That's right, since Iraq is costing us orders of magnitude more than almost anything else. We really should be using more reasonable units like milliIraqs.
Close, but a miliIraq is a ridiculously small unit, much like measuring the U.S. military budget in pennies (or pesos), a more appropriate unit would be the kiloIraq. pronounced as "Kill-O-Iraq," of course.
Can't you put 10GB of RAM into server and use that? New Mac Pro can get 32GB of RAM. Near 0 latency there.
Machines that take that much RAM tend to use rather expensive RAM, making that way more expensive than a big HD. Hopefully Moore's Law will enable increases in SSD capacity while driving down prices at a similar pace. Two generations (36 months) and we'll see laptops abandoning spinning platters affordably.
Okay, so the new wear-levelling ability of SSDs, (where if it cannot write to a block/bit/whatever, it marks that as bad and writes somewhere else), brings a question to mind:
Let's say you have had your SSD for awhile, and some data is in areas that subsequently get marked as 'bad'. You 'format' your SSD clean, but does the format change those marked-bad bits? If not, just because they cannot be written to, doesn't necessarily mean they couldn't be READ from by some utility that ignores the marked-bad flags, in theory. So, is it possible for an SSD to have data recoverable from 'marked bad' areas, that might even pass a format/multi-write randomizing utility? Something to think about. Hopefully someone knows the answer...
Hey, don't forget that when IE8 comes out, it'll only be 'mostly' compliant, so when IE9 comes out, we'll have to add another tag that says 'really-REALLY complaint, this time we really mean it' meta tag.
So can super high-traffic sites measure the amount of bandwidth they have to pay to use to send out this unnecessary tag to millions of people and bill MS for it? Oh, I forgot, their EULA says they're not responsible for their products.:)
Well a realistic transfer rate for a hard disk would be something like 250MB/s, no?
No, not even close. SATA has a theoretical transfer rate of 300MB/s, but that's just the connection, not what a HD can actually sustainably transfer at. Check out some recent harddrive reviews to find out the current state of the art. Most normal harddrives are, I believe, still under 100MB/s for sustained transfer rate, though they may be getting close. And that's for 7200rpm 3.5" desktop drives, not the 1.8" or 2.5" drives that the current crop of SSDs are targeting in laptops. Plus the latest SSDs have wear-levelling technology, thus making them actually more reliable (despite the now-misunderstood write-limit on Flash) than spinning platters. When the 'drive' can't write to a block, it's marked as bad and the data is written elsewhere (that's my understanding, anyway). When the SSD drive starts 'wearing out', it simply starts losing available capacity, rather than crashing and taking all your data with it. That's pretty awesome.
Plus now that it's on silicon, and storage density and power requirements will improve on a part with CPU technology, which is pretty great (limits *may* be coming into play soon on CPUs, but flash memory isn't at the state of the art level that CPU processes are on yet, so there's still plenty of headroom left for Flash memory).
I'd say in about 3 years or so, these things will be 128 MB in size and quite affordable (and much faster than spinning HDs).
Once Intel incorporates their memory controller on-die ala AMD, all the displays are at *least* LED-backlit (if not outright OLED), it's gonna be a sweet time for laptops, especially if that 10x increase in battery technology comes along about then.
It's not yet determined whether it's illegal to rip your own DVDs or CDs. Sure, the industry mouthpieces say that now, but they were saying the opposite just a few years ago. The law, however, isn't whatever industry mouthpieces say it is until they get around to actually buying off the politicians to change the law, which as far as I know, they haven't yet done. So rip away, mi amigo!
Legalize marijuana and prostitution, but outlaw the legal right to participate in politics via lobbying? Release terrorists back to the wild? Destroy the concept that a corporation founded in the US isn't given the protection due to "US Persons", as have all US corporations for the past 100+ years? "Fix" the EPA by applying "your" standards? I'll vote Kucinich before I vote for you!
Wow, that's a lot of nonsense, but here we go:
Outlaw the right to participate in politics via lobbying: What I mean is - INDIVIDUALS should be the only ones trying to influence their representatives. Corporations don't need any representation other than by those INDIVIDUALS that work for them. I like the way you put in 'the LEGAL right to' - it's only legal because it hasn't been made ILLEGAL, which is what I was talking about doing, changing the laws.
