On earth the highest order creatures use rectal "probing" more than the lower creatures. It only stands to reason that more advanced creatures would have an even greater interest on rectal probing than us humans.
I have a 1993 Escort wagon and I get 36mpg on an unmodified automatic.
My gearhead brother says the motor is designed to run optimally within a range of RPM. It will run better within that range and the load still has a significant impact upon it.
I never go above 2500 rpm; I must do about that on the highway. Whatever gear it runs in, I try to keep the rpm low as possible which likely means that I'm actually ending up around the sweet spot for my 16 year old car (I can hear & feel it changing gears.)
A newer car designed for higher average national speeds (and being newer) likely runs better at a faster speed; that is why some people do better when going 70mph-- they are at the right rpm and gear for the speed. It is still a WASTE because the wind resistance is a CUBIC function and at 55mph you are using about 50% of the power fighting wind resistance (it gets worse as you go faster-- and its not linear, its cubic growth.) So if the car was designed for a better speed (55) then it would get even better millage than it can currently going its design "ideal" of around 70mph.
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I coast as much as I can; I always avoid the brake to save on having to replace them. I do not draft that much because I'm only going 55-60 on the highway due to the fact my rpm reaches 2500 at that speed (everybody passes me.) I slow down on hills (due to rpm.)
If I drive like everybody else, I get about 25mpg and wear my car out quicker. On a long journey, driving fast only gives me about 10-15 min of time but costs me in gas and wear.
I think that 30mph roads are probably ideal because of wind resistance and my gearing causes me to almost idle at that speed on level ground; however, all the stop/starts involved on these roads likely undoes the benefits so I get around the same millage in town.
Fuel injection means on/off only wastes about 10seconds of gas; having just figured this out, I can't say how much turning the car off for >10sec stops will give me. I shall see.
They teach math teachers how to teach math; my aunt just so happens to teach math education to teachers (elementary level) and was a teacher and principal. I credit her with me surviving at all. In MN, its a bit different (not as much now, its going downhill, they are trying to fix one of the best states by breaking it.)
There are many horrible teachers in universities who don't have any education training or talent... but then in that environment the student is supposed to make up for that; k-12 is different.
There is NO REASON to not have an actual MATH EDUCATION major that focuses on the education of math specifically WHICH includes application. They don't need linear algebra or high level calc; and should be learning how to apply it instead. One could pay more for teachers who have math and science degrees... which would encourage them to get the training--- which is one reason teachers get paid for the level of education they have already. We also need something to reward people who stick around more than 2-3 years (which is the typical time they drop out; its not good to have in between job people going in/out either.) But we shouldn't pay them essentially by their age.
Another method: My high school tried COMBINING english and social studies into a 2 hour course with TWO TEACHERS working together to integrate them. The little I did learn from high school was in that course. It was a WISE MOVE that would ALSO work with science and math. As it stands now, you have science teachers who are working around how far behind the math is and NOT collaborating at all. This makes it difficult without raising math standards 1st.
Teacher IS a career choice for some people; it can be a more specialized major than it currently is. I would also have an entry level student teacher course for weeding people out. I KNOW a few teachers who HATE TEACHING and would have changed course if they had known (whats a music major supposed to do even then?)
I disagree. The system will be heavily regulated to death and pushed around by crazy PTA, parents, politicians with their uneducated beliefs if you break up the school system. It will end up similar to school districts and charter schools.
Other countries BEAT the USA without a silly 'competition' system. Perhaps one should look at what works before falsely equating education with business. Perhaps the states could also look at each other...
A half decent PARENT can outdo a teacher in a classroom easily. Give a D level teacher just 1 or 2 kids per class and they will do quite a lot better.
Everyone likes to blame teachers and knows of a bad one (there are lots of teachers we are exposed to in our lives.) The culture, technology and the PARENTS are also part of the problem. The business-think fixes that have and are being applied are only making things worse.
Education and child development experts should be designing the schools not ignorant politicians and the parents-- who all have 'gifted' children.
ENGLISH is used to DO stuff at an early age and continues to be applied throughout. Math NEVER is.
I never had a good math teacher. Since math is so useful in science why didn't we ever combine the two?? Calc without physics and standardization BS greatly lowers the ability to try out new techniques-- its whatever BS they can do for the exam scores and nothing else. I was in before this testing idiocy and even then it was teaching for the test.
