All the aforementioned professions never made all that much money to begin with, or at least not the vast majority of them(save for perhaps book editors, but with e-books I would see demand for them growing, not shrinking)
Seriously, since when did more than 10% of novelists or musicians or journalists etc. ever make tons of money? Most of them toil in anonymity, eventually either giving it up and getting a day job or doing whatever it takes just to scrape by for however many years. This guy obviously never did his homework.
Of course the ironic thing is that China absolutely forbids any foreign company from owning any decent % of a Chinese internet firm, but they seem to have no qualms with a Chinese firm buys a foreign internet firm. Sort of like how all protectionism is bad according to Hu Jintao, except for Chinese protectionism of course which is good and despite the fact that he criticizes other countries' trade policy, said Chinese protectionism should not be criticized by anyone else.
Is this really that impressive? I looked through his website and couldn't find a straight answer(I guess if I dug through the code I could probably find it but not really willing to do that:P), how does he do this? It looks as if all he is doing is suspending the current OS state to disk(probably by using an SSD which gives you that instant on capability) and then unfreezing one of the other OSs. I assume you can only run programs on one OS at the same time(in the demo video he didn't show otherwise, in fact he purposely paused the video before switching). So really it seems to sacrifice almost all the benefits of virtualization for a perhaps tiny boost in speed if you only want to use one of the OSs. I can see this being very useful in a few niche situations, but overall virtualization is going to win out 99% of the time....unless of course I am missing something.
Well, they sort of make more sense for a lot of countries outside the US vs. the US because those countries have national sales taxes, meaning the price differentials between online and offline are significantly less than they are in the US.
He also wasn't all that happy with the money changers(Wall Street) as well, but the "Christians" tend to forget that part too, as the religious right extolls the virtues of people who crash the economy.
All the while ignoring the parts about not eating pork chops and cheeseburgers, which is a shame because thats pretty much the only part of the bible a lot of these people should be following.
All your comment proves is that you are an idiot, not a whole lot more. You are probably the type of person who walks into a nice italian restaurant and screams that they suck because they don't have curry...well if you wanted curry then why did you go to an Italian place? Likewise, if you wanted a computer with an ethernet port, THEN FUCKING BUY A COMPUTER THAT HAS AN ETHERNET PORT! The macbook pro has a gig port, as do tons of pc notebooks. The fact that you are too stupid to check the specs of an expensive piece of equipment before you buy it says a lot more about you than it does the equipment.
To be a pedant, it's not just about cryptography either, it's basically about all the protocols and mechanisms we use to try to implement security. For instance if you developed a new way of doing domain lookups but released nothing about the protocol because you believe it's safer to do so, you would still be falling victim to the security through obscurity fallacy even if you aren't relyng on encrypted communication for security
In my opinion it's actually the opposite problem at Microsoft. Judging by the way the company acts I wouldn't be surprised to see that the desk calendar on the top execs desk is still the one from 1997. Microsoft has yet to seem to come to the realization that it's biggest competition no longer comes from within the company but from outside. The past decade at Microsoft has pretty much been the top execs trying to empire build within the company and completely ignoring outside threats. As such Windows Servers market share has eroded significantly(mostly as users switch to Unix), their mobile strategy was until recently a hodgepodge of incompatible platforms, and their last OSs claim to fame was that it wasn't nearly as terrible as it's predecessor, as it continues to lose market share to OS X and Linux, both of which Ballmer has dismissed as being essentially irrelevant despite their continued success.
Things are finally starting to change at Redmond(for instance the Windows and Office UI is going to be much more consistent in Windows 8, theoretically), but it might not be enough to pull MSFT out of it's slow decline.
Their past attempts at outsourcing to China didn't go very well either. The GBA port of FFIV was done by a Chinese team and it was slow and buggy as all hell. After that they did all the other GBA ports with Japanese programmers......
heh, the thing about FF X that I realized after going back and playing it again years later is that there was a lot of crap in the game, but the things that were good were so good that years later I basically forgot about all the crap.
Seriously, we seem to be constantly under the impression that somehow, if we don't expose kids at all human sexuality, then somehow they won't become sexual. IE somehow readings lists can trump millions of years of evolution...
Here's a hint, the only kids interested in reading about "orgy porgy" are probably the only ones not actually recreating it:P
Well, it probably has to do with heat more than anything else. The whole idea of this supercomputer was that it would be the most energy efficient petaflop machine in the world largely because they intended to use passive(water, and in the winter, cold air) cooling as much as possible. However, at least from what little unredacted material was released, that didn't look like it was going to happen, not this year anyway.
It's not just "lower", it's about half(in terms of % of GDP) in most other OECD countries. Now certainly part of this can be attributed to the general state of health in the US(it's not good), and of course people will scream trial lawyers, which do take a toll on the system, but not nearly as much as the private health insurance system does.
