, and has a daughter, Margo, who is veternarian in Denver. According to this.
She works at
High Plains Veterinary Relief Services Margot Kerr Vahrenwald, DVM 8*37 E 25th Place Denver, CO 80238 720-2*4-2747
Here's a picture, and a story which names her daughters Savannah and Caitlin, her two cats Bart and Mish-Mish, and her dog, Tobermory.
According to a story in the Washington Post on home sales:
LEXINGTON ST. N., 2523-Christopher S. Vahrenwald and Margot K. Kerr to Mary Ellen Dudar, $575,621.
So, we do a quick search for him and what do you know, their Property tax record. Looks like she owns her office.
Chris, the husband, appears to be an insurance agent, accident, health and life, according to the Colorado Division of Insurance.
I could go on. Of course, this only uses free information, from Google. And I'm only posting this because of your comment and the fact that he said specifically what he said. All in all, his daughter looks like a pretty nice person so&!*&^^#$*&@#*(HD*&! NO CARRIER
Don Kerr is CIA, but traditionally the NRO and space operations have been Air Force positions. The rationale is to not have too much power over too many intelligence assets. One of the last things Donald Rumsfeld did before his departure was make Kerr director of NRO..
Actually, they are using fuel cells to power the subs now, which means 6000nm range, across 45 days. They also have sterling engines available to generate power/thrust as needed. See the wiki on Air-Independent Propulsion.
It's not that surprising that the Chinese sub was allowed to surface inside the task force. I'm guessing they will use this story to increase military spending somehow. The US, in addition to the typical ship-based sonar, will also have many sub escorts traveling with it. Also, they have seafloor based sonar emplacements. Although SOSUS is old and not very up to date, you can bet there's some other seafloor emplacements we haven't heard of.
Also, during a training excercise, they are going to be making a lot of noise and doing stuff they wouldn't otherwise do. All those things together would make it likely that a modern sub could infiltrate fairly close without being noticed. I doubt the Chinese would "pearl harbor" us, nor that a submarine torpedo would do much damage to a carrier, but it is interesting. Especially interesting is they could bring their nukes within range of the west or east coast of the U.S., assuming this is factual. Which makes this more scary. China does have nukes and probably has some cruise missles which can carry them.
Also, you should get the book Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, and also learn about one-time pads and stuff. Because public key is not infallible. Regardless of the bits, if you are using the same keys repeatedly you can do frequency analysis and tons of other tricks we've probably never heard about. Obviously you have no expectation of privacy on the INTERNET (duh), so you shouldn't act like you didn't see this coming. If you had secret conversations or data to exchange, you would have already assumed that before you sent the message.
Of course, we all use our online banking, purchase items online, etc. and all of that is insecure as hell. But I trust my bank to back me (the customer up) if they screw up and let my information get out. Unfortunately, we have no idea what the government is doing because they are doing this illegally (according to the FISA act), they refuse to divulge information about what they've collected and what they're doing with it, and therefore we conscious Americans are asking because we know that this is one of those steps towards a police state, just like what happened in Nazi Germany. Plus, they could totally fabricate evidence coming from this input but the judicial system doesn't fully understand the internet because it's a bunch of 80 year old people with roots in the deep deep past. So they could screw anyone they want to, and they judge will give you a blank stare when you try to say they fabricated it.
They could screw you, if they decided they didn't like you for some reason. And of course they are storing all this information so LATER ON, if they decide they don't like you (say if you were Jewish and they decided they didn't like Jewish people) they could use this information to screw you.
The thing I'm searching for here is the right statement to answer those people who will say, "if you have nothing to hide, then why hide it?" The answer is simple. We don't know what to hide, because we don't know what asshole might get this data someday, and we don't know what he'll do. This point is UNARGUABLE. And to say it will never happen here is, well, it has happened here before.
I'm not apologetic towards anyone, but the FBI could never get away with profiling White Evangelical Christians. If that came out, the program would be shut down. But because the White Evangelical Christians are running things, it doesn't. I don't hate anyone, and my rant was not hateful in the least. It was sociologically observant, insightful and intelligent, if you chose to read and comprehend it.
