Re:If You have enough RAM
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When you're DMAing large amounts of memory, memory fragmentation becomes an issue.
This is why the 'bigPhysArea' patch to the kernel exists-- to create continuous bloakcs of memory which can be transferred without having to scatter/gather.
Note that this is independant of memory -usage-.. this is an issue with the 'block size' if you will, of memory segmentation.
Put in the RH iso, boot into 'rescue' mode, and it should find the linux partition.
You can attempt to install a bootloader again then.
Also, you can use the windows bootloader to load linux.
Install grub on the -partition- instead of the MBR, and do a dd if=/dev/hda of=/somefile.bin count=1 bs=512
where hda== partition you installed grub onto, Once you've done that, copy somefile.bin onto your windows partition, and edit the boot.ini file to load it.
The real issue is: Would the weight of the fuel needed for a final touchdown burn be greather than than of the wings (and all the structural support you need for such things, because you need lateral ridgidity).
If the answer is yes, you'd have to lug more fuel, then wings are a win, but frankly I'd be suprised if that was the case.
I would imagine that a retro-burn and a parachute would work better than wings (and today, you can steer the parachutes too). The only real problem with parachutes are 1) Tangling (But generally, this doesn't seem to be a big problem) 2) Low speed.
Parachutes don't deal all that well with high speed airflow!
You can use the rockets to get you up there, whereas the wings are a liability only on the way up.
Wings cost money on an orbital vehicle, and considering you have to have a bigger rocket in order to get the wings up there, it could end up costing more..
1) Sew slowly. (i.e. move the needle slowly) 2) A needle has a much smaller surface area than a bullet, and it seems quite likely that the PSI applied is much higher.
I'm not proposing that it is a problem with a solution... It may be an intractible problem.
As for the movement of money due to the stability of value of goods vs. money--
If you've moved wealth from liquidity to goods, and then the price of goods falls (which it must in order to move to a different point on the demand/supply curve), then you lose wealth period.
The only possible exception is that you were not already at an optimal point on the supply/demand curve, and increasing supply gets you to that optimal point.
This seems unlikely, as it would imply terrible market research on the part of the retail segment (since, after all, they actually do use all the available data they can get their hands on in order to price things at that optimal point...)
I'd love for you to suggest a reference so that I can read up on the subject and possibly correct any misconceptions on my part.
I'd sooner believe that other nations want to profit, as opposed to supporting free trade because of some ideal.
The truth of the matter is that other countries are hypocrites too, and they want the balance of power to tip more in their direction.
This would seem to be a reasonable position if you're taking an us vs. them approach. Since I don't yet believe in the capacity for humanity to act in everybodys best interest, protecting your interests be trying to get an equal share of the pie sounds good to me.
Print more money, i.e. devalue the currency. I don't believe that printing money creates wealth.. Rather, it devalues the currency, reducing the wealth of anyone with liquid assets...
Demand shortages are normally an artifact of a lack of disposable wealth. If you're defining these little pieces of paper we use as money as wealth, and you're proposing devaluing them, I'd suggest an alternate approach--
Increase the disposable income, and you'll get an increase in demand.
As to your second point, software is a service industry...
If you compare the American middle class to the American upper 1% (i.e. the rich people), the previous poster would be correct-- i.e. If the playing field only includes the rich and the poor (middle class), the rich win, thus a slanted playing field.
I would add that there is a difference between a corporation profiting (even if said corporation is 'American'), and the median person profiting.
The trend in recent years (the past 30 years or so) has been for a large movement of wealth from the middle class to the richest segment of the population.
Even if both 'sides' benefit from the trade of labor and goods, how you define the 'side' is a delicate thing-- While a few thousand median joes in the US may lose their jobs, a few tens of rich persons may find more than that amount of money in their coffers.
