The foreign policy of the Carter administration fails not for lack of good intentions but for lack of realism about the nature of traditional versus revolutionary autocracies and the relation of each to the American national interest. Only intellectual fashion and the tyranny of Right/Left thinking prevent intelligent men of good will from perceiving the facts that traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies, that they are more susceptible of liberalization, and that they are more compatible with U.S. interests. The evidence on all these points is clear enough.
Surely it is now beyond reasonable doubt that the present governments of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos are much more repressive than those of the despised previous rulers; that the government of the People's Republic of China is more repressive than that of Taiwan, that North Korea is more repressive than South Korea, and so forth. This is the most important lesson of Vietnam and Cambodia. It is not new but it is a gruesome reminder of harsh facts.
Carter took a hard line with traditional US allies but a very soft one with traditional US enemies. The end result was predictably that US enemies gained and US allies lost. The problem was that those US enemies were actually even more repressive than the most dubious of the US's allies. Khomeini was worse than the Shah. The PRC was worse than the ROC.
That doesn't mean that Windows 8 is 'based on Dos' anymore than a Linux box with the Dosbox emulator running Dos apps in a windows is.
Incidentally in 64 bit Windows there is no NTVDM or support for 16 bit Windows - you can have 16 bit apps running on a 32 bit kernel via a thunking layer (Windows On Windows), or 32 bit apps running on a 64 bit kernel via a thunking layer (WOW64) but you can't have 16 bit apps running on two thunking layers on a 64 bit kernel. Since Microsoft won't support memory above 4GB using PAE on 32 bit Windows you pretty much have to use 64 bit Windows on a machine with more than 4GB. In fact even on a 4GB machine you'll have more usable memory with a 64 bit OS than a 32 bit one - there's a hole under 4GB for PCI memory mapped space. The only way to get access to the memory the hole covers up is to see it about 4GB. With current Microsoft OSs that is only supported on 64 bit OSs. So in the long run most machines are going to come with a 64 bit OS and that means no NTVDM.
Of course part of it is probably that 16 bit Windows and Dos apps have pretty much ceased to be commercially important. And if you want retro games you've been better off with something like Doxbox than NTVDM for some time.
First, whatever source you are getting 41% from, were they there? Did they actually count the votes? Or are you getting this information from western media, who logically did not even have access to Crimea at the time of vote? To recap you don't know who is lying (Russians or the West), but the source that you choose to believe literally has no way of knowing the truth in either case.
Incidentally doesn't it seem a little suspicious to you that western media ' did not even have access to Crimea at the time of vote'? The reason for that being that the Russian army and pro Russian militias wouldn't let anyone into Crimea from Ukraine or the West - the whole country was under lockdown with anyone who wasn't repeating the mantra that "you're either with Russia or you're a Nazi" was either kept out or beaten up.
Second, I have seen pictures of ballots (I also happen to read Russian since I was born in Ukraine, thought it was USSR at the time). The choices are "Would you like to join Russian Federation" or "Would you like Crimea to stay an autonomous republic as part of Ukraine".
If you look at the ballot here you can see one option is to join Russia and one is to restore the 1992 constitution.
According to a format of the ballot paper, published on the parliament's website, the first question will ask: "Are you in favor of the reunification of Crimea with Russia as a part of the Russian Federation?"
The second asks: "Are you in favor of restoring the 1992 Constitution and the status of Crimea as a part of Ukraine?"
At first glance, the second option seems to offer the prospects of the peninsula remaining within Ukraine.
But the 1992 national blueprint - which was adopted soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union and then quickly abolished by the young post-Soviet Ukrainian state - is far from doing that.
This foresees giving Crimea all the qualities of an independent entity within Ukraine - but with the broad right to determine its own path and choose relations with whom it wants - including Russia.
With the pro-Russian assembly already saying it wants to return Crimea to Russia, this second option only offers a slightly longer route to shifting the peninsula back under Russian control, analysts say.
The option of asking people if they wish to stick with the status quo - in which Crimea enjoys autonomy but remains part of Ukraine - is not on offer.
