Why *should* it be upgraded? I don't bother upgrading the microprocessor in my thermostat, it seems to work fine.
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I agree there is something perverse about a 1000 mph car, since wheels are mainly just a liability at that point. The the force of gravity pushing down on the wheels will be insignificant compared to aerodynamics. At that speed you could just as easily "drive" on water if it were smooth enough. It's like saying an airplane is a car while it's on the runway.
Maybe you MAY be true in the federal state that USA is "closer" to the EU, but not quite. We still have differing taxes, intrest rates, currencies, passport controls...
I agree with your point overall. However...
Taxes: Americans pay state and local taxes, which vary a lot from place to place, in addition to federal taxes.
Passport controls: The US federal government, frustrated with varying requirements and implementation of driver's licenses from state to state (the primary form of ID in the US), recently tried to impose a "Real ID" initiative, to which many states objected.
Interest rates: not entirely sure what you meant there, but in the US states and municipalities offer their own bonds which offer different interest rates.
Currency: I thought most EU countries were using the Euro?
Again, I agree Europe is not (yet) as centralized as the US. Just some observations.
Well, is each node a cluster of 1Us, or SMP? If SMP, I don't know of anything quite like it. I am surprised the max memory is only 1GB (hopefully they didn't really mean Gb like they wrote?) per core though.
This is the bain of all energy conservation... it all just gets used up to make stuff bigger and better:
1) More efficient drivetrains for cars -> we immediately think "kewl, now I can use a bigger motor and go 0-60 in 4 seconds!"
2) Lower power semiconductors just let us ramp up the GHz.
3) Better insulated homes, we buy bigger homes with more empty rooms.
4) Ultimately now matter how energy efficient we become, it will just make the carrying capacity that much higher (i.e. more affordable to have more kids).
All of these are good things - I like big flatscreens, fast cars, and kids as much as the next guy. But as for efficiency reducing mankind's footprint on the environment, I'm worried it might not happen.
Bingo, the real world is that people have to reboot their laptops far too often because of problems with docking and un-docking. Instead of instant booting to a toy OS, I'd rather MS focus their resources on getting ALL the corner cases of hibernation to work right (multiple/external displays, intermittent network availability, external and network hard drives, etc).
The only practical way this will ever work is coercing hardware manufacturers to stick to more specific standards. In practice, ACPI hasn't solved it.
The 4GB ram barrier is starting to be a problem though. That's only a hundreds bucks worth of RAM. Lots of guys I work with are switching to Mac desktops with 8 or 10 gigs of RAM to run their machine learning stuff, while running Windows in VMWare Fusion for MS Office. My Dell laptop with 4GB RAM is wasting about 400MB of it because, though I run Linux, I haven't jumped into the 64 bit waters because of concern over software problems. Presumably binaries like VMWare, NVidia drivers, but who knows what else?
I don't like analyst reactions either. I do like the idea of "sharing" the experience with somebody outside my own family in real-time though. I tried IRC, but it was too distracting and the quality of the comments was horrible.
What I'd like to find is one of those real-time "happy meters" that thousands of people can log into and each push an "approve" or "disapprove" button whenever they like. The meter would show the aggregate in real-time.
I just assume somebody has already set this up, but I've searched and failed to find it?
What are you basing this on? One or two proposed aspects of a tax code?
Here is the big picture: wealth redistribution is real, and has occurred at a rapid pace since the inception of Reaganomics. The beneficiaries are the ultra-rich. And why should this surprise anybody? "Supply-side economics" is a synonym for wealth redistribution to the rich, under the presumption they are the smart ones and know best how to spend it.
Here are a couple stats from this article:
According to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, the hourly wage of the average American non-supervisory worker is actually lower, adjusted for inflation, than it was in 1970. Meanwhile, CEO pay has soared -- from less than thirty times the average wage to almost 300 times the typical worker's pay.
