For what it's worth, the United States (via Powell's statements in October 2004) (wikipedia, google news) believes that Taiwan should remain part of China rather than becoming independent. So while I appreciate the parent post's humor, it's not historically accurate... It's not as simple as China being long in a state of delusion.
On the other hand, it's clear that anonymity has both upsides AND downsides (eg. spam, fishing sites,...). If both options were available to everyone right now, it would be my guess that a large number of slashdotters would choose to require proper identification for some portion of their internet activity, and choose to frequent anonymous areas of the internet for other internet activity. (for example: do any of us really want a Slashdot with only anonymous cowards and no +2 logins?)
From a technical perspective, it would be better if we could give people more options. It's the socio-political perspective, where certain people see the existance of an identity system as a launching point towards a more fascist landscape, that's the problem. We shouldn't completely ignore the technical benefits and flexibility of more options simply because there are some political extremists out there.
So... you want to rely on 100' radius networks instead of miles-wide networks? Doesn't sound good.
Oh yeah, what about WiMAX, right? Sorry, that isn't slated to be available in a truly mobile form until 2006/2007 (search for "Third-generation CPEs").
It's slow because of its very name -- "user-mode". Generally anything that has to do kernel-like stuff, but does it in user-mode, will be a fair bit slower than it could be if it were in the kernel. As I understand it, this is because every low-level operation (eg. sockets, disk I/O, etc) requires memory to have one extra copy made for each transaction.
Presumably things like microkernels get around this by sharing memory directly with the kernel? Though that article says that microkernels still historically are slower than monolithic kernels, so the user-mode thing might clearly be an unresolvable problem here. Too bad Linus doesn't post on slashdot, otherwise he might be able to elaborate...
So how hard is it to get a credit card with an address in another country? If it's not excrutiatingly difficult, won't there be a big trade in cross-country credit card deals?
Are there any good benchmarks out there comparing Xen to VMWare? this PDF contains benchmarks for very specific operations, not entire programs, but indicates that Xen is much faster for those operations. Though it also notes that VMWare's license prevents people from publishing benchmarks. So... This might mean that VMWare itself realizes that they have severe performance problems in places?
Virtualization technology has been used on mainframes and high-end servers for years, but IT departments are starting to use the technology on low-end servers as well
"In order to virtualize technologies within a processor, a little bit of hardware goes a long way," Brookwood said. Users still need virtualization software, but that software will run much faster with hardware support, he said.
Neither Intel nor AMD has built such technology into their processors for low-end servers, but both are now talking about having that capability available around 2006. Intel has discussed its Vanderpool virtualization technology at recent conferences, but like AMD, has not provided specific details about the technology.
Xen does not support Windows today because it uses a technique called para-virtualization to achieve high performance that involves modifying the operating system kernel, Pratt said. However, the debut of virtualization features in next-generation CPUs from Intel and AMD will make it easier to support unmodified operating systems, Pratt said.
"At that time we will reconsider Windows support," he said.
Full virtualization requires no changes to the guest OS. But it is not well suited for x86 architecture as x86 is not virtualizable. x86 has machine instructions that are termed sensitive. Sensitive instructions will fail without trap when executed in the guest OS. This requires dynamic rewrite of guest OS kernel during run time and shadow system structures which results in a performance hit. Para-virtualization solves the above issues but it requires changes to the guest OS kernel although are required for the Application Binary Interface (ABI) and hence applications can run as they are on the guest OS.
So raising the spammer's bandwidth a little bit, but not completely hosing the connection, causing the spammer to fund the ISP's installation of new network infrastructure... All of this is bad for everyone?
If so, then Slashdottings are equally evil, no? The recipient pays for infrastracture upgrades for everyone, but it's definitely definitely evil.
DVD boxsets? You can do that with TiVo too, but TV execs aren't up in arms about those.
An even better justification for TV pirating that you probably already receive most of the TV shows, but you don't want to go to the time/expense of buying and setting up a TiVo. After TiVo's latestBS, this probably means building your own which can be costly and time consuming, especially when compared to buying a new hard drive and running BitTorrent constantly.
Exactly. If anything, the game industry should be derided for not having ENOUGH adult content. Sure, I'll agree that 75% of game content should be geared towards youngsters, but there's still quite a few single white males out there who live alone and would appreciate it if some games didn't have to pretend that sex and nudity were are completely non-existant in real life.
And if the company violates the terms and conditions, you have very little recourse unless their piracy department is willing to be cooperative.
Certainly Valve wouldn't willfully violate their side of the bargin, it would only be by mistake, but the results are far harsher... on your side, you've lost $50. If you "screw up", they lose less, since it's merely a set of bits that you may or may not have actually been willing to pay $50 for.
Okay, now you're just trolling. The researcher's aim was not to develop a model that could predict the winner of the election. The aim was to see if there was a significant correlation in size of the model's descrepencies between e-voting counties and non-e-voting counties. They did find a statistically signficant correlation. They're not trying to and don't want to prove that their model is 99.999999% accurate instead of simply 95% accurate.
Non-statisticians sometimes make unsupported conclusions from the results of statistical studies and that might be rediculous, but statisticians aren't themselves rediculous.
As far as I know, candidates conceding has NO effect on the legal process whatsoever. The vote counting and electoral vote process still go ahead exactly the same as if no candidate conceded.
The argument doesn't hold water financially or legally either... we already have safety features in the car (eg. ABS brakes, airbags, etc.) which manufacturers could be sued over if they fail, yet manufacturers still include them for various reasons. It IS possible to include new safety features and still make money despite the lawyers.
"This flight is a key milestone and a major step toward the future possibilities for producing boosters for sending large and critical payloads into space in a reliable, safe, inexpensive manner," said NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe.
So, for what it's worth, escape velocity is 25,000 mph, so a scramjet would be perhaps the second of at least three stages to getting into space.
Are there any Aerospace engineers who can comment? Are scramjets supposed to be more economical in some ways? Perhaps in that it's one way to get away from solid rockets?
Well, theoretically, being able to control them more precisely would be preferable to outright killing them... If we're able to control them better over time (eg. to the extent of moving populations to some other geographical area), but can at least reverse our invasiveness to some extent if we later change our minds. If we simply kill them, that's much harder to reverse, especially if we don't know how to control them.
As an educator, you'd probably prefer that students use the library and ignore the internet completely. But since students won't stop using the internet for "research" at this point, Wikipedia is the next-best solution.
Josephus's writings are contested... Most clearly is that Josephus's writings didn't survive, the only way we know about him are from a translation from AD 324.
When components start getting hotter than your average cooling system can handle, to the point where slowing down the CPU whenever possible is a major part of the cooling system, then cooler DOES mean faster. This has long been the case in the laptop world, but this article implies this might start becoming the case with future desktop CPUs as well, since the trend seems to be that all components are getting hotter over time.
I'm just an armchair historian, so someone else more versed in higher criticism will have to address your questions. I must say though that Wikipedia is one of the most accessible collections of historical information I've found so far... before Wikipedia, I was a geek who shunned history books. In this form, it's easy to explore the things you're specifically interested in, so I hope it grows in accuracy so that others can become interested in this stuff as well.
If you do have useful information on Abraham and Lot, please post that to the respective wikipedia pages (Abraham, Lot).
This paragraph has comments about Jericho, but again, this is just armchair historian stuff.
What IS clear to me though is that... There ARE legitimate historical references in the bible that are corroborated by many other historical documents (eg. the temple in jerusalem, King Nebuchadnezzar). However, the Bible only seems to address history from about the 7th century BC to the 1st century AD, and that there's a lot of other cultures and events before and after that period that are very eductional, and focusing on that time and ignoring things that happened afterwards is perhaps less eductional and too narrow of a view of the world.
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For what it's worth, the United States (via Powell's statements in October 2004) (wikipedia, google news) believes that Taiwan should remain part of China rather than becoming independent. So while I appreciate the parent post's humor, it's not historically accurate... It's not as simple as China being long in a state of delusion.
holy, how'd you get that past the slashdot filter?
Except that camera was periodically taking pictures, and the picture right before and the picture right after don't show any problems on the lens.
From a technical perspective, it would be better if we could give people more options. It's the socio-political perspective, where certain people see the existance of an identity system as a launching point towards a more fascist landscape, that's the problem. We shouldn't completely ignore the technical benefits and flexibility of more options simply because there are some political extremists out there.
Oh yeah, what about WiMAX, right? Sorry, that isn't slated to be available in a truly mobile form until 2006/2007 (search for "Third-generation CPEs").
Presumably things like microkernels get around this by sharing memory directly with the kernel? Though that article says that microkernels still historically are slower than monolithic kernels, so the user-mode thing might clearly be an unresolvable problem here. Too bad Linus doesn't post on slashdot, otherwise he might be able to elaborate...
So how hard is it to get a credit card with an address in another country? If it's not excrutiatingly difficult, won't there be a big trade in cross-country credit card deals?