Like I say you can vote to join Russia or restore the 1992 Crimea Constitution. Under which, incidentally the Crimean Parliament could decide to join Russia without another referendum.
Third, I have friends living in Crimea. They would rather be part of Russia, because they would rather have stability than being a part of a failed and corrupt state where revolutions occur every 3-4 years. Also, since you believe that all Ukrainians are held at gunpoint here's a Ukrainian (me) telling you that Russia did the right thing. I assure you nobody is holding me at gunpoint.
I've got friends in Russia and they would rather Putin - who they call 'the Russian Mugabe' loses this gamble because it means he's likelier to lose power.
But hey anecdotes have a small sample size. If you want a decent sample size look at the Gallup polls. And note that the most popular option with 53% support in 2013 - autonomy inside the Ukraine - wasn't even on offer. Also note that 97% in favour is a very unlikely number to get in any referendum.
That sounds like they'll feed you Tapas and Rioja until you're good and relaxed and then pin cussion you with cocktail sticks like the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.
Which would, come to think of it, cure you of pretty much anything.
Because they almost certainly don't? Objective polling before the election put only 41% of Crimeans in favour of becoming part of Russia. Russia invaded, installed a puppet Crimean government (kicking the democratically elected one out) took over the airwaves, spread propaganda everywhere, refused to allow impartial international observers in and then called an election which they "won" with 97% support - the jump from 41% to 97% isn't within any sane margin of error.
It's less than 41% actually. In 2011 it was 33% and in 2013 it was 23%
So far, the most revealing aspect of his time in power has been the way he came to possess it. Before dawn on Feb. 27, at least two dozen heavily armed men stormed the Crimean parliament building and the nearby headquarters of the regional government, bringing with them a cache of assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades. A few hours later, Aksyonov walked into the parliament and, after a brief round of talks with the gunmen, began to gather a quorum of the chamber's lawmakers.
It is not clear whether the parliament was seized that day on his orders. On the one hand, the masked gunmen identified themselves as members of Crimea's "self-defense forces," all of which are, according to Aksyonov, directly under his control. On the other, he claims the seizure of the buildings was done "spontaneously" by a mysterious group of fighters. "We only knew that these were Russian nationalist forces," he tells TIME in an interview Sunday. "These were people who share our Russian ideology. So if they wanted to kill someone, they would have killed the nightwatchmen who were inside."
Instead, they let the guards go, sealed the doors and only allowed the lawmakers whom Aksyonov invited to enter the building. Various media accounts have disputed whether he was able to gather a quorum of 50 of his peers before the session convened that day, and some Crimean legislators who were registered as present have said they did not come near the building. In any case, those who did arrive could hardly have voted their conscience while pro-Russian gunmen stood in the wings with rocket launchers. Both of the votes held that day were unanimous. The first appointed Aksyonov, a rookie statesman with less than four years experience as a local parliamentarian, as the new Prime Minister of Crimea. The second vote called for a referendum on the peninsula's secession from Ukraine.
Oh and the referendum offered people a choice between independence (and joining Russia later) or joining Russia immediately - "yes, now" or "yes, later". There was no way to vote for the status quo of staying inside the Ukraine.
The ballot for March 16 Crimean referendum gives two choices, to join Russia or become independent.
Voters in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Crimea who vote in the March 16 referendum have two choices - join Russia immediately or declare independence and then join Russia.
So the choices are "yes, now" or "yes, later."