Oh, standardization BS has caused them to attack creative classes like ART so creativity is being undermined; not to mention that modern kids are already pathetic creatively to previous generations. This helps other subjects such as the application of math to things.
-its hard to measure 'smart' and there are multiple kinds of 'smart'
-'smart' parents may be poor at bringing up children properly
-'smart' may require certain things to 'trigger' it which differs as well as the age range etc
-many genetic traits we know about skip generations etc. This could be more complex than the simple stuff we know about now
-developmental problems could contribute; where infant health could inhibit brain development or indirectly impact it
-'smart' people could just be lucky and there are more than we realize (even they don't realize it) I'm not just suggesting environment, but also luck, and timing. There are plenty of physically capable people who just lack the diet, exercise, motivation, where there is clearly SOME genetics but its also other factors
Its a long term cultural trend in the USA which is actually promoted and since it has been gradually gaining in the last few generations, most people are unaware of the change. 30 years and something becomes normal unquestioned "the way things are."
People work too many hours and then need to consume to spoil themselves-- to the extremes where BOTH parents work all the time and get into foolish debts to maintain their quality of consumption. (Notice how I didn't contribute to the confusion over quality of life.)
In addition American income has been in decline seemingly without people noticing until recent years (they even support their downfall the marketing is so good.)
This contributes to the whole problem. That being said, I had a mother at home and I had plenty of unsupervised time but was severely limited on TV etc (I wish she trashed the TV.)
Just because some (or most) people are not doing what you think they are doing doesn't mean that you shouldn't support alternatives. Every time I get into rating systems I have to fight with people who ironically want to impose their ideals upon the rest of us under the guise of defending against imposition.
I've been advocating for decades for a government/U.N. system for everything; this would produce something massive and all inclusive forcing implementations to be more open ended. Sure its complicated (so is unicode;) but that doesn't mean multiple ratings couldn't be listed and some could be simple. If something is NOT rated then don't let the kids see it. My TV doesn't need to know what PG-13 means it only needs to see if that keyword is listed in the settings on my TV. ALSO MORE IMPORTANTLY, I should be able to use non-corporate ratings, which are strongly defended due to the way they can skew ratings for marketing purposes.
I was upset the FCC didn't do something useful on DTV so we could have multiple audio channels with ratings for example.
Fixed dictionary. Items will be reused and therefore the more known answers the higher the odds are that will be asked a known. One doesn't need to use humans that much to get a reasonable result--- setup a website that mirrors the problems to get people to solve it for free for you. Something people will be motivated to do it...
Since when SHOULD politicians get the same rights the citizens have?? They get more power and for that they should lose some of their rights.
Sure "hacking" an idiotic password is technically a crime, but the law is supposed to be interpretative so a reasonable judge can just sentence the guilty person to some community service (which I'm sure they wouldn't mind since they obviously volunteer already.)
Its all just buffer cache between the CPU's registers and the disk's storage.
How about a new market for RAM? RAM that is larger, lower power and slower to fit between VM and RAM; or possibly replace main memory while the current memory moves towards being a larger form of 3rd level shared cache between CPU (and GPU?)
It may be an extra level of little benefit at this time but as GPUs and CPUs converge another buffer to address the needs of a big enough class of applications might become viable.
The difference NOW is that the parties priorities are perception management, funding that, and themselves.
The reason the democrats are the oldest party is because they adapted over time. Both parties were largely aligned with their stated ideals but not anymore. People who see this think both parties are the SAME in this aspect (possibly in many other aspects depending on how far you are outside the small domain they reside within.)
Degradation of party principles has been in exponential decay for over a generation. To the point where both appear to be too similar to anybody on the edge out outside the NARROW perspective between the two.
The new democrats were corporate sell outs and their success only helped move their party in that direction. The republicans sold out much sooner and obviously degraded to an even worse condition where in the last 8 years they completely oppose their founding principles. Both parties continue to market themselves on the principles they no longer have because IT WORKS.
People who notice the loss of values in the society that used to be reflected (metaphorically) in the parties are often confused as to what is going on-- I came to this conclusion from observing how both parties spend considerable effort trying to win over these people who know there is something wrong but are unable to figure out what it is. Such as, blaming inequity, media, secularism, elitism, etc falsely to label the cause of the problems and then marketing against those and the people who oppose it. Sure, the best thing is to pick something with some truth to it but its purpose is marketing and distraction not to actually solve anything.
What is interesting is how the few honest politicians on both sides seem to agree so much and sometimes even point out some of the real things going on-- which makes them too unpopular to succeed. The SOCIETY is degrading and it is reflecting in the leadership they re-elect and since this manifestation is observable people fail to see the connection between their personal involvement (or they don't want to accept blame.)
Americans can't accept any blame. Selfishness has increased to where the old 2 party beliefs of one for all or preserving liberty are empty slogans -- even the slogans are weak in that they work on a smaller segment of the voting public than they used to.
As a kid, my church got rid of a priest because about 1/3 of the members didn't like his application of the morals to THEM. He'd point out the hypocrisy. They just wanted to be made to feel good about themselves and probably made to feel better than other people. This group took over the church and it was a trend. (FYI, it was not my choice to go, and if I was still a believer I wouldn't likely find an honest church left in this city.)
FDR was one of the most popular presidents in history and served more than 2 terms; it was fear of a populist president doing it again that caused them to create a term limit. Term limits on president are not needed (the founders didn't have them;) however, the constitution needs to be brought back... People realize now that one man isn't the problem, it that they are all powerless or corrupt when they get in.
FDR did AMAZING work before the USA finally entered WW2 (which FDR manipulated to happen.) The economy WAS on rebound and had he lived long enough he would have brought the USA to recovery without WW2; I agree it would not have been as quickly without the transformation into a militant nation.
The USA remained a militant nation ever since WW2; needing an enemy to justify the continuation of the industrial military complex that became the cornerstone of the economy and managed to position itself to be politically untouchable. They didn't place their stuff in each district in the nation by accident...Mess with them and the local politicians get flack for lost jobs etc.
Yes, the OS uses hardware assist for handling memory spaces.
Letting something like 1394 or PCMIA get full unrestricted DMA access shouldn't be even possible. Rogue devices can cause crashes or security threats; the devices are not dumb, they have firmware. Ideally, they do not need cpu mmu time to monitor all their operations.
Many USB drivers exist in kernal space. Most can run in its own memory space; some even in "user" space (that is not memory space, I know.) Given how slow USB is, I wouldn't think the speed of kernel memory access would be a big enough deal.
I guess what I'm thinking of is some old mainframe I was told about over a decade ago where hardware imposed limitations on DMA prevented bad devices from taking down the system. It had a kernal, driver, and user space (which wasn't memory space but largely a permissions thing that had MMU work involved; so not exactly relevant.)
Pointer and loop errors are the top errors coders make. I shouldn't have to worry about MORE % of errors because I'm compiling in tons of drivers in the kernel.
Nintendo always was around the same price point for their systems; they've been going the longest and know their marketplace well.
The Wii IS the next logical generation. The other two are a huge price jump to skip a generation ahead which was because they were marketing on penis envy to an older audience (who has that problem.)
As disposable income has gone down, we have 2 game systems that have gone up in price. When I was a kid, nintendo was a BIG purchase for my parents and the 80s econ wasn't as bad now-- plus having irresponsible debt wasn't as popular (for families.)
True. However, chips today already crack stuff into micro instructions and I seem to remember intels x86 breaking their instructions down to some sort of internal RISC. Microcode just didn't seem to die.
Its almost like we have simple hardware emulation going on everywhere in the PC market already.
Adoption is a problem. I remember when PPC was killing x86 and how it didn't get any traction. I think it still can kill x86 but its big market never was big into killing x86 (just apple was.) So we have had PPC chips being used as a bigger RISC brother to ARM in laser printers, routers, game consoles, etc.
Hardware stacks? interesting. never touched x86 assembly (always hoped it would die so I'd never have to touch it; but good compilers pretty much removed the need.) You have any info on this? I'm curious and google isn't much help.
MMU mainframes have had >2 memory spaces forever. R U saying the current generation of CPUs all support 3 memory spaces and the OS are simply not exploiting the features yet?? If so these kernel devs need to get cracking and start putting drivers out of the kernel memory space. (I couldn't care less about minor speed losses with the speeds we have today. Drivers are the #1 cause of crashes on my unix systems. windows.. well, I just generally blame microsoft.) Or are these IOMMUs simply legacy hardware translators?
Async I thought intel used tiny bits of async in their int units since the p4? not sure. I think it needs R seems like it would be useful in certain situations.
Hyperthreading uses the significant amount of idle cpu time to process something else; it is akin to a virtual processor. The gains are not incredibly significant and there are plenty of implementation complaints; however, the idea is still a good one.
Rather than copy/paste a whole CPU; place a partial CPU that shares common units. More specifically, take that hyperthreading concept of using idle cpu time and provide it extra processing units to leverage-- a "wider" cpu design that makes use of the waste of extra "wide" designs. So it only appears as 2 cpus but in fact it runs slower and takes up less space/power.
CPU gets more vague in its meaning as things change around. One could stick to the basic units and not include FPU or MMU or just consider those as optional features of modern CPUs. I hear it both ways; but always single threaded.
I'd like to see somebody do something new besides just get smaller. CELL for example.
Most users are just fine with a fixed system on a chip with no PCI. (ram too if you could pull that off) If you want to reduce power and cost you'd place as much as possible on a single chip. (using crazy IP games they could buy designs for parts on the chip-- consolidating manufacturing as well.)
How about a working variation of Hyperthreading? have 1.5 CPUs and manage it so almost runs like 2 full CPUs? (since pipelines are still problems.)
At least AMD is going to combine GPUs. But next they need to think about how to better integrate the vector processing that GPUs are taking over - instead of the weak MMX/SSE/etc features which have a lot of overlap in their uses.
How about hardware accelerated stacks? MMUs that can handle a driver memory space (not just kernel and user.)
Advances in clockless processing?
Just slapping more cores on chips is the lazy way out. Most people could use a business-class computer on a single chip with a stick of ram. maybe even a slower cheaper but larger secondary ram...(since GPU ram would get used a lot doing all that fluff that every OS now has.)
1) There is NO right to privacy in the USA. Most laws of any merit are health related. 4th amendment etc is "quaint" and is willfully ignored.
2) Government Employees must agree to the terms of their employment which is not unlike that of employees everywhere.
3) Government Servants are also a special case because they serve the public and have a lot of power given to them by the public. The EXCEPTION to privacy should be public servants. I don't care if they have a webcam stuck on their head 24/7! (there ARE people who would still take the job.)
The problem with UNION government employees is that there are some stupid laws entrenched in how government deals with its unions not the existence of unions.
The unions are not the villains.
Generations of P.R. by the corporatists have herded Americans away from their own best interests while distracting them with false substitutes (its not just politics.) Pro union is as bad as being labeled a liberal in this country; if not worse.
I'm getting sick of the flawed reasoning that is so common in America. Hate the war != hate the troops. Hate the tolerance of incompetence in government != hate the unions, or hate the government (in the broader sense. These are 'scoping' type context errors; or logically they are oversimplification which is a human nature so on can see why its so easy to exploit.)
Democrats are like cats (try herding fat cats.) Republicans are like devoted dogs. Same master / owner. Their stark contrast in behavior conveniently fools the public.
NOTE: This is a filibuster record setting Senate that requires veto override for anything worthwhile to get past chipboy. If they banned filibuster like the GOP threatened to do (when they saw next to none) they would never get enough veto over ride votes.
This is more of the SAME THEFT under the religion of "free market." I bet you that most americans think most discovery comes from the "market" -- after all, the establishment has been advertising the superiority of their belief system for a few generations.
Those who do not UNDERSTAND history are doomed to repeat it. Next up: The Fall of the Roman Empire or Fall of British Empire?
Against the war= you hate the troops Against corrupt officials= you hate the country Against greedy banks= you hate the economy Against deregulation= you hate the Capitalism/America (they conflate them) Against anarchist healthcare= you hate the insured... Against Sara Palin= you are sexist
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On earth the highest order creatures use rectal "probing" more than the lower creatures. It only stands to reason that more advanced creatures would have an even greater interest on rectal probing than us humans.
Most of my dreams are not visual. Did I need to watch more TV as a child?