Release terrorists back into the wild: I never said to release terrorists. I said to close illegal and immortal camps. If they're really terrorists, put them in prisons in the U.S. and let them enjoy the same rights that any human born here normally has. We need to regain the moral high ground. We should definitely release all those known-non-terrorists that are in those camps.
Destroy the concept that a corporation founded in the US isn't given the protection due to "US Persons": Yeah, because a corporation is not a human being. It should be given some rights to protect the people that work for it, sure, and help it be FAIRLY competitive in the marketplace (protection from monopolies, etc.), but anything beyond that is not in the best interests of the citizens of the U.S., which is my priority.
"Fix" the EPA by applying "your" standards: My standards are generally those of the concensus of reputable scientists. When reputable scientists update their findings, I tend to update my standards when I find out about it. It's called an 'open' mind. You should check into it sometime. The standards in, say, California, are a good starting point, and California is having to SUE the EPA just to get the right to make better standards in their own state. That's flat out ridiculous. If a state wants BETTER standards, why should the EPA have any objection?
I'll vote Kucinich before I vote for you: You know, I've *heard* (not confirmed) that when you take both party's candidate's stated positions on the issues, strip away their identity, and just present the info to people (and I don't know whether it was presented to just Democrats or Republicans or both), that most people prefer Kucinich's positions on the issues. This may be bullshit, but I wouldn't be surprised. There's something that creeps me out about the guy, but I'd certainly vote for him before any of the nutbags running for the GOP nomination. It's like the GOP had a contest for the worst possible candidates this year. Much like the Democrats did in 2000 and 2004.
As an independent, I tend to vote for the lesser of two evils. I've voted for Republicans before (though strangely, when I vote for them, they always lose. Go figure.)
I was thinking more along the lines of what you see on Animal Cops. That list was just a quick one I had time for while letting a work problem digest in my head for a bit. Food production is an entirely different issue, that also needs a lot of work.
As for #1, would this be a complete immediate withdrawal or planned? I could see a complete withdrawal as causing problems. It would probably cause terrorists to move into Iraq or Iran to attack Iraq, which could be even worse.
I'd love an immediate withdrawal, but yeah, there would be problems. Whether there's a civil war there or not is really not our concern, though I think a well thought out (speedy) phased withdrawal, worked up in cooperation with those in the area, would be the best idea. This would be a great first job for my preferred Secretary of State, Bill Richardson (four-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee) to work on.
A few more things to do:
*) Order the official integration of gays/lesbians/whatevers into the military. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is discrimination, plain and simple. *) Universal health care *) End the party system *) Try to get all 50 states to issue electoral college votes proportionally (avoids the Constitutional amendment problem, and makes it match popular vote more closely, while still giving a bit more weight to the smaller states. Some states do this already, I think.) *) Phased withdrawal from South Korea *) Like other nerds here, repeal DMCA, Patriot Act, Net neutrality, copyright & patent reform, etc. *) Government no longer endorses or restricts marriage. Restriction not allowed on a state level; government (federal or local) has no business being in the marriage business. *) No more tax waiver for churches.
1) Recall U.S. troops from Iraq and probably Afghanistan, and any secret troops in Iran 2) Reinstitute Habeas Corpus 3) Initiate investigation into war crimes on the part of previous administration officials, as well as charges of treason (The Bush administration has gone WAY beyond 'impeachable offenses') 4) Release political prisoners in U.S. (of course this also includes Gitmo/Abuwhatever type places, but let's not forget people like Leonard Peltier, etc.) 5) Honor existing treaties with Native American tribes. 6) Appoint N.M. Governor Bill Richardson as Secretary of State, and send his ass out on a very long trip to start repairing U.S. relations abroad. I doubt this dude will be back by the end of my administration. 7) Find lackeys in Congress to start legislation I suggest, such as: no Congressional payraises unless a proportional increase in the minimum wage is approved at the same time. 8) Enforcement of the Constitution: try to get laws in place that forbid the kind of things W has been up to. Immediate legal penalties on politicians (including the President) if these laws are broken. 9) Fix the voting machine mess; mandate a auditable paper trail. 10) Fix the gerrymandering of voting districts - by either side. 11) Fix the EPA, and allow states to implement stricter pollution standards (but disallow looser standards) 12) Legalize, regulate, and tax the holy hell out of Marijuana. 13) Fully legalize hemp, and provide incentives to switch as much cotton production as is feasible over to hemp. (better for the environment, and actually more profitable for agribusiness.) 14) Legalize, regulate, and tax the holy hell out of prostitution. 15) Make lobbying a felony 16) Change the law so that corporations are not legal entities on a par with an actual human 17) Make animal abuse a felony, and make people convicted of it tracked; they often have serial killer tendencies. 18) No more subsidies to corn agribusiness 19) No more subsidies to oil producers 20) Much higher energy efficiency standards
And that's all I have time for now. I got a million of these, though.
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That's right, since Iraq is costing us orders of magnitude more than almost anything else. We really should be using more reasonable units like milliIraqs.
Close, but a miliIraq is a ridiculously small unit, much like measuring the U.S. military budget in pennies (or pesos), a more appropriate unit would be the kiloIraq. pronounced as "Kill-O-Iraq," of course.
We could also see the revival of cartridge hard disks, only solid-state.
You watch - soon we'll all be storing data on little coloured cartridges ala Star Trek.
Ladies, get your beehive hairdos and miniskirts ready, Kirk is in the hizzy!
Can't you put 10GB of RAM into server and use that? New Mac Pro can get 32GB of RAM. Near 0 latency there.
Machines that take that much RAM tend to use rather expensive RAM, making that way more expensive than a big HD. Hopefully Moore's Law will enable increases in SSD capacity while driving down prices at a similar pace. Two generations (36 months) and we'll see laptops abandoning spinning platters affordably.
Locksmith 3.0 FTW!
No way, man, Copy ][+ forever!
Crisis Mountain, Lode Runner, BoulderDash, Choplifter
I never played Crisis Mountain, but those other three were great. My other favourites:
Hard Hat Mack, Conan, Ultima I & II, and Gemstone Warrior.
Okay, so the new wear-levelling ability of SSDs, (where if it cannot write to a block/bit/whatever, it marks that as bad and writes somewhere else), brings a question to mind:
Let's say you have had your SSD for awhile, and some data is in areas that subsequently get marked as 'bad'. You 'format' your SSD clean, but does the format change those marked-bad bits? If not, just because they cannot be written to, doesn't necessarily mean they couldn't be READ from by some utility that ignores the marked-bad flags, in theory. So, is it possible for an SSD to have data recoverable from 'marked bad' areas, that might even pass a format/multi-write randomizing utility? Something to think about. Hopefully someone knows the answer...
I hope your server doesn't try to "signal" the server in the next stall ....
Look, I can't help it if my server has a wide stance!
wait for IE 10 to become complaint with HTML 5
I'm still waiting for IE7 to become compliant with HTMl 4.01. *sigh*
as long as they don't touch my <blink> tag, they can do whatever they want
<blink>i heart you</blink> blink tag, no one loves you like i do
I'm pretty sure necrophilia is illegal in most places...
> I've been developing web pages for more years than I can count
:)
You can't count up to 19?
I'm pretty sure that in the web, you have to count in hex.
http://prototypejs.org/
http://prototypejs.org/
to be standards compliant, web pages have to incorporate a non-standard tag?
Indeed. You have achieved Microsoft Zen(tm).
Would you like to verify that your MS Zen product license is genuine?
Hey, don't forget that when IE8 comes out, it'll only be 'mostly' compliant, so when IE9 comes out, we'll have to add another tag that says 'really-REALLY complaint, this time we really mean it' meta tag.
:)
So can super high-traffic sites measure the amount of bandwidth they have to pay to use to send out this unnecessary tag to millions of people and bill MS for it? Oh, I forgot, their EULA says they're not responsible for their products.
Are you perhaps thinking the flash used in SSDs are the same and hooked up the same way as a USB flash drive?
Well a realistic transfer rate for a hard disk would be something like 250MB/s, no?