The referendum took place only two weeks later dur
The F-4's biggest weakness, as it was initially designed, was its lack of an internal cannon. For a brief period, doctrine held that turning combat would be impossible at supersonic speeds and little effort was made to teach pilots air combat maneuvering. In reality, engagements quickly became subsonic, as pilots would slow down in an effort to get behind their adversaries. Furthermore, the relatively new heat-seeking and radar-guided missiles at the time were frequently reported as unreliable and pilots had to use multiple shots (also known as ripple-firing), just to hit one enemy fighter. To compound the problem, rules of engagement in Vietnam precluded long-range missile attacks in most instances, as visual identification was normally required. Many pilots found themselves on the tail of an enemy aircraft but too close to fire short-range Falcons or Sidewinders. Although by 1965 USAF F-4Cs began carrying SUU-16 external gunpods containing a 20 mm (.79 in) M61 Vulcan Gatling cannon, USAF cockpits were not equipped with lead-computing gunsights until the introduction of the SUU-23, virtually assuring a miss in a maneuvering fight. Some marine corps aircraft carried two pods for strafing. In addition to the loss of performance due to drag, combat showed the externally mounted cannon to be inaccurate unless frequently boresighted, yet far more cost-effective than missiles. The lack of a cannon was finally addressed by adding an internally mounted 20 mm (.79 in) M61 Vulcan on the F-4E
The notion that air to air combat is going to be missile based implicitly assumes the US will only fight countries which are enormously inferior in military capabilities or where people don't want to fight - e.g. Iraq, Libya etc. Put the US in a battle with North Korea, China, Russia etc and things will change.
Theo de Raadt doesn' t like chroot cages and has been religously rejecting the patches to support it for OpenSSH environments for..... a very long time.
Look at it this way. Being able to test your code on OpenBSD vs pissing off Theo. One of these things is worth doing, and one is not.
LTTE is Long TTerm Evolution, a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals. It is based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies, increasing the capacity and speed using a different radio interface together with core network improvements. The standard is developed by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) and is specified in its Release 8 document series, with minor enhancements described in Release 9.
Using that to generate a list of suspects which the police can narrow down based on additional evidence is fine. If that's the sole evidence for a trial, then there is a problem.
Well at that point I guess they'd get a torture warrant.
How 400-600 entered the conversation is beyond me. The percentage of people who can visually tell the difference between a 300 dpi output and anything higher than that is very, very small. The number of people who can spot the difference at 400+ is not even a consideration for discussion. I'm sure there are some who can but don't even vaguely think that they in any way represent the norm.
What about all the giant squids browsing the Internet from R'lyeh? They've got eyes the size of dinner plates so their vision must have superb angular resolution?
Does anyone else think that Intel should introduce power states like you get in embedded systems where you have 'rules' like "reprogram the SDRAM controller and bus interface controller. Oh and make sure there's no AHB bus activity (e.g. access to SDRAM or Flash memory) at all when you do it, otherwise the whole system will lock up hard". Traditionally these rules are discovered empirically and are documented by sweary comments in check ins.
The reason is
1) It'll keep those bastards at the OEMs on their toes.
2) More work for consultants working on Bioses, the ACPI standard etc.
Actually support for ARM systems means this sort of thing will probably happen
Supporting Device Tree would require Microsoft to rewrite large parts of Windows, whereas mandating UEFI and ACPI allowed them to reuse most of their existing Windows boot and driver code. As a result, largely at Microsoft's behest, ACPI 5 has grown a range of additional features for describing things like GPIO pinouts and I2C connections. Whatever your weird device layout, you can probably express it via ACPI.
Obviously doing this sort of thing via ACPI methods adds and additional - and from a consultancy point of view entirely welcome - level of fuck to "reprogram the SDRAM controller and bus interface controller. Oh and make sure there's no AHB bus activity (e.g. access to SDRAM or Flash memory) at all when you do it, otherwise the whole system will lock up hard".
I.e. if you didn't have ACPI but rather just had a hard coded chipset specific hacks file, you could just have a few lines of assembler to poke the hardware in the right order and stick in in TCM (or if you're in a bad mode cunningly aligned to a cache line). Now with ACPI you're supposed to use AML bytecode which is run by - I shit you not - an interpreter in the OS.
Most mp3's are going to be somewhere between 3 and 10 MB. That's close enough to give a rough estimate of how many "songs" you can fit on your mp3 player.
MP3 player manufacturers used 'You Suffer' by Napalm Death encoded at 32kbps as their reference MP3.
"You Suffer" is a song by the British grindcore band Napalm Death, from their debut album, Scum. The song has earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest recorded song ever. It is precisely 1.316 seconds long/quote.
It's like hard disk manufacturers using the decimal version of a megabyte to make their drives look bigger.