The decisions made by the management of a corporation are typically designed to benefit the shareholders of that particular corporation, and most of the time, the rich benefit from such things more than the (relatively poor) middle class, as such it behooves those people in the middle class to vote with their wallet, as it seems to be the only thing that corporations will notice and/or respond to.
Walmart also censors CDs, and movies without having to mention it to the customers.
Because they have so much market clout, they can force a label or studio to edit out those portions they don't like, else Walmart won't sell it.
Now, you might say: This is just fine! They should only sell what they want to sell!
Well, I have no problem with that, except that they found that if the CD or movie has some little sticker that says that it is censored, that people won't buy (as much) of it, thus the mechanism they use allows them to censor without labeling.
I have a problem with this.
Now, if there was an adaptation for Kmail
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That would be ideal. (since then the 'casual' user could benefit from using it, without undue difficulty in configuration of mail delivery programs, which are notorious in general..)
It may not have created any -legal- liability, but it sure as heck did cause a public relations liability, and in our world, the latter may be more important than the former.
If Microsoft was able to determine that you infringed on their patent, regardless of your selling of the technology, regardless of your inventing it 'independantly' (Actually, the assumption with patents is that you have read them all... i.e. that there isn't such a thing as independent development), they can sue you and prevent you from using it as well as getting damages.
If you're hoping that Microsoft/the gov't won't catch on, yes, that may be correct, but that is not -legal- use under today's laws.
No, I'm not a lawyer, but it is pretty clear that the parent poster isn't either.
Actually, a "lawyer" (note, singular) may be necessary at times, but "lawyers" are probably not necessary for the efficient running of society, especially now that more money == more justice... Why not just go back to the older days when money directly equaled justice?
Lawyers are a new segment of parisites-- The kind with the unique property of: The more there are, the more YOU need..
Lawyers are the new arms race, and since Gov't is pretty much blind to how bad our legal system is fscking with out social system, I don't expect it to get better.
In any arms race, there is generally only one winner-- the arms producer...
Any particular lawyer is not necessarily evil, but as a whole they sure do seem like evil scumbags.
Or you can start your own business. Or look for another job.
If you're worried about the company being able to steal your inventions, it means you're the inventive type-- Working at a lower paying job for a time while you complete the idea can actually be beneficial (since generally these jobs take less time from you than any non 9-5 programming jobs, and I'm not aware of many of those).
In some states, state law says that what you do on your own time with your own materials is YOURS, regardless of the fscking contracts. I don't know which has precedence over what, but I imagine its the state laws.
I am NOT an identured servent, I am NOT a peasant. If you allow yourself to be treated as such, then you are one.
Since I am not a peasant, I expect reasonable compensation for my time and ideas, and if I believe that I will not be receiving that reasonable compensation, I will happily forgoe the opportunity to screw myself over.
Those that allow themselves to be screwed over by such clauses in their employment contracts are doing a disservice to those who would not.
Think "security" versus "freedom" arguments from many great luminaries.
Heh, Well, the U.S. would have had a hard time importing the kind of weather that initially turned back the Germans (and made Stalin's industrial complex in the Urals safe)...
Would that the Germans had learned from Napoleon's mistakes, most of Europe might well be speaking German (Their mistake was opening up the second front to begin with... Thankfully..).
There isn't anything "shameful" about it, until you realize that all the women are balding, you've lost your sense of smell, and all you're shirts fall apart in the wash because of all the HCl mist condensing on the ceiling and dropping onto you.
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When you're DMAing large amounts of memory, memory fragmentation becomes an issue.
This is why the 'bigPhysArea' patch to the kernel exists-- to create continuous bloakcs of memory which can be transferred without having to scatter/gather.
Note that this is independant of memory -usage-.. this is an issue with the 'block size' if you will, of memory segmentation.
Put in the RH iso, boot into 'rescue' mode, and it should find the linux partition.
You can attempt to install a bootloader again then.
Also, you can use the windows bootloader to load linux.
