I really doubt we won't have the required will to go into renewables AFTER* we runt out of oil and natural gas. Of course, we could still use coal, deep and calories poor coal.
May I say: Get real people! 2050 is the timeframe both of you main energy sources are expected to be almost all gone.
That is amazing! I was about to question if that (the reacking device) makes school officialy a form of prision, it seems at the US is already was. What, on my country kids have the RIGHT to go to school. Can you also be locked for not saying everything you want?
And so? You can choose to pay, or not to pay that debt any time you want. Both will have consequences, some that you'll like, others that you won't like. You can also stop importing from them, control outsourcing, or stop any other kind of deal you think you should.
It is quite interesting if you think what would happen if you pushed a Russia and stopped exporting to China. I've never undertood mercantilism anyway.
Current manufacturing technology (the one we are using since we invented the VLSI - or even the LSI acronym) is getting into a wall. We can't reduce things much further without getting some unintented effects disrupting our projects. And, finally, because there must be a wall somewhere where we are going into, physics dictate that.
Anyway, I don't think we are going into the space thing all over again. We know human like inteligence is possible, and feasible with a relatively small amount of mass, and relatively a small amount of energy consumption. We also knew all the time that space exploration required extremely big amounts of both. But Moore's law can't last forever.
"Now, look at Watson's specs in terms of CPU - it's powered by 90 IBM Power 750 servers. Each Power 750 server contains a single IBM Power7 CPU... in seven iterations we should be able to fit 128 of those Power7 CPUs on a single chip... Similar calculations hold for the RAM and hard drive space..."
So, that leads to the computer costing some $50,000* and needing four slots on a hack. Still not able to fit in a pocket, but with software development we may be able to reduce that a bit, and exchange computing power to some quite expensive memory amount, thus having to choose between an expensive server of an expensive as a hell pocket computer. Assuming, of course, that Moore's Law holds.
* Price of a current good server. The price of the chip following Moore's law doesn't follow the same trend, that is, it doesn't reduce by half every 18 mounts. Instead the price is gided by much more complicated issues involving the size of factories, concurrency, larbor maket trends, etc. Increasing the quantity of chips produced is the main factor making the prices go down, and I have no idea where is the limit on the number of computers the Earth population buys every year.
The US (or the international community*) will hold China accountable the day they are willing to start World War III. I guess China can do much worse things than some spying around before people let the nukes fly around.
By the way, the US can always deal with hina by economical means, but that won't stop the spying.
"Except that is exactly how Linux, LAMP, took over many servers, IT sneaked it into the server room. "
LAMP is a completely different situation. Any small team of IT people can put a LAMP stack to work and look like it saves the day. To replace MS desktop tools one'd need cooperation from the entire IT department, as any small team of IT people can put a solution that depends on those tools to work and look like it saves the day.
"Or you'll be the hero for fighting against vendor lock-in, which requires massive upgrades and the money needed for that."
No way. You'll be that not cooperative employee fighting against a solution that will save the day. Nevermind that the solution will cost so much at the long term that the original problem was cheaper, that will only be clear at the long term, and nobody will like to hear an "I told you so".
1 - You really need a support contract, and have $9000+ to spare. You choose OO and keep an eye into LO in case it gets better.
2 - You really need a support contract, and doesn't have 9000+ to spare. You are toast, no support contract for you. But you can have LO.
3 - You don't really need a support contract. LO will save you $9000+ on support.
Besides that, the softwares are mainly the same on all fronts. If you are using Windows 7 and need to do a site wide installation and go with OO, you should contact Oracle and try to use their support. Then, you'll discover you are at situation 3, not 1, and do a sitewide installation of LO. That is the biggest difference, and applies only to a very unlikely situation.
Lots of Sun developpers have quit recently, and went to working with Libre (if you RTFA you'd know) . Also, the fact that most of the development of OO was done by Sun developpers mean very little, since it was already forked because Sun didn't accept work done by third parties.
Ask for a prince on the Kindle that compensates for the bandwidth costs. If your customers think that price is too hight, let they buy your book through another service.
But, anyhow, I doubt anybody will pay attention to that advice, because everybody is quite certanly doing this already.
Get over it, nobody is preparing to the end of the world. It has a long enough battery life for nearly all porpouses, so that is not a problem except in that end of the world scenario. Of course, longer battery lifes wouldn't hurt...
"Like being able to stick it in a pocket."
I was never able to carry paper books in a pocket. That I'm now able to carry an entire library at my hand is very nice; and I lost a few packs just because of the weight of paper boks, now those packs hold a library.
"reading screens over a period of tyme hurts"
That is why I paid a quite hight price for an e-paper device (like the Kindle).
Paper books still have their advantajes, but I'm not sure about their relevance, at least for me. After I bought my ebook reader and was able to confortably read lots of things available for free at the web I still didn't buy any paper book. Maybe with some time I see the need for one.
You are right. The problem of making deep pockets too powerfull is better dealt with a sliding scale fee. The number of registrations looks like a better option than the nature of the registrant, as that goes exactly to the root of the problem.
Thanks, you are the first one to not reply as anonymous.
