Not exactly. You haven't needed to treat your data as though it was a texture on GPUs for a couple of generations now, and getting decent performance out of Knights Bridge means writing very similar incredibly-wide SIMD code to what GPUs use - except that GPUs have some decent tools to making the porting process easier, and I'm not sure if Knights Bridge does. (For example, if you have a loop over a bunch of elements that does the same operations on each but does a different number of passes for different elements, GPUs can generate masking code to emulate this and drop out of the loop once it's done. The same's true if you've got an IF statement with code that only applies to a small number of elements - the entire 16-wide GPU thread has to pay the performance cost if any element triggers it, but the GPU can automatically mask out the rest and can skip the entire section if nothing requires it.)
The trouble is that, for peaceful protest to be effective, the inevitable violent and over-the-top government response has to make the population and the government uncomfortable. They have to be embarrassed at the violence. This doesn't seem to be happening; people and politicians alike are quite happy with it.
Of course, Christian "charity" comes with conditions designed to further their ideology. Remember how the Salvation Army shut down their government-funded homeless shelters a while ago because they might have to allow gay people to work at the shelters that the Government was paying for, and they'd rather let the homeless starve to death than employ gays? That tends to happen even more when the Government isn't paying for it.
Part of living within your means is where you choose to live.
Of course, the places with cheap housing tend to have rather a shortage of jobs because generally that's why the housing is so cheap! In fact, I've seen comments about OWS that make the exact opposite argument to you - they argue how widely available jobs are in areas like New York and how the unemployed just need to move to where the jobs are, ignoring the huge rent.
So once someone hits max level here you are just saying they have to move to the expansion pack... called Hong Kong.
So long as they actually have to live in Hong Kong, why not? You'll probably find that a lot of wealthy individuals want to live in the US. Over here in the UK, even our tax exiles usually spend as much time in the UK as they legally can and try to lobby the Government to be able to stay longer without legally being counted as living here.
The people who are elected cannot be corrupted by the system if they are elected with the express intention of changing it, and are held to account for their decisions and actions.
How can they be held to account - by electing someone else in 4 years and praying that they somehow don't get corrupted too? It's just not possible. Hell, it's not even practical to tell whether someone is genuinely in favour of reform before electing them - the entire media is owned by the wealthy and has an interest in maintaining the status quo, and they can sling around enough misinformation that everyone will almost certainly vote in the wrong candidate.
Too late. Israel have already got their hands on nuclear weapons and have quietly been threatening behind the scenes to reduce much of the Middle East to radioactive rubble if they ever get invaded. Then there's countries like Pakistan whose current leadership probably wouldn't use nukes but is incredibly unstable and in danger of being overthrown.
Which BT have responded by rolling out their own fibre-to-the-curb to areas with Virgin Media first, using their existing Government-funded infrastructure to undercut the competition, and leaving other areas to stew low down on the priority list. Gotta love monopolies.
Also, BeThere in particular are a LLU-unbundling based ISP. They don't use BT Wholesale, instead installing their own DSLAMs at exchanges. It's the whole reason they can be so much better than BT, and it's not possible with BT's FTTC product - that puts its equivalent of DSLAMs in the cabinets, which have no room for third-party equipment.
Some of the reasons why BT Retail are shitty are actually imposed by BT Wholesale. For example, they have fairly expensive per-gigabyte charges, so BT Wholesale-based ISPs generally have low monthly usage limits. BT Wholesale also tends to break important parts of their infrastructure and not actually notice, often resulting in entire exchanges worth of customers dropping offline for several hours.
BT appear to have been failing to properly maintain their copper infrastructure - which competitors can use to offer products that are better than BT's offerings - in order to drive them onto fibre which can't. The only actual advantage of fibre-to-the-curb seems to be that it actually gets maintained. While it may be faster than copper, the monthly limits aren't much higher so good luck making use of it, and unlike unlike with the old copper-to-the-exchange system no providers are in a position where they can offer unlimited or near-unlimited packages.
Of course, according to someone else it was a correction for a mistake in the original paper about shadow volumes - in which cases chances are someone else did but didn't bother to document it. There seem to be a fair number of more obscure papers that have "obvious" corrections no-one bothered to write up.
Except that the reason the banks are willing to loan them money at a lower rate is because they think that there's some non-zero chance the company will fail and the Government's loan guarantee will pay out. Otherwise they wouldn't care about the loan guarantee either way. The subsidy is the money the Government has promised to pay if the company goes out of business.
