Mann has credibly been accused (with evidence) of publishing fraudulent results (see also "hockey stick"). While I neither agree or disagree with your assertion, a more precise listing of what political reasons you think may be present would be nice.
The reason I ask is simple: any political officeholder can be accused of acting on political reasons. The thing lies in what those reasons may or may not be.
...only if you want to blow out the SSD wear-limits.
What the author wants (I believe) is to have Linux figure down which sectors are read most frequently, and have those mapped/linked/whatever to the SSD for speed reasons.
If that's indeed the case, then why not simply put the MBR,/boot,/bin, and/usr on the SSD, then mount stuff like/home,/tmp, swap, and the like onto a spindle disk? No algorithm needed, thus no overhead needed to run it, etc.
No, but I remember Fahrenheit 451: "Let each one stand at his front door, look, and listen..."
While it's not a bad idea at all for cops to use the tool, I can see how the slope can get greased-up good and slippery if this thing were ever mis-used.
I wonder how true that quote actually is. I mean, what if you decide to run OSX Server, or order a shitload of iPads... or start buying Sparc boxen (they still make those, yanno...)
I'm guessing it's because the hardware version is patenting the physical process of implementing an algorithm, whereas the software version is the algorithm itself?
Wait'll you find out what's really involved (hint: the guy has to donate his sperm without contaminating it... guess how that happens? The answer is as close as your nearest hand).
(I'm also thinking that the women aren't going to be wearing thigh-high stockings and stiletto heels to their egg extraction procedures either, given taht those usually involve really long needles, IIRC).
Human reproduction is an instinct that drives human beings to pass on their own genetic material... not someone else's.
'course, one could balance that against the human instinct to protect other children in a communal group, but I suspect the drive to have one's own baby is primary. Would make for an interesting philosophical discussion, but...
I do agree with you - we're allegedly a rational species that can (not does, "can") place ourselves above base instincts and drives. Unfortunately, it's not just biology. Consider the fact that a full adoption is more often than not a years-long process (waiting lists, background checks, etc), requires a lot more effort to complete, and often costs more than whatever this particular treatment will cost? I'm thinking that most folks in that situation will just talk to the doctor and start asking female friends to act as egg donors.
Russia, China, or even Lichtenstein could have a "bigass army", but an army with no defensible supply line is a very useless army (especially if you've turned their supply lines and/or sources into a self-lit glass-paved parking lot).
In fact, I daresay that a larger army has a harder time of things when/if supplies get questionable, because they consume a shitload more and consequently need to be fed more, and on a constant basis.
One of the biggest reasons that Japan had such a bugger of a time holding islands in the Pacific during WWII had to do with the fact that in spite of having a big-assed army, they couldn't keep that army fed and cared for - their supply lines kept getting cut off, and were stretched way too thin.
FWIW, it's much more profitable to go into consulting and do/manage whatever it is that you're good at and happy doing, than try to maintain a dead-end job as one of the "cogs." Businesses are much happier to pay someone a good rate for services that they need, when they need them, as long as the consultant will happily vanish when the need vanishes.
I've done the contract route, and in good economic times, it's awesome. These days, it would be suicide. A good consultant can certainly keep a solid list of clients and a solid rep, but those clients tend to not need you when they're belt-tightening. As mentioned by sibling, your high hourly rate will have to last you in-between contracts, and clients will only pay so much.
Dunno - perhaps he wants to shift careers a bit, or enter academia?
Sometimes a degree is useful when you want to leave one area of his career and enter another. For instance, perhaps the guy has been doing field engineering all this time, but now wants to do design? Maybe he's sick of working/running a lab, and instead wants to create and run the projects?
Even in my own corner of the working world (IT), I find myself increasingly wishing that I'd taken more business courses as I leave behind being a server monkey (and in one previous job, code monkey). Nowadays I'm routinely running my own budgets, doing the politics dance, and overseeing both people and projects. Mind you, I have no desire to get an MBA, but having to handle vendors, routinely run RFP's of six figures (one this year approached seven), while handling/syncing various execs' ideas of project management... ? Well, more and more these days, some of the subjects in an MBA course would damned sure come in handy right about now.
So, err, you're building all of this, and trying to attract developers... on the basis of: well, maybe they won't sue us because everyone is a crook and Microsoft probably won't see a benefit in suing you for using it, so...?
I can't be the only one thinking 'WTF' here.
Seriously, Miguel - you need something better than that.
"You guys need to stick to trying to make what people want now, not what Shatner fanboys are hoping will exist in 20 years."
Err, you do realize that some of that "Shatner fanboy" stuff actually does have a use, right? See also GPS navigation, iPod connectivity, the multifunction screen-from-hell that usually sits where the stereo used to on the dashboard...
I can agree that the Segway-like gear is probably a bit beyond practicality for both mass-production and cost-effectiveness. And the wi-fi guidance thing? Pure dreaming straight out of the 1990s, and I wouldn't want to trust my ass to it until network hacking goes extinct, thanks much.
