We should reconsider our desires. It's not realistic to have 6 billion people now (or 10 billion people tomorrow) to spend so much energy on themselves.
Another hint, besides math, that the universe may be a simulation is the "clipping/back-face culling" at the quantum level: a particle does not "exist" unless it is observed. It's like the universe saves resources by not rendering what is not visible, just like in a video game.
Are its functions similar to the modern octopus? perhaps the evolution is internal. The fact that the ancient octopus looks like the modern one is not very relevant to science. It is only a clue.
All over the US there are private roads and people voluntarily pay tolls to travel them because, brace yourself again, they provide a much more pleasant commute. They deal with traffic congestion immediately, they undertake repairs and maintenance quickly and effectively, without bloated government bureaucracy making repairs and improvements take years and cost tax payers millions of dollars and they do it with their own money.
The government is just another company. If it is run efficiently, then there would be no bureaucracy and increased costs. A good government will built roads that are actually cheaper than the private ones, because the government buys big quantities of materials and therefore achieves lower prices. Germany has the best roads in the world, without a speed limit (now there is freedom!) and they are public.
If government got out of the school system entirely you would have lots of schools opening and competing with each other, forcing prices down.
It would happen only the beginning. After that, good schools will only accept rich students who can afford to pay more, and thus allowing the good schools to get better, not allowing the rest of the schools to make significant progress. Those out of the good schools will become the new elite, getting their kids into the good schools etc, in an ever ending cycle of elitism.
The law of supply and demand does not say that the best price point for a product is the one that serves the most population. The law of supply and demand says that the best price point for a product is the one bringing most profits. In that sense, a school may keep its prices high and accept very few rich students.
He was a practicing obstetrician long before he entered politics, and long before medicaid, medicare and government got it's hands on the system. According to him charities and churches would build hospitals and even in the private for-profit hospitals no one was ever turned away because they couldn't afford to pay. It's precisely because we are taxed and regulated so much that these things get so expensive to begin with.
Charities don't work, because in a competitive environment, people tend to invest their money than giving it away for free. When Joe has a little extra cash, and the economy is very good, he will prefer to invest it in Wall Street than giving it to the Church. And Churches / charities can only afford a very low level of health care, even with a lot of donations. On the other hand, health care systems of Northern European countries are significantly better than that of the US, simply because taxes are truly invested in health care, and not elsewhere.
Again, if people are allowed to keep what they work for, and if government does not try to interfere with who people trade with and how and why and under what circumstances the economy prospers, people have a lot more personal wealth and charities become much more common.
The big fish eat the small fish. If you let everything so free, as you mention, the 0.1% the population will have the 99.9% of wealth, in the end. And then there would be no charities.
Read up on the work of Ludwig Von Mises, F.A Hayek, Murray M. Rothbard and start to ask yourself WHY there is so much poverty. The answer is almost always institutional. During the 1800's the USA economy grew at a tremendous rate. The country was seen as the land of opportunity where you could make it with a bit of hard work. Gradually the government started to expand and intervene with programs sold to the public as a way to help overcome the problems that they perceived in the system.
What is blocking people today to become entrepreneurs? it is certainly not the government. US has one of the lowest taxes for companies and shared holders are not taxed. So why is there poverty?
Finally, 3DRealms can release DNF...it will only work with Caustic graphics cards, but it will have the absolutely bestest graphics this side of a Phantom console.
For something as ambitious as they have, it's very strange that their web site has no demos, absolutely nothing, of their products. No pictures, no videos, nothing.
...Microsoft tests its own release candidate software on its release candidate operating system and finds it faster than existing tried-and-tested software.
They could make a show named 'Star Trek' which shows the exploration of space, first contact with an alien civilization, how faster-than-light travel was developed, etc. And slowly progress towards the 24th century, to the level of Star Trek we know.
In this new show, the characters will watch Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9) just for fun. Actors from previous series could make cameo appearances as themselves, being interested in space travel.
The show could be serious, almost a documentary, which shows the dramatic side of space exploration, the politics, the international competition, the effects on people' lives, the change of culture. It could also have a side like X-Files, with conspiracies about UFOs etc, which are later resolved.
