Imagine the first gene. Floating in primordial soup. What did it do?
It found a way of replicating itself. Then it found a way of protecting itself from the environment. Then it found a way of protecting itself from other genes. Then it found a way of taking advantage of other genes. --- (this is us)
They aren't our genes... We are their replication machines.
None of the processes were running on the same machines, don't know and don't care where they were. It's actually a more efficient way of running applications. All the firefox processes run on a few firefox servers, all of the OpenOffice processes run on an a few OpenOffce servers. Load balanced of course.
Running multiple instances of the same application on the same machine allows the most efficient use of RAM, CPU caches and of the CPU processing power. The libraries are only loaded once, it's only user data which takes up memory and that is a tiny fraction of the memory consumption. Plus, it screams. How often have you seen Open Office start in half a second?
With the automated systems pulling in that much more money than the traditional ones, and with more algorithms being designed (and held as proprietary info), what would YOU do?
We have had billions of years of self replicating machine eating each other for survival. What on earth do you think that they'll do to an organism which doesn't have that background?
With nimh you have to fully charge, discharge them the first couple of times you use them. If you don't use them for a while, they have to be put through the cycle again.
It's simpler just to get a battery charger which has conditioning programmes for the various battery types.
In that case are you saying that a developing nation should *not* strive for a better economy? Or simply that a better economy won't reduce poverty? And if so, what will?
No,simply stating that by itself, money does not reduce the plight of the poor, they just don't have access to it. You simply end up with a fabulously rich overclass who own all of the assets and take the benefit of the monetary inflation, and a grindingly poor underclass who earn relatively less and less. Take Brazil as an example... ~10th largest economy in the world, millions still living in favellas.
Knowledge is power. What makes the difference is education.
When your money devalues exponentially, it makes absolutely no sense to spend it on "quality", it makes far more sense to simply get rid of it as fast as you can on any old crap.
If 5% are consuming 95% of the bandwidth, then clearly the best option is to run a bittorent tracker, edonkey, gnutella nodes and an ftp mirror all the time. Might as well get my money's worth while I'm paying for something they are using.
The sooner the bandwidth is used up, the sooner a sane pricing model will appear. So, fuck you all, I'm off to mirror ibiblio and anything else I can think of.
Sorry, no. What the GP was saying is that people wouldn't have bought in on those terms and as a result there would have been no boom to go bust.
Read my post again. It has nothing to do with a specific scenario. Our money is credit based, 95% or so of all US money is credit. It must go boom/bust. It cannot not go boom/bust. Whether it is the housing market or something else which happens to be booming and busting right now is completely irrelevant.
So? Don't sign it. It is exactly this kind of mentality that has brought down the housing market.
Sorry, no. The bust must follow any boom, doesn't matter whether it is housing or tech stocks or commodities, our money is still based on debt, and debt is an exponential function.
They don't provide the services directly, they don't manufacture the hardware directly. They are now simply a middle man hoping to cream off some cash.
Can't think of a good reason to buy directly from them now.
For server systems, you can build a fully functionally ram based server image which will run in less than 200mb of ram.
Just add 4-128gb of memory as required.
Course, all that goes completely out of the window the instant the words "Gnome", or "Java" are mentioned. You are welcome to your rotating metal disk levels of performance there.
Slashdot Mirror
Imagine the first gene. Floating in primordial soup. What did it do?
It found a way of replicating itself.
Then it found a way of protecting itself from the environment.
Then it found a way of protecting itself from other genes.
Then it found a way of taking advantage of other genes. --- (this is us)
They aren't our genes... We are their replication machines.
Execute everything under a qsub command.
None of the processes were running on the same machines, don't know and don't care where they were. It's actually a more efficient way of running applications. All the firefox processes run on a few firefox servers, all of the OpenOffice processes run on an a few OpenOffce servers. Load balanced of course.
Running multiple instances of the same application on the same machine allows the most efficient use of RAM, CPU caches and of the CPU processing power. The libraries are only loaded once, it's only user data which takes up memory and that is a tiny fraction of the memory consumption. Plus, it screams. How often have you seen Open Office start in half a second?