The fees will go up and those who can't afford them will be converted into serfs or indentured labourers. Finally the CSA (Confederate States of America) will arise again with the newly recruited serfs growing cotton on those 20 acres.
I would imagine Nvidia are very uncomfortable with the way their market has been contracting over the last couple of years.
At some point enough x86/x64 patents will expire that Nvidia will be able license the remaining ones and so an x64 chip of their own.
Or alternatively they could sell Arm+GPU SOCs instead - arguably Arm+GPU is a better bet than x64+GPU because the sales of phones and tablets will exceed the sales of x64 PCs. Of course the margins are likely to be thinner because there's a lot of competition in the Arm SOC market - Apple and Samsung have their own in house designs and outside that it looks like Qualcomm have most of the rest of the market.
Still it's not like AMD is doing very well competing with Intel. And the reason Qualcomm do so well is because they design their own Arm microarchitectures - Scorpion and Krait were both designed in house and were higher performance than the best Arm designed microarchitecture. So I guess NVidia could be aimed to compete with Qualcomm since Denver is in house too.
Actually Apple A6 and A7 chips are like this too. Apple have an Arm license but the chips are designed in house. So it seems like of the Arm SOCs that actually sell well only Samsung is using Arm's designs and only in some markets
Galaxy S4 models use of one of two processors, depending on the region and network compatibility. The S4 version for North America, most of Europe, parts of Asia, and other countries contains Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600 system-on-chip, containing a quad-core 1.9 GHz Krait 300 CPU and an Adreno 320 GPU. The chip also contains a modem which supports LTE. Other models include Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa system-on-chip with a heterogeneous CPU. The octa-core CPU comprises a 1.6 GHz quad-core Cortex-A15 cluster and a 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 cluster. The chip can dynamically switch between the two clusters of cores based on CPU usage; the chip switches to the A15 cores when more processing power is needed, and stays on the A7 cores to conserve energy on lighter loads
So there are two versions. A Qualcomm Snapdragon one for the US and Europe and an Exynos one for Asia. The Exynos one uses Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 in a BIG.little configuration.
Unfortunately they fucked up the big.LITTLE configuration
The Exynos 5410 saw limited use, appearing in some international versions of the Galaxy S 4 and nothing else. Part of the problem with the design was a broken implementation of the CCI-400 coherent bus interface that connect the two CPU islands to the rest of the SoC. In the case of the 5410, the bus was functional but coherency was broken and manually disabled on the Galaxy S 4. The implications are serious from a power consumption (and performance) standpoint. With all caches being flushed out to main memory upon a switch between CPU islands. Neither ARM nor Samsung LSI will talk about the bug publicly, and Samsung didn't fess up to the problem at first either - leaving end users to discover it on their own.
The Qualcomm one has much better talk time - almost twice as much.
You have to wonder what the hell has happened to Arm to be honest. It seems like Apple (A6, A7) and Qualcomm (Scorpion, Krait) do a much better job at Arm core design than Arm/Samsung.
It'll be interesting to see battery life tests on the Snapdragon 801 and Exynos 5422 versions of the S5 to see if Samsung have got big.LITTLE working like it is supposed to. Actually I wonder whether big.LITTLE is even necessary - it seems like it would be much easier to just
There is extraordinary precedent of Apple being open the quicktime server code has a BSD license. The Webkit engine which is basically in EVERYTHING is BSD licensed. Apple contributes code directly to FreeBSD on many occasions. Apple was instrumental in the adoption and maturity of LLVM.
I'm really tempted to link to some insane Stallman rant about how LLVM/BSD and Apple are EVIL because of the BSD licence. But this is slashdot not reddit and I don't want to turn it into reddit.
Best argument I've heard is that back in the 17th Century India was one of the richest civilisations in the world. Then it was colonised by the Muslims and then the British.
Muslim colonisation was absolutely genocidal - the name Hindu Kush means "slaughterer of the Hindus" and refers to the high death rate of Hindu slaves moved over them.
So why does India need a space program? Defence basically. Most of the technologies to launch things into space are useful to launch warheads on a short suborbital flight to fry and enemy city.
