It seems the Slashdot crowd has been wailing forever about how big corporations control our government. Now finally China has come along and can use its economic muscle to tell big corporations what to do.
It's only a contradiction if you (deliberately?) plot it on the wrong axis.
The "Slashdot crowd" wails mainly about big corporations exercising their control over government to restrict individual freedoms -- it's hard to see how the wailing about a government's dirct restriction of individual freedoms leaves you so puzzled...
Dual CPU systems tho are useless to the home users, it's for businesses and scientists with more computing need. Real enterprise applications are multithreated.
Not so!
I was one of the lucky people buy a cheap dual Celeron setup right after that hack was first discovered and I can tell you that multiprocessors on the desktop rock. My old system was a dual Celeron 400, and while it couldn't compete with a modern system in terms of benchmark speed, it had my current 1400 MHz Celeron system beat bloody when it comes to interactivity and responsiveness -- that elusive "feel".
The price is steep now, but don't let arguments about application benchmarks dissuade you from trying out multicore when prices go down. The Anandtech review cited about has some really telling benchmarks about how well a dual system performs when loaded down with multiple tasks.
Unlike the unnoticeable 200 or 400 MHz incremental bumps you usually see with processors, dual core really brings something of value to the desktop user. Try it and you'll see.
I don't get how this can run on the same power level as the single core chips. Can someone explain on how this is possible?
It isn't.
Under load, the dual core system consumes about 25 watts more power than the single (178 watts vs. 154) -- and 25 watts is just less than what a single-core A64 consumes under load.
I think the poster was looking at the numbers for idling.
But even if I grant you, without argument, your entire narrative, I still don't see what you're pointing to that would salvage the situation.
All the retraining in the world won't make a British manufacturing worker competitive with a $0.60/hour Chinese worker. And if it could, it would still be cheaper for the Chinese to train up their workers to a comparable level than for Britain to keep pace.
It still looks grim to me.
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"Makes the corporation think twice about outsourcing and messing up local economies when thousands of job losses occur when a major facility in an area gets closed down..."
Makes a corporation think twice about locating there in the first place. Better to have loved and lost...
I'm afraid I don't see any simple solutions to this trend.
Look I can go out in the street and distribute pamphlets talking shit on the US government all I want to. As long as I dont go extremist and advocate violence and just talk about the facts, I am completely in my rights to annoy anyone I want to about how I feel about the wrongs in our government. That is completely legal in China?
Yes, it's perfectly legal in China to go out in the street and distribute pamphlets taking a shit on the US government.:P
Another question. Why sue? He's the Attorney General. Why not prosecute instead?
I believe it's because you can sue a corporation, but you can only prosecute individuals. It is much easier to prove that a corporation has misbehaved than to reconstruct the whole history that assigns individual actions to individual people within the corporation.
Additionally, violating a civil code does not always mean violating a criminal code.
The phrase you find so objectionable is *the first paragraph* of the the linked article in The Hindu, written by one " T. Jayaraman".
"MUMBAI: An Indian mathematician, Chandrashekhar Khare, is poised to make a significant breakthrough in the field of number theory: with his solution of part of a major outstanding problem in algebraic number theory."
One suspects that The Hindu wrote it that way because The Hindu takes a special interest in Indians around the world and their achievements -- does this make them racists?
And your post is an example of why I *won't* trust environmentalists.
Your first point is an issue of trusting scientists, not environmentalists -- a policy you reject in your final paragraph. Which is it? Only trust them when they come to pre-approved conclusions? And your second is more slogan than argument.
The last two, however, are more objectionable. What is your argument that the economy cannot survive $100/bbl oil? It's now four times higher than just a few years ago -- why does the next doubling spell doom? Increasing oil prices are increasingly difficult, but also cause adaptations. Linear extrapolation is almost always deceptive but your argument doesn't even state why, if we accept a non-adaptive system for the purpose of argument, your magic number is significant.
Worst is the bald statement that "nuclear is the solution to our energy needs" is a "lie". How is it a lie? It's this kind of hand-waving that makes dealing with the environmental movement so frustrating, even if one broadly agrees with their goals.
Broad assertions and capitalizing FACTS don't make a case more convincing, but less so. Fortunately, nobody is forced to trust either camp. The best solution, as with almost any issue is to ignore argument from authority and weigh and measure the problems and possible solutions on your own, and come to a reasonable conclusion.
What good would raising the minimum wage to a higher level do? You'll just cause inflation and the new minimum wage will be worth the same as the old one.
