I like the comparison halfway down where they wonder aloud who will win. It's obvious, they say, given Shredder's history that it'll win. Then they off the other possibility to the 'obvious', and rattle Hydra's saber.
Like our fat Zakdorn friend tells us, "how you perform in a "mismatch" is precisely what interests Starfleet. After all -- when one is in the superior position, one is expected to win."
Since a good scheduler runs in constant time (O(1)), I don't imagine there really would be any efficiency advantage over a non-crippled version. If you have 3 programs running in a non-crippled version, and they're all being multitasked (all running at once) then the 'hit' on performance comes from switching contexts from one program to another. If you're switching once per tenth second, then you're paying for a context switch 10x per second. Now, in the crippled version, the exact same thing happens, no better or worse (well, performancewise).
If you've got 10 programs open, the cost of running them "all" multitasked still depends on how quickly you're switching contexts... does each program get 1/10th second, every second? or six seconds per minute? The less you switch contexts, the more processing is devoted to doing work at the application level.
Obligatory anti-microsoft sniping: Oh, unless you run 10 programs at once on a windows machine, then there's a performance 'hit' while you reboot (or install a better OS).
Just to play devils advocate, since technically there's a very small potential optimization to be had, what one could do for the crippleware version would be to make the scheduler smaller and dumber so it runs in an even smaller fraction of a second than it already does. Since this is so small an amount of time, it wouldn't even give you an extra fps on DoomIII, I doubt they did this. But hey, I hear Gates used to puff the magic dragon back in the Day, so you never know.
Yes professor Erbacher, I really did read the textbook.
Lead dev: Guys, Angela, we're got to get this XP Starter Edition finished. Where do we stand?
Dev A: We're on target with everything except the usual... the numerous bugs
Lead dev: Features, call them features..
Dev A: --features, we couldn't adapt are a security haz- er, configuration issue.
Lead dev: Okay, noted. Siramanthar?
Dev B: Marketing says the configuration issues will not greatly impede sales. But like all our releases, it leaks memory like a sieve. I've spent the last thirty straight days staring at teh debugger... it's just too arcane. The original code was written under the influence of a beer whose like I have not yet tasted.
Lead dev: About that; I've got a solution from above, but it's not pretty. (developers eye each other uneasily.) We're going to limit the user to running only three programs at a time.
Dev C: Isn't that throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
Dev A: Won't our users laugh at us?
Dev B: I don't even want to think about what slashdot will say about this....
Lead dev: People, this is direct from the central Hive. We have no choice. Besides, it worked for the celeron. Now, Make Your Time. *clap*
While your use of a simpson's quote does bring your viewpoint into sharp focus for me, I have to disagree; falling into a well isn't the same as dying while testing an XV. The loss of a young life is a tragedy; that loss, while in pursuit of something which is for the good of all people, to me, that counts as heroism. Maybe not running-into-a-burning-skyscraper heroism, or jumping-on-the-live-grenade heroism, but the kid *died*. "Martyr for alternative energy" doesn't capture it for me, even if it's more objectively correct.
I can see, if he died while researching say, the perfect doughnut recipe, then I'd totally agree with you. Given the implications of solar, though, well, it's just my 2c.
>>hopefully those testing solar powered cars will learn from the tragedy so it never happens again.
I agree in principle, but the same thing would've happened if he was riding a motorcycle and hit a slick spot. Light vehicles are inherently dangerous. The only way to eliminate the risk is to eliminate the benefits of being lightweight.:(
It's not because of what was said, but who said it. Thanks for noting the abuse, though. Maybe it'll get metamoderated.
Makes me glad I previewed it 7 times hehehe.
Yeah, some people like to mod comments down just because of who posted them. I get even with those people by moderating fairly instead. We'll see who still has excellent karma in 6 months. Yesterday I got modded troll, and it was up to +4 insightful by end of the day. The comment I posted kvetching about the retarded moderation was modded offtopic. And you know what? I'm glad some fool wasted his mod points on that.
Don't cry for me, Argentina-er, AKAImBatman. But, I do appreciate the kindness.
Not to sound like someone taunting the Wright brothers, but seriously, this sounds freakin' impossible.
The only way I can imagine this working is with a really strong spring that weighs almost nothing being used to store a few hours of pedaling, to be released over a period of 3 minutes. Maybe in 100 years, when we have nano-technology to make everything out of carbon-nanotubes and diamond monofilament, okay, maybe then. But from the looks of it, they'll add that to the "cheats" list.
