I still don't understand why you keep referring to changing the protocol in the first place.
Probably because the original GP post proposed moving from X11 to X12 to fix usability problems, but the '11' actually refers to the version of the low level client-server communications protocol, which has little to do with usability.
A processor normally takes 2-3 clock pulses to perform any instruction
A modern processor may in fact take a dozen or more clock cycles to finish a single instruction. However, by utilizing pipelining, reordering and multiple execution units, a single core may be working on upwards of 50 instructions at once. The resulting throughput can be several instructions per clock on each core.
The key? Legislation that allowed Cooperatives to form *and helped them with the startup capital*.
The other key? Several dollars of fees tacked onto everybody else's phone bills every month.
Maybe all the people in urban areas are feeling flush with cash and would like to tack several dollars onto their ISP bills to subsidize rural broadband as well.
Ah yes, combining the prestige of a Taiwanese electronics OEM with the affordability and reliability of an Italian sports car manufacturer. It's a match made in heaven.
You missed one major advantage of the x86 instruction coding: it is extremely compact compared to "easy to decode" ISAs. This allows you to get by with a smaller instruction cache, and as you point out, caches dominate chip real estate these days.
I'm sorry, but I missed something. If it's in the container, it's safe, but if it's loose on the floor, it's liable to start a chain reaction?
Any container designed to hold enriched uranium would be carefully shaped so as to avoid coming anywhere near to creating a critical mass. In this incident, the risk was that the liquid would flow into the elevator shaft, where it would pool into a compact shape that could create a critical mass.
what power does congress have to exercise oversight?
In theory, 2/3 of both houses could vote for a law that properly defines classified material and grants congress access to it. In practice, with our 2-party system that's carefully calibrated to maintain a near 50/50 split, it won't happen any time soon.
I would expect the business community to prefer class actions suits to the alternative of defending themselves everywhere over small amounts
Especially since the damages are usually "repaid" in the form of discount coupons for their own products. This even saves them the cost of having to buy ads in magazines to distribute their promotional discounts.
That's because so many people in Denmark are close enough to a power plant to run steam tunnels to their locations. The trend in the US over the past decades has been to build huge power plants in the middle of nowhere, so it just wouldn't work here.
Recently, a new trend has been to build smaller cogeneration facilities in populated areas in the US, but due to valid political and environmental concerns, the only viable fuel for these is natural gas. That fuel is already in short supply and dwindling fast, so that's not going to solve the problem by itself.
As the difference in temperature between engine input and output gets less, the physical size of the engine you'd need to create a given amount of power goes up exponentially (not exactly, but much faster than linearly anyway). This waste heat mostly comes from the steam condensers for the turbines, so the input temperature available is very low. Due to the laws of physics, a sterling engine that could significantly boost the efficiency of a nuclear plant would be too large and costly to make economic sense.
Of course, you're welcome to study thermodynamic engineering and try to circumvent this issue yourself. If you manage to pull it off, you could make $Billions.
That works great assuming that you're close enough to a power plant so that it makes economic sense to dig a tunnel full of big fat steam pipes to your house. Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the population lives that close.
Why is the government on the *federal* level funding science?
Because this nation is not, nor has it ever been, libertarian.
Almost all of our great economic achievements, going all the way back to the earliest days of the American colonies, have been based on the winning (but distasteful) formula of government in bed with corporate interests. Why mess with success?
The subject at hand is a rat. One ordinary albino laboratory rat. The place is a cage. A typical cage in a typical lab just like you'd find in any university in any city. Just which cage and what rat isn't important or interesting. What is interesting is what this particular rat remembers... or rather, what he doesn't remember. Because right now, it seems this rat doesn't remember anything. He knows that he's a rat, but that is about all he knows. He also knows that if he's ever going to get out of this cage, he needs to find out just who he is and how he got there. What he doesn't know, and will soon find out, is that right now he is firmly located in one of the deeper regions of... the Twilight Zone.
The clear Ivory Liquid Hand Soap is the one major brand that I know that doesn't have antibacterial additives. We've been using it exclusively for years, but it's often hard to find the cheaper large refill size.
This whole debate gets tiresome. To put this to rest, somebody ought to write an NdisWrapper-style shim for BSD that will run any Linux kernel module, then release it under a BSD-style license. Then any binary Linux-compatible kernel module will by definition no longer be "derived" from Linux, since it could run without Linux.
Of course, a better solution would be for the courts to rule that this silly legal theory that "won't run without X" === "derived from X" is bunk. "Derived" works should really only mean works where you take some source code and edit it. I find it ironic that in this gray area, the FSF is on the vanguard of expanding the scope and onerousness of copyright law as much as they possibly can.
The name for the company Novell was suggested by George Canova's wife who mistakenly thought that "Novell" meant "new" in French. (In fact, the feminine singular of "new" in French is "nouvelle").
Let's compare the quality of today's MP3s with what I had to suffer through as a kid:
Scratchy LPs with skipping grooves, damage from worn needles and sluggish drivebelts: A Musical Catastrophe!
