I should point out, I understand that freedom of speech, or any other concept or right or privilege, is not absolute, even in the US. Didn't mean to imply that it is absolute in the US, but not in Canada. I suppose its 6 of one half dozen of the other.
It is my understanding, based on stuff ( sorry for the lack of specifics here ), that map/reduce was not in fact invented by google, by predates google by 30 or 40 years, and was simply re-discovered by google, according to some article I read sometime in the past that unfortunately, I cannot recall now. I dont think this has been challenged at all, however, and googles patent could still indeed be valid, depending on details.
Well, first off, the FBI and DHS were bound to get involved, the moment the OWS movement decided, or spontaneously morphed into, the occupation of more than 1 location. A national event, elicits a national response, from federal agencies, to some degree.
Certainly the overwhelming majority of the individual protesters, behaved peacefully, or at least, passively, but you cannot rightfully claim *all* participants in the protests, at the protest areas, behaved peacefully, because there is lots of video of protesters and/or people standing within 2 feet of the protesters, behaving violently. Violence has erupted, crimes have been committed, and regardless of whether you support the overall movement, to ignore that violence has not occurred is to ignore reality.
As for people claiming this is a crackdown on free speech, I would like to point out that free speech is safe. What is being cracked down upon, is the location the protesters have decided to exercise their free speech. The protesters, you, I, and anyone else, if given permission by a land owner, to hold an event, can still say whatever they want. Free speech of course, is not inconsequential speech, and there will be various reactions from the public, government, etc. based on what is said. This is normal and unavoidable. There would be no incentive to say anything, if people did not react to it.
When you begin to investigate property laws, you will find they provide the basis for the police taking actions like the eviction of protesters, and the park cleanup. If the protesters, evicted, voluntarily or forcefully, by the police, at the request of the landowner, left anything behind, then it is considered abandoned property. So for all the conspiracy theories and allegations concerning crackdowns, search and seizure, etc., its no different, except in scale, than what would happen if a vagrant pitched on a tent on your front lawn, and started making a mess.
One last reminder... all this chaos and conflict, for better or worse, misguided or spot on, was created by the canadian magazine leftists. I suppose they couldn't create nearly as big a mess in their home country, because as I understand it, Canada does not have freedom of speech. You can get arrested in Canada for saying things people don't like or that which could be considered hateful. Somewhat ironic don't you think ?
"So Mr. Smith, and I remind you that you are under oath, you claim the reason you groped 'the lady in red' sitting next to you on the airplane, is that your 'ARM Controller' chip malfunctioned ?"
Yeah. I think the fact that they claim, or at least, imply, that their model is complete, is the most interesting point here. If indeed they have a complete model, then this type of circuit could be added to languages such as VHDL and Verilog and put to immediate use, if only on a limited basis, and the scaling of the model will get better as manufacturing does.
If the chip-o-brain ( bad reference to traf-o-data ) were trainable like a human brain, it would need a mechanism to set the internal "simulated biological clock" in order to feed it training data at an accelerated rate. That way, when training data was fed to it extremely quickly, it would still capture the proper temporal relationships in the data, as if it had "experienced" the data in real time.
Well, the cracked article I referenced, was merely to point out where I had recently read about 'confirmation bias.' Perhaps I should have pointed out that cracked.com is themed as a 'humor' website, somewhat a kin to the onion, but instead of outright lies, it's articles are generally constructed of outright sarcasm.
wikipedia has a much more serious discussion of 'confirmation bias.'
While it's nice to think that everyone will adopt software and policies that work as intended, whats to stop a malicious server, who is by definition, malicious, from running a webserver that says "Oh, you don't want me to track you ? Sure pal, no problem."... then of course, continues to track you ?
Seems to me the lack of validation / verification of published behavior, will just result in more traffic for traffics sake.
"Actually, the reason they fail to execute the solution is because they're getting a nice dividend, strong stock price and a fair amount of peace of mind."
Some people ( investors ) do indeed think this way. If they are content to continue owning Microsoft and receiving a dividend, then I am in no position to tell them they should sell.
That said, when you use cost-benefit analysis to determine if their decision to continue holding Microsoft stock for those dividends was an optimal decision, I would have to say definitely "No, non-optimal." Because the opportunity cost of not getting a better return is there.
Of course, if they are content, odds are good, they aren't actually aware of a better opportunity, or at least, fail to recognize it at such.
Emotions do play a role in many investors decisions. I'm not one of those types of investors. I learned a long time ago it was much better to let mathematics and probability and computer software make the decisions for me, as automated analysis of the entire marketplace beats the crap out of my own intuition almost every time.
Yeah, that describes it nicely, although I think the one I was originally thinking of was "confirmation bias" as I had recently read an article on cracked.com titled '5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than You Think."
Many people fail to execute the simple solution, as it might require them to admit they were wrong to buy it in the first place. It's a well known psychological shortfall who's proper term I can't recall atm. Like anti-buyers-remorse.
"no more magic computers that get faster every year."
When and/or if commodity CPUs stop getting faster, due to physical limitations, there is plenty of speed to be had from using co-processors to execute in hardware tasks currently relegated to software.
As an example, malloc() and friends, a binary tree, a hash map, etc. An intelligent memory co-processor with these data structures in silicon would provide 100 if not 1,000 times execution speed when compared to current software implementations. Throw some content addressable memory in the mix, and you'll have a bang up fast box on the same if not lower power budget.
PC's will still be able to get faster... they'll just have to get smarter to do it.
You aren't the only one. I posted a comment about how it'd be nice to have a contest awarding excellent C programming practices, and I'm getting flamed for bashing the IOCCC contest, the C language, open source, closed source, peoples grandmothers, sliced bread, etc.
Go figure.
My comment had nothing to do with the C language itself. Yes, C is a simple language. I standardized on C a long time ago, and 100% of the code I write is in fact, in C. My comment had to do with messy, buggy, undocumented, unorganized C code, that I come across when dealing with "open source", that is glorified as being "the mostest awesomeness dude" simply because it is open source.
Insert rants about "well you can fix it since its open source" here.
According to Wikipedia, among workers aged 25-64, working full time, the following income amounts by race are:
White 40,422
Asian 42,109
African American 32,021
Hispanic or Latino 27,266
So, by the logic of fairness and my calculations, the average is $35,454. This means we need to take $6655 from asian peeps, and $4968 from white peeps, and give it to the african americans and latino peeps. Then everything would be fair, and people would stop crying.
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I should point out, I understand that freedom of speech, or any other concept or right or privilege, is not absolute, even in the US. Didn't mean to imply that it is absolute in the US, but not in Canada. I suppose its 6 of one half dozen of the other.
It is my understanding, based on stuff ( sorry for the lack of specifics here ), that map/reduce was not in fact invented by google, by predates google by 30 or 40 years, and was simply re-discovered by google, according to some article I read sometime in the past that unfortunately, I cannot recall now. I dont think this has been challenged at all, however, and googles patent could still indeed be valid, depending on details.
Well, first off, the FBI and DHS were bound to get involved, the moment the OWS movement decided, or spontaneously morphed into, the occupation of more than 1 location. A national event, elicits a national response, from federal agencies, to some degree.
... all this chaos and conflict, for better or worse, misguided or spot on, was created by the canadian magazine leftists. I suppose they couldn't create nearly as big a mess in their home country, because as I understand it, Canada does not have freedom of speech. You can get arrested in Canada for saying things people don't like or that which could be considered hateful. Somewhat ironic don't you think ?
Certainly the overwhelming majority of the individual protesters, behaved peacefully, or at least, passively, but you cannot rightfully claim *all* participants in the protests, at the protest areas, behaved peacefully, because there is lots of video of protesters and/or people standing within 2 feet of the protesters, behaving violently. Violence has erupted, crimes have been committed, and regardless of whether you support the overall movement, to ignore that violence has not occurred is to ignore reality.
As for people claiming this is a crackdown on free speech, I would like to point out that free speech is safe. What is being cracked down upon, is the location the protesters have decided to exercise their free speech. The protesters, you, I, and anyone else, if given permission by a land owner, to hold an event, can still say whatever they want. Free speech of course, is not inconsequential speech, and there will be various reactions from the public, government, etc. based on what is said. This is normal and unavoidable. There would be no incentive to say anything, if people did not react to it.
When you begin to investigate property laws, you will find they provide the basis for the police taking actions like the eviction of protesters, and the park cleanup. If the protesters, evicted, voluntarily or forcefully, by the police, at the request of the landowner, left anything behind, then it is considered abandoned property. So for all the conspiracy theories and allegations concerning crackdowns, search and seizure, etc., its no different, except in scale, than what would happen if a vagrant pitched on a tent on your front lawn, and started making a mess.
One last reminder
"So Mr. Smith, and I remind you that you are under oath, you claim the reason you groped 'the lady in red' sitting next to you on the airplane, is that your 'ARM Controller' chip malfunctioned ?"
I hate it when that happens. ;(
Yeah. I think the fact that they claim, or at least, imply, that their model is complete, is the most interesting point here. If indeed they have a complete model, then this type of circuit could be added to languages such as VHDL and Verilog and put to immediate use, if only on a limited basis, and the scaling of the model will get better as manufacturing does.
Interesting.
;)
If the chip-o-brain ( bad reference to traf-o-data ) were trainable like a human brain, it would need a mechanism to set the internal "simulated biological clock" in order to feed it training data at an accelerated rate. That way, when training data was fed to it extremely quickly, it would still capture the proper temporal relationships in the data, as if it had "experienced" the data in real time.
Next step, Windows Backup for Brains (tm).
Lets hope restore works this time.
Well, the cracked article I referenced, was merely to point out where I had recently read about 'confirmation bias.' Perhaps I should have pointed out that cracked.com is themed as a 'humor' website, somewhat a kin to the onion, but instead of outright lies, it's articles are generally constructed of outright sarcasm.
wikipedia has a much more serious discussion of 'confirmation bias.'
link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
While it's nice to think that everyone will adopt software and policies that work as intended, whats to stop a malicious server, who is by definition, malicious, from running a webserver that says "Oh, you don't want me to track you ? Sure pal, no problem." ... then of course, continues to track you ?
Seems to me the lack of validation / verification of published behavior, will just result in more traffic for traffics sake.
What does everyone else think ?
"Actually, the reason they fail to execute the solution is because they're getting a nice dividend, strong stock price and a fair amount of peace of mind."
Some people ( investors ) do indeed think this way. If they are content to continue owning Microsoft and receiving a dividend, then I am in no position to tell them they should sell.
That said, when you use cost-benefit analysis to determine if their decision to continue holding Microsoft stock for those dividends was an optimal decision, I would have to say definitely "No, non-optimal." Because the opportunity cost of not getting a better return is there.
Of course, if they are content, odds are good, they aren't actually aware of a better opportunity, or at least, fail to recognize it at such.
Emotions do play a role in many investors decisions. I'm not one of those types of investors. I learned a long time ago it was much better to let mathematics and probability and computer software make the decisions for me, as automated analysis of the entire marketplace beats the crap out of my own intuition almost every time.
Yeah, that describes it nicely, although I think the one I was originally thinking of was "confirmation bias" as I had recently read an article on cracked.com titled '5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than You Think."
link for those interested.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19468_5-logical-fallacies-that-make-you-wrong-more-than-you-think_p2.html
Many people fail to execute the simple solution, as it might require them to admit they were wrong to buy it in the first place. It's a well known psychological shortfall who's proper term I can't recall atm. Like anti-buyers-remorse.
"no more magic computers that get faster every year."
... they'll just have to get smarter to do it.
When and/or if commodity CPUs stop getting faster, due to physical limitations, there is plenty of speed to be had from using co-processors to execute in hardware tasks currently relegated to software.
As an example, malloc() and friends, a binary tree, a hash map, etc. An intelligent memory co-processor with these data structures in silicon would provide 100 if not 1,000 times execution speed when compared to current software implementations. Throw some content addressable memory in the mix, and you'll have a bang up fast box on the same if not lower power budget.
PC's will still be able to get faster
Smells like teen spirit.
If I dare to clarify C or C++ ... it will only result in exponential flamage, thus, I leave it open to interpretation.
You aren't the only one. I posted a comment about how it'd be nice to have a contest awarding excellent C programming practices, and I'm getting flamed for bashing the IOCCC contest, the C language, open source, closed source, peoples grandmothers, sliced bread, etc. Go figure.
*sigh* x 2
*sigh*
My comment had nothing to do with the C language itself. Yes, C is a simple language. I standardized on C a long time ago, and 100% of the code I write is in fact, in C. My comment had to do with messy, buggy, undocumented, unorganized C code, that I come across when dealing with "open source", that is glorified as being "the mostest awesomeness dude" simply because it is open source. Insert rants about "well you can fix it since its open source" here.
They created a competition for the most well structured, well documented, clean and correct code.
Most C coders seem to achieve obfuscation without any additional incentive.
Free trade is a pretty stupid idea. Fair trade should be the goal.
... because if we keep spending like drunken sailors, we'll destroy the economy even more, and that's been done before.
You take all the fun out of armchair quarterbacking the evening news ;(
According to Wikipedia, among workers aged 25-64, working full time, the following income amounts by race are:
... enjoy utopian fairness.
White 40,422
Asian 42,109
African American 32,021
Hispanic or Latino 27,266
So, by the logic of fairness and my calculations, the average is $35,454. This means we need to take $6655 from asian peeps, and $4968 from white peeps, and give it to the african americans and latino peeps. Then everything would be fair, and people would stop crying.
Problem solved
er ... "not"