His modus operandi became evident when he ignored the highly voted Internet town hall topic of legalizing marijuana.
If you want marijuana legalized, you should be happy about that. Obama will be up for reelection, so if he pushes for that now, it will be the basis for a billion dollar smear campaign designed to make the public panic and vote for the Republican. And that could set back the cause quite a bit.
The BlueZ code to host the handsfree profile is fairly new and might be immature. And I don't know of a program to actually use it, so you might have to write your own client program.
You're confusing good/bad idea with good/bad execution. PulseAudio in concept is actually more of a "Just Works" system than ALSA. The implementation just has to catch up, and it's doing just that. Version 0.9.15 works a lot better than the previous releases and doesn't crash so easily.
It's pretty trivial to guarantee minimums, at least. Just give each VM a group with x points of cpu_share per percent and make sure your total cpu_share for everything on the system does not exceed 100x. Maybe limit it to 95x for some safety margin.
I don't get why you'd need to enforce a high maximum. It's up to your clients to purchase a service level high enough to meet their needs. They shouldn't count on anything above the minimum. I can understand a maximum equal to or only slightly higher than the minimum, though, so they don't get used to a performance level that can go away any instant. But other than that, you might as well allow them to use 100% when it's available.
BTW, I can't implement your example because it is self-contradictory, ambiguous, and vague. I'll assume you meant to specify four VMs instead of giving two conflicting requirements about VM2.
You said in your first paragraph about VM2 that it gets 25% of the processor time not being used by VM1. But by definition any CPU time given to VM2 is not being used by VM1. I think you meant to say the CPU time is assigned to VM1 with priority, and then 25% of the remaining time is given to VM2. But if all other VMs must take CPU time with lower priority than VM1, as you seem to have requested, then VM1 has an effective minimum of 95% of the CPU time. And the remaining VMs split 5% of the CPU time. Is that really what you meant?
If so, these are the minimums:
VM1 = 95%
VM2A = 25% of 5% = 1.25%
VM2B = 10% of 5% = 0.5%, but raised to the global minimum of 1%
VM3 = 20% of 5% = 1%
If we strike out all the "that VM1 is not using" language, then the 1% rule is completely redundant because everything already has a higher minimum.
What's vague is that you seem to indicate that extra CPU time beyond the minimum must be divided up, not proportionally, but according to specific rules. And you never specified those rules. Also, I can't see how any such set of rules could be more useful than proportional division. Heck, they'd probably just simplify to fixed percentages, like what happened with the minimums above.
when asked they admitted that only about 35% of desktop users had Silverlight installed. Even if that is not a high estimate, it's pathetic
It's not pathetic at all.
Flash has been around since 1996.
Silverlight is a product two years in beta.
If the geek calls a 35% share of the client desktop "pathetic" - what is one to make of Firefox at 20% and Linux at 1%?
WOOOSH!
Silverlight is a platform. Firefox is not (at least in the sense the web developers support it). Firefox implements the open platform of HTML+JavaScript supported by 99% of the web clients out there. 99% is way better than 35%. Turning away 65% of your visitors is just plain stupid. With 35% market share, the only entity that benefits when a company chooses to require Silverlight is Microsoft.
In fact, Microsoft's whole business is based around tricking people into picking them instead of a better option.
What? Linux has had that in an officially released version for more than a year! It's called fair group scheduling. You assign processes to groups and set the cpu share for each group. Then processor time is allotted proportionally between all groups that want to run. Nice levels are only used within a group.
A nice default is grouping by uid. Then users can't hog CPU time from others by creating a ton of processes.
The multiplayer Mario game looks sort of OK, but it reminds me too much of LoZ: 4 Swords which wasn't that great.
I'm guessing you haven't played Four Swords Adventures for GameCube. That one was a full-blown adventure game compared to what came with the GBA Link to the Past, which was essentially a mini-game. It even includes a really fun battle mode.
New Super Mario Bros Wii will probably be closer to the second Four Swords, so I expect it to be a lot of fun...
Myself, I think laws should have something akin to the preamble section in the GPL - a short paragraph which explains in clear English exactly what the law hopes (and doesn't hope) to achieve - in order to aid understanding the spirit.
Won't stop people who haven't read the preamble from making bogus claims about the intention of the law, just like they do with the GPL...
Sony didn't copy Nintendo, they've been working on this stuff for years, even during the development of the eyetoy for the PS2 they demonstrated a prototype "wand" controller. Remember, the PS2 eyetoy came out before the Wii.
