Must be Ringo. John and George are dead and Sir Paul's too tied up in his personal troubles (if you know what I mean). Might be Yoko trying to butt in, but I doubt it, as it's fairly simple to identify a Japanese Beatle.
Thats like saying people have been using more 120W bulbs than when they used to use 60W bulbs, if this trend continues everyone will be using 500W bulbs by 2015.
Well, that makes sense. As ISPs services return lower and lower margins, more ISPs will turn to setting up grow rooms where the heat and power consumption is hidden by that of the servers. You need a lot of hi-wattage lights for that kind of operation. They probably would have gone into meth (as it uses less space for the same dollar volume), but the feds are watching the pseudoephedrine too closely.
Here's the conundrum: Even if it was lawful, was it "good?"
In my opinion, yes.
Google could decide that it would be the arbiter of what should be advertised on its pages. In most cases, it has not. This is a tremendous amount of restraint for a company that could literally name winners and losers in the marketplace. In treating even scumballs like this (and I say that not because of the downloading, but because their stuff is adware-infested crap) in an evenhanded manner, I think that Google is doing the right thing. Remember that free speech (and yes, advertising is speech) is worthless unless we also defend the speech of scumballs. Google has done nothing that they would not have done with any other client of that size. And that *is* good.
...what you have failed to grasp is how significantly more capable and malign nation states are when they turn to terror. You have simply no idea.
It's amazing that the same conservatives who insist that government can do no right when it comes to anything remotely focused on the individual citizen can suddenly say that it can do no wrong with respect to the act of waging war. Oh how soon the $800 hammer can be forgotten.
I would think that threatening a person with unimaginable torture for all of eternity if they did not deny the existence of their gods would be considered a threat.
No, John Travolta's and Tom Cruise's movies just seem like they last for eternity and, as far as I know, denying isn't enough; you aren't forced to watch them unless you actively spread the information that L. Ron wasn't actually God.
If it's *still* not ready yet, it never will be...
Well, maybe they can get Hans Reiser off and hire him. After all, he's done one already and maybe he and Balmer could discuss conflict resolution strategy!
It's also (a) building buzz for stupid PR-generated "news stories" (News at 11! What does Microsoft have up it's sleeve!?!!?) and (b) sending a subtle message to people who might have the temerity to review Vista harshly on major media (You know, we can pull these ads). In other words, just business as usual...
Just make up your own numbers and write a fake review on your website that says the manufacturer giving you the largest kickback is best. Show that review to your boss for validation - it's not like he has time to check. Sheesh. The things you have to teach kids these days...
I wonder if the engineers have to take into account the gradual stretching out of the disk.
Quick answer, yes, but only to the extent that the structural form of the disk has to resist it up to a given tolerance. The rest of the variation is handled in the same way that other variations are handled (e.g., differences in electronic/magnetic component response times, motor speed variations, plate wobble, etc.) which are usually larger. And how do you handle it? Slow it down a bit. If they can mass produce 15K RPM 2.5" drives, they've either gotten up to ~20K RPM in development, or have a buttload of 12.5K RPM 2.5" drives to shove onto the market.
... there is a huge difference between running a binary blob in ring 0 and userland. Let's discuss userland binary rather than kernel mode binary.
Which is why, if Linux and Windows were microkernel-based, there would not be as large a problem. Don't blame the market for doing what it has to do because of technological deficiencies.
US home ownership rates are about at record highs (69%).
Does that include factoring in the bank's portion? If you look at total home equity as a percentage of the market, I'm pretty sure you'll see that it's down. The issue is that the house (the largest investment most will ever make) is a cushion against economic blows. The less equity, the less cushion. When the economy takes a downturn, or the housing bubble collapses, the only thing that counts is the equity. Not, as you think, having the dubious privilege of partial ownership with the bank, who will be on your butt for even more money if the value of the house goes down far enough.
Eventually expansion involves hiring more local (US) workers.
Why? How?
Surely one US-based person can manage ten offshore personnel. A rational company would hire three or four more people overseas, allocate one person to manage them, and then hire more overseas (probably in the process laying off as many here). And why stop there? Surely a company can hire a manager overseas more cheaply than here. So far, all you're saying is that we see that expansion might happen here. In addition, the gains from offshoring could be paid out in dividends or simply sat upon. So far, your assertion that more local workers will be hired seems more faith-based than fact-based.
America is the land of opportunity because of the ease of making money. Figure it out!
Amway is there for you!
And, if you don't want that, send for my free CD, "You is Being a Bazillionaire, Too!" or just read Tom Friedman and have faith in the glorious marketplace!
No. But jets are. Anything that is quickly mobile will be moved.
