> I wrote a micro-kernel for an ARM platform about a decade ago, and there was an assload of inline ASM code and direct pointer manipulation to access the underlying hardware, there is no other way to do this.
thats not an ugly hack, thats awesome! ugly hack to me means adding side-effects. like making data structures global and using extern to pull them in across unreleated parts of the code because you are to lazy to write a proper interface, using preprocessor hacks to hijack functions, using sed to "fix" binaries, most if not all of libc...
he hasn't actually leaked anything. he gave all the docs he stole to greenwald and his team has been leaking them. his descision to go to russia came well after.
what about using a large enough private key such that brute forcing it is the amount of time you want the message to stay hidden. Obviously adjust for the strength of the attacker and moors law.
> I agree, this is a horrible idea. The rate of students actually graduating in 4 years is already low, it will just go down as soon as students are attending for "free". There might be some minor improvement if there were a competitive process and only the students who gave a crap about their education would qualify. But this notion that every slacker has a "right" to attend and fart around for six years is a disaster. When I went to graduate school, anyone could tell, with a high degree of accuracy, which students were paying their own way and which were not. The ones paying for it were the ones who worked hard and tried to get something out of even the easy classes. The other just wasted everyone's time. A couple times I had to get one of the latter removed from my team projects since they weren't worth anything.
I think its a self correcting problem. I am assuming that the tax is going to the selected University, not some general fund. Universities have limited space, they would compete for the corp of students who would have the highest income to generate the highest return for education. Kids that want to fart around for 4 years would actually have a tougher time, since their income prospects are going to be rather limited.
This might actually align the schools interests with the students ability to graduate and get a job that justifies the costs of going to school, who knows, maybe the kids would learn something useful. Right now that decision is entirely in the hands of an 18 year old who is taking on a financial burden of an amount of they have absolutely no way of comprehending.
My costs of education were roughly 1.5% of my income for 10 years (woot woot Computer Science), so it would have been an overall crappier deal for me. But when I was graduating at 2003 a 40k loan seemed like an insane amount of money to me, had I just been on the hook for a 3% of my income I would have probably tried to start my own company or joined a barebones startup instead of getting a job (which has been awesome for the last 10 years).
The argument is that if India does this the rest will follow and then the companies will not be able to make up their research costs to facilitate the development of new drugs, since the current batch of drugs was researched with the expectation of selling them worldwide.
If pharmaceutical companies are making that much money, why doesn't India create their own state or private pharmaceutical companies (or buy a stake in Pfizer) and use the profits to pay for local drugs? India has an enormous pool of talented researchers and a big enough budget to accomplish this. As they argue, the profits are so large then there is no way they could lose money. That would be a win win for everyone.
> There's no direct linear correlation between compensation and performance. Anything but, considering that some people rake in more for failure than most of us will receive in a lifetime of success.
Well compare nokia vs blackberry. Both ended up on the shit end of the smartphone market, but nokia hired a microsoft exec to prepare it for a sale and we see a large payoff to the CEO and the majority shareholders compared to blackberry compared to blackberry The difference Elops connection to microsoft is a difference in Many Billions of dollars to the majority shareholders, so his 50m dollar bonus is a tiny drop.
But as a small retail investor I feel screwed. I wasn't sold a back room deal that I could use to hedge against shorting blackberry. I was sold nokia's great technology and a smartphone comeback that would put it back in a competitive position with apple and google What do i care if i lost 2k or 4k, I want my CEO to fight to the death to keep the business going instead of making back room deals and stripping the company. I can't imagine what the employees feel.
If you really want to make CEOs sweat, how about making it easy for employees to leave and start competing companies? Like healthcare and cheap small business loans to industry professionals. It would force companies to value their experienced employees, pay them more, treat them better and much less likely to offshore.
> Somehow, to me this just looks like it is the most blatant proof that the whole stock trade has become a self serving gambling place without any connection to reality and economy anymore. It used to serve the purpose of accumulating money for projects larger than what any single person or even government could finance. Today, it is just a self serving leech on our economy.
It lowers the spreads and eliminates arbitrage, and that reduces transaction costs for every trade, which is a much much much larger volume than what HFTs take in. HFT's take a slice of any arbitrage opportunity available, so we see a price thats closer to the optimal. Arbitrage is bad, it means that there is a price difference between the same thing in two different markets, as in i just bought a tv at costco only to find it 20% less at walmart across the street. If we had HFT's for retail those price differences wouldn't exist and i could buy a product anywhere and know that i got the lowest price possible. The good thing is that there is nothing to worry about. HFTs compete to the death for every arbitrage opportunity, so they quickly disappear.
> it really just looks like Qualcomm is trying to spin their business decision (to not do eight-core chips, probably because they don't think they can compete) to their investors as cost-saving for their customers.
its more they other way. They are calling out MediaTeks 8 core hype. the 8 core chip is 4 A15 and 4 A7 cores, and you can run only 2 of the A15 at the same time (may be able to burst all 4 for a second) or the chip will overheat, and a7 is basically the chip you had in your feature phone 5 years ago. Qualcomm's chips run each core at variable voltage, so all of the cores can be on at any time at different voltages.
why not do the easy thing and politely inform the client? I am sure if you have a good working relationship with them it wouldn't be a problem to credit you.
I think the OP is assuming that the set of criminal statues is small and they are concretely defined. Just California has over 34000 intentionally ambiguos statues in its penal code. So there is absolutely no way for a common citizen to live a life that doesn't violate a single one of those statues. Given that we are all guilty of something, the Fifth amendment benefits all of us:).
> When electric cars make sense by the numbers, when they are overall cheaper than their fossil fueled counterparts, they will be built and bought by the millions and charging stations will show up everywhere. Until then, the totally electric car will be a fringe market limited to the rich and hobbyist. I expect that Tesla's will continue to be hugely expensive toys, and not much more than that, for a LONG time yet.
I have a feeling that without enormous government intervention electrics will never be viable. Increases in fuel efficiency in cars decreases demand for gas and lowers its price, which decreases incentives for further improvements in feul efficiency. So unless there is a really huge technological breakthrough in batteries, or a big government commitment i think electrics will remain just 10 years out of reach.
But Elon is crazy enough to put giant pilons all over the country (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/25691610), so who knowns.
full disclosure, I got a chance to drive a performance model S, and its f**king awesome. the dash is awesome, the interior is awesome, the handling is awesome, the insane acceleration (sub 5 seconds to 60), but its definitely a 90k luxury car.
At least the ACA forces private health insurance companies to spend 85% of the premiums they receive on health care and limits overhead to 15%. A lot of people received rebates from their insurers this year because of that provision.
profit == 0.15*X, hmm, how do i increase X? i think the worst part of this bill is that everyone involved has the incentive to increase the amount of health care provided.
i use it with unity2d + xmonad. but chromium is the only non terminal application that i use. I mostly use vim, make and a collection of compilers and debuggers, so i am not sure i am a "power user". I do really like the fact that all my hardware just works, it installs missing plugins and codecs. Ubuntu One is a pretty simple way to make sure you have the same.*rc files across all your machines:). I know I can do this with other tools on other distros, but the whole draw of ubuntu to for is that basically everything is preconfigured and ready to go without me having to do my own administration. I've used and loved Gentoo for 8 years, and it was a lot of fun to be completely in control of every aspect of my workstation, but I just stopped caring less about the machine i am working on and more about the code i am writing.
What i would love see them do is more default cloud integration, like making sure that anything you install on one machine is available on all your instances, remote desktop access/vpn for all your machines etc...
If its using the same X session (the same user login), then this is possible. I have 2 monitors, both running 2 different "deskstops". The wm lets me switch workspaces on each one seperatly.
xmonad so does enlightenment 17. I bet there are a few more wms that can do this as well, those are just the two that i've tried.
