What remote evidence is there that the PRC will ever be the world's largest economy? They're displaying symptoms characteristic with a bubble, and their GDP is only roughly half of that of the US. Or is massive growth going to continue forever, just like it was going to for Japan and South Korea?
Of course... there have been no major symmetric conflicts between nation-states since 1991. The Yugoslav Wars, the First Chechen War, the Russia-Georgia War, the Armenia-Azerbaijan war, the Ethiopia-Eritrea war, the continuing Korean conflict, the Peru-Ecuador War, the Kargil War, and the Libya War are just fiction.
All of the above were fought with large-scale firepower, heavy use of air forces, and heavy weapons. Meanwhile, Russia, China, both Koreas, Japan, and most of the Middle East continue a buildup of modern heavy weaponry. What world do you live in? It must be nice.
WebOS, when implemented properly, is a better system than Android - Just Type and card-based multitasking are my favorite features. The problem is that hardware so far has been either plain bad (Pre, Pre2), unreleased until some far-future date (Pre3), or weird and niche (Veer.) I haven't had a chance to use a TouchPad yet, so I can't comment, but the problem is not the software.
Also, the amount that Slashdot users seem to love the idea of an Android monoculture is vaguely disturbing.
You mean the current Global War on Terror (tm) theaters are the last wars that will ever be fought by the United States? You're remarkably optimistic... or potentially just an idiot.
Exactly. What reason is there to be spending the massive sum we're spending on a force that has dropped both quantitatively and qualitatively from its peak? In 1988, a world-beating US military took $426bn in spending, compared to $685bn today. That budget sustained every branch at a level far stronger than now; the Army especially has been gutted since then. We should be able to do cuts to $550bn, if not lower, while expanding and improving the force.
Prosecutors have said that they will not push for the death penalty for Manning, if I recall. Espionage is a capital crime, but one that very rarely involves an actual death sentence.
Can those commercial clusters be easily deployed to a place where you don't have massive AC units, raised floors, and perfect 3-phase power links? Or are you suggesting that they run everything remotely, though satellite links (1sec or more of latency, well under a megabit of reliable speed)?
Military computer systems share a lot in common with servers, including hardware (although SPARC and PowerPC are disproportionately popular), but tend to have special requirements that differ from normal commercial or technical systems. In this case, it was a massive and complex machine that would be deployable to near the front, would take multiple vehicles to set up, and was designed to handle battlefield intelligence needs for a fairly large area.
The ROC (not the "government of Taiwan," which is a province of the ROC, and has its own government) had legitimacy on the Mainland until Mao forced them out in a period from the 40's to the 60's. They enjoyed broad support from most people except certain rural peasants.
That was (and is) Honeycomb, and is a completely unrelated situation. OP was referring to the allegation that Google had decompiled pieces of Java and pasted them into Android with an Apache license.
The ROC has aboveboard, free elections, with multiple parties and real competition. The PRC has elections where only the Communist Party or its affiliates are allowed to participate. Which reflects the will of the people better?
After all, the PRC has never fought a war, and they certainly never make aggressive moves against India, Russia, Japan, the legitimate Chinese government, the Philippines, Vietnam...
You can get well over 4GHz out of server chips. The Power6 was a 4.2-5GHz in-order design, while the current mainframe chip (z196) is 5.2GHz out-of-order, and probably has the highest single-thread scalar performance of any processor ever built.
I had no idea that the people of Mosman (population 26000) elected genocidal maniacs to their Council, and for some reason I had thought that Brazil was a functioning democracy.
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The US is the largest manufacturer in the world.
What remote evidence is there that the PRC will ever be the world's largest economy? They're displaying symptoms characteristic with a bubble, and their GDP is only roughly half of that of the US. Or is massive growth going to continue forever, just like it was going to for Japan and South Korea?
The Republicans, on their own, are pushing the country into a default? And failure of the Democrats to agree to cuts has nothing to do with it?
Of course... there have been no major symmetric conflicts between nation-states since 1991. The Yugoslav Wars, the First Chechen War, the Russia-Georgia War, the Armenia-Azerbaijan war, the Ethiopia-Eritrea war, the continuing Korean conflict, the Peru-Ecuador War, the Kargil War, and the Libya War are just fiction.
