This is sort of scary to me. It is as though we're living in the age of SkyNet yet most of us don't know it.
And yet, for most people, just what would be the difference between Skynet and the current order? A coldly rational computer isn't going to start a world war, since that would destroy the very infrastructure that feeds it, while humans have done so twice and come darn close to starting a third one multiple times. So, should Skynet take over, would most people even notice?
I do hope that Mr. McAfee is treated fairly by the Belizean authorities, and that his concerns of abuse and torture at their hands is simply an irrational fear.
Such fears, be they rational or irrational, rise some questions about why he moved to and stayed in Belize in the first place, especially after being arrested once already. Did he, for example, attempt to evade the taxes necessary to maintain the society ordered and relatively free of corruption? And if the answer would happen to be "yes", then having such fears is simply the price to pay.
Such a colony on Mars, especially small ones, will anyway be a perfect anarchy/communist type of organisation. They're too small to have anything that resembles a government.
We already have isolated and technology-dependent societies like that. Ships at sea, for example. Simply think of a Mars colony as a nuclear submarine with no way out, and you're not far off.
Mars could be a hedge against disaster. But maybe not a very good one. There's really no reason why a nuclear war on Earth couldn't reach Mars as well. And humanity on Mars would no doubt be far more fragile. The harder problem is not moving ourselves there, it's establishing our environment. Likely there would be millions of species we could never establish on Mars in any kind of "natural" self sustaining fashion. If we brought them to Mars at all, they'd have to stay in greenhouses and zoos. Not that we'd be much better off ourselves on that point.
All of which rises a question: why anchor those zoos on Mars? Build huge space stations, make them mobile with solar sails, and let them roam the Solar System. You get asteroid mining, you get solar collectors, you get comfortable in-system transportation, you get high chances of at least some of them being outside nuke range should a war break out - and if you build a colony from hollowed-out asteroid, it could well shrug off a direct hit from a nuke. And of course such a colony would be in a perfect position for research and later interstellar exploration.
Why chain yourself to a planet when that planet offers very little benefit?
Because the younger you are, the longer you can work, which is important when sending you in the first place is so expensive. And this is ignoring the need to care for the retiree and simply assumes they'll march off the airlock when they're too feeble to work - but of course you can't actually do so or the morale collapses, and with it the entire colony.
No. I simply didn't add: "or in the case of running it in an interpreter it won't run."
It might, it might not. Since printf is part of standard C library, it almost certainly would.
In the C programming community, we don't mention C interpreters unless we are indeed using them for some reason, since they are not the standard way C is used by any stretch of the imagination.
The de facto standard way is to use a single program that compiles and links the program, and includes standard libraries into the link state by default, resulting in printf being resolved just fine.
It's a skill set that's very similar to that required to learn assembly optimization. What I mean by that... where you move invariants outside loops, where they only get computed once; while the stuff that actually needs to change constantly is in the inner loop.
Does microkernel architecture necessarily require context switches? Write the userspace components in Java or other managed language and run them in kernel threads at Ring 0. You might get a small penalty in code execution time, but get rid of the context switches while still keeping the processes separate.
compile, but it won't link, ergo it's not a valid program.
Your earlier assertion that C programs can be run in an interpreter without compiling seems to contradict your current assertion that C programs must be compiled and linked before execution.
Because you're some sort of Advanced Brony and are trying to proselytize me? I think that was the context...
The context was a debate whether or not teaching your children who's the best pony constitutes abuse. Then somebody suggested that people who keep on talking about what a shitty show it is might not be that different from and at the very least no less annoying than rabid bronies, which got the parent upset and made him talk about unicorns.
A typical religion-related thread, in other words.
Hitler got into politics because his art was rejected. At least near the end he saw his reign in terms of art - namely, a classic tragedy. The culture of Nazi Germany was largely based on artistic choices and has ever since been an inexhaustible well for other artists. In fact, the very Star Wars itself draws a major source of inspiration from there, from the very concept of an evil empire worshipping the Dark Side to the aesthetics of space battles.
Hitler had a far greater effect on the art world than Lucas could ever even dream of. And with the generation that actually went through World War II, you just know he's on his way to become this.
Back when Episode 1 was released on DVD, one of the behind the scenes things had George Lucas saying that "Jar-jar is the key to all this" or something like that.
That's because Jar-Jar is actually Darth Plagueis, Sidious's master and Anakin's father. It's revealed in the Limited Remastered Extended Edition. Which is Fridge Brilliance, really: why does Anakin act so akwardly? He doesn't, really, it just seems that way because he's half alien and so half his body language goes whoosh over our heads. Portraying the inhumanity so well is actually quite ingenious work by Hayden Christensen.
Episodes 7-9 will be all about Jar-Jar/Darth Plagueis, the real Big Bad of the series, resurfacing and getting serious. "Meesa think yoosa gonna die now."
It's the Marxist mindset. That shit doesn't just get erased from culture overnight. It will drag on until its last gasping breath in fact.
