Does this guy really think his brilliant law enacted in Georgia will be enforcable against, say, a social networking site in California?
Maybe the legislature in Georgia is really naive (or conceited) and thinks that all the social networking sites on teh interwebs are in located in Georgia?
If all you watch on YouTube is Family Guy clips and anime, no, you probably won't become any more intelligent.
Hey, depends on the anime.
If you watch a lot of Dragonball you may well become a better person... the Goku Effect. Hey, even Vegeta became a better person for hanging out with Goku.
With a bigger group, there has to be an accountability (think buildings/structures/planes) that just isn't happening yet.
Hah!
When they introduce accountability for software 'engineers' noone will code. Except maybe lawyers.
And yeah, thats right 'engineers'. In quotes.
Flamebait, troll, whatever. Without accountability they are not engineers and with accountability they will be too scared to write a single line of code because noone (perhaps outside of organisations like the JPL where they can spend days on just one *line* to make sure its correct) trusts their own ability to right correct code.
Only managers trust people to write correct code and then only managers who have no coding experience!!:)
The simple shocking ugly truth is that 90% of the problems in the IT industry are caused specifically because of proprietary crap being rammed down peoples throat.
Another shocking and ugly truth is that 90% of the unreliability problems in the IT industry are created by people adopting new innovations before they are properly tested.
Enterprise systems are not the place for bleeding-edge innovation.
If you want new and innovatative IT systems you have to pay for it in terms of new and innovative BUGS!!!
The VM subsystem is even becoming a hard thing to point a finger at.
When you can run an Apple OS in a VM system provided by Apple, then they may be onto something.
But so long as you can't run OSX on a VM system running on and built for OSX its just rubbish.
So tell me, am I wrong? Can you install OSX onto an VM running under OSX? (and not a hack either; I am aware that OSX can be installed under vmware with a lot of work and it isn't supported).
If so then we could save about 4 computers on our test suite at work... I look forward to being wrong on this one.
Basically, it was the Army's way of competing with the Air Force as a "surgical strike" capability. Unfortunately then Iraq really happened, and people's interest in surgical air-strikes went out the window with "shock and awe," or at least it seems like it.
I think that the guys in Washington had a kind of epiphany.
They realised that it was all about spin (something the ballistics experts may have been telling them for ages only it got misinterpreted somewhere along the line, probably by someone wearing a suit and tie rather than someone wearing overalls or fatigues).
Basically, if you hit a terrorist you get to claim a 'surgical strike', if it hits a civilian you get to dismiss it as 'collateral damage' so theres no real need for *actual* precision weaponry.
1. I'm not sure that VMWare other than the higher end versions (ie not the free 'server' edition) would be capable of using VT at all; it isn't exactly a hypervisor...
2. From the Xen mailing list re why disk IO (for one thing) *will* be slower in a HVM domain than in a paravirtualised domain: The reason the emulated IDE controller is quite slow is a consequence of the emulation. The way it works is that the driver in the HVM domain writes to the same IO ports that the real device would use. These writes are intercepted by the hardware support in the processor and a VMEXIT is issued to "exit the virtual machine" back into the hypervisor. The HV looks at the "exit reason", and sees that it's an IO WRITE operation. This operation is then encoded into a small packet and sent to QEMU. QEMU processes this packet and responds back to HV to say "OK, done that, you may continue". HV then does a VMRUN (or VMRESUME in the Intel case) to continue the guest execution, which is probably another IO instruction to write to the IDE controller. There's a total of 5-6 bytes written to the IDE controller per transaction, and whilst it's possible to combine some of these writes into a single write, it's not always done that way. Once all writes for one transaction are completed, the QEMU ide emulation code will perform the requested operation (such as reading or writing a sector). When that is complete, a virtual interrupt is issued to the guest, and the guest will see this as a "disk done" interrupt, just like real hardware.
