exactly. typical nannystatery, looking to solve a problem that does not exist with a government sponsored effort. And who for a moment doesn't think that this would carry advantages for the 3 letter boys and girls?
It might be highly amusing to expose people for the technocrack addicts that they are. Oh my god! My phone won't work, what ever shall I do?!? Let me just curl up into a ball under this park bench until its working again.
No, its not. They are not preventing you from getting any of these titles directly from the publisher or from another source. Were they to do so, then *that* would be censorship.
how about it being a good business decision? If they are the only ones with the info then they can pick and chose the moment at which it will be of maxium value. Journalism/publishing is not a philantropy..
Thats a wonderful soapbox speech which has nothing at all to do with supercomputers or the issue at hand. Linpack is no longer the most relevant benchmark and just as we saw in benchmarks for video cards, the system can be gamed to show exceptional performance on the benchmark while failiing to live up to that same standard on real world work. For instance, current and near term systems from IBM are exceptional and place more emphasis on memory bandwidth and power use than just pure compute ability. Focusing just on Linpac is similar to just focusing on clock speed. There are a number of new benchmarks being developed which attempt to quantify performance other than solving sets of dense linear equations.
Please try again ok? What you are talking about is prevalent at all levels of urban development. Abatements and giveaways = regulatory relief and tax breaks. Check on the deals given to developers to build shopping centers, office parks, etc. Are you going to put the same income cap on them?
Please define what part of the infrastruture they have failed to improve? Are you on another planet? I was lucky to have an ISDN line in the late 90s before getting a whopping 368K dsl line at the turn. I now have 20/5 fiber. At my vacation home I have 4/1 service and am at a significant distance from the dslam. They are upgrading service to put in more fiber and where they have residents are getting over 12M. This is in a very rural area.
You speak of costs rising for the end user. Have they? Based on what metric and were you expecting that the cost to end users would drop to 0? From what I see low end offerings remain around $20/mo and higher end are $60 with choices inbetween. That seems pretty constant to my recollection of the past decade and speeds have done nothing but go up.
They gave regulatory concessions. And last I checked, there are multiple fiber networks across this country, many local rings and they are provided by telecos, cable companies and others. Did you miss these improvements? Or are we still running on narrow band copper long haul lines with 56k dial up access?
The larger issue is why was DHS involved instead of the local sherrif? If I have a business dispute and am allowed by the court to sieze property in a warehouse I get the local sherrif to enforce the order and pay him his fee. Once again corporatism at the federal level results in misuse of government enforcement powers.
you have a narrow view of the internet. does your traffic go over the nsfnet? or any (d)arpa network? Or does it go over abovenet? sprint? etc? Did the government fund the build out of FIOS? Or perhaps they paid for the Cablevisions network?
Likewise you have no clue about profits as shown by your comment. Suppose they invested $10B? Is making $1B after tax obsene given that this is a business and not a supposedly 'risk free' government bond? Should they only be allowed to make $0.1B (1%?) Do you honestly think there would be a business in that case?
as it is the corporations who have built the internet why should they not control it? people can vote with their wallet and other competitors, wired or otherwise, can emerge.
Bertolucci says that there are also political reasons to extend the run. The world's second most powerful accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, is nipping at the LHC's heels, and if it continues to run, might beat the larger accelerator to the Higgs.
That says all you need to know. And FNAL data seem to point to a lighter higgs, not the heavier which is easier for LHC to find quickly. They need time to accumulate data and the orginal timeline might not have been good enough for a light higgs.
If a 'problem' exists and is deemed to be of such low priority that nobody bothers to 'correct' or 'solve' it for 50 years than its probably something not worth fixing and is at best a mild annoyance.
You cancer analogy is flawed as that is a) a serious problem and b) people have been trying to find solutions for it since the problem was known.
Real problems - whatever realmn they fall in - have people working on solutions. Annoyances may or may not, depending on just how annoying they are and the cost to remedy.
I was about to post that this group does not strike me as a power house in nuclear research in particular heavy elements. Ultimately as wiki points out, this will be tested by others and I suspect the outcome probably the same. If not, kudos to their team.
If its been nearly 50 years then it ain't that big of a problem. This is not only a waste of congressional time but now we will have to eat the cost of review and enforcement. Great. Especially as some TV's have automatic volume control which addresses this kind of 'problem'. Go buy one if you are that bothered by loud commercials and don't saddle the rest of the country with the costs to protect your delicate ear drums.
all the Candian jokes are nice and all.. but this really was about trying to make people think CERN is the only thing going on in HEP or nuclear physics. Not so, and this is not a first as RHIC was there first. Glad to see CERN is catching up though.
