I don't see your point. Unless you are doing something very asinine, or there are free(speech) implementations of a faster algorithm that you can customize to fit on your servers, why should a company spend money on coding to save at the power bill? The savings will almost never make it worth.
The GP had a nice point, the most used processor architecture nowadays is inefficient. We could save by exchanging a chip. But, as far as I can see, changing programs is not very usefull.
Bash can get simple jobs done, VB is useless. And I am not the one who is chossing not to have VB for Linux, it seems that all the Linux comunity is making that choice toguether. Just remember that a few interested (and competent) people is all that is needed to create such a tool, there is no need of comunity approval.
"True, but building your own kernel isn't particularly challenging either. Basically if you have installed your GCC compiler and a couple of extra packages then as long as you can follow a recipe..." ...and know what every option means, and every device you have...
"...you can probably build a reasonably good kernel tailored for your system."
Compiling a kernel is for experienced users, it can only be this way.
Ok, welcome to the 21th century! I am not sure about why we want to give power to unneducated people nowadays (I can only conjecture), but that is wat is happenning.
I can see 2 possible explanations:
1 - Humanistic reasons: Sice somewhen at the 20th century, we are able to feed the entire Earth population. Almost everithing that slow down our economical growth is artificial now, so why should we exclude people from our society?
2 - Practical reasons: Masses are powerfull, educated or not. If we don't include them now, we'll see they working against the status-quo again, and we'll repeat stuff like the dictatorship dissemination after the Second World War and the Russian Revolution.
Maybe none of the above are the real reason, but more likely, the reasons are both of them and some others that I couldn't dicover yet.
Well, no. But throughout history none of those people that don't have basic knowledge did have the rights we want them to have now. So they couldn't disturb the educated people's world so much as they do now. So, they should be better educated now.
Oh yes, MS has made some good software, it is called "MS Office". More precisely, it is called "Word" "Exel" and 'Power Point". Those used to be 3 excelent pieces of code (that MS is destroying now, but it is a slow process) and that should be acknowledged.
And, yes, FOSS developpers have wrote some ugly code. OOo used to an example (it is improving now, but it is a slow process), although some problems come from StarOffice code.
All the above is true, but I never heard that optimizations are boring! That is news for me, I tought programmers liked it so much that they needed to be educated to not optimize too early and too often.
You can't compare salaries based on percapita income. you should compare it based on cost of life. And yes, there are some measurements of cost of life out there, but I don't have any link.
If people's productivity increase, they should get a raise bigger than the cost of life. If they don't, the extra money is being accumulated somewhere.
The questions are: Did the productivity increase? And, if so, where is the money goint to?
It is interesting to see that U.S. says that it is defendding free spech, while U.N. says exactly the same, that it is defending freedom of expression (check here)...
Very interesting, because freedom of speech for U.N. seems to be: "We want a rich public domain and no government looking into our conversation.", and for U.S., it seems to be: "If they make racism illegal, the next one will be porn.". I can see why U.S. government is concerned by the U.N. idea of free speech, but I can't see how U.S. people can't realize that the second argument is a non sequitur.
Also, I loved that phrase:
"Turning the Internet over to countries with problematic human-rights records, muted free-speech laws, and questionable taxation practices will prevent the Internet from remaining the thriving medium it has become today"
Let's forget that the U.S. viewed today as exaclty a country with problematic human-rights records and questionable taxation practices! Let's blame the rest of the World for those thigs.
Ok, you was joking, but this is such a good idea. We could put business and governement out of the internet control as they were at the begining, and create the rules as we do with RFCs.
We could do this with free software (look at Debian), why can't we do with the internet?
I like to be a very balanced person, that likes to think both as a right-wing and a left-wing to see what makes sense to each situation (most of the times, both sides make sense). And it occurred to me that the media is full of liers that will subvert any view to achieve some non-disclosed objective, that most of the time is selling more or pleasing advertizers.
1) Your comment don't make a lot of sense. The sentence you cutted fail to say anything at all, all I can see there is that Brazilian culture has some problems with the process that created the xxx TLD. I can't say what the problem is.
2) You are taking too seriuosly a brasilian representative speek. Not that brazilian government doesn't have a head, but it is a very heterogeneous country, it is very difficult to say what it is the oppinion of the brazilian people or of the brazilian government. If you take a better look at Brazil, you'll see that it is a very weard country. And pornography have a status like your protected speech here too, but other comments got it right with racism, it is illegal.
3) What the hell is that that there is no discussion about this DNS complains here at Brazil? The press simply don't speak about that, if it wasn't by/., I wouldn't even know that this is happening! Is it because people think that other news are more important?
