Well Ashkenazi Jews famously have a higher than average IQ. Of the Nazi leadership, only Goebbels and Speer had a decent education. Speer possibly tried to gas Hitler's bunker and certainly sabotaged the Nazi scorched earth policy.
Relativity and quantum mechanics were denounced as "Jewish science" and even non Jewish academics were fired and replaced by political placemen. Most of the support for the Nazis came from the ill educated.
Stalin killed kulaks - anyone who wasn't dirt poor. Pol Pot and Mao (neither of whom was educated) bragged about how many intellectuals they killed and peasants they promoted. All regimes burned books, persecuted authors and sacked academics for political reasons so it wouldn't surprise me if they were unpopular with intellectuals.
In many ways it's abusive management writ large - loyalty is more important than talent and the smart people leave. Just like companies with poor management tend to become mediocre or fail, it's the same with countries. The big difference of course is that your boss can't kill you and you can choose to work somewhere else.
Nah, Americans are just fucking stupid. Our education system breeds retards who aren't expected to think more than what "OMGWTFBFF" text message they are going to send next. Set low expectations and that's what you'll get, so we got it. And if you think I'm just trolling or flame baiting, do some google searches and see what simple shit questions the typical American can't answer. It's shocking.
FYI...I'm an American.
Clearly from your anger and self hatred you're one of the smart ones.
It's actually aimed at thin notebooks rather than netbooks. It's an underclocked Athlon so it's a full desktop class chip with out of order execution and the like -
I think it's a great idea - a bit more power than an Atom but lots more performance. AMD are good to have around when Intel builds something that is hyped but low performance like the Atom or the P4. Actually I think I'll buy one to replace my Core2 duo notebook. Core2 is an excellent chip and easily outperforms its AMD equivalent on the high end. Still most of what I do with it is emailing and browsing the net. Atoms seem obnoxiously slow to me but I think a Neo would be fine. They're also supposed to be not that much more expensive than an Atom based netbook too.
It's a great form factor - big enough to be usable, small enough to be portable. This is where I think the sweetspot for ultraportables is, i.e. a fair bit bigger than a netbook where you have space for a decent sized keyboard and screen and can afford a few more watts in TDP to make performance bearable. And this is the form factor Neo is aimed at. If you wait Intel have Core2 ULV aimed at the same thing too.
The creepy thing about Hitler/Pol Pot/Stalin/Mao and so on is that the average intelligence of the people they killed was probably higher than the average in the population.
"I've worked in England and the policy on assault is pretty strict there. If you hit somone, immediate dismissal. What's your policy here? [cracks knuckles]"
Legendary question in by a candidate for a job in Sweden.
Remember here is that you can't write 4KB to flash, only the 512KB cells.
That's not correct. NAND flash has pages, typically 512 bytes to 4KB, and blocks, typically 128KB to 512KB. You can write any page you want. The limitation is that you can write a pages only once before you erase the block containing that page.
Over-provisioned SSDs have ready-deleted blocks, which are used to store bursts of incoming writes and so avoid the need for erase cycles. Another tactic is to wait until files are to be deleted before committing the random writes to the SSD. This can be accomplished with a Trim operation. There is a Trim aspect of the ATA protocol's Data Set Management command, and SSDs can tell Windows 7 that they support this Trim attribute. In that case the NTFS file system will tell the ATA driver to erase pages (blocks) when a file using them is deleted.
The SSD controller can then accumulate blocks of deleted SSD cells ready to be used for writes. Hopefully this erase on file delete will ensure a large enough supply of erase blocks to let random writes take place without a preliminary erase cycle.
Actually I used to work on an embedded system that used M Systems' TrueFFS. There the flash translation layer actually understood FAT enough to work out when a cluster was freed. I.e. it knew where the FAT was and when it was written it would check for clusters being marked free at which point it would mark them as garbage internally.
The iPod touch software update released at last month's Macworld Expo added applications that already appeared on the iPhone along with other new features. But it also delivered some confusion among iPod touch owners who wondered why they were being charged $19.99 for a software update.
It turns out Apple didn't have much of a choice about charging for the iPod touch January software update, according to analysts familiar with accounting regulations.
"It's an accounting requirement that if you upgrade a device that's not on a subscription, you have to charge," Needham and Company financial analyst Charles Wolf said. "Apple has a choice of what to charge, but they have to charge."
I'm guessing you think of collective farming as "a bunch of happy people all agree to work together for the greater good, like in Star Trek" or what you read in "Communism for Left Wing Americans Who Have Never Travelled Outside the US".
