Guess what the captain majored in, or at least spent vast amounts of his time on. The guy is well versed in ancient litterature, plays, myths and countless civilisations and archaeology. He enjoys it and always has some tale or teaching to bring up to Data, or Jordy or Riker or the rest of the crew.
It struck me when I watched the series last year (first time). Ha, this captain had an old school education! I'm gonna watch a fluent nice guy who comes from the 1950s or 60s (the actor did) planted in that pretend 24th century setting. Didn't work out bad. Yeah, humanities were a sign of bourgeouisie or high society, i.e. it allowed you to be in circles of power. Snobbishness, self-importance, pontification and circle-jerking maybe but it had some elegance over mastery of "marketroid bullshit generator" or how the highest pursuit of life is to be a millionaire accountant and mystificator.
The complex, organically-grown instruction set also leads to some waste of silicon in having to support all those instructions, and waste of performance/energy efficiency in that the instruction set is not designed from the ground up towards efficiency. People on the x86 side make a compelling argument that this has become negligible, but the fact remains that I'm still not seeing any x86 processor getting (unbiased) performance/W scores that are close to common ARM processors.
This is not entirely exact, in fact Intel CPUs have a tremendous per watt, take a 80W or more Intel and compare it to a 2W ARM CPU, the Intel is so incredibly faster (and faster, bigger caches, lower latencies etc.) that it holds its own or even beat it handy if we were to consider total power consumption of the system (if you were to add up ARM systems till you get the same amount of gigaflops going on)
ARM server SoCs will change that a bit. Else, the power efficiency advantage of ARM is foremost there with low loads, e.g. want to run in 200mW, or 500mW (perhaps just throttling down from 2-5W) : here you go.
Last time I read about these old stuff, it said the 486 DX/2 66 kicked the crap out of a 68040. From then on, a consumer CPU never has beaten x86 again. (Apple benchmarks in the late 90s were crooked, pure lies)
With the Baxter (base cost $22000- can work 3 shifts- no vacations, holidays, no social security tax, no employment law compliance costs, "never" sick with a good SLA) and the
Hilariously if this goes through these places will still need and pretty much only need janitors, maybe some security staff or basic human presence (like the franchisee owner and delegates or family). A robot won't be around people cleaning tables, taking garbage out, cleaning the shitter, mopping sticky sugary spills on the floor. Not only such a robot would be really expensive (a humanoid, even?) if it is to do all janitory tasks, which includes cleaning the vending robots and screens, but if you leave it alone unattended with dozen people and kids the people will just kick it, play games by putting obstacle in fronts of it or pile garbage and shit on a set of tables or whatever place.
If the restaurant is left unattended for whatever reason for a couple hours, or the janitor present doesn't care then why not come to the place with alcohol, your own food in addition to a Cheeseburger here and there, boom boxes and do whatever pleases you? Could be fun really. But then the place would have to be thoroughly watched by cameras and they send the cops or security guards and it goes even more downhill.
That's the job of supercapacitor banks, at least for short term (enough juice for one stop and subsequent start I'm sure, but a long steep downhill followed by a similar uphill, it's probably more efficient to charge a battery)
You could get a low end motherboard and a Haswell Pentium G : dual core and dual thread, but the same multithreaded performance as that Q9550S roughly, for less power use.
A formulation of a maximum wage can be than in a specific business, the top wage paid to someone can't be more than 20 times the lowest wage:D. That's an indirect separate minimum wage. But of course you would immediately game around it by bringing in contractors etc. and it could become a big stinking mess unless that can be possibly also accounted for..
A separate minimum wage for a large business?, or [more generally!] for some trades in some businesses.. yeah, negociating that would be the role of labor unions.
But deflation makes the rich richer, trap people in debt and the banks and rent seekers are the ones profiting on their end of that relationship. The ideology of low inflation (0 to 2%) and sustained growth (3 to 5%) is just that, and you're getting fucked if the wages stay at 0% or even -1%. A situation of high inflation and wages increasing with inflation every year (even welfare) is actually better for the poor and working class, though it may have its own problems.
I don't see why you can't keep a progressive taxation scheme (perhaps in addition to a flat rate! have a slow exponential on top of it that eventually turns into a sigmoid) but else it's right on. (maybe tweak the numbers, like -$14400) Eliminate food stamps, unemployment and all such things, then you gain (or save I should say) a lot of money from eliminating all that bureaucracy, tracking of people and overhead AND also the suspicion, jealousy, people falling through the cracks.
Here I'm thinking of unclaimed welfare, more than fraud. No idea of what the stats on that would be in the US (maybe it's unknowable) ; in France it's pretty significant (though not game changing for public finances either way), we have something akin to food stamps but pays more, easier to get, no crazy smart card scheme to tell people what to buy yet most low income workers tend to not claim it (the benefits progressively and quickly go down the more you earn, reaching zero around full time minimum wage income. That system is pretty recent (5 years), I guess people are not aware, feel like not begging or think they'll be harassed by the (ridiculous, ineffective, understaffed, sad joke of an) unemployment agency. Nice in some way but half assed next to a real negative income tax. Amazing is that by getting rid of all the crap, it would almost pay for itself already.
