Bittorrent spawns a huge number of connections. If the OS (or ISP) gives equal bandwidth to each TCP stream, your connection to youtube gets about as much as each one of your 25 bitorrent connections, which destroys the streaming video, voip, or even normal web surfing. I would LOVE it if this provides a solution. (I would be even happier if ToS flags were widely honored, but that has never happened, so I don't know why it would happen now).
While it sounds good in theory a stagnate or declining population is also an aging population which brings about it's own problems. Pretty much all successful species will populate to the limits of their resources
...at which point the population stagnates or declines involuntarily and you have not only an aging population, but all the (far more serious) challenges of resource exhaustion.
The population pyramid scheme is like any other, it's great while it lasts (for the last several hundred years) but disastrous in the end. The population must stabilize eventually; we can either accomplish that while the earth is still a nice place to live, or after we're stuffed in elbow-to-elbow, choking on each others' excrement.
That's a lot of ants and I don't think they're worried.
Billions of ants starve to death all the time. Avoiding the plight of dumb animals is exactly what sustainable population is all about.
People have 14 kids because they're not allowed to abort them, or practice safe sex, etc.
Don't you believe in darwinistic evolution? The drive to make zillions of babies is its single most obvious implication. Every species strives to reproduce, obviously.
Religion has always been against women's rights.
What religion is, is conservative - that is, after a formative period, it wants beliefs to remain the same. The appeal of religion is that it offers certainty on all of life's imponderables - why we exist, how we should act, etc. Change means admitting you don't have all the answers, and never did, so religion is incompatible with change. But I don't know of any reason to think religion is the original source of inequality for women, rather than just a momentum term on that sentiment. Animal life is all about physical domination, that's what put women at a disadvantage, but it was true long before religion came about. (Similar to war, do you really think people wouldn't find things to fight over if not for religious differences?) They'll come around, eventually.
Except those aren't very redistributive, since most people pay at one time of life and withdraw during another. Even welfare to some extent; a lot of people who've always paid into the system and never thought they'd need to collect, have been surprised to be on the receiving end lately.
That is interesting, but let's not equate technology with production. Often rich nations create the technology to exploit the resources is poorer nations. Maybe it applies to states, too. California has a big lead in solar.
On the contrary, I never understand why people say not to worry because it's not personal or ideological, just simple greed. Greed is exactly what does motivate people and countries to oppress each other. Do you want other countries using their economic might to extract and export our limited natural resources on a massive scale? Setting up cheap and dangerous chemical processing plants on our soil so they can have slightly cheaper consumer goods back home? Subverting our politics to select US leadership submissive to overseas economic interests? Heck, until 150 years ago we were literally buying up people to satisfy the slave trade, so I'm sure you don't want us to look even that far back in our own past to see what "good business" might now put us on the receiving end of.
That is interesting. I have an uncle who used to work for EF Hutton as a stock broker (which is going back a few years, but you may remember their motto, "When E.F. Hutton Talks, People Listen." They were very prestigious at the time.) I asked him if, among the more wealthy brokers he knew, they made their fortunes on stock picks, or on commissions, to which he immediately replied "commissions." That told me all I needed to know about paying for their advice.
The differentiator is the navigation software that uses that information, its usability, its quality and its features. You're looking for clear maps, accurate journey time estimates, various easy ways to find a destination, clear audio instructions, etc
And that's the real reason garmin should be quaking in their boots. The interface on my 60CS receiver is so slow and primitive, and the search is practically useless compared to google maps. Even the desktop software, MapSource, is generations behind. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to strap an iPhone onto my motorcycle handlebar and ride through the rain all day, or take it hiking, like I do the 60 CS. The Garmin hardware, though a bit clunky and expensive, is robust and high quality. But the people who need that and will pay for it is a niche. 95% of people will be happy with (and even prefer) integration into their cell phone. Garmin will still be making speciality products for industry and enthusiasts, but that is it.
I would imagine when cops turn against each other, all sorts of hilarity ensues. They know their rights, plus they known the workings of the system, plus they have a lot of exposure to nefarious/criminal minds. Sort of like when two ambulance-chasing lawyers have a fender-bender.
To me it becomes less interesting when you consider that diverging species start as one. During generations when a species is bifurcating, cross-breeding must normal initially, then become less potent over successive generations until finally it is practically impossible. So the question isn't whether this happens, only how long the separation takes - how much the genomes may differ before they cannot mix.
Secondly, genomes are not stationary over time, so the "modern" humans that may have interbred with neanderthals may have had trouble interbreeding with us.
I already know that I'll get back about HALF the money I paid in (unless I live to see 110 which seems unlikely).
Really? Or do you mean that you'll get about half of what you might get if you invested the same money in the stock market, assuming some hoped-for rate of returns? Maybe you're right, but I'm curious where the figure comes from.
My first thought too: they're lying. (Why would being on a laptop stop them from hearing radio calls?) But claiming to have been studying on a computer would be a risky lie, because computer forensics may be able to determine whether the laptops were actually in use at that time.
