Let me explain the reason for their decision in a sane way as I see it.
*MOSIX was supposed to provide an EASY way of doing clustered worth. Low over head in terms of coding and administration. It was aimed at MODERATE clusters not massive beasts as it lacked performance/efficiency. While two extra machines may be worth the lower overhead two hundred probably are not so the immense clusters used other methods.
Advanced in computing, multiple cores and so on, have killed this low-to-medium cluster market NOT clustering as a whole.
Yes there are tons of things that still need clustering, think web data for example for a new one, but they are large and even larger. They need performance and so *MOSIX is not what they are looking for.
In other words the market for *MOSIX is effectively dead thus the project is joining it.
The US military already vastly overpowers its enemies in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, but that's not causing them to surrender, just to fall back on guerilla tactics. The power of the US military is not a significant factor for the Iraqi resistance in determining whether or not to fight and kill. This plane will not change that. The US military overpowers its enemies in open traditional warfare but as you point out it DOESN'T overpower them in guerrilla fighting. If the US military did truly overpower them there would be no resistance as it'd be suicide. By your own argument it's not, it's perfectly possible to fight the US and just because it's not traditional combat doesn't make it any less efficient.
Good operating systems use random pids. There is nothing that says pids must be sequential, and assuming such is a mistake. Likewise there is nothing that says they must be random and assuming that is even a biggest mistake.
Commercial nuclear reactors are also all over 20 years old, the youngest started being built in '77 (the vast majority started construction in the 60s). They have Apollo era technology because they were all designed when that was top of the line technology.
So damn true. FOSS is likely the least problem causing software that users install. Compared to all the shareware, adware and other things that actually cause problems by design in some cases it's downright harmless.
Why not build a mission that, you know, does what the original plans intended them to do in that regard? Money. such a mission is more expensive and complex thus failure would not only be more likely but also more costly. The original sample return mission got canned after the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander failures. There is a new sample return mission planned but it likely won't launch before the late 2010s. Also the Russians are planning a mission to get soil from Phobos.
My guess is that they got paid a lot of money (directly or indirectly) to give the game a good review but it sucked so much they could find no sane way to do that save for giving a good "conclusion."
Gimp may refer to disabled people, but to me as a non-American, Gimp sounds more like a kind of shoes. Since Americans make up a large portion of the users and English makes up an even larger portion if a given phrase has negative connotations in it you don't use it.
Does the fact that Mono *may* refer to a decease automatically mean nobody should ever use the word "mono" for any product? Yes. If the vast majority of the possible users associate a given term with negative things then you don't name your damn product as that. Plain and simple. Names do matter.
Furthermore, Gimp can also refer to a pulp fiction character. And that character is also not something that you want people to associate with your product.
Yes I'm aware of it being due to an immune effect by the mother's womb although if I remember that doesn't for all cases or for lesbians (or bisexuals likely, etc.). Likewise I'd be surprised if the womb immune system thing wasn't partially genetic in nature. It seems like one of those amusing things that evolves in social groups, after all evolution doesn't care about people but only about genes and your family shares your genes.
Some interesting points for you to consider: -Homosexuality is genetic although it is not necessarily a simple genetic inheritance. -You know all those homophobic people you likely know? Well statistically most of them are closet homosexuals. Your pastor is probably one as well actually. Many of them have kids, right? Well guess whose genes those kids got. -I assume your religion advocates having many children? I mean from a logical point of view contraceptives are murder if one assumes that all abortion is murder. In that case your religion is helping to spread homosexuality as one documented cause of homosexuality is directly related to how many children a woman has (each male child has a higher chance of being gay than the previous one).
In other words your religious beliefs that force closet homosexuality and the having of children directly help increase the prevalence of homosexuality.
Gemini Astronauts - baggies with adhesive rims - strap it around your arse and take a dump, then "brown-bag it". Ah yes, if I remember correctly those were the ones where the astronauts took every precaution possible to not have to shit during the flight at all. Apparently the procedure of effectively trying to pull crap out of yourself was not fun (remember in zero-g it doesn't simply fall out on its own) or always problem free.
Thus NASA has a safety-first mindset Yet oddly enough the Russians have a better safety record, well in terms of consequences rather than things going wrong (ie: the Soyuz can survive monumental fuckups).