It's gambling, it isn't investing.
With the automated systems pulling in that much more money than the traditional ones, and with more algorithms being designed (and held as proprietary info), what would YOU do?
Find their buttons... Then press them.
Evolved life wins.
We have had billions of years of self replicating machine eating each other for survival. What on earth do you think that they'll do to an organism which doesn't have that background?
With nimh you have to fully charge, discharge them the first couple of times you use them. If you don't use them for a while, they have to be put through the cycle again.
It's simpler just to get a battery charger which has conditioning programmes for the various battery types.
Perhaps you realise that heat is not a waste product.
We actually pay electricity companies and gas companies to heat our water and buildings for us.
Then we pay them some more to run our machines.
Then we pay them some more to run air conditioners to get rid of the heat our machines produce.
Over the generations gradually change their environment till it resembles mars. Send the survivors as first colonists.
If it's running on .Net, it isn't running on a mainframe.
Many clever inventions. The banks however, won't touch anything but property with a ten foot pole.
In that case are you saying that a developing nation should *not* strive for a better economy? Or simply that a better economy won't reduce poverty? And if so, what will?
No,simply stating that by itself, money does not reduce the plight of the poor, they just don't have access to it. You simply end up with a fabulously rich overclass who own all of the assets and take the benefit of the monetary inflation, and a grindingly poor underclass who earn relatively less and less. Take Brazil as an example... ~10th largest economy in the world, millions still living in favellas.
Knowledge is power. What makes the difference is education.
cheaper nuclear fuel -> cheaper power -> better economy -> less poverty.
Actually not.
cheaper nuclear fuel -> cheaper power -> better economy -> increased money supply -> higher inflation -> higher asset values -> greater disparity between rich and poor.
HTH
When your money devalues exponentially, it makes absolutely no sense to spend it on "quality", it makes far more sense to simply get rid of it as fast as you can on any old crap.
Apparently 90% of the universe is made of some weird useless stuff. Might as well use the same term for stuff we don't understand.
Um... Do you really think the 5% statistic would change? If so, you clearly don't understand people...
Humans use a resource until it is depleted. Doesn't matter what it is.
Here's a video you should watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM1x4RljmnE
The answer is a resounding "no" BTW.
If 5% are consuming 95% of the bandwidth, then clearly the best option is to run a bittorent tracker, edonkey, gnutella nodes and an ftp mirror all the time. Might as well get my money's worth while I'm paying for something they are using.
The sooner the bandwidth is used up, the sooner a sane pricing model will appear. So, fuck you all, I'm off to mirror ibiblio and anything else I can think of.
Flat Rate...
Sorry, no. What the GP was saying is that people wouldn't have bought in on those terms and as a result there would have been no boom to go bust.
Read my post again. It has nothing to do with a specific scenario. Our money is credit based, 95% or so of all US money is credit. It must go boom/bust. It cannot not go boom/bust. Whether it is the housing market or something else which happens to be booming and busting right now is completely irrelevant.
Auto financing, credit card bills etc.
Oh wait...
A debt based monetary system may have an adverse effect on those living within it?
So? Don't sign it. It is exactly this kind of mentality that has brought down the housing market.
Sorry, no. The bust must follow any boom, doesn't matter whether it is housing or tech stocks or commodities, our money is still based on debt, and debt is an exponential function.
Here, their business support is provided by Unisys.
They don't provide the services directly, they don't manufacture the hardware directly. They are now simply a middle man hoping to cream off some cash.
Can't think of a good reason to buy directly from them now.
For server systems, you can build a fully functionally ram based server image which will run in less than 200mb of ram.
Just add 4-128gb of memory as required.
Course, all that goes completely out of the window the instant the words "Gnome", or "Java" are mentioned. You are welcome to your rotating metal disk levels of performance there.
Simulating nuclear explosions.
The milky way is our galaxy.
Also, 2 different brands of chocolate bar.