We intelligent people laugh at people who drive Fords, which are absolute rubbish. Behind the wheel of one, you will invariably find a mindless git because NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD BUY ONE. The fact that it's the bestselling automobile in America (nay, the world, but it's only sold here [~99%]) speaks volumes about the state of our population.
Additionally, the fact that the FBI is profiling people by their choice of food is laughably absurd, as many other comments pointed out. That is the point I was trying to make. I can just see people like Bush and evangelicals I know sitting around trying to find terrorists, like they try to find deer during hunting season. It's insulting to us as a country, America, to be so intolerant. And to think that by choosing to eat a certain food will make you end up on a list somewhere, REGARDLESS of your race, should be disturbing to us. But it's just one more in a string of absurd and disturbing things that have happened as a result of religio-hysteria in recent years in this country and so I have nothing left to do but laugh. Because WE ARE DOOMED.
Well, if you're not eating good Christian foods of good Texas beef and pork and Idaho potatoes, then you obviously support terrorism. Eating kebabs and lebni shows that you support the murder of 20,000 2,000 Jewish-American businessmen at ground zero on Nine-Eleven, Oh-One. And when you ingest the anti-Christ in the form of saffron-infused Basmati rice, you stand a much higher chance of being recruited by organizations wishing to attack Jesus America. Therefore, to be safe, we will be keeping detailed files on you until we decide that Islam is no longer a threat to Jesus.
Seriously, isn't this exactly like McCarthyism and the Commie witch-hunts of the 50's? And there's a lot of the same players, they are just higher up now. This is bullshit. Iranians are people too, so are Iraqis. Just because they don't believe in Jesus, shit ASIANS don't believe in Jesus yet we seem to love them. I'd say Asians are a much bigger threat to Jesus than a few crudely developed nomads. I forsee an ASIAN witchhunt coming soon.
So, to avoid getting on the watchlist, I've compiled a few guidepoints:
1. Attend an Evangelical Protestant Church, preferably with a band 2. Be white, of Germanic or Anglo-Saxon decent 3. Buy and Drive only Ford products 4. Peeling and Faded "Support our troops" bumper sticker 5. Never drive more than 10 miles from where you live 6. Only eat good Christian foods that are mentioned in the Bible. Wine, OK, as long as it's in a box. 7. Only purchase goods at Walmart. 8. Do not patronize convenience/gas station stores with brown people working in them 9. ???
Much like the PC business, someone needs to invent the "clone" of the car, with a standardized baseline and expandability of features. Once there are tons of components out there, integrators (think dell) can put together systems for people who don't want to build their own. When you think about it, all cars are pretty much the same now. There are a few established leaders in reliability, such as Toyota. Since you are drastically simplifying the car by getting rid of the noisy messy internal combustion engine, you have time and money to make something really special from a software perspective. IE: new safety features, better handling, etc. Obviously the motor manufacturers will keep developing more efficient motors which you will make uncompatible with the other items, so you can build in functional obsolescence (IE Waste) to keep the economy trucking so no one thinks we're commies. You need some bright fellow to publically declare a "law" that cars will become twice as efficient every 3 years or something and of course accept and buy any crazy idea, as long as you can recycle it when you're done. Plastics will come into handy here.
Now we just need to get rid of the 30 million idiots who buy Ford pickups to hold their Jesus fish collections and we'll be safe *driving* in the new cars too!
I'd say the NUMBER ONE problem is the rapid decline of the dollar, American anything, Gold is shooting up, etc.
This war is making Cheney and his friends in the military contracting business RICH. We are paying for it with deficit spending (IE Diluting our currency). The war goes far beyond oil, killing terrorists (and our own lads). War is always about money and power, period. Cheney did what he set out to do. They can impeach now, and he'll get pardoned. Nothings been happening from congress because Bush doesn't give a fuck anymore and just vetos everything.
We are screwed people, if you haven't been following the gold market (www.kitco.com is one decent site), you should see what's happened there in the last 30 days. Now China is thinking about moving it's currency reserves to Euros. They hold a significant percentage of treasuries and dollars and any move on their part would destroy both markets. And they'll get hit the hardest, of course, because the economy will crumble in China because of that. But they'll still have those 1B workers and factories and you know what they're going to make until we start buying shit again? PLANES, TANKS, SHIPS, and guess what? All of us Americans are going to have to get off our asses and sacrifice to keep up. Something we haven't had to do for a long time.