All these steps of IO intercepts takes several thousand cycles, which is a bit longer than a regular IO write operation would take on the real hardware, and the system will still need to issue the real IO operations to perform the REAL hardware read/write corresponding to the virtual disk (such as reading a file, LVM or physical partition) at some point, so this is IN ADDITION to the time used by the hypervisor.
Unfortunately, the only possible improvement on this scenario is the type "virtual-aware" driver that is described below.
[Using a slightly more efficient model than IDE may also help, but that's going to be marginal compared to the benefits of using a virtual-aware driver].
At minimum proposals like this should be struck down for their extreme short-sightedness.
Oh come on.
Short-sightedness is the very *stuff* of Democracy!
Where any project that takes more than 4 years is unlikely to ever be completed and any plan that takes more than 8 years is virtually guaranteed never to be completed!
I'm sorry about this rant, but thank you for reading it.
Yes, well you know Tony would probably consider your 'rant' to be antisocial behavior and arrange for an ASBO to be placed on you to the effect that should you raise your right hand above your waist in a public area you will go to jail without further trial.
Remember, criticising the government is antisocial behavior. I mean you can't get much more antisocial than attacking the government, now can you?
we may be pretty good at wiping out most of the fish stocks, but humans could never destroy life on earth.
It's kind of instructive to think what we would have to do - start with the hard to reach - we need to kill all the life around the "smokers" at the bottom of the ocean, at the same time as carpet bombing the earth with nukes
It should be sent before XX/XX/20XX at X O'clock (if it is a local business, at 9 in the morning because people are reading their emails).
You do realise that there is no guaranteed delivery speed for email, right? Its not instant messaging.
An email could take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours to arrive; this is completly within the accepted operating parameters of email as a communication system.
You shouldn't assume that email sent at X O'clock will arrive by a certain time, nor should you represent to your client that this can be expected to be the case as it is simply not true.
I would say that there is, in fact, no such thing as "intellectual property" at all, in the sense that an individual cannot have an idea all to or by themselves. A corporation cannot have an idea *at* *all*.
Ideas come to people from their life experiences. Their life experiences come from the world around them.
That is to say, their ideas emerge not just from themselves but from the society they inhabit; they those ideas are, in another sense of the word "property", an emergent property of that world, that society.
Intellectual property, if it exists at all, must be the property of the society from which it emerges.
To my way of thinking, the assertion that individuals or corporations can claim property rights to ideas is an attack on society itself; it is an attack on *civilisation*. Because without the free exchange of thoughts and ideas there *is* no civilisation.
What we are seeing today is a kind of civil war; between those who believe that they can somehow generate and lay claim to ideas just as someone lays claim to a piece of land, and those who believe that ideas are the property of us all.
It has been said that wars of independence are almost always followed by civil wars. Well, the world of ideas has been through a kind of war of independence; with the advent of the information age and the ability to copy things which have value, with no loss or degradation.
There thus ensues a civil war, the outcome of which will set the scene for the future of our entire civilisation.
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Does this guy really think his brilliant law enacted in Georgia will be enforcable against, say, a social networking site in California?
Maybe the legislature in Georgia is really naive (or conceited) and thinks that all the social networking sites on teh interwebs are in located in Georgia?
Myspace has a very real use: Weird Al posts his videos there. OTOH, that makes Myspace the most bloated artist homepage ever.
Oh! My! God! Wierd Al *is* the goatse guy???
Saying "Content is King" in the same sentence as Myspace et. al. is like saying an overflowing ashtray is a sign of productivity.
If the goatse guy was a webmaster, Myspace would be one of his; its the biggest pile of steaming crap on the internet.
I wanted a website too complex for a single person.
Some kind of self-defeating dating site then?
Cripes, better make sure they don't use Dobly.
You don't do high energy physics in Dobly do you.
If all you watch on YouTube is Family Guy clips and anime, no, you probably won't become any more intelligent.
Hey, depends on the anime.
If you watch a lot of Dragonball you may well become a better person... the Goku Effect. Hey, even Vegeta became a better person for hanging out with Goku.
