The mid-term danger is not inflation, it's deflation, whereby prices get lower and lower because no one's buying, driving wages down and then prices down again in a vicious circle.
Doing this in the long term would be a waste. That's not the point. The point is to jumpstart the engine of the economy. Krugman's position, and that of all the economist that weren't accomplices in the friedmanian mindset that brought us where we are, is that the stronger the kickstart, the faster the recovery.
You know, the Princeton prof who writes a column in the NYT and just got a Nobel prize?
And yes, take the god damn money from whoever has it and get it rolling, that's the idea, because if the gov't doesn't get it going, nobody is going to spend its own money willingly because they fear (rightly, rationally) that they won't make any in the near future.
In other word, it's about breaking a self-fulfilling prophecy. Everybody's predicting that things are getting worse, and as long as everybody thinks so, things will get worse, automatically.
The stimulus package is not about growing the economy. It's not about the efficient use of resources. It's about getting the engine running. The alternative is having the economy grind to a halt.
In the broken window fallacy, the cost of replacing the window goes displaces other more useful investments. In the current situation, if no window is broken, the money will just sit here because the shop owner is too scared of the future and keeps his money instead of spending it, while the glass maker has no business going on, either for fixing broken glasses or supplying materials for new building that no one is financing.
I'm looking for something to handle the virtual IP in case the server goes down, I'm wondering if heartbeart is overkill, and if carp can handle it in a cleaner way.
Haproxy is better than Pound, IMO. It's lightweight, but handles immense load just as well as layer 3 load balancing (LVS), with the advantages of layer 5 proxying. It uses the latest Linux APIs (epoll, vmsplice) to reduce context switching and copying to a minimum. It has a nice, concise stats module. Its logs are terse yet complete. It redirects traffic to a working server if one is down / overloaded.
As Paul Krugman said it, with the economy in this kind of state, you have to pay people to dig holes and fill them back up. If something good can be done instead of something useless, that's just a bonuns.
Sarkozy compares himself to Obama a lot. It's beyond ridiculous. Especially considering the fact that he LOVED Bush, and that he is about as inspiring as him in his speeches. His vocabulary is ~1000 words at most. He's hit quickly hit 35% popularity (although he's bounced back up a bit).
It's not like there aren't any alternatives; it's just that Microsoft blocks the alternative by forcing OEM's hands.
Face it, if Microsoft stopped selling in Europe, they'd be dead, because there'd be an instant market for a cheaper, better alternative, and in a few years it would lose in its other markets.
Anyway, you're missing the point, IE is a blight on the Internet, and Microsoft is a convicted monopoly abuser. I'm not sure what's described here is the best solution, but there's no question Microsoft has to be stopped from continually abusing competition rules.
I've had to work on an app where the main developer didn't know / didn't care about void *, and used char * everywhere instead. In fact he used char* even when the type was unique, and type cast at every call, and at the beginning of the called function.
When I called him on it, he said that I was doing philosophy and that he had real work to do.
It is not installed from the web, it's installed from outside the Firefox process by the Java updater if I understand correctly. There is no way FF can prevent it from installing, since it's not doing the installing itself.
That's all you need. Well, at least an fsync that works, which, when you look at the hoops sqlite has to jump on some systems, is not that easy. For example fsync on MacOSX doesn't seem to guarantee squat. FS journalling is at another level of abstraction. The kind of access to the journal you describe would be of use only when developing a transactional DB application that would store objects in individual files. It's not needed when the data/structure is stored in tablespace and journal files.
Losing the/just/ the most recent bookmarks is to be expected, unless you have a battery-backed RAM cache, which is what all high-end RAID controllers feature nowadays.
As for FAT, well, that's what you get for you using 1970's technology.
They (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark) have the highest ratings (transparency, corruption, etc) of all democracies, and they mostly use proportional representation, not the winner-take-all approach.
It's only the data that was just (going to be) written that you'll lose. It's an entirely different problem than FS corruption, which means that the whole structure is f'd up and you don't know which block belongs to what file.
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The "digging hole and filling it" is an image used by Krugman to drive his point home. The point is getting money flowing.
The mid-term danger is not inflation, it's deflation, whereby prices get lower and lower because no one's buying, driving wages down and then prices down again in a vicious circle.
That's a depression. That's bad.
Doing this in the long term would be a waste.
That's not the point.
The point is to jumpstart the engine of the economy.
Krugman's position, and that of all the economist that weren't accomplices in the friedmanian mindset that brought us where we are, is that the stronger the kickstart, the faster the recovery.
You know, the Princeton prof who writes a column in the NYT and just got a Nobel prize?
