It will take 5 hours to compile on a dual quad-core 2+GHz workstation
To me, that sounds like it takes 5 hours after compiling the code in parallel. So if it was a single threaded compilation job, in theory, the task would take much much longer.
A male figure is more authoritative. When making a public announcement, you want to insure directions will be followed as a demand and not simple taken as an informative statement.
Most Chinese don't see what we see because they're Chinese, and we're American (not all of Slashdot of course). It's our view of human nature in both the past and present that's fundamental to how we view humanity and the concepts of freedom and democracy. Without such views, you can live a normal life as do many Chinese. But life does become (in our view) a whole lot better when you hold public officials accountable for their actions. Such concepts make life more fair and just for the individual because we as a nation are now personally empowered to foster change. To the Chinese, they simple don't have this culture ingrained into them. It's not that they're not capable because they are. Taiwan is an example of mainland China fracturing at the political level and over a period of time they've developed a culture of freedom in much the same way as Hong Kong. But as for the mainland population, thousands of years of culture is pretty hard break. Although it is doable. Never forget that.
As for the Chinese, well the one's I've spoken to in Shanghai do grumble about their government behind closed doors. But I wouldn't go so far to say it's any more or less than everyone else on Earth. Except for places like Libya and Egypt. But I digress.
Yes. They don't do the whole walled garden thing, and there are many Android phones not all made by the same company.
You know, Steve Jobs wanted to "help the world" yet at the same time, keep all innovation and barriers to entry high and out reach from many citizens ability to afford. Well Steve, you may be a genius. But you're still another baby-boomer hippie asshole!!!
I'm not so sure he was being facetious at all. After all, the GP was referring to "friends". He may have a point. But the parent also is also correct with regards to needing liabili...err...chain of communication in the corporate world.
I got lucky too, and so did a few of my clients. In just the last week alone I've done the following.
1. I purchased a new Seagate portable USB3 drive for my MacBook Time Machine backups. 2. A new WD MyBook used for client Windows SBS backups took a shit after only a month of use. Physical drive died. I instructed client to purchase Seagates instead. (WTF WD, your drives are shit as of late) 3. Laptop was out of warranty. I had a client purchase a new Hitachi 7200 RPM 500GB laptop drive to clone data. The old drive was dieing and data needed to be ghosted to a new one.
Damn, talk about dodging several stray bullet in cost on that one. Sheesh! And I rarely replace that many drives in such a short period of time.
I don't see how. RAM is far and away faster than any SSD drive on the market. Unless of course you mean the CPU is waiting to load data from the SSD into RAM prior to executing code, I might buy that. But I thought DMA was supposed to get rid of CPU wait-states penalties. Right?
Most Chinese view this current government as just another dynasty. In their view, it too shall pass. The intellectuals among the middle class want democracy. They want their voice to be heard. The poor just want to be left alone and live their simple life care free with all the blood, sweat, and tears that go along with it. As for the super rich, they mainly have ties to the CCP in some form or another. Either directly or indirectly through a state owned company.
The newer SSD drives are SATA3 now. But even with a SATA2 motherboard, these drives fetch data at amazing speeds even if you were to fully saturate the port. Unless you need the performance of an Avid workstation working with multimedia over a fiber channel SAN, I don't think you'll personally see the difference between SATA2 and SATA3 connectivity in a laptop. YMMV of course.
Anyways, I've got an Intel M25 160GB in my MacBook 13". When booting up my Windows XP VM in Fusion, for a moment my CPUs are maxed out. That's sick (awsome maybe?). Now my laptops bottle neck is the bloody processor. I never would have thought in a million years. 0_o
Sure, we've all know they've been under-valuing their own currency in order to undercut the global market for products and services. Of course the Chinese citizens aren't too happy about it, but their government sure does. All that money flowing into the coffers only to be redistributed how they see politically fit (cronyism for state owned corporate investment).
No, the real problem is the real estate market. That's a bubble just waiting to pop. It's huge! Much bigger than anything that happened in the US. Admittedly, I'm surprised it hasn't already popped. But I suppose ironically, the very government that caused the problem has the central authority to stop it as well. Well as they say. That's China.
Like the truth, China has three records of book keeping. What China actually has, what they're telling the public, and what everyone suspects they have. I tend to agree. Their entire system is built on cooking the books to epic proportions. And I can smell the burning half-way around the word.
I hear you. But lets be real for a moment. Diplomatic actions are (and have been) backed up and enforced with a strong military presence. China is just cutting right to the chase and backing up their land-grab with major naval spending and deployment. So the best course of action is to have all other nations keep their ships in international waters as a reminder to the fact that it's "international waters".