BTW, i can't believe this made it to the front page, its really a question that just belongs to your favorite distro's forums. Since we are on the topic, does anyone know how to get printers working in linux:)?
Pull a stunt like that and you'd strike out if I was interviewing you. To each their own, but fer christ sakes it is an email client not your main development tool!
Once you start asking religious questions like the ones in your post, you start to look like a person who will be very difficult to work with. After all, if you have major demands for extremely minor things like your email client, what kinds of demands are you going to asking for when it comes to actually doing your job?
are you kidding me? on any project with customers (open source or commercial) it would take less then a year for you to starting writing more emails then code. forcing outlook is just as bad for efficiency as forcing visual studio.
Putting the blame all on Firefox when there's no doubt a certain amount of performance penalty that comes with a Linux's less good compiler is just lame.
How about telling the linux tool makers to build tools that output faster and smaller code instead of demanding that app developers solve those problems?
Finally, what "linux" build was this? Did it use profile guided optimization and other performance features of Mozilla's official Windows build system? If not, you're comparing apples to oranges.
its an exponentially harder problem to do performance analysis at the compiler level then at the application level. Plus firefox + wine runs over 10% faster then firefox on linux, so very likely its not the tools. My guess its just because there are more windows hackers working on firefox since its a more important platform (to mozilla) then linux, so more optimizations are done.
Maybe. Probably a better question is why are we allowing google to continue doing this at all? Shouldn't it be an opt-in service rather than opt-out? Shouldn't it have always been that way?
It depends on how much ownership society gives you to the works that you create. We collectively descided to give some protection to creators of intellectual property, be it books or music or patents. Ideally the amount of ownership should maximize the amount and quality of works created.
Too much ownership will stifle innovation, too little doesn't give enough insentives to create. So its not really your choice, and the laws that we have chosen to be in effect at the moment aren't very clear. Like the previous resposne said, libraries are not opt in or opt out, why should it be any different for digital libraries.
I more or less agree with your point of view. But, i would like to add that a complete "free" market health system is virtually impossible. If we had no regulation, what is likely to occur is that one insurance company can offer lower rates for those who are healthy, reducing its risk, an in doing so it will increase the risk for every other insurer causing them to either cut benefits for the sick, or go out of business.
What I would like to see is a "healthy" market for health care. I would like to be able to see what prices each doctor charges for each service, regardless of how i pay for it. I would like to be able to limit the doctors malpractice liability, by my choice, in exchange for a reduced cost of service. I think this would promote some healthy competition for doctors.
I would also like to have every insurer required to charge the same cost to everyone that they insure (this can be teared by deductible and doctor liability, or limits on treatment costs), and require them to except everyone without any prerequisites, and have no control over the doctors that i want. I think this would promote some healthy administrative cost reductions from the insurers.
Both of these together would encourage the consumers to be healthy, doctors to cut procedure costs and insurers to cut administrative costs, which is what we want.
The end goal should be a that everyone can afford some level of healthcare, maybe with limited liability for malpractice and a high deductible, but would still be covered for most life threating things that they couldn't pay themselves.
ultimately the country needs to realize that we cant afford to put everyone in the US on a dialysis machine when they get diabetes. someone is going to have to make the decision to let that person die, and i believe its up to that person to make that choice with the lifestyle that they live.
(1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
(2) Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate "patriotic" comments.
(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible â" never less than five.
(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
(7) Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision â" raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.
this is a dumb idea. Why even bother distributing random chunks of data? Everyone can agree on a set of algorithms for psuedo random numbers and "files" can be represented as set of seeds. OMGBBQ i just invented a way to distribute data without anyone having any data at all. How can you claim copyright on that? Well, like the previous posters said, the way something is represented is irrelevant. Whether its a range of numbers in pi that magically match the binary representation of an mp3 that sounds just like Metalica, or that song etched into a plastic disk, its still the same "work" which is copyrighted by law.
