Uh you are ignoring a lot of things like knowledge or the fact that having more people means you have more manpower to dedicate to finding and exploring energy resources. If we consider the amount of energy that hits the Earth from the Sun alone the amount of energy required by the human population is basically a drop in the bucket.
What he isn't telling is the vast migrations of skilled tech workers in Southern Europe to places like the UK or the US where they earn triple or five times the salary for the same work.
The people left either have families (won't change jobs easily), are middle aged (often discriminated against in job ads) or are unskilled. Unskilled and unemployable.
Yeah this has been a major sticking point in there. But China is developing at least four military aircraft engines right now. One of which (WS-10A) has been already been accepted into service in their twin-engine J-16 fighter bugs and all. They also have a large turbofan in testing for their Y-20 transporter plane. You can find pictures of it (WS-20) in the testbed on the Internet.
You could argue that AMD K7 was like the spiritual successor of the DEC Alpha if you removed the X86 bits off. Same designers, same bus, and everything.
The machine tools are still nearly all made in the US and Europe. But given the slow progress made in lithography tools in recent years denying them the last two generations of process technology isn't making as much of a difference as it used to.
The SW64 chips that are being used for the new ShenWei supercomputer reportedly doesn't have L1, L2, nor L3 cache at all
This sounds more like an omission in the data rather than what it probably has. It would be nonsensical to not have any on-chip cache on a processor like that. It would stall like mad.
There are. Vogtle 3 & 4 are going to use the AP1000 design from Westinghouse which is a Generation III reactor. It stores emergency coolant water in a tank over the reactor so you do not need to use pumps to cool the reactor in an emergency.
So in other words the "solution" is the Microsoft way of shipping a copy of the.dlls with every single program. So if someone finds a security issue with.dll (say OpenSSL) even if the bug gets fixed in the library you need to issue updates to all the apps as well. Fun.
It's getting to the point where expert knowledge ends up being just a collection of links and links to links. It kind of reminds me of how Asimov's Empire ends really.
The problem with Greece and Finland is the same. The Euro. It isn't working. You just need to look at the recoveries in e.g. Iceland or Sweden to see counter-examples of that.
The austerity policies have been a disaster and the idea that you can use the same standards and business methods in countries with dissimilar geography, language, natural resources, etc, etc is also a disaster.
Usually poorly managed. Leading to performance hits and/or exaggerated memory requirements. Which can be fixed by using manual memory management like the one in C.
usable code-as-data
Polymorphic code? This is usually considered as a vector for injecting exploits in a C program. Ideally you want the code segment to be read-only and non-modifiable at runtime.
A lot of times something that is defined as a breakthrough or a great idea is in fact a terrible idea in practice.
Not to say that there is nothing left to be invented (or re-invented) in software. It only takes a look at CUDA/OpenCL, modern refactoring tools, or code inspection tools to realize this.
Not anymore. This used to be true at one point. Even Joel has figured that out a couple of years back.
Want to run old MS-DOS games? You are better off using DOSBox than Windows. Heck even old Windows games often require loading Windows XP in a virtual machine so they can be playable. Same thing for several applications. Microsoft hasn't cared much for backwards compatibility ever since Vista came out.
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Uh you are ignoring a lot of things like knowledge or the fact that having more people means you have more manpower to dedicate to finding and exploring energy resources. If we consider the amount of energy that hits the Earth from the Sun alone the amount of energy required by the human population is basically a drop in the bucket.
I'm happy enough with TCSH.
What he isn't telling is the vast migrations of skilled tech workers in Southern Europe to places like the UK or the US where they earn triple or five times the salary for the same work.
The people left either have families (won't change jobs easily), are middle aged (often discriminated against in job ads) or are unskilled. Unskilled and unemployable.
Yeah just like the Politburo. Ever heard of 'Democratic Centralism'?
They used to come with a covering tab at one point. Even a light when the camera was on. Not anymore.
Yeah this has been a major sticking point in there. But China is developing at least four military aircraft engines right now. One of which (WS-10A) has been already been accepted into service in their twin-engine J-16 fighter bugs and all. They also have a large turbofan in testing for their Y-20 transporter plane. You can find pictures of it (WS-20) in the testbed on the Internet.
SPARC has seen worse times than this. Like the UltraSPARC V and Rock failures. The current chips are actually decent.
PowerPC has been essentially put on life support by the current IBM management. So I wouldn't expect much more out of that. Shame.
You could argue that AMD K7 was like the spiritual successor of the DEC Alpha if you removed the X86 bits off. Same designers, same bus, and everything.
The machine tools are still nearly all made in the US and Europe. But given the slow progress made in lithography tools in recent years denying them the last two generations of process technology isn't making as much of a difference as it used to.
The SW64 chips that are being used for the new ShenWei supercomputer reportedly doesn't have L1, L2, nor L3 cache at all
This sounds more like an omission in the data rather than what it probably has. It would be nonsensical to not have any on-chip cache on a processor like that. It would stall like mad.
Sometimes shares have different voting power. I doubt Zuck has 60% of the shares by worth.
I would rather have one of these than a hydropower dam close by. Statistically a lot safer.
There are. Vogtle 3 & 4 are going to use the AP1000 design from Westinghouse which is a Generation III reactor. It stores emergency coolant water in a tank over the reactor so you do not need to use pumps to cool the reactor in an emergency.
So in other words the "solution" is the Microsoft way of shipping a copy of the .dlls with every single program. So if someone finds a security issue with .dll (say OpenSSL) even if the bug gets fixed in the library you need to issue updates to all the apps as well. Fun.
It's getting to the point where expert knowledge ends up being just a collection of links and links to links. It kind of reminds me of how Asimov's Empire ends really.
What? Pets.com? I'm still waiting for Webvan.com to show up.
Somehow I doubt any of the the "large entrenched" taxi companies have as much of a market cap as Uber.
Which had the look and feel of an LG Prada, or a Mio A701, or a dozen other candy bar phones. But I digress...
The problem with Greece and Finland is the same. The Euro. It isn't working. You just need to look at the recoveries in e.g. Iceland or Sweden to see counter-examples of that.
The austerity policies have been a disaster and the idea that you can use the same standards and business methods in countries with dissimilar geography, language, natural resources, etc, etc is also a disaster.
I think you are being overly optimistic here. I think next spring is a lot more likely.
automatic memory management
Usually poorly managed. Leading to performance hits and/or exaggerated memory requirements. Which can be fixed by using manual memory management like the one in C.
usable code-as-data
Polymorphic code? This is usually considered as a vector for injecting exploits in a C program. Ideally you want the code segment to be read-only and non-modifiable at runtime.
A lot of times something that is defined as a breakthrough or a great idea is in fact a terrible idea in practice.
Not to say that there is nothing left to be invented (or re-invented) in software. It only takes a look at CUDA/OpenCL, modern refactoring tools, or code inspection tools to realize this.
Not anymore. This used to be true at one point. Even Joel has figured that out a couple of years back.
Want to run old MS-DOS games? You are better off using DOSBox than Windows. Heck even old Windows games often require loading Windows XP in a virtual machine so they can be playable. Same thing for several applications. Microsoft hasn't cared much for backwards compatibility ever since Vista came out.
You need to read about the Crusades again. You can start by Googling "Deus Vult".
Hitler wasn't exactly Christian either. He persecuted Protestant priests. The Nazi party was all about Germanic neo-paganism.
As for Atheism I could start ranting about Stalin or Mao Zedong.
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