I personally think this deserves punishment, regardless of whose email account he happened to crack. It doesn't matter if it was the Republican nominee for VP or Joe Six-Pack's, and it doesn't matter what portentous revelations came of it.
That's the key. How many webmail accounts do you think are compromised every day in the world? Now, how many are investigated by the secret service and result in a federal indictment?
People go to school for about a decade to become a pathologist, and replicating that kind of domain knowledge isn't an easy task.
That's the presumption, but it's often false. An algorithm can often outperform an expert's intuition. See the chapter on "Evidence Based Medicine" in the book "Super Crunchers," or the chapter on diagnosing heart attack in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Often in these classification tasks, an expert using a statistical tool performs worse than the statistical tool alone, because they override it and degrade its performance. The human mind is very poor at properly weighting a large number of factors and considering all their interactions.
Windows XP on my work laptop is just like this; booting will stall for several minutes as the anti-virus software tries to phone home if the network interface is enabled but not plugged in. It's horribly annoying.
Though to be fair, my linux computer can't shut down correctly, either, because it gets to "unmounting network filesystems" and just sits there forever.
I have run linux systems without swap for years without trouble, including the laptop I'm on right now.
On a system with adequate RAM, the primary effect of swap is to make the system bog down before it crashes when a runaway process tries to allocate a huge amount of memory.
Thanks, it sounds very interesting. Do the virtuozzo containers all share OS files (libraries) to the extent possible?
One of my main problems with VMWare is that a VM itself takes so much disk space that it takes a long time to work with (copy, archive etc) and I can't fit many on my laptop.
Somewhat paradoxically, it must be possible to snapshot an application with its entire environment so you have a known working version.
The whole point of time-sharing operating systems in the first place was to allow many competing applications to get along yet protect them from each other.
We have layer upon layer of redundancy built in; a Java VM running on an x86 VM running on a CPU operating in protected mode. Then somebody comes along and says, "hey I have a breakthrough idea, let's just use ONE of those layers!"
The real nut of my questions is, what would we need to add to more conventional OS's (linux) to get the job done?
For my money, the biggest problem is package interdependencies. IMHO much VM usage is actually just to address that issue. We need package management that isolates applications from each other, giving the appearance of a custom chroot environment for each, while silently sharing resources (such as.so's) that just happen to be the same in multiple applications.
For example, when shown a clip of George Bush in 2003 claiming Iraq had WMD's, 35% of conservatives agree. When shown the same clip plus the 2004 Duelfer report (compiled by a Bush appointee) which demonstrated that Iraq did not have WMD's, suddenly 64% of conservatives believe the weapons were there.
Well where does that leave us? How can people be persuaded?
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Why *should* it be upgraded? I don't bother upgrading the microprocessor in my thermostat, it seems to work fine.
I agree there is something perverse about a 1000 mph car, since wheels are mainly just a liability at that point. The the force of gravity pushing down on the wheels will be insignificant compared to aerodynamics. At that speed you could just as easily "drive" on water if it were smooth enough. It's like saying an airplane is a car while it's on the runway.
I agree with your point overall. However...
Taxes: Americans pay state and local taxes, which vary a lot from place to place, in addition to federal taxes.
Passport controls: The US federal government, frustrated with varying requirements and implementation of driver's licenses from state to state (the primary form of ID in the US), recently tried to impose a "Real ID" initiative, to which many states objected.
Interest rates: not entirely sure what you meant there, but in the US states and municipalities offer their own bonds which offer different interest rates.
Currency: I thought most EU countries were using the Euro?
Again, I agree Europe is not (yet) as centralized as the US. Just some observations.
Neither Linux nor Wikipedia is ad-supported. And I sure hope they stay that way.
Well, is each node a cluster of 1Us, or SMP? If SMP, I don't know of anything quite like it. I am surprised the max memory is only 1GB (hopefully they didn't really mean Gb like they wrote?) per core though.
1) More efficient drivetrains for cars -> we immediately think "kewl, now I can use a bigger motor and go 0-60 in 4 seconds!"
