Get this; those hippies are onto something. 'Organic' food can't be treated with antibiotics, by most peoples definitions. Labeling rules vary by area though...
There are many reasons behind the emergence of drug resistant strains. I would think that the biggest one is over-prescibing by doctors, often in cases when the drugs will do nothing (viral).
Along with extremely high antibiotic usage in the meat industry, there's also anti-bacterial soaps, drug-hoarding of precriptions, not finishing a prescription, and the hospital setting itself, that provides a wonderfull proving ground for infections.
Some friends of mine work in medicine, and this is a big topic for them. And us soon, I guess.
I know exactly what I want to do with this kind of power. I want a massive FPS with a wicked frame rate. I want every object and material in that world to react with me. Newtownian physics down to grains of sand. Nothing short of movie quality realisim.I also want it to be massivly multiplayer. That will require some huge bandwidth and IO. Get on it Livermore!
We might not ever be able to afford something like this. Big iron is not only fast at crunching nubers, but fast at getting that data in and out of the proccessers.
In terms of IO, our desktops can still be beaten hands down by 30 year old systems.
But then again, maybe someone will perfect some super cheap optical system and desktops will be putting out a 1000 times the IO of this thing...
I was aware of the debate about the linux threading issue, but the kernel mailing list was too noisy to pick out this kind of detail.
Someone should start a site that covers long term issues, rather than the week by week stuff I've found on the web... or maybe someone has, and I'm just too out of the loop....
IMO, science is not at all like religion. Religion requires faith in some big things, ideas like God, the second coming, Shiva, etc. Science asks that you accept certain axioms like 1+1=2, and builds from there. Religion might say 'the earth is flat and sits on the backs of turtles', end of story. Science (scientists) would say 'I belive the earth is round because of this, this, this, and that reproducible experiment."
You can choose to belive whatever you want, but a rock accelerates downward at 9.8m*sec^2 no matter what.
I don't want to entirly discount religion as a world-view. I just don't see them as two sides of a coin. They seem to be qualativly different.
On my G4-867, things could be faster sometimes, but mostly this seems to be apps, and not the OS. I'm hoping this will improve.
But when it comes to any floating-point stuff (what I got it for in the first place), like Photoshop filters, Final Cut filters, color compisiting etc., it blazes through it like a hot knife through butter, comared to an Intel box.
I can't find the article, but/. recently had the results of a face-off between Linux PPC and OS X on an Xserve. Linux came out marginly faster (maybe %10).
That performance hit might easily be balanced by Apple's manegment tools, etc., depending on your needs.
I also have a feeling that Apple is going to continue to increase performance in OS X with each release.
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On my G4, with classic running, OS X takes a big hit and gets kind of jerky. I'd say, if you're not useing a classic app constantly, to leave it off. It boots in about 10 seconds anyway.
I'm going to guess from your nick that this is a bit of a pet subject for you.:-)
I can't cite examples. I belive that there are problems with the technique, and that there have been wildly inacurate results published as fact. I do think, though, that science can take uncertianty into account, and still provide valuable insight.
One thing I'm not sure about; when you say 'known age' do you mean 'known to be 2.3 million years old' or ' formed in lava 10 years ago'. As far as I know, there is no other way to date very old rocks than through radiometric dating, and inacuricies in younger rocks doesn't prove much.
I think the best tip he gives is c)Push your vendor
Vendors have the motivation to test and add your patch, as long as it adds something that a customer might want. This means that your patch gets well tested. This means that Linus can treat your patch with some confidence without knowing your work.
Of course, getting into Linus's tree is the Holy Grail of OpenScource development. It's hard not to take it personally if your patch gets rejected.
I would sugest the same thing though. Write your whole app in Python. That's your base. Port each function that needs to be ported to C++. At the end you'll have something much more maintainable.
Just because radiometric dating can give wildly inacurate results, doesn't invalidate it. Any signifigant heating of a rock after it is formed can drive of daughter atoms, giving it a younger date than it really is.
Incomplete melting or cooking in other gases can give a higher date. Geologists take radiometric dating with a grain of salt for that reason
I don't like this situation. I'm not American, and after seeing the results of the last election, I have serious doubts about Americas system of checks and balances.
I recognize Americas (as much as any nations) right to arm itself as well as it can. But I don't see overwhelming strength, used at will against other nations, as a long term path to world peace.
America, and Americans, have a responsibilty to the world. The world can use a cop. But we've all seen bad cops.
It takes more of an investment to bring a larger lizard into the world. We already know the females get well taken care of, so they might as well be small.
You're mostly right, but I take issue with 'they make it easy for people to develop for the platform'. The MS API is not easy to develop for, compared to others.
Developers write for windows because that's where the money is.
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Get this; those hippies are onto something. 'Organic' food can't be treated with antibiotics, by most peoples definitions. Labeling rules vary by area though...
Along with extremely high antibiotic usage in the meat industry, there's also anti-bacterial soaps, drug-hoarding of precriptions, not finishing a prescription, and the hospital setting itself, that provides a wonderfull proving ground for infections.
Some friends of mine work in medicine, and this is a big topic for them. And us soon, I guess.
Good point. Good joke. Yes I'm looking for a total escape from reality, is that so bad?
In terms of IO, our desktops can still be beaten hands down by 30 year old systems.
But then again, maybe someone will perfect some super cheap optical system and desktops will be putting out a 1000 times the IO of this thing...
How does a post get modded overrated as the first mod?? Why are people with mod points so willing to mod down but not up?
I see dead people.....
I was aware of the debate about the linux threading issue, but the kernel mailing list was too noisy to pick out this kind of detail.
Someone should start a site that covers long term issues, rather than the week by week stuff I've found on the web... or maybe someone has, and I'm just too out of the loop....
Not everyone grows up speaking english!
You can choose to belive whatever you want, but a rock accelerates downward at 9.8m*sec^2 no matter what.
I don't want to entirly discount religion as a world-view. I just don't see them as two sides of a coin. They seem to be qualativly different.
On my G4-867, things could be faster sometimes, but mostly this seems to be apps, and not the OS. I'm hoping this will improve.
But when it comes to any floating-point stuff (what I got it for in the first place), like Photoshop filters, Final Cut filters, color compisiting etc., it blazes through it like a hot knife through butter, comared to an Intel box.
That performance hit might easily be balanced by Apple's manegment tools, etc., depending on your needs.
I also have a feeling that Apple is going to continue to increase performance in OS X with each release.
On my G4, with classic running, OS X takes a big hit and gets kind of jerky. I'd say, if you're not useing a classic app constantly, to leave it off. It boots in about 10 seconds anyway.
Very interesting AC. Get an account, please, we need more like that.
I can't cite examples. I belive that there are problems with the technique, and that there have been wildly inacurate results published as fact. I do think, though, that science can take uncertianty into account, and still provide valuable insight.
One thing I'm not sure about; when you say 'known age' do you mean 'known to be 2.3 million years old' or ' formed in lava 10 years ago'. As far as I know, there is no other way to date very old rocks than through radiometric dating, and inacuricies in younger rocks doesn't prove much.
Vendors have the motivation to test and add your patch, as long as it adds something that a customer might want. This means that your patch gets well tested. This means that Linus can treat your patch with some confidence without knowing your work.
Of course, getting into Linus's tree is the Holy Grail of OpenScource development. It's hard not to take it personally if your patch gets rejected.
I love perl, for one page, quick-n-dirtys. But it's 'more than one way to do it' aproach leads to confusion and strife in larger projects.
May I suggest a look at Python?
I would sugest the same thing though. Write your whole app in Python. That's your base. Port each function that needs to be ported to C++. At the end you'll have something much more maintainable.
Incomplete melting or cooking in other gases can give a higher date. Geologists take radiometric dating with a grain of salt for that reason
I recognize Americas (as much as any nations) right to arm itself as well as it can. But I don't see overwhelming strength, used at will against other nations, as a long term path to world peace.
America, and Americans, have a responsibilty to the world. The world can use a cop. But we've all seen bad cops.
It takes more of an investment to bring a larger lizard into the world. We already know the females get well taken care of, so they might as well be small.
Developers write for windows because that's where the money is.