If this is something that would have otherwise died in R&D instead of being turned into a product, then in some sense they are copying Nintendo. They may not have been convinced it was a worthwhile idea until Nintendo had a ton of success with it.
Also, if they change their tech to match the Wiimote capabilities, that would be copying. Their original eyetoy method would work much like drawing on an invisible whiteboard right in front of you. If they change it to function in more of a point-and-shoot style, it is probably due to the Wii's success.
If you have XP, I can recommend the adapter in this package. It's cheap and works really well with Wii Remotes.
From the reviews, it looks like the bundled software is useless and badly supported. I'd rather not give money to a company trying to make money that way. Now HERE is a cheap Bluetooth dongle that works with Wiimotes. Though it doesn't come with any software or driver stack and I've only used it with Linux.
The first one I can think of is the psychological disadvantage you have representing yourself. Especially with jury trials. When people hear bad things about you, they generally won't want to listen to what you have to say even if you can exonerate yourself. But if another person, having a clean image, sticks up for you, then you may not be so bad after all.
Yeah, it's his job, and yeah, he's possibly even more biased than you. It doesn't matter. Most humans are dumb social animals lead around helplessly by their primitive instincts.
Well it claims to make information computable. I accept it's not meant to find results like Google but the issue with it is it doesn't even seem to gather basic data in a computable form.
I mean, you try things like "On what date did the Falklands war commence?", "How many species of Melocactus are there?", "On what date was Adolf Hitler born" and it outright fails.
It has the data for two of those questions. It's just having trouble with the (somewhat odd and verbose) way that you asked them.
It doesn't seem to know what to do with "on what date." That phrasing requires an understanding of the preposition 'on' in the abstract sense (instead of the 'physically on top of' sense) and knowledge that the phrase "what X" is meant to constrain the answer to the type X without otherwise modifying the question. Or specific knowledge that asking "what date" is the same as asking when.
Without understanding "what X" form it may have processed Hitler's birth into a date, then interpreted your question as "what date was the following date" (asking for the date of the date) instead of "what was the following date" (asking for the date directly). For example, it understands "what was January 1" and "when was January 1" but not "what date was January 1".
Also, it didn't understand the word "commence" as referring to the start of a war.
Okay, so I figured maybe I'm asking questions that are out of the intended realm of knowledge it supports and the assumption is that you'd never want to compute with this information. So I tried something Mathematical - I mean, that is Wolfram's speciality right?
"How many non-isomorphic labelled trees are there with 4 vertices"
Fail.
I've tried a few other relevant, factual questions and it just falls flat over, not even able to try and answer them.
I'm sure it does do a great job of making information computable, the problem is it's unable to gather the information in the first place.
It doesn't seem to know about trees or labels, but it knows about graphs:
It also won't do exhaustive searches through entire categories of knowledge to compute a result. It has to know how to figure it out directly. I think its main limitation is its intelligence, not how much data it has.
Disk imaging probably is an option for Linux, however I don't think the tools are as developed as they are for Windows, so I imagine you would not be able to do many hardware configurations with a single image.
Uhh, you realize Linux distros just package their kernels with every single open source driver there is and that every single piece of hardware is detected fresh on each and every boot, right? Linux doesn't configure itself only for the particular hardware it sees at install time like Windows does.
Xorg was the last remaining component to do that, and that was fixed with Xorg 7.2 and released in Ubuntu 7.10 a year and a half and three releases ago.
BTW, it's the dissipated power that burns your hand, not the power consumed. If a chip consumed 80W but ran 100% efficient, it wouldn't heat up at all. The Cell, like any other CPU, is far from 100% power efficient, but it's not 0% efficient, either.
Energy efficiency is a measure of how much power went where you want vs how much power you consumed total. Such as with a light bulb, where it measures how much energy turned into light instead of heat. If you have a light bulb that turns 30% of the energy into light, then you have a 30% efficient light bulb... and a 70% efficient heater.
It doesn't make sense to talk about energy efficiency of a processor as a percentage. It only makes sense to talk about how much energy it consumes. Just where do you think the consumed power is going? Unless your processor is shooting out photons or radio waves or something like that, it is 100% efficient... at generating heat
OK, my turn to explain your fallacy. You accused those thinking someone is overpaid of being jealous. There's no logical connection leading from the premise of me being jealous of Britney Spears to the conclusion that she is being paid the amount she deserves. It's just an irrelevant personal attack, and you fail to support your conclusion.