I have a 1993 Escort wagon and I get 36mpg on an unmodified automatic.
My gearhead brother says the motor is designed to run optimally within a range of RPM. It will run better within that range and the load still has a significant impact upon it.
I never go above 2500 rpm; I must do about that on the highway. Whatever gear it runs in, I try to keep the rpm low as possible which likely means that I'm actually ending up around the sweet spot for my 16 year old car (I can hear & feel it changing gears.)
A newer car designed for higher average national speeds (and being newer) likely runs better at a faster speed; that is why some people do better when going 70mph-- they are at the right rpm and gear for the speed. It is still a WASTE because the wind resistance is a CUBIC function and at 55mph you are using about 50% of the power fighting wind resistance (it gets worse as you go faster-- and its not linear, its cubic growth.) So if the car was designed for a better speed (55) then it would get even better millage than it can currently going its design "ideal" of around 70mph.
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I coast as much as I can; I always avoid the brake to save on having to replace them. I do not draft that much because I'm only going 55-60 on the highway due to the fact my rpm reaches 2500 at that speed (everybody passes me.) I slow down on hills (due to rpm.)
If I drive like everybody else, I get about 25mpg and wear my car out quicker. On a long journey, driving fast only gives me about 10-15 min of time but costs me in gas and wear.
I think that 30mph roads are probably ideal because of wind resistance and my gearing causes me to almost idle at that speed on level ground; however, all the stop/starts involved on these roads likely undoes the benefits so I get around the same millage in town.
Fuel injection means on/off only wastes about 10seconds of gas; having just figured this out, I can't say how much turning the car off for >10sec stops will give me. I shall see.
In Soviet America, the government invades your privacy.
You do not have an education degree.
They teach math teachers how to teach math; my aunt just so happens to teach math education to teachers (elementary level) and was a teacher and principal. I credit her with me surviving at all. In MN, its a bit different (not as much now, its going downhill, they are trying to fix one of the best states by breaking it.)
There are many horrible teachers in universities who don't have any education training or talent... but then in that environment the student is supposed to make up for that; k-12 is different.
There is NO REASON to not have an actual MATH EDUCATION major that focuses on the education of math specifically WHICH includes application. They don't need linear algebra or high level calc; and should be learning how to apply it instead. One could pay more for teachers who have math and science degrees... which would encourage them to get the training--- which is one reason teachers get paid for the level of education they have already. We also need something to reward people who stick around more than 2-3 years (which is the typical time they drop out; its not good to have in between job people going in/out either.) But we shouldn't pay them essentially by their age.
Another method:
My high school tried COMBINING english and social studies into a 2 hour course with TWO TEACHERS working together to integrate them. The little I did learn from high school was in that course. It was a WISE MOVE that would ALSO work with science and math. As it stands now, you have science teachers who are working around how far behind the math is and NOT collaborating at all. This makes it difficult without raising math standards 1st.
Teacher IS a career choice for some people; it can be a more specialized major than it currently is. I would also have an entry level student teacher course for weeding people out. I KNOW a few teachers who HATE TEACHING and would have changed course if they had known (whats a music major supposed to do even then?)
I disagree. The system will be heavily regulated to death and pushed around by crazy PTA, parents, politicians with their uneducated beliefs if you break up the school system. It will end up similar to school districts and charter schools.
Other countries BEAT the USA without a silly 'competition' system. Perhaps one should look at what works before falsely equating education with business. Perhaps the states could also look at each other...
A half decent PARENT can outdo a teacher in a classroom easily. Give a D level teacher just 1 or 2 kids per class and they will do quite a lot better.
Everyone likes to blame teachers and knows of a bad one (there are lots of teachers we are exposed to in our lives.) The culture, technology and the PARENTS are also part of the problem. The business-think fixes that have and are being applied are only making things worse.
Education and child development experts should be designing the schools not ignorant politicians and the parents-- who all have 'gifted' children.
where are my mod points?
ENGLISH is used to DO stuff at an early age and continues to be applied throughout. Math NEVER is.
I never had a good math teacher. Since math is so useful in science why didn't we ever combine the two?? Calc without physics and standardization BS greatly lowers the ability to try out new techniques-- its whatever BS they can do for the exam scores and nothing else. I was in before this testing idiocy and even then it was teaching for the test.