I'm surprised they didn't just come out and say "Make a working pedal-power helicopter out of granite and mud. You may use power tools, but only those made of pudding."
Climbing Mt Everest is a difficult, but sane, goal. Climbing the smoke from a campfire is nuts, no matter what school you're studying at. (yes, even MIT.) Anyone who has ever tried climb the rope in gym class knows how hard it is to lift oneself three feet off the ground. And that's with a nice, solid rope in your hands!
This reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon where they are supposed to build an integrated global supply chain using only post-it notes and a toothpick.
This is a great argument against the use of psychedelics when reviewing project specifications. I'm sure the kids had fun, though. Good for them.
Ok, lets say this drug has no side-effects and is efficacious for the long term (it doesn't crap out after x months).
After the party dies down at the GOP and in the Management offices around the world, what's this going to do to our society? (Even presuming its effect on the economy is positive)
First, Workaholic parents put work before family. Now, I know some uber-management asshat somewhere is saying "Great!" but lets think about this for 1 microsecond at least. Parents working 23.5 hours per day -> kids raised by TV & school system -> not very smart kids, who (being workaholics) know everything about trig and all the lines of Hamlet. But, kids don't feel loved, and have lots of emotional/social problems (requiring more drugs & therapy). This is a good outcome? Noooo....
No matter how dedicated you are, after around 38 hours per week, your productivity dips. Yes, that means you with the Lexus and the gold Timex. Staring at your secretary's boobs doesn't count as "work".
Let's say that our society can adjust as needed (I'm not saying it could, I'm saying let's just say it did, nevermind how). Let's say productivity per worker DOES go up (cots in cubes, working weekends, and presume I'm wrong about diminishing returns of productivity). Great for business right? Well, yeah. Those of us/you who are already wealthy and have $$ in the market, might see a stock bump. Meanwhile, 15% of the workforce is laid off. Oh, yeah well.. at least my stock is up. That 15% isn't coming back. That's not gonna help the economy. It may or may not help the richest of the rich.
Now imagine what it's going to be like to be on this drug. You don't mind working 10 hours per day, cause your brain chemistry is in tune with that. Meanwhile, your home life goes to utter shit. Your spouse hates you. Your kids stop loving you. You'd go to church for solace (if you're that type) but, mandatory unpaid weekend overtime is enforced because "no one minds working overtime anymore, and if they do, they're fired and replaced before the workflow is impacted."
This might have an application, somewhere. But we should enact legislation NOWNOW NOW!!! to ensure that the use of this (or similar) drugs can NEVER become mandatory or even suggested.
Work-aholic... now where did that suffix come from?
I remember when it was announced that light had been "slowed down" in an ion plasma or something but I figured it was just taking longer to be re-emitted and was travelling at "c" while in the vacuum between the particles. As for going faster, are you presuming an infinite energy supply? Or have I been trolled?
>>now however it seems you actually have to want to program for a living to go into CS.
Funny, that's why I went into CompSci, because I wanted to write programs. Hell, even work up from codemonkey. Closest I came was a 2 month stint, and they made me work in VB6 (blech!). Meanwhile, the guy who dropped (ahem, failed) out because he couldn't pass even when I was tutoring him, is working in a datacenter. He has no degree, no certs I know of. He's just glad-handed and smarmy, and thinks windows is-the-neatest-thing-ever.
And this makes me HAPPY! (as long as I take my antidepressants). PS: My resume is on my website, in case you want to hire (or laugh at) me.
Okay, I got my degree, now I'm ready to sell my soul. Hellooo? is this thing on? Oh, it is on? That's even more depressing.
Yes. God was drinking at my house last weekend and he 'splained the whole thing to me. He also rated Google stock a strong buy, then turned back into my cat. I love mescal.
>>10 out of 10 terrorists agree, anyone but Bush in 2004
First I want to (sarcastically) thank you for implying that dissent ~= sympathizing w/ terrorists. Not because I agree, but because you reminded me of why I'm a Democrat.
Dude, the terrorists want Bush to stay. Regardless of how "bad" Saddam was, he wasn't a real threat to the USA (now Isreal, that's another matter). Al-Qaeda *loves* the fact that we're in Iraq. We're overextended, it's a rallying point for regional extremists to become terrorists without going very far, it's turned the political landscape against us, and on top of that, Saddam and Usama *hate* each other.
10 out of 10 terrorists agree, Bush is doing great for the PLO, al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia, and America-haters everywhere.
