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  1. I upgrade DRAM generations.. BANDWIDTH on Intel's Upcoming Coffee Lake CPUs Won't Work With Today's Motherboards (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I upgrade for each new generation of memory. I will soon upgrade to a DDR4 based system.

    Wait for the new standard to hit price parity, then grab whatever CPU is at the best price/performance point. New faster PCI or whatever, sure. Give me the new fast RAM!

    All computing comes down to bandwidth. Memory bandwidth is always the first roadblock. Then disk, and later network.

    Yes, about every 4-5 years. Shrug, works for me!

    SSD was my only upgrade in about 4 years!

  2. Asians are much more hierarchical.. on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They do not "Hate". They simple do not care. It does not cross their minds.

    In the west do you grieve for the bugs splattered on your windshield? Probably not..

    Peasants defer to the wealthy. Wealthy defer to the govt. You are expected to fit yourself into this hierarchy and KNOW YOUR PLACE. If you get hit, YOUR FAULT. Should not have been doing that..

    Employees defer to the boss. Period. If you act western, as an equal etc. you cause he boss to lose face. You will not be employed for long!

    Do not impose your views or social standards, or ideas of equality. They have their own way, and do not want to be preached to. It works for them, violence is low, things are very peaceful if you go with the flow.

    Do not JUDGE!

  3. Not only the roads.. on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The sidewalks are also overflowing with people driving motos during rush hour!

    Traffic is jammed, OOH, there's a nice place I can drive..

    Non-Rush hour, the sidewalks are used for parking the motos. Or for portable shops selling whatever, although the local Cong Anh (police without guns, vs the Army ones with guns..) are forcing out the vendors now in bigger cities. Many stories in the news about the 70 yr old illiterate peasant woman who can not sell coffee any more from her coal brasier/plastic chairs and a small table streetside shop.

  4. Re:a couple of things on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They are having contract disputes with a Chinese company building an elevated light-rail system. It is a ring around the city, with a few spurs in/out. It should go online next year. The dispute is the Chinese company is selling them off their used rolling stock, the contract did not specify New, so corners were cut..
    VN and CN people do not have a happy history, so many outraged stories on the news.

    It will not fall short. Traffic is BAD. ie reach out and touch 8 others as you are driving on a moto.. I walk as it is frequently faster. Traffic lights are ignored unless a cop is standing there.

    The new trains WILL be used.

  5. They ARE 4 stroke! on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I lived there a year, and left due to traffic, and traffic noise. Pollution is bad, not not much worse than most other asian cities. The biggest problem for me is the slash and burn agriculture which puts a haze over the entire region.

    The bikes are almost exclusively 4 stroke, Honda Dream, Honda Wave, 100-110cc over 175 cc you get a special 200% tax, yes the big bikes then cost 3x as much! Some Suzikis and yamahas, but many parts are interchangable. There is the odd old Russian Minsk, and those are foul.. but those are mostly used in the mountains and by dumb-ass tourists.. Sometimes an old Honda Chaly mini-bike with a 50 cc but really, 99% 4 STROKE.

    Post after post after post, THEY ARE 4 STROKE!

  6. TLDR; YMMV!

    I live in a country that has 2 lane highways. One lane to the city, the other going away from the city.. YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!

    Passing 2 lanes over might be in the next province of my rural province in the mighty Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

    And, furthermore, GET OFF MY LAWN1 :)

  7. FPGA? Why not a cheap quad core ARM chip? on New Network Design Exploits Cheap, Power-Efficient Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    Through in 4 gigs of ram, too!

  8. Cloud aware, built in scaling, the cluster is OS. Spin up new instances in a fraction of a second:

    MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels for secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms. Code can be developed on a normal OS such as Linux or MacOS X, and then compiled into a fully-standalone, specialised unikernel that runs under the Xen hypervisor.

    Since Xen powers most public cloud computing infrastructure such as Amazon EC2 or Rackspace, this lets your servers run more cheaply, securely and with finer control than with a full software stack.

    MirageOS uses the OCaml language, with libraries that provide networking, storage and concurrency support that work under Unix during development, but become operating system drivers when being compiled for production deployment. The framework is fully event-driven, with no support for preemptive threading.

    ======= And ==========

    What is Mirage OS?

    Mirage is an exokernel (also called a Cloud Operating System) for constructing secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing, embedded and mobile platforms. Mirage OS was initially designed to for cloud use, which is why we call it a Cloud Operating System. Mirage OS applications are developed in a high-level functional programming language (OCaml) on a desktop OS such as Linux or Mac OSX, and is then compiled into a fully-standalone, specialised microkernel. These microkernels run directly on Xen Project hypervisor APIs. Since the Xen Project powers most public clouds such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, and many others, Mirage lets your servers run more cheaply, securely and faster in any Xen Project based cloud or hosting service.

  9. Built on type safe language, so no buffer overflows. Layered on a type-safe assembly language. Immutable everything. Defined channels between components. No memory sharing anywhere.

    Our recent article in Operating Systems Review, Singularity: Rethinking the Software Stack, is a concise introduction to the Singularity project. It summarizes research in the current Singularity releases and highlights ongoing Singularity research.
    Overview

    Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We are building a research operating system prototype (called Singularity), extending programming languages, and developing new techniques and tools for specifying and verifying program behavior.

    Advances in languages, compilers, and tools open the possibility of significantly improving software. For example, Singularity uses type-safe languages and an abstract instruction set to enable what we call Software Isolated Processes (SIPs). SIPs provide the strong isolation guarantees of OS processes (isolated object space, separate GCs, separate runtimes) without the overhead of hardware-enforced protection domains. In the current Singularity prototype SIPs are extremely cheap; they run in ring 0 in the kernel’s address space.

    Singularity uses these advances to build more reliable systems and applications. For example, because SIPs are so cheap to create and enforce, Singularity runs each program, device driver, or system extension in its own SIP. SIPs are not allowed to share memory or modify their own code. As a result, we can make strong reliability guarantees about the code running in a SIP. We can verify much broader properties about a SIP at compile or install time than can be done for code running in traditional OS processes. Broader application of static verification is critical to predicting system behavior and providing users with strong guarantees about reliability.

  10. Re:Innovation on Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore · · Score: 1

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    sorry, modded you redundant, was aiming for insightful.

  11. that was epic. on Chicxulub Impact Might Have Spread Life-Bearing Rocks Through the Solar System · · Score: 1

    A work of art. Up there with Tolkien. Beautiful use of language.

  12. Economically viable? on ITER Fusion Reactor On Track To Generating Power By 2028 · · Score: 2

    Great if you can build one, but can you build one that produces power that is cheaper than nuclear fission, solar, wind, etc?

  13. Re:Fiscal cliff - What planet are you from? on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 1

    Bernanke has injected something like 3 trillion into the economy in QE1,2, and 3. Home prices are down to y2k levels, fuel is low too. Where is this inflation hiding? We need more inflation. Perhaps 3% for a few years to let people get debt down to manageable levels.

    Bond investors? Those that shorted bonds in the last few years got killed. Further, bond markets show low yields for DECADES into the future. Negative rates on 20 year bonds at the moment. Seems the rest of the world does not agree with you about the hyperinflation.. A weak dollar would be GOOD as it would make exports easier, leading to higher employment.. Bad for those holding piles of cash though. Problems in europe causing a flight to safety though, thus driving up the dollar. Pity.

    Why do you view inflation as bad? Debtors benefit, workers benefit (via higher wages), assets appreciate.. The only losers are those sitting on large piles of cash.

    Also, depressions are started by deflation, not debt.

    "The only way is to pay out" - Might want to read up on the paradox of thrift: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_thrift.

    Basically you are about 100% wrong. Your mistake is using a micro economic solution to a macro economic problem. Resonates with Fox news viewers but is directly contradicted by facts and theory.

