Just wake me up when they submit the patches to mythtv...:)
Oh, and the FIOS box had better reset itself back to normal so that I don't have to dig the remotes out of the closet to hit the OK button or whatever...
Just because you were a taxi driver doesn't mean that's all you can ever be.
Sure, I bet the average taxi driver could also do work on an assembly line or other work at a similar level of skill. Oh wait, those jobs are all done by robots as well...
Well, there is always clerical work - oh wait, now all data entry is electronic and nobody has to file away your amazon.com order form or deliver it from office to office.
Well, you can always program the robots, right? Well, if the person in question could figure out how to do that chances are they wouldn't be driving taxis right now.
Picture a mentally retarded quadriplegic. They're either going to starve to death, or somebody will feed them to be nice to them and not really expect them to earn a living. Well, technology is slowly ratcheting up the bar and eventually 90% of the population will be just as employable. We'll have just as many nice things to buy and just as much food to eat, thanks to advances in productivity, but nobody will be able to pay for it since everybody will be unemployed. That is, unless you adopt a VERY strong form of socialism. Either that or most people starve off and you end up with a few thousand people being served by armies of robots.
You never signed the 2 year contract - the contract no longer exists.
I suspect that a court would probably decide somewhere between these two extremes.
In the real world this is how it actually goes:
1. You refuse to pay the ETF. 2. They charge you it anyway if their credit card info on file is still accurate, and you have to beg the credit card company not to make you pay it. 3. If the credit card company does decide in your favor (no guarantees) then the phone company puts a nasty gram in your credit history. You can then write a note about it in the credit history, which nobody will bother to read since no phone company wants to do business with somebody who doesn't just roll over. 4. If the phone company tried to recover the ETF in court they would be unlikely to prevail, though perhaps they'd get a compromise. I doubt they'd bother. 5. If you went to court to try to get some kind of injunctive relief for your credit rating it would take ages and cost you a fortune, and chances are you'd end up with a compromise.
Ultimately possession is 9/10ths of the law in these cases. If you have the phone and they don't have a credit card, then you'll probably get off with just a bad credit report for seven years or whatever. The credit bureaus are paid by the phone companies and not you, so they could care less what you think and they're about as regulated as the people who were rating credit default swaps in 2008.
I run Gentoo and I would have previously hesitated to recommend it for a laptop. Then I messed around with it in a VM and found that things like suspend-to-disk and such are actually pretty trivial to set up.
Certainly you won't get the same out-of-the box experience that you'd get with Ubuntu, but as long as you don't upgrade your init system the day before a business trip you'd probably do fine with Gentoo.
However, the one thing I can't vouch for is battery life. Gentoo basically ships generic upstream packages and doesn't do much of anything to optimize this, so if the kernel eats battery on your hardware then you're going to be stuck.
I wouldn't recommend Gentoo as your first linux experience and doing it on a laptop. I'd probably at least mess around with another distro first, and maybe get comfortable with Gentoo in a VM or some other safe place, unless you don't mind the learning curve.
What I'd like to see is a way to write the client and the server components of a typical AJAXy application as a single work. When I look at the Dart tutorials/etc I see lots of examples of how the language can handle either side of the link, but nothing really that unifies the application.
If you could just describe what the application needs to do then the compiler would put all the logic possible on the back end, and then only relegate to the front-end presentation, validation, and maybe logic that is more latency-critical. Perhaps there would be ways to tag the code to indicate parts that should be considered more latency-critical, or to indicate that some code is proprietary and shouldn't go out over the web no matter how bad it hurts performance. Beyond that the compiler would make reasonable choices.
I don't see how this could be the case. I could see how perhaps they could force you to return the phone, perhaps after rebating the payments you've already made to them towards it.
You never agreed to buy the phone from them in the first place and pay for it. Well, you did, but you did it in a contract that they just made void by failing to abide by the terms of the contract. I could see a court possibly asking you to return the phone if it was nearly new, but I doubt they'd force you to purchase it outright, especially since it has no value off of the carrier's network.
Contracts are made between TWO parties - and they are binding on both. They can't change their TOS anymore than you can choose to switch carriers without penalty.
if you stop paying them the bank can take your car/house/etc just as with a default on any debt.
Cite? I have friends who have gone into default, and the bank's recourse was to garnish wages. For federal loans, the sum owed can be taken from your income tax refund, assuming you get one. But seizing property doesn't happen.
Well, people who aren't paying their student loans probably tend not to have a lot of tangible property to seize, but I can't see any reason why a bank couldn't do it if you had anything worth going after. Of course, any property that is itself security for a loan would already have a lein on it, so the bank couldn't do anything but add themselves to the list. Plus, seizing property/etc is messy business since you have to fix it, clean it, sell it, etc, and judges might not let you take somebody's only ride to work. Wage garnishing just gives you checks that you can cash and obviously cash is hassle-free. And, of course only an idiot would manage their witholding so as to have a refund if somebody was going to garnish it...
So, I guess the bottom line is that US law only really gives you a hard time if you're down on your luck but trying to make an honest living. If you're just a deadbeat and living on public assistance then the system works out OK.
Anyway, if you owe much money and can't pay it, better just to move abroad. Banks can't garnish wages earned outside the US, and your credit report is linked to your social security number, which no one outside the US will ever ask you for.
Yes - obviously if you are going to be a missionary to Africa defaulting on your seminary bills isn't going to have much of an impact on you legally.
I was just getting at the fact that ultimately you have to build the whole thing since Android is all-encompassing. Linus can build his bleeding-edge kernel but then load it onto an Ubuntu box or whatever where everything else was pre-compiled. But, Android is a complete vertically-integrated package so you're basically building everything you find on the phone. Once you've done that of course you can just rebuild a single app or whatever it is that you've tweaked.
Nobody has the key to this device. Not you. Not the manufacturer. Nobody.
True, but the key is signed by the manufacturer's key, which is how the whole chain of trust works. Otherwise there would be no way to do remote attestation.
So, if the manufacturer loads their certificate in my laptop, then I'd like to have their private key, so that I can sign other keys of my choosing and defeat remote attestation. My computer works for me - not somebody else.
That was my point. Sure, nobody would ever go for it, but the fact is that this can be done without giving anybody access to anybody else's machine. The manufacturer simply needs to generate one key per laptop, sign that key, give that key to the laptop owner and use it to sign the laptop's TPM key. Of course, it would be useless for DRM since the consumer can bypass it, but it is still perfectly fine for letting the computer owner protect their PC, or for companies to manage their PCs.
Oh dear God, another ignorant Gentoo ricer...I've been using Gentoo for about 10 years now.
Always nice to see the community doing wonders to improve its own reputation.:)
You really need to learn before opening your mouth...(snip out discussion on the merits of various CFLAGS - in particular -O3)
That would be why I don't use -O3. Also - we're talking about compilation RAM use and I don't see anything suggesting that compiling with -O3 uses all that much more RAM during building. The resulting executables certainly do, since -O3 in many GCC versions tends to unroll loops pretty aggressively and skipping a bunch of LOOP instructions doesn't make up for all the L1/2 cache waste.
Read this stuff. It actually is kinda important.../me rolls his eyes.
Uh, thanks for the lesson. You'll fit in fine on the gentoo-dev mailing list.
- A random guy who has commit access to your package repository...;)
Are you suggesting that the typical 18-year-old isn't a savvy consumer able to navigate $75k financial decisions well?
Kids do what their teachers and peers tell them to do - which is take the loan. Parents tell their kids to do what will give them more social standing with their peers, which is to go to a fancier university. If everybody told their kids that taking a student loan will destroy your life far more than a tour in Iraq then everybody would sign up for the Army instead.
What else do kids have to go on? It isn't like we teach them time value of money in high school or anything like that, or give them accurate statistics on post-education page and your probability of getting a job at x salary based on your chosen degree. And kids are fundamentally irrational since we shield them from their mistakes - what does being a starving artist mean to a kid who gets fed three meals a day?
What are kids supposed to do about it - if they don't pay their $60k somebody else will, since most kids have no comprehension about the value of money and of course they're all under the impression that they'll be sitting around in some office being paid $250k/yr, unless of course they're an astronaut.
In the US it is a loan, period. Subsidized loans are interest-free while in school. Unsubsidized loans (still government guaranteed) require interest payments while in school. Rates right now are a few percent - certainly well above inflation and are designed to earn the bank a profit.
After graduation payments come due. You can apply for a break and get a little bit of one, but generally speaking picture having a mortgage for the price of your education, except you can't sell your house. The debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. The payments certainly are considered by anybody contemplating giving you a loan, and if you stop paying them the bank can take your car/house/etc just as with a default on any debt. I imagine they can also charge you all kinds of crazy fees/etc in that situation. I hear the banks like it when you default since the government immediately pays off the loan, AND pays the bank to keep going after you to get it back, so the bank gets paid extra with no risk of loss to themselves.
Kids who are 18 years old have no idea what it means to be $75k in debt with no assets, so they just sign the paper since that is what everybody else does, and then has fun in college for four years.
With $1T in loans currently outstanding I'm sure a day of reckoning is coming for the economy. Kids today graduate from college with $50+k in personal loans, plus what is probably a $100k share in the national debt when their parents die. When EVERYBODY is so much in debt you'd think that people would collectively just decide to default since the people it is owed to would be powerless to collect, but it would take a lot to make that happen...
At any rate, 16GB is now a "regular desktop" amount of RAM.
Well, it is an amount of RAM you could cram into a brand new regular desktop, but it certainly isn't something you'd find on an average desktop. I think I have two slots free in mine so I could bump it up to 16GB, but that is $50 I don't really need to spend. I rarely am using more than half of my RAM as it is, though the extra obviously helps with caching/etc.
Android has always been RAM-intensive, and it makes sense since you have no choice but to build an entire OS at once (not like you can dynamically link it to your desktop's libraries). Just building something like chromium takes a ton of CPU.
I run Gentoo and usually run make with -j5 on a tmpfs, and I've never managed to use even half of my 8GB RAM building anything from chromium to firefox to openoffice. And I certainly don't skimp on my CFLAGS.
Maybe if you build this thing on a tmpfs and run -j50 or something you'd need that kind of RAM, but seriously...
Plus, since parallel make tends to limit itself to a single module at a time in most build systems it is hard to get the parallelism to be all that high anyway.
I'll take them at their word, but I suspect that you'd be able to build android with a lot less than 16GB if you aren't running so highly parallelized. For starters I certainly don't have 8 cores to throw at it...
Uh, more like they'll send you a certified letter saying that you're already past-due, and please file and don't forget to add the following fine to your payment.
The next step will be a police officer knocking on your door.
I doubt a tax agency is going to resort to polite reminders.
Well, the CR-48 doesn't quite do what you say you want.
In secure mode it only boots their OS. In developer mode it will boot anything. There is no option to only boot "your" OS.
I think that trusted computing is fine, as long as I control the keys in the computer. Oh, and if I get a copy of the private keys associated with any public keys that are pre-loaded in the thing (not a big deal from a security standpoint - they just need to assign a unique keypair to each PC).
The government can't "forgive" student loan debt, since the government didn't issue the loan - some bank did. So, you can either force the banks to take a $1T loss (yeah, good luck with that since no doubt they used those loans as "assets" to borrow yet more money against and if you drop their asset base they are so leveraged that the entire economy would go down the tubes), or the government can just cut out some checks to pay off $1T in private debt. So, now the students no longer have their loans, but they get to inherit another $1T in government debt when their parents finally die.
If we're just going to make college education free we should at least have the government institute price controls, or accredit WAY more schools.