Dude, I'd tell you that you're unpatriotic for supporting Bush, but then I'd be as bad as you are.
>> "... It is a common thing that should belong to all...."
>>Uh huh, just like say.. the land under my house should belong to 'all', right?
Yes, the land under your house should belong to all. In fact, it does. The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth. And yes, I am of partial native American descent thank you very much.
But since you obviously are of the opinion that Mother is a pie to be divided among people, think about this:
If everything can be property (including the sun), who owns the air? Who owns the water? Who owns you, who owns god(if you're of faith), who owns the clouds and the insects and the birds? Who indeed owns the sun? Who owns truth? freedom? reason? love? Who owns the past and the future and the present? Who owns the pattern that's in your DNA as well as mine? The person with a deed or a patent? No? Yes? Maybe? Furthermore what are the implications of property? In some places and times people are considered property. In those conditions, your stated sentiment is the backstop which condones slavery. Not own slaves? Why not? I'm lazy and I have the power, right? Right? No, we've grown up from that.
Property laws are ONE way of managing social boundaries. Don't mistake expediency for necessity... please.
>>I know this is slightly offtopic, but how many people have ever actually BEEN to the IT section of slashdot? It hurts the eyes!
>> I would imagine everyone reading your post...
You know, just before I scrolled down to parent's parent, I thought to myself, "Aaah, my eyes!" then "Nah, I won't post that because everyone here is posting through this hellish beige haze. Don't bother"
All within 2 seconds, I scrolled down to parent's parent. While you're technically right, I now understand the nature of pedantry and will strive to avoid it (maybe).
Why am I replying to a score:0 from an AC? Oh yeah, pedantry... it's a vicious circle O
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>> corporations bought out the government's role in education, and so Titus and his friends attend School(TM) -- where literacy is not on the curriculum.
Ahhh... reality-based fiction. Those who do not remember the past, uh... oooh, shiny!
this has nothing to do with prions, but, re: mouse longevity, researchers discovered that mouse lifetimes can be extended ~ 18% by fiddling with insulin levels. This article refers to caloric reduction as well. The first time I heard about this they mentioned the removal of the gonads as a factor.
Watson and Crick didn't use a microscope. Watson and Crick were (iirc) chemists who built models of molecules and tried to create a model that represented a chemical which had the properties of observed dna. When they did their work microscopes capable of looking at molecules up close and personal did not exist. X-ray crystalography was as close as it got. There was some lady in Britain who was working on the DNA problem at the same time, who (in some people's opinion, including mine, no disrespect to the honored dead) did most of the important work. Watson and Crick were close, but they put it all together after meeting with the a researcher in the same university department who shared the contents of her work. All of which makes me wish I could remember her name.
It was on PBS a couple months ago. Good documentary. Crick was reclusive but was interviewed for the occasion; he seemed very genuine and very very smart. Let's all think good thoughts about him or, failing that, drink a beer to his name.
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Is Microsoft therefore scarier than republicans by transitivity?
I mean, I know there's shades of grey and then there's shades of grey... but this is grey.
Hey, neat, instead of my Uncle, Bob's my parent.
Like our fat Zakdorn friend tells us, "how you perform in a "mismatch" is precisely what interests Starfleet. After all -- when one is in the superior position, one is expected to win."
Maybe they'll get crazy and make it Turkmenistan style. Then again, maybe not.
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If you've got 10 programs open, the cost of running them "all" multitasked still depends on how quickly you're switching contexts... does each program get 1/10th second, every second? or six seconds per minute? The less you switch contexts, the more processing is devoted to doing work at the application level.
Obligatory anti-microsoft sniping: Oh, unless you run 10 programs at once on a windows machine, then there's a performance 'hit' while you reboot (or install a better OS).
Just to play devils advocate, since technically there's a very small potential optimization to be had, what one could do for the crippleware version would be to make the scheduler smaller and dumber so it runs in an even smaller fraction of a second than it already does. Since this is so small an amount of time, it wouldn't even give you an extra fps on DoomIII, I doubt they did this. But hey, I hear Gates used to puff the magic dragon back in the Day, so you never know.
Yes professor Erbacher, I really did read the textbook.
Dev A: We're on target with everything except the usual... the numerous bugs
Lead dev: Features, call them features..
Dev A: --features, we couldn't adapt are a security haz- er, configuration issue.
Lead dev: Okay, noted. Siramanthar?
Dev B: Marketing says the configuration issues will not greatly impede sales. But like all our releases, it leaks memory like a sieve. I've spent the last thirty straight days staring at teh debugger... it's just too arcane. The original code was written under the influence of a beer whose like I have not yet tasted.