And if India wants to avoid a rerun of the last two hundred years it needs to be prepared to fry enemy cities. The world is not a very nice place and only well armed and ruthless civilisations survive.
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Even if all that were true he still wouldn't be as bad as Carter
http://www.commentarymagazine....
The foreign policy of the Carter administration fails not for lack of good intentions but for lack of realism about the nature of traditional versus revolutionary autocracies and the relation of each to the American national interest. Only intellectual fashion and the tyranny of Right/Left thinking prevent intelligent men of good will from perceiving the facts that traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies, that they are more susceptible of liberalization, and that they are more compatible with U.S. interests. The evidence on all these points is clear enough.
Surely it is now beyond reasonable doubt that the present governments of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos are much more repressive than those of the despised previous rulers; that the government of the People's Republic of China is more repressive than that of Taiwan, that North Korea is more repressive than South Korea, and so forth. This is the most important lesson of Vietnam and Cambodia. It is not new but it is a gruesome reminder of harsh facts.
Carter took a hard line with traditional US allies but a very soft one with traditional US enemies. The end result was predictably that US enemies gained and US allies lost. The problem was that those US enemies were actually even more repressive than the most dubious of the US's allies. Khomeini was worse than the Shah. The PRC was worse than the ROC.
That doesn't mean that Windows 8 is 'based on Dos' anymore than a Linux box with the Dosbox emulator running Dos apps in a windows is.
Incidentally in 64 bit Windows there is no NTVDM or support for 16 bit Windows - you can have 16 bit apps running on a 32 bit kernel via a thunking layer (Windows On Windows), or 32 bit apps running on a 64 bit kernel via a thunking layer (WOW64) but you can't have 16 bit apps running on two thunking layers on a 64 bit kernel. Since Microsoft won't support memory above 4GB using PAE on 32 bit Windows you pretty much have to use 64 bit Windows on a machine with more than 4GB. In fact even on a 4GB machine you'll have more usable memory with a 64 bit OS than a 32 bit one - there's a hole under 4GB for PCI memory mapped space. The only way to get access to the memory the hole covers up is to see it about 4GB. With current Microsoft OSs that is only supported on 64 bit OSs. So in the long run most machines are going to come with a 64 bit OS and that means no NTVDM.
Of course part of it is probably that 16 bit Windows and Dos apps have pretty much ceased to be commercially important. And if you want retro games you've been better off with something like Doxbox than NTVDM for some time.
First, whatever source you are getting 41% from, were they there? Did they actually count the votes? Or are you getting this information from western media, who logically did not even have access to Crimea at the time of vote? To recap you don't know who is lying (Russians or the West), but the source that you choose to believe literally has no way of knowing the truth in either case.
Gallup did opinion polls in 2011 and 2013
http://www.ibtimes.com/gallup-...
Incidentally doesn't it seem a little suspicious to you that western media ' did not even have access to Crimea at the time of vote'? The reason for that being that the Russian army and pro Russian militias wouldn't let anyone into Crimea from Ukraine or the West - the whole country was under lockdown with anyone who wasn't repeating the mantra that "you're either with Russia or you're a Nazi" was either kept out or beaten up.
Second, I have seen pictures of ballots (I also happen to read Russian since I was born in Ukraine, thought it was USSR at the time). The choices are "Would you like to join Russian Federation" or "Would you like Crimea to stay an autonomous republic as part of Ukraine".
If you look at the ballot here you can see one option is to join Russia and one is to restore the 1992 constitution.
What does that mean?
http://www.reuters.com/article...
According to a format of the ballot paper, published on the parliament's website, the first question will ask: "Are you in favor of the reunification of Crimea with Russia as a part of the Russian Federation?"
The second asks: "Are you in favor of restoring the 1992 Constitution and the status of Crimea as a part of Ukraine?"
At first glance, the second option seems to offer the prospects of the peninsula remaining within Ukraine.
But the 1992 national blueprint - which was adopted soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union and then quickly abolished by the young post-Soviet Ukrainian state - is far from doing that.
