Yeah, now that you explained it on usual and unambiguous units, yes, I'm happy.
You did the calculation on English horsepower, at a standard gravity and the international pound, right? I'm asking that's because I'm at 1100m of altitude, so I must apply some corrective factors before I'm really sure what exactly that value means.
Well, ok. Welcome to the XXI century, I have some news for you:
1 - We didn't spray nuclear bombs through the Earth at the 60's. You didn't have to hide in that shelter. 2 - You must have noticed that technology evolved a bit. Unfortunately, space exploration and nuclear fusion didn't move as fast as expected. 3 - We know that neutrinos exist, that they have mass, and that they come in 3 different flavours (and oscilate between them). 4 - But, no, they are not responsible for the dark mass. We still don't know WTF is that.
Yeah, Perl and Python nowadays. Ruby is getting there, and Javascript entered the run lately, but it's nearer the starting point than that goal. And of course, there are the JVM alternatives that can use any Java lib, but also share its vunerabilities. And also, that's just one kind of development shop. Other kinds may be best served with something more powerful like Haskel, or nearer to the metal, like C.
Now, if "Easy access to developers with varying degrees of cost / performance" means "We'll hire incompetent programmers and don't want them to destroy everything", Java seems to be the only option.
(1) No, inflation doesn't solve that problem. Also, Redshifts can't suggest that, because something that is moving faster than light is red-shifted into complete darkness. In fact you are complaining about a feature that exist in our theories and can't be observed.
(2), (3) and (4), yes. What's you point? (By the way, both black hoes and neutron stars have been observed.)
1) No can do. No DRM will always have a better experience than DRM. The best you can do is organize things very well (and hope pirates won't organize their data - hint: they will) and convince people that paying is the right thing to do.
2) There is no convenience gain, but yeah, the price must be low enough that people will want to pay for doing the right thing.
Now, for DRM to be effective it must simply stablish a universal plataform where indie authors can't get into, and bully the media companies into your empire. But somehow, I don't think you have the real objectives of DRM in mind.
This if anything indicates that the determinig events leading to a self-replicating unit (perhaps RNA) must have happened pretty fast and thus been very probable.
Or that indicates that the self-replicant unit had a short time window to appear before the environment changed, and thus must be very rare.
Or there were several hard steps, and those tend to be equaly separated (the antropic principle has some interesting consequences), or it is a coincidence...
1) Yep, revenge'll probably make you feel better. That'll also make your pockets empty, and reduce the rate the offerings to your region don't get upgraded as often.
Human beings are just a Virus, moving into areas just to consume it's resources, only to move on to another after we've laid barren the lands
I know where all you are comming from, but that's what life does, all of it. The idea that it's something restricted to virus and people is a romantic illuded idea.
Now, please explain what is the difference between we "consuming all of space's resources", or we not doing that. Who, or what gets hurt either way?
That benckmark seems to be quite usefull for the porpouse it was built, that is knowing if a program will run well in a phone. But power consuption is missing from the gathered data, thus it's completely useless for comparing processors.
It doesn't give me any more personal control, ability to tinker, or RMS-style Software Freedom than the "proprietary" offerings.
You probably brought the wrong device.
The vendor of my tablet released the jailbreaking softwre for it, and the source of its Linux of course. If it it didn't, I wouldn't have brought it. (And both came quite in hand, since I just discovered that the default kernel doesn't support shared memory.)
My phone isn't locked down at all, it has a key sequence for replacing the firmware. Unfortunately, the vendor stopped documenting its changes to the kernel... and yeah, I don't know if I'll get another phone from that vendor (yes, it's the one you are thinking about - but I'm not that eager to hack my phone anyway).
Isn't one theory that dark matter is normal baryonic matter, just not baryonic matter that is concentrated or luminous enough to have a measurable effect on any light getting to us?
Yes, there is an old theory that can't explain a lot of recent observations.
Linux isn't exactly the bedrock of stability either.
What's funny again, Linux has more backward compatibility with Windows than with itself, by a huge margin.
You often don't get 2 years of binary compatibility, even in a 2 years old supported distro. Unless your program just depends on glibc and bundles everything else, in that case the last incompatible version is about a decade old.