Lead dev: About that; I've got a solution from above, but it's not pretty. (developers eye each other uneasily.) We're going to limit the user to running only three programs at a time.
Dev C: Isn't that throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
Dev A: Won't our users laugh at us?
Dev B: I don't even want to think about what slashdot will say about this....
Lead dev: People, this is direct from the central Hive. We have no choice. Besides, it worked for the celeron. Now, Make Your Time. *clap*
I can see, if he died while researching say, the perfect doughnut recipe, then I'd totally agree with you. Given the implications of solar, though, well, it's just my 2c.
>>hopefully those testing solar powered cars will learn from the tragedy so it never happens again.
I agree in principle, but the same thing would've happened if he was riding a motorcycle and hit a slick spot. Light vehicles are inherently dangerous. The only way to eliminate the risk is to eliminate the benefits of being lightweight. :(
He may not have been returning from orbit, or travelled at supersonic speed. But his shadow will always be a mile long.
Makes me glad I previewed it 7 times hehehe.
Yeah, some people like to mod comments down just because of who posted them. I get even with those people by moderating fairly instead. We'll see who still has excellent karma in 6 months. Yesterday I got modded troll, and it was up to +4 insightful by end of the day. The comment I posted kvetching about the retarded moderation was modded offtopic. And you know what? I'm glad some fool wasted his mod points on that.
Don't cry for me, Argentina-er, AKAImBatman. But, I do appreciate the kindness.
The only way I can imagine this working is with a really strong spring that weighs almost nothing being used to store a few hours of pedaling, to be released over a period of 3 minutes. Maybe in 100 years, when we have nano-technology to make everything out of carbon-nanotubes and diamond monofilament, okay, maybe then. But from the looks of it, they'll add that to the "cheats" list.
I'm surprised they didn't just come out and say "Make a working pedal-power helicopter out of granite and mud. You may use power tools, but only those made of pudding."
Climbing Mt Everest is a difficult, but sane, goal. Climbing the smoke from a campfire is nuts, no matter what school you're studying at. (yes, even MIT.) Anyone who has ever tried climb the rope in gym class knows how hard it is to lift oneself three feet off the ground. And that's with a nice, solid rope in your hands!
This reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon where they are supposed to build an integrated global supply chain using only post-it notes and a toothpick.
This is a great argument against the use of psychedelics when reviewing project specifications. I'm sure the kids had fun, though. Good for them.
Phbbbt.
mmmmmmmmm.
After the party dies down at the GOP and in the Management offices around the world, what's this going to do to our society? (Even presuming its effect on the economy is positive)
First, Workaholic parents put work before family. Now, I know some uber-management asshat somewhere is saying "Great!" but lets think about this for 1 microsecond at least. Parents working 23.5 hours per day -> kids raised by TV & school system -> not very smart kids, who (being workaholics) know everything about trig and all the lines of Hamlet. But, kids don't feel loved, and have lots of emotional/social problems (requiring more drugs & therapy). This is a good outcome? Noooo....
No matter how dedicated you are, after around 38 hours per week, your productivity dips. Yes, that means you with the Lexus and the gold Timex. Staring at your secretary's boobs doesn't count as "work".
Let's say that our society can adjust as needed (I'm not saying it could, I'm saying let's just say it did, nevermind how). Let's say productivity per worker DOES go up (cots in cubes, working weekends, and presume I'm wrong about diminishing returns of productivity). Great for business right? Well, yeah. Those of us/you who are already wealthy and have $$ in the market, might see a stock bump. Meanwhile, 15% of the workforce is laid off. Oh, yeah well.. at least my stock is up. That 15% isn't coming back. That's not gonna help the economy. It may or may not help the richest of the rich.
Now imagine what it's going to be like to be on this drug. You don't mind working 10 hours per day, cause your brain chemistry is in tune with that. Meanwhile, your home life goes to utter shit. Your spouse hates you. Your kids stop loving you. You'd go to church for solace (if you're that type) but, mandatory unpaid weekend overtime is enforced because "no one minds working overtime anymore, and if they do, they're fired and replaced before the workflow is impacted."
This might have an application, somewhere. But we should enact legislation NOWNOW NOW!!! to ensure that the use of this (or similar) drugs can NEVER become mandatory or even suggested.
Work-aholic... now where did that suffix come from?
Look like they already worked that out... is that an ORU Temporary Platform on your chassis, or are you just happy to see me?