Actually forced collectivisation is much nastier than that - basically the government used mass executions deportations to terrorize the farmers into serfdom. Agricultural output fell dramatically and the government confiscated so much that mass starvation broke out. Millions of people died and agriculture took years to recover.
1928 witnessed the turning of the Soviet economic policies towards collectivization. This year also marked the end of the NEP, which had allowed peasants to sell their surpluses on the open market. Food requisitioning intensified, especially in main grain producing regions, with new, forced approaches implemented. Upon joining kolkhozes, peasants had to give up their private plots of land and property, and the kolkhoz produce was sold to the state for a low price set by the state itself. However, the natural progress of collectivization was slow, and the November 1929 Plenum of the Central Committee decided to implement accelerated, forced collectivization.
Given the goals of the first Five Year Plan, the state sought increased political control of agriculture, hoping to feed the rapidly growing urban areas and to export grain, a source of foreign currency needed to import technologies necessary for heavy industrialization.
By 1936 about 90% of Soviet agriculture was collectivized. In many cases peasants bitterly opposed this process and often slaughtered their animals rather than give them to collective farms. Kulaks, prosperous peasants, were forcibly resettled to Kazakhstan, Siberia and the Russian Far North (a large portion of the kulaks served at forced labor camps). However, just about anyone opposing collectivization was deemed a "kulak." The policy of liquidation of kulaks as a class, formulated by Stalin at the end of 1929, meant some executions, and much greater deportation to special settlements and sometimes to forced labor camps.
Despite the expectations, collectivization led to a catastrophic drop in farming productivity, which did not regain the NEP level until 1940. The upheaval associated with collectivization was particularly severe in Ukraine, and the heavily Ukrainian adjoining Volga regions, a fact which has led many Ukrainian scholars to argue that there was a deliberate policy of starving the Ukrainians (see Holodomor for more information). The number of people who died in the famines is estimated at between three and ten million in Ukraine alone, not counting the adjoining regions. The best estimate is that in the whole USSR there were 5-6 million excess deaths. Soviet sources vary between denying the existence of the famine and estimating much smaller numbers of dead. The actual number of casualties is bitterly disputed to this day. In 1975, Abramov and Kocharli estimated that 265,800 kulak families were sent to the Gulag in 1930. In 1979, Roy Medvedev used Abramov's and Kocharli's estimate to calculate that 2.5 million peasants were exiled between 1930 and 1931, but he suspected that he underestimated the total number. But since the collapse of the Soviet Union huge numbers of archival files have been opened, and it is possible to make reasonably accurate estimates.
In Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania the collectivization of agriculture was started in 1948. By terror, killings and deportations, most peasants were collectivized by 1952. Agricultural production fell dramatically to the level of Soviet agriculture in the other Soviet Republics.
The odd thing is that if I described the Holocaust which killed a similar number of people as a SNAFU and denied it was the result of Nazi policy you'd be outraged.
Most historians agree that the disruption caused by collectivization and the resistance of the peasants significantly contributed to the Great Famine of 1932-1933, especially in Ukraine, a region famous for its rich soil (chernozem). This particular period is called "Holodomor" in Ukrainian. During the similar famines of 1921-1923, numerous campaigns, inside the country, as well as internationally were held to raise money and food in support of the population of the affected regions. Nothing similar was done during the drought of 1932-1933, mainly because the information about the disaster was suppressed by Stalin.
The Holodomor (translation: death by starvation) refers to the famine of 1932-1933 in the Ukrainian SSR during which millions of people were starved to death because of the Soviet policies, and there were no natural causes for starvation. In fact, Ukraine - unlike other Soviet Republics - enjoyed a bumper wheat crop in 1932. The Holodomor is considered one of the greatest calamities to affect the Ukrainian nation in modern history. Millions of inhabitants of Ukraine died of starvation in an unprecedented peacetime catastrophe. Estimates on the total number of casualties within Soviet Ukraine range mostly from 2.6 million to 10 million.
In fact collectivisation killed so many people that it caused the 1937 census to give the wrong results. The people were responsible were sent to the Gulag as saboteurs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_(1937) )
Collective farming began in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong. It was further pursued during the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to rapidly mobilize the country in an effort to transform China into an industrialized communist society. The policy mistakes associated with this collectivization attempt during the Great Leap Forward resulted in mass starvation. According to many other sources, the death toll due to famine was most likely about 20 to 30 million people. The three years between 1959 and 1962 were known as the "Three Bitter Years" and the Three Years of Natural Disasters.