This foresees giving Crimea all the qualities of an independent entity within Ukraine - but with the broad right to determine its own path and choose relations with whom it wants - including Russia.
With the pro-Russian assembly already saying it wants to return Crimea to Russia, this second option only offers a slightly longer route to shifting the peninsula back under Russian control, analysts say.
The option of asking people if they wish to stick with the status quo - in which Crimea enjoys autonomy but remains part of Ukraine - is not on offer.
Like I say you can vote to join Russia or restore the 1992 Crimea Constitution. Under which, incidentally the Crimean Parliament could decide to join Russia without another referendum.
Third, I have friends living in Crimea. They would rather be part of Russia, because they would rather have stability than being a part of a failed and corrupt state where revolutions occur every 3-4 years. Also, since you believe that all Ukrainians are held at gunpoint here's a Ukrainian (me) telling you that Russia did the right thing. I assure you nobody is holding me at gunpoint.
I've got friends in Russia and they would rather Putin - who they call 'the Russian Mugabe' loses this gamble because it means he's likelier to lose power.
But hey anecdotes have a small sample size. If you want a decent sample size look at the Gallup polls. And note that the most popular option with 53% support in 2013 - autonomy inside the Ukraine - wasn't even on offer. Also note that 97% in favour is a very unlikely number to get in any referendum.
That sounds like they'll feed you Tapas and Rioja until you're good and relaxed and then pin cussion you with cocktail sticks like the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.
Which would, come to think of it, cure you of pretty much anything.
Because they almost certainly don't? Objective polling before the election put only 41% of Crimeans in favour of becoming part of Russia. Russia invaded, installed a puppet Crimean government (kicking the democratically elected one out) took over the airwaves, spread propaganda everywhere, refused to allow impartial international observers in and then called an election which they "won" with 97% support - the jump from 41% to 97% isn't within any sane margin of error.
It's less than 41% actually. In 2011 it was 33% and in 2013 it was 23%
http://www.ibtimes.com/gallup-...
Also the leader of the puppet government - a Russian gangster nick named Goblin - was from a party which got 4% of the vote in the last elections. And it's not even clear that the votes in Parliament making him PM and organising the referendum were quorate. Also Parliament was surrounded by gunmen who only let in MPs who would vote the right way
http://time.com/19097/putin-cr...
So far, the most revealing aspect of his time in power has been the way he came to possess it. Before dawn on Feb. 27, at least two dozen heavily armed men stormed the Crimean parliament building and the nearby headquarters of the regional government, bringing with them a cache of assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades. A few hours later, Aksyonov walked into the parliament and, after a brief round of talks with the gunmen, began to gather a quorum of the chamber's lawmakers.
It is not clear whether the parliament was seized that day on his orders. On the one hand, the masked gunmen identified themselves as members of Crimea's "self-defense forces," all of which are, according to Aksyonov, directly under his control. On the other, he claims the seizure of the buildings was done "spontaneously" by a mysterious group of fighters. "We only knew that these were Russian nationalist forces," he tells TIME in an interview Sunday. "These were people who share our Russian ideology. So if they wanted to kill someone, they would have killed the nightwatchmen who were inside."
Instead, they let the guards go, sealed the doors and only allowed the lawmakers whom Aksyonov invited to enter the building. Various media accounts have disputed whether he was able to gather a quorum of 50 of his peers before the session convened that day, and some Crimean legislators who were registered as present have said they did not come near the building. In any case, those who did arrive could hardly have voted their conscience while pro-Russian gunmen stood in the wings with rocket launchers. Both of the votes held that day were unanimous. The first appointed Aksyonov, a rookie statesman with less than four years experience as a local parliamentarian, as the new Prime Minister of Crimea. The second vote called for a referendum on the peninsula's secession from Ukraine.
Oh and the referendum offered people a choice between independence (and joining Russia later) or joining Russia immediately - "yes, now" or "yes, later". There was no way to vote for the status quo of staying inside the Ukraine.
https://www.kyivpost.com/conte...
The ballot for March 16 Crimean referendum gives two choices, to join Russia or become independent.
Voters in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Crimea who vote in the March 16 referendum have two choices - join Russia immediately or declare independence and then join Russia.