Yeah, maybe! Or maybe it's Dell that hand-picks all the choicest x86 components off the assembly line and passes the rubbish onto Apple. I mean, we are talking pure wishful thinking and speculation here.
On the other hand, mass adoption of Netflix streaming is absolutely key to getting more titles available through it. So this announcement is good news even for those of us who don't own a gaming console.
From what I can tell, you can't really fix this as it is what the program does (though I could be wrong).
No way should ldd be so promiscuous, executing arbitrary dynamic loaders like that. It shouldn't execute anything that isn't in the PATH. For root, that would limit it to executables that aren't user-writable which is the essential problem here.
you still have to conceive of a way to produce it in mass quantities to drive the price below that of established spinning disks.
Nope! Roast beef costs more than bologna, yet people chose to buy it every day. SSD drives don't need to be cheaper because they are better - silent, far less prone to shock damage, and ohhh so much faster. Morever, HDD's, though cheaper per megabyte for huge-sized drives, will be more expensive for the smaller sizes people actually need. You can get a memory stick for, what, $10? HDD's never touch that because of their complexity. Well before 2020 a 250 GB SSD will be $20, and will have ample capacity for most users, and will be cheaper than any HDD. Granted, a 50 TB HDD will still be cheaper than a 50 TB SDD, but most people won't care. About that time, HDDs will become specialty products, further crippling any remaining cost advantage.
Wait a minute, India is the model you don't want to emulate in other countries? Their economic growth has been incredible, and competition from India strikes fear into the hearts of many slashdotters. Nothing is going to solve poverty in a huge country like India overnight, but they are on the right track.
Stories about developing nations always invite these silly comments. The fact is, economic development is always very closely tied to the ability to communicate. Always has been. And developing nations are not going to go through every obsolete technology (pony express, telegraph, manually switched copper network...) that we did; there is no economic basis for doing so. You could argue they should get a cellphone network before Internet, but these days they are one in the same.
this is a protection measure to make sure that any company stupid enough to try and set this precedent (advertising in the OS) will have to pay through the nose to Apple.
What does that protect against? Why would Apple care if somebody wanted to do something Apple truly believed was stupid?
People might not like this idea, sure... but if the only way they can afford an iPhone is to sit through a 10-second ad before making a call, they'll probably still do it.
Nah, they could still compromise your PC to upload the USB data later.
Rather, I see this as an argument to keep control over your whole computer at all times, instead of leaving it around for the evil maid. Which is not unrealistic if your "computer" is a blackberry or iPhone. So, attacks of this sort are a boost for PDA-sized computers as opposed to laptops.
It's not surprising because the OS really can't do that much to improve (or mess up) the performance of user-mode code that isn't making many OS calls anyways.
What is surprising is that power consumption could be so significantly reduced. This story could have come out with an entirely different spin if the headline were simply, "Windows 7 Reduces Power Consumption by 17%."
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Bittorrent spawns a huge number of connections. If the OS (or ISP) gives equal bandwidth to each TCP stream, your connection to youtube gets about as much as each one of your 25 bitorrent connections, which destroys the streaming video, voip, or even normal web surfing. I would LOVE it if this provides a solution. (I would be even happier if ToS flags were widely honored, but that has never happened, so I don't know why it would happen now).
I'm not saying we're close to global carrying capacity now. My question is, why push it?
The population pyramid scheme is like any other, it's great while it lasts (for the last several hundred years) but disastrous in the end. The population must stabilize eventually; we can either accomplish that while the earth is still a nice place to live, or after we're stuffed in elbow-to-elbow, choking on each others' excrement.
Billions of ants starve to death all the time. Avoiding the plight of dumb animals is exactly what sustainable population is all about.
Don't you believe in darwinistic evolution? The drive to make zillions of babies is its single most obvious implication. Every species strives to reproduce, obviously.
What religion is, is conservative - that is, after a formative period, it wants beliefs to remain the same. The appeal of religion is that it offers certainty on all of life's imponderables - why we exist, how we should act, etc. Change means admitting you don't have all the answers, and never did, so religion is incompatible with change. But I don't know of any reason to think religion is the original source of inequality for women, rather than just a momentum term on that sentiment. Animal life is all about physical domination, that's what put women at a disadvantage, but it was true long before religion came about. (Similar to war, do you really think people wouldn't find things to fight over if not for religious differences?) They'll come around, eventually.
Except those aren't very redistributive, since most people pay at one time of life and withdraw during another. Even welfare to some extent; a lot of people who've always paid into the system and never thought they'd need to collect, have been surprised to be on the receiving end lately.
That is interesting, but let's not equate technology with production. Often rich nations create the technology to exploit the resources is poorer nations. Maybe it applies to states, too. California has a big lead in solar.