The nice thing is that it seems to be completely general - if you spot two gases that should react being present you can tell that something is up. The only problem is that it only works with Earth like planets with an atmosphere. I can imagine life in the ocean on Europa but that's obviously inaccessible to this sort of experiment.
The interesting thing is that starvation happens, as far as I can tell, because of corrupt or abusive governments. E.g. the Ethiopian famines were caused by one side in a civil war trying to starve the other into submission and attempting to force collectivisation. International food aid was in fact stopped by the Ethopian government. Famines in China and Russia were caused by the government imposing collectivisation. None of these countries lack the ability to grow enough food - the famine was created by bad governments.
At that point it's tempting to consider some sort of regime change or even colonisation. Regime change can affect the people in power but it can't change the cultural norm that governments are expected to be abusive. And India had far more famines when run by the English than after independence. Actually it seems like even though there is no shortage of food, people are going to starve and there is no way to stop it.
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Well Ashkenazi Jews famously have a higher than average IQ. Of the Nazi leadership, only Goebbels and Speer had a decent education. Speer possibly tried to gas Hitler's bunker and certainly sabotaged the Nazi scorched earth policy.
Relativity and quantum mechanics were denounced as "Jewish science" and even non Jewish academics were fired and replaced by political placemen. Most of the support for the Nazis came from the ill educated.
Stalin killed kulaks - anyone who wasn't dirt poor. Pol Pot and Mao (neither of whom was educated) bragged about how many intellectuals they killed and peasants they promoted. All regimes burned books, persecuted authors and sacked academics for political reasons so it wouldn't surprise me if they were unpopular with intellectuals.
In many ways it's abusive management writ large - loyalty is more important than talent and the smart people leave. Just like companies with poor management tend to become mediocre or fail, it's the same with countries. The big difference of course is that your boss can't kill you and you can choose to work somewhere else.
Nah, Americans are just fucking stupid. Our education system breeds retards who aren't expected to think more than what "OMGWTFBFF" text message they are going to send next. Set low expectations and that's what you'll get, so we got it. And if you think I'm just trolling or flame baiting, do some google searches and see what simple shit questions the typical American can't answer. It's shocking.
FYI...I'm an American.
Clearly from your anger and self hatred you're one of the smart ones.
Actually the biggest scam of all is that the US ended up with a bunch of consumer goods and China ended up with potentially worthless paper.
Put that in your opium pipe and smoke it.
Then you should buy an AMD Neo notebook
It's actually aimed at thin notebooks rather than netbooks. It's an underclocked Athlon so it's a full desktop class chip with out of order execution and the like -
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/amd-kinda-sorta-takes-aim-at-atom-with-athlon-neo/
I think it's a great idea - a bit more power than an Atom but lots more performance. AMD are good to have around when Intel builds something that is hyped but low performance like the Atom or the P4. Actually I think I'll buy one to replace my Core2 duo notebook. Core2 is an excellent chip and easily outperforms its AMD equivalent on the high end. Still most of what I do with it is emailing and browsing the net. Atoms seem obnoxiously slow to me but I think a Neo would be fine. They're also supposed to be not that much more expensive than an Atom based netbook too.
Actually I had an of these
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Fujitsu_Siemens_LifeBook_S6010__5376461
It's a great form factor - big enough to be usable, small enough to be portable. This is where I think the sweetspot for ultraportables is, i.e. a fair bit bigger than a netbook where you have space for a decent sized keyboard and screen and can afford a few more watts in TDP to make performance bearable. And this is the form factor Neo is aimed at. If you wait Intel have Core2 ULV aimed at the same thing too.
The creepy thing about Hitler/Pol Pot/Stalin/Mao and so on is that the average intelligence of the people they killed was probably higher than the average in the population.
This
I like the way if you try to post SS ids on slashdot it replaces the digits with random numbers to protect people.
Some cynics might say that stopping showing SG1 at season 4 was saving you a lot of wasted time.
Like the guys interviewing you even know the answer to that.
I agree. To some people, this is rather imporant.
Many companies don't have any staff cantine and you can only get bagles within walking distance.
If you're not the packed lunch guy, this is pretty bad.
Ask them if food in the refrigerator is considered communal.
"I've worked in England and the policy on assault is pretty strict there. If you hit somone, immediate dismissal. What's your policy here? [cracks knuckles]"
Legendary question in by a candidate for a job in Sweden.