Oh, standardization BS has caused them to attack creative classes like ART so creativity is being undermined; not to mention that modern kids are already pathetic creatively to previous generations. This helps other subjects such as the application of math to things.
-its hard to measure 'smart' and there are multiple kinds of 'smart'
-'smart' parents may be poor at bringing up children properly
-'smart' may require certain things to 'trigger' it which differs as well as the age range etc
-many genetic traits we know about skip generations etc. This could be more complex than the simple stuff we know about now
-developmental problems could contribute; where infant health could inhibit brain development or indirectly impact it
-'smart' people could just be lucky and there are more than we realize (even they don't realize it) I'm not just suggesting environment, but also luck, and timing. There are plenty of physically capable people who just lack the diet, exercise, motivation, where there is clearly SOME genetics but its also other factors
-LONG TERM trends were what got us here
Its a long term cultural trend in the USA which is actually promoted and since it has been gradually gaining in the last few generations, most people are unaware of the change. 30 years and something becomes normal unquestioned "the way things are."
People work too many hours and then need to consume to spoil themselves-- to the extremes where BOTH parents work all the time and get into foolish debts to maintain their quality of consumption. (Notice how I didn't contribute to the confusion over quality of life.)
In addition American income has been in decline seemingly without people noticing until recent years (they even support their downfall the marketing is so good.)
This contributes to the whole problem. That being said, I had a mother at home and I had plenty of unsupervised time but was severely limited on TV etc (I wish she trashed the TV.)
Just because some (or most) people are not doing what you think they are doing doesn't mean that you shouldn't support alternatives. Every time I get into rating systems I have to fight with people who ironically want to impose their ideals upon the rest of us under the guise of defending against imposition.
I've been advocating for decades for a government/U.N. system for everything; this would produce something massive and all inclusive forcing implementations to be more open ended. Sure its complicated (so is unicode;) but that doesn't mean multiple ratings couldn't be listed and some could be simple. If something is NOT rated then don't let the kids see it. My TV doesn't need to know what PG-13 means it only needs to see if that keyword is listed in the settings on my TV. ALSO MORE IMPORTANTLY, I should be able to use non-corporate ratings, which are strongly defended due to the way they can skew ratings for marketing purposes.
I was upset the FCC didn't do something useful on DTV so we could have multiple audio channels with ratings for example.
Fixed dictionary.
Items will be reused and therefore the more known answers the higher the odds are that will be asked a known. One doesn't need to use humans that much to get a reasonable result--- setup a website that mirrors the problems to get people to solve it for free for you. Something people will be motivated to do it...
Since when SHOULD politicians get the same rights the citizens have?? They get more power and for that they should lose some of their rights.
Sure "hacking" an idiotic password is technically a crime, but the law is supposed to be interpretative so a reasonable judge can just sentence the guilty person to some community service (which I'm sure they wouldn't mind since they obviously volunteer already.)
Its all just buffer cache between the CPU's registers and the disk's storage.
How about a new market for RAM?
RAM that is larger, lower power and slower to fit between VM and RAM; or possibly replace main memory while the current memory moves towards being a larger form of 3rd level shared cache between CPU (and GPU?)
It may be an extra level of little benefit at this time but as GPUs and CPUs converge another buffer to address the needs of a big enough class of applications might become viable.
The difference NOW is that the parties priorities are perception management, funding that, and themselves.
The reason the democrats are the oldest party is because they adapted over time. Both parties were largely aligned with their stated ideals but not anymore. People who see this think both parties are the SAME in this aspect (possibly in many other aspects depending on how far you are outside the small domain they reside within.)
The parties are BRAND NAMES. its all marketing.
Degradation of party principles has been in exponential decay for over a generation. To the point where both appear to be too similar to anybody on the edge out outside the NARROW perspective between the two.
The new democrats were corporate sell outs and their success only helped move their party in that direction. The republicans sold out much sooner and obviously degraded to an even worse condition where in the last 8 years they completely oppose their founding principles. Both parties continue to market themselves on the principles they no longer have because IT WORKS.