2) Lower power semiconductors just let us ramp up the GHz.
3) Better insulated homes, we buy bigger homes with more empty rooms.
4) Ultimately now matter how energy efficient we become, it will just make the carrying capacity that much higher (i.e. more affordable to have more kids).
All of these are good things - I like big flatscreens, fast cars, and kids as much as the next guy. But as for efficiency reducing mankind's footprint on the environment, I'm worried it might not happen.
The only practical way this will ever work is coercing hardware manufacturers to stick to more specific standards. In practice, ACPI hasn't solved it.
The 4GB ram barrier is starting to be a problem though. That's only a hundreds bucks worth of RAM. Lots of guys I work with are switching to Mac desktops with 8 or 10 gigs of RAM to run their machine learning stuff, while running Windows in VMWare Fusion for MS Office. My Dell laptop with 4GB RAM is wasting about 400MB of it because, though I run Linux, I haven't jumped into the 64 bit waters because of concern over software problems. Presumably binaries like VMWare, NVidia drivers, but who knows what else?
What I'd like to find is one of those real-time "happy meters" that thousands of people can log into and each push an "approve" or "disapprove" button whenever they like. The meter would show the aggregate in real-time.
I just assume somebody has already set this up, but I've searched and failed to find it?
What are you basing this on? One or two proposed aspects of a tax code?
Here is the big picture: wealth redistribution is real, and has occurred at a rapid pace since the inception of Reaganomics. The beneficiaries are the ultra-rich. And why should this surprise anybody? "Supply-side economics" is a synonym for wealth redistribution to the rich, under the presumption they are the smart ones and know best how to spend it.
Here are a couple stats from this article:
According to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, the hourly wage of the average American non-supervisory worker is actually lower, adjusted for inflation, than it was in 1970. Meanwhile, CEO pay has soared -- from less than thirty times the average wage to almost 300 times the typical worker's pay.
So, there is your wealth redistribution.
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Actually I'm not entirely happy with what MS Word outline view - I wish you could view numbered lists that way, not just headings.
Simply upload your photos from your hotel room (or an Internet cafe) and delete them from your laptop before leaving for home. Viola.
Bush is just a cowboy costume for Cheney and Rove.
That's the key. How many webmail accounts do you think are compromised every day in the world? Now, how many are investigated by the secret service and result in a federal indictment?
That's the presumption, but it's often false. An algorithm can often outperform an expert's intuition. See the chapter on "Evidence Based Medicine" in the book "Super Crunchers," or the chapter on diagnosing heart attack in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Often in these classification tasks, an expert using a statistical tool performs worse than the statistical tool alone, because they override it and degrade its performance. The human mind is very poor at properly weighting a large number of factors and considering all their interactions.
Though to be fair, my linux computer can't shut down correctly, either, because it gets to "unmounting network filesystems" and just sits there forever.
Probably so they know exactly when and how many times you watch each disc.
On a system with adequate RAM, the primary effect of swap is to make the system bog down before it crashes when a runaway process tries to allocate a huge amount of memory.
Thanks, it sounds very interesting. Do the virtuozzo containers all share OS files (libraries) to the extent possible? One of my main problems with VMWare is that a VM itself takes so much disk space that it takes a long time to work with (copy, archive etc) and I can't fit many on my laptop. Somewhat paradoxically, it must be possible to snapshot an application with its entire environment so you have a known working version.
The real nut of my questions is, what would we need to add to more conventional OS's (linux) to get the job done? For my money, the biggest problem is package interdependencies. IMHO much VM usage is actually just to address that issue. We need package management that isolates applications from each other, giving the appearance of a custom chroot environment for each, while silently sharing resources (such as .so's) that just happen to be the same in multiple applications.
This reminds me of another important piece of research (ok, it's from The Simpsons).
So you're saying I shouldn't lick the power terminals on my shiny new capacitor car?
Well where does that leave us? How can people be persuaded?