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> I wrote a micro-kernel for an ARM platform about a decade ago, and there was an assload of inline ASM code and direct pointer manipulation to access the underlying hardware, there is no other way to do this.
thats not an ugly hack, thats awesome! ugly hack to me means adding side-effects. like making data structures global and using extern to pull them in across unreleated parts of the code because you are to lazy to write a proper interface, using preprocessor hacks to hijack functions, using sed to "fix" binaries, most if not all of libc...
it could be worse :)
char *f = "foobar";
f[0] = 'a';
he hasn't actually leaked anything. he gave all the docs he stole to greenwald and his team has been leaking them. his descision to go to russia came well after.
you know you can do 'vi scp://user@host:port/' so you dont actually need a vi installed on the remote machine just sshd.
whats the difference between this guy and snowden?
what about using a large enough private key such that brute forcing it is the amount of time you want the message to stay hidden. Obviously adjust for the strength of the attacker and moors law.
> I agree, this is a horrible idea. The rate of students actually graduating in 4 years is already low, it will just go down as soon as students are attending for "free". There might be some minor improvement if there were a competitive process and only the students who gave a crap about their education would qualify. But this notion that every slacker has a "right" to attend and fart around for six years is a disaster. When I went to graduate school, anyone could tell, with a high degree of accuracy, which students were paying their own way and which were not. The ones paying for it were the ones who worked hard and tried to get something out of even the easy classes. The other just wasted everyone's time. A couple times I had to get one of the latter removed from my team projects since they weren't worth anything.
I think its a self correcting problem. I am assuming that the tax is going to the selected University, not some general fund. Universities have limited space, they would compete for the corp of students who would have the highest income to generate the highest return for education. Kids that want to fart around for 4 years would actually have a tougher time, since their income prospects are going to be rather limited.
This might actually align the schools interests with the students ability to graduate and get a job that justifies the costs of going to school, who knows, maybe the kids would learn something useful. Right now that decision is entirely in the hands of an 18 year old who is taking on a financial burden of an amount of they have absolutely no way of comprehending.
My costs of education were roughly 1.5% of my income for 10 years (woot woot Computer Science), so it would have been an overall crappier deal for me. But when I was graduating at 2003 a 40k loan seemed like an insane amount of money to me, had I just been on the hook for a 3% of my income I would have probably tried to start my own company or joined a barebones startup instead of getting a job (which has been awesome for the last 10 years).
So let me be the devils advocate here,
The argument is that if India does this the rest will follow and then the companies will not be able to make up their research costs to facilitate the development of new drugs, since the current batch of drugs was researched with the expectation of selling them worldwide.
If pharmaceutical companies are making that much money, why doesn't India create their own state or private pharmaceutical companies (or buy a stake in Pfizer) and use the profits to pay for local drugs? India has an enormous pool of talented researchers and a big enough budget to accomplish this. As they argue, the profits are so large then there is no way they could lose money. That would be a win win for everyone.
> There's no direct linear correlation between compensation and performance. Anything but, considering that some people rake in more for failure than most of us will receive in a lifetime of success.
Well compare nokia vs blackberry. Both ended up on the shit end of the smartphone market, but nokia hired a microsoft exec to prepare it for a sale and we see a large payoff to the CEO and the majority shareholders compared to blackberry compared to blackberry The difference Elops connection to microsoft is a difference in Many Billions of dollars to the majority shareholders, so his 50m dollar bonus is a tiny drop.
But as a small retail investor I feel screwed. I wasn't sold a back room deal that I could use to hedge against shorting blackberry. I was sold nokia's great technology and a smartphone comeback that would put it back in a competitive position with apple and google What do i care if i lost 2k or 4k, I want my CEO to fight to the death to keep the business going instead of making back room deals and stripping the company. I can't imagine what the employees feel.
If you really want to make CEOs sweat, how about making it easy for employees to leave and start competing companies? Like healthcare and cheap small business loans to industry professionals. It would force companies to value their experienced employees, pay them more, treat them better and much less likely to offshore.
