Clears MIT of any real responsibility. Talks about the need to listen more to issues that affect its community. Talks about he need for MIT as an institution to take an active role in trying to educate authorities on technical issues. Advocates for handling more issues internally but always cooperating with the authorities.
I'd hope the report won't look like the bound edition of this 15-second CYA.
Linux can provide realtime (guaranteed latency - zero latency doens't exist on a Von Neumann machine) services (hard realtime even with a proper microkernel) but the issues Android has aren't general to linux driver latency, they're special Android issues.
And boy would I like to see them get cleaned up! Google must have profilers...
I think you mean "RAMDoubler" which supposedly compressed your virtual memory, but did so ineffectively.
my recollection is that it patched the Toolbox Memory Manager with a proper virtual memory system - giving OS9 shared pages, efficient swapping and some compression on the pages. It was done by the same folks who did the PC emulator and the various mags of the day saw very positive benchmark results... why does everybody here seem to regard it as snake oil?
I used to think this, but I believe I've learned better. To see why, let's see what imaginary property really is.
You have some paper. You have a pen. What can you do with these two things? The natural answer is that you can do anything you want, because it's your property (short of damaging somebody else's property with it).
But here's what imaginary property says: "We as a State are going to take away the real property rights of three hundred million people to arrange that ink on that paper how they see fit, for the sake of one individual, to whom we will grant a monopoly for certain arrangements. If anybody disobeys this rule we will hurt (or ultimately kill) that person for such an infraction".
People used to think we could make society better by acting this way. The original ideas were to do things like protecting writers from publishers. It was a low-information, high-scarcity, low-technology society four hundred years ago, and perhaps the idea was a decent hypothesis at that point. But it still offered immoral means, so it shouldn't be surprising that the power was ultimately corrupted. All attempts to reform that power will still fail because it's based on immoral means.
There are better options available today, and the imaginary property system is now damaging to society. Time to discard the obsolete systems. Check out Stephan Kinsella in print, online or video. He's spent a ton of time identifying the problems and developing alternate mechanisms to reward creators, but based on non-zero-sum means.
ah, you've hit upon the critical difference. The static output from a board capture or a slide deck is nice, but contains much less information than watching it in person or by video because the process is just as important as the final result (if not more so).
Now, to be fair, Kahn manages to gesture by wiggling his mouse cursor. It's choppy but he's only using the tools available to him; perhaps a purpose-built system with a good pen would make this whole thing work.
Has anybody done a screen sharing stack that uses UDP multicast with post-hoc unicast damage correction?
Except all the mobile hardware already has drivers for and has been tuned to Android's linux kernel. The GPL has permitted things like Cyanogenmod which really causes the ecosystem to flourish. It would be imprudent to discard all that work for the sake of a license which will close off many vendors' platforms.
Pick up ANYTHING APPLE. It does not feel like a cheap piece of shit.
Just yesterday I was working on my Lenovo which has an SSD in the mSATA slot, and my co-worker was on a MacBook Air. Capability wise, they're pretty darn close.
The Macbook Air had much more flex, so it was harder to pass back and forth in the tiny data closet we were working in. Additionally, its cheap glare-type screen made the overhead fluorescent lights a real pain to share work on, so we wound up moving the task over to my anti-glare-coated screen (the more expensive manufacturing option).
I guess it's lighter, but that comes with a lack of ports (cheaper) and not enough RAM (his isn't expandable, I stuffed another 4GB into mine - expansion slots and doors aren't free) and he has to attach all sorts of dongles to the thing to read a CD or use Ethernet. Again, all good cost-saving moves on Apple's part, but they really hamper usability. For this device, he paid double what I paid for mine. I rather suspect that when the Airs were first made they were of a higher quality, but now they just feel cheap compared to the much less expensive Lenovo. I do envy his backlit keyboard, but that's about it. Oh, and mine runs Fedora out of the box, so it's much more useful in a data closet. Lenovo pays programmers and a support staff to support Linux in addition to their primary OS, while Apple cheaps out here as well.
At least you can put your hands on it. I ordered an OLPC from the buy-1-get-1 program back c. '06 and never got delivery and they stopped responding to my e-mails about it. At least WalMart has competent logistics - if they offer a direct-ship option on this one, don't take it.