What about the health care, how do you pay for it or who pays for it? Is it rather rotting teeth or dying of cancer and other crap the price to pay for dropping out of high school? (or just completing high school, maybe)
A small adjustement I'd like to make : lower the age of collection to 18 (halve the credit if you really wish) and lower the drinking age to 18. Just because criminalizing the drinking for young adult makes them all "criminals" and they turn to drugs because they're more easily available. Non-American not in the US there, I really have the impression this crap fucks up your culture, making the youth start their life with frustation, have to circumvent the law instead of abiding to it and then they binge drink like stupid fucks when they get the occasion (and by "reverse psychology" so to speak).
They don't need such pressure, frustration and mild oppression. Why not vent some steam out?, it's ridiculous that people have to live a crap life in such a lush, huge and comfortable country. And the negative income tax serves the same aim, and would work ridiculously well most probably. Less people in mental asylums and prisons, a bit more at work, and would help against the rampant hatred and bad nutrition that seems to infest your country.
Even if prices end up increasing by 10% but people's income increases by 20% then those people will be able to afford more items (and useful ones, like food and clothing)
I learned about that in Slashdot comments, really. Then reading articles on wikipedia, perhaps about specific stars, confirms that red dwarves are quite flare-y. At best the star may be relatively calm but then it will hurl cataclysmic bursts of crap at you anyway.
I'll remember you the Windows 98 SE experience (and XP if it weren't dragged down by crap). Boot crazy fast from the 7200 rpm HDD, pin programs to the Quicklaunch (such as fucking Winamp). Using three monitors, hell yes that was supported with different res and refresh (but hooking three CRT was a bit pointless besides testing it) Launch any program in the start menu in two clicks. Because as you should know, a proper start menu opens the sub menus by hovering with the mouse. It was very keyboard navigable and you could add shortcuts and folders (i.e. your own sub menus) on the top. Also don't forget to sort by name and delete the useless stuff, you don't HAVE to keep windows movie maker, IE and other crap in here.
Suspend-to-RAM existed before Vista or 8, if you wonder.
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One day we'll be able to alt-tab in and out of over ten-year-old games!
Guess what the captain majored in, or at least spent vast amounts of his time on. The guy is well versed in ancient litterature, plays, myths and countless civilisations and archaeology. He enjoys it and always has some tale or teaching to bring up to Data, or Jordy or Riker or the rest of the crew.
It struck me when I watched the series last year (first time). Ha, this captain had an old school education! I'm gonna watch a fluent nice guy who comes from the 1950s or 60s (the actor did) planted in that pretend 24th century setting. Didn't work out bad.
Yeah, humanities were a sign of bourgeouisie or high society, i.e. it allowed you to be in circles of power. Snobbishness, self-importance, pontification and circle-jerking maybe but it had some elegance over mastery of "marketroid bullshit generator" or how the highest pursuit of life is to be a millionaire accountant and mystificator.
The complex, organically-grown instruction set also leads to some waste of silicon in having to support all those instructions, and waste of performance/energy efficiency in that the instruction set is not designed from the ground up towards efficiency. People on the x86 side make a compelling argument that this has become negligible, but the fact remains that I'm still not seeing any x86 processor getting (unbiased) performance/W scores that are close to common ARM processors.
This is not entirely exact, in fact Intel CPUs have a tremendous per watt, take a 80W or more Intel and compare it to a 2W ARM CPU, the Intel is so incredibly faster (and faster, bigger caches, lower latencies etc.) that it holds its own or even beat it handy if we were to consider total power consumption of the system (if you were to add up ARM systems till you get the same amount of gigaflops going on)
ARM server SoCs will change that a bit. Else, the power efficiency advantage of ARM is foremost there with low loads, e.g. want to run in 200mW, or 500mW (perhaps just throttling down from 2-5W) : here you go.
Last time I read about these old stuff, it said the 486 DX/2 66 kicked the crap out of a 68040. From then on, a consumer CPU never has beaten x86 again. (Apple benchmarks in the late 90s were crooked, pure lies)
$640K ought to be enough for anybody.
With the Baxter (base cost $22000- can work 3 shifts- no vacations, holidays, no social security tax, no employment law compliance costs, "never" sick with a good SLA) and the
Kiva ($30,000 per unit- same benefits)
Robotic hamburger makers, robotic drink dispensers, ordering kiosks...
Hilariously if this goes through these places will still need and pretty much only need janitors, maybe some security staff or basic human presence (like the franchisee owner and delegates or family). A robot won't be around people cleaning tables, taking garbage out, cleaning the shitter, mopping sticky sugary spills on the floor. Not only such a robot would be really expensive (a humanoid, even?) if it is to do all janitory tasks, which includes cleaning the vending robots and screens, but if you leave it alone unattended with dozen people and kids the people will just kick it, play games by putting obstacle in fronts of it or pile garbage and shit on a set of tables or whatever place.
If the restaurant is left unattended for whatever reason for a couple hours, or the janitor present doesn't care then why not come to the place with alcohol, your own food in addition to a Cheeseburger here and there, boom boxes and do whatever pleases you? Could be fun really. But then the place would have to be thoroughly watched by cameras and they send the cops or security guards and it goes even more downhill.
