Well, its better if every house and person has some power, even if its a small amount after a massive nuke attack. Your grid is toast.
But if I was Leader#1, I would tell the banks to Foff, give back the 5 trillion $, and make every single house and office building 100% solar powered, use excess power to suck water out of the air to make fresh water locally. Use extra power to suck N from air and H from water to make liquid fuels (amonia)
I mean really, for the benefit of 300m people is better, than some stupid 50b benefit for a few corporations, they can get fuekd, and go supply high power to industry/factories.
The general citizen should have free power + free water.
Thats the only way society will advanced, not getting huge $900 bills a quarter, and living poor because power costs are huge. Give back people a bit of luxury, and minimum life standards. Dont just say its a free market, bad luck if your poor . Id be the first to feed those wallstreet crooks to the sharks or zombies.
Still on windows 7, I rarely need to reboot, only if MS installs an update that requires a reboot, and those update reboots, always take longer as they need to install.
Having said that, I can reboot in 12 seconds ( hybrid hdd )
And its stupid to shutdown/reboot, ever heard of short term SLEEP, or long term HIBERNATE?
Infact unless I change hardware or some driver refuses to work again, I never ever do real reboots or proper shutdowns.
The UI is so fricking (made by engineers) its not funny.
If it had an xbmc style fullscreen UI (get rid of the stupid 100 menus, they are hard to use on a tv + wireless trackpad on kb)
Get out of the 1997 mindset, if you app is a media player, and for watching stuff full screen, make all of the UI 100% of it inside the fullscreen like a PVR.
VLC although the core and abilities are great (minus some mp4 bugs) , its name sucks, rename it to Ultimate Video Player, and fix its gui, delete all windows 95 based menus.
if motherboard #325 dies and kills 8 nodes at once, so if that requires a 12 hour job to re-run why not just have always several dozen spare idle nodes waiting to do that 12hr job in 1hr to catch up.
Or are you saying out of 1 million nodes, 1 fails every 1/2 hour, so you need 24 spare to catchup, which is feasable.
Or are you saying failure rate is 1 every minute? which would require 720 spare nodes every hour , which is a lot of new racks being installed daily.
If it scales linearly, then its ok, and wont drag to a stand still, but if it doesnt, then it will eventually scale down until it stops falling and reaching equilibrium..... and if hardware improves in time, it will start scaling automatically due to less failures.
Just make checkpointing cost zero time. How, have each node, really be a dual node ( like most things in nature are ). So one half is always computing, and the other half is check pointing. Just like video games use of double buffering to do smooth fps. If checkpointing uses less cpu than comps, then swap the cores functionality every N runs to give each core a temperature rest, to cool down, to increase life.
Sure each node is bigger, but it could perhaps scale better, the overhead curve should be way better, and flat.
Hire some big phds to design mitigation mechanisms to increase MTBF by better environmental management, I dunno, give nodes a rest for 30 mins every 5 days. I dunno, more research needs to be done, and that takes tonne of time, (unless you can simulate it on a super computer) doh.
net based games, theres udp traffic. many players at once, theres bluetooth controller traffic. background downloading = more os tasks plus because its linux, you can develop your games on a real pc too with nvidia hardware i guess.
MS has made embedded XP that run nicely under 256M ram, and 150M disk. An ARM version of this baby would run well on lots of devices. Throw in a directX based GUI Launcher aka Metro and there you have it. WinMobile8.
There is nothing that cant be done in XP, that can in Win8RT .
Dude, the hardware is getting better, and pretty soon, the bottom lowest piece of crap, will have 1024 or 1280 screens, will have min 1ghz dual core, will have at least 4gig flash. All for $50.
Soon every TV will have android in it. And if the camera makers got of their ass, android would be great in a DSLR, now if they just gave every DSLR bt/gps/wifi/3g, then it would rock. Come on makers, put in that $20 soc in there.
Can I shoohorn in the latest X+libc into Fedora14? or Ubuntu 9 using older gcc?
Sure we can force it, but watch things break.
Stupid MS though, im sure 99.99% of the api/code doesnt use any Win8 specifics, lets hope someone can hack the installer. They should be smarter and develop a truly smart compiler/binary system that can work with many versions.