That said, I'll turn the gist of my argument over to the old baby || bathwater > toss analogy.
IIRC, Google isn't really raking in that much dough from China now.
The worst that can happen is that Google loses a few bucks (okay, relatively few) from Chinese-only advertisers, but they'll still get a goodly share of user hits out of China - they'll all just get there via TOR and/or other firewall-penetrating means.
Dunno what Bing and Yahoo stand to get out of the former Google-using crowd, since I suspect that Baidu will hoover that up pretty short order.
Anyone in China that still wants to use Google will likely find a way to do so anyway (by hitting google.tw or the like), and I'm fairly sure that the more savvy of the Chinese advertising biz is going to recognize and take advantage of that fact.
OTOH, I still use a CRT on my desktop that's almost as big as the CRT television in my living room. Both are well over 10 years old, and still ticking along very nicely, with perfect brightness and sharpness (I originally bought the desktop monitor because you couldn't color-calibrate LCD's back in the day).
I might get around to buying a plasma or LCD TV here in the next few months, and likely a new iMac before the end of the year, but I figure there's not much need to toss out perfectly working gear that has plenty of viewable real-estate (plus the ROI on the things have been fantastic - the monitor has out-lasted about ten different computers, and the KVM it's latched on to has out-lasted about four of them).
Question is, will the new televisions/monitors last as long as a typical CRT? I've seen working television sets that have been around for 20-30 years, and yet they still chug along as if they were new - in spite of being generally neglected and probably packed full of dust bunnies.
Saying the banking system is innocent of neglecting security is like saying a security guard who happens to fall asleep on duty isn't responsible if there's a break in.
True, but this does not absolve the criminal from doing the time. No different than saying that rape is okay because the victim was "asking for it, all dressed up like that".
In an ideal system, the CC companies would have to eat the responsibili- oh, wait... they already do; CC fraud is usually something the CC company has to eat the costs of (after a certain liability point, anyway).
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Mann has credibly been accused (with evidence) of publishing fraudulent results (see also "hockey stick"). While I neither agree or disagree with your assertion, a more precise listing of what political reasons you think may be present would be nice.
The reason I ask is simple: any political officeholder can be accused of acting on political reasons. The thing lies in what those reasons may or may not be.
...only if you want to blow out the SSD wear-limits.
What the author wants (I believe) is to have Linux figure down which sectors are read most frequently, and have those mapped/linked/whatever to the SSD for speed reasons.
If that's indeed the case, then why not simply put the MBR, /boot, /bin, and /usr on the SSD, then mount stuff like /home, /tmp, swap, and the like onto a spindle disk? No algorithm needed, thus no overhead needed to run it, etc.
No, but I remember Fahrenheit 451: "Let each one stand at his front door, look, and listen..."
While it's not a bad idea at all for cops to use the tool, I can see how the slope can get greased-up good and slippery if this thing were ever mis-used.
I wonder how true that quote actually is. I mean, what if you decide to run OSX Server, or order a shitload of iPads... or start buying Sparc boxen (they still make those, yanno...)
I'm guessing it's because the hardware version is patenting the physical process of implementing an algorithm, whereas the software version is the algorithm itself?
Kids with spam for genetic material?
I'm sure Hormel has that patented. :)
Wait'll you find out what's really involved (hint: the guy has to donate his sperm without contaminating it... guess how that happens? The answer is as close as your nearest hand).
(I'm also thinking that the women aren't going to be wearing thigh-high stockings and stiletto heels to their egg extraction procedures either, given taht those usually involve really long needles, IIRC).
One problem with your theory - biology.
Human reproduction is an instinct that drives human beings to pass on their own genetic material... not someone else's.
'course, one could balance that against the human instinct to protect other children in a communal group, but I suspect the drive to have one's own baby is primary. Would make for an interesting philosophical discussion, but...
I do agree with you - we're allegedly a rational species that can (not does, "can") place ourselves above base instincts and drives. Unfortunately, it's not just biology. Consider the fact that a full adoption is more often than not a years-long process (waiting lists, background checks, etc), requires a lot more effort to complete, and often costs more than whatever this particular treatment will cost? I'm thinking that most folks in that situation will just talk to the doctor and start asking female friends to act as egg donors.
Nah - just double the headaches, and a 'honeydo' list that's twice as long.
I wouldn't be so sure.
Russia, China, or even Lichtenstein could have a "bigass army", but an army with no defensible supply line is a very useless army (especially if you've turned their supply lines and/or sources into a self-lit glass-paved parking lot).
In fact, I daresay that a larger army has a harder time of things when/if supplies get questionable, because they consume a shitload more and consequently need to be fed more, and on a constant basis.
One of the biggest reasons that Japan had such a bugger of a time holding islands in the Pacific during WWII had to do with the fact that in spite of having a big-assed army, they couldn't keep that army fed and cared for - their supply lines kept getting cut off, and were stretched way too thin.
...maybe he pecked it all out in some sort of Morse Code to ASCII converter?