Haven't you heard? We can take "thing X" that has confirmed kills of 260 million people, but if we say, "think of the children" then people take to the streets demanding "thing X".
The price of the ingestible cameras just needs to become cheaper than the barium and some automated processing of the 'footage' needs to become available. Radiologist consults are likely more expensive than either costs to make.
Cripes, reading this makes the US sound like the Land of the Free.
The Kuwaiti family fails to realize that if they want to have real power and control they need to let go of the "ruling family" thing and get themselves put in charge of the money supply there. Let people say whatever they want, but make 100% of their wealth subject to confiscation for collateral on that money and make their every activity subject to arbitrary rules for enforcement. But let them say whatever they want, because that will make them feel free, and so they'll be more productive.
That's astonishingly disconnected from reality. Are you using the BLS's "hamburger for steak" methodology?
Because the price of actual steak, grapefruits, and peanut butter (real, not HFCS/Crisco blends) have doubled in the past few years (just to name a few, the list could go on and on for non-price-controlled items). Do you do the grocery shopping in the family?
Whether the immunisation works or not is certainly an issue but for the sake of good practice I would say the burden of proof should be with the nurses to prove that the immunisation *doesn't* work rather than demand proof that is does work.
So if they can prove the negative, then what's the correct course of action?
I think many people have a misconception that vaccination prevents infection. It doesn't, it improves the immune response to infection and reduces the severity of the illness (sometimes quite significantly). I'm not aware of a study that looks at the relative contagion rates of the infected in a vaccinated vs. control group.
Like the sibling comment alluded to - defensive medicine helps protect against both cases.
If their faith prevents them from getting something as simple as a flu shot why are they even working in the field of medicine???
Not everybody seeks to impose their religion on other people. It's perfectly consistent to believe, for instance, that it's unethical to use chicken embryos for the purpose of breeding viruses in the manufacture of vaccines but that if other people want to that it's also unethical to act in any way required to prevent them from doing so.
To oppose this belief (that some nurses hold) is to engage in the imposition of the "two wrongs make a right" fallacy on another. Adding "because God said so" to the belief doesn't improve its validity either.
Not the whole plane - you make the passenger compartment detachable and capable of parachute descent. It's been designed, shown to be workable, and calculated to be too expensive.
If there were lower barriers to entry, an airline might be started that had these kinds of planes and people who wanted to pay a premium for that kind of technology could choose to do so. There are many cheap bastards in the world, but many people will pay more to cover their fears, so it might work out.
While the death penalty cannot undo what was done to someone, we as a society can no longer continue to coddle people who refuse to live with the basic bounds of society.
This is why reputation systems are going to be an important advance for society. Every potential employer for the rest of this guy's life should get to see the video of him talking about how "she's so raped". That's a much more powerful disincentive than a death penalty, and far more ethical as well.
Oligopolies are a problem because they create "too big to fail". If there were a dozen or so car companies, then a couple of them failing wouldn't cause the same devastation.
The nature of permanent corporate charters and a regulatory environment that prevents competition makes this nearly impossible to achieve. We've seen how well the "political-favorites and subsidies" model works for the economy. Yet, many are still convinced it's the right model, despite all evidence to the contrary.:sigh:
The thing is though that it wasn't a waste of money. We got a stinking big profit out of it.
That's "The Seen". What else didn't happen because all that money was diverted to AIG? That money doesn't come out of thin air - it's either taxed or inflated. If taxed, people don't have the money to spend directly. If inflated, people are paying more for everything and (in a constant-level-salary environment) decrease their spending elsewhere.
How many, e.g., dance studios, went under because families had to cut back on extras because their grocery bill went up by 50%? These diffuse long-tail effects are what Bastiat termed "the Unseen" and are always ignored by politicians because the People let them get away with that.
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Let's see if the final report:
Clears MIT of any real responsibility.
Talks about the need to listen more to issues that affect its community.
Talks about he need for MIT as an institution to take an active role in trying to educate authorities on technical issues.
Advocates for handling more issues internally but always cooperating with the authorities.
I'd hope the report won't look like the bound edition of this 15-second CYA.
Linux can provide realtime (guaranteed latency - zero latency doens't exist on a Von Neumann machine) services (hard realtime even with a proper microkernel) but the issues Android has aren't general to linux driver latency, they're special Android issues.