I personally like the Japanese system, you pay a certain amount every year based on your salary(it's not expensive at all), and then for every covered medical expense you pay 30% and the state pays 70%. This gives people a financial incentive NOT to go to the doctor for very common maladies, but gives them a huge financial incentive to seek out preventative care as well as take care of themselves. Furthermore it gives the state motivation to keep costs down, as people know how much they, as well as the state, are paying for medical services. As a result, medical services are pretty much the only thing that is considerably cheaper in Japan than it is in the US.
Thats pretty simple. You just hook up some generators to a bunch of caffeine addicts and then start waving the beans in front of them. The energy that can be harnessed from the sheer amount of twitching is more than enough to convert those beans into fuel. Just don't let those people know what you did with the beans or there will be trouble.
It's a non-issue in the developed world where(outside of the US of course....) HIV is quite rare. However genital herpes, in either partner of a discordant couple, increases the odds of catching HIV considerably. The sores, often not even visible, defeat the skin barrier that keeps HIV out of the system most of the time. Furthermore, HIV tends to pool in very high concentration in herpes sores, significantly increasing the chance that it will be spread.
If we cannot develop an affordable HIV vaccine/treatment, we could still go a long way towards preventing more cases by coming up with vaccines for HSV(as well as other STDs). We already have a vaccine that is effective against certain HPV strains, and it looks like a herpes vaccine may be possible. However, there is little interest in vaccines against chlamydia and gonorrhea since they are so easily(and cheaply) treatable in the rich world. However, completely eradicating them without a vaccine would be difficult if not impossible.
Depends on what you are trying to do. For instance in China a huge problem is the massive fight of people from the rural areas to the cities(whether they move legally or not, China still uses the hukou system to basically force people to stay in the area they were born in). This creates huge problems in both the rural and the urban areas. In the urban areas you have a lot of poor, usually uneducated(and often times single male) people flooding into the cities, increasing crowding, making competition for jobs even more intense, etc. Meanwhile the rural farms are left with labor shortages, shortages of young people to take over the work, etc. This in turn helps to drive up food prices which places a lot of pressure on the Chinese government.
As a result the Chinese government right now is trying to find ways to make rural living more palatable to young people so that they will stay in the countryside instead of moving to the city. Affordable, comfortable housing could go a long way towards that goal.
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Well, this new evidence certainly makes this scene a lot less hot....
All the aforementioned professions never made all that much money to begin with, or at least not the vast majority of them(save for perhaps book editors, but with e-books I would see demand for them growing, not shrinking)
Seriously, since when did more than 10% of novelists or musicians or journalists etc. ever make tons of money? Most of them toil in anonymity, eventually either giving it up and getting a day job or doing whatever it takes just to scrape by for however many years. This guy obviously never did his homework.
Of course the ironic thing is that China absolutely forbids any foreign company from owning any decent % of a Chinese internet firm, but they seem to have no qualms with a Chinese firm buys a foreign internet firm. Sort of like how all protectionism is bad according to Hu Jintao, except for Chinese protectionism of course which is good and despite the fact that he criticizes other countries' trade policy, said Chinese protectionism should not be criticized by anyone else.
When I tried to use children to decorate my house the taxidermist called the cops. Stupid modern laws.
Is this really that impressive? I looked through his website and couldn't find a straight answer(I guess if I dug through the code I could probably find it but not really willing to do that :P), how does he do this? It looks as if all he is doing is suspending the current OS state to disk(probably by using an SSD which gives you that instant on capability) and then unfreezing one of the other OSs. I assume you can only run programs on one OS at the same time(in the demo video he didn't show otherwise, in fact he purposely paused the video before switching). So really it seems to sacrifice almost all the benefits of virtualization for a perhaps tiny boost in speed if you only want to use one of the OSs. I can see this being very useful in a few niche situations, but overall virtualization is going to win out 99% of the time....unless of course I am missing something.
Well, they sort of make more sense for a lot of countries outside the US vs. the US because those countries have national sales taxes, meaning the price differentials between online and offline are significantly less than they are in the US.
He also wasn't all that happy with the money changers(Wall Street) as well, but the "Christians" tend to forget that part too, as the religious right extolls the virtues of people who crash the economy.
All the while ignoring the parts about not eating pork chops and cheeseburgers, which is a shame because thats pretty much the only part of the bible a lot of these people should be following.
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Best enviro-porn movie title ever.
All your comment proves is that you are an idiot, not a whole lot more. You are probably the type of person who walks into a nice italian restaurant and screams that they suck because they don't have curry...well if you wanted curry then why did you go to an Italian place? Likewise, if you wanted a computer with an ethernet port, THEN FUCKING BUY A COMPUTER THAT HAS AN ETHERNET PORT! The macbook pro has a gig port, as do tons of pc notebooks. The fact that you are too stupid to check the specs of an expensive piece of equipment before you buy it says a lot more about you than it does the equipment.
