The headline was very misleading. It runs LynxOS which is certainly not open source.
From TFA:
The design of the Zumwalt solves that problem by using off-the-shelf hardware—mostly IBM blade servers running Red Hat Linux—and putting it in a ruggedized server room.... Systems that weren't built to be wired into an IP network—other "programs of record" within the ship, which are installed across multiple classes of Navy ships—are wired in using adaptors based on single-board computers and the Lynx OS real-time Linux operating system.
The headline was NOT misleading. It sounds like the main core is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and at the board level there are embedded systems running LynxOS to adapt modules not based on linux. The part that sets this class apart is the linux part. The only misleading part I can spot is the phrase "Lynx OS real-time Linux", which in no way detracts from the fact that there is both linux and LynxOS on board.
Building needed housing of competitive quality. Producing nutritious food using agriculture or animal husbandry. Curing disease. Providing fuel for heating to prevent freezing to death.
You listed some businesses of somewhat questionable societal value and one or two absurd misconceptions. Anyone could add much more blatant examples of parasitism (including HFT).
You asked me to list some examples of businesses which no one would claim are parasitic. I did so. I could go on endlessly if needed, but the point is made.
You pose the loaded straw man of a central command economy and a committee of nazi bureaucrats to decide what businesses are to be allowed. Instead I would offer an open planned national policy board whose proposals would be properly evaluated through due process of democratic governmental institution to produce taxing and other policy to encourage and support the most socially beneficial businesses, and discourage the least beneficial.
I happen to believe that human intellect is capable of improving on brownian motion. I would not completely void the process of market selection. And yes, obviously people in positions of authority need to be watched and. controlled.
What really matters is money, making it as fast as possible
I love that phrase, "making" money. When you think about it, this kind of activity doesn't "make" money at all. It does not create wealth. It shifts wealth that exists, to feed the bottomless avarice of the parasites who think they are entitled to something for nothing. The only thing that can CREATE wealth - i.e., feed people and house them - is actual useful work that produces products like food and housing.
... as large as the US in size and population, with even more resources
In some strange alternate universe that might be true. It would be more true to say the size is comparable, the population is 2/3, and the proven resources are largely trivial. Brazil grows vast amounts of sugar cane to process it into a (very poor) substitute for gasoline and diesel fuel for motor vehicles. As it is, Brazil's economy outweighs that of all other latin american countries, and it is a net external creditor. Unemployment is very low. Brazil is doing quite well, but comparable to the US it is decidedly not.
Brazil: population 201 million, land area 8.5 million km^2, crude oil production 2.1 million bpd, proven reserves 14 billion barrels, natural gas production 515 billion cu ft, proven reserves 15 trillion cu ft, coal production 6 million short tons
US: population 317 million, land area 9.8 million km^2, crude oil production 5.7 million bpd, proven reserves 23 billion barrels, natural gas production 22,900 billion cu ft, proven reserves 304 trillion cu ft, coal production 1094 million short tons
Actually the converse is true. It pretty much maximizes window space. A sphere has the LEAST surface area for a given volume, followed by a cube. This has much MORE surface area for a given volume.
To reach the same fourth floor on the opposite extreme, why would you descend four floors, walk 540 meters straight, then go back up four floors? You could just walk around the perimeter on the same floor for 800 meters. The worst case around the perimeter between any two points is seven minutes walking. The mean case is three and a half minutes. Likely the median case is less than that, as the distribution of workers is presumably intelligently laid out. It's nice that you presumably have the choice, though.
If you do have to reach a different floor, the mean case is only two floors.
Seems to me to be an excellent tradeoff between teleportation, physical fitness, and pleasant breaks.
Furthermore, I haven't seen any confirmation that only ramps are available between floors. As far as I can tell, that is conjecture. It seems likely to me that elevators and/or escalators will also be available.
Your shitty borg cube doesn't have any natural light except the few outside spaces. If you had any imagination, you would have specified a hemisphere, or even a sphere with one half of it underground. Or bury the whole sphere a la the Umbrella bunker under Raccoon City. Then it wouldn't take up ANY land area.
A sphere is the smallest possible envelope, with the least surface area, for any given volume.
But the Apple design is far superior esthetically, much more realistic to construct, and still extremely ergonomic. How many large cube or sphere buildings do you know of?
You're both wrong. L is the linear size of the unrolled strip. If it is straight, the ends are L apart. If the same size strip is rolled in a circle, no point is farther than L/2 away from any other point in walking distance along the strip. If you walk across the courtyard, you cut L/2 to L/pi for the worst case.