Are there any good benchmarks out there comparing Xen to VMWare? this PDF contains benchmarks for very specific operations, not entire programs, but indicates that Xen is much faster for those operations. Though it also notes that VMWare's license prevents people from publishing benchmarks. So... This might mean that VMWare itself realizes that they have severe performance problems in places?
They... both say... the... same... thing?
"In order to virtualize technologies within a processor, a little bit of hardware goes a long way," Brookwood said. Users still need virtualization software, but that software will run much faster with hardware support, he said.
Neither Intel nor AMD has built such technology into their processors for low-end servers, but both are now talking about having that capability available around 2006. Intel has discussed its Vanderpool virtualization technology at recent conferences, but like AMD, has not provided specific details about the technology.
- Xen does not support Windows today because it uses a technique called para-virtualization to achieve high performance that involves modifying the operating system kernel, Pratt said. However, the debut of virtualization features in next-generation CPUs from Intel and AMD will make it easier to support unmodified operating systems, Pratt said.
And more here:"At that time we will reconsider Windows support," he said.
If so, then Slashdottings are equally evil, no? The recipient pays for infrastracture upgrades for everyone, but it's definitely definitely evil.
An even better justification for TV pirating that you probably already receive most of the TV shows, but you don't want to go to the time/expense of buying and setting up a TiVo. After TiVo's latest BS, this probably means building your own which can be costly and time consuming, especially when compared to buying a new hard drive and running BitTorrent constantly.
Exactly. If anything, the game industry should be derided for not having ENOUGH adult content. Sure, I'll agree that 75% of game content should be geared towards youngsters, but there's still quite a few single white males out there who live alone and would appreciate it if some games didn't have to pretend that sex and nudity were are completely non-existant in real life.
Certainly Valve wouldn't willfully violate their side of the bargin, it would only be by mistake, but the results are far harsher... on your side, you've lost $50. If you "screw up", they lose less, since it's merely a set of bits that you may or may not have actually been willing to pay $50 for.
Non-statisticians sometimes make unsupported conclusions from the results of statistical studies and that might be rediculous, but statisticians aren't themselves rediculous.
As far as I know, candidates conceding has NO effect on the legal process whatsoever. The vote counting and electoral vote process still go ahead exactly the same as if no candidate conceded.
Correction: most cars are 2800lbs or more, with the heat-seeking SUV's that americans like to drive weighing in at up to 6400 lbs.
The argument doesn't hold water financially or legally either... we already have safety features in the car (eg. ABS brakes, airbags, etc.) which manufacturers could be sued over if they fail, yet manufacturers still include them for various reasons. It IS possible to include new safety features and still make money despite the lawyers.
- "This flight is a key milestone and a major step toward the future possibilities for producing boosters for sending large and critical payloads into space in a reliable, safe, inexpensive manner," said NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe.
So, for what it's worth, escape velocity is 25,000 mph, so a scramjet would be perhaps the second of at least three stages to getting into space.Are there any Aerospace engineers who can comment? Are scramjets supposed to be more economical in some ways? Perhaps in that it's one way to get away from solid rockets?
Well, theoretically, being able to control them more precisely would be preferable to outright killing them... If we're able to control them better over time (eg. to the extent of moving populations to some other geographical area), but can at least reverse our invasiveness to some extent if we later change our minds. If we simply kill them, that's much harder to reverse, especially if we don't know how to control them.
As an educator, you'd probably prefer that students use the library and ignore the internet completely. But since students won't stop using the internet for "research" at this point, Wikipedia is the next-best solution.
Josephus's writings are contested... Most clearly is that Josephus's writings didn't survive, the only way we know about him are from a translation from AD 324.
When components start getting hotter than your average cooling system can handle, to the point where slowing down the CPU whenever possible is a major part of the cooling system, then cooler DOES mean faster. This has long been the case in the laptop world, but this article implies this might start becoming the case with future desktop CPUs as well, since the trend seems to be that all components are getting hotter over time.
If you do have useful information on Abraham and Lot, please post that to the respective wikipedia pages (Abraham, Lot).
This paragraph has comments about Jericho, but again, this is just armchair historian stuff.
What IS clear to me though is that... There ARE legitimate historical references in the bible that are corroborated by many other historical documents (eg. the temple in jerusalem, King Nebuchadnezzar). However, the Bible only seems to address history from about the 7th century BC to the 1st century AD, and that there's a lot of other cultures and events before and after that period that are very eductional, and focusing on that time and ignoring things that happened afterwards is perhaps less eductional and too narrow of a view of the world.