I used to live in a small town in NC. Because of the mountains it was pretty much impossible to get any tv without a roof top arial. Even with that you could pretty much count on not being able to get more then one channel ( and then badly ) in a given orientation. There were three channels that you could get OTA if you worked hard enough at it. So you either got a motorized system to manipulate the roof top arial or you got cable. The phone compan was actally a little local Mom and Pop. They were nice people but could not offer you much of anything other then dial tone and 2400bps internet over dialup.
Charter was your other choice, they could give phone, cable, and *caugh* 3Mbps internet. Frankly the cable service was not that bad. They were even offering some HD, although I did not have and HD set at the time. I don't what the picture quality was like on analog as I had digital cable. The box was on of those giant Motorolla things; a little bigger than a vcr. I can't complain about other than the size.
The internet access on the other hand was awful. I never saw more than 600Kbps to 700Kbps to any host. My current 1.5M DSL with SpeakEasy is much faster. I saw latencies with Charter about like you did 240-500ms most of the time. I never had problems with AIM or the "spikes" though. VOIP was certainly impossible; to much jitter. The connection would drop once a week or so; which really would not have been terrible but for some reason they would never divulge you could not get reconnected without calling the local office, (they were nice enough to give the direct numbers to the local office so you did not have to wade through TS each time).
I fail to "grasp" the relevance of your comment. Were you suggesting you were so rich that it was never worth sacrifice for a.1pct of the buget?
I could a cup of coffe for $4 at Starbucks on the way into the office every morning. Its a in the corse of and in the corse of a month its still a vanishinly small number compared to say my house payment, but its still $1040 a per year. Seems to me I could buy some nice kit for that. Its worth considering. Just because you spend more of it somewhere else does not remove the value of the other money!
1. The wax cylinder / records: "Hey this is interesting, I wonder if these weird groves on it mean something...Gosh you know what even with my naked eye it looks like it might be a sine wave..."
2. The Tape: "What is long strip of plastic for? Some sort of decoration, hey I think it might be magnetic oh oh crap..I just erased it."
3. The optical disk: "Wow 21st Century humans sure used allot of these light weight plastic wheels. No that's crazy their would be other artifcats to put them on, maybe is a recording of some type." Weeks of research later they find away to read teh bit stream in the lab. Aw what could it mean. Hey I know lets see of there are patterns of values if we treat these things a bytes, nope...Weird oh yea the all had a strange fascination with encrypting all their digital meadia at the time. Too bad."
If the government is bankrupt it SHOULD default on loan payments. That is what bankruptcy is for!
Defaulting is probably the best way to remove the insane debt burden our government has created. As a strict constructionist; and a fan of weak and limited government I like the option allot because if the "full faith and credit" is wortheless people will stop lending money to it.
If people stop lending money to it then it can't do anything that citizens are unwilling to pay for in taxes up front. Which I assure you will mean government will do much much less.
Yes, but its a popular misconceptions that the air conditioner in a car is a poor use of horse power. In many many popular car designs running the A/C makes more sense energy wise then an open windows at speeds over 50 or so. The air envelop inefficiency of an open windows costs more power in moving the car down the road then turning the A/C compressor takes.
Sounds like someone who does not do this stuff for a living, or works only on PCs. Trust me you want to be able to flash a reboot servers remotely sometimes. Its not the kind of thing you can do during the day in a production world, and I for one don't like spending all night at the office.
Good point video encode / decode should be pretty simple to parallel. Would it not be much simpler though from a prespective of not needing to deal with complicating motion estimation algorithms and such just to split video work along groups of b-frames? Seems like as long as the video was more then a few frame groups in length you would get just as much gains without even needing to rempliment much if any of your existing codec algorithms.
I don't know about doing it at the compiler level but you might do something at the chip level. Branch prediction essential contiunes inserting instructions into the pipeline for one branch or the the other both on some really advance CPUs before a branching instruction like beq, can be completed. If the branch is different then the predictued one the pipeline is flushed (stall).
