It was a tax tax cut and an increase in standard deduction. "Fucked with withholdings". They took less out because tax rates went down. If your HR fucked with your withholding that doesn't have much ado about the government or tax cut.
They increased the standard deduction, while dumping both personal exemptions, and the elderly(or medicare) exemption.
Yes your standard deduction went from $6,000~ to $12,000~(for single adult), but you lost the $4,000 personal exemption. And remember that the personal exemption is off the top before anything else, It won't lower the value of other deductions like the standard deduction does.
The base tax bracket went from 10% to 12% as well, Along side the lose of many many deductions in general, the SALT (State and Local tax deduction), a deduction put into place to avoid double taxation, the $10,000 cap doesnt effect the lower middle class, its most certainly is a hit to anyone living somewhere with high property values, and higher taxes.
Among the few positive things in the tax bill, the increase in the child tax credits, and making large chunks of those credits rebatable, its another step towards a basic income guarantee.
Neutral changes include things like the mortgage interest deduction changes, you can only deduct interest from a single primary residence and the cap from dropped from $1,000,000 to $750,000. This provision was mostly a fuck you to California and New York, and a few other "high tax states". The only proper change to the mortgage deduction would be to convert it to a one time use home purchase credit. This deduction is very very expensive, and as such could easily allow a $70,000-90,000 dollar home purchase credit per person(so double that for couples)(between 500,000 and 700,000 of these per year).
The vast majority of people got screwed by tax deform.
And once you start to look at secondary effects it gets worse. The corporate tax cut is creating a horrid situation for workers in "marginal profit" places, Workers(mostly in rural area's) now have to compete with the marginal expense of relocating the capital from that small town walmart to some magic wall-street instrument. When given the choice of paying a $1.00 to an employee in rural Alabama and maybe having a $1.10 at the end of the year after overhead for a $0.10 cent profit, they can just remove that dollar and pay it out as profit for a maybe $0.97 cent profit right now. Unless of course you are Amazon then its a $1.03 profit right now......
It is no surprise that walmart closed 100+ locations shortly after tax deform passed, And they are not the only example that I can site.
A bit of equity allocation adjustment is good and healthy in the long term, but equity isn't being reallocated, its being sold for temporary profit for a minority of people, at the cost of the wider economy. Its also accelerating the failure of economies in rural towns and cities across the country.
Not really, I would call this completely expected. After the crazy ramp up of production their is bound to be more employees then needed as the rate of production levels off and stabilizes.
Don't be shocked if you see more of this as parts are redesigned to be friendlier to automation, redundancies are reduced, or processes adjusted.
Workforce adjustments are inevitable, in an undertaking like this. On the plus side, future Gigafactories will see less of this as the production process can be copied from the existing one, and fewer excess personal taken on in the learning process for development of the production line.
No it was both, The customer webportal domain name is only visable from within Centurylinks network. So, If i was you I would double check your VPN's settings and make sure that DNS traffic is being correctly forwarded over the VPN.
Second During the attack(yes that is what I consider this), port 443 was left alone and was routable etc, only port 80 traffic was blocked, My gmail kept working, my instant messaging client kept working, my udp traffic with the game I was playing kept working.
Some funny shit went down todo this. and their most certainlly was DNS hijacking going on.
I use cloudflares 1.1.1.1 myself, granted UNIFI does not support dns over https, however after this, I will move my DNS onto raspberry that does correctly support dns over https.
Competition is such a strong word to describe this "relationship". Perhaps, bing flounders uselessly before Google search? I mean bing isn't even worthy of being typed with a capitol letter, the very word is beneath other proper nouns.
If bing where a hard drive, you would have to put the jumper on the drive to configure it in slav......., sorry in post 2018 vanacular, secondary mode!
Dodged a bullet their, was gunna have Duckduckgo pissed at me. Tho Altavista wouldn't have minded.
It can either spend a few bucks to solve all sorts or ills, or it can spend a few bucks to cause them...