If by "old style" they mean TOS, then I have news for them: it will not work. The 60s was a different era. A butt-kicking chick-hunting always-succeeding swashbuckling male hero (i.e. James T. Kirk) is a little bit on the ridiculous side today. Just observe young people react to those "old" movie heros like James Bond or Indiana Jones: most youngsters make fun of them.
What Star Trek should do is become more serious sci-fi: better pseudo-science, more interesting politics, explanation for Federation economics and why it works or why it does not work), characters with ethical dilemmas, a little bit darker when required, etc.
Star Trek should ask all the questions we should not dare ask any more.
I don't understand why many people like 'dark' Trek. If you like dark sci-fi, watch something else. Star Trek is optimistic, and if you change that, it is no longer Star Trek.
Those 6000 rockets killed a few people. Israel could have done a reaction like 'an eye for an eye', instead of leveling Gaza, i.e. kill an equal amount of people.
The point of the international community against Israel is not that it should not defend itself, it is that it is unfair to its neighbors.
Windows started as a single-user O/S, didn't it? well, it should remain so.
Let me explain:
The O/S should provide a unique view for each of its users, including system files. The user should be able to modify *anything* on the system, from registry settings to the Windows folder. Each user should modify its own copy of the system!
The benefits of this approach are huge:
no more UAC required. It's only when the kernel is hacked that control to other users' files is obtained. Other user files would not be accessible, they wouldn't even be visible, including the system files.
better compatibility with older programs. Let programs write in c:\windows...they would simply write in the user's c:\windows version. The kernel's version of the folder would remain as is.
easy restore. Did the user screw up its system? copy the system files from the kernel's account...and you are done.
enhanced security. Do you want to run a dangerous program? code that you downloaded from the internet? no problem: create another account which inherits the current account, run the program in this other account, let the program screw that account up, delete the account. The other accounts will not be touched.
file exchange between users can be done in various ways:
using downloading (as if the two users were remote), but the download would take zero time, since the file would already be in the hard disk.
using shared folders.
using shared accounts.
Easy to implement. Using copy-on-write, a file would be shared unless it is written.
Minimum storage overhead. If a file is shared (i.e. not written yet), it occupies a single place in the filesystem. If many users use the file, the filesystem driver automatically duplicates it on first use. Disk storage is plenty these days.
Minimum performance hit. The only time performance is hit is on the first copy of a file for a specific account. After that, there is no performance hit.
very easy account inheritance through copy-on-write.
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We should reconsider our desires. It's not realistic to have 6 billion people now (or 10 billion people tomorrow) to spend so much energy on themselves.
Oh, terrorists love Facebook so much! they always announce their plans in Facebook, in order to have their friends comment on them.
The terrorists also put the pictures of the terror act (you know, big-a$$ explosions and sh1t) on Facebook.
Someone in the UK gov has become paranoid...
So, the only real difference between JVM and Parrot is dynamic dispatch? it certainly sounds like work duplication to me.
The JVM bytecode spec defines a Turing-complete machine. Why isn't dynamic dispatch implemented in it?
Everyone nowadays has a VM...
Another hint, besides math, that the universe may be a simulation is the "clipping/back-face culling" at the quantum level: a particle does not "exist" unless it is observed. It's like the universe saves resources by not rendering what is not visible, just like in a video game.
Are its functions similar to the modern octopus? perhaps the evolution is internal. The fact that the ancient octopus looks like the modern one is not very relevant to science. It is only a clue.
If you were the VR goggles in private, say, in your living room, then what's the problem?
Even with JIT compilers? the compiled code should not be thrown away. It should be reused in the same or next sessions.
And by providing a JIT compiler from x86 to whatever CPU they will target next, x86 binaries could run unaltered in this new architecture.
And never hire assholes again. It's that easy.
On the other hand, Germany went from 0 to 100 in ten years through the Government.
So, if Microsoft causes the trouble, why isn't Microsoft that pays for the solution?