Yawn.. and I say thanks as an American taxpayer that RHIC was first.. hopefully the eurocrats won't kill themselves if national lab gets the Higgs too.
backscatter machines are useless in detecting anything beyond knives and guns which are already pretty well done by the existing metal detectors. These machines are just a boondoggle for the industrial-security comlex. They do nothing to enhance anyone's safety.
When I had knee surgery it was a challenge to walk on crutches, not to mention open doors. Yet I did not go seeking funds from the government to build me a ramp and auto-opening door to my home. I did not curse out the store owners who had traditional doors which required extra effort on my part or a helping hand by a passerby. I did not feel it was anyones obligation to help me and that is the crux of the matter here.
What seems to be implied in this whole argument is that handicapped persons just sat home and did nothing prior to the recent government acts mandating the various forms of access assistance. They did not. They found ways and I'll be the first to say for some it was probably quite hard. Does this mean that a small store owner with a three step walk up must put in thousands of dollars they probably don't have to build a ramp for the likely few users and even fewer buyers who are handicapped?
On the other hand, a larger store - Walmart or some regional variant has the means and the economic interest to provide such access. As such they will see the business, not the mom and pop store.
I'm not against building curbs that make it easier for wheel chairs. Just dont rip up a perfectly good side walk to do so. When its time to replace because of age, do it then as it costs virtually nothing extra at that time.
So how much do you want out of my check book for their suffering? Will $100 do? or $10,000? I fail to see my obligation. As to the war vets, in theory we have assistance in place to reintegrate them as best possible as they were injured serving on behalf of the entire country which is starkly different than someone who is injured in an auto crash or from birth defect, etc.
And no, don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say handicapped people are worth less. I said they are not worth more.
to provide comfort for a very small minority. Call me cold hearted and cruel but I do not believe either individuals or busineses should be compelled to provide any assistance at all to the disabled. In effect the government is mandating that money be spent on 'compassion'. Let me decided how I wish to be compassionate and how much. Let business decide whether it is to their advantage to spend what are sometimes very large sums to provide easy access (off or online) to the disabled. Frankly the same applies to government spending. I don't want to see projects done that are soley for the purpose of providing some minority group with better access to facilities or services. If something new is built and these features can be added at no or limited extra cost, fine go for it. But don't rip down what is perfectly good to accomodate the very few at the expense of the very many.
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exactly. typical nannystatery, looking to solve a problem that does not exist with a government sponsored effort. And who for a moment doesn't think that this would carry advantages for the 3 letter boys and girls?
It might be highly amusing to expose people for the technocrack addicts that they are. Oh my god! My phone won't work, what ever shall I do?!? Let me just curl up into a ball under this park bench until its working again.
No, its not. They are not preventing you from getting any of these titles directly from the publisher or from another source. Were they to do so, then *that* would be censorship.
how about it being a good business decision? If they are the only ones with the info then they can pick and chose the moment at which it will be of maxium value. Journalism/publishing is not a philantropy..
you do realize the declaration of independence has no legal standing on anything at all?
Thats a wonderful soapbox speech which has nothing at all to do with supercomputers or the issue at hand. Linpack is no longer the most relevant benchmark and just as we saw in benchmarks for video cards, the system can be gamed to show exceptional performance on the benchmark while failiing to live up to that same standard on real world work. For instance, current and near term systems from IBM are exceptional and place more emphasis on memory bandwidth and power use than just pure compute ability. Focusing just on Linpac is similar to just focusing on clock speed. There are a number of new benchmarks being developed which attempt to quantify performance other than solving sets of dense linear equations.
See for instance graph500 or green500 or hpc challenge
Please try again ok? What you are talking about is prevalent at all levels of urban development. Abatements and giveaways = regulatory relief and tax breaks. Check on the deals given to developers to build shopping centers, office parks, etc. Are you going to put the same income cap on them?
Please define what part of the infrastruture they have failed to improve? Are you on another planet? I was lucky to have an ISDN line in the late 90s before getting a whopping 368K dsl line at the turn. I now have 20/5 fiber. At my vacation home I have 4/1 service and am at a significant distance from the dslam. They are upgrading service to put in more fiber and where they have residents are getting over 12M. This is in a very rural area.
You speak of costs rising for the end user. Have they? Based on what metric and were you expecting that the cost to end users would drop to 0? From what I see low end offerings remain around $20/mo and higher end are $60 with choices inbetween. That seems pretty constant to my recollection of the past decade and speeds have done nothing but go up.
Please give a reference to the number you claim for direct funding of the network build out by private companies.
They gave regulatory concessions. And last I checked, there are multiple fiber networks across this country, many local rings and they are provided by telecos, cable companies and others. Did you miss these improvements? Or are we still running on narrow band copper long haul lines with 56k dial up access?