Actually, the master keys for HDCP are now public so blacklisting HDCP stripper boxes is now pointless - anyone can just create a stripper box that can automatically clone any valid HDCP sink.
RedHat just don't send anything upstream to any version of the kernel except the latest, bleeding-edge, don't-install-it-on-production-boxes release. Which conveniently doesn't compete with them, unlike the stable upstream releases that they're refusing to cooperate with and even intentionally obstructing.
Actually, for various reasons Bitcoin appears to be quite badly connected. Pools have seen block propagation times across the networks of over a minute, and I don't think anyone's even bothered to measure transaction propagation because it doesn't currently matter much to the miners.
See the comments in the thread. In particular, (a) there's a limit to the number of fee-free transactions in a block, and once we start hitting that limit it makes sense for nodes to delay other people's transactions by not forwarding them, and (b) it's possible for miners to incentivise other nodes not to forward transactions with big fees to anyone else.
Only a small fraction of bitcoin nodes (e.g. 1%) are mining nodes, and they all relay transactions as relaying transactions is very cheap to do.
The problem is what happens if relaying transactions becomes less cheap - that is to say, if Bitcoin actually gets adopted and the transaction volume skyrockets.
Last time I checked, the Republican party was actually trying to change the law to make it legal to refuse to hire someone because of the colour of their skin, whilst simultaneously blaming black people's inability to get jobs on the fact that the Government let them avoid starving to death without one just like you are. That's so racist it's boggles the mind.
Pretty much all modern C compilers support stdint.h for integers of specific widths. Of course, once you get into exotic embedded hardware, you may not have native support for 32-bit integers, or 16-bit ones, or even 8-bit ones! (Also, have fun doing anything that requires unsigned integers in Java, because the language designers didn't think you needed them.)
x264 used to be quite heavily optimized for Intel processors, sometimes at the expense of performance on AMD chips. It's not quite as bad as it once was but...
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Not exactly. You haven't needed to treat your data as though it was a texture on GPUs for a couple of generations now, and getting decent performance out of Knights Bridge means writing very similar incredibly-wide SIMD code to what GPUs use - except that GPUs have some decent tools to making the porting process easier, and I'm not sure if Knights Bridge does. (For example, if you have a loop over a bunch of elements that does the same operations on each but does a different number of passes for different elements, GPUs can generate masking code to emulate this and drop out of the loop once it's done. The same's true if you've got an IF statement with code that only applies to a small number of elements - the entire 16-wide GPU thread has to pay the performance cost if any element triggers it, but the GPU can automatically mask out the rest and can skip the entire section if nothing requires it.)
The trouble is that, for peaceful protest to be effective, the inevitable violent and over-the-top government response has to make the population and the government uncomfortable. They have to be embarrassed at the violence. This doesn't seem to be happening; people and politicians alike are quite happy with it.
Of course, Christian "charity" comes with conditions designed to further their ideology. Remember how the Salvation Army shut down their government-funded homeless shelters a while ago because they might have to allow gay people to work at the shelters that the Government was paying for, and they'd rather let the homeless starve to death than employ gays? That tends to happen even more when the Government isn't paying for it.
Part of living within your means is where you choose to live.
Of course, the places with cheap housing tend to have rather a shortage of jobs because generally that's why the housing is so cheap! In fact, I've seen comments about OWS that make the exact opposite argument to you - they argue how widely available jobs are in areas like New York and how the unemployed just need to move to where the jobs are, ignoring the huge rent.
So once someone hits max level here you are just saying they have to move to the expansion pack... called Hong Kong.
So long as they actually have to live in Hong Kong, why not? You'll probably find that a lot of wealthy individuals want to live in the US. Over here in the UK, even our tax exiles usually spend as much time in the UK as they legally can and try to lobby the Government to be able to stay longer without legally being counted as living here.
The people who are elected cannot be corrupted by the system if they are elected with the express intention of changing it, and are held to account for their decisions and actions.
How can they be held to account - by electing someone else in 4 years and praying that they somehow don't get corrupted too? It's just not possible. Hell, it's not even practical to tell whether someone is genuinely in favour of reform before electing them - the entire media is owned by the wealthy and has an interest in maintaining the status quo, and they can sling around enough misinformation that everyone will almost certainly vote in the wrong candidate.