I remember when it was announced that light had been "slowed down" in an ion plasma or something but I figured it was just taking longer to be re-emitted and was travelling at "c" while in the vacuum between the particles. As for going faster, are you presuming an infinite energy supply? Or have I been trolled?
Nothing goes faster than 299,792,458 m/s, right?
Funny, that's why I went into CompSci, because I wanted to write programs. Hell, even work up from codemonkey. Closest I came was a 2 month stint, and they made me work in VB6 (blech!). Meanwhile, the guy who dropped (ahem, failed) out because he couldn't pass even when I was tutoring him, is working in a datacenter. He has no degree, no certs I know of. He's just glad-handed and smarmy, and thinks windows is-the-neatest-thing-ever.
And this makes me HAPPY! (as long as I take my antidepressants). PS: My resume is on my website, in case you want to hire (or laugh at) me.
Okay, I got my degree, now I'm ready to sell my soul. Hellooo? is this thing on? Oh, it is on? That's even more depressing.
"trust me".
Not too convincing, is it sherlock? I'm sure you'll still vote for the shrub, anyway. :P
Next story, please.
First I want to (sarcastically) thank you for implying that dissent ~= sympathizing w/ terrorists. Not because I agree, but because you reminded me of why I'm a Democrat.
Dude, the terrorists want Bush to stay. Regardless of how "bad" Saddam was, he wasn't a real threat to the USA (now Isreal, that's another matter). Al-Qaeda *loves* the fact that we're in Iraq. We're overextended, it's a rallying point for regional extremists to become terrorists without going very far, it's turned the political landscape against us, and on top of that, Saddam and Usama *hate* each other.
10 out of 10 terrorists agree, Bush is doing great for the PLO, al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia, and America-haters everywhere.
Dude, I'd tell you that you're unpatriotic for supporting Bush, but then I'd be as bad as you are.
:P
>>Uh huh, just like say.. the land under my house should belong to 'all', right?
Yes, the land under your house should belong to all. In fact, it does. The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth. And yes, I am of partial native American descent thank you very much.
But since you obviously are of the opinion that Mother is a pie to be divided among people, think about this:
If everything can be property (including the sun), who owns the air? Who owns the water? Who owns you, who owns god(if you're of faith), who owns the clouds and the insects and the birds? Who indeed owns the sun? Who owns truth? freedom? reason? love? Who owns the past and the future and the present? Who owns the pattern that's in your DNA as well as mine? The person with a deed or a patent? No? Yes? Maybe? Furthermore what are the implications of property? In some places and times people are considered property. In those conditions, your stated sentiment is the backstop which condones slavery. Not own slaves? Why not? I'm lazy and I have the power, right? Right? No, we've grown up from that.
Property laws are ONE way of managing social boundaries. Don't mistake expediency for necessity... please.
/me climbs down off soapbox
I ,for one, welcome this floorless-elevator technology.
wait... welcome? I--*
>> I would imagine everyone reading your post
You know, just before I scrolled down to parent's parent, I thought to myself, "Aaah, my eyes!" then "Nah, I won't post that because everyone here is posting through this hellish beige haze. Don't bother"
All within 2 seconds, I scrolled down to parent's parent. While you're technically right, I now understand the nature of pedantry and will strive to avoid it (maybe).
Why am I replying to a score:0 from an AC? Oh yeah, pedantry... it's a vicious circle O
Ahhh... reality-based fiction. Those who do not remember the past, uh... oooh, shiny!
this has nothing to do with prions, but, re: mouse longevity, researchers discovered that mouse lifetimes can be extended ~ 18% by fiddling with insulin levels. This article refers to caloric reduction as well. The first time I heard about this they mentioned the removal of the gonads as a factor.
Watson and Crick didn't use a microscope. Watson and Crick were (iirc) chemists who built models of molecules and tried to create a model that represented a chemical which had the properties of observed dna. When they did their work microscopes capable of looking at molecules up close and personal did not exist. X-ray crystalography was as close as it got. There was some lady in Britain who was working on the DNA problem at the same time, who (in some people's opinion, including mine, no disrespect to the honored dead) did most of the important work. Watson and Crick were close, but they put it all together after meeting with the a researcher in the same university department who shared the contents of her work. All of which makes me wish I could remember her name.
It was on PBS a couple months ago. Good documentary. Crick was reclusive but was interviewed for the occasion; he seemed very genuine and very very smart. Let's all think good thoughts about him or, failing that, drink a beer to his name.