Even if I were to grant your premise that I'm jealous of Britney (which I won't), it still wouldn't help you prove anything about Britney herself. Much like if I said "if ketchup is red, then you're a porcupine." No point arguing over the color of ketchup here, when the inference is clearly faulty.
Also it really feels like you're playing calvinball. You implied that the reason I supposedly should not have an opinion is that I'm not involved in the matter. I'm not involved in North Korea either, and neither are you. So should we both refrain from commenting on that topic? You say no and offer an exception your previous rule.
I'm sure I could get you to create plenty more exceptions. The fact that you need to do this is a red flag waving at you and warning you that you need to rethink your ideas and apply more rigor this time. It means that in thinking about this subject you did not get to the essence of what it means to deserve X amount of money and thus your test (are they being paid that much money?) is overly broad and accepts too many people (practically everyone) as being paid the amount they deserve.
Do beggars deserve the money they get? Some actually receive a decent amount of cash. Some places are better than others for panhandling. Are the bums that live in more charitable places just better people than the ones that are getting less money? Are the liars with false sob stories contributing more to society by really convincing people that they're helping someone out who needs it and making them feel even better for giving their money away? So far, all these examples involve people willingly giving money. Are you going to add a new exception?
The relevance is that on Windows security depends on downloading security tools off the web through a web browser where you're vulnerable to any browser exploits and spoofing attacks. Hence the phrase "doomed if you do, doomed if you don't."
On a Linux distro, you usually install software through a package manager that authenticates the package before installing it. Not that you need to add anything to make it secure...
Does Kim Jong-il deserve to be the worshiped dictator of North Korea? Or is that between him and his subjects? Don't answer the question! If you have an opinion, it's jealousy and it isn't pretty.
I'm pretty sure that delay is only on the submenus, so you don't accidentally open them while trying to navigate past them. The root of the start menu will (try to) open instantly when you click the start button.
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And this.
(There really ought to be a slashdot achievement for posting an xkcd link...
His modus operandi became evident when he ignored the highly voted Internet town hall topic of legalizing marijuana.
If you want marijuana legalized, you should be happy about that. Obama will be up for reelection, so if he pushes for that now, it will be the basis for a billion dollar smear campaign designed to make the public panic and vote for the Republican. And that could set back the cause quite a bit.
The BlueZ code to host the handsfree profile is fairly new and might be immature. And I don't know of a program to actually use it, so you might have to write your own client program.
They profit without contributing anything to society. They're parasites. Society does not like parasites.
You're confusing good/bad idea with good/bad execution. PulseAudio in concept is actually more of a "Just Works" system than ALSA. The implementation just has to catch up, and it's doing just that. Version 0.9.15 works a lot better than the previous releases and doesn't crash so easily.
But those frickin' sharks can easily cut through 2cm rope with their frickin' laser beams...
OK, now what did you mean by "VM2 Must have access to 25% of the processor at all times that VM1 is not using."
It's pretty trivial to guarantee minimums, at least. Just give each VM a group with x points of cpu_share per percent and make sure your total cpu_share for everything on the system does not exceed 100x. Maybe limit it to 95x for some safety margin.
I don't get why you'd need to enforce a high maximum. It's up to your clients to purchase a service level high enough to meet their needs. They shouldn't count on anything above the minimum. I can understand a maximum equal to or only slightly higher than the minimum, though, so they don't get used to a performance level that can go away any instant. But other than that, you might as well allow them to use 100% when it's available.
BTW, I can't implement your example because it is self-contradictory, ambiguous, and vague. I'll assume you meant to specify four VMs instead of giving two conflicting requirements about VM2.
You said in your first paragraph about VM2 that it gets 25% of the processor time not being used by VM1. But by definition any CPU time given to VM2 is not being used by VM1. I think you meant to say the CPU time is assigned to VM1 with priority, and then 25% of the remaining time is given to VM2. But if all other VMs must take CPU time with lower priority than VM1, as you seem to have requested, then VM1 has an effective minimum of 95% of the CPU time. And the remaining VMs split 5% of the CPU time. Is that really what you meant?
If so, these are the minimums:
VM1 = 95%
VM2A = 25% of 5% = 1.25%
VM2B = 10% of 5% = 0.5%, but raised to the global minimum of 1%
VM3 = 20% of 5% = 1%
If we strike out all the "that VM1 is not using" language, then the 1% rule is completely redundant because everything already has a higher minimum.