Too late. Israel have already got their hands on nuclear weapons and have quietly been threatening behind the scenes to reduce much of the Middle East to radioactive rubble if they ever get invaded. Then there's countries like Pakistan whose current leadership probably wouldn't use nukes but is incredibly unstable and in danger of being overthrown.
They'd probably have been better off leaving it in English.
Decent music management applications tend to support auto-transcoding when syncing; I know AmaroK used to back in the 1.x days.
Which BT have responded by rolling out their own fibre-to-the-curb to areas with Virgin Media first, using their existing Government-funded infrastructure to undercut the competition, and leaving other areas to stew low down on the priority list. Gotta love monopolies.
Ah, apparently they've changed it from officially limited to unofficially throttling you if you exceed an unadvertised limit.
Also, BeThere in particular are a LLU-unbundling based ISP. They don't use BT Wholesale, instead installing their own DSLAMs at exchanges. It's the whole reason they can be so much better than BT, and it's not possible with BT's FTTC product - that puts its equivalent of DSLAMs in the cabinets, which have no room for third-party equipment.
Some of the reasons why BT Retail are shitty are actually imposed by BT Wholesale. For example, they have fairly expensive per-gigabyte charges, so BT Wholesale-based ISPs generally have low monthly usage limits. BT Wholesale also tends to break important parts of their infrastructure and not actually notice, often resulting in entire exchanges worth of customers dropping offline for several hours.
BT appear to have been failing to properly maintain their copper infrastructure - which competitors can use to offer products that are better than BT's offerings - in order to drive them onto fibre which can't. The only actual advantage of fibre-to-the-curb seems to be that it actually gets maintained. While it may be faster than copper, the monthly limits aren't much higher so good luck making use of it, and unlike unlike with the old copper-to-the-exchange system no providers are in a position where they can offer unlimited or near-unlimited packages.
I think that comparison's probably a bit insulting to prostitutes, to be honest.
Of course, according to someone else it was a correction for a mistake in the original paper about shadow volumes - in which cases chances are someone else did but didn't bother to document it. There seem to be a fair number of more obscure papers that have "obvious" corrections no-one bothered to write up.
Except that the reason the banks are willing to loan them money at a lower rate is because they think that there's some non-zero chance the company will fail and the Government's loan guarantee will pay out. Otherwise they wouldn't care about the loan guarantee either way. The subsidy is the money the Government has promised to pay if the company goes out of business.
Actually, the master keys for HDCP are now public so blacklisting HDCP stripper boxes is now pointless - anyone can just create a stripper box that can automatically clone any valid HDCP sink.
RedHat just don't send anything upstream to any version of the kernel except the latest, bleeding-edge, don't-install-it-on-production-boxes release. Which conveniently doesn't compete with them, unlike the stable upstream releases that they're refusing to cooperate with and even intentionally obstructing.
Actually, for various reasons Bitcoin appears to be quite badly connected. Pools have seen block propagation times across the networks of over a minute, and I don't think anyone's even bothered to measure transaction propagation because it doesn't currently matter much to the miners.
See the comments in the thread. In particular, (a) there's a limit to the number of fee-free transactions in a block, and once we start hitting that limit it makes sense for nodes to delay other people's transactions by not forwarding them, and (b) it's possible for miners to incentivise other nodes not to forward transactions with big fees to anyone else.
Only a small fraction of bitcoin nodes (e.g. 1%) are mining nodes, and they all relay transactions as relaying transactions is very cheap to do.
The problem is what happens if relaying transactions becomes less cheap - that is to say, if Bitcoin actually gets adopted and the transaction volume skyrockets.
Last time I checked, the Republican party was actually trying to change the law to make it legal to refuse to hire someone because of the colour of their skin, whilst simultaneously blaming black people's inability to get jobs on the fact that the Government let them avoid starving to death without one just like you are. That's so racist it's boggles the mind.
Pretty much all modern C compilers support stdint.h for integers of specific widths. Of course, once you get into exotic embedded hardware, you may not have native support for 32-bit integers, or 16-bit ones, or even 8-bit ones! (Also, have fun doing anything that requires unsigned integers in Java, because the language designers didn't think you needed them.)
x264 used to be quite heavily optimized for Intel processors, sometimes at the expense of performance on AMD chips. It's not quite as bad as it once was but...