> Somehow, to me this just looks like it is the most blatant proof that the whole stock trade has become a self serving gambling place without any connection to reality and economy anymore. It used to serve the purpose of accumulating money for projects larger than what any single person or even government could finance. Today, it is just a self serving leech on our economy.
It lowers the spreads and eliminates arbitrage, and that reduces transaction costs for every trade, which is a much much much larger volume than what HFTs take in. HFT's take a slice of any arbitrage opportunity available, so we see a price thats closer to the optimal. Arbitrage is bad, it means that there is a price difference between the same thing in two different markets, as in i just bought a tv at costco only to find it 20% less at walmart across the street. If we had HFT's for retail those price differences wouldn't exist and i could buy a product anywhere and know that i got the lowest price possible. The good thing is that there is nothing to worry about. HFTs compete to the death for every arbitrage opportunity, so they quickly disappear.
> it really just looks like Qualcomm is trying to spin their business decision (to not do eight-core chips, probably because they don't think they can compete) to their investors as cost-saving for their customers.
its more they other way. They are calling out MediaTeks 8 core hype. the 8 core chip is 4 A15 and 4 A7 cores, and you can run only 2 of the A15 at the same time (may be able to burst all 4 for a second) or the chip will overheat, and a7 is basically the chip you had in your feature phone 5 years ago. Qualcomm's chips run each core at variable voltage, so all of the cores can be on at any time at different voltages.
why not do the easy thing and politely inform the client? I am sure if you have a good working relationship with them it wouldn't be a problem to credit you.
I think the OP is assuming that the set of criminal statues is small and they are concretely defined. Just California has over 34000 intentionally ambiguos statues in its penal code. So there is absolutely no way for a common citizen to live a life that doesn't violate a single one of those statues. Given that we are all guilty of something, the Fifth amendment benefits all of us :).
> When electric cars make sense by the numbers, when they are overall cheaper than their fossil fueled counterparts, they will be built and bought by the millions and charging stations will show up everywhere. Until then, the totally electric car will be a fringe market limited to the rich and hobbyist. I expect that Tesla's will continue to be hugely expensive toys, and not much more than that, for a LONG time yet.
I have a feeling that without enormous government intervention electrics will never be viable. Increases in fuel efficiency in cars decreases demand for gas and lowers its price, which decreases incentives for further improvements in feul efficiency. So unless there is a really huge technological breakthrough in batteries, or a big government commitment i think electrics will remain just 10 years out of reach.
But Elon is crazy enough to put giant pilons all over the country (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/25691610), so who knowns.
full disclosure, I got a chance to drive a performance model S, and its f**king awesome. the dash is awesome, the interior is awesome, the handling is awesome, the insane acceleration (sub 5 seconds to 60), but its definitely a 90k luxury car.
samsung s3 with LTE use a dual core snapdragon, clocked at 1.5ghz with 2gb of ram. how come they didn't compare apples to apples?
At least the ACA forces private health insurance companies to spend 85% of the premiums they receive on health care and limits overhead to 15%. A lot of people received rebates from their insurers this year because of that provision.
profit == 0.15*X, hmm, how do i increase X? i think the worst part of this bill is that everyone involved has the incentive to increase the amount of health care provided.
i use it with unity2d + xmonad. but chromium is the only non terminal application that i use. I mostly use vim, make and a collection of compilers and debuggers, so i am not sure i am a "power user". I do really like the fact that all my hardware just works, it installs missing plugins and codecs. Ubuntu One is a pretty simple way to make sure you have the same .*rc files across all your machines :). I know I can do this with other tools on other distros, but the whole draw of ubuntu to for is that basically everything is preconfigured and ready to go without me having to do my own administration. I've used and loved Gentoo for 8 years, and it was a lot of fun to be completely in control of every aspect of my workstation, but I just stopped caring less about the machine i am working on and more about the code i am writing.
What i would love see them do is more default cloud integration, like making sure that anything you install on one machine is available on all your instances, remote desktop access/vpn for all your machines etc...
