The American sugar growers have basically bought off Congress to put huge tariffs on imported sugar, thus allowing them to keep the price of sugar artifically high in the US. Furthermore the government gives huge loans to the US sugar buyers, which they are allowed to repay in sugar for some number of cents per pound... if they can't sell it on the open market for more than that, they'll just dump it on the government. Basically it's a form of price fixing by the government.
If we got rid of these rediculous tariffs and subsidies sugar would be cheap enough to use in soft drinks in the US.
The article refers to the system as "asymmetric" in a few places. This is not the case: SMP refers to a situation where all CPUs run a kernel, and each CPU schedules jobs for itself. In an AMP situation, one CPU is the "master" and the others are "slaves" which are scheduled, have interrupts and system calls managed by, and are otherwise controlled by the "master" CPU. It's possible to have an SMP tri-core system, and an AMP dual-core system.
Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to sell them in the US and Europe if only so that software developers can get their hands on these things and create cool stuff which works well on the device? For a project which is so wedded to open source that an offer of free Mac OS X was refused, they don't seem to be thinking very much about how the open source model can make this thing work.
If you were LP, you would also mention the giant sucking of my income by the criminalization of non-wrongs like recreational drug use.
Of course, there's also the Livertarian Party, whose platform is that one should be able to do anything to their liver so long as it does not harm anyone else's liver. I'll drink to that!
Alas, many of the victims are also Muslims - to be precise, dark-skinned Muslims. Muslim-against-Muslim violence is heavily underreported, I think: whether by narrow parochialism or any other motivation, stories of suicide bombers blowing up Westerners and Westerners killing Muslims seem to garner far more play in American and European press than stories of suicide bombers who blow up fellow Iraqis or Sudanese goverment-supported militias who rape dark-skinned Muslims to make a "light baby".
If I were inclined to be cynical, I would say that it's far too intellectually easy to portray current world affairs a story of crusading Christians (i.e. George Bush and Tony Blair) raining down terror on innocent Muslims, with terrorists being the sad but only too predictable result. The fact that those terrorists are killing far more Iraqis than Coalition troops are doesn't fit that view too well, so it falls by the wayside, as do other stories that would serve to enrich most peoples' understanding of the ongoing civil war in the Muslim world.
Fair? Fair would be to leave Microsoft alone and stop making new market disincentives for competing operating systems. Any time you force Microsoft to do something you want to Windows (remove WMP, open interfaces, etc.) you are decreasing the size of the market for a real alternative. Of course, economics is a bit too much for most software geeks; it's a good thing most of them aren't involved in setting market policy.
What defines "a country" there? The whims of Hu Jintao? Political entities are not granted legitimacy by fiat. China can't exercise any legitimate authority over the Internet because it has none within its own borders.
Of course, I rescind what I've said if what was meant by "China" was the Republic of China on Taiwan, not the PRC.
The above works fairly well for mobilizing to help small countries in crisis.
Really? Where were the blue helmets in Darfur? And how many died in Rwanda while the world watched?
I'm not sure that the UN works fairly well for anything other than funneling Iraqi oil contracts to political cronies of Kofi Annan, Jacques Chirac, etc. "No war" for oil, indeed.
Unless you're on OS X or BeOS (and maybe a few others), window management is done on a per-application basis: there's no easy way to say "Hide all the windows from application X". MDI is a hack to enable that behavior in certain applications.
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The BBC is reporting on a study by retail research firm The Leading Question, which found that people who swipe music from stores paid for four and a half times more music than regular music fans. Also that most of these people "are extremely enthusiastic about paid-for services, as long as they are suitably compelling." What is nice is that the BPI welcomed the findings that not all kleptophiles are actually evil... they still pledged to carry on the 'carrot and stick' approach though.
Oh, right. Substitute retail theft for downloading above and you'd get what was actually on Slashdot. Suddenly it's wrong when somebody's stealing from a store, but not when they're downloading it against the wishes of the author.
Obviously the only way to achieve social responsibility is with more dead Jews! Because preventing Islamic Jihad and Hamas from tunneling into Israel to smuggle weapons would be just, like, so Nazi.
The BBC is reporting on a study by domestic violence research firm The Bleeding Question, which found that people who commit armed robbery paid for four and a half times more weapons than regular munitions fans. Also that most of these people "are extremely enthusiastic about paid-for services, as long as they are suitably compelling." What is nice is that the BPI welcomed the findings that not all thieves are actually evil... they still pledged to carry on the 'carrot and stick' approach though.
Dear God. I know the RA people. This program took a lot of time to build and test. It's not "every dipshit program" by a long shot. But then again, every dipshit slashdot commentor knows enough about the amount of work involved to make his comment!
Wasn't a main platform of the New Left anti-communism, as opposed to the Old Left? At least that's the impression I've gotten from my reading. Perhaps you can clarify.
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Good point... I'm moving there right now!