So what has Cheney done? Oh, he's just destroyed the American dream in favor of helping a few of his friends take and keep power for years to come. Because guess what, it isn't the rich who are going to hurt when the job cuts start.
And when the dust clears and the economy somehow regains stability, Europe will be the new largest economy on Earth will little old evangelical America bringing up the rear. Luckly we have land, resources, oceans separating us from the shit that's going to erupt but now they have the Bomb, and it's not going to be easy to shoot them all down.
What can we do? First of all, the worst thing we can do is to lock ourselves up in our rooms and pray for someone to save us. We need to get out there, leverage the global communications network, let the WORLD know that we aren't all like them. Because if we don't, we're doomed. Doomed. Boomers are retiring left and right and our dollars are worth less and less each day, this is a horrible feedback loop!
#1, impeach Cheney. #2, hire a kindly old grandmother for president. Do something to help our image in the world. U.S. Treasuries have just gone from the safest investment in the world to.. Subprime mortgage B paper. MEXICO has better ratings. We have to stop the bleeding before they take us all down, while they stay free at the top with all the power and we have no way to remove them.
Or just keep doing what you're doing, hopefully it will all work out.
Ha! But only partially funny, we have been wondering what Google's going to do with all that dark fiber it has in it's portfolio. Why not become an ISP? I'm a little worried about them partnering with a traditional (evil) telco, however. For various reasons, including the billing strategy. Perhaps the Google employees from outside of the US have some ideas since 3g has been around for quite a while in N. Europe, S. Korea, etc. Cell phones are a commodity now, and the minutes used should be treated as such also. It's amazing how big a ripoff American cell providers are, considering what you get. But they do have a lot of territory to cover, I guess..
Those Kodak photo kiosks at every pharmacy in the US are amazing. Print your digital pictures for a few cents. No stupid computers, no batches, no crap. Just bring in your memory card, or thumbdrive, or CD, or diskette, or the camera itself (or FTP/HTTP them right to the store from home). It reads everything, even Mac stuff, and you never have to buy toner. Easy to use browser to tag the photos you want to print. Select enlargements if you want them. If you send them off for the 3 day service you even get archival quality (the while you wait ones are lower quality). We take about 400 keeper pictures a month for our online gallery (new baby..) and it's a lifesaver to whittle those keeper pics that exist in digital format into the 10-20 "keepsake" pictures to give to my grandkids in 30 years (when the digital copies will probably be long gone or unreadable).
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There is some good science on there, as well as some fun stuff. You are always going to get two sides. I do think that doctors need to change their ways if they don't want people's trust to fade even further.
How do you know if an image is illegal or not?
I have a five month old and I've been observing his progress since birth. It is quite interesting how he learns. First of all, you have to understand that long before a baby is born it is moving around in the dark, learning muscle control (feedback loop). When it is born, the senses of touch, smell, hearing and sight are already there and developed. The baby just doesn't know what to make of the stimuli. Learning is when the baby starts associating one or more of these inputs with satisfying it's needs (hunger, changed, sleep, general attention). Babies "see" with their mouths, since the mouth is the most sensitive touch center, so they are constantly trying to bring things to their mouths, or their mouths to things. I heard about a project (Deb Roy at MIT) to capture literally every input a baby recieves while he/she is developing. He wired his house with cameras and microphones so all stimuli are being captured. They are also in tandem storing developmental milestones in the baby's life. From the resulting data warehouse they are hoping to find patterns that will help develop language learning models.
Motion is quite a bit simpler, only with language do we truely understand why we want to grab something, and that influences everything about our grasp. We know to grab a rock with both hands, and an egg gently.
You could have a very long train, because your train basically costs $100M per mile also. It doesn't cost any more to make a larger train. These trains could hold thousands, possibly tens of thousands of people. For a long straight run done by a lot of people all at once, such as LA-Vegas, it's very economical. $50 a seat x 3000 passengers is $150K a trip. Total cost in energy is very low, per passenger. Somewhere around $1. About 10 million people a year do the LA-Las Vegas trip, so $50 x 10,000,000 = $500 Million per year, each way. So, you'd gross 10 miles a year of track, the trip is 200 miles so 20 years to return your investment (gross). You'll have other costs such as employees, security, etc.