This and the dumb "90 days expected lifetime" of the original mission is caused by the continual dumbing-down of NASA and other vital research institutions by civilian academics who don't have the hardcore aerospace/military experience of the deep-space engineers of the 60/70's. In other words you have no idea how much work something like this takes do you?
90 days was the minimum they needed it to survive to provide enough science to justify the cost. Look at the failures of NASA missions throughout the decades due to the simple harshness of space to see why they didn't want to commit to anything more than necessary.
This thing is first of all orders of magnitude more complex in both design, goals and components than what was done in the 70s and has a smaller budget. Let's see what it has to survive: -Launch, high G forces. -Years in space -Landing, high G forces once again and harder to predict than launch -Function on another planet with an enviroment like nothing else on Earth without any direct supervision. -Survive among other things massive temperature swings that don't exist on earth period.
If something goes wrong you can't just shrug your shoulders and replace the part later on. You can't check parts every x miles. You can't build it like a tank so it survives (if nothing else because its a rover and needs to actually move).
To add to what the other poster said. There is an example of someone doing full immersion cooling on a system and killing it when they added dry ice (or liquid nitrogen, can't remember which) to the mix.
No, I vent here period. Quite relaxing I must say. As for the story itself I could care less. I wasn't stupid enough to pick a profession that is being outsourced in droves so I'm safe for quite some time.
We block an essentially insignificant amount of Chinese goods and those are replaced with OTHER Chinese goods. So your point is?
Oh, and Europe includes Eastern Europe and soon Turkey+Russia probably. They'll be more than happy to make things for half US wages and be outsourced to.
Of course, if you love having a country(and/or region) responsible for Cooldent, poisoned dog food, poisoned (for domestic use) food, So if you're that afraid buy local organic food. Oh wait, then you'd need to actually pay more and no one wants to do that. Of course the US is a pinnacle of safety, I mean no US company would ever conclude that exploding fuel tanks on cars are fine as long as the expected profits are more than the cost of the inevitable lawsuits.
shoddy electronics, So don't buy low quality goods, don't blame the world for your own stupidity and greed.
and slave labor all in the name of "economics" - fine with you. Well we all know that starving to death is preferable to working 12 hours a day. I mean isn't China overflowing with the corpses of those who chose to starve to death? Oh, wait no it isn't.
There is a reason quality is not to be messed with. If you don't want low quality goods then pay for the higher quality ones. Oh wait, most people don't want to do that.
No it's not like writing a book at all, it is like making a bridge. I'm going to try to explain it one more time before I give up and just conclude you're hopeless. If you want to write books then become a contractor or make your own company.
A book is written essentially by a single entity, sometimes a couple of people but in the end a single entity. A computer program is usually written by dozens without any sane way of diving their contributions.
An example of what I'm doing now, more or less. I am working on a team for an internal product whose exact profits cannot be determined. The project has involved dozens of people so far in varying degrees, only around 5 of which are actually writing the final code. The others have included statisticians, economists, software engineers designing the whole system, non-production code for analysis, quality assurance people, business people to give input, etc, etc. The code includes pieces from probably a half dozen other projects in the company as well as outside code.
So how much does each one get and what do they get a percentage off?
Only an idiot thinks lines of code means anything and only an idiot would think the result would be anything but a disaster for the quality of code. Fuck, have you ever coded anything in your life that was of any importance?
So would my paycheck decrease if I added a negative number of codes because I re-factored things? I think it was at apple that someone did just that, they had a form for how many lines were added and one day he put down a negative number which apparently caused the whole method to be abandoned shortly afterwards.
This isn't the 1800s or the early 1900s. The world is no longer filled with tons of weakly linked nations. Global commerce is cheap and plentiful for all goods. The US is no longer the only economic juggernaut and soon it won't even be one in comparison to other nations. You want isolationism? Then enjoy your crumbling economy in 20 years. A world wide economy will produce more economic growth than just a single country can muster.
The e4300 seems closer performance wise to a 4600+ than a 3800+. The 4600+ is almost the same price as the e4300.
So while AMD has cheaper processors that doesn't mean they are a better bang for the buck. To be honest if you have no use for the performance then just buy a used system of some sort.
Either way it sucks for them, and history will not be kind to us for forcing them into having to choose between really bad options while we, for the most part, live well. Or it may look well upon us. Fast change usually brings about disaster.
But I'm beginning to wonder if the reason that our neighbors live so poorly is not due to a 'disfunctional' culture. The migrants that I've met or have read interviews with often have many more children that they could ever hope to provide minimum subsistence for. They think that I'm weird because I have no children, and I can't believe that they don't see anything unusual about having ten children and a sub-minimum wage job as an illegal immigrant 2000 miles away from their family. It's a cultural problem basically, they were born into a culture that is based on the view that there is high child morality. Having 6 kids isn't a problem if only 2 live to breed but it is if all 6 do. With time this will probably change but culture determines a lot of things and changes slowly. It's also another reason for why fast change to "do the right thing" can backfire. Africa had a stable population before things like modern medicine were imported, almost overnight, and then it grew six fold in under a century. The west has had time to deal with all these changes, more or less, but the rest of the world in many ways hasn't.
I fear something entirely different coming from all this mechanization. If all the menial jobs are removed what will the people who aren't suited for any other work do? Will be, as in many science fiction stories, just pump them full of happy drugs and sit them all in front of TVs?
How is that not multiplication? They are multiplying the money and the debt. No, they're multiplying the debt only. The amount of money stays exactly the same. By your logic I can generate infinite money as well. All I need is say $1 and a friend. I lend him $1. He lends me $1 back. I lend it to him again. Repeat for however long we want. I now owe him $1 million and he owes me $1 million and a dollar. In the end there is still only a single dollar with which I can buy things.
That's just icing. There's nothing for them to lose, maybe a bit of interest. A bank is based on interests and profits. To a company losing either is no different from you losing money.
Because the system is so prevalent and there's so much support in the federal reserve system the only way to create a real run on the bank (which would likely cause the collapse of the system) is to have everyone, everywhere withdraw all their money at the same time -- clearly something that could not happen because the bank doesn't really have the money to back up the numbers in your accounts. Bank accounts are government insured up to $100k I think, great depression caused that one to come about if I remember correctly. Anyway, the worst that would happen is that the federal reserve pays out the loans and if needed prints enough money to cover it. Massive inflation but everyone would get their now much less valuable money back.
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Let me explain the reason for their decision in a sane way as I see it.
*MOSIX was supposed to provide an EASY way of doing clustered worth. Low over head in terms of coding and administration. It was aimed at MODERATE clusters not massive beasts as it lacked performance/efficiency. While two extra machines may be worth the lower overhead two hundred probably are not so the immense clusters used other methods.
Advanced in computing, multiple cores and so on, have killed this low-to-medium cluster market NOT clustering as a whole.
Yes there are tons of things that still need clustering, think web data for example for a new one, but they are large and even larger. They need performance and so *MOSIX is not what they are looking for.
In other words the market for *MOSIX is effectively dead thus the project is joining it.
Commercial nuclear reactors are also all over 20 years old, the youngest started being built in '77 (the vast majority started construction in the 60s). They have Apollo era technology because they were all designed when that was top of the line technology.
As long as I can force grip people then drop them over a ledge I'll be happy.
So damn true. FOSS is likely the least problem causing software that users install. Compared to all the shareware, adware and other things that actually cause problems by design in some cases it's downright harmless.
My guess is that they got paid a lot of money (directly or indirectly) to give the game a good review but it sucked so much they could find no sane way to do that save for giving a good "conclusion."
Yes I'm aware of it being due to an immune effect by the mother's womb although if I remember that doesn't for all cases or for lesbians (or bisexuals likely, etc.). Likewise I'd be surprised if the womb immune system thing wasn't partially genetic in nature. It seems like one of those amusing things that evolves in social groups, after all evolution doesn't care about people but only about genes and your family shares your genes.
Some interesting points for you to consider:
-Homosexuality is genetic although it is not necessarily a simple genetic inheritance.
-You know all those homophobic people you likely know? Well statistically most of them are closet homosexuals. Your pastor is probably one as well actually. Many of them have kids, right? Well guess whose genes those kids got.
-I assume your religion advocates having many children? I mean from a logical point of view contraceptives are murder if one assumes that all abortion is murder. In that case your religion is helping to spread homosexuality as one documented cause of homosexuality is directly related to how many children a woman has (each male child has a higher chance of being gay than the previous one).
In other words your religious beliefs that force closet homosexuality and the having of children directly help increase the prevalence of homosexuality.
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90 days was the minimum they needed it to survive to provide enough science to justify the cost. Look at the failures of NASA missions throughout the decades due to the simple harshness of space to see why they didn't want to commit to anything more than necessary.
This thing is first of all orders of magnitude more complex in both design, goals and components than what was done in the 70s and has a smaller budget. Let's see what it has to survive:
-Launch, high G forces.
-Years in space
-Landing, high G forces once again and harder to predict than launch
-Function on another planet with an enviroment like nothing else on Earth without any direct supervision.
-Survive among other things massive temperature swings that don't exist on earth period.
If something goes wrong you can't just shrug your shoulders and replace the part later on. You can't check parts every x miles. You can't build it like a tank so it survives (if nothing else because its a rover and needs to actually move).
To add to what the other poster said. There is an example of someone doing full immersion cooling on a system and killing it when they added dry ice (or liquid nitrogen, can't remember which) to the mix.
No, I vent here period. Quite relaxing I must say.
As for the story itself I could care less. I wasn't stupid enough to pick a profession that is being outsourced in droves so I'm safe for quite some time.
Oh, and Europe includes Eastern Europe and soon Turkey+Russia probably. They'll be more than happy to make things for half US wages and be outsourced to. Of course, if you love having a country(and/or region) responsible for Cooldent, poisoned dog food, poisoned (for domestic use) food, So if you're that afraid buy local organic food. Oh wait, then you'd need to actually pay more and no one wants to do that. Of course the US is a pinnacle of safety, I mean no US company would ever conclude that exploding fuel tanks on cars are fine as long as the expected profits are more than the cost of the inevitable lawsuits. shoddy electronics, So don't buy low quality goods, don't blame the world for your own stupidity and greed. and slave labor all in the name of "economics" - fine with you. Well we all know that starving to death is preferable to working 12 hours a day. I mean isn't China overflowing with the corpses of those who chose to starve to death? Oh, wait no it isn't. There is a reason quality is not to be messed with. If you don't want low quality goods then pay for the higher quality ones. Oh wait, most people don't want to do that.
No it's not like writing a book at all, it is like making a bridge. I'm going to try to explain it one more time before I give up and just conclude you're hopeless. If you want to write books then become a contractor or make your own company.
A book is written essentially by a single entity, sometimes a couple of people but in the end a single entity. A computer program is usually written by dozens without any sane way of diving their contributions.
An example of what I'm doing now, more or less. I am working on a team for an internal product whose exact profits cannot be determined. The project has involved dozens of people so far in varying degrees, only around 5 of which are actually writing the final code. The others have included statisticians, economists, software engineers designing the whole system, non-production code for analysis, quality assurance people, business people to give input, etc, etc. The code includes pieces from probably a half dozen other projects in the company as well as outside code.
So how much does each one get and what do they get a percentage off?
Only an idiot thinks lines of code means anything and only an idiot would think the result would be anything but a disaster for the quality of code. Fuck, have you ever coded anything in your life that was of any importance?
So would my paycheck decrease if I added a negative number of codes because I re-factored things? I think it was at apple that someone did just that, they had a form for how many lines were added and one day he put down a negative number which apparently caused the whole method to be abandoned shortly afterwards.
This isn't the 1800s or the early 1900s. The world is no longer filled with tons of weakly linked nations. Global commerce is cheap and plentiful for all goods. The US is no longer the only economic juggernaut and soon it won't even be one in comparison to other nations. You want isolationism? Then enjoy your crumbling economy in 20 years. A world wide economy will produce more economic growth than just a single country can muster.
The e4300 seems closer performance wise to a 4600+ than a 3800+. The 4600+ is almost the same price as the e4300.
So while AMD has cheaper processors that doesn't mean they are a better bang for the buck. To be honest if you have no use for the performance then just buy a used system of some sort.
I fear something entirely different coming from all this mechanization. If all the menial jobs are removed what will the people who aren't suited for any other work do? Will be, as in many science fiction stories, just pump them full of happy drugs and sit them all in front of TVs?