With a bigger group, there has to be an accountability (think buildings/structures/planes) that just isn't happening yet.
:)
Hah!
When they introduce accountability for software 'engineers' noone will code. Except maybe lawyers.
And yeah, thats right 'engineers'. In quotes.
Flamebait, troll, whatever. Without accountability they are not engineers and with accountability they will be too scared to write a single line of code because noone (perhaps outside of organisations like the JPL where they can spend days on just one *line* to make sure its correct) trusts their own ability to right correct code.
Only managers trust people to write correct code and then only managers who have no coding experience!!
The simple shocking ugly truth is that 90% of the problems in the IT industry are caused specifically because of proprietary crap being rammed down peoples throat.
Another shocking and ugly truth is that 90% of the unreliability problems in the IT industry are created by people adopting new innovations before they are properly tested.
Enterprise systems are not the place for bleeding-edge innovation.
If you want new and innovatative IT systems you have to pay for it in terms of new and innovative BUGS!!!
We gain the obvious: The more we know, the better off we are.
You never read any H.P Lovecraft then...
The VM subsystem is even becoming a hard thing to point a finger at.
When you can run an Apple OS in a VM system provided by Apple, then they may be onto something.
But so long as you can't run OSX on a VM system running on and built for OSX its just rubbish.
So tell me, am I wrong? Can you install OSX onto an VM running under OSX? (and not a hack either; I am aware that OSX can be installed under vmware with a lot of work and it isn't supported).
If so then we could save about 4 computers on our test suite at work... I look forward to being wrong on this one.
Another cool slight diversion, Rene Descartes said that:
"if the speed of light is ever found to be anything other than infinite then it may be said that I know nothing in matters of philosophy"
So all those who quote his "Cogito ergo sum" should think again!
That's why you have to make the probes self replicating
Hopefuly they don't need to see any Earth-based SciFi to know that self replicating probes are a phenomenally *bad* idea.
You can't explore a galaxy with a handful of probes. 72 probes???
Not impressed by this guy's argument.
He is probably just assuming that the aliens have a pretty much exact parallel to NASA.
Basically, it was the Army's way of competing with the Air Force as a "surgical strike" capability. Unfortunately then Iraq really happened, and people's interest in surgical air-strikes went out the window with "shock and awe," or at least it seems like it.
I think that the guys in Washington had a kind of epiphany.
They realised that it was all about spin (something the ballistics experts may have been telling them for ages only it got misinterpreted somewhere along the line, probably by someone wearing a suit and tie rather than someone wearing overalls or fatigues).
Basically, if you hit a terrorist you get to claim a 'surgical strike', if it hits a civilian you get to dismiss it as 'collateral damage' so theres no real need for *actual* precision weaponry.
1. I'm not sure that VMWare other than the higher end versions (ie not the free 'server' edition) would be capable of using VT at all; it isn't exactly a hypervisor...
2. From the Xen mailing list re why disk IO (for one thing) *will* be slower in a HVM domain than in a paravirtualised domain:
The reason the emulated IDE controller is quite slow is a consequence of
the emulation. The way it works is that the driver in the HVM domain
writes to the same IO ports that the real device would use. These writes
are intercepted by the hardware support in the processor and a VMEXIT is
issued to "exit the virtual machine" back into the hypervisor. The HV
looks at the "exit reason", and sees that it's an IO WRITE operation.
This operation is then encoded into a small packet and sent to QEMU.
QEMU processes this packet and responds back to HV to say "OK, done
that, you may continue". HV then does a VMRUN (or VMRESUME in the Intel
case) to continue the guest execution, which is probably another IO
instruction to write to the IDE controller. There's a total of 5-6 bytes
written to the IDE controller per transaction, and whilst it's possible
to combine some of these writes into a single write, it's not always
done that way. Once all writes for one transaction are completed, the
QEMU ide emulation code will perform the requested operation (such as
reading or writing a sector). When that is complete, a virtual interrupt
is issued to the guest, and the guest will see this as a "disk done"
interrupt, just like real hardware.