Not to mention you could have dynamic loading, so you could carry cargo, etc, which you could charge more for. A Typical Person is 180 pounds, so you could move cargo at the same rate for 27 cents per pound, well below truck rates..Fedex charges $1.85/pound at 10,000 pound packages...
Vegas has the I-15 corridor, why not fill the empty seats with cargo that's going anyway? And I heard they could move customs processing to Vegas also. So the ships in Long Beach could unload right onto this thing and customs, warehousing, etc can be done on cheap land in the middle of the desert. Take all the truck traffic off the coast (except local) and you'll have a mighty pleasant place to live..
The problem with trains since the beginning has been the continental divide. Check out BNSF's route maps. You have three major crossings, the hi-line (ID-MT), medium line (UT-CO) and low line (AZ-NM). But notice there is no midwestern North-South route that follows I-15. This area is mainly high desert and represents the next major boom area of the U.S., in 10-20 years.
East Coast has many opportunities for a fast train, it's surprising they don't have much yet.
I have a Vista box at work, which I am using for testing along with Office 2007. One thing that stands out from an IT perspective is the fact that NONE OF THE RESOURCE KIT TOOLS WORK WITH VISTA. Well, most of them don't. A lot the command line tools which you absolutely must have to do any REAL administration work on a Server 2003 domain do not run under Vista. I think this is due to a change in the network driver API and they moved some system libraries around, among other things.
;) This is mainly due to driver problems. As vendors come on board, 64 bit will be the new wave. In parallel, they are releasing IPv6 on by default, I would bet that IPv4 is mysteriously off by default in a future version of the desktop os ...
Even with the fix in the above knowledgebase, you have to work around a lot of issues. Now, I have disabled all of the fancy graphics, so it runs pretty good. The major differences are the file browser, they are finally moving away from "Drive Letters"! Also, the "start menu" is improved. Performance-wise, it doesn't seem that much better than XP, because you have a lot of extra stuff running.
Vista is the last 32-bit OS Microsoft will release, as they have said publically. The 64-bit kernel has a lot of new stuff that the 32-bit does not, since they have been concentrating all development on that side of things. Vista is mainly a beta test of the new interface, while they finish the new kernel. If you have messed with the 64 bit versions of Vista, you will see how unstable it is
Of course, Server 2008 is being released simultaneously with Exchange and probably a new SQL server, and all of these are moving to 64 bit also. Obviously this is necessary as we hit native addressing limits. They need to do this since they are moving to a flash-based system for the OS. Basically, a big flash disk will be addressed like regular memory. The flash disk will hold the OS files, drivers, DLL's, etc. that are rarely written, with magnetic storage for long term data storage. You've heard of "readyboost", well, that's an automatic version of same. They are going to have a new "system score" which will require you to have onboard flash for a disk "cache". Since 64 bit will allow a theoretical maximum of 2 billion+ Gigabytes, we are probably set for 20 years at least.
So, no, do not run Vista at your company, unless you have sales people that want to look flashy. Sure, it's usable, it works ok, but I wouldn't want it as my primary box just yet.
Don't know til you try ;)
Since they are only a few dollars now, it's worth a shot. However, as I said, it would be better if it only used frequently READ files.
These could be used with some sort of intelligent prefetch (ala ReadyBoost) with good results. I know they use them currently in high-performance systems to swap out table indexes and the like. Since the indexes are relatively small files--but there are many of them--seek time becomes the bottleneck, rather than throughput.
/media/usbdisk), umount the device (ie., sudo umount /media/usbdisk); /dev/sda1 (assuming /dev/sda1 is the correct device for the connected usb device) /dev/sda1
/proc/swaps" to check if everything is ok; on my laptop I get the following output:
/dev/hda4 partition 2353512 116 -1 (standard HD swap partition) /dev/sda1 partition 1981928 123900 32767 ("ReadyBoost"-style pen drive)
/dev/sda1", assuming /dev/sda1 is the correct device.
