How is it incompetent for the Malawi government to stockpile food against famine? The incompetence or willful negligence was on the part of the IMF, stopping the government from taking reasonable steps to prevent its people from starving to death.
Stocking food has nothing to do with incompetence. That's not the issue, the incompetence is what caused the stocks to be sold.
Rest assured that government officials have in their pockets several times the amount of money they sold the stock for. And that they sold the stock first because it would hurt less 'their bottom line'. (Instead of cutting on government perks)
History shows that the single best thing that a country can do for its economy is to say "fuck you" to IMF and their financial advisers, as they have a proven track record of running economies into the ground.
The best thing is to not need the IMF. It's called because the country already messed up its economy. IMF is not good, it's like chemotherapy. But it's better than dying of cancer.
Sometimes, it takes a default to throw off those shackles. I'm not aware of countries being worse after a default and with IMF kicked out compared to those which didn't default and still pay the IMF racket (by following their guidelines).
I know what happens when a country defaults, since I live in one.
I used to live in a country which defaulted as well. It's doing much better since then, thank you very much.
Do I understand you correctly? Defaulting on debts is not an option even when the citizens of your country starve en masse, and said defaulting would bring a huge immediate relief, as in the case being reviewed here?
If you prefer your country to starve even more and for a longer period of time, go ahead and default.
Immediate relieve may be immediate, but it's for a very short period of time.
Do you work for IMF, by chance?
No, but I know math, and I know what happens when a country defaults, since I live in one.
Existence of a free and open source openCL renderer of professional quality would force closed source developers to develop GPU based renderers as well or lose customers.
The problem is not a lack of vision -- the problem is a lack of a strong competent leader.
For example, a group within Microsoft developed a tablet before Apple came out with the iPad. When the head of the division went to Ballmer for funding to bring the product to market Ballmer killed it. Why? Because the tablet ran a version of Windows and Microsoft's Windows group complained that the tablet group was infringing on "their territory". It's this type of thinking and management incompetence that has caused Microsoft's problems.
Exactly. If this was Jobs, not Ballmer, the Windows group would have been left with sore ears. (if not heads on a plate)
This is why MS is where it is (and Nokia before Elop). Petty politics. The way to solve it? Fire people.
There will ALWAYS be SOMEONE who will claim to be able to do the impossible.
True. But still, there are several variables outside of the sysadmin control. If IT does a decent job, these become the main cause of breaches (read: 0-day vulnerabilities). Then it's not really IT's fault.
Of course, if your employer is a bank and the CEO asks you to run internet facing IIS on the production DB server, run as fast as you can. But for different situations, a compromise can be made (appropriately shuffling services and protections).
Until then, the Bios is going to be patch after patch over an assembly code already way past its life and cobbled together from unrelated pieces by people that doesn't have the slightest idea about what's DSDT or test if the memory configurations are ok.
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ARM manufacturers are idiots
Intel gets open source, most ARM manufacturers don't.
Hence, most BSP rely on proprietary drivers, they don't have up-to-date support for devices in the mainline kernel, etc
Also, there's a lack of a 'standart platform', even though ARM is pretty much homogeneous
Things are beginning to change, still. And ARM is still miles ahead from SH, embedded MIPS, etc
Since you don't know the plaintext, it's impossible, even by bruteforce
In the case of Zip, you know some metadata (like zip headers) and I guess it uses known data from file formats or checksums
One is AES->Zip->Data, wikileaks is AES->??
This analogy works (if you think the GPU is around 500MHz/1GHz and the CPU is at 3GHz)
But I prefer the other way because for example, GPUs would probably suck at SQL, or parsing XML, whereas the CPU can just 'deals with it'
Of course, analogies are never perfect
In layman terms: The CPU is like a truck, the GPU like a Ferrari
One goes faster, but can't run on all kinds of terrain (data)
Well
J2ME was a mess and a failure
Android 'fixed' Java on mobile, at what cost?!
Now it risks going down the drain again!
And Oracle doesn't care about mobile. Oracle wants the multi-million JVM corporate supports
What happens is that storage space grows as well, minimizing the need of erasing data
True it may happen, but even with a cable, or over wifi locally, syncing 5gb per day is annoying.
How big are data caps?
How big is the content you have?
Netflix should worry, iCloud... not really.
E.g. I have 20Gb of MP3 files.
Btw I wonder if it all goes through iCloud or if, for example, I have my Mac and iPhone on the same network it syncs locally.
Good thing my password spells LOUD on the iPhone
Oh wait...