The larger issue is why was DHS involved instead of the local sherrif? If I have a business dispute and am allowed by the court to sieze property in a warehouse I get the local sherrif to enforce the order and pay him his fee. Once again corporatism at the federal level results in misuse of government enforcement powers.
you have a narrow view of the internet. does your traffic go over the nsfnet? or any (d)arpa network? Or does it go over abovenet? sprint? etc? Did the government fund the build out of FIOS? Or perhaps they paid for the Cablevisions network? Likewise you have no clue about profits as shown by your comment. Suppose they invested $10B? Is making $1B after tax obsene given that this is a business and not a supposedly 'risk free' government bond? Should they only be allowed to make $0.1B (1%?) Do you honestly think there would be a business in that case?
as it is the corporations who have built the internet why should they not control it? people can vote with their wallet and other competitors, wired or otherwise, can emerge.
try harder next time: http://antitheft.intel.com/get-service.aspx
Bertolucci says that there are also political reasons to extend the run. The world's second most powerful accelerator, the Tevatron at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, is nipping at the LHC's heels, and if it continues to run, might beat the larger accelerator to the Higgs.
That says all you need to know. And FNAL data seem to point to a lighter higgs, not the heavier which is easier for LHC to find quickly. They need time to accumulate data and the orginal timeline might not have been good enough for a light higgs.
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If a 'problem' exists and is deemed to be of such low priority that nobody bothers to 'correct' or 'solve' it for 50 years than its probably something not worth fixing and is at best a mild annoyance. You cancer analogy is flawed as that is a) a serious problem and b) people have been trying to find solutions for it since the problem was known. Real problems - whatever realmn they fall in - have people working on solutions. Annoyances may or may not, depending on just how annoying they are and the cost to remedy.
I was about to post that this group does not strike me as a power house in nuclear research in particular heavy elements. Ultimately as wiki points out, this will be tested by others and I suspect the outcome probably the same. If not, kudos to their team.
If its been nearly 50 years then it ain't that big of a problem. This is not only a waste of congressional time but now we will have to eat the cost of review and enforcement. Great. Especially as some TV's have automatic volume control which addresses this kind of 'problem'. Go buy one if you are that bothered by loud commercials and don't saddle the rest of the country with the costs to protect your delicate ear drums.
all the Candian jokes are nice and all.. but this really was about trying to make people think CERN is the only thing going on in HEP or nuclear physics. Not so, and this is not a first as RHIC was there first. Glad to see CERN is catching up though.
Yawn.. and I say thanks as an American taxpayer that RHIC was first.. hopefully the eurocrats won't kill themselves if national lab gets the Higgs too.
backscatter machines are useless in detecting anything beyond knives and guns which are already pretty well done by the existing metal detectors. These machines are just a boondoggle for the industrial-security comlex. They do nothing to enhance anyone's safety.
When I had knee surgery it was a challenge to walk on crutches, not to mention open doors. Yet I did not go seeking funds from the government to build me a ramp and auto-opening door to my home. I did not curse out the store owners who had traditional doors which required extra effort on my part or a helping hand by a passerby. I did not feel it was anyones obligation to help me and that is the crux of the matter here. What seems to be implied in this whole argument is that handicapped persons just sat home and did nothing prior to the recent government acts mandating the various forms of access assistance. They did not. They found ways and I'll be the first to say for some it was probably quite hard. Does this mean that a small store owner with a three step walk up must put in thousands of dollars they probably don't have to build a ramp for the likely few users and even fewer buyers who are handicapped? On the other hand, a larger store - Walmart or some regional variant has the means and the economic interest to provide such access. As such they will see the business, not the mom and pop store. I'm not against building curbs that make it easier for wheel chairs. Just dont rip up a perfectly good side walk to do so. When its time to replace because of age, do it then as it costs virtually nothing extra at that time.
So how much do you want out of my check book for their suffering? Will $100 do? or $10,000? I fail to see my obligation. As to the war vets, in theory we have assistance in place to reintegrate them as best possible as they were injured serving on behalf of the entire country which is starkly different than someone who is injured in an auto crash or from birth defect, etc. And no, don't put words in my mouth. I didn't say handicapped people are worth less. I said they are not worth more.
Are you going to pay him for his time and effort to do all that you propose?
to provide comfort for a very small minority. Call me cold hearted and cruel but I do not believe either individuals or busineses should be compelled to provide any assistance at all to the disabled. In effect the government is mandating that money be spent on 'compassion'. Let me decided how I wish to be compassionate and how much. Let business decide whether it is to their advantage to spend what are sometimes very large sums to provide easy access (off or online) to the disabled. Frankly the same applies to government spending. I don't want to see projects done that are soley for the purpose of providing some minority group with better access to facilities or services. If something new is built and these features can be added at no or limited extra cost, fine go for it. But don't rip down what is perfectly good to accomodate the very few at the expense of the very many.