The industrial revolution was almost impossible before Newton's mechanics. That is because although people could alread build machines, there was no garantee that those machines would work after done (most didn't).
Only after Newton invented the concept of "force", it becomed possible to calculate things before mounting them, and the machines become reliable enogh to be widely used.
You may ask why didn't the greek invented the concept of "force" before. Maybe, this was because their trigonometry wasn't as complete as by the time of Newton, so, they couldn't invent something like calculus, and, so, force. But that is only a guess.
"Maybe it's just me, but the first time I heard about dark matter and how it "must be out there" because it makes the calculations add up nicely...first thing I thought of was the ether."
And Plank thought the same about that quantum physics he invented. He even spent a great part of his life working against quantum physics, and here we are, using computers...
Some times, a completely weard theory that just fits the data is right, there is why people take them seriously.
On this case, photons correspond to the other 80% of the mass. There is no place for exotic dark matter, but leads to the question: What happened to all those photons?
The poster title is misleading, the paper still leaves a place for dark matter, but on very smaller amounts and far from the halo. So, this matter could easily be barionic (paper's conclusion).
What is really interesting is that the third galaxy didn't fit the model as well as the others. It may be because of the inacuracy of the calculations (is the inacuracy measurable? The paper should have said that) or because there is something different on this one, maybe a smaller concentration of dark matter near the center.
No sane person would like to be like that. But almost everyone face someone like that some times, and it is very usefull to understand their trics (even if only to recognize them).
I use TWO floppy disks regularly. I put data on them every time I have to set a presentation on a computer that I don't know. And the same data on both, bacause one can get corrupted quite easily.
Also, they have several colors (I trow them out when they fail), but I don't write on the labels (that is too much work).
I fell terrible when I need a floppy and there is nowhere arround where I can by some. Some computer stores have only CDs and DVDs nowadays.
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You noticed that current computers can become a LOT more efficient before we start to see the limits stablished by the information theory, didn't you?
I don't see your point. Unless you are doing something very asinine, or there are free(speech) implementations of a faster algorithm that you can customize to fit on your servers, why should a company spend money on coding to save at the power bill? The savings will almost never make it worth.
The GP had a nice point, the most used processor architecture nowadays is inefficient. We could save by exchanging a chip. But, as far as I can see, changing programs is not very usefull.
Bash can get simple jobs done, VB is useless. And I am not the one who is chossing not to have VB for Linux, it seems that all the Linux comunity is making that choice toguether. Just remember that a few interested (and competent) people is all that is needed to create such a tool, there is no need of comunity approval.
And EMACS is the only real editor, your fool :)
"True, but building your own kernel isn't particularly challenging either. Basically if you have installed your GCC compiler and a couple of extra packages then as long as you can follow a recipe..."
...and know what every option means, and every device you have...
"...you can probably build a reasonably good kernel tailored for your system."
Compiling a kernel is for experienced users, it can only be this way.
Ok, welcome to the 21th century! I am not sure about why we want to give power to unneducated people nowadays (I can only conjecture), but that is wat is happenning.
I can see 2 possible explanations:
1 - Humanistic reasons: Sice somewhen at the 20th century, we are able to feed the entire Earth population. Almost everithing that slow down our economical growth is artificial now, so why should we exclude people from our society?
2 - Practical reasons: Masses are powerfull, educated or not. If we don't include them now, we'll see they working against the status-quo again, and we'll repeat stuff like the dictatorship dissemination after the Second World War and the Russian Revolution.
Maybe none of the above are the real reason, but more likely, the reasons are both of them and some others that I couldn't dicover yet.
Well, no. But throughout history none of those people that don't have basic knowledge did have the rights we want them to have now. So they couldn't disturb the educated people's world so much as they do now. So, they should be better educated now.
Oh yes, MS has made some good software, it is called "MS Office". More precisely, it is called "Word" "Exel" and 'Power Point". Those used to be 3 excelent pieces of code (that MS is destroying now, but it is a slow process) and that should be acknowledged.
And, yes, FOSS developpers have wrote some ugly code. OOo used to an example (it is improving now, but it is a slow process), although some problems come from StarOffice code.
All the above is true, but I never heard that optimizations are boring! That is news for me, I tought programmers liked it so much that they needed to be educated to not optimize too early and too often.
You can't compare salaries based on percapita income. you should compare it based on cost of life. And yes, there are some measurements of cost of life out there, but I don't have any link.
If people's productivity increase, they should get a raise bigger than the cost of life. If they don't, the extra money is being accumulated somewhere.