I've heard about doing this in Linux by mounting a USB key and using it as extra swap. Here's how in Ubuntu (from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=395435:
1) Plug the USB drive in your USB connector;
2) If Ubuntu automount the device (usually in
3) sudo mkswap
4) sudo swapon -p 32767
"cat
Filename Type Size Used Priority
Quite obviously, performance is not the same as with real additional ram; however, I feel REAL gain in speed while using eclipse+tomcat+mysql for development on my laptop (which is equipped with just 512MB ram).
To turn it off, type:
"swapoff
Obviously you are going to be write limited due to the physical limitations of the flash disk, but reads will be very fast. ReadyBoost will keep a table of files that get read a lot, but written infrequently and then cache them on the flash device. It would probably be possible to do this at the disk driver level in linux with a fast database like BDB, keep a table of the last 1000 files read, if there's a write, remove them from the table. Then move those files up to the flash drive as a disk cache... there may be something like this already, like the Google Prefetch project that's in the works.
I see an opportunity to coin a term here... when you're engaged in multiplayer, and your teammate crosses streams with you, resulting in both your deaths... we'll call that streamkilling. Or teamcrossing. I'm still working on it.
Soviet Rush-In?
I'd like to see Bill Murray return to humor instead of the droopy eyed sad guy role he's played since being typecast in the Wes Anderson flicks, Lost in the Translation, etc. I'd like to see some of that arrogant humor return, ala Scrooged. They are all older guys so you could work that into the script. Lots of aging boomer jokes, one of them can be haunted by a dead grandparent, etc.
A win to George W. Bush and the neocons would be for the apocalypse to break out in the Middle East and for the "rapture" to occur (ie: the second coming of Jesus).
You see, our country has been hijacked by Right Wing Christians, who we didn't even vote for, and they are doing all of this because they believe "God Told them To" and that their goal is to forment the mythical apocalypse during their lifetime. According to their 'book of revalations', the war that will end the world is going to be a fight between the Jewish and the Muslim in the holy land. So what better thing to do than remove the one thing keeping all of the Islamic Middle East from uniting (much like the EU did last decade) into one economy. Guess what, one strong form of currency is definitely better than dealing in dollars, which we use to rape the oil from their lands and pay them only minimally for it. So, one united "Islamic Union" from Turkey down through Egypt to Sudan, over through Yemen, Iran, and all the way to Pakistan (currently a military dictatorship, again, reminds me of Saddam for some reason), up through Iran again into Kyrgyistan, then over through Azerbaijan, and everything in between (oh wait, except Israel, that tiny little dot almost in the center). Anyway, look at the map. Not only is the area notably oil-rich, it's also aptly called the "Crossroads of Asia and Europe". They aren't going to go much further east, 2.6 billion Chinese and Indians are that way (although the muslims have expanded into SE asia, indonesia, and the U.S. colony the Phillipines. So they will either go up through Russia or into Europe or into Africa. So, thusly, you have the entire Christian world on edge due to some bullshit, so they are going to start forming alliances. No one wants this to happen, so everyone is going to do the politically correct (accepted anyway) thing of just going after the oil.
Anyway, they are wrong. An islamic union would probably filter out the radical Imams and replace them with moderates. They'll have everything they need, a strong currency and economy, land, shipping, mining, etc. It would probably be great for the world at large. Of course, that would mean the phophecy is wrong...
So, instead, the cards are played the most offensive way possible, ensuring the radical Imams DO take and hold power and thus radical islam flourishes, leading to a war with Israel. Now, Israel can hold it's own for maybe 30 days against the united islamic armies. So, naturally we, the U.S. have to rescue them. Then our lapdog Britian says yes also, then France, but wait, after we drive them back into Iraq, we have control of all this land. Who are we going to give it to?
So then Russia gets involved, and of course China is going to come in just to cause trouble and invade Taiwan. Thus, a new world war.
Of course, that's Rumsfeld/Cheney territory. They just convinced God Fearing George that this could for out for both of them. Here come the Germans, hopefully we can save this one. Of course, they can just detonate a small "nuclear" device somewhere in the U.S., nowhere near Texas or Wyoming, find a perfect, readable, unburned passport right at "ground zero" and we'll be so gung ho every asshole in california will have a flag on their car. We'll rush to Israel's borders so fast it'll take the paint off the planes.