Suppose you did not expose all the physical cores to the OS, but isntead actually exposed a smaller number of logical cores; with some specialed branch prediction core switching unit on the front end. With additional cores you have full sets for registers availible, you can likely actually execute entire instructions ahead of a slow branch operation completing, by giving each of the opperands to two of the space cores. The branch unit then makes the active core the one that was doing the next instruction based on the result of the branch; the core doing the branch eval and the core doing the wrong branch get the registers cloned form the core doing the right branch and are ready to be used as the work ahead units for the next branch.
Now this requires a 3 to one physical core to logical core ratio; but if we are talking about 80 core chips that might be reasonable. The branching prediction unit might be a bit of Si in and of itself too though. Could get expensive.
No he is not fighting for tyrany. He is fighting its most insidous form; mind control. Your line of thinking amounts to "I am doing good because others are doing so much worse."
This is just wrong. Its an attitude that leads to resting on one laurals and deterioration. Freedom is something that must always be persued with diligence. Things are BAD in the Unitied States right now; you are correct in the fact they are much worse elsewhere but that does nothing to make things better here. If we stop fighting for freedom here, we risk letting the very idea of it die.
A Nation just like a person should always be seeking to improve itself. Being the best is never good enough unless you are certain its not possible to do any better. The competition is not with others but thy self!
By that standard the US govt is tyrannical, the EU is tyrannical.
I would agree with both. The U.S.A starting in the 1860s with the wanton expansion of federal power; and accelerating over the last 100 years there abouts with the national bank has become what its founders would have defined as a tyrany. I am very much of the opion most of the current government should be voted out. Probaly the majority of federal law is either unconsititutional or only applicable on federal land if you don't take crazy liberties with the tenth amendment at this point. We need some SCOTUS justices with the balls to say so!
There seems to be no limitations on limited government today and it must be stopped. If the soap box and ballot boxes won't work then its time for revolution pure and simple.
Most of them have their own tree and use a relative path, so i might have installed Foobar into/home/foo. Under which I have the ususal/bin/etc and/lib directories. So yes there are some apps that make bad assumptions on where to find shared libs but most run ok.
Welcome to the IT industry as a whole for the last 5 years or so. Rather then devote even once moment of mental energy into deciding what to keep and what will never be needed again, or if {insert} is really the most efficent algorithm we just throw hardware at it.
IT is no fun any more it used to be about finding good solutions to problems; now its just about waste because you can also buy faster/denser hardware cheaper then you can pay someone to use their head.
No, The want to make you do that because its part of the price of your freedom and the costs associated with the justice the system provides you the other 99.9% of your life.
Do I think the system is ideal no, should lots of things be changed yes, does that give you or I the right to shirk our civic dubty in the mean time of course not!
wasn't part of the agreement...as per intels understanding. I am sure these contracts are quite complex it its going to be a small army of lawers and judges to figure this one out. Something tells me AMD would not have organized its manufaturing arm in this way if they thought it was a violation of the agreements. We shall see.
I am with you for the most part. You do get coders, Engineers, Systems design people and Operations folks like Network Admins like your Jim; those are not like Josh from the TFA. Someone who get so engrossed in what they are doing and has its flow come so naturally to them might be valuable enough to work around. I might make sense to have junior to the position chase after them write their docs and manage some of their communication interaction. Yes its another salary but if they can do the work of two senior people then you are getting that work for 1.5 times the unusual cost.
Josh though is taking a dump in the lobby plat. He is plainly full of himself, not at all a team player; by choice as well as personality quirks. He is pushing it because he thinks he is superior to everyone else. He thinks he is above the rules. Thats not ok, and its a recipe for disaster because sooner or later you can't make him happy and he is going to leave. When he does he takes all that information with him. He his problem and he needs to go.
That is a far cry from your head to full Jim, who misses the big picture from time to time and does not cope well with interruption. Jim probably understands he is a bit a savant great at somethings weak else where. He is probably is happy to have that junior level person chasing his tale and doing things like docs and throttling the communications. He might not be the best team player either; but thats because others can't deal with his quirks and he can't over come them; and its not because he refuses to try. This is a different person. Jim is someone who might be worth the trouble because he is not trying to make trouble. Josh is trying to make trouble he likes to see what he can get away with and should not be tolerated.