Muddy 8-tracks with slipping drive wheels, scrambled album order, songs chopped in half, and ghostly intertrack crosstalk at -10dB: A Musical Cataclysm!
Hissy cassettes with more white noise than audio signal and 3 feet of tape tangled in the capstain: A Musical Debacle!
Music survived all those fiascoes, and it will survive a little digital compression as well.
You are suggesting that due simply to the structure of these employer sponsored health plans, they warrant being termed socialized, socialized medicine. But this is clearly false
It's not false. The plan takes in some people who are clearly going to be a net loss in order to form a "social circle". It has exactly the same characteristics as government socialized plans, but on a smaller scale. Supporting the weak and helpless for the "common good".
Benefits packages are oftentimes the primary consideration of an employee considering employment opportunities.
That's exactly the situation I'm describing, and you seem to buy into their scheme hook line and sinker. The employers want you to feel that you depend on them for healthcare. But why in the hell should your employer be involved in this area at all? You don't buy shoes or breakfast cereal through them, but somehow everybody seems to think that it's somehow natural for employers to be in the business of peddling health plans. Why is that?
I'd rather not pay for your medical care in tax dollars just so you can save a few bucks every paycheck.
What difference does it make? You're paying for somebody's medical care one way or another, whether the government shifts the cash or your employer (along with a bunch of skimming middlemen) shifts the cash. You're *already* paying for peoples' $10K/day bills, so what's the problem? One day, somebody's likely to pay for yours. In fact, if you live long enough, it most likely will be taxpayers footing your bill.
If employer-sponsored group plans were insurance, then people and their family members who have certain chronic illnesses would have no more hope of getting in the group plans than they would buying an individual plan. Since the plan providers don't bother to apply the most basic actuarial principles to the participants of the plan, it's not insurance at all.
Instead, employer sponsored group health plans are a form of socialized medicine, but implemented under a private feudal system. This system helps keep employees dependent on and loyal to their healthcare lords, the employers.
Since it's not insurance, there's really not much point in trying to charge differential rates within the group plans. If they go too far with it, they'll end up with the same premiums and individual filtering for preexisting conditions associated with individual health insurance. If that happens, the employers would no longer be able to use health plans as a tool to keep their employees pacified, employers no longer find it in their interest to offer group health plans, and the political pressure would quickly build to switch this country over to government-backed health plans like every other developed country on this planet.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand how they don't get that not everyone is privileged, or lucky, or given the same chances in life.
Look, everybody is born with a brain. If you can't use your own brain to see the fact that gasoline is a highly volatile commodity, and that you shouldn't buy a vehicle that needs more gas than you could afford if fuel returns to historical price levels vs. wages, then it's nobody's fault but your own.
Yes! Of course! All of the minimum wage people should trade in their junkers for nice shiny new hybrids, that will save them!
No, nothing is going to "save them" now if they're too poor to buy even an econobox junker. They've just got to pay the price or walk. But that still doesn't give them a right to complain about price levels that are not unexpected, nor even at historic highs proportional to their income.
People don't NEED to drink coffee or bottled water. BUT PEOPLE NEED GASOLINE.
And most people don't NEED to use vehicles that get the low gas mileage that they generally do in the US. It's called lack of foresight.
Boo hoo. Adjusted for inflation, gas is currently cheaper than it was in the 1950s. With the volatile and dwindling nature of oil production, anybody who didn't see the end of freakishly cheap gas prices and act accordingly deserves what they get.
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Probably because the original GP post proposed moving from X11 to X12 to fix usability problems, but the '11' actually refers to the version of the low level client-server communications protocol, which has little to do with usability.
A modern processor may in fact take a dozen or more clock cycles to finish a single instruction. However, by utilizing pipelining, reordering and multiple execution units, a single core may be working on upwards of 50 instructions at once. The resulting throughput can be several instructions per clock on each core.
The other key? Several dollars of fees tacked onto everybody else's phone bills every month.
Maybe all the people in urban areas are feeling flush with cash and would like to tack several dollars onto their ISP bills to subsidize rural broadband as well.
Ah yes, combining the prestige of a Taiwanese electronics OEM with the affordability and reliability of an Italian sports car manufacturer. It's a match made in heaven.
You missed one major advantage of the x86 instruction coding: it is extremely compact compared to "easy to decode" ISAs. This allows you to get by with a smaller instruction cache, and as you point out, caches dominate chip real estate these days.
Of course if people let you arbitrarily redefine the meaning of common terms to mean whatever you want, you can't lose an argument, EVER!
Any container designed to hold enriched uranium would be carefully shaped so as to avoid coming anywhere near to creating a critical mass. In this incident, the risk was that the liquid would flow into the elevator shaft, where it would pool into a compact shape that could create a critical mass.