Two things wrong with that old saw -- first, it is never adequately explained why an extra dollar paid as wages to employee causes inflation, while that same dollar paid as dividends to a shareholder does not. The hidden assumption is that the poor worker's higher propensity to consume will drive demand for goods above production capacity, causing scarcity and inflation. But point two shows this is obviously not so:
The notion of the wage-price spiral was formed in the days of limited production capacity. But now China has demonstrated an ability to increase manufacturing capacity at will. Where will the upward pressure come from if we can just recruit another 100 million Chinese to make even more cheap toasters? Industrial capacity is far more flexible than it used to be, and the old wage-price spiral metaphor doesn't take that into account.
Obviously it is possible to make the minimum wage so high that it is impossible to hire anyone (just choose a high enough number). But until China and India show signs of running out of surplus labor, there's no reason to worry about increased wages giving rise to inflation.
QuestionI thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller. Isn't this illegal?
Answer The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 102. This is now found in section 392 of Title 31 of the United States Code. The law says that: "All coins and currencies of the United States, regardless of when coined or issued, shall be legal-tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
So the headline should say "BestBuy cashier broke the law".
Legal tender here means not illegal. It's perfectly legal to not accept it, just like it's perfectly legal not to accept bills over $20, or whatever. And for what happened after, I don't think it's illegal to report what you think is a crime, even if it turns out not to be one.
I don't know why people get all worked up about it though.
People get worked up about it because it was used during the 2000 election by right-wing pundits (yes, I mean *you*, Peggy Noonan) to "prove" that Al Gore was a serial liar who couldn't be trusted with the presidency.
So people on the right who get worked up about it do so because they see it as evidence that Gore is a dangerous buffoon who came *this close* to leading the country. People on the left who get worked up about it do so because it confirms for them that Republicans are evil, election-stealing savages.
Still others get worked up because the initial accusations and the long debate that followed seem to suggest that either something is badly wrong with the political system, or possibly that people aren't wearing enough hats.
I know its not 3.2billion because most micro operations take at least 3 or 4 clock cycles.
That used to be true, but with pipelining and parallelism you can no longer just divide the cycles per second by cycles per instruction and get instructions per second. Pipelining means that an operation does not have to finish before the next one is begun, and parallelism means that more than one operation can begin at the same time.
People still think Slashdot is trying to fool them by posting dozens of fake news links -- how clever of you to see through the completely obvious. If you were any more dense you'd bend light.
I guess even if the stories aren't funny, we can still laugh at you.
The object is not to fool you, pinhead, it's to present the fake articles produced by geeky news sites around the net.
Surely, user 22596, you know the drill by this time, yet every year the whiners turn out with their stumpy moralism about how April Fool's Day ought to be run.
Please spend one day a year without slashdot and allow those without your Protestant rectitude to see if they can't make some amusing bits from the raw materials provided by the stories.
Isn't the really cleverness of April Fool's jokes in the subtlety of their presentation?
No!
There is no subtlety left to be had in April Fools jokes. Everyone knows the date, and the internet makes it too easy to check facts.
As for Slashdot, it only does the same thing it does for the rest of the year -- report news items from geeky sources. Today is the day that every geeky source runs a fake news item, and they all wind up here.
That doesn't stop the misfits from whining that Slashdot isn't doing it right, but it's what happens.
I was going to berate you for excessive cynicism, since I have a cheap-o LCD with no dead pixels.
But then I got wondering -- some tier I vendors have recently moved to a zero-defect policy on lcds -- does this mean that the manufacturing process is getting that much better, or does it mean that they're just swapping around the distribution of products, with no change in overall quality? It could be that all the perfect screens are going to those with the zero-defect policies, thus decreasing your chances of getting a perfect monitor when you buy an off-brand. Interesting thought.
In answer to your query, the monitor I had before this one had a few dead pixels. The degree to which they were irritating depended on what was being displayed. I didn't think it was such a big deal, but it is better without them.
If you guys stopped watering it down it'd taste prolly a lot better.
I'm sick of these lame complaints about weak American beer. You've just got to stop drinking that rice-water Mormon junk.
Next time you're in the US, head over to the wrong side of the tracks and pick up a 40 of Steel Reserve 211. Then talk to me about watered down. You can pour this stuff into a river and walk across it. And 8.1% alcohol makes it taste good, too. After a few pulls, anyway.
Since there are many more than 500 35mm projectors in Ireland,
Are you sure there are "many more than 500" movie screens in Ireland?
I couldn't find the exact number, but saw one estimate that said Canada has about 3,000 screens. Since Canada has a population of 30 million people and Ireland a population of < 4 million, ~500 screens seems about right.
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It seems the Slashdot crowd has been wailing forever about how big corporations control our government. Now finally China has come along and can use its economic muscle to tell big corporations what to do.
It's only a contradiction if you (deliberately?) plot it on the wrong axis.
The "Slashdot crowd" wails mainly about big corporations exercising their control over government to restrict individual freedoms -- it's hard to see how the wailing about a government's dirct restriction of individual freedoms leaves you so puzzled...