And boy would I like to see them get cleaned up! Google must have profilers...
I think you mean "RAMDoubler" which supposedly compressed your virtual memory, but did so ineffectively.
my recollection is that it patched the Toolbox Memory Manager with a proper virtual memory system - giving OS9 shared pages, efficient swapping and some compression on the pages. It was done by the same folks who did the PC emulator and the various mags of the day saw very positive benchmark results ... why does everybody here seem to regard it as snake oil?
ah, thanks.
I think there's a reasonable medium.
I used to think this, but I believe I've learned better. To see why, let's see what imaginary property really is.
You have some paper. You have a pen. What can you do with these two things? The natural answer is that you can do anything you want, because it's your property (short of damaging somebody else's property with it).
But here's what imaginary property says: "We as a State are going to take away the real property rights of three hundred million people to arrange that ink on that paper how they see fit, for the sake of one individual, to whom we will grant a monopoly for certain arrangements. If anybody disobeys this rule we will hurt (or ultimately kill) that person for such an infraction".
People used to think we could make society better by acting this way. The original ideas were to do things like protecting writers from publishers. It was a low-information, high-scarcity, low-technology society four hundred years ago, and perhaps the idea was a decent hypothesis at that point. But it still offered immoral means, so it shouldn't be surprising that the power was ultimately corrupted. All attempts to reform that power will still fail because it's based on immoral means.
There are better options available today, and the imaginary property system is now damaging to society. Time to discard the obsolete systems. Check out Stephan Kinsella in print, online or video. He's spent a ton of time identifying the problems and developing alternate mechanisms to reward creators, but based on non-zero-sum means.
The guys who named it were big fans (true story).
sudo rm rf the real world
or use gestures
ah, you've hit upon the critical difference. The static output from a board capture or a slide deck is nice, but contains much less information than watching it in person or by video because the process is just as important as the final result (if not more so).
Now, to be fair, Kahn manages to gesture by wiggling his mouse cursor. It's choppy but he's only using the tools available to him; perhaps a purpose-built system with a good pen would make this whole thing work.
Has anybody done a screen sharing stack that uses UDP multicast with post-hoc unicast damage correction?
This is what I've been waiting for. The fragmentation of Linux with a GUI has been its downfall all along.
Yeah, really, where's my Project Athena phone?
A common architecture would mean the phone manufactures couldn't keep their users locked to the platform where they have all their apps.
Which is why Android has been such a market failure.
Except all the mobile hardware already has drivers for and has been tuned to Android's linux kernel. The GPL has permitted things like Cyanogenmod which really causes the ecosystem to flourish. It would be imprudent to discard all that work for the sake of a license which will close off many vendors' platforms.
Pick up ANYTHING APPLE. It does not feel like a cheap piece of shit.
Just yesterday I was working on my Lenovo which has an SSD in the mSATA slot, and my co-worker was on a MacBook Air. Capability wise, they're pretty darn close.
The Macbook Air had much more flex, so it was harder to pass back and forth in the tiny data closet we were working in. Additionally, its cheap glare-type screen made the overhead fluorescent lights a real pain to share work on, so we wound up moving the task over to my anti-glare-coated screen (the more expensive manufacturing option).
I guess it's lighter, but that comes with a lack of ports (cheaper) and not enough RAM (his isn't expandable, I stuffed another 4GB into mine - expansion slots and doors aren't free) and he has to attach all sorts of dongles to the thing to read a CD or use Ethernet. Again, all good cost-saving moves on Apple's part, but they really hamper usability. For this device, he paid double what I paid for mine. I rather suspect that when the Airs were first made they were of a higher quality, but now they just feel cheap compared to the much less expensive Lenovo. I do envy his backlit keyboard, but that's about it. Oh, and mine runs Fedora out of the box, so it's much more useful in a data closet. Lenovo pays programmers and a support staff to support Linux in addition to their primary OS, while Apple cheaps out here as well.
At least you can put your hands on it. I ordered an OLPC from the buy-1-get-1 program back c. '06 and never got delivery and they stopped responding to my e-mails about it. At least WalMart has competent logistics - if they offer a direct-ship option on this one, don't take it.