What's vague is that you seem to indicate that extra CPU time beyond the minimum must be divided up, not proportionally, but according to specific rules. And you never specified those rules. Also, I can't see how any such set of rules could be more useful than proportional division. Heck, they'd probably just simplify to fixed percentages, like what happened with the minimums above.
when asked they admitted that only about 35% of desktop users had Silverlight installed. Even if that is not a high estimate, it's pathetic
It's not pathetic at all.
Flash has been around since 1996.
Silverlight is a product two years in beta.
If the geek calls a 35% share of the client desktop "pathetic" - what is one to make of Firefox at 20% and Linux at 1%?
WOOOSH!
Silverlight is a platform. Firefox is not (at least in the sense the web developers support it). Firefox implements the open platform of HTML+JavaScript supported by 99% of the web clients out there. 99% is way better than 35%. Turning away 65% of your visitors is just plain stupid. With 35% market share, the only entity that benefits when a company chooses to require Silverlight is Microsoft.
In fact, Microsoft's whole business is based around tricking people into picking them instead of a better option.
What? Linux has had that in an officially released version for more than a year! It's called fair group scheduling. You assign processes to groups and set the cpu share for each group. Then processor time is allotted proportionally between all groups that want to run. Nice levels are only used within a group.
A nice default is grouping by uid. Then users can't hog CPU time from others by creating a ton of processes.
The multiplayer Mario game looks sort of OK, but it reminds me too much of LoZ: 4 Swords which wasn't that great.
I'm guessing you haven't played Four Swords Adventures for GameCube. That one was a full-blown adventure game compared to what came with the GBA Link to the Past, which was essentially a mini-game. It even includes a really fun battle mode.
New Super Mario Bros Wii will probably be closer to the second Four Swords, so I expect it to be a lot of fun...
Myself, I think laws should have something akin to the preamble section in the GPL - a short paragraph which explains in clear English exactly what the law hopes (and doesn't hope) to achieve - in order to aid understanding the spirit.
Won't stop people who haven't read the preamble from making bogus claims about the intention of the law, just like they do with the GPL...
Sony didn't copy Nintendo, they've been working on this stuff for years, even during the development of the eyetoy for the PS2 they demonstrated a prototype "wand" controller. Remember, the PS2 eyetoy came out before the Wii.
If this is something that would have otherwise died in R&D instead of being turned into a product, then in some sense they are copying Nintendo. They may not have been convinced it was a worthwhile idea until Nintendo had a ton of success with it.
Also, if they change their tech to match the Wiimote capabilities, that would be copying. Their original eyetoy method would work much like drawing on an invisible whiteboard right in front of you. If they change it to function in more of a point-and-shoot style, it is probably due to the Wii's success.
If you have XP, I can recommend the adapter in this package. It's cheap and works really well with Wii Remotes.
From the reviews, it looks like the bundled software is useless and badly supported. I'd rather not give money to a company trying to make money that way. Now HERE is a cheap Bluetooth dongle that works with Wiimotes. Though it doesn't come with any software or driver stack and I've only used it with Linux.
I'm sure there's lots of other reasons.
The first one I can think of is the psychological disadvantage you have representing yourself. Especially with jury trials. When people hear bad things about you, they generally won't want to listen to what you have to say even if you can exonerate yourself. But if another person, having a clean image, sticks up for you, then you may not be so bad after all.
Yeah, it's his job, and yeah, he's possibly even more biased than you. It doesn't matter. Most humans are dumb social animals lead around helplessly by their primitive instincts.
Well it claims to make information computable. I accept it's not meant to find results like Google but the issue with it is it doesn't even seem to gather basic data in a computable form.
I mean, you try things like "On what date did the Falklands war commence?", "How many species of Melocactus are there?", "On what date was Adolf Hitler born" and it outright fails.
It has the data for two of those questions. It's just having trouble with the (somewhat odd and verbose) way that you asked them.
When did the Falklands war begin?
When was Hitler born?
It doesn't seem to know what to do with "on what date." That phrasing requires an understanding of the preposition 'on' in the abstract sense (instead of the 'physically on top of' sense) and knowledge that the phrase "what X" is meant to constrain the answer to the type X without otherwise modifying the question. Or specific knowledge that asking "what date" is the same as asking when.
Without understanding "what X" form it may have processed Hitler's birth into a date, then interpreted your question as "what date was the following date" (asking for the date of the date) instead of "what was the following date" (asking for the date directly). For example, it understands "what was January 1" and "when was January 1" but not "what date was January 1".
Also, it didn't understand the word "commence" as referring to the start of a war.