$22,000 Average cost of policing each homeless person per year
$45,000 Average cost per person placed in prison per year
$75,000 Average cost per person found dead with no family, savings, or estate to auction, when funeral/cremation is left to be paid for by local government
$130,000,000,000 Yearly cost of uncompensated health care at emergency rooms shifted onto your health care insurance premiums, and doctor copays by the poor
Don't delude yourself, not paying isn't an option. Their is no magic scenario where you don't pay.
We can either spend on compassionate programs to help people, or we can spend more money through various private gatekeepers and local governments and pretend we are not spending because its not on our federal tax statement, and generally have cruel outcomes that damage society as a while.
I generally don't believe in charity, I believe in changing the system that created the need for charity in the first place.
Granted I will fully admit that its a bit of a Marxist view, But you can't give with the right hand, what you toke with the left hand, its a fundamentally uneven exchange.
Sure I could take that $27 dollars and feed a couple homeless people for a day, or I could spend that on changing the system that created the inequality that created those homeless people in the first place.
Government provided access to health care/mental health care, low education jobs, Education, and housing programs will do much more then a single food/money donation ever could.
Government debt is different from your personal debt, The US government could spend over $500 billion dollars per year in debt and not grow the debt as a percentage of the GDP, Government income to relative to the taxable money, as the economy grows, the population grows, and inflation goes, the government revenue also grows. Basically, the current GDP is 17.7 trillion dollars, so inflation(1.5-2%) with growth (3%) is $885 dollar increase for the following year, as long as the government deficit spending is that or less, the debt is as a percent of the gdp staying the same or shrinking.
So long as the US governments debt is denominated in US dollars, and the US government still controls the US dollar, then their is nothing to worry about, as debt is simply something governments have, and it is always measured in values comparable to the national GDP($17.7 trillion for 2014).
Only the most foolish of idiot governments would want their debt denominated in a foreign currency, or a currency in which the government does not control the central bank(see: Greece).
We in the US have neither problem, our problem is within our slash and burn politics of the right wing, that thinks massive cuts to the highest economic multiplier things in our budget(health care, social security, food stamps), will somehow not shrink growth to the point that it is negative, and reduce tax collections to the extent that the cuts have been canceled out(again see: Greece).
Does QT use xlib or xcb under the hood on X11 based systems. I ask because I would like to thread applications without worrying about the finicky nature of xlib when threading is involved.
Even a James bond villain would question of the ethics of CenturyLink.
And where are they getting the money?, They where at last I counted over $20 billion dollars in the hole, And Rackspace isn't large enough to be used as part of their leveraged buyout "WorldCom" esk scam.
AMD, and IBM have both been talking about stacked designs for cache memory, Intel has been a big player in HBM/FCRAM development, and AMD, ARM, and others are throwing a lot of weight behind HSA, even Intel is bringing in some of the idea's of HSA at least as far as unified cpu/gpu virtual memory address spaces are concerned.
The next 2-3 years is going to be transformative for computing, languages and software libraries will need to catch up with not just with macro threaded concurrency, but also with micro threading concepts.
The convergence of "large enough" caches something like Iris Pro but with real cache memory instead of edram, HSA making igpu a first class citizen(think if opencl had access to the programs heap/stack, aka being able to call virtual functions, checking type information, accessing arbitrary objects not directly passed in the functions parameter list), and hopefully HBM/FCRAM will finely catch memory speed up at least for a year or 2(it'ill never last but here's hope'n lol).
Their are many pieces of the past that if works should not be destroyed, And even if they don't work, we can still very likely get parts off it.
I personally would love to find an atari ST, atari falcon, Mac 128k, Amiga 600/1200, any of the atari 8 bit computers.
It is a shame that so many of these fantastic pieces of hardware end up getting destroyed.
1 byte?, you have no idea what you are talking about.