Dual CPU systems tho are useless to the home users, it's for businesses and scientists with more computing need. Real enterprise applications are multithreated.
Not so!
I was one of the lucky people buy a cheap dual Celeron setup right after that hack was first discovered and I can tell you that multiprocessors on the desktop rock. My old system was a dual Celeron 400, and while it couldn't compete with a modern system in terms of benchmark speed, it had my current 1400 MHz Celeron system beat bloody when it comes to interactivity and responsiveness -- that elusive "feel".
The price is steep now, but don't let arguments about application benchmarks dissuade you from trying out multicore when prices go down. The Anandtech review cited about has some really telling benchmarks about how well a dual system performs when loaded down with multiple tasks.
Unlike the unnoticeable 200 or 400 MHz incremental bumps you usually see with processors, dual core really brings something of value to the desktop user. Try it and you'll see.
I don't get how this can run on the same power level as the single core chips. Can someone explain on how this is possible?
It isn't.
Under load, the dual core system consumes about 25 watts more power than the single (178 watts vs. 154) -- and 25 watts is just less than what a single-core A64 consumes under load.
I think the poster was looking at the numbers for idling.
But even if I grant you, without argument, your entire narrative, I still don't see what you're pointing to that would salvage the situation.
All the retraining in the world won't make a British manufacturing worker competitive with a $0.60/hour Chinese worker. And if it could, it would still be cheaper for the Chinese to train up their workers to a comparable level than for Britain to keep pace.
It still looks grim to me.
"Makes the corporation think twice about outsourcing and messing up local economies when thousands of job losses occur when a major facility in an area gets closed down..."
Makes a corporation think twice about locating there in the first place. Better to have loved and lost...
I'm afraid I don't see any simple solutions to this trend.
"...and could have been avoided."
I'm curious about that -- how do you think it could have been avoided?
I'm perfectly happy with being called "bloody Yank". Like "jap" or "kraut", it's a perfectly reasonable expression of nationalist dick-swinging.
It's the faux moralism implied by "USian" that grates.
Look I can go out in the street and distribute pamphlets talking shit on the US government all I want to. As long as I dont go extremist and advocate violence and just talk about the facts, I am completely in my rights to annoy anyone I want to about how I feel about the wrongs in our government. That is completely legal in China?
Yes, it's perfectly legal in China to go out in the street and distribute pamphlets taking a shit on the US government. :P
Another question. Why sue? He's the Attorney General. Why not prosecute instead?
I believe it's because you can sue a corporation, but you can only prosecute individuals. It is much easier to prove that a corporation has misbehaved than to reconstruct the whole history that assigns individual actions to individual people within the corporation.
Additionally, violating a civil code does not always mean violating a criminal code.
Yes, it's just you.
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The phrase you find so objectionable is *the first paragraph* of the the linked article in The Hindu, written by one " T. Jayaraman".
"MUMBAI: An Indian mathematician, Chandrashekhar Khare, is poised to make a significant breakthrough in the field of number theory: with his solution of part of a major outstanding problem in algebraic number theory."
http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/25/stories/2005042
One suspects that The Hindu wrote it that way because The Hindu takes a special interest in Indians around the world and their achievements -- does this make them racists?
Only to you.
And your post is an example of why I *won't* trust environmentalists.
Your first point is an issue of trusting scientists, not environmentalists -- a policy you reject in your final paragraph. Which is it? Only trust them when they come to pre-approved conclusions? And your second is more slogan than argument.
The last two, however, are more objectionable. What is your argument that the economy cannot survive $100/bbl oil? It's now four times higher than just a few years ago -- why does the next doubling spell doom? Increasing oil prices are increasingly difficult, but also cause adaptations. Linear extrapolation is almost always deceptive but your argument doesn't even state why, if we accept a non-adaptive system for the purpose of argument, your magic number is significant.
Worst is the bald statement that "nuclear is the solution to our energy needs" is a "lie". How is it a lie? It's this kind of hand-waving that makes dealing with the environmental movement so frustrating, even if one broadly agrees with their goals.
Broad assertions and capitalizing FACTS don't make a case more convincing, but less so. Fortunately, nobody is forced to trust either camp. The best solution, as with almost any issue is to ignore argument from authority and weigh and measure the problems and possible solutions on your own, and come to a reasonable conclusion.
What good would raising the minimum wage to a higher level do? You'll just cause inflation and the new minimum wage will be worth the same as the old one.
Two things wrong with that old saw -- first, it is never adequately explained why an extra dollar paid as wages to employee causes inflation, while that same dollar paid as dividends to a shareholder does not. The hidden assumption is that the poor worker's higher propensity to consume will drive demand for goods above production capacity, causing scarcity and inflation. But point two shows this is obviously not so:
The notion of the wage-price spiral was formed in the days of limited production capacity. But now China has demonstrated an ability to increase manufacturing capacity at will. Where will the upward pressure come from if we can just recruit another 100 million Chinese to make even more cheap toasters? Industrial capacity is far more flexible than it used to be, and the old wage-price spiral metaphor doesn't take that into account.