I work at a company that employess about 400 people, perhaps a few more. I have an empoyee number but its just something the accounting department is concerned with, it shows up on pay stubs and once and a while elsewhere like on a benifets form. I certainly would not be able to tell you what the numbe is without going to look for it. I doubt HR could either; they would likely need to ask accounting. I can talk the HR folks any time I want. Our HR director and her assistant know pretty much everyone by name.
I don't think at 400 people we are tiny or useless. Not every company in the world recudces folks to just numbers.
Part of me thinks all this encryption software poses a certain danger. Most users my self included are not cryptography experts. How can we be sure sound practices of around key management, avoidance of enciphering known texts such as control information are being used? Even encryption does not mean its automatically safe to go writing down any old secret.
If you don't want it viewed by others don't write it down.
Exactly right, its like mother always said never write something down unless you expect others to read it. Anytime you record anything anywhere on any medium you invite the possibility someone else will view it. If that is not ok then don't record it; encrypted or not.
I hope a TP surgery is being done on um leased lines which are solely under the control of the hospital institutions doing the surgery and the carrier.
Something like that should not be being done of the public internet; it just should not be.
Please show me where in the Constitution As it existed Prior to 1860 it makes any statements on a states right to secede. Also keep in mind the the SCOTUS had not yet (wrongly IMHO and that of many others...) broadened the interpretation of the commerce clause. It may have been illegal under other statute but I don't think it was unconstitutional. Without the ability to abuse the commerce clause its unlikely there was a good legal frame work with which you could argue a statue making it unlawful to secede would have been Constitutional at the time.
The war of Northern Aggression was exactly that it was an abuse of power to by the northern states; who wanted to count slaves when it came to taxation but not representation. The political reasons for fighting the war were tax revenues and votes in Washington. Abolition had very little to do with it; other then it was popular and a way to get the general population to commit t the fighting; sorta like claiming Iraq was about spreading democracy. The truth is Abolition was popular and had been popular and would have likely come about through social and technological changes arguably already in progress at the time.
Lincoln was a tyrant; and he abused the African-America as much as any southern ever did, he basically used them to fight his war for centralizing power and control in the hands of the industrialists!
True but do you like this is a fine criteria for evaluation a product that for most people is entertainment. Its a subjective consideration in the first place.
You are not wrong but there are some considerations that are different. For instance in terms of energy costs on balance a black asphalt shingle roof is probably a great idea if you live in coastal New England, the heat you can capture in the winter is worth more then the extra cooling another roof might require you to do in the summer.
This would probably be a severe mistake in Florida though; but that might not stop people from doing it for aesthetic reasons.
Ok as a parent poster pointed out AxtiveX is really nothing to do with web browsers at all other then IE provides a nice platform from which to instantiate activeX com objects.
COM is a not nearly mysterious as Microsoft likes people to think but it is a complex and interconnected animal. If you know something about C and have ever encounterd a function pointer its sorta like that. What it boils down to is there are some functions at known locations in libraries which you can count on being able to access to get information. This information is in most cases the locations of other functions and structures. There are also a rather interesting threading and memory shareing elements.
All of these things being pre-defined allow higher level langues like VB and even C++ with the right classes to use objects libraries which are run time linked. Without having to have lots of information at build time, like header files with loads of function declaraitons etc, etc, and defines. The existing binary can actually tell your codes how to use it, to a certain degree.
It also provides a good deal of simplified inter process communication and sycronization. I am not saying as much about this but its arguably the more important aspect of COM.
Point is breaking ActiveX probably means breaking other parts of COM in a large way. Just patching up IE so it won't let you create objects out side its on memory space is easy but then you break all those IE based APPs. Sandboxing is not much of solution either b/c then you can't do much in the way of IPC else you don't really have a sand box.