People who notice the loss of values in the society that used to be reflected (metaphorically) in the parties are often confused as to what is going on-- I came to this conclusion from observing how both parties spend considerable effort trying to win over these people who know there is something wrong but are unable to figure out what it is. Such as, blaming inequity, media, secularism, elitism, etc falsely to label the cause of the problems and then marketing against those and the people who oppose it. Sure, the best thing is to pick something with some truth to it but its purpose is marketing and distraction not to actually solve anything.
What is interesting is how the few honest politicians on both sides seem to agree so much and sometimes even point out some of the real things going on-- which makes them too unpopular to succeed. The SOCIETY is degrading and it is reflecting in the leadership they re-elect and since this manifestation is observable people fail to see the connection between their personal involvement (or they don't want to accept blame.)
Americans can't accept any blame. Selfishness has increased to where the old 2 party beliefs of one for all or preserving liberty are empty slogans -- even the slogans are weak in that they work on a smaller segment of the voting public than they used to.
As a kid, my church got rid of a priest because about 1/3 of the members didn't like his application of the morals to THEM. He'd point out the hypocrisy. They just wanted to be made to feel good about themselves and probably made to feel better than other people. This group took over the church and it was a trend. (FYI, it was not my choice to go, and if I was still a believer I wouldn't likely find an honest church left in this city.)
This is the Century of the Self.
FDR was one of the most popular presidents in history and served more than 2 terms; it was fear of a populist president doing it again that caused them to create a term limit. Term limits on president are not needed (the founders didn't have them;) however, the constitution needs to be brought back... People realize now that one man isn't the problem, it that they are all powerless or corrupt when they get in.
FDR did AMAZING work before the USA finally entered WW2 (which FDR manipulated to happen.) The economy WAS on rebound and had he lived long enough he would have brought the USA to recovery without WW2; I agree it would not have been as quickly without the transformation into a militant nation.
The USA remained a militant nation ever since WW2; needing an enemy to justify the continuation of the industrial military complex that became the cornerstone of the economy and managed to position itself to be politically untouchable. They didn't place their stuff in each district in the nation by accident...Mess with them and the local politicians get flack for lost jobs etc.
I thought intel didn't have load/store instructions?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine
Yes, the OS uses hardware assist for handling memory spaces.
Letting something like 1394 or PCMIA get full unrestricted DMA access shouldn't be even possible. Rogue devices can cause crashes or security threats; the devices are not dumb, they have firmware. Ideally, they do not need cpu mmu time to monitor all their operations.
Many USB drivers exist in kernal space. Most can run in its own memory space; some even in "user" space (that is not memory space, I know.) Given how slow USB is, I wouldn't think the speed of kernel memory access would be a big enough deal.
I guess what I'm thinking of is some old mainframe I was told about over a decade ago where hardware imposed limitations on DMA prevented bad devices from taking down the system. It had a kernal, driver, and user space (which wasn't memory space but largely a permissions thing that had MMU work involved; so not exactly relevant.)
Pointer and loop errors are the top errors coders make. I shouldn't have to worry about MORE % of errors because I'm compiling in tons of drivers in the kernel.
Nintendo always was around the same price point for their systems; they've been going the longest and know their marketplace well.
The Wii IS the next logical generation. The other two are a huge price jump to skip a generation ahead which was because they were marketing on penis envy to an older audience (who has that problem.)
As disposable income has gone down, we have 2 game systems that have gone up in price. When I was a kid, nintendo was a BIG purchase for my parents and the 80s econ wasn't as bad now-- plus having irresponsible debt wasn't as popular (for families.)
True. However, chips today already crack stuff into micro instructions and I seem to remember intels x86 breaking their instructions down to some sort of internal RISC. Microcode just didn't seem to die.
Its almost like we have simple hardware emulation going on everywhere in the PC market already.
Adoption is a problem. I remember when PPC was killing x86 and how it didn't get any traction. I think it still can kill x86 but its big market never was big into killing x86 (just apple was.) So we have had PPC chips being used as a bigger RISC brother to ARM in laser printers, routers, game consoles, etc.
Hardware stacks?
interesting. never touched x86 assembly (always hoped it would die so I'd never have to touch it; but good compilers pretty much removed the need.) You have any info on this? I'm curious and google isn't much help.
