It's because Pakistan has nuclear weapons that we continue to pay bribe money to them. We don't trust Pakistan. They're our enemy. Yet we know a few were protecting Bin Laden; to the point of tipping him off should we mention to them well in advance of the mission. Worse yet, if we don't keep supplying them money, the entire regime could collapse sending control of their nuclear weapons in the hands of.... Well, lets just say it would be a situation that would go from bad to worse.
You just can't say that though. It's so Un-PC of a thing to say. No politician would never in a million-bajillion years point the finger toward their voters as the source of the problem. Oh no, it could never be a cultural issue. But we sure could improve our teen daycare system if we only had more money. Not to worry parents, we have the problem solved. Just vote for us, that's all you need to do. Sorry to trouble you for your precious time.
But the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) certainly could at 60+Million members at growing. And lets face it, most of the young vibrant hackers are associated with higher education in American and European Universities. Most of which are liberal with a hint of Marxist ideology tied to the Ivory Tower culture (the strongest pronouncement was in the 1960s).
So I tell you. If anyone political organization with large sums of money to throw around can infiltrate LulzSec, it would be the CCP. The only think holding it back is the language barrier, but many CCP members already speak English out of the 60 million anyways.
If they're hot swappable, they could design a magazine clip system where as the old CPU gets ejected and a new one loaded into place. If they're going to view CPUs as a disposable commodity, there are more efficient ways.
OTOH, they could hire someone minimum wage to swap out blades and manually replace the chips while offline.
Is it not a waste of energy? Spending energy on creating a free monetary system is hardly a waste. Also, services necessary for the operation of currently widespread monetary systems, such as banks and credit card companies, also spend energy, arguably more than Bitcoin would.
I call BS! It's certainly a waste of energy.
Why don't we use calculations that are also useful for some other purpose? To provide security for the Bitcoin network, the calculations involved need to have some very specific features. These features are incompatible with leveraging the computation for other purposes.
Certainly they could encapsulate those "specific features" within the data stream and be stripped back off when importing the data for research. Right? That may or may not be possible depending on the premise and foundation of the protocol. But it doesn't seem like they even wanted to make the attempt here.
It's much worse. It's pushing the value of time and energy over to other commodities needed to power the servers. Think coal and natural gas power generation. We simply don't have the renewables in place to offset and eventually lower the cost per kw. That will tens of years if anything. If instead it was crunching numbers for research such as Folding@Home, I can see human value in that. But to pull megawatts of power to essentially run a scam is really bad. Of course, one could say the same for the high frequency trading server infrastructure as well.
I though so. At least in the field of geo-science, it's the geologists who use full software suites to prepare interpretation data. However, it's the geo-science engineers whom use a half dozen obscure tiny programs specifically to crunch the numbers. If I had to make a wild guess, I'm thinking the same hold true for aerospace, automotive, and architectural design.
If I'm getting this right, scientists view software as nothing more than a specialized calculator. They don't want a program that spoon-feeds them information let alone set the premise for how data should be calculated and organized.
Programmers on the other hand feel the opposite and think their users should do nothing more than input data and record the results. The research being already incorporated into the software and all that.
Uhuh, sure. That will be enforced. And Social Security Numbers aren't supposed to be used for public identification of citizens either. Financial institutions often require the number to run a credit check or to reset the password at the myfico.com website. It's often used to verify account holders when speaking to a TSR or CSR of your local cable/phone provider. Though they don't require it as long as you have your account number handy.
No, this law is one of those wink-wink-nod-nod kind of things. You can genetically profile anyone just as long as you don't admit to doing it.
I'm sure they know this well in advance, but actively choose not to mention it. The idea being that should this investment take off, you can tackle that other problem later. No need to deal with it now.
Ya, it's a short-sided view of it all but nothing unusual in practice with any large and new deployment of technology. Take Nuclear for example. We all know what it can provide and the huge potential for its future. But maintenance cost and safety inspections can get rather expensive.
Don't worry, the Department of Homeland Security will propose that all software developers have to be certified with an engineering like degree which ties back to a federal oath you must take. You will be held accountable but also have job security. Oh, and tuition for proper training will exceed $100,000.