Anyway, the lesson is that you don't bet on the long term availability of proprietary software. Linux just makes the lesson explicit enough for everybody to notice, while MS spent decades and billions of dollars teaching everybody the oposite, just to suddenly drop it.
Except for the problem of changing the computer type based on what periferals are plugged, it's the best definition. I'd say that the division between tablets, phones, netbooks, and laptops is completely subjective/irrelevant.
If you disagree, please tell me what is an Asus Transformer.
Businesses love this. It means that they can buy a $100,000 industrial robot and the ancient software that operates it installs just fine on a PC that still gets security updates...
The funny thing is, Linux can probably run that robot just fine nowadays, windows can't. Ditto for the ERP. You can still install IE6 on modern versions of Wine, but not on modern Windows.
Linux is more backward compatible with Windows than modern Windows. Each day some people find that out, and that is yet another reason MS is losing their monopoly.
GCM Models (expect global warming) > Non GCM Models (expect global warming) > Early paper based Models (expect global warming) > Single Dimensional (Black Body Radiation) calculation (expect global warming) > Guessing (yeah, whatever) > Distilled Denialist model (no global waming)
The single dimensional model has proven itself in way more harsh conditions than General Relativity, and is one of the most trusted models in science (may be the more trusted model in physics - I really don't know enough to be sure). It only has some huge error bars, that make it useless for simulating regional climate.
Oh, and it puts antropogenic global warming as a certainty.
Interrupts, tasks switches, drivers, memory paging, other tasks all get in the way of this.
That's why Linux still has a universal lock. You take hold of it, do your thing, and release it.
Of course, you'll have to write kernel space software, just like you'd do with the arduino, anyway. The only difference is that since the arduino ha no protected mode, all your code is in kernel space.
It's not hard for an electronics engineer to slap some glue logic and a few chips on a homebrew board and do it
And who'll want to create a homebrew board, and mount the glue logic when one can just order a Pi and be done with it?
Seriously, the thing is cheap. Yeah, you can get cheaper if you use an already existing computer and do some extra work... But if you want it, it is because you are doing some kind of project, and that means you have an entire project to do that will compete with the USB GPIO for your time. And remember, the Pi is cheap.
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You can extend that to all Americas for a start. I'm still waiting for evidence that this isn't a worldwide phenomenum.
Yeah, now that you explained it on usual and unambiguous units, yes, I'm happy.
You did the calculation on English horsepower, at a standard gravity and the international pound, right? I'm asking that's because I'm at 1100m of altitude, so I must apply some corrective factors before I'm really sure what exactly that value means.
Well, ok. Welcome to the XXI century, I have some news for you:
1 - We didn't spray nuclear bombs through the Earth at the 60's. You didn't have to hide in that shelter.
2 - You must have noticed that technology evolved a bit. Unfortunately, space exploration and nuclear fusion didn't move as fast as expected.
3 - We know that neutrinos exist, that they have mass, and that they come in 3 different flavours (and oscilate between them).
4 - But, no, they are not responsible for the dark mass. We still don't know WTF is that.
I prefer it in horsepower minute.
Yeah, Perl and Python nowadays. Ruby is getting there, and Javascript entered the run lately, but it's nearer the starting point than that goal. And of course, there are the JVM alternatives that can use any Java lib, but also share its vunerabilities. And also, that's just one kind of development shop. Other kinds may be best served with something more powerful like Haskel, or nearer to the metal, like C.
Now, if "Easy access to developers with varying degrees of cost / performance" means "We'll hire incompetent programmers and don't want them to destroy everything", Java seems to be the only option.
What, GNU Hurd won't make it to stable again?
By the way, I'm already migrating (I'm writting at /. while my server downloads packages). New asterisk and postgres. What's not to like?
Black holes are inferred by stuff falling at giant speeds into something that we can't see... As direct an observation as you can get.
(As a matter of fact, every observation is inferred. That adjective is just useless.)
(1) No, inflation doesn't solve that problem. Also, Redshifts can't suggest that, because something that is moving faster than light is red-shifted into complete darkness. In fact you are complaining about a feature that exist in our theories and can't be observed.
(2), (3) and (4), yes. What's you point? (By the way, both black hoes and neutron stars have been observed.)