Simple. Repeal the fucking thing in its entirety. Declare victory, if that's what it takes to float your boat. Then repeal it as the abomination it is. Let the rule of law return as it was. Yeah, the US wasn't a perfect garden of eden even before 9/11, but it was a hell of a lot better starting point than it is now.
Funny, I make it 0.47% (8000/1700000*100). I figured this out from the original submission a few days ago using no more than maybe 10 minutes checking of secondary sources.
Well, the house voted 407-0 to approve back pay, so it will be either Harry Reid's or Obama's fault if they do not get paid. Simple as that. But no one really believes they won't be paid. They got back pay the last time this happened (see last paragraph). And many times before that. And both Harry Reid and Obama have publically supported the house bill.
It's worse than that. It's a deliberate decision to pay them for an unearned vacation rather than for actual work. That work has to be done somehow. The vacations save not one thin dime, but does its part to run UP the debt. I call it a high crime, cynically undertaken, and grounds for impeachment.
You are quoting figures from the August experimental results. I'm guessing the latest experiment that the BBC is reporting on is better than that.
More than 200 times better? I'll need some foundation for believing that. For 1-2 months work on a project whose roots date back at least 60 years, it fails the sanity test.
Apple is trying to comply with the laws of China. They have censorship this not a surprise. What business is it of non-Chinese? This does not concern you or your rights. It's a Chinese issue, so mind your own business and stay out of China's internal affairs.
Tyranny and caving in to tyranny and doing business with tyrants IS my business because I make it so. The diminishment of the human rights of one (let alone 1+ billion) diminishes all.
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From TFA:
The headline was NOT misleading. It sounds like the main core is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and at the board level there are embedded systems running LynxOS to adapt modules not based on linux. The part that sets this class apart is the linux part. The only misleading part I can spot is the phrase "Lynx OS real-time Linux", which in no way detracts from the fact that there is both linux and LynxOS on board.
Bullshit. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is open source. Did you bother even skimming the short referenced article?
Building needed housing of competitive quality.
Producing nutritious food using agriculture or animal husbandry.
Curing disease.
Providing fuel for heating to prevent freezing to death.
You listed some businesses of somewhat questionable societal value and one or two absurd misconceptions. Anyone could add much more blatant examples of parasitism (including HFT).
You asked me to list some examples of businesses which no one would claim are parasitic. I did so. I could go on endlessly if needed, but the point is made.
You pose the loaded straw man of a central command economy and a committee of nazi bureaucrats to decide what businesses are to be allowed. Instead I would offer an open planned national policy board whose proposals would be properly evaluated through due process of democratic governmental institution to produce taxing and other policy to encourage and support the most socially beneficial businesses, and discourage the least beneficial.
I happen to believe that human intellect is capable of improving on brownian motion. I would not completely void the process of market selection. And yes, obviously people in positions of authority need to be watched and. controlled.
I love that phrase, "making" money. When you think about it, this kind of activity doesn't "make" money at all. It does not create wealth. It shifts wealth that exists, to feed the bottomless avarice of the parasites who think they are entitled to something for nothing. The only thing that can CREATE wealth - i.e., feed people and house them - is actual useful work that produces products like food and housing.
In some strange alternate universe that might be true. It would be more true to say the size is comparable, the population is 2/3, and the proven resources are largely trivial. Brazil grows vast amounts of sugar cane to process it into a (very poor) substitute for gasoline and diesel fuel for motor vehicles. As it is, Brazil's economy outweighs that of all other latin american countries, and it is a net external creditor. Unemployment is very low. Brazil is doing quite well, but comparable to the US it is decidedly not.
Brazil: population 201 million, land area 8.5 million km^2, crude oil production 2.1 million bpd, proven reserves 14 billion barrels, natural gas production 515 billion cu ft, proven reserves 15 trillion cu ft, coal production 6 million short tons
US: population 317 million, land area 9.8 million km^2, crude oil production 5.7 million bpd, proven reserves 23 billion barrels, natural gas production 22,900 billion cu ft, proven reserves 304 trillion cu ft, coal production 1094 million short tons
References:
Brazil population and area
Brazil energy
US population and area
US energy
And every DOD approved server is running RHEL6 which is 2.6.32. The kernel version doesn't tell you shit unless you know what patches have been added.
How do you know that?