To be a pedant, it's not just about cryptography either, it's basically about all the protocols and mechanisms we use to try to implement security. For instance if you developed a new way of doing domain lookups but released nothing about the protocol because you believe it's safer to do so, you would still be falling victim to the security through obscurity fallacy even if you aren't relyng on encrypted communication for security
In my opinion it's actually the opposite problem at Microsoft. Judging by the way the company acts I wouldn't be surprised to see that the desk calendar on the top execs desk is still the one from 1997. Microsoft has yet to seem to come to the realization that it's biggest competition no longer comes from within the company but from outside. The past decade at Microsoft has pretty much been the top execs trying to empire build within the company and completely ignoring outside threats. As such Windows Servers market share has eroded significantly(mostly as users switch to Unix), their mobile strategy was until recently a hodgepodge of incompatible platforms, and their last OSs claim to fame was that it wasn't nearly as terrible as it's predecessor, as it continues to lose market share to OS X and Linux, both of which Ballmer has dismissed as being essentially irrelevant despite their continued success.
Things are finally starting to change at Redmond(for instance the Windows and Office UI is going to be much more consistent in Windows 8, theoretically), but it might not be enough to pull MSFT out of it's slow decline.
He obviously flew El Al from Jerusalem to Japan, duh!
Their past attempts at outsourcing to China didn't go very well either. The GBA port of FFIV was done by a Chinese team and it was slow and buggy as all hell. After that they did all the other GBA ports with Japanese programmers......
heh, the thing about FF X that I realized after going back and playing it again years later is that there was a lot of crap in the game, but the things that were good were so good that years later I basically forgot about all the crap.
Seriously, we seem to be constantly under the impression that somehow, if we don't expose kids at all human sexuality, then somehow they won't become sexual. IE somehow readings lists can trump millions of years of evolution...
:P
Here's a hint, the only kids interested in reading about "orgy porgy" are probably the only ones not actually recreating it
Well, it probably has to do with heat more than anything else. The whole idea of this supercomputer was that it would be the most energy efficient petaflop machine in the world largely because they intended to use passive(water, and in the winter, cold air) cooling as much as possible. However, at least from what little unredacted material was released, that didn't look like it was going to happen, not this year anyway.
I would hope that they would have used salt.(Cue kimchi joke here)
It's not just "lower", it's about half(in terms of % of GDP) in most other OECD countries. Now certainly part of this can be attributed to the general state of health in the US(it's not good), and of course people will scream trial lawyers, which do take a toll on the system, but not nearly as much as the private health insurance system does.
I personally like the Japanese system, you pay a certain amount every year based on your salary(it's not expensive at all), and then for every covered medical expense you pay 30% and the state pays 70%. This gives people a financial incentive NOT to go to the doctor for very common maladies, but gives them a huge financial incentive to seek out preventative care as well as take care of themselves. Furthermore it gives the state motivation to keep costs down, as people know how much they, as well as the state, are paying for medical services. As a result, medical services are pretty much the only thing that is considerably cheaper in Japan than it is in the US.
Thats pretty simple. You just hook up some generators to a bunch of caffeine addicts and then start waving the beans in front of them. The energy that can be harnessed from the sheer amount of twitching is more than enough to convert those beans into fuel. Just don't let those people know what you did with the beans or there will be trouble.
Maybe Tyler Durden went looking elsewhere for the fat to sell his soap and things went terribly awry.
I was hoping something like hidemyass.com would be devoted to the anti-muffin top movement :P
Did you even bother to read the post? My guess is no, you haven't.
It's a non-issue in the developed world where(outside of the US of course....) HIV is quite rare. However genital herpes, in either partner of a discordant couple, increases the odds of catching HIV considerably. The sores, often not even visible, defeat the skin barrier that keeps HIV out of the system most of the time. Furthermore, HIV tends to pool in very high concentration in herpes sores, significantly increasing the chance that it will be spread.
If we cannot develop an affordable HIV vaccine/treatment, we could still go a long way towards preventing more cases by coming up with vaccines for HSV(as well as other STDs). We already have a vaccine that is effective against certain HPV strains, and it looks like a herpes vaccine may be possible. However, there is little interest in vaccines against chlamydia and gonorrhea since they are so easily(and cheaply) treatable in the rich world. However, completely eradicating them without a vaccine would be difficult if not impossible.
Depends on what you are trying to do. For instance in China a huge problem is the massive fight of people from the rural areas to the cities(whether they move legally or not, China still uses the hukou system to basically force people to stay in the area they were born in). This creates huge problems in both the rural and the urban areas. In the urban areas you have a lot of poor, usually uneducated(and often times single male) people flooding into the cities, increasing crowding, making competition for jobs even more intense, etc. Meanwhile the rural farms are left with labor shortages, shortages of young people to take over the work, etc. This in turn helps to drive up food prices which places a lot of pressure on the Chinese government.
As a result the Chinese government right now is trying to find ways to make rural living more palatable to young people so that they will stay in the countryside instead of moving to the city. Affordable, comfortable housing could go a long way towards that goal.