AMD64 has a prefix byte before first op code byte, so in 64bit mode no instruction is smaller then 2bytes, Also 64bit arm is a new instruction set, and it does not in any way resemble 32bit arm.
The fact is 64bit ARM, looks much more CISC'y then 32bit ARM, providing access to multiple address modes for load instructions, integrating the SIMD instructions rather then using costly co-processor extensions, having lightly variable length instructions, dedicated stack register and access instructions, And in a huge break from prior arm instruction sets they drop the conditional execution instructions from the instruction set. And it manages to increase the register count from 16 to 32 to boot as well.
ARM has a bright future, It is not forced to waste huge swaths of transistors on decoding stupidly scatter brained instruction encodings built from 40 years of stacking shit on top of shit.
This is common to private industry as well, the only major difference being the scale of the project.
The government needs to define a process that maintains the chain of custody of important software, and this should be redundant. If multiple persons or organizations are charged with this activity, it is less likely that a death or corporate bankruptcy(or simple lack of interest in continuing the contract) will create the situation where you have 7 million lines of code that nobody employed or contracted have any idea how the bollacks it works.
I would suggest a few policy changes to improve the situation,
1. retain the right to directly hire or offer contract to any person employed by a contractor developing software if for any reason that contractor should cease being the contract.
2. when contracting or even writing software in house, on large projects(anything projected to have more then say a million lines of code), also hire a second development house to review and file bug reports on the software, submitting a patch history to both the primary developer and the software owner/government.
3. as relates to point 2, the second development house, as part of their contract an option to make them the primary developer in the event that the original developer can not fulfill the needs of the work, or cease being the developer for any reason.
In most States "teacher unions, firefighter unions, police unions, etc." are paid out of income taxes, property taxes and property taxes.
Sales tax generally go into State general funds, and are used non-road infrastructure, road infrastructure, back funding of income tax cuts, Medicaid, and frivolous lawsuits over things like nullification of federal laws(albeit in Utah the States School land fund is used for this)
If you ask me SpaceshipTwo has great potential, Anything that moves us away from using upside down roman candles to get off this rock is an improvement.
Their are so many things that effect student performance outside of the classroom.
The child's home conditions, parent involvement, etc.
Yes testing can provide a certain measure of understanding, but using test scores exclusively or even as a large part of an overall evaluation of a teacher is incredibly flawed.
Teachers in my state at least(Utah) just are not paid enough in the first place(25-35k per year), if people want to implement merit pay based on some "report card" developed by a bunch of ideological extremists(like say the Utah Legislature) the end result isn't going to be pretty. All the tests will be designed to fail teachers and schools to push charter school rent seekers and likely used as an excuse to push privatization schemes.
Who knows any kind of toys they have barred in the NSA, and DoD. And given the amount of money that flies through defense contracts wouldn't be hard to hide that in a small line item somewhere(likely next to that Wayne Tech justice league space station *wink*).
http://www.sandpile.org/x86/opc_enc.htm
its a mess, with 64bit we have a prefix byte , 1 to 4 bytes for the op, mod byte, and above that with avx we have the DREX byte, potentially imm byte. etc.
I see no reason why intermediates can't occupy the space the next instruction would have and be aligned to the size of the fixed instruction length. that one exception to the fixed size rule shouldn't cause that much trouble for decoding of instructions.
ARM like any risc chip is great for a particular level of complexity, for a particular application, or situation.
Basically predictions of RISC eating x86 for breakfast were made over 15 years ago and never came to pass. Mostly by x86 morphing so that the difference was essentially irrelevant.
Exactly. x86 might be a pain to decode, but the fact that you can replace the backend arch that actually does all the work with one that fits the particular level of complication desired means that x86 unlike ARM(or any risc for that matter) can scale from simple 8086 with 29,000 transistors to that of a westmere-ex with 2,600,000,000 transistors. and go from 8bit to 64bits, or with SIMD 256bit. when they added large caches throw in instructions for cache control/hinting.