This is what sucks about most OS's and Software systems, 20000 libraries, each with their own matrix of dependencies and incompatibilities.
But if people got a clue and designed in a more organic way, then more varieties of code could inter mix with each other.
Instead of each windows being a new species of animal with incompatible DNA, it should evolve in a compatible way.
The govt was paying AT&T for renting phones, but these phones were rented from 1950s, and were still being paid for, the old black ones. But they werent even being used, they were in storage, already replaced, but still being paid for a few $ ea / month.
Meanwhile AT&T has received 100x the cost of the phones value.
Stupid govt workers just dont care, thats policy.
Theres no incentive to buy cheaper to save $ from an infinite bank account.
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Just get ANON to hack into these F'ers , steal the source, they porn, internal mail, and publish it , make a clone in a day.
Oh and then trash their source code servers, and then modify the backup restoration scripts to corrupt the backup when restore is attempted.
Have a gamespy proxy, that pretends to be gamespy, but can convert each and every packet to the new server system.
It should be possible, have local firewall redirect to a proxy translator to a new server.
Possible?
Those big mofo engines did the trick.
The design is all public, why cant china just dupe it with 10x the work force, and be on the moon in 2013.
A couple of iPads and an i7 server is all you need ;)
Well, its better if every house and person has some power, even if its a small amount after a massive nuke attack. Your grid is toast.
But if I was Leader#1, I would tell the banks to Foff, give back the 5 trillion $, and make every single house and office building 100% solar powered, use excess power to suck water out of the air to make fresh water locally. Use extra power to suck N from air and H from water to make liquid fuels (amonia)
I mean really, for the benefit of 300m people is better, than some stupid 50b benefit for a few corporations, they can get fuekd, and go supply high power to industry/factories.
The general citizen should have free power + free water.
Thats the only way society will advanced, not getting huge $900 bills a quarter, and living poor because power costs are huge. Give back people a bit of luxury, and minimum life standards. Dont just say its a free market, bad luck if your poor . Id be the first to feed those wallstreet crooks to the sharks or zombies.
Jeez your a lazy sob.
Buy a cheapass laptop, boot of bootable USB (loaded with Win7Ult), a few clicks later, boom, 30 mins, install done (dvd installers make me laugh)
Fresh windows, no crap ware. Your getting old dude.
By your rationale, why dont you sleep 1 hr a day, and take coke to stay away, since you know time asleep equals money equals wasted money.
Work 21hrs/day.
Still on windows 7,
I rarely need to reboot, only if MS installs an update that requires a reboot, and those update reboots, always take longer as they need to install.
Having said that, I can reboot in 12 seconds ( hybrid hdd )
And its stupid to shutdown/reboot, ever heard of short term SLEEP, or long term HIBERNATE?
Infact unless I change hardware or some driver refuses to work again, I never ever do real reboots or proper shutdowns.
ERh?
Dont you mean, if you DO need to jump from 32 to 64, then yes, requires full re-install/fresh install.
Upgrades obviously work from 32 -> 32, or 64 -> 64.
State the fucking obvious.
And stop using reverse negatives, just say it as it is, do X only if Y.
Dont pretend to be fancy.
The UI is so fricking (made by engineers) its not funny.
If it had an xbmc style fullscreen UI (get rid of the stupid 100 menus, they are hard to use on a tv + wireless trackpad on kb)
Get out of the 1997 mindset, if you app is a media player, and for watching stuff full screen, make all of the UI 100% of it inside the fullscreen like a PVR.
VLC although the core and abilities are great (minus some mp4 bugs) , its name sucks, rename it to Ultimate Video Player, and fix its gui, delete all windows 95 based menus.
what moron in the 70s or 80s thought of F4 ?
Was it those vertical Function keys from the 70s that it was at the bottom so easy to hit?
ALT-ESC makes more logical sense.
Whats the history of ALT-F4 hmmmm
wiki? http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Alt_%2BF4
after the few 1000 fails you will get similar curves for time of fail after new.
ok
if motherboard #325 dies and kills 8 nodes at once, so if that requires a 12 hour job to re-run why not just have always several dozen spare idle nodes waiting to do that 12hr job in 1hr to catch up.