How about this - why don't we start containing costs on entitlements, institute a sane tax system, and maybe start spending less money than we take in?
I hear you. I'm in a state that has a primary fairly late in the year and once I finally got interested enough to start voting in primaries I quickly figured out that I didn't really get much of a chance to do so. 90% of the candidates have all conceded by the time they get to my state, so maybe I get to pick between two, assuming that the race worth voting in is the one for the party I'm registered under.
Last time I voted for somebody who conceded to at least send some kind of message.
We really need Condorcet voting or something more sane. As much as I hate parties a proportional system at least keeps them under control.
Uh, if you go all the way back to the 13th century being a landowner didn't mean taking out a mortgage and buying yourself a modest home or condo on that nice equitable salary you are paid to work a job of your own choosing.
Being a landowner meant killing the local warlord (err, knight) and usurping his seat, and then defending your claim long enough for his friends to get tired and become your friends instead. In practice it usually meant being born (preferably first) to the local warlord (err, knight) and inheriting his title.
For everybody else you work the land you were born on, for the payment of being allowed to keep some of the crops to feed your family. If you wanted a little extra income you could follow your lord around so that you could finish off the guy he de-horses in battle while avoiding getting beheaded by the guys wearing armor and swords against your hand axe or whatever you're issued.
So, again I would love to see PRT, but I don't think your comparisons are entirely fair.
Accidents would probably go down faster with self-driving cars than with PRT because the former can be implemented much more quickly. Both would end up near-zero in the end state. I suspect PRT could get lower since it is off of the ground, but then again if a car dies and you have a heart attack you're more likely to get rescued than if your PRT car dies 30 feet above the ground, so neither will have zero accident rate.
Cars can get quite energy efficient if you cut down the weight and use hybrids/etc and all-electric for shorter trips. I agree they'll never get to PRT levels of efficiency. However, self-driving cars can be allocated on demand just like PRT so that you can have a family car for a long trip and a single-passenger car for a short one. Since there are no accidents you can make the thing out of plastic/etc.
While PRT does give you a little more flexibility, cars work fine with traffic circles/etc when they are automated. In a mixed mode I'll agree that PRT is far more efficient.
As far as cost goes - the maintenance certainly is an ongoing cost for road, but the infrastructure is already in place. Automating cars would result in a huge capacity increase so that hopefully the need for more roads is reduced.
I do agree that PRT can do better than automated driving. I'm all for getting it adopted. I just don't see this as an either/or situation, and for whatever reason PRT just hasn't taken off. Plus, PRT is always limited to the built-up network - with automated cars the whole country is already on the network.
Yup, and this is why students shouldn't even be given the choice to go into that kind of debt. Just get rid of the government guarantees and now lenders will be stingy with loans and only give them to people likely to be able to pay them back.
People who truly excel can find scholarships/etc, or government aid could be in the form of grands and should be merit based. Doctors don't get paid big bucks - good doctors get paid big bucks.
This is still a problem, since I as a taxpayer will have to bail out these banks because they lent it to some kid to waste four years of their life having fun. Oh, and I'm sure those universities won't be paying back those tuition payments.
Student loans are a way of making one constituency in the future pay for another constituencies current profits. They're just like credit default swaps in that way. College presidents get big bonuses now, and somebody else can deal with the mess later.
Tuitions will not drop in proportion to attendance, they will only rise or fall in proportion to the expected future earnings of their students.
If demand actually dips below supply, prices will fall considerably. It will take time though.
The real value of wages has dropped over the last few decades, so clearly tuition doesn't rise and fall in proportion to expected future earnings.
The college has fixed costs that don't scale with the size of the student body. That gives them incentive to maximize the size of the student body within the limits of what is supported by their fixed costs. Just as airlines will sell a $10k ticket for $100 a university will give an education away for a fraction of the current tuition if that is the only way to fill their seats.
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Just wake me up when they submit the patches to mythtv... :)
Oh, and the FIOS box had better reset itself back to normal so that I don't have to dig the remotes out of the closet to hit the OK button or whatever...
Just because you were a taxi driver doesn't mean that's all you can ever be.
Sure, I bet the average taxi driver could also do work on an assembly line or other work at a similar level of skill. Oh wait, those jobs are all done by robots as well...
Well, there is always clerical work - oh wait, now all data entry is electronic and nobody has to file away your amazon.com order form or deliver it from office to office.
Well, you can always program the robots, right? Well, if the person in question could figure out how to do that chances are they wouldn't be driving taxis right now.
Picture a mentally retarded quadriplegic. They're either going to starve to death, or somebody will feed them to be nice to them and not really expect them to earn a living. Well, technology is slowly ratcheting up the bar and eventually 90% of the population will be just as employable. We'll have just as many nice things to buy and just as much food to eat, thanks to advances in productivity, but nobody will be able to pay for it since everybody will be unemployed. That is, unless you adopt a VERY strong form of socialism. Either that or most people starve off and you end up with a few thousand people being served by armies of robots.
You never signed the 2 year contract - the contract no longer exists.
I suspect that a court would probably decide somewhere between these two extremes.
In the real world this is how it actually goes:
1. You refuse to pay the ETF.
2. They charge you it anyway if their credit card info on file is still accurate, and you have to beg the credit card company not to make you pay it.
3. If the credit card company does decide in your favor (no guarantees) then the phone company puts a nasty gram in your credit history. You can then write a note about it in the credit history, which nobody will bother to read since no phone company wants to do business with somebody who doesn't just roll over.
4. If the phone company tried to recover the ETF in court they would be unlikely to prevail, though perhaps they'd get a compromise. I doubt they'd bother.
5. If you went to court to try to get some kind of injunctive relief for your credit rating it would take ages and cost you a fortune, and chances are you'd end up with a compromise.
Ultimately possession is 9/10ths of the law in these cases. If you have the phone and they don't have a credit card, then you'll probably get off with just a bad credit report for seven years or whatever. The credit bureaus are paid by the phone companies and not you, so they could care less what you think and they're about as regulated as the people who were rating credit default swaps in 2008.
I run Gentoo and I would have previously hesitated to recommend it for a laptop. Then I messed around with it in a VM and found that things like suspend-to-disk and such are actually pretty trivial to set up.
Certainly you won't get the same out-of-the box experience that you'd get with Ubuntu, but as long as you don't upgrade your init system the day before a business trip you'd probably do fine with Gentoo.
However, the one thing I can't vouch for is battery life. Gentoo basically ships generic upstream packages and doesn't do much of anything to optimize this, so if the kernel eats battery on your hardware then you're going to be stuck.
I wouldn't recommend Gentoo as your first linux experience and doing it on a laptop. I'd probably at least mess around with another distro first, and maybe get comfortable with Gentoo in a VM or some other safe place, unless you don't mind the learning curve.
What I'd like to see is a way to write the client and the server components of a typical AJAXy application as a single work. When I look at the Dart tutorials/etc I see lots of examples of how the language can handle either side of the link, but nothing really that unifies the application.
If you could just describe what the application needs to do then the compiler would put all the logic possible on the back end, and then only relegate to the front-end presentation, validation, and maybe logic that is more latency-critical. Perhaps there would be ways to tag the code to indicate parts that should be considered more latency-critical, or to indicate that some code is proprietary and shouldn't go out over the web no matter how bad it hurts performance. Beyond that the compiler would make reasonable choices.
I don't see how this could be the case. I could see how perhaps they could force you to return the phone, perhaps after rebating the payments you've already made to them towards it.
You never agreed to buy the phone from them in the first place and pay for it. Well, you did, but you did it in a contract that they just made void by failing to abide by the terms of the contract. I could see a court possibly asking you to return the phone if it was nearly new, but I doubt they'd force you to purchase it outright, especially since it has no value off of the carrier's network.
Contracts are made between TWO parties - and they are binding on both. They can't change their TOS anymore than you can choose to switch carriers without penalty.
Cite? I have friends who have gone into default, and the bank's recourse was to garnish wages. For federal loans, the sum owed can be taken from your income tax refund, assuming you get one. But seizing property doesn't happen.
Well, people who aren't paying their student loans probably tend not to have a lot of tangible property to seize, but I can't see any reason why a bank couldn't do it if you had anything worth going after. Of course, any property that is itself security for a loan would already have a lein on it, so the bank couldn't do anything but add themselves to the list. Plus, seizing property/etc is messy business since you have to fix it, clean it, sell it, etc, and judges might not let you take somebody's only ride to work. Wage garnishing just gives you checks that you can cash and obviously cash is hassle-free. And, of course only an idiot would manage their witholding so as to have a refund if somebody was going to garnish it...
So, I guess the bottom line is that US law only really gives you a hard time if you're down on your luck but trying to make an honest living. If you're just a deadbeat and living on public assistance then the system works out OK.
Anyway, if you owe much money and can't pay it, better just to move abroad. Banks can't garnish wages earned outside the US, and your credit report is linked to your social security number, which no one outside the US will ever ask you for.
Yes - obviously if you are going to be a missionary to Africa defaulting on your seminary bills isn't going to have much of an impact on you legally.
Yup.
I was just getting at the fact that ultimately you have to build the whole thing since Android is all-encompassing. Linus can build his bleeding-edge kernel but then load it onto an Ubuntu box or whatever where everything else was pre-compiled. But, Android is a complete vertically-integrated package so you're basically building everything you find on the phone. Once you've done that of course you can just rebuild a single app or whatever it is that you've tweaked.
Nobody has the key to this device. Not you. Not the manufacturer. Nobody.
True, but the key is signed by the manufacturer's key, which is how the whole chain of trust works. Otherwise there would be no way to do remote attestation.
So, if the manufacturer loads their certificate in my laptop, then I'd like to have their private key, so that I can sign other keys of my choosing and defeat remote attestation. My computer works for me - not somebody else.
That was my point. Sure, nobody would ever go for it, but the fact is that this can be done without giving anybody access to anybody else's machine. The manufacturer simply needs to generate one key per laptop, sign that key, give that key to the laptop owner and use it to sign the laptop's TPM key. Of course, it would be useless for DRM since the consumer can bypass it, but it is still perfectly fine for letting the computer owner protect their PC, or for companies to manage their PCs.
Oh dear God, another ignorant Gentoo ricer...I've been using Gentoo for about 10 years now.
Always nice to see the community doing wonders to improve its own reputation. :)
You really need to learn before opening your mouth...(snip out discussion on the merits of various CFLAGS - in particular -O3)
That would be why I don't use -O3. Also - we're talking about compilation RAM use and I don't see anything suggesting that compiling with -O3 uses all that much more RAM during building. The resulting executables certainly do, since -O3 in many GCC versions tends to unroll loops pretty aggressively and skipping a bunch of LOOP instructions doesn't make up for all the L1/2 cache waste.
Read this stuff. It actually is kinda important.../me rolls his eyes.
Uh, thanks for the lesson. You'll fit in fine on the gentoo-dev mailing list.
- A random guy who has commit access to your package repository... ;)
Are you suggesting that the typical 18-year-old isn't a savvy consumer able to navigate $75k financial decisions well?
Kids do what their teachers and peers tell them to do - which is take the loan. Parents tell their kids to do what will give them more social standing with their peers, which is to go to a fancier university. If everybody told their kids that taking a student loan will destroy your life far more than a tour in Iraq then everybody would sign up for the Army instead.
What else do kids have to go on? It isn't like we teach them time value of money in high school or anything like that, or give them accurate statistics on post-education page and your probability of getting a job at x salary based on your chosen degree. And kids are fundamentally irrational since we shield them from their mistakes - what does being a starving artist mean to a kid who gets fed three meals a day?
What are kids supposed to do about it - if they don't pay their $60k somebody else will, since most kids have no comprehension about the value of money and of course they're all under the impression that they'll be sitting around in some office being paid $250k/yr, unless of course they're an astronaut.
In the US it is a loan, period. Subsidized loans are interest-free while in school. Unsubsidized loans (still government guaranteed) require interest payments while in school. Rates right now are a few percent - certainly well above inflation and are designed to earn the bank a profit.
After graduation payments come due. You can apply for a break and get a little bit of one, but generally speaking picture having a mortgage for the price of your education, except you can't sell your house. The debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. The payments certainly are considered by anybody contemplating giving you a loan, and if you stop paying them the bank can take your car/house/etc just as with a default on any debt. I imagine they can also charge you all kinds of crazy fees/etc in that situation. I hear the banks like it when you default since the government immediately pays off the loan, AND pays the bank to keep going after you to get it back, so the bank gets paid extra with no risk of loss to themselves.
Kids who are 18 years old have no idea what it means to be $75k in debt with no assets, so they just sign the paper since that is what everybody else does, and then has fun in college for four years.
With $1T in loans currently outstanding I'm sure a day of reckoning is coming for the economy. Kids today graduate from college with $50+k in personal loans, plus what is probably a $100k share in the national debt when their parents die. When EVERYBODY is so much in debt you'd think that people would collectively just decide to default since the people it is owed to would be powerless to collect, but it would take a lot to make that happen...
At any rate, 16GB is now a "regular desktop" amount of RAM.
Well, it is an amount of RAM you could cram into a brand new regular desktop, but it certainly isn't something you'd find on an average desktop. I think I have two slots free in mine so I could bump it up to 16GB, but that is $50 I don't really need to spend. I rarely am using more than half of my RAM as it is, though the extra obviously helps with caching/etc.
Android has always been RAM-intensive, and it makes sense since you have no choice but to build an entire OS at once (not like you can dynamically link it to your desktop's libraries). Just building something like chromium takes a ton of CPU.
Still, not looking forward to this... :)
I run Gentoo and usually run make with -j5 on a tmpfs, and I've never managed to use even half of my 8GB RAM building anything from chromium to firefox to openoffice. And I certainly don't skimp on my CFLAGS.
Maybe if you build this thing on a tmpfs and run -j50 or something you'd need that kind of RAM, but seriously...
Plus, since parallel make tends to limit itself to a single module at a time in most build systems it is hard to get the parallelism to be all that high anyway.
I'll take them at their word, but I suspect that you'd be able to build android with a lot less than 16GB if you aren't running so highly parallelized. For starters I certainly don't have 8 cores to throw at it...
Uh, more like they'll send you a certified letter saying that you're already past-due, and please file and don't forget to add the following fine to your payment.
The next step will be a police officer knocking on your door.
I doubt a tax agency is going to resort to polite reminders.
Well, the CR-48 doesn't quite do what you say you want.
In secure mode it only boots their OS. In developer mode it will boot anything. There is no option to only boot "your" OS.
I think that trusted computing is fine, as long as I control the keys in the computer. Oh, and if I get a copy of the private keys associated with any public keys that are pre-loaded in the thing (not a big deal from a security standpoint - they just need to assign a unique keypair to each PC).
Gotta love letting people vote themselves money.
The government can't "forgive" student loan debt, since the government didn't issue the loan - some bank did. So, you can either force the banks to take a $1T loss (yeah, good luck with that since no doubt they used those loans as "assets" to borrow yet more money against and if you drop their asset base they are so leveraged that the entire economy would go down the tubes), or the government can just cut out some checks to pay off $1T in private debt. So, now the students no longer have their loans, but they get to inherit another $1T in government debt when their parents finally die.
If we're just going to make college education free we should at least have the government institute price controls, or accredit WAY more schools.
How about this - why don't we start containing costs on entitlements, institute a sane tax system, and maybe start spending less money than we take in?
I hear you. I'm in a state that has a primary fairly late in the year and once I finally got interested enough to start voting in primaries I quickly figured out that I didn't really get much of a chance to do so. 90% of the candidates have all conceded by the time they get to my state, so maybe I get to pick between two, assuming that the race worth voting in is the one for the party I'm registered under.
Last time I voted for somebody who conceded to at least send some kind of message.
We really need Condorcet voting or something more sane. As much as I hate parties a proportional system at least keeps them under control.
Uh, if you go all the way back to the 13th century being a landowner didn't mean taking out a mortgage and buying yourself a modest home or condo on that nice equitable salary you are paid to work a job of your own choosing.
Being a landowner meant killing the local warlord (err, knight) and usurping his seat, and then defending your claim long enough for his friends to get tired and become your friends instead. In practice it usually meant being born (preferably first) to the local warlord (err, knight) and inheriting his title.
For everybody else you work the land you were born on, for the payment of being allowed to keep some of the crops to feed your family. If you wanted a little extra income you could follow your lord around so that you could finish off the guy he de-horses in battle while avoiding getting beheaded by the guys wearing armor and swords against your hand axe or whatever you're issued.
So, again I would love to see PRT, but I don't think your comparisons are entirely fair.
Accidents would probably go down faster with self-driving cars than with PRT because the former can be implemented much more quickly. Both would end up near-zero in the end state. I suspect PRT could get lower since it is off of the ground, but then again if a car dies and you have a heart attack you're more likely to get rescued than if your PRT car dies 30 feet above the ground, so neither will have zero accident rate.
Cars can get quite energy efficient if you cut down the weight and use hybrids/etc and all-electric for shorter trips. I agree they'll never get to PRT levels of efficiency. However, self-driving cars can be allocated on demand just like PRT so that you can have a family car for a long trip and a single-passenger car for a short one. Since there are no accidents you can make the thing out of plastic/etc.
While PRT does give you a little more flexibility, cars work fine with traffic circles/etc when they are automated. In a mixed mode I'll agree that PRT is far more efficient.
As far as cost goes - the maintenance certainly is an ongoing cost for road, but the infrastructure is already in place. Automating cars would result in a huge capacity increase so that hopefully the need for more roads is reduced.
I do agree that PRT can do better than automated driving. I'm all for getting it adopted. I just don't see this as an either/or situation, and for whatever reason PRT just hasn't taken off. Plus, PRT is always limited to the built-up network - with automated cars the whole country is already on the network.
Why shouldn't the American Dream come with decent jobs for most people?
Because nobody in elementary school dreams of being a garbage collector, but we need those more than we need astronauts.
I'm all for providing living wages for everybody, but it doesn't make sense to educate somebody to take a job they just aren't cut out for.
Yup, and this is why students shouldn't even be given the choice to go into that kind of debt. Just get rid of the government guarantees and now lenders will be stingy with loans and only give them to people likely to be able to pay them back.
People who truly excel can find scholarships/etc, or government aid could be in the form of grands and should be merit based. Doctors don't get paid big bucks - good doctors get paid big bucks.
This is still a problem, since I as a taxpayer will have to bail out these banks because they lent it to some kid to waste four years of their life having fun. Oh, and I'm sure those universities won't be paying back those tuition payments.
Student loans are a way of making one constituency in the future pay for another constituencies current profits. They're just like credit default swaps in that way. College presidents get big bonuses now, and somebody else can deal with the mess later.
Tuitions will not drop in proportion to attendance, they will only rise or fall in proportion to the expected future earnings of their students.
If demand actually dips below supply, prices will fall considerably. It will take time though.
The real value of wages has dropped over the last few decades, so clearly tuition doesn't rise and fall in proportion to expected future earnings.
The college has fixed costs that don't scale with the size of the student body. That gives them incentive to maximize the size of the student body within the limits of what is supported by their fixed costs. Just as airlines will sell a $10k ticket for $100 a university will give an education away for a fraction of the current tuition if that is the only way to fill their seats.