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I used to live in a small town in NC. Because of the mountains it was pretty much impossible to get any tv without a roof top arial. Even with that you could pretty much count on not being able to get more then one channel ( and then badly ) in a given orientation. There were three channels that you could get OTA if you worked hard enough at it. So you either got a motorized system to manipulate the roof top arial or you got cable. The phone compan was actally a little local Mom and Pop. They were nice people but could not offer you much of anything other then dial tone and 2400bps internet over dialup.
Charter was your other choice, they could give phone, cable, and *caugh* 3Mbps internet.
Frankly the cable service was not that bad. They were even offering some HD, although I did not have and HD set at the time. I don't what the picture quality was like on analog as I had digital cable. The box was on of those giant Motorolla things; a little bigger than a vcr. I can't complain about other than the size.
The internet access on the other hand was awful. I never saw more than 600Kbps to 700Kbps to any host. My current 1.5M DSL with SpeakEasy is much faster. I saw latencies with Charter about like you did 240-500ms most of the time. I never had problems with AIM or the "spikes" though. VOIP was certainly impossible; to much jitter. The connection would drop once a week or so; which really would not have been terrible but for some reason they would never divulge you could not get reconnected without calling the local office, (they were nice enough to give the direct numbers to the local office so you did not have to wade through TS each time).
I fail to "grasp" the relevance of your comment. Were you suggesting you were so rich that it was never worth sacrifice for a .1pct of the buget?
I could a cup of coffe for $4 at Starbucks on the way into the office every morning. Its a in the corse of and in the corse of a month its still a vanishinly small number compared to say my house payment, but its still $1040 a per year. Seems to me I could buy some nice kit for that. Its worth considering. Just because you spend more of it somewhere else does not remove the value of the other money!
Here are the parts your missing.
1. The wax cylinder / records: "Hey this is interesting, I wonder if these weird groves on it mean something...Gosh you know what even with my naked eye it looks like it might be a sine wave..."
2. The Tape: "What is long strip of plastic for? Some sort of decoration, hey I think it might be magnetic oh oh crap..I just erased it."
3. The optical disk: "Wow 21st Century humans sure used allot of these light weight plastic wheels. No that's crazy their would be other artifcats to put them on, maybe is a recording of some type." Weeks of research later they find away to read teh bit stream in the lab. Aw what could it mean. Hey I know lets see of there are patterns of values if we treat these things a bytes, nope...Weird oh yea the all had a strange fascination with encrypting all their digital meadia at the time. Too bad."
If the government is bankrupt it SHOULD default on loan payments. That is what bankruptcy is for!
Defaulting is probably the best way to remove the insane debt burden our government has created. As a strict constructionist; and a fan of weak and limited government I like the option allot because if the "full faith and credit" is wortheless people will stop lending money to it.
If people stop lending money to it then it can't do anything that citizens are unwilling to pay for in taxes up front. Which I assure you will mean government will do much much less.
Yes, but its a popular misconceptions that the air conditioner in a car is a poor use of horse power. In many many popular car designs running the A/C makes more sense energy wise then an open windows at speeds over 50 or so. The air envelop inefficiency of an open windows costs more power in moving the car down the road then turning the A/C compressor takes.
Sounds like someone who does not do this stuff for a living, or works only on PCs. Trust me you want to be able to flash a reboot servers remotely sometimes. Its not the kind of thing you can do during the day in a production world, and I for one don't like spending all night at the office.
Good point video encode / decode should be pretty simple to parallel. Would it not be much simpler though from a prespective of not needing to deal with complicating motion estimation algorithms and such just to split video work along groups of b-frames? Seems like as long as the video was more then a few frame groups in length you would get just as much gains without even needing to rempliment much if any of your existing codec algorithms.
I don't know about doing it at the compiler level but you might do something at the chip level. Branch prediction essential contiunes inserting instructions into the pipeline for one branch or the the other both on some really advance CPUs before a branching instruction like beq, can be completed. If the branch is different then the predictued one the pipeline is flushed (stall).