MMU
mainframes have had >2 memory spaces forever. R U saying the current generation of CPUs all support 3 memory spaces and the OS are simply not exploiting the features yet?? If so these kernel devs need to get cracking and start putting drivers out of the kernel memory space. (I couldn't care less about minor speed losses with the speeds we have today. Drivers are the #1 cause of crashes on my unix systems. windows.. well, I just generally blame microsoft.) Or are these IOMMUs simply legacy hardware translators?
Async
I thought intel used tiny bits of async in their int units since the p4? not sure. I think it needs R seems like it would be useful in certain situations.
Hyperthreading uses the significant amount of idle cpu time to process something else; it is akin to a virtual processor. The gains are not incredibly significant and there are plenty of implementation complaints; however, the idea is still a good one.
Rather than copy/paste a whole CPU; place a partial CPU that shares common units. More specifically, take that hyperthreading concept of using idle cpu time and provide it extra processing units to leverage-- a "wider" cpu design that makes use of the waste of extra "wide" designs. So it only appears as 2 cpus but in fact it runs slower and takes up less space/power.
CPU gets more vague in its meaning as things change around. One could stick to the basic units and not include FPU or MMU or just consider those as optional features of modern CPUs. I hear it both ways; but always single threaded.
Well, large values of 1 can equal 2 ;-)
I'd like to see somebody do something new besides just get smaller. CELL for example.
Most users are just fine with a fixed system on a chip with no PCI. (ram too if you could pull that off) If you want to reduce power and cost you'd place as much as possible on a single chip. (using crazy IP games they could buy designs for parts on the chip-- consolidating manufacturing as well.)
How about a working variation of Hyperthreading? have 1.5 CPUs and manage it so almost runs like 2 full CPUs? (since pipelines are still problems.)
At least AMD is going to combine GPUs. But next they need to think about how to better integrate the vector processing that GPUs are taking over - instead of the weak MMX/SSE/etc features which have a lot of overlap in their uses.
How about hardware accelerated stacks? MMUs that can handle a driver memory space (not just kernel and user.)
Advances in clockless processing?
Just slapping more cores on chips is the lazy way out. Most people could use a business-class computer on a single chip with a stick of ram. maybe even a slower cheaper but larger secondary ram...(since GPU ram would get used a lot doing all that fluff that every OS now has.)
1) There is NO right to privacy in the USA. Most laws of any merit are health related. 4th amendment etc is "quaint" and is willfully ignored.
2) Government Employees must agree to the terms of their employment which is not unlike that of employees everywhere.
3) Government Servants are also a special case because they serve the public and have a lot of power given to them by the public. The EXCEPTION to privacy should be public servants. I don't care if they have a webcam stuck on their head 24/7! (there ARE people who would still take the job.)
The problem with UNION government employees is that there are some stupid laws entrenched in how government deals with its unions not the existence of unions.
The unions are not the villains.
Generations of P.R. by the corporatists have herded Americans away from their own best interests while distracting them with false substitutes (its not just politics.) Pro union is as bad as being labeled a liberal in this country; if not worse.
I'm getting sick of the flawed reasoning that is so common in America. Hate the war != hate the troops. Hate the tolerance of incompetence in government != hate the unions, or hate the government (in the broader sense. These are 'scoping' type context errors; or logically they are oversimplification which is a human nature so on can see why its so easy to exploit.)
A Point well made; however:
Democrats are like cats (try herding fat cats.)
Republicans are like devoted dogs.
Same master / owner.
Their stark contrast in behavior conveniently fools the public.
NOTE:
This is a filibuster record setting Senate that requires veto override for anything worthwhile to get past chipboy. If they banned filibuster like the GOP threatened to do (when they saw next to none) they would never get enough veto over ride votes.
Robber Barrons.
This is more of the SAME THEFT under the religion of "free market." I bet you that most americans think most discovery comes from the "market" -- after all, the establishment has been advertising the superiority of their belief system for a few generations.
Those who do not UNDERSTAND history are doomed to repeat it. Next up: The Fall of the Roman Empire or Fall of British Empire?
Against the war= you hate the troops ...
Against corrupt officials= you hate the country
Against greedy banks= you hate the economy
Against deregulation= you hate the Capitalism/America (they conflate them)
Against anarchist healthcare= you hate the insured
Against Sara Palin= you are sexist