"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." Joseph Stalin
And as you and all the other posters blaming anything bad on Marxism, communism, socialism, unions, etc. demonstrate, brainwashing works perfectly well for capitalist ends too. Perhaps even better, because you can appeal to people's pride - everyone is better than average at their job, the same as everyone's a better than average driver - to get them to work against their own interests.
And no, "that shit" is never going to be erased from any culture, because it's far too useful for whoever has or desires power. Feed people the right mixture of daydreams and nightmares, and there's little if anything you can't get them to do, allow, or ignore. But at least no one will ever lack scapegoats to blame for their troubles.
But one day I realized that I need to get things done, switched the MySQL. The learning curve was small but the main kicker was that things just worked and easily reworked. There are risks, limitations, and problems. It's very imperfect but I get things done now... and never have or care to think about the purist philosophies with which I used to love to indulge in.
So what things can you do easily in MySQL that you had trouble doing in PostgreSQL? Details, please.
Now he know so much more and has tons of backing from heavy weight organizations and money but cannot seem to even force the success of the Semantic Web. It's hard to learn and hard to work with even when you learn it. Furthermore, it's not obvious to most what cool or useful things you can do with it.
The reason "Semantic Web" is not catching on is that it is contrary to commercial interests: the most basic function of SW is to filter out irrelevant crap from searches, while the most basic desire of an advertiser is to have his irrelevant crap to show up in every search. SW assumes that the Web is a library where the goal is to match people up with the information they're looking for, while in reality it's a bazaar where every merchant is trying to shout louder than everyone else to peddle their crap to passersby.
Using a database (or any product) very effectively often has little or not translation into working on the guts of the product.
While using a product obviously does not give you technical expertise about its guts, it does give you insight into what works and what doesn't. In practical terms, this could translate into special-case optimizing some often-used SQL constructs like "ORDER BY random() LIMIT x".
From the Wikipedia page, it seems like a document store could be built on top of a standard relational database with middleware that alters the schema as needed, and it should even be pretty fast. How significant is the advantage of using a dedicated document store, especially given that relational databases have decades of head start in optimization?
Actually, that isn't true for any smartphone if you do the math.
It is true for anything that can be insured. After all, the insurance company must pay the claims and the dividends from the premiums, thus the average person must pay more in premiums than he gets from claims.
Note that insurance can still be mutually beneficial for the insurer and insured due to the difference in their capital: what's catastrophic loss for the latter is just a bookkeeping detail for the former, allowing the insured to convert a small chance of a disaster to a regular non-ruinous payment. However, the price of a smartphone is not catastrophic loss for its intended target audience, so taking an insurance for one doesn't make sense and offering it starts crossing into scam territory.
Obviously you're limited as to how much higher the pumps can be, but you can draw fuel a fair bit upwards on vacuum (maybe 20 feet?). If you're allowed to send pressurized air down the vent you could put the pumps up higher - I'm not sure what the laws are around that.
Or you could locate the pumps down in the basement and the motors near the generators, and use an old-fashioned driveshaft to transfer power. You could even run the driveshaft through the fuel line itself, allowing for a hermetically sealed tank system with unlimited pumping height.
Actually, wouldn't that be extremely easy to debug? Just have the custom allocator pad with 8 extra bytes, and see if everything suddenly starts magically working.
With children, it's probably better to volunteer time over money so they get to see the effect it has on others.
And by volunteering you mean being ordered to, teaching said children to "like" it just as much as they will any other chore.
Or you could simply practice generosity at your own expense, from the funds you had earmarked for purchasing books or games or wine or whatever, rather than from a kid's gift funds. You know, that whole "teach by example" thing?
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And yet, for most people, just what would be the difference between Skynet and the current order? A coldly rational computer isn't going to start a world war, since that would destroy the very infrastructure that feeds it, while humans have done so twice and come darn close to starting a third one multiple times. So, should Skynet take over, would most people even notice?
Such fears, be they rational or irrational, rise some questions about why he moved to and stayed in Belize in the first place, especially after being arrested once already. Did he, for example, attempt to evade the taxes necessary to maintain the society ordered and relatively free of corruption? And if the answer would happen to be "yes", then having such fears is simply the price to pay.
We already have isolated and technology-dependent societies like that. Ships at sea, for example. Simply think of a Mars colony as a nuclear submarine with no way out, and you're not far off.
All of which rises a question: why anchor those zoos on Mars? Build huge space stations, make them mobile with solar sails, and let them roam the Solar System. You get asteroid mining, you get solar collectors, you get comfortable in-system transportation, you get high chances of at least some of them being outside nuke range should a war break out - and if you build a colony from hollowed-out asteroid, it could well shrug off a direct hit from a nuke. And of course such a colony would be in a perfect position for research and later interstellar exploration.
Why chain yourself to a planet when that planet offers very little benefit?
Because the younger you are, the longer you can work, which is important when sending you in the first place is so expensive. And this is ignoring the need to care for the retiree and simply assumes they'll march off the airlock when they're too feeble to work - but of course you can't actually do so or the morale collapses, and with it the entire colony.
Stop doing that then. A get rich fast scheme is hardly worth your life.
It might, it might not. Since printf is part of standard C library, it almost certainly would.