If its using the same X session (the same user login), then this is possible. I have 2 monitors, both running 2 different "deskstops". The wm lets me switch workspaces on each one seperatly. xmonad so does enlightenment 17. I bet there are a few more wms that can do this as well, those are just the two that i've tried.
BTW, i can't believe this made it to the front page, its really a question that just belongs to your favorite distro's forums. Since we are on the topic, does anyone know how to get printers working in linux :)?
Pull a stunt like that and you'd strike out if I was interviewing you. To each their own, but fer christ sakes it is an email client not your main development tool!
Once you start asking religious questions like the ones in your post, you start to look like a person who will be very difficult to work with. After all, if you have major demands for extremely minor things like your email client, what kinds of demands are you going to asking for when it comes to actually doing your job?
are you kidding me? on any project with customers (open source or commercial) it would take less then a year for you to starting writing more emails then code. forcing outlook is just as bad for efficiency as forcing visual studio.
Putting the blame all on Firefox when there's no doubt a certain amount of performance penalty that comes with a Linux's less good compiler is just lame. How about telling the linux tool makers to build tools that output faster and smaller code instead of demanding that app developers solve those problems? Finally, what "linux" build was this? Did it use profile guided optimization and other performance features of Mozilla's official Windows build system? If not, you're comparing apples to oranges.
its an exponentially harder problem to do performance analysis at the compiler level then at the application level. Plus firefox + wine runs over 10% faster then firefox on linux, so very likely its not the tools. My guess its just because there are more windows hackers working on firefox since its a more important platform (to mozilla) then linux, so more optimizations are done.
and build some windmills to generate electricity. i thought those take care of birds pretty handedly. or is it just the endangered ones?
Maybe. Probably a better question is why are we allowing google to continue doing this at all? Shouldn't it be an opt-in service rather than opt-out? Shouldn't it have always been that way?
It depends on how much ownership society gives you to the works that you create. We collectively descided to give some protection to creators of intellectual property, be it books or music or patents. Ideally the amount of ownership should maximize the amount and quality of works created.
Too much ownership will stifle innovation, too little doesn't give enough insentives to create. So its not really your choice, and the laws that we have chosen to be in effect at the moment aren't very clear. Like the previous resposne said, libraries are not opt in or opt out, why should it be any different for digital libraries.
What I would like to see is a "healthy" market for health care. I would like to be able to see what prices each doctor charges for each service, regardless of how i pay for it. I would like to be able to limit the doctors malpractice liability, by my choice, in exchange for a reduced cost of service. I think this would promote some healthy competition for doctors.
I would also like to have every insurer required to charge the same cost to everyone that they insure (this can be teared by deductible and doctor liability, or limits on treatment costs), and require them to except everyone without any prerequisites, and have no control over the doctors that i want. I think this would promote some healthy administrative cost reductions from the insurers.
Both of these together would encourage the consumers to be healthy, doctors to cut procedure costs and insurers to cut administrative costs, which is what we want.
The end goal should be a that everyone can afford some level of healthcare, maybe with limited liability for malpractice and a high deductible, but would still be covered for most life threating things that they couldn't pay themselves. ultimately the country needs to realize that we cant afford to put everyone in the US on a dialysis machine when they get diabetes. someone is going to have to make the decision to let that person die, and i believe its up to that person to make that choice with the lifestyle that they live.
(a) Organizations and Conferences
(1) Insist on doing everything through "channels." Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
(2) Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your "points" by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate "patriotic" comments.
(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." Attempt to make the committees as large as possible â" never less than five.
(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
(7) Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision â" raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.
from simple sabotage manual
this is a dumb idea. Why even bother distributing random chunks of data? Everyone can agree on a set of algorithms for psuedo random numbers and "files" can be represented as set of seeds. OMGBBQ i just invented a way to distribute data without anyone having any data at all. How can you claim copyright on that? Well, like the previous posters said, the way something is represented is irrelevant. Whether its a range of numbers in pi that magically match the binary representation of an mp3 that sounds just like Metalica, or that song etched into a plastic disk, its still the same "work" which is copyrighted by law.