Obviously it is possible to make the minimum wage so high that it is impossible to hire anyone (just choose a high enough number). But until China and India show signs of running out of surplus labor, there's no reason to worry about increased wages giving rise to inflation.
Let's clear this up:
FAQs: Currency
Legal Tender Status
Question I thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller. Isn't this illegal?
Answer The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 102. This is now found in section 392 of Title 31 of the United States Code. The law says that: "All coins and currencies of the United States, regardless of when coined or issued, shall be legal-tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties and dues."
This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.
From the faq.
So the headline should say "BestBuy cashier broke the law".
Legal tender here means not illegal. It's perfectly legal to not accept it, just like it's perfectly legal not to accept bills over $20, or whatever. And for what happened after, I don't think it's illegal to report what you think is a crime, even if it turns out not to be one.
So stupid, yes, illegal, no.
I don't know why people get all worked up about it though.
People get worked up about it because it was used during the 2000 election by right-wing pundits (yes, I mean *you*, Peggy Noonan) to "prove" that Al Gore was a serial liar who couldn't be trusted with the presidency.
So people on the right who get worked up about it do so because they see it as evidence that Gore is a dangerous buffoon who came *this close* to leading the country. People on the left who get worked up about it do so because it confirms for them that Republicans are evil, election-stealing savages.
Still others get worked up because the initial accusations and the long debate that followed seem to suggest that either something is badly wrong with the political system, or possibly that people aren't wearing enough hats.
Take your pick.
I know its not 3.2billion because most micro operations take at least 3 or 4 clock cycles.
That used to be true, but with pipelining and parallelism you can no longer just divide the cycles per second by cycles per instruction and get instructions per second. Pipelining means that an operation does not have to finish before the next one is begun, and parallelism means that more than one operation can begin at the same time.
So now, the answer is to basically look it up.
I didn't read the article. Sorry.
Didn't read the article? This is the biggest news from the Enlightenment community in years!
At least make the AFJ SLIHGTLY believeable!!!
I bet the Mac users fell for it...
The "problem" is that you know what it's going to be like -- it's the same every year -- yet you come here to read it anyway.
Why? Why! Jesus Christ, why?
In the future, please spare yourself the agony.
Unbelievable.
People still think Slashdot is trying to fool them by posting dozens of fake news links -- how clever of you to see through the completely obvious. If you were any more dense you'd bend light.
I guess even if the stories aren't funny, we can still laugh at you.
The object is not to fool you, pinhead, it's to present the fake articles produced by geeky news sites around the net.
Surely, user 22596, you know the drill by this time, yet every year the whiners turn out with their stumpy moralism about how April Fool's Day ought to be run.
Please spend one day a year without slashdot and allow those without your Protestant rectitude to see if they can't make some amusing bits from the raw materials provided by the stories.
Isn't the really cleverness of April Fool's jokes in the subtlety of their presentation?
No!
There is no subtlety left to be had in April Fools jokes. Everyone knows the date, and the internet makes it too easy to check facts.
As for Slashdot, it only does the same thing it does for the rest of the year -- report news items from geeky sources. Today is the day that every geeky source runs a fake news item, and they all wind up here.
That doesn't stop the misfits from whining that Slashdot isn't doing it right, but it's what happens.
I was going to berate you for excessive cynicism, since I have a cheap-o LCD with no dead pixels.
But then I got wondering -- some tier I vendors have recently moved to a zero-defect policy on lcds -- does this mean that the manufacturing process is getting that much better, or does it mean that they're just swapping around the distribution of products, with no change in overall quality? It could be that all the perfect screens are going to those with the zero-defect policies, thus decreasing your chances of getting a perfect monitor when you buy an off-brand. Interesting thought.
In answer to your query, the monitor I had before this one had a few dead pixels. The degree to which they were irritating depended on what was being displayed. I didn't think it was such a big deal, but it is better without them.
If you guys stopped watering it down it'd taste prolly a lot better.
I'm sick of these lame complaints about weak American beer. You've just got to stop drinking that rice-water Mormon junk.
Next time you're in the US, head over to the wrong side of the tracks and pick up a 40 of Steel Reserve 211. Then talk to me about watered down. You can pour this stuff into a river and walk across it. And 8.1% alcohol makes it taste good, too. After a few pulls, anyway.
Since there are many more than 500 35mm projectors in Ireland,
Are you sure there are "many more than 500" movie screens in Ireland?
I couldn't find the exact number, but saw one estimate that said Canada has about 3,000 screens. Since Canada has a population of 30 million people and Ireland a population of < 4 million, ~500 screens seems about right.