And of course Bush will be sitting in the office with glee, waiting for everything to explode around him. Waiting to take it nuclear. Because what does he care. 30 minutes after he presses the red button that last white light he sees isn't going to be a 8000m airburst thermonuclear device with CCCP* painted on the tip; no, it will be Jesus, coming to take him away to heaven, while all the sinners perish below in the fires of destruction.
Uh, you mean Texas and Wyoming, right? And you know that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and almost everyone else in the cabinet and administration are all of German descent.
With newer advances such as Speedstep (or whatever they call it now), you can communicate to the servers that they are in a power outage mode and have them flip into a low power mode. Sure, they will run slower, but they won't go DOWN, and the resulting KW of power not being dissipated in the room will help keep things cooler, longer. Of course, in a colo, this means certain software that the server owner has to install. Better for this to be a hardware integration, with some type of network between the servers and the power management system and the cooling system. I know something like this would be fairly easy to implement, provided you had the right device in each server. I see performance adjustments which can downclock certain processors (laptops have had this for years), turn off hard drives, and blank all the monitors automatically (with an override of course).
Wife Alison, and has a daughter, Margo, who is veternarian in Denver. According to this.
She works at
High Plains Veterinary Relief Services
Margot Kerr Vahrenwald, DVM
8*37 E 25th Place
Denver, CO 80238
720-2*4-2747
Here's a picture, and a story which names her daughters Savannah and Caitlin, her two cats Bart and Mish-Mish, and her dog, Tobermory.
According to a story in the Washington Post on home sales:
LEXINGTON ST. N., 2523-Christopher S. Vahrenwald and Margot K. Kerr to Mary Ellen Dudar, $575,621.
So, we do a quick search for him and what do you know, their Property tax record. Looks like she owns her office.
Chris, the husband, appears to be an insurance agent, accident, health and life, according to the Colorado Division of Insurance.
I could go on. Of course, this only uses free information, from Google. And I'm only posting this because of your comment and the fact that he said specifically what he said. All in all, his daughter looks like a pretty nice person so&!*&^^#$*&@#*(HD*&! NO CARRIER
Don Kerr is CIA, but traditionally the NRO and space operations have been Air Force positions. The rationale is to not have too much power over too many intelligence assets. One of the last things Donald Rumsfeld did before his departure was make Kerr director of NRO..
Actually, they are using fuel cells to power the subs now, which means 6000nm range, across 45 days. They also have sterling engines available to generate power/thrust as needed. See the wiki on Air-Independent Propulsion.
It's not that surprising that the Chinese sub was allowed to surface inside the task force. I'm guessing they will use this story to increase military spending somehow. The US, in addition to the typical ship-based sonar, will also have many sub escorts traveling with it. Also, they have seafloor based sonar emplacements. Although SOSUS is old and not very up to date, you can bet there's some other seafloor emplacements we haven't heard of.
Also, during a training excercise, they are going to be making a lot of noise and doing stuff they wouldn't otherwise do. All those things together would make it likely that a modern sub could infiltrate fairly close without being noticed. I doubt the Chinese would "pearl harbor" us, nor that a submarine torpedo would do much damage to a carrier, but it is interesting. Especially interesting is they could bring their nukes within range of the west or east coast of the U.S., assuming this is factual. Which makes this more scary. China does have nukes and probably has some cruise missles which can carry them.
and that boy grew up to be ... Paul Allen.
Brilliant! Someone should recommend Casey Kasem tags to the W3 committee next meeting. I can think of thousands of uses.
Also, you should get the book Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, and also learn about one-time pads and stuff. Because public key is not infallible. Regardless of the bits, if you are using the same keys repeatedly you can do frequency analysis and tons of other tricks we've probably never heard about. Obviously you have no expectation of privacy on the INTERNET (duh), so you shouldn't act like you didn't see this coming. If you had secret conversations or data to exchange, you would have already assumed that before you sent the message.