1 - I don't belive Iran is developping nuclear devices to protect against Israel, but against the US. I think that way based on the evidence that they started the development after the US threatened them. Currently, based on data published by Wikileaks, that translate to: I belive Iran is trying to protect them against Saudi Arabia that, despite being the biggest supporter of anti-US terorism, can make the US military to anything they want.
2 - I don't have any moral hight ground to say who should have nuclear weapons. And I don't know if developping nuclear weapons is a justified cause for war. Was there any war ever with justified cause?
Yes, every release so far has being beaten by either the marker (like Intel's try) of by crackers (like MS's tries). But the system is theoreticaly sound, and it just requires one good protocol definition combined with some interesting laws to make it stand.
Israel didn't make a lot of effort trying to convince its neigbors to act peacefully. Sorry, I can't get a lot of compassion for a bully (from any side). I can understand why they are desperate, and everything, but just rationaly.
Iran is still trying to enrich uranium, and you are already assuming the fallout of big thermonuclear bombs? If they make nuclear bombs, they'll start with mono stage ones, and the fallout won't be a concern for anyone out of Israel or Palestine.
And, if their target is Israel, they'll probably stop there, since the country is so small one just needs a few mono stage bombs to destroy it anyway.
A fee for retrivering (out of copyright) content from the registry is a good idea. A fee for registering works is not, it would turn the power more into the hands of corporations, and less into the hands of the people. And frivolous copyright is much less a problem (if copyrights do expire, not with today laws) than giving most of the power to corporations.
I agree that software should be registered with source. Binary only software shouldn't be protected.
It could all work quite well if there were no registration fee for digital works. There is no reason for them, registering digital data is quite cheap, and that would make the GP complaints all go away, since just uploading the data somewhere is easy enough to do every year.
Also, the registry should publish the registered works once the copyrights expires. And they should, of course, actualy expire.
Ok. There are tons of good fiction out there on the net, reviewed or not. If you want somebody else to read it and classify for you, you have that right, and you have to pay the dual price of highter spending and less availability. It is not like somebody is against magazines, but they have no right to exist just because they said so, they must earn a living, like everybody else.
No, you still need infinite resources to keep profits growing. But with market manipulation you can concentrate those resources on yourself and a few of your friends, making YOUR profits grow, at the expense of the others, of course.
By the way, I'm still not convinced we are at a resource usage maximum. But it looks that some powerfull people disagree with me.
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I really doubt we won't have the required will to go into renewables AFTER* we runt out of oil and natural gas. Of course, we could still use coal, deep and calories poor coal.
May I say: Get real people! 2050 is the timeframe both of you main energy sources are expected to be almost all gone.
Being sent to a prision should be a bit different from being sent to a school.
That is amazing! I was about to question if that (the reacking device) makes school officialy a form of prision, it seems at the US is already was. What, on my country kids have the RIGHT to go to school. Can you also be locked for not saying everything you want?
And so? You can choose to pay, or not to pay that debt any time you want. Both will have consequences, some that you'll like, others that you won't like. You can also stop importing from them, control outsourcing, or stop any other kind of deal you think you should.
It is quite interesting if you think what would happen if you pushed a Russia and stopped exporting to China. I've never undertood mercantilism anyway.
Current manufacturing technology (the one we are using since we invented the VLSI - or even the LSI acronym) is getting into a wall. We can't reduce things much further without getting some unintented effects disrupting our projects. And, finally, because there must be a wall somewhere where we are going into, physics dictate that.
Anyway, I don't think we are going into the space thing all over again. We know human like inteligence is possible, and feasible with a relatively small amount of mass, and relatively a small amount of energy consumption. We also knew all the time that space exploration required extremely big amounts of both. But Moore's law can't last forever.
"Now, look at Watson's specs in terms of CPU - it's powered by 90 IBM Power 750 servers. Each Power 750 server contains a single IBM Power7 CPU... in seven iterations we should be able to fit 128 of those Power7 CPUs on a single chip... Similar calculations hold for the RAM and hard drive space..."
So, that leads to the computer costing some $50,000* and needing four slots on a hack. Still not able to fit in a pocket, but with software development we may be able to reduce that a bit, and exchange computing power to some quite expensive memory amount, thus having to choose between an expensive server of an expensive as a hell pocket computer. Assuming, of course, that Moore's Law holds.
* Price of a current good server. The price of the chip following Moore's law doesn't follow the same trend, that is, it doesn't reduce by half every 18 mounts. Instead the price is gided by much more complicated issues involving the size of factories, concurrency, larbor maket trends, etc. Increasing the quantity of chips produced is the main factor making the prices go down, and I have no idea where is the limit on the number of computers the Earth population buys every year.
The US (or the international community*) will hold China accountable the day they are willing to start World War III. I guess China can do much worse things than some spying around before people let the nukes fly around.
By the way, the US can always deal with hina by economical means, but that won't stop the spying.
* WTF is that anyway?
LAMP is a completely different situation. Any small team of IT people can put a LAMP stack to work and look like it saves the day. To replace MS desktop tools one'd need cooperation from the entire IT department, as any small team of IT people can put a solution that depends on those tools to work and look like it saves the day.