What is really needed is a fixed instruction length CISC arch with an opcode address space large enough for future expansion, a means to deprecate old instructions, keep x86 addressing(the 64bit model that is), and an ISA that is designed to be easily decoded into whatever the chip is really running.
Every RISC cpu is great for a particular level of complexity. And ARM is great for in order, no speculation, no branch prediction, ultra power sipping designs.
Through smart use of their instruction set they have made themselves great for ultra low power, low IPC, low frequency platforms. ARM for a PC misses the point of why x86 has been successful, its easy to tack crap on the side without resolving to use of "co-processors", and the less commonly thought about advantage of x86 the fact that x86 instruction code is basically a hardware interpreted byte code at this point. No modern x86 actually runs x86 is breaks it down or decodes it into a RISC setup that is suited to the particular level of complexity of the current generation/transister count/die shrunkenness/frequency.
If anyone truly cared to replace x86 they would design a fixed width CISC instruction set chip where the instructions are purposely designed to be a little higher level then risc and layed out in a way thats easy to decode into whatever the chip is actually doing the work in, so that when the next generation of chips come out you don't have to throw the whole thing out and start over like RISC has continually done over the ages.
"The reason this isn't happening is your medical associations artificially limit supply of doctors to drive rates up for the elite specialists."
Complete BULLSHIT. What limits the supply of qualified doctors is the difficultly of the education and the cost of that education.
It takes 8+ years of college, 2 years of residency, $250,000 to $400,000 dollars of student debt.
All for a career that forces you into a specialist field if they plan to make any money what so ever as private insurance plays endless insufferable games, 20% of their customers never pay, and the consistent low profit side of the business(medicaid/medicare) that represents 70% of their business could easily be turned unprofitable by right wing loony's cutting the programs at any time.
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It was a tax tax cut and an increase in standard deduction. "Fucked with withholdings". They took less out because tax rates went down. If your HR fucked with your withholding that doesn't have much ado about the government or tax cut.
They increased the standard deduction, while dumping both personal exemptions, and the elderly(or medicare) exemption.
Yes your standard deduction went from $6,000~ to $12,000~(for single adult), but you lost the $4,000 personal exemption. And remember that the personal exemption is off the top before anything else, It won't lower the value of other deductions like the standard deduction does.
The base tax bracket went from 10% to 12% as well, Along side the lose of many many deductions in general, the SALT (State and Local tax deduction), a deduction put into place to avoid double taxation, the $10,000 cap doesnt effect the lower middle class, its most certainly is a hit to anyone living somewhere with high property values, and higher taxes.
Among the few positive things in the tax bill, the increase in the child tax credits, and making large chunks of those credits rebatable, its another step towards a basic income guarantee.
Neutral changes include things like the mortgage interest deduction changes, you can only deduct interest from a single primary residence and the cap from dropped from $1,000,000 to $750,000. This provision was mostly a fuck you to California and New York, and a few other "high tax states". The only proper change to the mortgage deduction would be to convert it to a one time use home purchase credit. This deduction is very very expensive, and as such could easily allow a $70,000-90,000 dollar home purchase credit per person(so double that for couples)(between 500,000 and 700,000 of these per year).
The vast majority of people got screwed by tax deform.
And once you start to look at secondary effects it gets worse. The corporate tax cut is creating a horrid situation for workers in "marginal profit" places, Workers(mostly in rural area's) now have to compete with the marginal expense of relocating the capital from that small town walmart to some magic wall-street instrument. When given the choice of paying a $1.00 to an employee in rural Alabama and maybe having a $1.10 at the end of the year after overhead for a $0.10 cent profit, they can just remove that dollar and pay it out as profit for a maybe $0.97 cent profit right now. Unless of course you are Amazon then its a $1.03 profit right now......
It is no surprise that walmart closed 100+ locations shortly after tax deform passed, And they are not the only example that I can site.
A bit of equity allocation adjustment is good and healthy in the long term, but equity isn't being reallocated, its being sold for temporary profit for a minority of people, at the cost of the wider economy. Its also accelerating the failure of economies in rural towns and cities across the country.
Not really, I would call this completely expected. After the crazy ramp up of production their is bound to be more employees then needed as the rate of production levels off and stabilizes.
Don't be shocked if you see more of this as parts are redesigned to be friendlier to automation, redundancies are reduced, or processes adjusted.
Workforce adjustments are inevitable, in an undertaking like this. On the plus side, future Gigafactories will see less of this as the production process can be copied from the existing one, and fewer excess personal taken on in the learning process for development of the production line.
No it was both, The customer webportal domain name is only visable from within Centurylinks network. So, If i was you I would double check your VPN's settings and make sure that DNS traffic is being correctly forwarded over the VPN.
Second During the attack(yes that is what I consider this), port 443 was left alone and was routable etc, only port 80 traffic was blocked, My gmail kept working, my instant messaging client kept working, my udp traffic with the game I was playing kept working.
Some funny shit went down todo this. and their most certainlly was DNS hijacking going on.
I use cloudflares 1.1.1.1 myself, granted UNIFI does not support dns over https, however after this, I will move my DNS onto raspberry that does correctly support dns over https.
Their system crashed a couple of times leaving me this nugget. /http:\/\/$host\/index.html\?wgsid=([^&]*)(?:&wgurl=(.*))*/ ) {
$wg->session_id($1);
$wgurl = $2;
} else {
$wg->session_id('NO_SESSION_ID');
}
my $url = 'http://customer.notify.centurylink.com/utah_restore_internet.html';
# Allow override for debug/testing/demo
if( $wg->is_internal_ip( $wg->remote_ip() )) {
my $uname = $cgi->param('uname');
if( defined $uname and $uname =~ /^[A-Za-z0-9]{4,16}$/ ) {
$wg->uid( $uname );
} else {
$wg->uid('accounttest');
}
}
# Perform redirect
my $uname = $wg->uid();
my $tn = $wg->wtn();
if( $@ or $wg->err() ne '' ) {
$wg->log_it( "$uname ($tn) ERROR: Self-release redirected to error.html" );
print redirect( -uri => '/error.html' );
} elsif( $uname eq 'mnlabppp06' or $uname eq 'wgtest-hlrn' or $uname eq 'wgtest-mpls' or $uname eq 'wgtest-stpl') {
$wg->log_it( "Test user $uname - skipping self-release" );
print redirect( -uri => $url );
mark_wall_user_out($tn,$uname);
} elsif( $wg->is_internal_ip( $wg->remote_ip() )) {
$wg->log_it( "$uname ($tn) Internal ip quickout'ed. Not released or DB updated." );
$wg->bigip_quickout();
print header( -type => 'text/plain' );
print "Would now be redirected to $url";
} else {
if ( self_release() ) {
$wg->log_it( "$uname ($tn): Self-released" );
} else {
$wg->log_it( "$uname ($tn): ERROR: Self-release failed." );
}
print redirect( -uri => $url );
mark_wall_user_out($tn,$uname);
}
sub self_release {
# Update BigIP quickout table depending and initiate releasing customer from walled garden
my $quickout_time = shift; # Value in seconds
$quickout_time ? $wg->bigip_quickout($quickout_time) : $wg->bigip_quickout();
$wg->release();
} # End self_release
sub mark_wall_user_out {
my $tn = shift;
my $uname = shift;
my $tn1;
my $tn2;
if ( $tn =~ /:/ ) {
($tn1,$tn2) = split(/:/, $tn);
} else {
$tn1 = $tn;
$tn2 = 0;
}
my $sql = q( UPDATE state_of_utah
SET wg_out_time = NOW(), end_process = NOW(), wg_status = 'COMPLETE'
WHERE tn = ? AND notice_year = YEAR(curdate() )
);
$wg->log_it( "$uname ($tn): Self-released" );
my $result = $wg->do_db_write( $sql,$tn1 );
if ( $result->{RowsChanged} > 0 ) {
$wg->log_it( "User $uname ($tn) mark_wall_user_out update successful." );
return 1;
} else {
$wg->log_it( "ERROR: User $uname ($tn) mark_wall_user_out update failed with tn $tn1. SQL: $sql" );
if ( $tn2 ) {
# Attempt to update db table with 2nd bonded TN if first TN failed
$result = $wg->do_db_write( $sql,$tn2 );
if ( $result->{RowsChanged} > 0 ) {
$wg->log_it( "User $uname ($tn) mark_wall_user_out update successful with 2nd tn $tn2." );
return 1;
} else {
$wg->log_it( "ERROR: User $uname ($tn) mark_wall_user_out update failed with tn $tn2. SQL: $sql" );
}
}
return 0;
}
} # End mark_wall_user_out
Sorry I have no clue how to make it formated nicely.
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use CGI qw/:standard/; use WalledGarden; my $CACHETIME = 3600; our %config; do '/etc/wg.conf'; my $wg = WalledGarden->new(); my $cgi = CGI->new(); my $UD = new Cache::Memcached { 'namespace' => 'excessive_use', 'servers' => $config{ 'memcached_servers' }, 'debug' => 0, 'compress_threshold' => 10_000, }; # Parse the incoming URL string my $host = $ENV{HTTP_HOST}; my $referer = $ENV{HTTP_REFERER}; my $wgurl; if( $referer =~
Competition is such a strong word to describe this "relationship". Perhaps, bing flounders uselessly before Google search? I mean bing isn't even worthy of being typed with a capitol letter, the very word is beneath other proper nouns. If bing where a hard drive, you would have to put the jumper on the drive to configure it in slav......., sorry in post 2018 vanacular, secondary mode! Dodged a bullet their, was gunna have Duckduckgo pissed at me. Tho Altavista wouldn't have minded.
His wife will be a nice piece of Slovenian ass though, so big ups for that."
Odd Bill Clinton doesn't look Slovenian at all.....
It can either spend a few bucks to solve all sorts or ills, or it can spend a few bucks to cause them...
$22,000 Average cost of policing each homeless person per year
$45,000 Average cost per person placed in prison per year
$75,000 Average cost per person found dead with no family, savings, or estate to auction, when funeral/cremation is left to be paid for by local government
$130,000,000,000 Yearly cost of uncompensated health care at emergency rooms shifted onto your health care insurance premiums, and doctor copays by the poor
Don't delude yourself, not paying isn't an option. Their is no magic scenario where you don't pay.
We can either spend on compassionate programs to help people, or we can spend more money through various private gatekeepers and local governments and pretend we are not spending because its not on our federal tax statement, and generally have cruel outcomes that damage society as a while.
I generally don't believe in charity, I believe in changing the system that created the need for charity in the first place.
Granted I will fully admit that its a bit of a Marxist view, But you can't give with the right hand, what you toke with the left hand, its a fundamentally uneven exchange.
Sure I could take that $27 dollars and feed a couple homeless people for a day, or I could spend that on changing the system that created the inequality that created those homeless people in the first place.
Government provided access to health care/mental health care, low education jobs, Education, and housing programs will do much more then a single food/money donation ever could.
Government debt is different from your personal debt, The US government could spend over $500 billion dollars per year in debt and not grow the debt as a percentage of the GDP, Government income to relative to the taxable money, as the economy grows, the population grows, and inflation goes, the government revenue also grows. Basically, the current GDP is 17.7 trillion dollars, so inflation(1.5-2%) with growth (3%) is $885 dollar increase for the following year, as long as the government deficit spending is that or less, the debt is as a percent of the gdp staying the same or shrinking.