Or are you saying out of 1 million nodes, 1 fails every 1/2 hour, so you need 24 spare to catchup, which is feasable.
Or are you saying failure rate is 1 every minute? which would require 720 spare nodes every hour , which is a lot of new racks being installed daily.
If it scales linearly, then its ok, and wont drag to a stand still, but if it doesnt, then it will eventually scale down until it stops falling and reaching equilibrium..... and if hardware improves in time, it will start scaling automatically due to less failures.
Just make checkpointing cost zero time. How, have each node, really be a dual node ( like most things in nature are ). So one half is always computing, and the other half is check pointing. Just like video games use of double buffering to do smooth fps. If checkpointing uses less cpu than comps, then swap the cores functionality every N runs to give each core a temperature rest, to cool down, to increase life.
Sure each node is bigger, but it could perhaps scale better, the overhead curve should be way better, and flat.
Hire some big phds to design mitigation mechanisms to increase MTBF by better environmental management, I dunno, give nodes a rest for 30 mins every 5 days. I dunno, more research needs to be done, and that takes tonne of time, (unless you can simulate it on a super computer) doh.
Just a thought.
Atom 5watts
Intel chip set 20 watts
Screw your atom
net based games, theres udp traffic.
many players at once, theres bluetooth controller traffic.
background downloading = more os tasks
plus because its linux, you can develop your games on a real pc too with nvidia hardware i guess.
MS has made embedded XP that run nicely under 256M ram, and 150M disk. An ARM version of this baby would run well on lots of devices. Throw in a directX based GUI Launcher aka Metro and there you have it. WinMobile8.
There is nothing that cant be done in XP, that can in Win8RT .
Dude, the hardware is getting better, and pretty soon, the bottom lowest piece of crap, will have 1024 or 1280 screens, will have min 1ghz dual core, will have at least 4gig flash. All for $50.
Todays $50 phones beat the $300 phones of 2010.
But I do agree LG make too many phones, just make 3-4 great ones, not 50, http://www.gsmarena.com/lg-phones-20.php
Even if on paper the phone is zero profit, the profit was made since samsung also make the nand/ram chips, cpu + lcd and bits , 75% of the hardware.
Apple HAS to purchase its parts from Samsung and LG.
Soon every TV will have android in it.
And if the camera makers got of their ass, android would be great in a DSLR, now if they just gave every DSLR bt/gps/wifi/3g, then it would rock. Come on makers, put in that $20 soc in there.
Dont tell me linux isnt the same but by accident.
Can I shoohorn in the latest X+libc into Fedora14?
or Ubuntu 9 using older gcc?
Sure we can force it, but watch things break.
Stupid MS though, im sure 99.99% of the api/code doesnt use any Win8 specifics, lets hope someone can hack the installer. They should be smarter and develop a truly smart compiler/binary system that can work with many versions.
This is what sucks about most OS's and Software systems, 20000 libraries, each with their own matrix of dependencies and incompatibilities.
But if people got a clue and designed in a more organic way, then more varieties of code could inter mix with each other.
Instead of each windows being a new species of animal with incompatible DNA, it should evolve in a compatible way.
I was going to say elsewhere, Foxcon have plants everywhere , except back home in Taiwan?
or you could say Taiwan is the real China, and mainland China is the illegal communist imposter that hasnt left.
or Alaska belongs to Russia.
Man that has to be the bargain of the millenium, hahaha, so cheap!.
Wobocop in a Mau suit.
Dude, do you know how giant afrika is? Its bigger than MARS.
Its not all utterly putrid and poor.
They do get 3G there too. And airlines do fly A380s.
The govt was paying AT&T for renting phones, but these phones were rented from 1950s, and were still being paid for, the old black ones. But they werent even being used, they were in storage, already replaced, but still being paid for a few $ ea / month.
Meanwhile AT&T has received 100x the cost of the phones value.
Stupid govt workers just dont care, thats policy.
Theres no incentive to buy cheaper to save $ from an infinite bank account.