How is it incompetent for the Malawi government to stockpile food against famine? The incompetence or willful negligence was on the part of the IMF, stopping the government from taking reasonable steps to prevent its people from starving to death.
Stocking food has nothing to do with incompetence. That's not the issue, the incompetence is what caused the stocks to be sold.
Rest assured that government officials have in their pockets several times the amount of money they sold the stock for.
And that they sold the stock first because it would hurt less 'their bottom line'. (Instead of cutting on government perks)
See other comments for what probably happened.
History shows that the single best thing that a country can do for its economy is to say "fuck you" to IMF and their financial advisers, as they have a proven track record of running economies into the ground.
The best thing is to not need the IMF.
It's called because the country already messed up its economy. IMF is not good, it's like chemotherapy. But it's better than dying of cancer.
Sometimes, it takes a default to throw off those shackles. I'm not aware of countries being worse after a default and with IMF kicked out compared to those which didn't default and still pay the IMF racket (by following their guidelines).
I know what happens when a country defaults, since I live in one.
I used to live in a country which defaulted as well. It's doing much better since then, thank you very much.
Who will invest in a country that defaulted?
Do I understand you correctly? Defaulting on debts is not an option even when the citizens of your country starve en masse, and said defaulting would bring a huge immediate relief, as in the case being reviewed here?
If you prefer your country to starve even more and for a longer period of time, go ahead and default.
Immediate relieve may be immediate, but it's for a very short period of time.
Do you work for IMF, by chance?
No, but I know math, and I know what happens when a country defaults, since I live in one.
Great post. I guess this makes sense.
People complain about the IMF but they never question what led them needing the IMF in the first place.
Incompetent governments blaming it on someone else. Oldest trick in the book.
And btw, defaulting is not an option. The ONLY reason the US dollar still stands is that the US NEVER defaulted.
I disagree
I hope patent trolls keep pounding lawsuits against MS, hopefully for billions of dollars.
Only then MS will be convinced and set their congresscritters to change something
Meanwhile, they can cry me a river.
These are the same kind of morons that created 'IE6 only' sites when the professionals were discussing web standarts.
Please guys, die in a fire.
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Except some banks do issue an RSA Token to their customers
Not sure what they're going to do
Existence of a free and open source openCL renderer of professional quality would force closed source developers to develop GPU based renderers as well or lose customers.
Like this ? http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/gelato.html
Don't kid yourself, true professionals use the professional/closed source solution
Don't get me wrong, Blender kicks ass (while has its warts) but it's far (albeit not very) from 3DS/Maya/Cinema 4D
The problem is not a lack of vision -- the problem is a lack of a strong competent leader.
For example, a group within Microsoft developed a tablet before Apple came out with the iPad. When the head of the division went to Ballmer for funding to bring the product to market Ballmer killed it. Why? Because the tablet ran a version of Windows and Microsoft's Windows group complained that the tablet group was infringing on "their territory". It's this type of thinking and management incompetence that has caused Microsoft's problems.
Exactly. If this was Jobs, not Ballmer, the Windows group would have been left with sore ears. (if not heads on a plate)
This is why MS is where it is (and Nokia before Elop). Petty politics. The way to solve it? Fire people.
Ballmer's attitude there reflects incompetence.
Well, I dunno, I know a lot of people that use asterisk.
I mean, it's on everybody's keyboard, see -> *
WTF has Einstein to do with this?!
Of course studies of dark energy are deeply conneted to general relativity. But don't throw names like you pretend you know what you are doing.
This is becoming ridiculous, this is like "Well, I drove 100Mi at 50MPH and it took 2 hours, looks like Newton is right again"
There will ALWAYS be SOMEONE who will claim to be able to do the impossible.
True. But still, there are several variables outside of the sysadmin control. If IT does a decent job, these become the main cause of breaches (read: 0-day vulnerabilities). Then it's not really IT's fault.
Of course, if your employer is a bank and the CEO asks you to run internet facing IIS on the production DB server, run as fast as you can. But for different situations, a compromise can be made (appropriately shuffling services and protections).
Geez, really
It's your job to make it work. Yes, make the CEO access his apps MINIMIZING safety issues
If you can't do it somebody else will.
Yes, you can find yourself another job.
The implication being that those "new workers" will be worth the additional considerations.
keep telling you that...
Correct
but what you miss is: Is the advantage of alienating your workers worth your productivity?
If you're happy with only doofuses working for you then go ahead.
So you can be married and not married at the same time
Exactly
Until then, the Bios is going to be patch after patch over an assembly code already way past its life and
cobbled together from unrelated pieces by people that doesn't have the slightest idea about what's DSDT or test if the memory
configurations are ok.