You drive works fine for a while. After that demons visit and eat you alive.
Remember here is that you can't write 4KB to flash, only the 512KB cells.
That's not correct. NAND flash has pages, typically 512 bytes to 4KB, and blocks, typically 128KB to 512KB. You can write any page you want. The limitation is that you can write a pages only once before you erase the block containing that page.
How does the firmware know what sectors are empty if it doesn't understand this stuff?
I am curious how it works, if it doesn't need knowledge of the filesystem. FAT, NTFS, UFS, EXT2/3/4, ZFS, etc are all very different.
The filesystem tells the SSD "LBA's x to y are now not in use" using the ATA trim command.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/06/win_7_ssd/
Over-provisioned SSDs have ready-deleted blocks, which are used to store bursts of incoming writes and so avoid the need for erase cycles. Another tactic is to wait until files are to be deleted before committing the random writes to the SSD. This can be accomplished with a Trim operation. There is a Trim aspect of the ATA protocol's Data Set Management command, and SSDs can tell Windows 7 that they support this Trim attribute. In that case the NTFS file system will tell the ATA driver to erase pages (blocks) when a file using them is deleted.
The SSD controller can then accumulate blocks of deleted SSD cells ready to be used for writes. Hopefully this erase on file delete will ensure a large enough supply of erase blocks to let random writes take place without a preliminary erase cycle.
Actually I used to work on an embedded system that used M Systems' TrueFFS. There the flash translation layer actually understood FAT enough to work out when a cluster was freed. I.e. it knew where the FAT was and when it was written it would check for clusters being marked free at which point it would mark them as garbage internally.
Apple cheat though. Their customers are brainwashed pod people who make excuses for pretty much any abuse by Apple E.g.
http://www.macworld.com/article/131991/2008/02/ipodtouch.html
The iPod touch software update released at last month's Macworld Expo added applications that already appeared on the iPhone along with other new features. But it also delivered some confusion among iPod touch owners who wondered why they were being charged $19.99 for a software update.
It turns out Apple didn't have much of a choice about charging for the iPod touch January software update, according to analysts familiar with accounting regulations.
"It's an accounting requirement that if you upgrade a device that's not on a subscription, you have to charge," Needham and Company financial analyst Charles Wolf said. "Apple has a choice of what to charge, but they have to charge."
Yeah, he only hits me cuz he loves me. Bwahahaha.
> Most browsers should handle 24 open tabs quite easily.
Some of them (Opera) can do it with a 4GB address space too.
One of the things I like about Windows is that when I press Backspace it always works, I don't need to remember stty erase ^H.
I'm guessing you think of collective farming as "a bunch of happy people all agree to work together for the greater good, like in Star Trek" or what you read in "Communism for Left Wing Americans Who Have Never Travelled Outside the US".
Actually forced collectivisation is much nastier than that - basically the government used mass executions deportations to terrorize the farmers into serfdom. Agricultural output fell dramatically and the government confiscated so much that mass starvation broke out. Millions of people died and agriculture took years to recover.
E.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1927-1953)#Collectivization
1928 witnessed the turning of the Soviet economic policies towards collectivization. This year also marked the end of the NEP, which had allowed peasants to sell their surpluses on the open market. Food requisitioning intensified, especially in main grain producing regions, with new, forced approaches implemented. Upon joining kolkhozes, peasants had to give up their private plots of land and property, and the kolkhoz produce was sold to the state for a low price set by the state itself. However, the natural progress of collectivization was slow, and the November 1929 Plenum of the Central Committee decided to implement accelerated, forced collectivization.
Given the goals of the first Five Year Plan, the state sought increased political control of agriculture, hoping to feed the rapidly growing urban areas and to export grain, a source of foreign currency needed to import technologies necessary for heavy industrialization.
By 1936 about 90% of Soviet agriculture was collectivized. In many cases peasants bitterly opposed this process and often slaughtered their animals rather than give them to collective farms. Kulaks, prosperous peasants, were forcibly resettled to Kazakhstan, Siberia and the Russian Far North (a large portion of the kulaks served at forced labor camps). However, just about anyone opposing collectivization was deemed a "kulak." The policy of liquidation of kulaks as a class, formulated by Stalin at the end of 1929, meant some executions, and much greater deportation to special settlements and sometimes to forced labor camps.