On the contrary, I never understand why people say not to worry because it's not personal or ideological, just simple greed. Greed is exactly what does motivate people and countries to oppress each other. Do you want other countries using their economic might to extract and export our limited natural resources on a massive scale? Setting up cheap and dangerous chemical processing plants on our soil so they can have slightly cheaper consumer goods back home? Subverting our politics to select US leadership submissive to overseas economic interests? Heck, until 150 years ago we were literally buying up people to satisfy the slave trade, so I'm sure you don't want us to look even that far back in our own past to see what "good business" might now put us on the receiving end of.
That is interesting. I have an uncle who used to work for EF Hutton as a stock broker (which is going back a few years, but you may remember their motto, "When E.F. Hutton Talks, People Listen." They were very prestigious at the time.) I asked him if, among the more wealthy brokers he knew, they made their fortunes on stock picks, or on commissions, to which he immediately replied "commissions." That told me all I needed to know about paying for their advice.
And that's the real reason garmin should be quaking in their boots. The interface on my 60CS receiver is so slow and primitive, and the search is practically useless compared to google maps. Even the desktop software, MapSource, is generations behind. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to strap an iPhone onto my motorcycle handlebar and ride through the rain all day, or take it hiking, like I do the 60 CS. The Garmin hardware, though a bit clunky and expensive, is robust and high quality. But the people who need that and will pay for it is a niche. 95% of people will be happy with (and even prefer) integration into their cell phone. Garmin will still be making speciality products for industry and enthusiasts, but that is it.
I would imagine when cops turn against each other, all sorts of hilarity ensues. They know their rights, plus they known the workings of the system, plus they have a lot of exposure to nefarious/criminal minds. Sort of like when two ambulance-chasing lawyers have a fender-bender.
I am going to have to run that calculation myself next time they send me a report.
Secondly, genomes are not stationary over time, so the "modern" humans that may have interbred with neanderthals may have had trouble interbreeding with us.
Really? Or do you mean that you'll get about half of what you might get if you invested the same money in the stock market, assuming some hoped-for rate of returns? Maybe you're right, but I'm curious where the figure comes from.
My first thought too: they're lying. (Why would being on a laptop stop them from hearing radio calls?) But claiming to have been studying on a computer would be a risky lie, because computer forensics may be able to determine whether the laptops were actually in use at that time.
Yeah, maybe! Or maybe it's Dell that hand-picks all the choicest x86 components off the assembly line and passes the rubbish onto Apple. I mean, we are talking pure wishful thinking and speculation here.
On the other hand, mass adoption of Netflix streaming is absolutely key to getting more titles available through it. So this announcement is good news even for those of us who don't own a gaming console.
The even have a new Small Business Edition with support for up to "1 USERS" and "1 GB" of RAM. Imagine, a billion bytes of memory, all in a single PC!
No way should ldd be so promiscuous, executing arbitrary dynamic loaders like that. It shouldn't execute anything that isn't in the PATH. For root, that would limit it to executables that aren't user-writable which is the essential problem here.
So? 1080p is only 2 MP. Even consumer-level digicams have offered more than than for forever. 30-60 fps is quite a different thing than still imagery.
The video in this article is greater than 8 MP. Are those common? This vendor doesn't seem to have any at all.
Nope! Roast beef costs more than bologna, yet people chose to buy it every day. SSD drives don't need to be cheaper because they are better - silent, far less prone to shock damage, and ohhh so much faster. Morever, HDD's, though cheaper per megabyte for huge-sized drives, will be more expensive for the smaller sizes people actually need. You can get a memory stick for, what, $10? HDD's never touch that because of their complexity. Well before 2020 a 250 GB SSD will be $20, and will have ample capacity for most users, and will be cheaper than any HDD. Granted, a 50 TB HDD will still be cheaper than a 50 TB SDD, but most people won't care. About that time, HDDs will become specialty products, further crippling any remaining cost advantage.
Wait a minute, India is the model you don't want to emulate in other countries? Their economic growth has been incredible, and competition from India strikes fear into the hearts of many slashdotters. Nothing is going to solve poverty in a huge country like India overnight, but they are on the right track.
Stories about developing nations always invite these silly comments. The fact is, economic development is always very closely tied to the ability to communicate. Always has been. And developing nations are not going to go through every obsolete technology (pony express, telegraph, manually switched copper network...) that we did; there is no economic basis for doing so. You could argue they should get a cellphone network before Internet, but these days they are one in the same.
What does that protect against? Why would Apple care if somebody wanted to do something Apple truly believed was stupid?
People might not like this idea, sure... but if the only way they can afford an iPhone is to sit through a 10-second ad before making a call, they'll probably still do it.
Rather, I see this as an argument to keep control over your whole computer at all times, instead of leaving it around for the evil maid. Which is not unrealistic if your "computer" is a blackberry or iPhone. So, attacks of this sort are a boost for PDA-sized computers as opposed to laptops.
What is surprising is that power consumption could be so significantly reduced. This story could have come out with an entirely different spin if the headline were simply, "Windows 7 Reduces Power Consumption by 17%."