Actually the converse is true. It pretty much maximizes window space. A sphere has the LEAST surface area for a given volume, followed by a cube. This has much MORE surface area for a given volume.
To reach the same fourth floor on the opposite extreme, why would you descend four floors, walk 540 meters straight, then go back up four floors? You could just walk around the perimeter on the same floor for 800 meters. The worst case around the perimeter between any two points is seven minutes walking. The mean case is three and a half minutes. Likely the median case is less than that, as the distribution of workers is presumably intelligently laid out. It's nice that you presumably have the choice, though.
If you do have to reach a different floor, the mean case is only two floors.
Seems to me to be an excellent tradeoff between teleportation, physical fitness, and pleasant breaks.
Furthermore, I haven't seen any confirmation that only ramps are available between floors. As far as I can tell, that is conjecture. It seems likely to me that elevators and/or escalators will also be available.
Your shitty borg cube doesn't have any natural light except the few outside spaces. If you had any imagination, you would have specified a hemisphere, or even a sphere with one half of it underground. Or bury the whole sphere a la the Umbrella bunker under Raccoon City. Then it wouldn't take up ANY land area.
A sphere is the smallest possible envelope, with the least surface area, for any given volume.
But the Apple design is far superior esthetically, much more realistic to construct, and still extremely ergonomic. How many large cube or sphere buildings do you know of?
You're both wrong. L is the linear size of the unrolled strip. If it is straight, the ends are L apart. If the same size strip is rolled in a circle, no point is farther than L/2 away from any other point in walking distance along the strip. If you walk across the courtyard, you cut L/2 to L/pi for the worst case.
It's March 14, 1994, and Nethack works just fine on Linux 1.0. Colossal Cave Adventure, too. They both make modern games look like shit.
Simple. Repeal the fucking thing in its entirety. Declare victory, if that's what it takes to float your boat. Then repeal it as the abomination it is. Let the rule of law return as it was. Yeah, the US wasn't a perfect garden of eden even before 9/11, but it was a hell of a lot better starting point than it is now.
Funny, I make it 0.47% (8000/1700000*100). I figured this out from the original submission a few days ago using no more than maybe 10 minutes checking of secondary sources.
Living proof why this level of bumbling exists. Because millions of lazy ass ignorant unengaged morons like you stand for it.
Well, the house voted 407-0 to approve back pay, so it will be either Harry Reid's or Obama's fault if they do not get paid. Simple as that. But no one really believes they won't be paid. They got back pay the last time this happened (see last paragraph). And many times before that. And both Harry Reid and Obama have publically supported the house bill.
It's worse than that. It's a deliberate decision to pay them for an unearned vacation rather than for actual work. That work has to be done somehow. The vacations save not one thin dime, but does its part to run UP the debt. I call it a high crime, cynically undertaken, and grounds for impeachment.
I can assure you we are not quiet at all.
More than 200 times better? I'll need some foundation for believing that. For 1-2 months work on a project whose roots date back at least 60 years, it fails the sanity test.
[huge propounding of completely baseless accusations of Syrian government use of chemical weapons]
So in other words, you can't produce a single citation of substance, or iota of real evidence. Don't feel bad. The US government couldn't either.
She was right. The evidence was very poor.
Apple is trying to comply with the laws of China. They have censorship this not a surprise. What business is it of non-Chinese?
This does not concern you or your rights. It's a Chinese issue, so mind your own business and stay out of China's internal affairs.
Tyranny and caving in to tyranny and doing business with tyrants IS my business because I make it so. The diminishment of the human rights of one (let alone 1+ billion) diminishes all.
Don't like it? Get stuffed.
Yeah, fuck you and the monsters you adore too.
Yeah, that would be real bad. If you ran the GUI as root like an idiot.
Oh I dunno, if you get a half decent motherboard it can be pretty good.
Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H
At Newegg
"GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 5 Plus debuts on GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards, with a range of features and component choices that provide record-breaking performance, cool and efficient operation and extended motherboard lifespan."
"GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards raise the bar in terms of protecting your system, providing advanced electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection for both your Ethernet LAN and USB ports, both common sources of ESD-related failures. Each LAN and USB port is paired with a dedicated protection filter that can withstand high electrostatic discharges, protecting your system from common electrical surges and even direct lighting strikes."
"On GIGABYTE 8 Series motherboards each USB port has its own dedicated power fuse that prevents unwanted USB port failure, helping to safe guard your important data during transfer."
The board is not out of reach financially at all.