Haven't you heard? We can take "thing X" that has confirmed kills of 260 million people, but if we say, "think of the children" then people take to the streets demanding "thing X".
The price of the ingestible cameras just needs to become cheaper than the barium and some automated processing of the 'footage' needs to become available. Radiologist consults are likely more expensive than either costs to make.
Hmmm if this is what that conflict led to
The conflict led to an end to Iraq's slant drilling under the Kuwaiti border, ensuring a smooth flow of OPEC exports.
Cripes, reading this makes the US sound like the Land of the Free.
The Kuwaiti family fails to realize that if they want to have real power and control they need to let go of the "ruling family" thing and get themselves put in charge of the money supply there. Let people say whatever they want, but make 100% of their wealth subject to confiscation for collateral on that money and make their every activity subject to arbitrary rules for enforcement. But let them say whatever they want, because that will make them feel free, and so they'll be more productive.
Grocery inflation is running at under 2% a year.
That's astonishingly disconnected from reality. Are you using the BLS's "hamburger for steak" methodology?
Because the price of actual steak, grapefruits, and peanut butter (real, not HFCS/Crisco blends) have doubled in the past few years (just to name a few, the list could go on and on for non-price-controlled items). Do you do the grocery shopping in the family?
Either way, it's still infectious before symptoms set in.
Yes, in both vaccinated and unvaccinated patients. The vaccinated patient's immune response will usually be faster and more effective.
The outstanding issue is to what degree does this affect each category of patient as a vector in the 4x4 matrix.
Whether the immunisation works or not is certainly an issue but for the sake of good practice I would say the burden of proof should be with the nurses to prove that the immunisation *doesn't* work rather than demand proof that is does work.
So if they can prove the negative, then what's the correct course of action?
I think many people have a misconception that vaccination prevents infection. It doesn't, it improves the immune response to infection and reduces the severity of the illness (sometimes quite significantly). I'm not aware of a study that looks at the relative contagion rates of the infected in a vaccinated vs. control group.
Like the sibling comment alluded to - defensive medicine helps protect against both cases.
If their faith prevents them from getting something as simple as a flu shot why are they even working in the field of medicine???
Not everybody seeks to impose their religion on other people. It's perfectly consistent to believe, for instance, that it's unethical to use chicken embryos for the purpose of breeding viruses in the manufacture of vaccines but that if other people want to that it's also unethical to act in any way required to prevent them from doing so.
To oppose this belief (that some nurses hold) is to engage in the imposition of the "two wrongs make a right" fallacy on another. Adding "because God said so" to the belief doesn't improve its validity either.
Not the whole plane - you make the passenger compartment detachable and capable of parachute descent. It's been designed, shown to be workable, and calculated to be too expensive.
If there were lower barriers to entry, an airline might be started that had these kinds of planes and people who wanted to pay a premium for that kind of technology could choose to do so. There are many cheap bastards in the world, but many people will pay more to cover their fears, so it might work out.
While the death penalty cannot undo what was done to someone, we as a society can no longer continue to coddle people who refuse to live with the basic bounds of society.
This is why reputation systems are going to be an important advance for society. Every potential employer for the rest of this guy's life should get to see the video of him talking about how "she's so raped". That's a much more powerful disincentive than a death penalty, and far more ethical as well.
Oligopolies are a problem because they create "too big to fail". If there were a dozen or so car companies, then a couple of them failing wouldn't cause the same devastation.
The nature of permanent corporate charters and a regulatory environment that prevents competition makes this nearly impossible to achieve. We've seen how well the "political-favorites and subsidies" model works for the economy. Yet, many are still convinced it's the right model, despite all evidence to the contrary. :sigh:
The thing is though that it wasn't a waste of money. We got a stinking big profit out of it.
That's "The Seen". What else didn't happen because all that money was diverted to AIG? That money doesn't come out of thin air - it's either taxed or inflated. If taxed, people don't have the money to spend directly. If inflated, people are paying more for everything and (in a constant-level-salary environment) decrease their spending elsewhere.
How many, e.g., dance studios, went under because families had to cut back on extras because their grocery bill went up by 50%? These diffuse long-tail effects are what Bastiat termed "the Unseen" and are always ignored by politicians because the People let them get away with that.