If we got rid of these rediculous tariffs and subsidies sugar would be cheap enough to use in soft drinks in the US.
The article refers to the system as "asymmetric" in a few places. This is not the case: SMP refers to a situation where all CPUs run a kernel, and each CPU schedules jobs for itself. In an AMP situation, one CPU is the "master" and the others are "slaves" which are scheduled, have interrupts and system calls managed by, and are otherwise controlled by the "master" CPU. It's possible to have an SMP tri-core system, and an AMP dual-core system.
Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to sell them in the US and Europe if only so that software developers can get their hands on these things and create cool stuff which works well on the device? For a project which is so wedded to open source that an offer of free Mac OS X was refused, they don't seem to be thinking very much about how the open source model can make this thing work.
If you were LP, you would also mention the giant sucking of my income by the criminalization of non-wrongs like recreational drug use.
Of course, there's also the Livertarian Party, whose platform is that one should be able to do anything to their liver so long as it does not harm anyone else's liver. I'll drink to that!
Alas, many of the victims are also Muslims - to be precise, dark-skinned Muslims. Muslim-against-Muslim violence is heavily underreported, I think: whether by narrow parochialism or any other motivation, stories of suicide bombers blowing up Westerners and Westerners killing Muslims seem to garner far more play in American and European press than stories of suicide bombers who blow up fellow Iraqis or Sudanese goverment-supported militias who rape dark-skinned Muslims to make a "light baby".
If I were inclined to be cynical, I would say that it's far too intellectually easy to portray current world affairs a story of crusading Christians (i.e. George Bush and Tony Blair) raining down terror on innocent Muslims, with terrorists being the sad but only too predictable result. The fact that those terrorists are killing far more Iraqis than Coalition troops are doesn't fit that view too well, so it falls by the wayside, as do other stories that would serve to enrich most peoples' understanding of the ongoing civil war in the Muslim world.
So, um, I can buy it? Good!
Fair? Fair would be to leave Microsoft alone and stop making new market disincentives for competing operating systems. Any time you force Microsoft to do something you want to Windows (remove WMP, open interfaces, etc.) you are decreasing the size of the market for a real alternative. Of course, economics is a bit too much for most software geeks; it's a good thing most of them aren't involved in setting market policy.
The OpenDarwin site hosts the Darwine project. No Apple employee that I'm aware of works on Darwine, however.
I think you're confused. Motorola no longer makes CPUs; Freescale does.
Of course, I rescind what I've said if what was meant by "China" was the Republic of China on Taiwan, not the PRC.
Really? Where were the blue helmets in Darfur? And how many died in Rwanda while the world watched?
I'm not sure that the UN works fairly well for anything other than funneling Iraqi oil contracts to political cronies of Kofi Annan, Jacques Chirac, etc. "No war" for oil, indeed.
Money, money, money. That seems to be the answer to any problem these days. Is there any problem that money can't solve in the eyes of some people?
Tom Cruise can go discover thetans of people murdered on the moon by Xenu!
Unless you're on OS X or BeOS (and maybe a few others), window management is done on a per-application basis: there's no easy way to say "Hide all the windows from application X". MDI is a hack to enable that behavior in certain applications.
Oh yeah? Here's what my shell looks like:
h ome/myusername/bar"
:-)
CL-USER> (rename-file "foo" "bar")
#P"bar"
#P"/home/myusername/foo"
#P"/
CL-USER> (type-of *)
PATHNAME
Dynamically typed interaction environments *are* available. They just don't go around calling themselves "sh"
Oh, right. Substitute retail theft for downloading above and you'd get what was actually on Slashdot. Suddenly it's wrong when somebody's stealing from a store, but not when they're downloading it against the wishes of the author.
Obviously the only way to achieve social responsibility is with more dead Jews! Because preventing Islamic Jihad and Hamas from tunneling into Israel to smuggle weapons would be just, like, so Nazi.
The BBC is reporting on a study by domestic violence research firm The Bleeding Question, which found that people who commit armed robbery paid for four and a half times more weapons than regular munitions fans. Also that most of these people "are extremely enthusiastic about paid-for services, as long as they are suitably compelling." What is nice is that the BPI welcomed the findings that not all thieves are actually evil... they still pledged to carry on the 'carrot and stick' approach though.
Don't worry. Senator Kennedy's driving!
Not true. OpenDarwin images build from source under an OpenDarwin image, with only free tools.
Bah. I've been using PowerMops for that since before there was gforth for the mac.
Dear God. I know the RA people. This program took a lot of time to build and test. It's not "every dipshit program" by a long shot. But then again, every dipshit slashdot commentor knows enough about the amount of work involved to make his comment!
Hi ESR,
Wasn't a main platform of the New Left anti-communism, as opposed to the Old Left? At least that's the impression I've gotten from my reading. Perhaps you can clarify.
Count me in for BeatPort, non-DRM 128kbit AAC from the likes of Global Underground.