1. When the cost per GB become cheaper than what's available in an HDD. 2. Proven track of reliability.
Currently only the Dell PERC 6/i and above will work well with SSDs. Once the two major hurdles have been achieved, we can kiss the ol winchester drive goodbye. Honestly, HDD technology is a marvel of technology. But its time has come.
Ya, 99% chance it's BS. However, with nasty inflation hitting all the major cities in China (food now costs as much as here in the US), perhaps they're begging for foreign investment again. But that's purely conjecture on my part.
Can you imagine Gaddafi, Saddam, Kim Jong Il and Amadinejad on a desert island together?
Such a gathering would only last a micro-second as they were nuked from space turning the entire desert into a sheet of glass. I can dream, can't I? Ya ya, I know. Fallout and all that stuff. But damn that would be satisfying to watch.
Which is why the islamic extremists hated America. *NOT* because of our foreign policy. That was a global excuse of justification to recruit additional members from around the world. No, the true reason they attacked the West is because democracy is the antithesis to their belief. You see, the act of democracy and self determination is an act of hubris. That in of itself is punishable by death according to Al-Qaeda.
I do have hopes that the Muslim Brotherhood would be more tolerant...more humble while still having strong faith in God. But, only time will tell.
Ok, so you push the problem out a few hundred years. When you think about it, is nothing when looking at all of civilized history. By the time we start to run out of cheap and abundant hydrocarbons, we'd better have some wicked technologies to replace our current source of energy to meet demand. Otherwise we'll just have to re-learn how to live with less and perform more manual work.
I really hope that in another 5,000 years from now, historians in that time don't look back to our period and label us "The Party Era". That is to say, in this time we live in now, life is like a giant party where food is cheap, entertainment is plentiful, and everyone is addicted to cheap energy as though every man, woman, and child were drunk on alcohol. Eventually the booze ran out and reality reared it's ugly head.
While it may sound moot, how does one update software and apply security patches to the OS in an air gapped network? I suppose you have someone audit the code with SH1 hashes, store to external removable media, sign and document the transfer with a trusted individual, and apply physical patches?
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Sounds like this would technically be an AVE (Audio-visual entrainment) device.
ZTE. They now sell cellphones here in the US. They also sell other telecom equipment in China such as IPTV routers for home entertainment as well.
To me, that sounds like it takes 5 hours after compiling the code in parallel. So if it was a single threaded compilation job, in theory, the task would take much much longer.
I'm guessing William Daniels whom voiced for KITT (Knight Rider) is out of the question?
A male figure is more authoritative. When making a public announcement, you want to insure directions will be followed as a demand and not simple taken as an informative statement.
Ya, that sucks. Good thing she didn't crabjack them though. I bet the Fiji government wouldn't be too happy about that.
Most Chinese don't see what we see because they're Chinese, and we're American (not all of Slashdot of course). It's our view of human nature in both the past and present that's fundamental to how we view humanity and the concepts of freedom and democracy. Without such views, you can live a normal life as do many Chinese. But life does become (in our view) a whole lot better when you hold public officials accountable for their actions. Such concepts make life more fair and just for the individual because we as a nation are now personally empowered to foster change. To the Chinese, they simple don't have this culture ingrained into them. It's not that they're not capable because they are. Taiwan is an example of mainland China fracturing at the political level and over a period of time they've developed a culture of freedom in much the same way as Hong Kong. But as for the mainland population, thousands of years of culture is pretty hard break. Although it is doable. Never forget that.
As for the Chinese, well the one's I've spoken to in Shanghai do grumble about their government behind closed doors. But I wouldn't go so far to say it's any more or less than everyone else on Earth. Except for places like Libya and Egypt. But I digress.
Does Android do anything original?
Yes. They don't do the whole walled garden thing, and there are many Android phones not all made by the same company.
You know, Steve Jobs wanted to "help the world" yet at the same time, keep all innovation and barriers to entry high and out reach from many citizens ability to afford. Well Steve, you may be a genius. But you're still another baby-boomer hippie asshole!!!
I'm not so sure he was being facetious at all. After all, the GP was referring to "friends". He may have a point. But the parent also is also correct with regards to needing liabili...err...chain of communication in the corporate world.
I got lucky too, and so did a few of my clients. In just the last week alone I've done the following.
1. I purchased a new Seagate portable USB3 drive for my MacBook Time Machine backups.
2. A new WD MyBook used for client Windows SBS backups took a shit after only a month of use. Physical drive died. I instructed client to purchase Seagates instead. (WTF WD, your drives are shit as of late)
3. Laptop was out of warranty. I had a client purchase a new Hitachi 7200 RPM 500GB laptop drive to clone data. The old drive was dieing and data needed to be ghosted to a new one.