No way. You'll be that not cooperative employee fighting against a solution that will save the day. Nevermind that the solution will cost so much at the long term that the original problem was cheaper, that will only be clear at the long term, and nobody will like to hear an "I told you so".
There are three different situations:
1 - You really need a support contract, and have $9000+ to spare. You choose OO and keep an eye into LO in case it gets better.
2 - You really need a support contract, and doesn't have 9000+ to spare. You are toast, no support contract for you. But you can have LO.
3 - You don't really need a support contract. LO will save you $9000+ on support.
Besides that, the softwares are mainly the same on all fronts. If you are using Windows 7 and need to do a site wide installation and go with OO, you should contact Oracle and try to use their support. Then, you'll discover you are at situation 3, not 1, and do a sitewide installation of LO. That is the biggest difference, and applies only to a very unlikely situation.
Lots of Sun developpers have quit recently, and went to working with Libre (if you RTFA you'd know) . Also, the fact that most of the development of OO was done by Sun developpers mean very little, since it was already forked because Sun didn't accept work done by third parties.
They had that problem before 2007 too. But as everybody already had some 10 years of trainning on their interface, they mainly got over with it.
Ask for a prince on the Kindle that compensates for the bandwidth costs. If your customers think that price is too hight, let they buy your book through another service.
But, anyhow, I doubt anybody will pay attention to that advice, because everybody is quite certanly doing this already.
Get over it, nobody is preparing to the end of the world. It has a long enough battery life for nearly all porpouses, so that is not a problem except in that end of the world scenario. Of course, longer battery lifes wouldn't hurt...
I was never able to carry paper books in a pocket. That I'm now able to carry an entire library at my hand is very nice; and I lost a few packs just because of the weight of paper boks, now those packs hold a library.
That is why I paid a quite hight price for an e-paper device (like the Kindle).
Paper books still have their advantajes, but I'm not sure about their relevance, at least for me. After I bought my ebook reader and was able to confortably read lots of things available for free at the web I still didn't buy any paper book. Maybe with some time I see the need for one.
You are right. The problem of making deep pockets too powerfull is better dealt with a sliding scale fee. The number of registrations looks like a better option than the nature of the registrant, as that goes exactly to the root of the problem.
Thanks, you are the first one to not reply as anonymous.
1 - I don't belive Iran is developping nuclear devices to protect against Israel, but against the US. I think that way based on the evidence that they started the development after the US threatened them. Currently, based on data published by Wikileaks, that translate to: I belive Iran is trying to protect them against Saudi Arabia that, despite being the biggest supporter of anti-US terorism, can make the US military to anything they want.
2 - I don't have any moral hight ground to say who should have nuclear weapons. And I don't know if developping nuclear weapons is a justified cause for war. Was there any war ever with justified cause?
3 - Nothing of that makes what I said false.
With a standard lot that is probably of 100 shares, all it takes for 9 people to gather 1000 shares is that one of them has 2 lots.
Or interact with the government.
Yes, every release so far has being beaten by either the marker (like Intel's try) of by crackers (like MS's tries). But the system is theoreticaly sound, and it just requires one good protocol definition combined with some interesting laws to make it stand.
Israel didn't make a lot of effort trying to convince its neigbors to act peacefully. Sorry, I can't get a lot of compassion for a bully (from any side). I can understand why they are desperate, and everything, but just rationaly.
1 - Iran is trying to make nuclear bombs. That is clear, for energy generation they'd work on different projects. So, Israel is threatened by it.
2 - Calling Stuxnet an "attack", like the ones you have in a war is quite a spin.
Iran is still trying to enrich uranium, and you are already assuming the fallout of big thermonuclear bombs? If they make nuclear bombs, they'll start with mono stage ones, and the fallout won't be a concern for anyone out of Israel or Palestine.
And, if their target is Israel, they'll probably stop there, since the country is so small one just needs a few mono stage bombs to destroy it anyway.
A fee for retrivering (out of copyright) content from the registry is a good idea. A fee for registering works is not, it would turn the power more into the hands of corporations, and less into the hands of the people. And frivolous copyright is much less a problem (if copyrights do expire, not with today laws) than giving most of the power to corporations.
I agree that software should be registered with source. Binary only software shouldn't be protected.
It could all work quite well if there were no registration fee for digital works. There is no reason for them, registering digital data is quite cheap, and that would make the GP complaints all go away, since just uploading the data somewhere is easy enough to do every year.
Also, the registry should publish the registered works once the copyrights expires. And they should, of course, actualy expire.
Ok. There are tons of good fiction out there on the net, reviewed or not. If you want somebody else to read it and classify for you, you have that right, and you have to pay the dual price of highter spending and less availability. It is not like somebody is against magazines, but they have no right to exist just because they said so, they must earn a living, like everybody else.
No, you still need infinite resources to keep profits growing. But with market manipulation you can concentrate those resources on yourself and a few of your friends, making YOUR profits grow, at the expense of the others, of course.
By the way, I'm still not convinced we are at a resource usage maximum. But it looks that some powerfull people disagree with me.