That's the job of supercapacitor banks, at least for short term (enough juice for one stop and subsequent start I'm sure, but a long steep downhill followed by a similar uphill, it's probably more efficient to charge a battery)
I remember when you could disable the L1 and L2 caches in BIOS. Made the PC really run like crap, so I think it turned it back on immediately.
You could get a low end motherboard and a Haswell Pentium G : dual core and dual thread, but the same multithreaded performance as that Q9550S roughly, for less power use.
"Get a marketable skill,"
Unfortunately that probably translates into "Car payments" and "Student loan".
A formulation of a maximum wage can be than in a specific business, the top wage paid to someone can't be more than 20 times the lowest wage :D. That's an indirect separate minimum wage. But of course you would immediately game around it by bringing in contractors etc. and it could become a big stinking mess unless that can be possibly also accounted for..
A separate minimum wage for a large business?, or [more generally!] for some trades in some businesses.. yeah, negociating that would be the role of labor unions.
But deflation makes the rich richer, trap people in debt and the banks and rent seekers are the ones profiting on their end of that relationship.
The ideology of low inflation (0 to 2%) and sustained growth (3 to 5%) is just that, and you're getting fucked if the wages stay at 0% or even -1%. A situation of high inflation and wages increasing with inflation every year (even welfare) is actually better for the poor and working class, though it may have its own problems.
I don't see why you can't keep a progressive taxation scheme (perhaps in addition to a flat rate! have a slow exponential on top of it that eventually turns into a sigmoid) but else it's right on. (maybe tweak the numbers, like -$14400)
Eliminate food stamps, unemployment and all such things, then you gain (or save I should say) a lot of money from eliminating all that bureaucracy, tracking of people and overhead AND also the suspicion, jealousy, people falling through the cracks.
Here I'm thinking of unclaimed welfare, more than fraud. No idea of what the stats on that would be in the US (maybe it's unknowable) ; in France it's pretty significant (though not game changing for public finances either way), we have something akin to food stamps but pays more, easier to get, no crazy smart card scheme to tell people what to buy yet most low income workers tend to not claim it (the benefits progressively and quickly go down the more you earn, reaching zero around full time minimum wage income. That system is pretty recent (5 years), I guess people are not aware, feel like not begging or think they'll be harassed by the (ridiculous, ineffective, understaffed, sad joke of an) unemployment agency.
Nice in some way but half assed next to a real negative income tax. Amazing is that by getting rid of all the crap, it would almost pay for itself already.
What about the health care, how do you pay for it or who pays for it?
Is it rather rotting teeth or dying of cancer and other crap the price to pay for dropping out of high school? (or just completing high school, maybe)
A small adjustement I'd like to make : lower the age of collection to 18 (halve the credit if you really wish) and lower the drinking age to 18. Just because criminalizing the drinking for young adult makes them all "criminals" and they turn to drugs because they're more easily available. Non-American not in the US there, I really have the impression this crap fucks up your culture, making the youth start their life with frustation, have to circumvent the law instead of abiding to it and then they binge drink like stupid fucks when they get the occasion (and by "reverse psychology" so to speak).
They don't need such pressure, frustration and mild oppression. Why not vent some steam out?, it's ridiculous that people have to live a crap life in such a lush, huge and comfortable country. And the negative income tax serves the same aim, and would work ridiculously well most probably. Less people in mental asylums and prisons, a bit more at work, and would help against the rampant hatred and bad nutrition that seems to infest your country.
Even if prices end up increasing by 10% but people's income increases by 20% then those people will be able to afford more items (and useful ones, like food and clothing)
Millions of them use a RTOS or no OS at all.
I learned about that in Slashdot comments, really. Then reading articles on wikipedia, perhaps about specific stars, confirms that red dwarves are quite flare-y. At best the star may be relatively calm but then it will hurl cataclysmic bursts of crap at you anyway.
Embedded devices such as the one that hands you cash through a slit run "Windows XP Embedded"
The Gnome developers are taking care of that.
I'll remember you the Windows 98 SE experience (and XP if it weren't dragged down by crap). Boot crazy fast from the 7200 rpm HDD, pin programs to the Quicklaunch (such as fucking Winamp). Using three monitors, hell yes that was supported with different res and refresh (but hooking three CRT was a bit pointless besides testing it)
Launch any program in the start menu in two clicks. Because as you should know, a proper start menu opens the sub menus by hovering with the mouse. It was very keyboard navigable and you could add shortcuts and folders (i.e. your own sub menus) on the top. Also don't forget to sort by name and delete the useless stuff, you don't HAVE to keep windows movie maker, IE and other crap in here.
Suspend-to-RAM existed before Vista or 8, if you wonder.
It's since 95 I think and was the worst decision, or even the only thing really wrong with the Windows 9x/XP UI.
Is your USB controller faulty or something?
Yes, a few home users pirated it.
Early Mac and later "low cost" models had only 512x384. And single tasking!, so like with Atari ST the issue doesn't matter.