Install grub on the -partition- instead of the MBR,
and do a
dd if=/dev/hda of=/somefile.bin count=1 bs=512
where hda== partition you installed grub onto,
Once you've done that, copy somefile.bin onto your windows partition, and edit the boot.ini file to load it.
Not if you use the same rocket, of course.
The real issue is:
Would the weight of the fuel needed for a final touchdown burn be greather than than of the wings (and all the structural support you need for such things, because you need lateral ridgidity).
If the answer is yes, you'd have to lug more fuel, then wings are a win, but frankly I'd be suprised if that was the case.
I would imagine that a retro-burn and a parachute would work better than wings (and today, you can steer the parachutes too). The only real problem with parachutes are
1) Tangling
(But generally, this doesn't seem to be a big problem)
2) Low speed.
Parachutes don't deal all that well with high speed airflow!
You can use the rockets to get you up there, whereas the wings are a liability only on the way up.
Wings cost money on an orbital vehicle, and considering you have to have a bigger rocket in order to get the wings up there, it could end up costing more..
The bad part about simulation is that you don't learn about the kind of genetic mutation that caused this 'answer'.
I.e. when you simulate, you constrain the evolution to a set of assumptions which may not model the real world..
The neat part about doing stuff in the real world is that you learn unexpected things..
1) Sew slowly. (i.e. move the needle slowly)
2) A needle has a much smaller surface area than a bullet, and it seems quite likely that the PSI applied is much higher.
I'm not proposing that it is a problem with a solution... It may be an intractible problem.
As for the movement of money due to the stability of value of goods vs. money--
If you've moved wealth from liquidity to goods, and then the price of goods falls (which it must in order to move to a different point on the demand/supply curve), then you lose wealth period.
The only possible exception is that you were not already at an optimal point on the supply/demand curve, and increasing supply gets you to that optimal point.
This seems unlikely, as it would imply terrible market research on the part of the retail segment (since, after all, they actually do use all the available data they can get their hands on in order to price things at that optimal point...)
I'd love for you to suggest a reference so that I can read up on the subject and possibly correct any misconceptions on my part.
And thus the problem is realized... =)
(I'll take it that you reversed the $$ quantities above)
I don't think you can.. and frankly, that is the scary part.
I'd sooner believe that other nations want to profit, as opposed to supporting free trade because of some ideal.
The truth of the matter is that other countries are hypocrites too, and they want the balance of power to tip more in their direction.
This would seem to be a reasonable position if you're taking an us vs. them approach. Since I don't yet believe in the capacity for humanity to act in everybodys best interest, protecting your interests be trying to get an equal share of the pie sounds good to me.
Print more money, i.e. devalue the currency.
I don't believe that printing money creates wealth.. Rather, it devalues the currency, reducing the wealth of anyone with liquid assets...
Demand shortages are normally an artifact of a lack of disposable wealth. If you're defining these little pieces of paper we use as money as wealth, and you're proposing devaluing them, I'd suggest an alternate approach--
Increase the disposable income, and you'll get an increase in demand.
As to your second point, software is a service industry...
If you compare the American middle class to the American upper 1% (i.e. the rich people), the previous poster would be correct-- i.e. If the playing field only includes the rich and the poor (middle class), the rich win, thus a slanted playing field.
Nicely said.
I would add that there is a difference between a corporation profiting (even if said corporation is 'American'), and the median person profiting.
The trend in recent years (the past 30 years or so) has been for a large movement of wealth from the middle class to the richest segment of the population.
Even if both 'sides' benefit from the trade of labor and goods, how you define the 'side' is a delicate thing-- While a few thousand median joes in the US may lose their jobs, a few tens of rich persons may find more than that amount of money in their coffers.
The decisions made by the management of a corporation are typically designed to benefit the shareholders of that particular corporation, and most of the time, the rich benefit from such things more than the (relatively poor) middle class, as such it behooves those people in the middle class to vote with their wallet, as it seems to be the only thing that corporations will notice and/or respond to.