The de facto standard way is to use a single program that compiles and links the program, and includes standard libraries into the link state by default, resulting in printf being resolved just fine.
Just an argument that's flat-out false.
I did, thanks. You seem to be having a bad one.
You're talking about common subexpression elimination, which is usually automated and has nothing to do with assembly specifically. It's also not what people generally think when they heard "assembly optimization".
Well, since you seem to like doing by hand what the computer could easily do automatedly, I have to agree.
Unless you're late on payments.
Does microkernel architecture necessarily require context switches? Write the userspace components in Java or other managed language and run them in kernel threads at Ring 0. You might get a small penalty in code execution time, but get rid of the context switches while still keeping the processes separate.
Your earlier assertion that C programs can be run in an interpreter without compiling seems to contradict your current assertion that C programs must be compiled and linked before execution.
The context was a debate whether or not teaching your children who's the best pony constitutes abuse. Then somebody suggested that people who keep on talking about what a shitty show it is might not be that different from and at the very least no less annoying than rabid bronies, which got the parent upset and made him talk about unicorns.
A typical religion-related thread, in other words.
Well, yes. Why else would you be telling me about it?
Hitler got into politics because his art was rejected. At least near the end he saw his reign in terms of art - namely, a classic tragedy. The culture of Nazi Germany was largely based on artistic choices and has ever since been an inexhaustible well for other artists. In fact, the very Star Wars itself draws a major source of inspiration from there, from the very concept of an evil empire worshipping the Dark Side to the aesthetics of space battles.
Hitler had a far greater effect on the art world than Lucas could ever even dream of. And with the generation that actually went through World War II, you just know he's on his way to become this.
That's because Jar-Jar is actually Darth Plagueis, Sidious's master and Anakin's father. It's revealed in the Limited Remastered Extended Edition. Which is Fridge Brilliance, really: why does Anakin act so akwardly? He doesn't, really, it just seems that way because he's half alien and so half his body language goes whoosh over our heads. Portraying the inhumanity so well is actually quite ingenious work by Hayden Christensen.
Episodes 7-9 will be all about Jar-Jar/Darth Plagueis, the real Big Bad of the series, resurfacing and getting serious. "Meesa think yoosa gonna die now."
By that metric, the greatest artist of all time was Adolf Hitler.
And as you and all the other posters blaming anything bad on Marxism, communism, socialism, unions, etc. demonstrate, brainwashing works perfectly well for capitalist ends too. Perhaps even better, because you can appeal to people's pride - everyone is better than average at their job, the same as everyone's a better than average driver - to get them to work against their own interests.
And no, "that shit" is never going to be erased from any culture, because it's far too useful for whoever has or desires power. Feed people the right mixture of daydreams and nightmares, and there's little if anything you can't get them to do, allow, or ignore. But at least no one will ever lack scapegoats to blame for their troubles.
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So what things can you do easily in MySQL that you had trouble doing in PostgreSQL? Details, please.
The reason "Semantic Web" is not catching on is that it is contrary to commercial interests: the most basic function of SW is to filter out irrelevant crap from searches, while the most basic desire of an advertiser is to have his irrelevant crap to show up in every search. SW assumes that the Web is a library where the goal is to match people up with the information they're looking for, while in reality it's a bazaar where every merchant is trying to shout louder than everyone else to peddle their crap to passersby.
While using a product obviously does not give you technical expertise about its guts, it does give you insight into what works and what doesn't. In practical terms, this could translate into special-case optimizing some often-used SQL constructs like "ORDER BY random() LIMIT x".
From the Wikipedia page, it seems like a document store could be built on top of a standard relational database with middleware that alters the schema as needed, and it should even be pretty fast. How significant is the advantage of using a dedicated document store, especially given that relational databases have decades of head start in optimization?
By this logic there is no good venue for reaching people. After all, if they already made up their minds, your message is just spam.
It is true for anything that can be insured. After all, the insurance company must pay the claims and the dividends from the premiums, thus the average person must pay more in premiums than he gets from claims.
Note that insurance can still be mutually beneficial for the insurer and insured due to the difference in their capital: what's catastrophic loss for the latter is just a bookkeeping detail for the former, allowing the insured to convert a small chance of a disaster to a regular non-ruinous payment. However, the price of a smartphone is not catastrophic loss for its intended target audience, so taking an insurance for one doesn't make sense and offering it starts crossing into scam territory.
Or you could locate the pumps down in the basement and the motors near the generators, and use an old-fashioned driveshaft to transfer power. You could even run the driveshaft through the fuel line itself, allowing for a hermetically sealed tank system with unlimited pumping height.
Actually, wouldn't that be extremely easy to debug? Just have the custom allocator pad with 8 extra bytes, and see if everything suddenly starts magically working.
And by volunteering you mean being ordered to, teaching said children to "like" it just as much as they will any other chore.
Or you could simply practice generosity at your own expense, from the funds you had earmarked for purchasing books or games or wine or whatever, rather than from a kid's gift funds. You know, that whole "teach by example" thing?
Nice rethoric, though.