Okay, so I figured maybe I'm asking questions that are out of the intended realm of knowledge it supports and the assumption is that you'd never want to compute with this information. So I tried something Mathematical - I mean, that is Wolfram's speciality right?
"How many non-isomorphic labelled trees are there with 4 vertices"
Fail.
I've tried a few other relevant, factual questions and it just falls flat over, not even able to try and answer them.
I'm sure it does do a great job of making information computable, the problem is it's unable to gather the information in the first place.
It doesn't seem to know about trees or labels, but it knows about graphs:
How many graphs with four vertices are there?
It also won't do exhaustive searches through entire categories of knowledge to compute a result. It has to know how to figure it out directly. I think its main limitation is its intelligence, not how much data it has.
Disk imaging probably is an option for Linux, however I don't think the tools are as developed as they are for Windows, so I imagine you would not be able to do many hardware configurations with a single image.
Uhh, you realize Linux distros just package their kernels with every single open source driver there is and that every single piece of hardware is detected fresh on each and every boot, right? Linux doesn't configure itself only for the particular hardware it sees at install time like Windows does.
Xorg was the last remaining component to do that, and that was fixed with Xorg 7.2 and released in Ubuntu 7.10 a year and a half and three releases ago.
BTW, it's the dissipated power that burns your hand, not the power consumed. If a chip consumed 80W but ran 100% efficient, it wouldn't heat up at all. The Cell, like any other CPU, is far from 100% power efficient, but it's not 0% efficient, either.
YOU FAIL PHYSICS!
Energy efficiency is a measure of how much power went where you want vs how much power you consumed total. Such as with a light bulb, where it measures how much energy turned into light instead of heat. If you have a light bulb that turns 30% of the energy into light, then you have a 30% efficient light bulb... and a 70% efficient heater.
It doesn't make sense to talk about energy efficiency of a processor as a percentage. It only makes sense to talk about how much energy it consumes. Just where do you think the consumed power is going? Unless your processor is shooting out photons or radio waves or something like that, it is 100% efficient... at generating heat
OK, my turn to explain your fallacy. You accused those thinking someone is overpaid of being jealous. There's no logical connection leading from the premise of me being jealous of Britney Spears to the conclusion that she is being paid the amount she deserves. It's just an irrelevant personal attack, and you fail to support your conclusion.
Even if I were to grant your premise that I'm jealous of Britney (which I won't), it still wouldn't help you prove anything about Britney herself. Much like if I said "if ketchup is red, then you're a porcupine." No point arguing over the color of ketchup here, when the inference is clearly faulty.
Also it really feels like you're playing calvinball. You implied that the reason I supposedly should not have an opinion is that I'm not involved in the matter. I'm not involved in North Korea either, and neither are you. So should we both refrain from commenting on that topic? You say no and offer an exception your previous rule.
I'm sure I could get you to create plenty more exceptions. The fact that you need to do this is a red flag waving at you and warning you that you need to rethink your ideas and apply more rigor this time. It means that in thinking about this subject you did not get to the essence of what it means to deserve X amount of money and thus your test (are they being paid that much money?) is overly broad and accepts too many people (practically everyone) as being paid the amount they deserve.
Do beggars deserve the money they get? Some actually receive a decent amount of cash. Some places are better than others for panhandling. Are the bums that live in more charitable places just better people than the ones that are getting less money? Are the liars with false sob stories contributing more to society by really convincing people that they're helping someone out who needs it and making them feel even better for giving their money away? So far, all these examples involve people willingly giving money. Are you going to add a new exception?
Something to think about...
The relevance is that on Windows security depends on downloading security tools off the web through a web browser where you're vulnerable to any browser exploits and spoofing attacks. Hence the phrase "doomed if you do, doomed if you don't."
On a Linux distro, you usually install software through a package manager that authenticates the package before installing it. Not that you need to add anything to make it secure...
Does Kim Jong-il deserve to be the worshiped dictator of North Korea? Or is that between him and his subjects? Don't answer the question! If you have an opinion, it's jealousy and it isn't pretty.
See, I can build a strawman, too!
I'm pretty sure that delay is only on the submenus, so you don't accidentally open them while trying to navigate past them. The root of the start menu will (try to) open instantly when you click the start button.
OK, but is the amount they get paid the amount they deserve? Because that's the connotation of saying that a person has earned some quantity of money.
Ahh, I see. You think that your opinion should drive the compensation for various activities.
[blah blah blah free market blah blah]
I'd rather it work the way it does, because then I have influence over it myself.
FAIL!
Vulcans are hot!
Pun intended?