And yes, take the god damn money from whoever has it and get it rolling, that's the idea, because if the gov't doesn't get it going, nobody is going to spend its own money willingly because they fear (rightly, rationally) that they won't make any in the near future.
In other word, it's about breaking a self-fulfilling prophecy. Everybody's predicting that things are getting worse, and as long as everybody thinks so, things will get worse, automatically.
The stimulus package is not about growing the economy. It's not about the efficient use of resources. It's about getting the engine running. The alternative is having the economy grind to a halt.
In the broken window fallacy, the cost of replacing the window goes displaces other more useful investments. In the current situation, if no window is broken, the money will just sit here because the shop owner is too scared of the future and keeps his money instead of spending it, while the glass maker has no business going on, either for fixing broken glasses or supplying materials for new building that no one is financing.
Does it work well enough for prod use?
on a 250 Mhz machine with 128M RAM on a 128k leased line, back in 98. Hand coded Perl on Apache, msql at first then mysql, on Linux.
An OLPC's gotta be better than that.
Can you explain?
I'm looking for something to handle the virtual IP in case the server goes down, I'm wondering if heartbeart is overkill, and if carp can handle it in a cleaner way.
It's better if you can get them to build roads.
But it's better to pay them to dig hole and fill them up THAN doing nothing.
Haproxy is better than Pound, IMO. It's lightweight, but handles immense load just as well as layer 3 load balancing (LVS), with the advantages of layer 5 proxying. It uses the latest Linux APIs (epoll, vmsplice) to reduce context switching and copying to a minimum. It has a nice, concise stats module. Its logs are terse yet complete. It redirects traffic to a working server if one is down / overloaded.
As Paul Krugman said it, with the economy in this kind of state, you have to pay people to dig holes and fill them back up. If something good can be done instead of something useless, that's just a bonuns.
than the EFF.
Sarkozy compares himself to Obama a lot. It's beyond ridiculous. Especially considering the fact that he LOVED Bush, and that he is about as inspiring as him in his speeches. His vocabulary is ~1000 words at most. He's hit quickly hit 35% popularity (although he's bounced back up a bit).
Windows licenses don't.
We pay much more than that for RHEL, by the way. But the good thing is, if we don't like it, we don't have to pay them anymore.
No, seriously, in Soviet Russia, most people in the ghulags had been convicted on charges of doing black market.
Thing is, everybody was doing black market.
I think that trading one monopoly (MS) for another (Linux) is not a good thing, even if I like Linux.
The problem with a monopoly is the absence of freedom.
If you use Microsoft product, and you don't want to deal with them anymore, you're fucked.
If you use RedHat, and you don't want to pay them, well you just stop paying them and you keep everything and you can still make copies.
It's not like there aren't any alternatives; it's just that Microsoft blocks the alternative by forcing OEM's hands.
Face it, if Microsoft stopped selling in Europe, they'd be dead, because there'd be an instant market for a cheaper, better alternative, and in a few years it would lose in its other markets.
Anyway, you're missing the point, IE is a blight on the Internet, and Microsoft is a convicted monopoly abuser. I'm not sure what's described here is the best solution, but there's no question Microsoft has to be stopped from continually abusing competition rules.
I've had to work on an app where the main developer didn't know / didn't care about void *, and used char * everywhere instead. In fact he used char* even when the type was unique, and type cast at every call, and at the beginning of the called function.
When I called him on it, he said that I was doing philosophy and that he had real work to do.
It is not installed from the web, it's installed from outside the Firefox process by the Java updater if I understand correctly. There is no way FF can prevent it from installing, since it's not doing the installing itself.
I used to have an Atari with GEM, didn't do multiple workspace. That's what this patent is about.
That's all you need. Well, at least an fsync that works, which, when you look at the hoops sqlite has to jump on some systems, is not that easy. For example fsync on MacOSX doesn't seem to guarantee squat.
FS journalling is at another level of abstraction. The kind of access to the journal you describe would be of use only when developing a transactional DB application that would store objects in individual files. It's not needed when the data/structure is stored in tablespace and journal files.
Losing the /just/ the most recent bookmarks is to be expected, unless you have a battery-backed RAM cache, which is what all high-end RAID controllers feature nowadays.
As for FAT, well, that's what you get for you using 1970's technology.
They (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark) have the highest ratings (transparency, corruption, etc) of all democracies, and they mostly use proportional representation, not the winner-take-all approach.
It's only the data that was just (going to be) written that you'll lose. It's an entirely different problem than FS corruption, which means that the whole structure is f'd up and you don't know which block belongs to what file.