In theory, 2/3 of both houses could vote for a law that properly defines classified material and grants congress access to it. In practice, with our 2-party system that's carefully calibrated to maintain a near 50/50 split, it won't happen any time soon.
Especially since the damages are usually "repaid" in the form of discount coupons for their own products. This even saves them the cost of having to buy ads in magazines to distribute their promotional discounts.
Enough battleships were destroyed by obsolete cloth-covered biplanes in WWII to prove that their only effective combat role is that of a sitting duck.
Recently, a new trend has been to build smaller cogeneration facilities in populated areas in the US, but due to valid political and environmental concerns, the only viable fuel for these is natural gas. That fuel is already in short supply and dwindling fast, so that's not going to solve the problem by itself.
Of course, you're welcome to study thermodynamic engineering and try to circumvent this issue yourself. If you manage to pull it off, you could make $Billions.
That works great assuming that you're close enough to a power plant so that it makes economic sense to dig a tunnel full of big fat steam pipes to your house. Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the population lives that close.
Because this nation is not, nor has it ever been, libertarian.
Almost all of our great economic achievements, going all the way back to the earliest days of the American colonies, have been based on the winning (but distasteful) formula of government in bed with corporate interests. Why mess with success?
The subject at hand is a rat. One ordinary albino laboratory rat. The place is a cage. A typical cage in a typical lab just like you'd find in any university in any city. Just which cage and what rat isn't important or interesting. What is interesting is what this particular rat remembers... or rather, what he doesn't remember. Because right now, it seems this rat doesn't remember anything. He knows that he's a rat, but that is about all he knows. He also knows that if he's ever going to get out of this cage, he needs to find out just who he is and how he got there. What he doesn't know, and will soon find out, is that right now he is firmly located in one of the deeper regions of... the Twilight Zone.
The clear Ivory Liquid Hand Soap is the one major brand that I know that doesn't have antibacterial additives. We've been using it exclusively for years, but it's often hard to find the cheaper large refill size.
Of course, a better solution would be for the courts to rule that this silly legal theory that "won't run without X" === "derived from X" is bunk. "Derived" works should really only mean works where you take some source code and edit it. I find it ironic that in this gray area, the FSF is on the vanguard of expanding the scope and onerousness of copyright law as much as they possibly can.
Scratchy LPs with skipping grooves, damage from worn needles and sluggish drivebelts: A Musical Catastrophe!
Muddy 8-tracks with slipping drive wheels, scrambled album order, songs chopped in half, and ghostly intertrack crosstalk at -10dB: A Musical Cataclysm!
Hissy cassettes with more white noise than audio signal and 3 feet of tape tangled in the capstain: A Musical Debacle!
Music survived all those fiascoes, and it will survive a little digital compression as well.
It's not false. The plan takes in some people who are clearly going to be a net loss in order to form a "social circle". It has exactly the same characteristics as government socialized plans, but on a smaller scale. Supporting the weak and helpless for the "common good".
That's exactly the situation I'm describing, and you seem to buy into their scheme hook line and sinker. The employers want you to feel that you depend on them for healthcare. But why in the hell should your employer be involved in this area at all? You don't buy shoes or breakfast cereal through them, but somehow everybody seems to think that it's somehow natural for employers to be in the business of peddling health plans. Why is that?
What difference does it make? You're paying for somebody's medical care one way or another, whether the government shifts the cash or your employer (along with a bunch of skimming middlemen) shifts the cash. You're *already* paying for peoples' $10K/day bills, so what's the problem? One day, somebody's likely to pay for yours. In fact, if you live long enough, it most likely will be taxpayers footing your bill.
Instead, employer sponsored group health plans are a form of socialized medicine, but implemented under a private feudal system. This system helps keep employees dependent on and loyal to their healthcare lords, the employers.
Since it's not insurance, there's really not much point in trying to charge differential rates within the group plans. If they go too far with it, they'll end up with the same premiums and individual filtering for preexisting conditions associated with individual health insurance. If that happens, the employers would no longer be able to use health plans as a tool to keep their employees pacified, employers no longer find it in their interest to offer group health plans, and the political pressure would quickly build to switch this country over to government-backed health plans like every other developed country on this planet.
Obviously, this was a serious violation of the "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" statute.
Look, everybody is born with a brain. If you can't use your own brain to see the fact that gasoline is a highly volatile commodity, and that you shouldn't buy a vehicle that needs more gas than you could afford if fuel returns to historical price levels vs. wages, then it's nobody's fault but your own.
No, nothing is going to "save them" now if they're too poor to buy even an econobox junker. They've just got to pay the price or walk. But that still doesn't give them a right to complain about price levels that are not unexpected, nor even at historic highs proportional to their income.
And most people don't NEED to use vehicles that get the low gas mileage that they generally do in the US. It's called lack of foresight.
Boo hoo. Adjusted for inflation, gas is currently cheaper than it was in the 1950s. With the volatile and dwindling nature of oil production, anybody who didn't see the end of freakishly cheap gas prices and act accordingly deserves what they get.