What makes you think that Foxconn is actualy paying anything? The MS press release? Didn't you already learn to not trust those things?
1) No can do. No DRM will always have a better experience than DRM. The best you can do is organize things very well (and hope pirates won't organize their data - hint: they will) and convince people that paying is the right thing to do.
2) There is no convenience gain, but yeah, the price must be low enough that people will want to pay for doing the right thing.
Now, for DRM to be effective it must simply stablish a universal plataform where indie authors can't get into, and bully the media companies into your empire. But somehow, I don't think you have the real objectives of DRM in mind.
Or that indicates that the self-replicant unit had a short time window to appear before the environment changed, and thus must be very rare.
Or there were several hard steps, and those tend to be equaly separated (the antropic principle has some interesting consequences), or it is a coincidence...
The time X space trade-off is one of the basic concepts of optmization theory.
1) Yep, revenge'll probably make you feel better. That'll also make your pockets empty, and reduce the rate the offerings to your region don't get upgraded as often.
I know where all you are comming from, but that's what life does, all of it. The idea that it's something restricted to virus and people is a romantic illuded idea.
Now, please explain what is the difference between we "consuming all of space's resources", or we not doing that. Who, or what gets hurt either way?
Yeah, everybody forgets about the part about colored icons displaced in a grid!
That benckmark seems to be quite usefull for the porpouse it was built, that is knowing if a program will run well in a phone. But power consuption is missing from the gathered data, thus it's completely useless for comparing processors.
Yes, it does. Because it WILL be incorrectly used.
You probably brought the wrong device.
The vendor of my tablet released the jailbreaking softwre for it, and the source of its Linux of course. If it it didn't, I wouldn't have brought it. (And both came quite in hand, since I just discovered that the default kernel doesn't support shared memory.)
My phone isn't locked down at all, it has a key sequence for replacing the firmware. Unfortunately, the vendor stopped documenting its changes to the kernel... and yeah, I don't know if I'll get another phone from that vendor (yes, it's the one you are thinking about - but I'm not that eager to hack my phone anyway).
Yes, there is an old theory that can't explain a lot of recent observations.
What's funny again, Linux has more backward compatibility with Windows than with itself, by a huge margin.
You often don't get 2 years of binary compatibility, even in a 2 years old supported distro. Unless your program just depends on glibc and bundles everything else, in that case the last incompatible version is about a decade old.
Anyway, the lesson is that you don't bet on the long term availability of proprietary software. Linux just makes the lesson explicit enough for everybody to notice, while MS spent decades and billions of dollars teaching everybody the oposite, just to suddenly drop it.
Except for the problem of changing the computer type based on what periferals are plugged, it's the best definition. I'd say that the division between tablets, phones, netbooks, and laptops is completely subjective/irrelevant.
If you disagree, please tell me what is an Asus Transformer.
The funny thing is, Linux can probably run that robot just fine nowadays, windows can't. Ditto for the ERP. You can still install IE6 on modern versions of Wine, but not on modern Windows.
Linux is more backward compatible with Windows than modern Windows. Each day some people find that out, and that is yet another reason MS is losing their monopoly.
Let me explain something for you:
GCM Models (expect global warming) > Non GCM Models (expect global warming) > Early paper based Models (expect global warming) > Single Dimensional (Black Body Radiation) calculation (expect global warming) > Guessing (yeah, whatever) > Distilled Denialist model (no global waming)
The single dimensional model has proven itself in way more harsh conditions than General Relativity, and is one of the most trusted models in science (may be the more trusted model in physics - I really don't know enough to be sure). It only has some huge error bars, that make it useless for simulating regional climate.
Oh, and it puts antropogenic global warming as a certainty.
That's why Linux still has a universal lock. You take hold of it, do your thing, and release it.
Of course, you'll have to write kernel space software, just like you'd do with the arduino, anyway. The only difference is that since the arduino ha no protected mode, all your code is in kernel space.
And who'll want to create a homebrew board, and mount the glue logic when one can just order a Pi and be done with it?
Seriously, the thing is cheap. Yeah, you can get cheaper if you use an already existing computer and do some extra work... But if you want it, it is because you are doing some kind of project, and that means you have an entire project to do that will compete with the USB GPIO for your time. And remember, the Pi is cheap.