All these steps of IO intercepts takes several thousand cycles, which is
a bit longer than a regular IO write operation would take on the real
hardware, and the system will still need to issue the real IO operations
to perform the REAL hardware read/write corresponding to the virtual
disk (such as reading a file, LVM or physical partition) at some point,
so this is IN ADDITION to the time used by the hypervisor.
Unfortunately, the only possible improvement on this scenario is the
type "virtual-aware" driver that is described below.
[Using a slightly more efficient model than IDE may also help, but
that's going to be marginal compared to the benefits of using a
virtual-aware driver].
(Credit goes to Mats Petersson).
At minimum proposals like this should be struck down for their extreme short-sightedness.
Oh come on.
Short-sightedness is the very *stuff* of Democracy!
Where any project that takes more than 4 years is unlikely to ever be completed and any plan that takes more than 8 years is virtually guaranteed never to be completed!
Oh and your sig:
:)
Why are graphics cards so designed that the heatsink is on the underside when installed in tower cases?
I've thought about that too, the only thing I can come up with is that it prevents dust from settling on them.
Yeah this is offtopic and is a mere meta-comment.
I'm sorry about this rant, but thank you for reading it.
Yes, well you know Tony would probably consider your 'rant' to be antisocial behavior and arrange for an ASBO to be placed on you to the effect that should you raise your right hand above your waist in a public area you will go to jail without further trial.
Remember, criticising the government is antisocial behavior. I mean you can't get much more antisocial than attacking the government, now can you?
He said "It should be sent by" not "It should arrive by". Bugger off.
He said "because thats when people read their email" so you bugger off.
we may be pretty good at wiping out most of the fish stocks, but humans could never destroy life on earth.
It's kind of instructive to think what we would have to do - start with the hard to reach - we need to kill all the life around the "smokers" at the bottom of the ocean, at the same time as carpet bombing the earth with nukes
Cobalt bombs.
No need to carpet bomb with conventional nukes.
It should be sent before XX/XX/20XX at X O'clock (if it is a local business, at 9 in the morning because people are reading their emails).
You do realise that there is no guaranteed delivery speed for email, right? Its not instant messaging.
An email could take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours to arrive; this is completly within the accepted operating parameters of email as a communication system.
You shouldn't assume that email sent at X O'clock will arrive by a certain time, nor should you represent to your client that this can be expected to be the case as it is simply not true.
At least The Frighteners wasn't *wing commander* bad.
It was way too bland to be that bad.
Is "Tolkienesque" a euphemism for "really terribly written"?
I think its something to do with the ratio of the word "ere" to other words. It seems to have been his favorite word.
Deciding to make a movie should come from the heart - it's not a matter of business convenience.
'Frighteners'?
Peter, did that really come from the heart? If it did, it didn't show.
I would say that there is, in fact, no such thing as "intellectual property" at all, in the sense that an individual cannot have an idea all to or by themselves. A corporation cannot have an idea *at* *all*.
Ideas come to people from their life experiences. Their life experiences come from the world around them.
That is to say, their ideas emerge not just from themselves but from the society they inhabit; they those ideas are, in another sense of the word "property", an emergent property of that world, that society.
Intellectual property, if it exists at all, must be the property of the society from which it emerges.
To my way of thinking, the assertion that individuals or corporations can claim property rights to ideas is an attack on society itself; it is an attack on *civilisation*. Because without the free exchange of thoughts and ideas there *is* no civilisation.
What we are seeing today is a kind of civil war; between those who believe that they can somehow generate and lay claim to ideas just as someone lays claim to a piece of land, and those who believe that ideas are the property of us all.
It has been said that wars of independence are almost always followed by civil wars. Well, the world of ideas has been through a kind of war of independence; with the advent of the information age and the ability to copy things which have value, with no loss or degradation.
There thus ensues a civil war, the outcome of which will set the scene for the future of our entire civilisation.