The questions are: Did the productivity increase? And, if so, where is the money goint to?
It is interesting to see that U.S. says that it is defendding free spech, while U.N. says exactly the same, that it is defending freedom of expression (check here)...
Very interesting, because freedom of speech for U.N. seems to be: "We want a rich public domain and no government looking into our conversation.", and for U.S., it seems to be: "If they make racism illegal, the next one will be porn.". I can see why U.S. government is concerned by the U.N. idea of free speech, but I can't see how U.S. people can't realize that the second argument is a non sequitur.
Also, I loved that phrase:
"Turning the Internet over to countries with problematic human-rights records, muted free-speech laws, and questionable taxation practices will prevent the Internet from remaining the thriving medium it has become today"
Let's forget that the U.S. viewed today as exaclty a country with problematic human-rights records and questionable taxation practices! Let's blame the rest of the World for those thigs.
"I don't even care if there is no viable business alternative, I'd just like to see Microsoft die and wither!"
I can't resist to ask: Who is the scorpion of your history, and who is the frog?
Ok, you was joking, but this is such a good idea. We could put business and governement out of the internet control as they were at the begining, and create the rules as we do with RFCs.
We could do this with free software (look at Debian), why can't we do with the internet?
By the other side, ipv6 addresses are much more sparsely used, making it much harder to a worm to propagate.
The problem is that "Firefox" isn't a service. You can't have a Denial of Service acting on a client.
I like to be a very balanced person, that likes to think both as a right-wing and a left-wing to see what makes sense to each situation (most of the times, both sides make sense). And it occurred to me that the media is full of liers that will subvert any view to achieve some non-disclosed objective, that most of the time is selling more or pleasing advertizers.
Ok:
1) Your comment don't make a lot of sense. The sentence you cutted fail to say anything at all, all I can see there is that Brazilian culture has some problems with the process that created the xxx TLD. I can't say what the problem is.
2) You are taking too seriuosly a brasilian representative speek. Not that brazilian government doesn't have a head, but it is a very heterogeneous country, it is very difficult to say what it is the oppinion of the brazilian people or of the brazilian government. If you take a better look at Brazil, you'll see that it is a very weard country. And pornography have a status like your protected speech here too, but other comments got it right with racism, it is illegal.
3) What the hell is that that there is no discussion about this DNS complains here at Brazil? The press simply don't speak about that, if it wasn't by /., I wouldn't even know that this is happening! Is it because people think that other news are more important?
The industrial revolution was almost impossible before Newton's mechanics. That is because although people could alread build machines, there was no garantee that those machines would work after done (most didn't).
Only after Newton invented the concept of "force", it becomed possible to calculate things before mounting them, and the machines become reliable enogh to be widely used.
You may ask why didn't the greek invented the concept of "force" before. Maybe, this was because their trigonometry wasn't as complete as by the time of Newton, so, they couldn't invent something like calculus, and, so, force. But that is only a guess.
Regulate the parties, don't regulate the blogs. But it is obvious, isn't it?
"Maybe it's just me, but the first time I heard about dark matter and how it "must be out there" because it makes the calculations add up nicely...first thing I thought of was the ether."
And Plank thought the same about that quantum physics he invented. He even spent a great part of his life working against quantum physics, and here we are, using computers...
Some times, a completely weard theory that just fits the data is right, there is why people take them seriously.
On this case, photons correspond to the other 80% of the mass. There is no place for exotic dark matter, but leads to the question: What happened to all those photons?
The poster title is misleading, the paper still leaves a place for dark matter, but on very smaller amounts and far from the halo. So, this matter could easily be barionic (paper's conclusion).
What is really interesting is that the third galaxy didn't fit the model as well as the others. It may be because of the inacuracy of the calculations (is the inacuracy measurable? The paper should have said that) or because there is something different on this one, maybe a smaller concentration of dark matter near the center.
I don't know if I'd like a browser capable of editting documents on my HD.
Software reuse is not overrated. It increase the potential of the programmers and reduce the number of bugs on the applications.
But as you said, because of a lot of factors, software reuse is just not applied.
No sane person would like to be like that. But almost everyone face someone like that some times, and it is very usefull to understand their trics (even if only to recognize them).
I use TWO floppy disks regularly. I put data on them every time I have to set a presentation on a computer that I don't know. And the same data on both, bacause one can get corrupted quite easily.
Also, they have several colors (I trow them out when they fail), but I don't write on the labels (that is too much work).
I fell terrible when I need a floppy and there is nowhere arround where I can by some. Some computer stores have only CDs and DVDs nowadays.