FWIW, it's much more profitable to go into consulting and do/manage whatever it is that you're good at and happy doing, than try to maintain a dead-end job as one of the "cogs." Businesses are much happier to pay someone a good rate for services that they need, when they need them, as long as the consultant will happily vanish when the need vanishes.
I've done the contract route, and in good economic times, it's awesome. These days, it would be suicide. A good consultant can certainly keep a solid list of clients and a solid rep, but those clients tend to not need you when they're belt-tightening. As mentioned by sibling, your high hourly rate will have to last you in-between contracts, and clients will only pay so much.
Dunno - perhaps he wants to shift careers a bit, or enter academia?
Sometimes a degree is useful when you want to leave one area of his career and enter another. For instance, perhaps the guy has been doing field engineering all this time, but now wants to do design? Maybe he's sick of working/running a lab, and instead wants to create and run the projects?
Even in my own corner of the working world (IT), I find myself increasingly wishing that I'd taken more business courses as I leave behind being a server monkey (and in one previous job, code monkey). Nowadays I'm routinely running my own budgets, doing the politics dance, and overseeing both people and projects. Mind you, I have no desire to get an MBA, but having to handle vendors, routinely run RFP's of six figures (one this year approached seven), while handling/syncing various execs' ideas of project management... ? Well, more and more these days, some of the subjects in an MBA course would damned sure come in handy right about now.
This is cool as frig!
It's actually very responsive, you can use a surprising number of standard *nix commands, and, well, damn - awesome job.
Props to the XKCD guy (now why doesn't " sudo su - " work? :) )
Err, it's only obligatory to Star Trek (specifically, TNG) fans.
(damn - I'm not really a Trek fan but I actually know that. double-damn!)
Pretty much. I for one cannot wait to see what they do with Carbon caps and labels for that one...
So, err, you're building all of this, and trying to attract developers... on the basis of: well, maybe they won't sue us because everyone is a crook and Microsoft probably won't see a benefit in suing you for using it, so...?
I can't be the only one thinking 'WTF' here.
Seriously, Miguel - you need something better than that.
"You guys need to stick to trying to make what people want now, not what Shatner fanboys are hoping will exist in 20 years."
Err, you do realize that some of that "Shatner fanboy" stuff actually does have a use, right? See also GPS navigation, iPod connectivity, the multifunction screen-from-hell that usually sits where the stereo used to on the dashboard...
I can agree that the Segway-like gear is probably a bit beyond practicality for both mass-production and cost-effectiveness. And the wi-fi guidance thing? Pure dreaming straight out of the 1990s, and I wouldn't want to trust my ass to it until network hacking goes extinct, thanks much.
That said, I'll turn the gist of my argument over to the old baby || bathwater > toss analogy.
...the WinMo 7 marketing department?
Google loses, China's reputation will recover after a blip, and Microsoft is waiting with Bing.
You sorta misspelled "Baidu is waiting to hoover up the difference" up there :)
(there's also google.tw which seems to work just fine, provided that the users in question hook up with TOR and the like).
IIRC, Google isn't really raking in that much dough from China now.
The worst that can happen is that Google loses a few bucks (okay, relatively few) from Chinese-only advertisers, but they'll still get a goodly share of user hits out of China - they'll all just get there via TOR and/or other firewall-penetrating means.
Dunno what Bing and Yahoo stand to get out of the former Google-using crowd, since I suspect that Baidu will hoover that up pretty short order.
Anyone in China that still wants to use Google will likely find a way to do so anyway (by hitting google.tw or the like), and I'm fairly sure that the more savvy of the Chinese advertising biz is going to recognize and take advantage of that fact.
Agreed, perfectly.
OTOH, I still use a CRT on my desktop that's almost as big as the CRT television in my living room. Both are well over 10 years old, and still ticking along very nicely, with perfect brightness and sharpness (I originally bought the desktop monitor because you couldn't color-calibrate LCD's back in the day).
I might get around to buying a plasma or LCD TV here in the next few months, and likely a new iMac before the end of the year, but I figure there's not much need to toss out perfectly working gear that has plenty of viewable real-estate (plus the ROI on the things have been fantastic - the monitor has out-lasted about ten different computers, and the KVM it's latched on to has out-lasted about four of them).
Question is, will the new televisions/monitors last as long as a typical CRT? I've seen working television sets that have been around for 20-30 years, and yet they still chug along as if they were new - in spite of being generally neglected and probably packed full of dust bunnies.
Saying the banking system is innocent of neglecting security is like saying a security guard who happens to fall asleep on duty isn't responsible if there's a break in.
True, but this does not absolve the criminal from doing the time. No different than saying that rape is okay because the victim was "asking for it, all dressed up like that".
In an ideal system, the CC companies would have to eat the responsibili- oh, wait... they already do; CC fraud is usually something the CC company has to eat the costs of (after a certain liability point, anyway).
...the diff between Gates and Ballmer should tell you why Microsoft is so damned moribund these days.
... but nothing about it convinces me open my wallet.
It's not your wallet that Apple wants to see open for it - nor mine. This thing wasn't made for geeking out on.