So the choices are "yes, now" or "yes, later."
The referendum took place only two weeks later dur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
The F-4's biggest weakness, as it was initially designed, was its lack of an internal cannon. For a brief period, doctrine held that turning combat would be impossible at supersonic speeds and little effort was made to teach pilots air combat maneuvering. In reality, engagements quickly became subsonic, as pilots would slow down in an effort to get behind their adversaries. Furthermore, the relatively new heat-seeking and radar-guided missiles at the time were frequently reported as unreliable and pilots had to use multiple shots (also known as ripple-firing), just to hit one enemy fighter. To compound the problem, rules of engagement in Vietnam precluded long-range missile attacks in most instances, as visual identification was normally required. Many pilots found themselves on the tail of an enemy aircraft but too close to fire short-range Falcons or Sidewinders. Although by 1965 USAF F-4Cs began carrying SUU-16 external gunpods containing a 20 mm (.79 in) M61 Vulcan Gatling cannon, USAF cockpits were not equipped with lead-computing gunsights until the introduction of the SUU-23, virtually assuring a miss in a maneuvering fight. Some marine corps aircraft carried two pods for strafing. In addition to the loss of performance due to drag, combat showed the externally mounted cannon to be inaccurate unless frequently boresighted, yet far more cost-effective than missiles. The lack of a cannon was finally addressed by adding an internally mounted 20 mm (.79 in) M61 Vulcan on the F-4E
The notion that air to air combat is going to be missile based implicitly assumes the US will only fight countries which are enormously inferior in military capabilities or where people don't want to fight - e.g. Iraq, Libya etc. Put the US in a battle with North Korea, China, Russia etc and things will change.
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
Theo de Raadt doesn' t like chroot cages and has been religously rejecting the patches to support it for OpenSSH environments for..... a very long time.
Look at it this way. Being able to test your code on OpenBSD vs pissing off Theo. One of these things is worth doing, and one is not.
Gentlemen! We have found the state sponsor responsible for the terrorist attack on MH370. We start bombing in five minutes.
Videophiles tell me that the only reason I can't see the Emperor's New Clothes is because I'm a peasant, unlike them.
LTTE is Long TTerm Evolution, a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals. It is based on the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSPA network technologies, increasing the capacity and speed using a different radio interface together with core network improvements. The standard is developed by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) and is specified in its Release 8 document series, with minor enhancements described in Release 9.
But, overall, the world is a better place today than it was centuries ago if you are a woman, racial minority, and/or LGBT.
The latest acronym is LGBTWTFBBQ you oppressive shitlord.
Using that to generate a list of suspects which the police can narrow down based on additional evidence is fine. If that's the sole evidence for a trial, then there is a problem.
Well at that point I guess they'd get a torture warrant.
How 400-600 entered the conversation is beyond me. The percentage of people who can visually tell the difference between a 300 dpi output and anything higher than that is very, very small. The number of people who can spot the difference at 400+ is not even a consideration for discussion. I'm sure there are some who can but don't even vaguely think that they in any way represent the norm.
What about all the giant squids browsing the Internet from R'lyeh? They've got eyes the size of dinner plates so their vision must have superb angular resolution?
LTE = Liberation tigers of Tamil Elam.
They used to be a good group, until they sold out.
Does anyone else think that Intel should introduce power states like you get in embedded systems where you have 'rules' like "reprogram the SDRAM controller and bus interface controller. Oh and make sure there's no AHB bus activity (e.g. access to SDRAM or Flash memory) at all when you do it, otherwise the whole system will lock up hard". Traditionally these rules are discovered empirically and are documented by sweary comments in check ins.
The reason is
1) It'll keep those bastards at the OEMs on their toes.
2) More work for consultants working on Bioses, the ACPI standard etc.
Actually support for ARM systems means this sort of thing will probably happen
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/26...
Supporting Device Tree would require Microsoft to rewrite large parts of Windows, whereas mandating UEFI and ACPI allowed them to reuse most of their existing Windows boot and driver code. As a result, largely at Microsoft's behest, ACPI 5 has grown a range of additional features for describing things like GPIO pinouts and I2C connections. Whatever your weird device layout, you can probably express it via ACPI.