Suppose you did not expose all the physical cores to the OS, but isntead actually exposed a smaller number of logical cores; with some specialed branch prediction core switching unit on the front end. With additional cores you have full sets for registers availible, you can likely actually execute entire instructions ahead of a slow branch operation completing, by giving each of the opperands to two of the space cores. The branch unit then makes the active core the one that was doing the next instruction based on the result of the branch; the core doing the branch eval and the core doing the wrong branch get the registers cloned form the core doing the right branch and are ready to be used as the work ahead units for the next branch.
Now this requires a 3 to one physical core to logical core ratio; but if we are talking about 80 core chips that might be reasonable. The branching prediction unit might be a bit of Si in and of itself too though. Could get expensive.
No he is not fighting for tyrany. He is fighting its most insidous form; mind control. Your line of thinking amounts to "I am doing good because others are doing so much worse."
This is just wrong. Its an attitude that leads to resting on one laurals and deterioration. Freedom is something that must always be persued with diligence. Things are BAD in the Unitied States right now; you are correct in the fact they are much worse elsewhere but that does nothing to make things better here. If we stop fighting for freedom here, we risk letting the very idea of it die.
A Nation just like a person should always be seeking to improve itself. Being the best is never good enough unless you are certain its not possible to do any better. The competition is not with others but thy self!
By that standard the US govt is tyrannical, the EU is tyrannical.
I would agree with both. The U.S.A starting in the 1860s with the wanton expansion of federal power; and accelerating over the last 100 years there abouts with the national bank has become what its founders would have defined as a tyrany. I am very much of the opion most of the current government should be voted out. Probaly the majority of federal law is either unconsititutional or only applicable on federal land if you don't take crazy liberties with the tenth amendment at this point. We need some SCOTUS justices with the balls to say so!
There seems to be no limitations on limited government today and it must be stopped. If the soap box and ballot boxes won't work then its time for revolution pure and simple.
Most of them have their own tree and use a relative path, so i might have installed Foobar into /home/foo. Under which I have the ususal /bin /etc and /lib directories. So yes there are some apps that make bad assumptions on where to find shared libs but most run ok.
Welcome to the IT industry as a whole for the last 5 years or so. Rather then devote even once moment of mental energy into deciding what to keep and what will never be needed again, or if {insert} is really the most efficent algorithm we just throw hardware at it.
IT is no fun any more it used to be about finding good solutions to problems; now its just about waste because you can also buy faster/denser hardware cheaper then you can pay someone to use their head.
Oh, I don't know its amazing how much unauthorized access can be achieved with a bottle of Gin.
No, The want to make you do that because its part of the price of your freedom and the costs associated with the justice the system provides you the other 99.9% of your life.
Do I think the system is ideal no, should lots of things be changed yes, does that give you or I the right to shirk our civic dubty in the mean time of course not!
wasn't part of the agreement...as per intels understanding. I am sure these contracts are quite complex it its going to be a small army of lawers and judges to figure this one out. Something tells me AMD would not have organized its manufaturing arm in this way if they thought it was a violation of the agreements. We shall see.
Ok,
I am with you for the most part. You do get coders, Engineers, Systems design people and Operations folks like Network Admins like your Jim; those are not like Josh from the TFA. Someone who get so engrossed in what they are doing and has its flow come so naturally to them might be valuable enough to work around. I might make sense to have junior to the position chase after them write their docs and manage some of their communication interaction. Yes its another salary but if they can do the work of two senior people then you are getting that work for 1.5 times the unusual cost.
Josh though is taking a dump in the lobby plat. He is plainly full of himself, not at all a team player; by choice as well as personality quirks. He is pushing it because he thinks he is superior to everyone else. He thinks he is above the rules. Thats not ok, and its a recipe for disaster because sooner or later you can't make him happy and he is going to leave. When he does he takes all that information with him. He his problem and he needs to go.
That is a far cry from your head to full Jim, who misses the big picture from time to time and does not cope well with interruption. Jim probably understands he is a bit a savant great at somethings weak else where. He is probably is happy to have that junior level person chasing his tale and doing things like docs and throttling the communications. He might not be the best team player either; but thats because others can't deal with his quirks and he can't over come them; and its not because he refuses to try. This is a different person. Jim is someone who might be worth the trouble because he is not trying to make trouble. Josh is trying to make trouble he likes to see what he can get away with and should not be tolerated.