  14. um, yeah.. on Seigniorage Hack Could Resolve Debt Limit Crisis · · Score: 1

    check that dollar chart lately? Devalue much?

    they are green pieces of paper. no more, no less. Only worth what somebody will give you for them..

    New lows against the japanese yen and swiss franc.

    Use your best judgment...

  15. Clusty is still clean.. on Google's Next Challenge, Spam Results · · Score: 1

    ditto. Clusty is still clean..

    1234

  16. Barratry is a crime.. on Superheroes vs. the Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1

    But those are the laws. He uses them to his advantage. That he succeeds at the expense of others just magnifies the hypocrisy of it all.

    Not really sure if he is seriously believes his wacked shit, or just taking the piss.. Either way, buy some popcorn, sit back, and enjoy the show! :)

    You must admit he has some large diamond hard balls..

  17. Phelps is a hero! on Superheroes vs. the Westboro Baptist Church · · Score: 1, Informative

    He is a retired lawyer, two of his kids are lawyers too. He has this wonderful way of tying the government in knots. For instance his clan/cult have a big house. This is a church. The swimming pool is a baptismal font. All income is tax free due to being a religion. IRS was not pleased, but he beat them.

    His views are totally wacko but playing the govt off against itself is just awesome.

  18. Worse than that.. on George Lucas C&Ds 'Lightsaber Laser' · · Score: 1

    USA postal service considers that body part "non-essential". You get a pittance.

    Google it!

  19. Do not worry.. on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    It is not THAT bad. The whole nation is NAT'ed. You will not have a proper IP address. almost certainly 10.x.x.x. I use the web a lot, and the vast majority of sites work. Groklaw did not work for me, or BBC. But Tor gets around all of that. BitTorrent is slow due to no inbound connections.

    To me the bigger problem is dumbass companies trying to 'help' me by detecting my location and localizing.. Just because I am in Whereveristan does not mean I can read the language. My http headers specify us-en. Do not redirect to chinese, or whatever. Annoying.

    Time zones are also a PITA because you are awake and they are asleep, or vice versa.

    All that aside, screw the internet, and have fun, eat some new foods, meet some locals, wander around aimlessly. Say "Hello", smile. Many do not speak english, but they all studied it from grade school on up. Write it down. But one of those calculator translator things, and have somebody show you the buttons to put it into english mode. Better ones have sound. About $20-30.

    Buy a phone with a SIM card. 110 is like 911 in the states. 114 is tourist help. Free. Everywhere. They speak multiple languages. Tell them what you want, hand the phone to the taxi driver, solved.

  20. SCOTUS just ruled on Miranda. on Police Officers Seek Right Not To Be Recorded · · Score: 1

    Check it out..

  21. Boredom & 747 full of tapes.. on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    Do planets stagnate? Same thoughts reverberating? Maybe some pool their replicator rations and take a trip. Record everything ala googleMaps++, come home you sell the reality show version, the art, etc.

    On the way home with objective in hand, mention in passing: "You should check out x, y, and z. Stop by and download our culture any time, and we hope to be back to yours in 100 years. Have a nice day!"

  22. How about private Ego's? on NASA Unveils Sweeping New Programs For Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    McNeally, Ellison, Gates, Brin, Branson, etc.

    New billionaires have big egos, and it only takes one!

  23. ATI All-In-Wonder did pause. on The Sad History and (Possibly) Bright Future of TiVo · · Score: 1

    Did the pause thing, and you could play back at 10% faster to catch up..

  24. Meta-Science.. on Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    Is still science IMO..

    Just saying.

  25. Re:Physics novice, here: on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The speed of sound depends on the density of the air. Your acceleration would also be affected, drag is at a cube rate or fourth?!? rate. Gravity depends on the distance from the center of the earth. Without doing the math, there should be some region where resistance is low, acceleration fairly high, allowing supersonic speed.

    Some body armor, perhaps a viscous gel embedded with carbon fiber, seems wise! Maybe a helmet to keep facial features from being torn removed.. Frost burn, too.