Try explaining that to a population of fundamentalists.
If the bible is the actual word of an infallible god, then every word in the bible is literally and infallibly true. If any part of the bible is not literally true, then the entire book is worthless.
Therefore if science is ever wrong about anything, then it is worthless because it is inferior to my infallible bible.
Take your anti-government political stance and tell the millions of unemployed people around the world that private industry had their interests in mind when the people running the show took their cut of the profits and retired off of them.
The government does have legitimate roles. One of those roles is law enforcement. Here's a great example of a law that should be enforced (18 USC 1341):
"Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, distribute, supply,... ...shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both."
If the government had thrown the criminals in jail instead of giving them bailouts then we wouldn't be in this mess.
Lying, cheating and stealing are crimes and should be punished appropriately. Then a free market can function.
With free market rates and without FRB the housing bubble would never have come to pass; as demand for capital increased, so would the interest that depositors demanded, borrowers would have to compete for money to borrow. Only with infinite credit and artificially low rates is it possible to build unsustainable bubbles of the kinds we've seen.
Why do so many people think that fractional reserve banking is all or nothing? The 12:1 leverage limits were working just fine until the SEC was persuaded to raise those limits to 40:1. Then we had the housing bubble.
So clearly the only solution is to throw out fractional reserve banking altogether?
Why not look at all the historical data and determine at what leverage ratio bank failures increase dramatically then set a limit comfortably below that level?
why can't we just believe them instead of immediately assuming that they are incorrect
Because that is how science works. Scientists are people, and people make mistakes.
The best way to reduce the errors is to assume that every new theory is wrong and attack it logically. If it stands up to all challenges then they can assume it is true, at least until new evidence shows up.
Now the question of how qualified the average Slashdot poster is to perform this peer-review is an entirely different question...
My opposition to nuclear is mostly financial. Show me a working nuclear plant where the full fuel life cycle is managed entirely without government subsidy of any kind, and makes a profit.
This one looks promising. (at this stage it is just a proposal, not an operating reactor)
I'm speaking in the context of the article. Most of their application benchmarks showed only a minor speed difference between this drive and regular hard drives.
This disk would be fantastic in a dedicated compiler box.
Compiling is usually I/O bound, and the intermediate files and compiled programs are ephemeral. Who cares if the power goes down and you lose everything, just recompile and you're back in business.
Gentoo here I come!
I'll save you a few hundred dollars: mount -t tmpfs -o size=2G none/var/tmp/portage
Make sure you have enough swap space just in case you fill up your ram, but normally this will all but eliminate the disk IO delays.
Most of the applications that were benchmarked in the article.
That's because this interface is cheap and made by a Taiwanese gadget company, known for cheap knockoff products
Exactly
Because cheap Taiwanese knockoff companies need money too, and their not-quite-useful products always appeal to the techno-suckers. If this product were a serious Ram-disk, it would cost ten times more and wouldn't be hung from a hook on a pegboard at your local computer scamshop.
My point was that this product is a toy. If you really need a ramdisk, get a real one.
But are you really getting your money's worth from this device?
DDR2 is an order of magnitude faster than SATA. Looking at their numbers, the internal controller is limited to about 400 MB/sec. That is pretty mediocre.
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And sometimes people spontaneously get better without any treatment at all, and sometimes they don't.
The right thing to say is: Until more trials are conducted, it is impossible to know if it is useful or not.
I'm kicking myself now because I waited several months to register a userid.
If I had registered as soon as I started reading slashdot then that UID would be worth at least $10000000 (in internet money)
In a full reserve system, I can't imagine that you would have the same economic growth.
All that money sitting idle, not being invested surely must reduce growth.
I respect Ayn Rand for trying to build a moral system based on objective reasoning instead of "You better do what my imaginary friend say, or else!"
At the end of her life, however, she really did go crazy.
My point is that more options exist than just 0 or inifinity.
10:1 is what Karl Denninger is calling for
+1 unintentional onomatopoeia
Unless making kids dummer is their job.
If you go multiprocessor (not multicore) then you get much higher memory bandwidth (NUMA). Sometimes that matters more than CPU power.
That RAID card was the bottleneck. It can't support 4x the raw transfer rate of a single drive.
Wikipedia is your friend.
Everything you said makes perfect sense.
Try explaining that to a population of fundamentalists.
If the bible is the actual word of an infallible god, then every word in the bible is literally and infallibly true. If any part of the bible is not literally true, then the entire book is worthless.
Therefore if science is ever wrong about anything, then it is worthless because it is inferior to my infallible bible.
You've never run across the "Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue booting" motherboards before?
The government does have legitimate roles. One of those roles is law enforcement. Here's a great example of a law that should be enforced (18 USC 1341):
If the government had thrown the criminals in jail instead of giving them bailouts then we wouldn't be in this mess.
Lying, cheating and stealing are crimes and should be punished appropriately. Then a free market can function.
Why do so many people think that fractional reserve banking is all or nothing? The 12:1 leverage limits were working just fine until the SEC was persuaded to raise those limits to 40:1. Then we had the housing bubble.
So clearly the only solution is to throw out fractional reserve banking altogether?
Why not look at all the historical data and determine at what leverage ratio bank failures increase dramatically then set a limit comfortably below that level?
Because that is how science works. Scientists are people, and people make mistakes.
The best way to reduce the errors is to assume that every new theory is wrong and attack it logically. If it stands up to all challenges then they can assume it is true, at least until new evidence shows up.
Now the question of how qualified the average Slashdot poster is to perform this peer-review is an entirely different question...
This one looks promising. (at this stage it is just a proposal, not an operating reactor)
Its only 35 years ago every "Expert" and "Scientist" (sorry to kill your God here Atheists) was telling us we were heading for a new Ice Age.
And since that time, scientists have rejected that theory since it doesn't match the available evidence. The process works.
Let me know when cleargy start modifying their religious doctrines when confronted with objective evidence.
I'm speaking in the context of the article. Most of their application benchmarks showed only a minor speed difference between this drive and regular hard drives.
If you are running these type of applications, then why wouldn't you use a server that lets you install 64G of ram in the first place?
Is there any case where a 64G SATA ramdrive performs better than 64G of main memory?
Unless your OS really sucks at disk caching.
I'll save you a few hundred dollars: /var/tmp/portage
mount -t tmpfs -o size=2G none
Make sure you have enough swap space just in case you fill up your ram, but normally this will all but eliminate the disk IO delays.
Most of the applications that were benchmarked in the article.
Exactly
My point was that this product is a toy. If you really need a ramdisk, get a real one.
You're confusing bits and bytes.
But are you really getting your money's worth from this device?
DDR2 is an order of magnitude faster than SATA. Looking at their numbers, the internal controller is limited to about 400 MB/sec. That is pretty mediocre.
Actually since then relations between the USA and Japan have been pretty good, considering the circumstances.
Nothing at all like the Isreal and Palestine.