One thing would be to migrate your Linux workstations and servers to Solaris x86, and use cacheFS.
"When you enable cachefs file system, the data read from the remote file system or CD-ROM is stored in a disk-based cache on the local system. Subsequent read requests to the same data are fulfilled by the local cache, which improves read performance."
Of course, a migration is not always an option, and I'm not sure if something like this available for Linux.
You fail to understand that this is not a statue of Saddam or Stalin we're talking about. It's a memorial for fallen russian soldiers who died fighting nazism. Some people are just unable to understand that.
While many people are connecting this memorial with communist oppression, it has nothing to do with communists! Some Estonians who served in SS are still alive today, and there are a popular view of SS troops as "liberators" and soviet soldiers as "occupiers" -- and it is wrong.
You know that there is a memorial for SS soldiers in Estonia?
Is this a flamebait? If yes, then go ahead and contribute with your death to my natural world.
Seriously, it's all about a _choice_. Sure, there will be situations when death of an individual contributes to the survival of the kin. But at the current level of technology, this is less and less the case. We're not going to starve if people stop dying. Everyone can benefit from the extended lifetime of people who are actively contributing to society betterment.
Yes, I agree that small shareholders, in most instances, can not influence the Board of Directors (that's who selects the top management). Board of Directors (large shareholders, in many cases), that's who puts the top management in place, and they assign the CEO and top officers salary. If they will think that the Chinese businessman is better in managing a large US company like IBM (unlikely!), they will put him in charge.
In 80es, if I remember correctly, many companies were targets of hostile takeovers because their management practices were inefficient (read - managers with fat salaries who did not do shit). Now they have all sorts of artificial barriers against hostile takeovers. So we need an improvement in the market of corporate control. Another thing that will help is the realignment of incentives for top management (and that's not easy to figure out). But I would guess that their salaries still will be much higher than the average wage in the industry, just because their decisions have so much influence on the profitability of the company.
You don't really understand economics, do ya? In US, traditionally, there has been much resistance to lowering the wages, even in times when the economy does not grow at the "optimal" rate of 3.5% GDP. This applies to everyone, not just the top management (union contracts, for example). So it is makes a lot of sence to just eliminate the position and recreate it in a low wage country. If they could find the quality top management in the lower wage country, they would move this function as well.
Now, OTOH, the productivity of US workers is much higher than in other countries - this is something to think about.
What about Genetic Algorithms?
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This does not look much different from genetic algorithms, that have been used for years to solve optimization problems:
Intro to GA
Note the words: "computationally expensive".
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One thing would be to migrate your Linux workstations and servers to Solaris x86, and use cacheFS.
"When you enable cachefs file system, the data read from the remote file system or CD-ROM is stored in a disk-based cache on the local system. Subsequent read requests to the same data are fulfilled by the local cache, which improves read performance."
Of course, a migration is not always an option, and I'm not sure if something like this available for Linux.
You fail to understand that this is not a statue of Saddam or Stalin we're talking about. It's a memorial for fallen russian soldiers who died fighting nazism. Some people are just unable to understand that.
While many people are connecting this memorial with communist oppression, it has nothing to do with communists! Some Estonians who served in SS are still alive today, and there are a popular view of SS troops as "liberators" and soviet soldiers as "occupiers" -- and it is wrong.
You know that there is a memorial for SS soldiers in Estonia?
"You can fool some of the people all of the time... - and that's our business model"
Is this a flamebait? If yes, then go ahead and contribute with your death to my natural world.
Seriously, it's all about a _choice_. Sure, there will be situations when death of an individual contributes to the survival of the kin. But at the current level of technology, this is less and less the case. We're not going to starve if people stop dying. Everyone can benefit from the extended lifetime of people who are actively contributing to society betterment.
Yes, I agree that small shareholders, in most instances, can not influence the Board of Directors (that's who selects the top management). Board of Directors (large shareholders, in many cases), that's who puts the top management in place, and they assign the CEO and top officers salary. If they will think that the Chinese businessman is better in managing a large US company like IBM (unlikely!), they will put him in charge.
In 80es, if I remember correctly, many companies were targets of hostile takeovers because their management practices were inefficient (read - managers with fat salaries who did not do shit). Now they have all sorts of artificial barriers against hostile takeovers. So we need an improvement in the market of corporate control. Another thing that will help is the realignment of incentives for top management (and that's not easy to figure out). But I would guess that their salaries still will be much higher than the average wage in the industry, just because their decisions have so much influence on the profitability of the company.
You don't really understand economics, do ya? In US, traditionally, there has been much resistance to lowering the wages, even in times when the economy does not grow at the "optimal" rate of 3.5% GDP. This applies to everyone, not just the top management (union contracts, for example). So it is makes a lot of sence to just eliminate the position and recreate it in a low wage country. If they could find the quality top management in the lower wage country, they would move this function as well. Now, OTOH, the productivity of US workers is much higher than in other countries - this is something to think about.
Our answer to grammar nazis:
Going Nucular - http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/nucular.htm
This does not look much different from genetic algorithms, that have been used for years to solve optimization problems: Intro to GA
Note the words: "computationally expensive".
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