Of course, we all use our online banking, purchase items online, etc. and all of that is insecure as hell. But I trust my bank to back me (the customer up) if they screw up and let my information get out. Unfortunately, we have no idea what the government is doing because they are doing this illegally (according to the FISA act), they refuse to divulge information about what they've collected and what they're doing with it, and therefore we conscious Americans are asking because we know that this is one of those steps towards a police state, just like what happened in Nazi Germany. Plus, they could totally fabricate evidence coming from this input but the judicial system doesn't fully understand the internet because it's a bunch of 80 year old people with roots in the deep deep past. So they could screw anyone they want to, and they judge will give you a blank stare when you try to say they fabricated it.
They could screw you, if they decided they didn't like you for some reason. And of course they are storing all this information so LATER ON, if they decide they don't like you (say if you were Jewish and they decided they didn't like Jewish people) they could use this information to screw you.
The thing I'm searching for here is the right statement to answer those people who will say, "if you have nothing to hide, then why hide it?" The answer is simple. We don't know what to hide, because we don't know what asshole might get this data someday, and we don't know what he'll do. This point is UNARGUABLE. And to say it will never happen here is, well, it has happened here before.
I'm not apologetic towards anyone, but the FBI could never get away with profiling White Evangelical Christians. If that came out, the program would be shut down. But because the White Evangelical Christians are running things, it doesn't. I don't hate anyone, and my rant was not hateful in the least. It was sociologically observant, insightful and intelligent, if you chose to read and comprehend it.
We intelligent people laugh at people who drive Fords, which are absolute rubbish. Behind the wheel of one, you will invariably find a mindless git because NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD BUY ONE. The fact that it's the bestselling automobile in America (nay, the world, but it's only sold here [~99%]) speaks volumes about the state of our population.
Additionally, the fact that the FBI is profiling people by their choice of food is laughably absurd, as many other comments pointed out. That is the point I was trying to make. I can just see people like Bush and evangelicals I know sitting around trying to find terrorists, like they try to find deer during hunting season. It's insulting to us as a country, America, to be so intolerant. And to think that by choosing to eat a certain food will make you end up on a list somewhere, REGARDLESS of your race, should be disturbing to us. But it's just one more in a string of absurd and disturbing things that have happened as a result of religio-hysteria in recent years in this country and so I have nothing left to do but laugh. Because WE ARE DOOMED.
Well, if you're not eating good Christian foods of good Texas beef and pork and Idaho potatoes, then you obviously support terrorism. Eating kebabs and lebni shows that you support the murder of 20,000 2,000 Jewish-American businessmen at ground zero on Nine-Eleven, Oh-One. And when you ingest the anti-Christ in the form of saffron-infused Basmati rice, you stand a much higher chance of being recruited by organizations wishing to attack Jesus America. Therefore, to be safe, we will be keeping detailed files on you until we decide that Islam is no longer a threat to Jesus.
Seriously, isn't this exactly like McCarthyism and the Commie witch-hunts of the 50's? And there's a lot of the same players, they are just higher up now. This is bullshit. Iranians are people too, so are Iraqis. Just because they don't believe in Jesus, shit ASIANS don't believe in Jesus yet we seem to love them. I'd say Asians are a much bigger threat to Jesus than a few crudely developed nomads. I forsee an ASIAN witchhunt coming soon.
So, to avoid getting on the watchlist, I've compiled a few guidepoints:
1. Attend an Evangelical Protestant Church, preferably with a band
2. Be white, of Germanic or Anglo-Saxon decent
3. Buy and Drive only Ford products
4. Peeling and Faded "Support our troops" bumper sticker
5. Never drive more than 10 miles from where you live
6. Only eat good Christian foods that are mentioned in the Bible. Wine, OK, as long as it's in a box.
7. Only purchase goods at Walmart.
8. Do not patronize convenience/gas station stores with brown people working in them
9. ???
Sounds a lot like Timothy McVeigh!
Much like the PC business, someone needs to invent the "clone" of the car, with a standardized baseline and expandability of features. Once there are tons of components out there, integrators (think dell) can put together systems for people who don't want to build their own. When you think about it, all cars are pretty much the same now. There are a few established leaders in reliability, such as Toyota. Since you are drastically simplifying the car by getting rid of the noisy messy internal combustion engine, you have time and money to make something really special from a software perspective. IE: new safety features, better handling, etc. Obviously the motor manufacturers will keep developing more efficient motors which you will make uncompatible with the other items, so you can build in functional obsolescence (IE Waste) to keep the economy trucking so no one thinks we're commies. You need some bright fellow to publically declare a "law" that cars will become twice as efficient every 3 years or something and of course accept and buy any crazy idea, as long as you can recycle it when you're done. Plastics will come into handy here.