So long as the US governments debt is denominated in US dollars, and the US government still controls the US dollar, then their is nothing to worry about, as debt is simply something governments have, and it is always measured in values comparable to the national GDP($17.7 trillion for 2014).
Only the most foolish of idiot governments would want their debt denominated in a foreign currency, or a currency in which the government does not control the central bank(see: Greece).
We in the US have neither problem, our problem is within our slash and burn politics of the right wing, that thinks massive cuts to the highest economic multiplier things in our budget(health care, social security, food stamps), will somehow not shrink growth to the point that it is negative, and reduce tax collections to the extent that the cuts have been canceled out(again see: Greece).
Does QT use xlib or xcb under the hood on X11 based systems. I ask because I would like to thread applications without worrying about the finicky nature of xlib when threading is involved.
Even a James bond villain would question of the ethics of CenturyLink.
And where are they getting the money?, They where at last I counted over $20 billion dollars in the hole, And Rackspace isn't large enough to be used as part of their leveraged buyout "WorldCom" esk scam.
AMD, and IBM have both been talking about stacked designs for cache memory, Intel has been a big player in HBM/FCRAM development, and AMD, ARM, and others are throwing a lot of weight behind HSA, even Intel is bringing in some of the idea's of HSA at least as far as unified cpu/gpu virtual memory address spaces are concerned. The next 2-3 years is going to be transformative for computing, languages and software libraries will need to catch up with not just with macro threaded concurrency, but also with micro threading concepts. The convergence of "large enough" caches something like Iris Pro but with real cache memory instead of edram, HSA making igpu a first class citizen(think if opencl had access to the programs heap/stack, aka being able to call virtual functions, checking type information, accessing arbitrary objects not directly passed in the functions parameter list), and hopefully HBM/FCRAM will finely catch memory speed up at least for a year or 2(it'ill never last but here's hope'n lol).
Really I don't get why everyone keeps referring to each other as a bundle of sticks, its very confusing.
Their are many pieces of the past that if works should not be destroyed, And even if they don't work, we can still very likely get parts off it. I personally would love to find an atari ST, atari falcon, Mac 128k, Amiga 600/1200, any of the atari 8 bit computers. It is a shame that so many of these fantastic pieces of hardware end up getting destroyed.
1 byte?, you have no idea what you are talking about. AMD64 has a prefix byte before first op code byte, so in 64bit mode no instruction is smaller then 2bytes, Also 64bit arm is a new instruction set, and it does not in any way resemble 32bit arm. The fact is 64bit ARM, looks much more CISC'y then 32bit ARM, providing access to multiple address modes for load instructions, integrating the SIMD instructions rather then using costly co-processor extensions, having lightly variable length instructions, dedicated stack register and access instructions, And in a huge break from prior arm instruction sets they drop the conditional execution instructions from the instruction set. And it manages to increase the register count from 16 to 32 to boot as well. ARM has a bright future, It is not forced to waste huge swaths of transistors on decoding stupidly scatter brained instruction encodings built from 40 years of stacking shit on top of shit.
This is common to private industry as well, the only major difference being the scale of the project. The government needs to define a process that maintains the chain of custody of important software, and this should be redundant. If multiple persons or organizations are charged with this activity, it is less likely that a death or corporate bankruptcy(or simple lack of interest in continuing the contract) will create the situation where you have 7 million lines of code that nobody employed or contracted have any idea how the bollacks it works. I would suggest a few policy changes to improve the situation, 1. retain the right to directly hire or offer contract to any person employed by a contractor developing software if for any reason that contractor should cease being the contract. 2. when contracting or even writing software in house, on large projects(anything projected to have more then say a million lines of code), also hire a second development house to review and file bug reports on the software, submitting a patch history to both the primary developer and the software owner/government. 3. as relates to point 2, the second development house, as part of their contract an option to make them the primary developer in the event that the original developer can not fulfill the needs of the work, or cease being the developer for any reason.