All of the above were fought with large-scale firepower, heavy use of air forces, and heavy weapons. Meanwhile, Russia, China, both Koreas, Japan, and most of the Middle East continue a buildup of modern heavy weaponry. What world do you live in? It must be nice.
The Pre2 has a 480x320 screen. In what universe is that acceptable in late 2010 and early 2011?
WebOS, when implemented properly, is a better system than Android - Just Type and card-based multitasking are my favorite features. The problem is that hardware so far has been either plain bad (Pre, Pre2), unreleased until some far-future date (Pre3), or weird and niche (Veer.) I haven't had a chance to use a TouchPad yet, so I can't comment, but the problem is not the software.
Also, the amount that Slashdot users seem to love the idea of an Android monoculture is vaguely disturbing.
I think you mean the Iowa class, of which New Jersey was a member.
You mean the current Global War on Terror (tm) theaters are the last wars that will ever be fought by the United States? You're remarkably optimistic... or potentially just an idiot.
I have no idea what that meant, but I like it.
Exactly. What reason is there to be spending the massive sum we're spending on a force that has dropped both quantitatively and qualitatively from its peak? In 1988, a world-beating US military took $426bn in spending, compared to $685bn today. That budget sustained every branch at a level far stronger than now; the Army especially has been gutted since then. We should be able to do cuts to $550bn, if not lower, while expanding and improving the force.
I'm assuming HF, from a portable antenna mast. Even UHF gets you line of sight with very respectable transfer speeds...
Prosecutors have said that they will not push for the death penalty for Manning, if I recall. Espionage is a capital crime, but one that very rarely involves an actual death sentence.
Can those commercial clusters be easily deployed to a place where you don't have massive AC units, raised floors, and perfect 3-phase power links? Or are you suggesting that they run everything remotely, though satellite links (1sec or more of latency, well under a megabit of reliable speed)?
Military computer systems share a lot in common with servers, including hardware (although SPARC and PowerPC are disproportionately popular), but tend to have special requirements that differ from normal commercial or technical systems. In this case, it was a massive and complex machine that would be deployable to near the front, would take multiple vehicles to set up, and was designed to handle battlefield intelligence needs for a fairly large area.
http://www.gdc4s.com/documents/DCGS-A.pdf
Read this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang_Islamic_insurgency_in_China_(1950%E2%80%931958)
KMT forces lasted in southern China until a campaign in late 1960 and early 1961 to drive them out (the Campaign at the China-Burma Border.)
The ROC (not the "government of Taiwan," which is a province of the ROC, and has its own government) had legitimacy on the Mainland until Mao forced them out in a period from the 40's to the 60's. They enjoyed broad support from most people except certain rural peasants.
That was (and is) Honeycomb, and is a completely unrelated situation. OP was referring to the allegation that Google had decompiled pieces of Java and pasted them into Android with an Apache license.
The ROC has aboveboard, free elections, with multiple parties and real competition. The PRC has elections where only the Communist Party or its affiliates are allowed to participate. Which reflects the will of the people better?
After all, the PRC has never fought a war, and they certainly never make aggressive moves against India, Russia, Japan, the legitimate Chinese government, the Philippines, Vietnam...
Undoing moderation - meant to put Insightful, put Redundant. Idiot me...
3.1 is Honeycomb, as is 3.0.
You can get well over 4GHz out of server chips. The Power6 was a 4.2-5GHz in-order design, while the current mainframe chip (z196) is 5.2GHz out-of-order, and probably has the highest single-thread scalar performance of any processor ever built.
The PS2 is 300MHz, 64-bit, and has a complex custom vector instruction set and an external GPU. It is not trivial to emulate.
Additionally, saying "their graphics aren't that far from a desktop's" is hilarious. A desktop in 2004, maybe...
Constantly. US Air especially uses props for short-hop flights.
I had no idea that the people of Mosman (population 26000) elected genocidal maniacs to their Council, and for some reason I had thought that Brazil was a functioning democracy.