Wanna code, you gotta be rich. You'll be less likely to be a terrorist anyways right? Oh, and all non-certified programming is illegal punishable as a felony and a trip to prison.
You think I'm joking? That's the future we have to look forward too. That, and the Government is looking to expand its influence in all matters that shape society (as it always has done).
The fall of Rome redux. It's bread and circuses from now on.
I really should live out on a rural plot of land with a garden and guns-n-ammo stashed in a secret location. If the entire nation falls a part, I'm not going to feel very safe...at all.
I've been told that we cannot police the world. I've been told that America must not project its power, culture, and philosophy. To do so isn't politically correct and that all cultures are of equal value. As such, we should scuttle the US Navy and send out troops home. All money and power should be given to Hollywood and the Ivory Tower elites. How DARE YOU question their nuanced and sophisticated intelligence! -end sarcasm-
He should have gone all out and played pharaoh. With that kind of cash, he could practically re-create the ancient Egyptian pharaoh quest to build the largest pyramid on Earth. The rules are as follow.
1. Must be made with the same materials and techniques 2. Must use the strongest men by the thousands to manually cut and move the stone blocks into place. 3. There must be a throne to sit upon and watch all the men sweat profusely at high-noon.
Bonus: 72 virgins stand in line to give him a blowjob while he observes his little kingdom being built (until the money runs out).
Hey, he can mix the cultures up if he wants to. It's his party.
Of course. But how china is governed is a far cry from the communism it used to be shortly after the cultural revolution. Now, if you want to see real Marxist ideology in action today, I direct your attention to North Korea. Now that's a hell-hole. Cuba isn't that far behind either. Their healthcare system is an abject joke too.
Yes, but that's because the government is both corrupt and tyrannical. It has nothing to do with marxist ideology. In fact, it's more fascist than anything being that many CCP members have direct ties with nationalized corporations. In any event, don't expect the Chinese to economically slit their own throat via costly environmental and safety laws. That, and many Chinese in the major cities are well educated with a vast labor pool. For many in China, it's truly the Wild Wild East. For the rest of us, it's the place to do business regardless of the risks.
Good to know. I've got an Intel X-25m 120GB SSD (model: SSDSA2M120G2GC) for my MacBook. I bought it a few months ago and was shipped with the latest firmware. And while 10.6.8 should support TRIM as you've said, it in fact disabled my little hack.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the future Apple locks down the hardware upgrades entirely. I could see them doing something as low as using hardware encryption to verify all hardware is certified at POST. No pass, no boot.
If you have a large object locked in a stable orbit around a star, and it too has a moon; to me that qualifies as a planet. Give Pluto back its former title please.
Expert Exchange is annoying because of how it's page ranked. But the site does offer solutions to those strange one-off technical issues. I don't mind the fact it's a paid subscription as it keeps the trolls out, but I'm sure as hell not going to spend 12 bucks a month (or 100 a year) some a service I would rarely use. OTOH, maybe I can get my company to purchase a subscription for all of us in the office. Hmmm
Many months ago, I found a utility that enabled TRIM in Snow Leopard for my Intel SSD. At the time, I was running 10.6.7. Once 10.6.8 update got installed, Apple overwrote the settings so that TRIM got disabled again. I had to re-enable it with the same utility. It's still enabled btw.
I'm going to guess that Apple from a support policy, not technical, will refuse to enable TRIM for all non-Apple branded SSD drives. Perhaps they don't want to be blamed from loss of data and corruption, so they take the side of caution with hardware they don't directly control. So that would be my guess anyways. Can anyone confirm is this is still the case with Lion? If so, will Groth's utility still work?
"An appropriate balance of NAND, DRAM, and an HDD yields superior performance per dollar to a simple DRAM/HDD system,"
Basically, TFA is saying that it will be awhile before we go back to a unified cache that's both RAM and storage (like core memory). Need more RAM, shrink the drive partition. Need more file storage, sacrifice RAM. It all sounds good in theory, but bus speeds and CPU technology change rapidly. I seriously doubt they can create a standardized I/O bus for removable NAND based storage devices and still keep up with future performance demands.
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It's because Pakistan has nuclear weapons that we continue to pay bribe money to them. We don't trust Pakistan. They're our enemy. Yet we know a few were protecting Bin Laden; to the point of tipping him off should we mention to them well in advance of the mission. Worse yet, if we don't keep supplying them money, the entire regime could collapse sending control of their nuclear weapons in the hands of.... Well, lets just say it would be a situation that would go from bad to worse.
You just can't say that though. It's so Un-PC of a thing to say. No politician would never in a million-bajillion years point the finger toward their voters as the source of the problem. Oh no, it could never be a cultural issue. But we sure could improve our teen daycare system if we only had more money. Not to worry parents, we have the problem solved. Just vote for us, that's all you need to do. Sorry to trouble you for your precious time.
But the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) certainly could at 60+Million members at growing. And lets face it, most of the young vibrant hackers are associated with higher education in American and European Universities. Most of which are liberal with a hint of Marxist ideology tied to the Ivory Tower culture (the strongest pronouncement was in the 1960s).
So I tell you. If anyone political organization with large sums of money to throw around can infiltrate LulzSec, it would be the CCP. The only think holding it back is the language barrier, but many CCP members already speak English out of the 60 million anyways.
If they're hot swappable, they could design a magazine clip system where as the old CPU gets ejected and a new one loaded into place. If they're going to view CPUs as a disposable commodity, there are more efficient ways.
OTOH, they could hire someone minimum wage to swap out blades and manually replace the chips while offline.
Per the Bitcoin FAQ
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Is_it_not_a_waste_of_energy.3F
I call BS! It's certainly a waste of energy.
Certainly they could encapsulate those "specific features" within the data stream and be stripped back off when importing the data for research. Right? That may or may not be possible depending on the premise and foundation of the protocol. But it doesn't seem like they even wanted to make the attempt here.
It's much worse. It's pushing the value of time and energy over to other commodities needed to power the servers. Think coal and natural gas power generation. We simply don't have the renewables in place to offset and eventually lower the cost per kw. That will tens of years if anything. If instead it was crunching numbers for research such as Folding@Home, I can see human value in that. But to pull megawatts of power to essentially run a scam is really bad. Of course, one could say the same for the high frequency trading server infrastructure as well.
Yes, I know that. But I would have loved to see one of the best MP3 encoders thrown into the mix.
What, no comparison with LAME? How lame.
I though so. At least in the field of geo-science, it's the geologists who use full software suites to prepare interpretation data. However, it's the geo-science engineers whom use a half dozen obscure tiny programs specifically to crunch the numbers. If I had to make a wild guess, I'm thinking the same hold true for aerospace, automotive, and architectural design.
If I'm getting this right, scientists view software as nothing more than a specialized calculator. They don't want a program that spoon-feeds them information let alone set the premise for how data should be calculated and organized.
Programmers on the other hand feel the opposite and think their users should do nothing more than input data and record the results. The research being already incorporated into the software and all that.
Uhuh, sure. That will be enforced. And Social Security Numbers aren't supposed to be used for public identification of citizens either. Financial institutions often require the number to run a credit check or to reset the password at the myfico.com website. It's often used to verify account holders when speaking to a TSR or CSR of your local cable/phone provider. Though they don't require it as long as you have your account number handy.
No, this law is one of those wink-wink-nod-nod kind of things. You can genetically profile anyone just as long as you don't admit to doing it.
I'm sure they know this well in advance, but actively choose not to mention it. The idea being that should this investment take off, you can tackle that other problem later. No need to deal with it now.
Ya, it's a short-sided view of it all but nothing unusual in practice with any large and new deployment of technology. Take Nuclear for example. We all know what it can provide and the huge potential for its future. But maintenance cost and safety inspections can get rather expensive.
Don't worry, the Department of Homeland Security will propose that all software developers have to be certified with an engineering like degree which ties back to a federal oath you must take. You will be held accountable but also have job security. Oh, and tuition for proper training will exceed $100,000.
Wanna code, you gotta be rich. You'll be less likely to be a terrorist anyways right? Oh, and all non-certified programming is illegal punishable as a felony and a trip to prison.
You think I'm joking? That's the future we have to look forward too. That, and the Government is looking to expand its influence in all matters that shape society (as it always has done).