The problem is that the majority of white-collar jobs are quickly mobile. And then the rest of the economy (already cratered by the loss of blue-collar jobs) will collapse pretty quickly when most of those leave.
You're glimpsing the first inklings with the decline in the USD. As oil prices start to rise due to the shrinking value of the dollar, you will first see inflation as corporations try to pass on increased costs to their customers and then deflation because price hikes drive the customers out of business (or at least into a place where they cannot feasibly buy). Repeat for a few more cycles (with a few more companies each time) as prices destabilize, rising for a short time and then crashing due to the positive feedback inherent in the system, and pretty soon there are very few left to buy stuff. This is how economies collapse.
The only question is whether or not the rest of the world will let us collapse, because they need someone to sell all of their stuff to, too. Perhaps the whole thing can be coordinated for some sort of soft landing, but I sort of doubt it - the system is too complex and the players too self-centered to do that. I think it's going to be a bumpy few decades ahead, Thomas Friedman lovers notwithstanding.
Corporations that are still on cobol are eventually just going to be screwed (if they wait too long). A 486 could handle the same problem, much faster nowadays, and cost less to run.
Yeah... right. Spoken like someone who's never worked with big iron. Let's see your PC hardware handle a couple hundred thousand transactions per second, each one potentially coming from a different command with up to twenty-five or so input parameters. Then add in a couple hundred random queries per second for good measure. Then make sure all of that's backed by an atomically safe database holding a few dozen terabytes of data. Then make sure it can run for ten years with perhaps an hour of downtime total. And, if you really can do that with a 486? Well, the world is willing to pay you a lot of money for that.
How about a Perl6 module that compiles COBOL sourcecode to Perl bytecode? COBOL is mainly just printf(), with the remaining fraction doable in Perl anyway.
Sure! Shouldn't take more than about two hours... Go for it. I'm sure folks would pay big bucks for that.
Oh, did I say two hours? I meant two decades, especially when you figure in the man-years of optimization on the database interfaces and I/O subsystems. However, they'll still pay big bucks for it. But I don't think I'd use Perl for the implementation or Parrot for the target VM. You're probably going to want to design an entirely new VM that matches the language for performance reasons, so you'd better do that in C (actually, assembler, if you want it to be fast enough). And, as for the compiler, there are enough special cases in the parsing that you'd probably want something a bit more structured than Perl. If you really don't like C, I'd suggest PL\I...
Of course, they would still pay big bucks for it...
But no one is going to port their mission-critical business applications from a mainframe to a virtual machine runtime environment.
That's because on a mainframe (at least a zSeries), they're already running in one! I love the mainframe's HW virtualization support. And think! It's only been around forty-some years! F*ckin' Intel/AMD newbs...
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Yes, especially if you think about Windows and benefit in the same sentence.
Must be Ringo. John and George are dead and Sir Paul's too tied up in his personal troubles (if you know what I mean). Might be Yoko trying to butt in, but I doubt it, as it's fairly simple to identify a Japanese Beatle.
Yes! Profound insight! (At least from the Slashdot Libertarian point of view.)
That depends on the relative attributes of the wife and the secretary.
Well, that makes sense. As ISPs services return lower and lower margins, more ISPs will turn to setting up grow rooms where the heat and power consumption is hidden by that of the servers. You need a lot of hi-wattage lights for that kind of operation. They probably would have gone into meth (as it uses less space for the same dollar volume), but the feds are watching the pseudoephedrine too closely.
You say this like it's a good thing...
In my opinion, yes.
Google could decide that it would be the arbiter of what should be advertised on its pages. In most cases, it has not. This is a tremendous amount of restraint for a company that could literally name winners and losers in the marketplace. In treating even scumballs like this (and I say that not because of the downloading, but because their stuff is adware-infested crap) in an evenhanded manner, I think that Google is doing the right thing. Remember that free speech (and yes, advertising is speech) is worthless unless we also defend the speech of scumballs. Google has done nothing that they would not have done with any other client of that size. And that *is* good.
It's amazing that the same conservatives who insist that government can do no right when it comes to anything remotely focused on the individual citizen can suddenly say that it can do no wrong with respect to the act of waging war. Oh how soon the $800 hammer can be forgotten.
No, John Travolta's and Tom Cruise's movies just seem like they last for eternity and, as far as I know, denying isn't enough; you aren't forced to watch them unless you actively spread the information that L. Ron wasn't actually God.
Well, maybe they can get Hans Reiser off and hire him. After all, he's done one already and maybe he and Balmer could discuss conflict resolution strategy!
It's also (a) building buzz for stupid PR-generated "news stories" (News at 11! What does Microsoft have up it's sleeve!?!!?) and (b) sending a subtle message to people who might have the temerity to review Vista harshly on major media (You know, we can pull these ads). In other words, just business as usual...
Ha, ha! You read Slashdot so it's not an issue. The only thing you'd need to do is to turn down the brightness on your monitor.
Yes! We're really grateful for the haggis and the bagpipes! Not to mention those kilt thingees.
Have you considered that the rest of the world hasn't come up with these things on their because they don't actually want things like that?
Just make up your own numbers and write a fake review on your website that says the manufacturer giving you the largest kickback is best. Show that review to your boss for validation - it's not like he has time to check. Sheesh. The things you have to teach kids these days...
Best. System. Ever.
OK, OK, maybe the CDC 6600 because it was (somewhat) neat, but right next to that, the iSeries line.
Quick answer, yes, but only to the extent that the structural form of the disk has to resist it up to a given tolerance. The rest of the variation is handled in the same way that other variations are handled (e.g., differences in electronic/magnetic component response times, motor speed variations, plate wobble, etc.) which are usually larger. And how do you handle it? Slow it down a bit. If they can mass produce 15K RPM 2.5" drives, they've either gotten up to ~20K RPM in development, or have a buttload of 12.5K RPM 2.5" drives to shove onto the market.
Which is why, if Linux and Windows were microkernel-based, there would not be as large a problem. Don't blame the market for doing what it has to do because of technological deficiencies.
Does that include factoring in the bank's portion? If you look at total home equity as a percentage of the market, I'm pretty sure you'll see that it's down. The issue is that the house (the largest investment most will ever make) is a cushion against economic blows. The less equity, the less cushion. When the economy takes a downturn, or the housing bubble collapses, the only thing that counts is the equity. Not, as you think, having the dubious privilege of partial ownership with the bank, who will be on your butt for even more money if the value of the house goes down far enough.
Why? How?
Surely one US-based person can manage ten offshore personnel. A rational company would hire three or four more people overseas, allocate one person to manage them, and then hire more overseas (probably in the process laying off as many here). And why stop there? Surely a company can hire a manager overseas more cheaply than here. So far, all you're saying is that we see that expansion might happen here. In addition, the gains from offshoring could be paid out in dividends or simply sat upon. So far, your assertion that more local workers will be hired seems more faith-based than fact-based.
Amway is there for you!
And, if you don't want that, send for my free CD, "You is Being a Bazillionaire, Too!" or just read Tom Friedman and have faith in the glorious marketplace!
The problem is that the majority of white-collar jobs are quickly mobile. And then the rest of the economy (already cratered by the loss of blue-collar jobs) will collapse pretty quickly when most of those leave.
You're glimpsing the first inklings with the decline in the USD. As oil prices start to rise due to the shrinking value of the dollar, you will first see inflation as corporations try to pass on increased costs to their customers and then deflation because price hikes drive the customers out of business (or at least into a place where they cannot feasibly buy). Repeat for a few more cycles (with a few more companies each time) as prices destabilize, rising for a short time and then crashing due to the positive feedback inherent in the system, and pretty soon there are very few left to buy stuff. This is how economies collapse.
The only question is whether or not the rest of the world will let us collapse, because they need someone to sell all of their stuff to, too. Perhaps the whole thing can be coordinated for some sort of soft landing, but I sort of doubt it - the system is too complex and the players too self-centered to do that. I think it's going to be a bumpy few decades ahead, Thomas Friedman lovers notwithstanding.
I call it the "Scientific American Syndrome". It sounds a lot better than the "Ignorant American Viewer Syndrome".
Yeah... right. Spoken like someone who's never worked with big iron. Let's see your PC hardware handle a couple hundred thousand transactions per second, each one potentially coming from a different command with up to twenty-five or so input parameters. Then add in a couple hundred random queries per second for good measure. Then make sure all of that's backed by an atomically safe database holding a few dozen terabytes of data. Then make sure it can run for ten years with perhaps an hour of downtime total. And, if you really can do that with a 486? Well, the world is willing to pay you a lot of money for that.
Sure! Shouldn't take more than about two hours... Go for it. I'm sure folks would pay big bucks for that.
Oh, did I say two hours? I meant two decades, especially when you figure in the man-years of optimization on the database interfaces and I/O subsystems. However, they'll still pay big bucks for it. But I don't think I'd use Perl for the implementation or Parrot for the target VM. You're probably going to want to design an entirely new VM that matches the language for performance reasons, so you'd better do that in C (actually, assembler, if you want it to be fast enough). And, as for the compiler, there are enough special cases in the parsing that you'd probably want something a bit more structured than Perl. If you really don't like C, I'd suggest PL\I...
Of course, they would still pay big bucks for it...
That's because on a mainframe (at least a zSeries), they're already running in one! I love the mainframe's HW virtualization support. And think! It's only been around forty-some years! F*ckin' Intel/AMD newbs...