Now we just need to get rid of the 30 million idiots who buy Ford pickups to hold their Jesus fish collections and we'll be safe *driving* in the new cars too!
"..includes the William H. Gates Building..."
I think we found the source of the bugs. Nothing to see here.
I'd say the NUMBER ONE problem is the rapid decline of the dollar, American anything, Gold is shooting up, etc.
.. Subprime mortgage B paper. MEXICO has better ratings. We have to stop the bleeding before they take us all down, while they stay free at the top with all the power and we have no way to remove them.
This war is making Cheney and his friends in the military contracting business RICH. We are paying for it with deficit spending (IE Diluting our currency). The war goes far beyond oil, killing terrorists (and our own lads). War is always about money and power, period. Cheney did what he set out to do. They can impeach now, and he'll get pardoned. Nothings been happening from congress because Bush doesn't give a fuck anymore and just vetos everything.
We are screwed people, if you haven't been following the gold market (www.kitco.com is one decent site), you should see what's happened there in the last 30 days. Now China is thinking about moving it's currency reserves to Euros. They hold a significant percentage of treasuries and dollars and any move on their part would destroy both markets. And they'll get hit the hardest, of course, because the economy will crumble in China because of that. But they'll still have those 1B workers and factories and you know what they're going to make until we start buying shit again? PLANES, TANKS, SHIPS, and guess what? All of us Americans are going to have to get off our asses and sacrifice to keep up. Something we haven't had to do for a long time.
So what has Cheney done? Oh, he's just destroyed the American dream in favor of helping a few of his friends take and keep power for years to come. Because guess what, it isn't the rich who are going to hurt when the job cuts start.
And when the dust clears and the economy somehow regains stability, Europe will be the new largest economy on Earth will little old evangelical America bringing up the rear. Luckly we have land, resources, oceans separating us from the shit that's going to erupt but now they have the Bomb, and it's not going to be easy to shoot them all down.
What can we do? First of all, the worst thing we can do is to lock ourselves up in our rooms and pray for someone to save us. We need to get out there, leverage the global communications network, let the WORLD know that we aren't all like them. Because if we don't, we're doomed. Doomed. Boomers are retiring left and right and our dollars are worth less and less each day, this is a horrible feedback loop!
#1, impeach Cheney. #2, hire a kindly old grandmother for president. Do something to help our image in the world. U.S. Treasuries have just gone from the safest investment in the world to
Or just keep doing what you're doing, hopefully it will all work out.
So we should vote the lesser of two evils in '08? Elect Satan!
Ha! But only partially funny, we have been wondering what Google's going to do with all that dark fiber it has in it's portfolio. Why not become an ISP? I'm a little worried about them partnering with a traditional (evil) telco, however. For various reasons, including the billing strategy. Perhaps the Google employees from outside of the US have some ideas since 3g has been around for quite a while in N. Europe, S. Korea, etc. Cell phones are a commodity now, and the minutes used should be treated as such also. It's amazing how big a ripoff American cell providers are, considering what you get. But they do have a lot of territory to cover, I guess..
Those Kodak photo kiosks at every pharmacy in the US are amazing. Print your digital pictures for a few cents. No stupid computers, no batches, no crap. Just bring in your memory card, or thumbdrive, or CD, or diskette, or the camera itself (or FTP/HTTP them right to the store from home). It reads everything, even Mac stuff, and you never have to buy toner. Easy to use browser to tag the photos you want to print. Select enlargements if you want them. If you send them off for the 3 day service you even get archival quality (the while you wait ones are lower quality). We take about 400 keeper pictures a month for our online gallery (new baby..) and it's a lifesaver to whittle those keeper pics that exist in digital format into the 10-20 "keepsake" pictures to give to my grandkids in 30 years (when the digital copies will probably be long gone or unreadable).