Na, it would be like that computer virus scene from the movie Swordfish. Tell the DoD that, you've got yourself a contract to bank on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO_O4AD1MhI
The fall of Rome redux. It's bread and circuses from now on.
I really should live out on a rural plot of land with a garden and guns-n-ammo stashed in a secret location. If the entire nation falls a part, I'm not going to feel very safe...at all.
I've been told that we cannot police the world. I've been told that America must not project its power, culture, and philosophy. To do so isn't politically correct and that all cultures are of equal value. As such, we should scuttle the US Navy and send out troops home. All money and power should be given to Hollywood and the Ivory Tower elites. How DARE YOU question their nuanced and sophisticated intelligence! -end sarcasm-
He should have gone all out and played pharaoh. With that kind of cash, he could practically re-create the ancient Egyptian pharaoh quest to build the largest pyramid on Earth. The rules are as follow.
1. Must be made with the same materials and techniques
2. Must use the strongest men by the thousands to manually cut and move the stone blocks into place.
3. There must be a throne to sit upon and watch all the men sweat profusely at high-noon.
Bonus: 72 virgins stand in line to give him a blowjob while he observes his little kingdom being built (until the money runs out).
Hey, he can mix the cultures up if he wants to. It's his party.
Of course. But how china is governed is a far cry from the communism it used to be shortly after the cultural revolution. Now, if you want to see real Marxist ideology in action today, I direct your attention to North Korea. Now that's a hell-hole. Cuba isn't that far behind either. Their healthcare system is an abject joke too.
Yes, but that's because the government is both corrupt and tyrannical. It has nothing to do with marxist ideology. In fact, it's more fascist than anything being that many CCP members have direct ties with nationalized corporations. In any event, don't expect the Chinese to economically slit their own throat via costly environmental and safety laws. That, and many Chinese in the major cities are well educated with a vast labor pool. For many in China, it's truly the Wild Wild East. For the rest of us, it's the place to do business regardless of the risks.
Good to know. I've got an Intel X-25m 120GB SSD (model: SSDSA2M120G2GC) for my MacBook. I bought it a few months ago and was shipped with the latest firmware. And while 10.6.8 should support TRIM as you've said, it in fact disabled my little hack.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the future Apple locks down the hardware upgrades entirely. I could see them doing something as low as using hardware encryption to verify all hardware is certified at POST. No pass, no boot.
If you have a large object locked in a stable orbit around a star, and it too has a moon; to me that qualifies as a planet. Give Pluto back its former title please.
Expert Exchange is annoying because of how it's page ranked. But the site does offer solutions to those strange one-off technical issues. I don't mind the fact it's a paid subscription as it keeps the trolls out, but I'm sure as hell not going to spend 12 bucks a month (or 100 a year) some a service I would rarely use. OTOH, maybe I can get my company to purchase a subscription for all of us in the office. Hmmm
Many months ago, I found a utility that enabled TRIM in Snow Leopard for my Intel SSD. At the time, I was running 10.6.7. Once 10.6.8 update got installed, Apple overwrote the settings so that TRIM got disabled again. I had to re-enable it with the same utility. It's still enabled btw.
I'm going to guess that Apple from a support policy, not technical, will refuse to enable TRIM for all non-Apple branded SSD drives. Perhaps they don't want to be blamed from loss of data and corruption, so they take the side of caution with hardware they don't directly control. So that would be my guess anyways. Can anyone confirm is this is still the case with Lion? If so, will Groth's utility still work?
BTW, here is the direct link to the utility and developer in question. http://www.groths.org/?page_id=322
You may be thinking of thinking of MRAM or its cousin RRAM.
"An appropriate balance of NAND, DRAM, and an HDD yields superior performance per dollar to a simple DRAM/HDD system,"
Basically, TFA is saying that it will be awhile before we go back to a unified cache that's both RAM and storage (like core memory). Need more RAM, shrink the drive partition. Need more file storage, sacrifice RAM. It all sounds good in theory, but bus speeds and CPU technology change rapidly. I seriously doubt they can create a standardized I/O bus for removable NAND based storage devices and still keep up with future performance demands.