I work at a company that employess about 400 people, perhaps a few more. I have an empoyee number but its just something the accounting department is concerned with, it shows up on pay stubs and once and a while elsewhere like on a benifets form. I certainly would not be able to tell you what the numbe is without going to look for it. I doubt HR could either; they would likely need to ask accounting. I can talk the HR folks any time I want. Our HR director and her assistant know pretty much everyone by name.
I don't think at 400 people we are tiny or useless.
Not every company in the world recudces folks to just numbers.
yes that has been more or less legally established!
Part of me thinks all this encryption software poses a certain danger. Most users my self included are not cryptography experts. How can we be sure sound practices of around key management, avoidance of enciphering known texts such as control information are being used? Even encryption does not mean its automatically safe to go writing down any old secret.
If you don't want it viewed by others don't write it down.
Exactly right, its like mother always said never write something down unless you expect others to read it. Anytime you record anything anywhere on any medium you invite the possibility someone else will view it. If that is not ok then don't record it; encrypted or not.
I hope a TP surgery is being done on um leased lines which are solely under the control of the hospital institutions doing the surgery and the carrier.
Something like that should not be being done of the public internet; it just should not be.
Please show me where in the Constitution As it existed Prior to 1860 it makes any statements on a states right to secede. Also keep in mind the the SCOTUS had not yet (wrongly IMHO and that of many others...) broadened the interpretation of the commerce clause. It may have been illegal under other statute but I don't think it was unconstitutional. Without the ability to abuse the commerce clause its unlikely there was a good legal frame work with which you could argue a statue making it unlawful to secede would have been Constitutional at the time.
The war of Northern Aggression was exactly that it was an abuse of power to by the northern states; who wanted to count slaves when it came to taxation but not representation. The political reasons for fighting the war were tax revenues and votes in Washington. Abolition had very little to do with it; other then it was popular and a way to get the general population to commit t the fighting; sorta like claiming Iraq was about spreading democracy. The truth is Abolition was popular and had been popular and would have likely come about through social and technological changes arguably already in progress at the time.
Lincoln was a tyrant; and he abused the African-America as much as any southern ever did, he basically used them to fight his war for centralizing power and control in the hands of the industrialists!
True but do you like this is a fine criteria for evaluation a product that for most people is entertainment. Its a subjective consideration in the first place.
You are not wrong but there are some considerations that are different. For instance in terms of energy costs on balance a black asphalt shingle roof is probably a great idea if you live in coastal New England, the heat you can capture in the winter is worth more then the extra cooling another roof might require you to do in the summer.
This would probably be a severe mistake in Florida though; but that might not stop people from doing it for aesthetic reasons.
Ok as a parent poster pointed out AxtiveX is really nothing to do with web browsers at all other then IE provides a nice platform from which to instantiate activeX com objects.
COM is a not nearly mysterious as Microsoft likes people to think but it is a complex and interconnected animal. If you know something about C and have ever encounterd a function pointer its sorta like that. What it boils down to is there are some functions at known locations in libraries which you can count on being able to access to get information. This information is in most cases the locations of other functions and structures. There are also a rather interesting threading and memory shareing elements.
All of these things being pre-defined allow higher level langues like VB and even C++ with the right classes to use objects libraries which are run time linked. Without having to have lots of information at build time, like header files with loads of function declaraitons etc, etc, and defines. The existing binary can actually tell your codes how to use it, to a certain degree.
It also provides a good deal of simplified inter process communication and sycronization. I am not saying as much about this but its arguably the more important aspect of COM.
Point is breaking ActiveX probably means breaking other parts of COM in a large way. Just patching up IE so it won't let you create objects out side its on memory space is easy but then you break all those IE based APPs. Sandboxing is not much of solution either b/c then you can't do much in the way of IPC else you don't really have a sand box.