That seems entirely to depend on whether or not you're an executive at a company employing people overseas or not...
=)
Walmart also censors CDs, and movies without having to mention it to the customers.
Because they have so much market clout, they can force a label or studio to edit out those portions they don't like, else Walmart won't sell it.
Now, you might say: This is just fine! They should only sell what they want to sell!
Well, I have no problem with that, except that they found that if the CD or movie has some little sticker that says that it is censored, that people won't buy (as much) of it, thus the mechanism they use allows them to censor without labeling.
I have a problem with this.
That would be ideal.
(since then the 'casual' user could benefit from using it, without undue difficulty in configuration of mail delivery programs, which are notorious in general..)
Disagreement..
It may not have created any -legal- liability, but it sure as heck did cause a public relations liability, and in our world, the latter may be more important than the former.
Actually, I believe you are wrong here.
If Microsoft was able to determine that you infringed on their patent, regardless of your selling of the technology, regardless of your inventing it 'independantly' (Actually, the assumption with patents is that you have read them all... i.e. that there isn't such a thing as independent development), they can sue you and prevent you from using it as well as getting damages.
If you're hoping that Microsoft/the gov't won't catch on, yes, that may be correct, but that is not -legal- use under today's laws.
No, I'm not a lawyer, but it is pretty clear that the parent poster isn't either.
Er, as of 3.3 you can do both.
knoppix-instll is gui based however, and even easier than knx-hdinstall
I know this because I'm running debian/knoppix on my laptop, installed from knoppix-3.3.
Actually, a "lawyer" (note, singular) may be necessary at times, but "lawyers" are probably not necessary for the efficient running of society, especially now that more money == more justice... Why not just go back to the older days when money directly equaled justice?
Lawyers are a new segment of parisites-- The kind with the unique property of:
The more there are, the more YOU need..
Lawyers are the new arms race, and since Gov't is pretty much blind to how bad our legal system is fscking with out social system, I don't expect it to get better.
In any arms race, there is generally only one winner-- the arms producer...
Any particular lawyer is not necessarily evil, but as a whole they sure do seem like evil scumbags.
knoppix-install
(yes)
So long as you live in that state, or the contract states that it will be governed by the laws of that state...
Moving can have unexpected consequences in such circumstances.
IANAL
Or you can start your own business. Or look for another job.
If you're worried about the company being able to steal your inventions, it means you're the inventive type-- Working at a lower paying job for a time while you complete the idea can actually be beneficial (since generally these jobs take less time from you than any non 9-5 programming jobs, and I'm not aware of many of those).
In some states, state law says that what you do on your own time with your own materials is YOURS, regardless of the fscking contracts.
I don't know which has precedence over what, but I imagine its the state laws.
I am NOT an identured servent, I am NOT a peasant. If you allow yourself to be treated as such, then you are one.
Since I am not a peasant, I expect reasonable compensation for my time and ideas, and if I believe that I will not be receiving that reasonable compensation, I will happily forgoe the opportunity to screw myself over.
Those that allow themselves to be screwed over by such clauses in their employment contracts are doing a disservice to those who would not.
Think "security" versus "freedom" arguments from many great luminaries.
Heh, Well, the U.S. would have had a hard time importing the kind of weather that initially turned back the Germans (and made Stalin's industrial complex in the Urals safe)...
Would that the Germans had learned from Napoleon's mistakes, most of Europe might well be speaking German (Their mistake was opening up the second front to begin with... Thankfully..).
I've worked in a PCB plant.
There isn't anything "shameful" about it, until you realize that all the women are balding, you've lost your sense of smell, and all you're shirts fall apart in the wash because of all the HCl mist condensing on the ceiling and dropping onto you.
All for $12 an hour!
Faramir- Was wiser than his brother and had no designs upon the ring, the movie twists this very badly.
Elves at Helm's Hold- There shouldn't have been any.