In most States "teacher unions, firefighter unions, police unions, etc." are paid out of income taxes, property taxes and property taxes. Sales tax generally go into State general funds, and are used non-road infrastructure, road infrastructure, back funding of income tax cuts, Medicaid, and frivolous lawsuits over things like nullification of federal laws(albeit in Utah the States School land fund is used for this)
If you ask me SpaceshipTwo has great potential, Anything that moves us away from using upside down roman candles to get off this rock is an improvement.
Their are so many things that effect student performance outside of the classroom. The child's home conditions, parent involvement, etc. Yes testing can provide a certain measure of understanding, but using test scores exclusively or even as a large part of an overall evaluation of a teacher is incredibly flawed.
Teachers in my state at least(Utah) just are not paid enough in the first place(25-35k per year), if people want to implement merit pay based on some "report card" developed by a bunch of ideological extremists(like say the Utah Legislature) the end result isn't going to be pretty. All the tests will be designed to fail teachers and schools to push charter school rent seekers and likely used as an excuse to push privatization schemes.
Who knows any kind of toys they have barred in the NSA, and DoD. And given the amount of money that flies through defense contracts wouldn't be hard to hide that in a small line item somewhere(likely next to that Wayne Tech justice league space station *wink*).
http://www.sandpile.org/x86/opc_enc.htm its a mess, with 64bit we have a prefix byte , 1 to 4 bytes for the op, mod byte, and above that with avx we have the DREX byte, potentially imm byte. etc. I see no reason why intermediates can't occupy the space the next instruction would have and be aligned to the size of the fixed instruction length. that one exception to the fixed size rule shouldn't cause that much trouble for decoding of instructions.
Exactly. x86 might be a pain to decode, but the fact that you can replace the backend arch that actually does all the work with one that fits the particular level of complication desired means that x86 unlike ARM(or any risc for that matter) can scale from simple 8086 with 29,000 transistors to that of a westmere-ex with 2,600,000,000 transistors. and go from 8bit to 64bits, or with SIMD 256bit. when they added large caches throw in instructions for cache control/hinting. What is really needed is a fixed instruction length CISC arch with an opcode address space large enough for future expansion, a means to deprecate old instructions, keep x86 addressing(the 64bit model that is), and an ISA that is designed to be easily decoded into whatever the chip is really running.
Also make it 64bit, attach a SIMD instruction set that doesn't suck balls, and a standardized implementation of an MMU would be nice.
Every RISC cpu is great for a particular level of complexity. And ARM is great for in order, no speculation, no branch prediction, ultra power sipping designs. Through smart use of their instruction set they have made themselves great for ultra low power, low IPC, low frequency platforms. ARM for a PC misses the point of why x86 has been successful, its easy to tack crap on the side without resolving to use of "co-processors", and the less commonly thought about advantage of x86 the fact that x86 instruction code is basically a hardware interpreted byte code at this point. No modern x86 actually runs x86 is breaks it down or decodes it into a RISC setup that is suited to the particular level of complexity of the current generation/transister count/die shrunkenness/frequency. If anyone truly cared to replace x86 they would design a fixed width CISC instruction set chip where the instructions are purposely designed to be a little higher level then risc and layed out in a way thats easy to decode into whatever the chip is actually doing the work in, so that when the next generation of chips come out you don't have to throw the whole thing out and start over like RISC has continually done over the ages.
"The reason this isn't happening is your medical associations artificially limit supply of doctors to drive rates up for the elite specialists." Complete BULLSHIT. What limits the supply of qualified doctors is the difficultly of the education and the cost of that education. It takes 8+ years of college, 2 years of residency, $250,000 to $400,000 dollars of student debt. All for a career that forces you into a specialist field if they plan to make any money what so ever as private insurance plays endless insufferable games, 20% of their customers never pay, and the consistent low profit side of the business(medicaid/medicare) that represents 70% of their business could easily be turned unprofitable by right wing loony's cutting the programs at any time.