No, not even close. SATA has a theoretical transfer rate of 300MB/s, but that's just the connection, not what a HD can actually sustainably transfer at. Check out some recent harddrive reviews to find out the current state of the art. Most normal harddrives are, I believe, still under 100MB/s for sustained transfer rate, though they may be getting close. And that's for 7200rpm 3.5" desktop drives, not the 1.8" or 2.5" drives that the current crop of SSDs are targeting in laptops. Plus the latest SSDs have wear-levelling technology, thus making them actually more reliable (despite the now-misunderstood write-limit on Flash) than spinning platters. When the 'drive' can't write to a block, it's marked as bad and the data is written elsewhere (that's my understanding, anyway). When the SSD drive starts 'wearing out', it simply starts losing available capacity, rather than crashing and taking all your data with it. That's pretty awesome.
Plus now that it's on silicon, and storage density and power requirements will improve on a part with CPU technology, which is pretty great (limits *may* be coming into play soon on CPUs, but flash memory isn't at the state of the art level that CPU processes are on yet, so there's still plenty of headroom left for Flash memory).
I'd say in about 3 years or so, these things will be 128 MB in size and quite affordable (and much faster than spinning HDs).
Once Intel incorporates their memory controller on-die ala AMD, all the displays are at *least* LED-backlit (if not outright OLED), it's gonna be a sweet time for laptops, especially if that 10x increase in battery technology comes along about then.
You can go higher form more $$$, maybe 40 MiB/s? Not shabby for flash, but orders of magnitude below a cheap hard drive.
... by an order of magnitude.
I think your definition of 'orders of magnitude' may be off
In fact, if you ever see a girl sitting in a Starbucks using a Thinkpad like I did recently, you could almost call it "sexy".
What do you mean, 'almost'?
I hear the OSI is hiring people with special abilities...ask for Oscar Goldman.
It's not yet determined whether it's illegal to rip your own DVDs or CDs. Sure, the industry mouthpieces say that now, but they were saying the opposite just a few years ago. The law, however, isn't whatever industry mouthpieces say it is until they get around to actually buying off the politicians to change the law, which as far as I know, they haven't yet done. So rip away, mi amigo!
True. I hear that the answer to border control is "Chuck Norris".
Mr Norris, *TEAR DOWN THIS WALL*!
Legalize marijuana and prostitution, but outlaw the legal right to participate in politics via lobbying? Release terrorists back to the wild? Destroy the concept that a corporation founded in the US isn't given the protection due to "US Persons", as have all US corporations for the past 100+ years? "Fix" the EPA by applying "your" standards? I'll vote Kucinich before I vote for you!
Wow, that's a lot of nonsense, but here we go:
Outlaw the right to participate in politics via lobbying: What I mean is - INDIVIDUALS should be the only ones trying to influence their representatives. Corporations don't need any representation other than by those INDIVIDUALS that work for them. I like the way you put in 'the LEGAL right to' - it's only legal because it hasn't been made ILLEGAL, which is what I was talking about doing, changing the laws.
Release terrorists back into the wild: I never said to release terrorists. I said to close illegal and immortal camps. If they're really terrorists, put them in prisons in the U.S. and let them enjoy the same rights that any human born here normally has. We need to regain the moral high ground. We should definitely release all those known-non-terrorists that are in those camps.
Destroy the concept that a corporation founded in the US isn't given the protection due to "US Persons": Yeah, because a corporation is not a human being. It should be given some rights to protect the people that work for it, sure, and help it be FAIRLY competitive in the marketplace (protection from monopolies, etc.), but anything beyond that is not in the best interests of the citizens of the U.S., which is my priority.
"Fix" the EPA by applying "your" standards: My standards are generally those of the concensus of reputable scientists. When reputable scientists update their findings, I tend to update my standards when I find out about it. It's called an 'open' mind. You should check into it sometime. The standards in, say, California, are a good starting point, and California is having to SUE the EPA just to get the right to make better standards in their own state. That's flat out ridiculous. If a state wants BETTER standards, why should the EPA have any objection?