Despite the expectations, collectivization led to a catastrophic drop in farming productivity, which did not regain the NEP level until 1940. The upheaval associated with collectivization was particularly severe in Ukraine, and the heavily Ukrainian adjoining Volga regions, a fact which has led many Ukrainian scholars to argue that there was a deliberate policy of starving the Ukrainians (see Holodomor for more information). The number of people who died in the famines is estimated at between three and ten million in Ukraine alone, not counting the adjoining regions. The best estimate is that in the whole USSR there were 5-6 million excess deaths. Soviet sources vary between denying the existence of the famine and estimating much smaller numbers of dead. The actual number of casualties is bitterly disputed to this day. In 1975, Abramov and Kocharli estimated that 265,800 kulak families were sent to the Gulag in 1930. In 1979, Roy Medvedev used Abramov's and Kocharli's estimate to calculate that 2.5 million peasants were exiled between 1930 and 1931, but he suspected that he underestimated the total number. But since the collapse of the Soviet Union huge numbers of archival files have been opened, and it is possible to make reasonably accurate estimates.
In Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania the collectivization of agriculture was started in 1948. By terror, killings and deportations, most peasants were collectivized by 1952. Agricultural production fell dramatically to the level of Soviet agriculture in the other Soviet Republics.
The odd thing is that if I described the Holocaust which killed a similar number of people as a SNAFU and denied it was the result of Nazi policy you'd be outraged.
In Vista each application has a separate volume control. So you can mute your browser and turn up the volume on your media player.
And how does this help people using XP, or Linux or OSX?
And even if I'm using Vista, I'm often listening to the music through my browser anyway [Pandora, Rhapsody], so this still doesn't help me.
How does your post help people who are reading a different website like reddit or digg?
Even I'm reading slashdot I might look at a different post to yours so yours doesn't help me.
You have everything I posted. All the words are important.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_Union#Ukraine
Most historians agree that the disruption caused by collectivization and the resistance of the peasants significantly contributed to the Great Famine of 1932-1933, especially in Ukraine, a region famous for its rich soil (chernozem). This particular period is called "Holodomor" in Ukrainian. During the similar famines of 1921-1923, numerous campaigns, inside the country, as well as internationally were held to raise money and food in support of the population of the affected regions. Nothing similar was done during the drought of 1932-1933, mainly because the information about the disaster was suppressed by Stalin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
The Holodomor (translation: death by starvation) refers to the famine of 1932-1933 in the Ukrainian SSR during which millions of people were starved to death because of the Soviet policies, and there were no natural causes for starvation. In fact, Ukraine - unlike other Soviet Republics - enjoyed a bumper wheat crop in 1932. The Holodomor is considered one of the greatest calamities to affect the Ukrainian nation in modern history. Millions of inhabitants of Ukraine died of starvation in an unprecedented peacetime catastrophe. Estimates on the total number of casualties within Soviet Ukraine range mostly from 2.6 million to 10 million.
In fact collectivisation killed so many people that it caused the 1937 census to give the wrong results. The people were responsible were sent to the Gulag as saboteurs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_(1937) )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_farming#People.27s_Republic_of_China
Collective farming began in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong. It was further pursued during the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to rapidly mobilize the country in an effort to transform China into an industrialized communist society. The policy mistakes associated with this collectivization attempt during the Great Leap Forward resulted in mass starvation. According to many other sources, the death toll due to famine was most likely about 20 to 30 million people. The three years between 1959 and 1962 were known as the "Three Bitter Years" and the Three Years of Natural Disasters.
In Vista each application has a separate volume control. So you can mute your browser and turn up the volume on your media player.
The nice thing is that it seems to be completely general - if you spot two gases that should react being present you can tell that something is up. The only problem is that it only works with Earth like planets with an atmosphere. I can imagine life in the ocean on Europa but that's obviously inaccessible to this sort of experiment.
The interesting thing is that starvation happens, as far as I can tell, because of corrupt or abusive governments. E.g. the Ethiopian famines were caused by one side in a civil war trying to starve the other into submission and attempting to force collectivisation. International food aid was in fact stopped by the Ethopian government. Famines in China and Russia were caused by the government imposing collectivisation. None of these countries lack the ability to grow enough food - the famine was created by bad governments.
At that point it's tempting to consider some sort of regime change or even colonisation. Regime change can affect the people in power but it can't change the cultural norm that governments are expected to be abusive. And India had far more famines when run by the English than after independence. Actually it seems like even though there is no shortage of food, people are going to starve and there is no way to stop it.
Well ok, but by definition if the human race is at the bottom of the food chain the meat eaters will be a step up from the non meat eaters.