The government is just another company. If it is run efficiently, then there would be no bureaucracy and increased costs. A good government will built roads that are actually cheaper than the private ones, because the government buys big quantities of materials and therefore achieves lower prices. Germany has the best roads in the world, without a speed limit (now there is freedom!) and they are public.
It would happen only the beginning. After that, good schools will only accept rich students who can afford to pay more, and thus allowing the good schools to get better, not allowing the rest of the schools to make significant progress. Those out of the good schools will become the new elite, getting their kids into the good schools etc, in an ever ending cycle of elitism.
The law of supply and demand does not say that the best price point for a product is the one that serves the most population. The law of supply and demand says that the best price point for a product is the one bringing most profits. In that sense, a school may keep its prices high and accept very few rich students.
Charities don't work, because in a competitive environment, people tend to invest their money than giving it away for free. When Joe has a little extra cash, and the economy is very good, he will prefer to invest it in Wall Street than giving it to the Church. And Churches / charities can only afford a very low level of health care, even with a lot of donations. On the other hand, health care systems of Northern European countries are significantly better than that of the US, simply because taxes are truly invested in health care, and not elsewhere.
The big fish eat the small fish. If you let everything so free, as you mention, the 0.1% the population will have the 99.9% of wealth, in the end. And then there would be no charities.
What is blocking people today to become entrepreneurs? it is certainly not the government. US has one of the lowest taxes for companies and shared holders are not taxed. So why is there poverty?
The reason that in the 1800s the US
Finally, 3DRealms can release DNF...it will only work with Caustic graphics cards, but it will have the absolutely bestest graphics this side of a Phantom console.
For something as ambitious as they have, it's very strange that their web site has no demos, absolutely nothing, of their products. No pictures, no videos, nothing.
...Microsoft tests its own release candidate software on its release candidate operating system and finds it faster than existing tried-and-tested software.
Very fair.
I recognize that loop...it's "standard" code when dealing with tcp/ip streams.
I have a question: shouldn't 'write' itself do this, i.e. making sure data all data are sent down the tube?
They could make a show named 'Star Trek' which shows the exploration of space, first contact with an alien civilization, how faster-than-light travel was developed, etc. And slowly progress towards the 24th century, to the level of Star Trek we know.
In this new show, the characters will watch Star Trek (TOS, TNG, DS9) just for fun. Actors from previous series could make cameo appearances as themselves, being interested in space travel.
The show could be serious, almost a documentary, which shows the dramatic side of space exploration, the politics, the international competition, the effects on people' lives, the change of culture. It could also have a side like X-Files, with conspiracies about UFOs etc, which are later resolved.
If by "old style" they mean TOS, then I have news for them: it will not work. The 60s was a different era. A butt-kicking chick-hunting always-succeeding swashbuckling male hero (i.e. James T. Kirk) is a little bit on the ridiculous side today. Just observe young people react to those "old" movie heros like James Bond or Indiana Jones: most youngsters make fun of them.
What Star Trek should do is become more serious sci-fi: better pseudo-science, more interesting politics, explanation for Federation economics and why it works or why it does not work), characters with ethical dilemmas, a little bit darker when required, etc.
Star Trek should ask all the questions we should not dare ask any more.
I don't understand why many people like 'dark' Trek. If you like dark sci-fi, watch something else. Star Trek is optimistic, and if you change that, it is no longer Star Trek.
It's not necessary to kill ActiveX, if Windows changed its security model to something better...
Because the horrors of WWII where many times bigger than the horrors of WWI.
Ok, the place is a mess. Why should we fix it? it's not our mess.
Since when forcing western values on other people is an acceptable policy?
Those 6000 rockets killed a few people. Israel could have done a reaction like 'an eye for an eye', instead of leveling Gaza, i.e. kill an equal amount of people.
The point of the international community against Israel is not that it should not defend itself, it is that it is unfair to its neighbors.
Windows started as a single-user O/S, didn't it? well, it should remain so.
Let me explain:
The O/S should provide a unique view for each of its users, including system files. The user should be able to modify *anything* on the system, from registry settings to the Windows folder. Each user should modify its own copy of the system!
The benefits of this approach are huge: