I'm not using any "OSX Runner" (which turns up no relevant results on Google, BTW), I created the VM image...
Sorry, meant to say OS X Unlocker.
MAybe it's less impressive to say that I'm booting into a just-the-essentials Linux desktop, then loading a just-the-essentials OSX VM in less time than it takes to boot non-optimized OSX natively, but that's still 2 operating systems and a VM hypervisor and it's still on a slower CPU (when you consider cumulative speed of all cores).
So in other words, you are just measuring boot times. Not much of a measure of performance...
The problem with overly restricting H1B visas is that the corporate response would be to just move more operations offshore.
Could that be the real reason for free trade zones? Free as in corporations can always threaten to leave in exchange for more favorable terms from the government at the expense of its citizen.
Besides that argument rings hollow to me. Corporations wouldn't want to give up any political clout by moving too much offshore. This would make them more or a pariah than an ally. There are plenty of foreign owned corporations moving to the US that would love to take that US corporation's place in line to influence law makers.
So you are saying that bringing skilled people into the US will not generate additional economic benefits (which will employ more people)?
Depends if you consider a US citizen working at a local restaurant that wouldn't exist without the demand generated by all those foreign workers a benefit. Technically yes...
Now what if that US citizen is actually qualified to perform the work of the foreign worker? The US citizen would make even more money and his increased earnings would also generate demand for that local restaurant who could hire a different US citizen. The economic benefit is actually greater.
They are countering an argument against H1B abuses that keep wages low on the lower skilled tech jobs by giving examples of how, when H1Bs are used correctly, they work as intended.
The "Partnership for a New American Economy" is lobbying for larger numbers of H1B visa to be issued so they can continue to have cheap foreign labor. I have nothing against H1B workers. In fact I work with more than a few and I enjoy working with them. They are students and scientists working on an international project and this is a legitimate purpose for a H1B. In fact, one of my coworkers just recently became a citizen.
It's the large number of H1B workers coming in for the sole purpose of keeping wages low that irritates me. Of course, corporate minded conservatives will be quick to point out that they are producing jobs in the US but will bury the fact that they filled them with foreign workers. The upside being that the money will spend a short time domestically and some of it will be spent on consumables and rent before the balance is exported home.
Anyway this propaganda piece is making arguments completely out of context of what is being lobbied. For starters, what is the number of innovations versus the number of H1B awarded?
For instance, in your story you supposedly outperformed a mid-2011 iMac. I find it extremely hard to believe that your i3-2350m (2.3GHz) w/ 4GB DDR3-1333 RAM and Intel HD 3000 graphics controller running VMWare Workstation 8 (With OSX Runner) outperforms a i5 quad-core processor (2.5Ghz) w/ 4 GB DDR3-1333 RAM and AMD Radeon HD 6750M running on native hardware.
I took the mid-2011 specs from the lowest configuration 21.5 iMac of that period.
There are benchmarks that show iMacs running Windows 7 faster than the comparably configured PC. This also adds to my skepticism about your ability to run OS X faster in a VM on a $400 laptop.
The only way you could possibly come up with a favorable benchmark for the VMWare based solution is if you were timing "Logging into windows and restoring a suspended VMWare session hosting OS X" versus an iMac being powered up.
Something being expensive does not make it superior.
Believe it or not, my Apple iMac desktop at the office was cheaper than the comparable Dell machine. That's how I got it. It has given me trouble free operation... can't say the same about the Dell workstations that were "refreshed" at the same time.
Where I live, we solved that problem over a decade ago. Police officers carry V.U. meters and will issue citations for being too loud. We have ordinances that dictate that your music can't be heard from a certain distance from your car and we have noise ordinances that go into effect after 10pm. It worked surprising well. I live in the second largest city in my state, so it's not a small town with a friendly sheriff named Andy (Andy Griffin Show reference).
There was only one instance (that I remember) where the ordinance was challenged in court and modified because of it. We had a person who called himself a preacher and began preaching revelations, that evil was killing this country and how his God hates these people and will soon smite them at our local Walmart (he was at Walmart not the smitten). Nobody wanted this fanatic yelling at us with his bullhorn all day long. We called the cops and they told him to move on. He immediately challenged the ordinance in court. Because crazy bat shit talk is protected by the first amendment (unlike music) he won his day in court and rewarded us with even more spirited hate sermons. Thankfully he and his family moved on to Florida. For all I know they picket at funerals.
I'll have to watch the video again, but I don't think it is actually "floating". I'm thinking that it is still resting on the axle and the air cushion serves as mostly a thermal conductor with an extra benefit of providing extra support to allow the axle to not be as big. I don't see any reason why this thing couldn't work sideways.
It would be unfair to lump all christians together. Just like it would be unfair to assume that all atheists are miserable people who easily get bent out of shape around people who believe in a supreme being.
I don't see anything in the very in-depth video that was linked in the summary that would indicate that no thermal paste would be needed. The air-gap is between the heat sink chassis (or base plate) and the spinning heat sink, and appears to be a very efficient means of expelling heat from the device. However there will need to be some kind of thermal interface between the chassis and the CPU.
Maybe one day we'll see this heat sink assembly actually integrated into the CPU packaging which would eliminate the need for thermal paste. I think it's a neat concept and if people actually watched the video they would also understand how dust build up is being minimized.
Yup, I remember using a clone drive as well. I still got spare parts for them.;-) The disk drives were half the size of Apple's. It wasn't Franklin though.
I meant to point out that you may had a drive manufactured by VTech. They made those shorter drives that matched the//c and their own Laser 128.
I remember those during an Apple users group meeting..
Yep. I owned both systems. Small world! Getting the games to run on the Apple II was what inspired me to go into programming. The Apple II monitor was what sealed the deal for me. Those were the days when assembly/machine programming ruled...
That is interesting reading. Franklin did come out with their version of the drive II. I'm sure the low part count made the task relatively simple.
I remember people moving the speed control to the front panel of the drive II. They would adjust it to circumvent some copy protection schemes that looked for unformatted or bad sectors. Those were the days when you could actually work on your computer with a soldering gun. Like doubling the Atari ST RAM by piggy-backing the RAM chips and wire wrapping an additional address line.
If you (any reader, not just the one I'm replying to) think it's sooo important to maintain a stable API, why aren't you volunteering for the job? If you aren't willing to dedicate your free time to the job, then clearly you don't think it's that important. It's interesting how people are so willing to criticize how an open-membership project uses its resources (many of which are unpaid volunteers), but are never willing to step up to volunteer to do it the way they think it should be done.
It's blatantly obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about.
So you want the Kernel developers to do a lot of extra work so some paid developer doesn't have to do as much work to maintain his out-of-tree driver?
In this case the paid developer is only using the driver and doesn't actually own the driver. The hardware vendor has no interest in maintaining their drivers, and the paid developer who merely uses the driver has no time or guaranteed access to the required hardware to maintain it well enough to submit it to the kernel development tree. Since I'm sure no other developer will take up the cause of basically working for a manufacture for free just to have a current driver in the tree, the driver will never be in a shape that allows for its continued presence in the repository.
You have confused a third-party user of a driver with the first-party developer that a hardware vendor hired to make a single driver a long time ago for the expressed purpose of advertising that their hardware works with Linux.
I'd say that warrants a big "FUCK YOU".
Already abused by the hardware vendor there is no need to be abused by a pissant. The rest of your response is invalidated by the fact that you made incorrect assumptions.
Wrong. Greg K-H has explicitly said he doesn't care if a driver serves an audience of 2, he still wants it in the kernel because of network effects: code in that driver may be useful somewhere else, or may be useful in creating a new subsystem that many small-market drivers use.
Not exactly wrong. If I'm paid to make the driver work on the current version yet am not paid to maintain the driver for inclusion in the working tree, and no other developer volunteers then said driver is not accepted in the tree. It took a while for LinuxPPS to be incorporated into the tree so I'll use that as an example.
Some of these drivers are from board support packages of PC-104 CPU boards or serial synchronous cards that have extended functions that require direct access to the hardware. They have always ran well as a kernel module and they are pretty much self contained. However if the hardware needs to be included in a system which uses a new kernel and the other hardware contained in that system requires the newer kernel, the user will most likely (and have on many occasions) change constant variable names and kernel call parameters which were only changed to inconvenience the proprietary vendors.
I hear what you are saying, but your concerns do not apply in this case. I'm not petitioning the Linux kernel developers to stop their practice because after more than a decade that policy will never change despite the fact that a decade has passed and NVIDIA and others still provide binary blobs and make their own wrappers to handle the API changes. Evidently the changes to the API only affect the smaller companies and niche projects.
I was pointing out that NVIDIA and others would not be the only beneficiaries of a stable API.
If I wasn't a Linux supporter for all these years and cooperated and was helped by the mainline developers on several occasions, I would have switched to a BSD OS a long time ago...
Actually he would make more than proprietary vendors happy. There are some open source drivers that serve a very limited audience that doesn't merit inclusion into the kernel source tree that would benefit from a stable API.
Indeed. I think TFA draws the wrong conclusion. People prefer the convenience of streaming, but I'm sure they would have preferred ownership if the convenience was the same.
I agree that TFA draws the wrong conclusion. I believe the real competition is "streaming vs. radio" and not "streaming vs. owning". I think the TFA is looking at the wrong aspect and therefore has a flawed conclusion.
I think the more plausible reason for the upsurge in streaming versus ownership is the dismal state of radio with its over abundance of commercials and playing the same 15 songs over and over and over... Truth be told, I think the rate of people owning (or acquiring) music is steady, while the number of people who listen to radio is declining due to the better options in streaming. This can be seen by the number of radio stations that either shut down, changed formats, or went full automation just to hold the frequency until they can sell it.
The apparently also don't travel in airliners, or to foreign countries where data access is expensive, or to remote locations without any data. If you spend your life in a big modern city, its easy to get the impression that the internet is always accessible.
I do and I haven't had a problem with my Rhapsody subscription. The songs that are stored locally are playable for a couple of weeks, and all I need to do is go online for a very short period of time to update the licenses. Just recently, I listened to my music while on an airline for way longer than I'd like, and while I spent several months abroad I was still able to update the licenses in the middle of the freaking outback (Alice Springs, NT AU). For content that have regional restrictions I OpenVPN home.
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Sorry, meant to say OS X Unlocker.
So in other words, you are just measuring boot times. Not much of a measure of performance...
Could that be the real reason for free trade zones? Free as in corporations can always threaten to leave in exchange for more favorable terms from the government at the expense of its citizen.
Besides that argument rings hollow to me. Corporations wouldn't want to give up any political clout by moving too much offshore. This would make them more or a pariah than an ally. There are plenty of foreign owned corporations moving to the US that would love to take that US corporation's place in line to influence law makers.
Depends if you consider a US citizen working at a local restaurant that wouldn't exist without the demand generated by all those foreign workers a benefit. Technically yes...
Now what if that US citizen is actually qualified to perform the work of the foreign worker? The US citizen would make even more money and his increased earnings would also generate demand for that local restaurant who could hire a different US citizen. The economic benefit is actually greater.
They are countering an argument against H1B abuses that keep wages low on the lower skilled tech jobs by giving examples of how, when H1Bs are used correctly, they work as intended.
The "Partnership for a New American Economy" is lobbying for larger numbers of H1B visa to be issued so they can continue to have cheap foreign labor. I have nothing against H1B workers. In fact I work with more than a few and I enjoy working with them. They are students and scientists working on an international project and this is a legitimate purpose for a H1B. In fact, one of my coworkers just recently became a citizen.
It's the large number of H1B workers coming in for the sole purpose of keeping wages low that irritates me. Of course, corporate minded conservatives will be quick to point out that they are producing jobs in the US but will bury the fact that they filled them with foreign workers. The upside being that the money will spend a short time domestically and some of it will be spent on consumables and rent before the balance is exported home.
Anyway this propaganda piece is making arguments completely out of context of what is being lobbied. For starters, what is the number of innovations versus the number of H1B awarded?
Now that is more like it. I still have my doubts.
For instance, in your story you supposedly outperformed a mid-2011 iMac. I find it extremely hard to believe that your i3-2350m (2.3GHz) w/ 4GB DDR3-1333 RAM and Intel HD 3000 graphics controller running VMWare Workstation 8 (With OSX Runner) outperforms a i5 quad-core processor (2.5Ghz) w/ 4 GB DDR3-1333 RAM and AMD Radeon HD 6750M running on native hardware.
I took the mid-2011 specs from the lowest configuration 21.5 iMac of that period.
There are benchmarks that show iMacs running Windows 7 faster than the comparably configured PC. This also adds to my skepticism about your ability to run OS X faster in a VM on a $400 laptop.
The only way you could possibly come up with a favorable benchmark for the VMWare based solution is if you were timing "Logging into windows and restoring a suspended VMWare session hosting OS X" versus an iMac being powered up.
Believe it or not, my Apple iMac desktop at the office was cheaper than the comparable Dell machine. That's how I got it. It has given me trouble free operation... can't say the same about the Dell workstations that were "refreshed" at the same time.
I'm skeptical. What $400 Toshiba? I hope you don't mean the one sporting the AMD E-300 processor. What VM are you running?
I see a story being told with a plot of you showing up your boss with your inexpensive laptop, but I don't see any "facts" that you speak off.
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Where I live, we solved that problem over a decade ago. Police officers carry V.U. meters and will issue citations for being too loud. We have ordinances that dictate that your music can't be heard from a certain distance from your car and we have noise ordinances that go into effect after 10pm. It worked surprising well. I live in the second largest city in my state, so it's not a small town with a friendly sheriff named Andy (Andy Griffin Show reference).
There was only one instance (that I remember) where the ordinance was challenged in court and modified because of it. We had a person who called himself a preacher and began preaching revelations, that evil was killing this country and how his God hates these people and will soon smite them at our local Walmart (he was at Walmart not the smitten). Nobody wanted this fanatic yelling at us with his bullhorn all day long. We called the cops and they told him to move on. He immediately challenged the ordinance in court. Because crazy bat shit talk is protected by the first amendment (unlike music) he won his day in court and rewarded us with even more spirited hate sermons. Thankfully he and his family moved on to Florida. For all I know they picket at funerals.
I'll have to watch the video again, but I don't think it is actually "floating". I'm thinking that it is still resting on the axle and the air cushion serves as mostly a thermal conductor with an extra benefit of providing extra support to allow the axle to not be as big. I don't see any reason why this thing couldn't work sideways.
It would be unfair to lump all christians together. Just like it would be unfair to assume that all atheists are miserable people who easily get bent out of shape around people who believe in a supreme being.
I don't see anything in the very in-depth video that was linked in the summary that would indicate that no thermal paste would be needed. The air-gap is between the heat sink chassis (or base plate) and the spinning heat sink, and appears to be a very efficient means of expelling heat from the device. However there will need to be some kind of thermal interface between the chassis and the CPU.
Maybe one day we'll see this heat sink assembly actually integrated into the CPU packaging which would eliminate the need for thermal paste. I think it's a neat concept and if people actually watched the video they would also understand how dust build up is being minimized.
I meant to point out that you may had a drive manufactured by VTech. They made those shorter drives that matched the //c and their own Laser 128.
I remember those during an Apple users group meeting..
Yep. I owned both systems. Small world! Getting the games to run on the Apple II was what inspired me to go into programming. The Apple II monitor was what sealed the deal for me. Those were the days when assembly/machine programming ruled...
That is interesting reading. Franklin did come out with their version of the drive II. I'm sure the low part count made the task relatively simple.
I remember people moving the speed control to the front panel of the drive II. They would adjust it to circumvent some copy protection schemes that looked for unformatted or bad sectors. Those were the days when you could actually work on your computer with a soldering gun. Like doubling the Atari ST RAM by piggy-backing the RAM chips and wire wrapping an additional address line.
I think you have it backwards.
It's blatantly obvious that you have no idea what you are talking about.
In this case the paid developer is only using the driver and doesn't actually own the driver. The hardware vendor has no interest in maintaining their drivers, and the paid developer who merely uses the driver has no time or guaranteed access to the required hardware to maintain it well enough to submit it to the kernel development tree. Since I'm sure no other developer will take up the cause of basically working for a manufacture for free just to have a current driver in the tree, the driver will never be in a shape that allows for its continued presence in the repository.
You have confused a third-party user of a driver with the first-party developer that a hardware vendor hired to make a single driver a long time ago for the expressed purpose of advertising that their hardware works with Linux.
Already abused by the hardware vendor there is no need to be abused by a pissant. The rest of your response is invalidated by the fact that you made incorrect assumptions.
Not exactly wrong. If I'm paid to make the driver work on the current version yet am not paid to maintain the driver for inclusion in the working tree, and no other developer volunteers then said driver is not accepted in the tree. It took a while for LinuxPPS to be incorporated into the tree so I'll use that as an example.
For example:
Some of these drivers are from board support packages of PC-104 CPU boards or serial synchronous cards that have extended functions that require direct access to the hardware. They have always ran well as a kernel module and they are pretty much self contained. However if the hardware needs to be included in a system which uses a new kernel and the other hardware contained in that system requires the newer kernel, the user will most likely (and have on many occasions) change constant variable names and kernel call parameters which were only changed to inconvenience the proprietary vendors.
I hear what you are saying, but your concerns do not apply in this case. I'm not petitioning the Linux kernel developers to stop their practice because after more than a decade that policy will never change despite the fact that a decade has passed and NVIDIA and others still provide binary blobs and make their own wrappers to handle the API changes. Evidently the changes to the API only affect the smaller companies and niche projects.
I was pointing out that NVIDIA and others would not be the only beneficiaries of a stable API.
If I wasn't a Linux supporter for all these years and cooperated and was helped by the mainline developers on several occasions, I would have switched to a BSD OS a long time ago...
Actually he would make more than proprietary vendors happy. There are some open source drivers that serve a very limited audience that doesn't merit inclusion into the kernel source tree that would benefit from a stable API.
FAA conflicts with Federal Aviation Agency... so FISA prevents confusion.
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I agree that TFA draws the wrong conclusion. I believe the real competition is "streaming vs. radio" and not "streaming vs. owning". I think the TFA is looking at the wrong aspect and therefore has a flawed conclusion.
I think the more plausible reason for the upsurge in streaming versus ownership is the dismal state of radio with its over abundance of commercials and playing the same 15 songs over and over and over... Truth be told, I think the rate of people owning (or acquiring) music is steady, while the number of people who listen to radio is declining due to the better options in streaming. This can be seen by the number of radio stations that either shut down, changed formats, or went full automation just to hold the frequency until they can sell it.
I do and I haven't had a problem with my Rhapsody subscription. The songs that are stored locally are playable for a couple of weeks, and all I need to do is go online for a very short period of time to update the licenses. Just recently, I listened to my music while on an airline for way longer than I'd like, and while I spent several months abroad I was still able to update the licenses in the middle of the freaking outback (Alice Springs, NT AU). For content that have regional restrictions I OpenVPN home.