Damn, talk about dodging several stray bullet in cost on that one. Sheesh! And I rarely replace that many drives in such a short period of time.
I don't see how. RAM is far and away faster than any SSD drive on the market. Unless of course you mean the CPU is waiting to load data from the SSD into RAM prior to executing code, I might buy that. But I thought DMA was supposed to get rid of CPU wait-states penalties. Right?
Most Chinese view this current government as just another dynasty. In their view, it too shall pass. The intellectuals among the middle class want democracy. They want their voice to be heard. The poor just want to be left alone and live their simple life care free with all the blood, sweat, and tears that go along with it. As for the super rich, they mainly have ties to the CCP in some form or another. Either directly or indirectly through a state owned company.
The newer SSD drives are SATA3 now. But even with a SATA2 motherboard, these drives fetch data at amazing speeds even if you were to fully saturate the port. Unless you need the performance of an Avid workstation working with multimedia over a fiber channel SAN, I don't think you'll personally see the difference between SATA2 and SATA3 connectivity in a laptop. YMMV of course.
Anyways, I've got an Intel M25 160GB in my MacBook 13". When booting up my Windows XP VM in Fusion, for a moment my CPUs are maxed out. That's sick (awsome maybe?). Now my laptops bottle neck is the bloody processor. I never would have thought in a million years. 0_o
Sure, we've all know they've been under-valuing their own currency in order to undercut the global market for products and services. Of course the Chinese citizens aren't too happy about it, but their government sure does. All that money flowing into the coffers only to be redistributed how they see politically fit (cronyism for state owned corporate investment).
No, the real problem is the real estate market. That's a bubble just waiting to pop. It's huge! Much bigger than anything that happened in the US. Admittedly, I'm surprised it hasn't already popped. But I suppose ironically, the very government that caused the problem has the central authority to stop it as well. Well as they say. That's China.
Like the truth, China has three records of book keeping. What China actually has, what they're telling the public, and what everyone suspects they have. I tend to agree. Their entire system is built on cooking the books to epic proportions. And I can smell the burning half-way around the word.
I hear the story is much different in Shanghai by friends I know currently living their. They can't stop talking about. *shrug*.
I hear you. But lets be real for a moment. Diplomatic actions are (and have been) backed up and enforced with a strong military presence. China is just cutting right to the chase and backing up their land-grab with major naval spending and deployment. So the best course of action is to have all other nations keep their ships in international waters as a reminder to the fact that it's "international waters".
Two things really.
1. When the cost per GB become cheaper than what's available in an HDD.
2. Proven track of reliability.
Currently only the Dell PERC 6/i and above will work well with SSDs. Once the two major hurdles have been achieved, we can kiss the ol winchester drive goodbye. Honestly, HDD technology is a marvel of technology. But its time has come.
Ya, 99% chance it's BS. However, with nasty inflation hitting all the major cities in China (food now costs as much as here in the US), perhaps they're begging for foreign investment again. But that's purely conjecture on my part.
Can you imagine Gaddafi, Saddam, Kim Jong Il and Amadinejad on a desert island together?
Such a gathering would only last a micro-second as they were nuked from space turning the entire desert into a sheet of glass. I can dream, can't I? Ya ya, I know. Fallout and all that stuff. But damn that would be satisfying to watch.
Which is why the islamic extremists hated America. *NOT* because of our foreign policy. That was a global excuse of justification to recruit additional members from around the world. No, the true reason they attacked the West is because democracy is the antithesis to their belief. You see, the act of democracy and self determination is an act of hubris. That in of itself is punishable by death according to Al-Qaeda.
I do have hopes that the Muslim Brotherhood would be more tolerant...more humble while still having strong faith in God. But, only time will tell.
First you need to deliver the Stargate let alone create them. In the case of the movie and TV series, Stargates were already in place and thus found.
Ok, so you push the problem out a few hundred years. When you think about it, is nothing when looking at all of civilized history. By the time we start to run out of cheap and abundant hydrocarbons, we'd better have some wicked technologies to replace our current source of energy to meet demand. Otherwise we'll just have to re-learn how to live with less and perform more manual work.
I really hope that in another 5,000 years from now, historians in that time don't look back to our period and label us "The Party Era". That is to say, in this time we live in now, life is like a giant party where food is cheap, entertainment is plentiful, and everyone is addicted to cheap energy as though every man, woman, and child were drunk on alcohol. Eventually the booze ran out and reality reared it's ugly head.
Because they're really really REALLY fucking stupid. That's why.
While it may sound moot, how does one update software and apply security patches to the OS in an air gapped network? I suppose you have someone audit the code with SH1 hashes, store to external removable media, sign and document the transfer with a trusted individual, and apply physical patches?