I'll vote Kucinich before I vote for you: You know, I've *heard* (not confirmed) that when you take both party's candidate's stated positions on the issues, strip away their identity, and just present the info to people (and I don't know whether it was presented to just Democrats or Republicans or both), that most people prefer Kucinich's positions on the issues. This may be bullshit, but I wouldn't be surprised. There's something that creeps me out about the guy, but I'd certainly vote for him before any of the nutbags running for the GOP nomination. It's like the GOP had a contest for the worst possible candidates this year. Much like the Democrats did in 2000 and 2004.
As an independent, I tend to vote for the lesser of two evils. I've voted for Republicans before (though strangely, when I vote for them, they always lose. Go figure.)
I agree! As a follow up, I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
What?! You're just an Anonymous Coward. You can't make that kind of call. (No offense.)
What constitutes animal abuse?
I was thinking more along the lines of what you see on Animal Cops. That list was just a quick one I had time for while letting a work problem digest in my head for a bit. Food production is an entirely different issue, that also needs a lot of work.
As for #1, would this be a complete immediate withdrawal or planned? I could see a complete withdrawal as causing problems. It would probably cause terrorists to move into Iraq or Iran to attack Iraq, which could be even worse.
I'd love an immediate withdrawal, but yeah, there would be problems. Whether there's a civil war there or not is really not our concern, though I think a well thought out (speedy) phased withdrawal, worked up in cooperation with those in the area, would be the best idea. This would be a great first job for my preferred Secretary of State, Bill Richardson (four-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee) to work on.
A few more things to do:
*) Order the official integration of gays/lesbians/whatevers into the military. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is discrimination, plain and simple.
*) Universal health care
*) End the party system
*) Try to get all 50 states to issue electoral college votes proportionally (avoids the Constitutional amendment problem, and makes it match popular vote more closely, while still giving a bit more weight to the smaller states. Some states do this already, I think.)
*) Phased withdrawal from South Korea
*) Like other nerds here, repeal DMCA, Patriot Act, Net neutrality, copyright & patent reform, etc.
*) Government no longer endorses or restricts marriage. Restriction not allowed on a state level; government (federal or local) has no business being in the marriage business.
*) No more tax waiver for churches.
Okay, back to work.
... any time I was in doubt as to what to do, President McBang would post the question to Slashdot and use the top-moderated answer for guidance.
I'm pretty sure 'Cowboy Neal' won't be the answer to any of the problems facing this country. Or at least, not many of them.
In no particular order:
1) Recall U.S. troops from Iraq and probably Afghanistan, and any secret troops in Iran
2) Reinstitute Habeas Corpus
3) Initiate investigation into war crimes on the part of previous administration officials, as well as charges of treason (The Bush administration has gone WAY beyond 'impeachable offenses')
4) Release political prisoners in U.S. (of course this also includes Gitmo/Abuwhatever type places, but let's not forget people like Leonard Peltier, etc.)
5) Honor existing treaties with Native American tribes.
6) Appoint N.M. Governor Bill Richardson as Secretary of State, and send his ass out on a very long trip to start repairing U.S. relations abroad. I doubt this dude will be back by the end of my administration.
7) Find lackeys in Congress to start legislation I suggest, such as: no Congressional payraises unless a proportional increase in the minimum wage is approved at the same time.
8) Enforcement of the Constitution: try to get laws in place that forbid the kind of things W has been up to. Immediate legal penalties on politicians (including the President) if these laws are broken.
9) Fix the voting machine mess; mandate a auditable paper trail.
10) Fix the gerrymandering of voting districts - by either side.
11) Fix the EPA, and allow states to implement stricter pollution standards (but disallow looser standards)
12) Legalize, regulate, and tax the holy hell out of Marijuana.
13) Fully legalize hemp, and provide incentives to switch as much cotton production as is feasible over to hemp. (better for the environment, and actually more profitable for agribusiness.)
14) Legalize, regulate, and tax the holy hell out of prostitution.
15) Make lobbying a felony
16) Change the law so that corporations are not legal entities on a par with an actual human
17) Make animal abuse a felony, and make people convicted of it tracked; they often have serial killer tendencies.
18) No more subsidies to corn agribusiness
19) No more subsidies to oil producers
20) Much higher energy efficiency standards
And that's all I have time for now. I got a million of these, though.