Obviously doing this sort of thing via ACPI methods adds and additional - and from a consultancy point of view entirely welcome - level of fuck to "reprogram the SDRAM controller and bus interface controller. Oh and make sure there's no AHB bus activity (e.g. access to SDRAM or Flash memory) at all when you do it, otherwise the whole system will lock up hard".
I.e. if you didn't have ACPI but rather just had a hard coded chipset specific hacks file, you could just have a few lines of assembler to poke the hardware in the right order and stick in in TCM (or if you're in a bad mode cunningly aligned to a cache line). Now with ACPI you're supposed to use AML bytecode which is run by - I shit you not - an interpreter in the OS.
Gates has eradicated many vile diseases like Malaria, River Blindness, OS-X and Linux.
Most mp3's are going to be somewhere between 3 and 10 MB. That's close enough to give a rough estimate of how many "songs" you can fit on your mp3 player.
MP3 player manufacturers used 'You Suffer' by Napalm Death encoded at 32kbps as their reference MP3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y...
"You Suffer" is a song by the British grindcore band Napalm Death, from their debut album, Scum. The song has earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest recorded song ever. It is precisely 1.316 seconds long/quote.
It's like hard disk manufacturers using the decimal version of a megabyte to make their drives look bigger.
Like most utopias it's probably got a downside.
The fees will go up and those who can't afford them will be converted into serfs or indentured labourers. Finally the CSA (Confederate States of America) will arise again with the newly recruited serfs growing cotton on those 20 acres.
I would imagine Nvidia are very uncomfortable with the way their market has been contracting over the last couple of years.
At some point enough x86/x64 patents will expire that Nvidia will be able license the remaining ones and so an x64 chip of their own.
Or alternatively they could sell Arm+GPU SOCs instead - arguably Arm+GPU is a better bet than x64+GPU because the sales of phones and tablets will exceed the sales of x64 PCs. Of course the margins are likely to be thinner because there's a lot of competition in the Arm SOC market - Apple and Samsung have their own in house designs and outside that it looks like Qualcomm have most of the rest of the market.
Still it's not like AMD is doing very well competing with Intel. And the reason Qualcomm do so well is because they design their own Arm microarchitectures - Scorpion and Krait were both designed in house and were higher performance than the best Arm designed microarchitecture. So I guess NVidia could be aimed to compete with Qualcomm since Denver is in house too.
Actually Apple A6 and A7 chips are like this too. Apple have an Arm license but the chips are designed in house. So it seems like of the Arm SOCs that actually sell well only Samsung is using Arm's designs and only in some markets
E.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Galaxy S4 models use of one of two processors, depending on the region and network compatibility. The S4 version for North America, most of Europe, parts of Asia, and other countries contains Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600 system-on-chip, containing a quad-core 1.9 GHz Krait 300 CPU and an Adreno 320 GPU. The chip also contains a modem which supports LTE. Other models include Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa system-on-chip with a heterogeneous CPU. The octa-core CPU comprises a 1.6 GHz quad-core Cortex-A15 cluster and a 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 cluster. The chip can dynamically switch between the two clusters of cores based on CPU usage; the chip switches to the A15 cores when more processing power is needed, and stays on the A7 cores to conserve energy on lighter loads
So there are two versions. A Qualcomm Snapdragon one for the US and Europe and an Exynos one for Asia. The Exynos one uses Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 in a BIG.little configuration.
Unfortunately they fucked up the big.LITTLE configuration
http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
The Exynos 5410 saw limited use, appearing in some international versions of the Galaxy S 4 and nothing else. Part of the problem with the design was a broken implementation of the CCI-400 coherent bus interface that connect the two CPU islands to the rest of the SoC. In the case of the 5410, the bus was functional but coherency was broken and manually disabled on the Galaxy S 4. The implications are serious from a power consumption (and performance) standpoint. With all caches being flushed out to main memory upon a switch between CPU islands. Neither ARM nor Samsung LSI will talk about the bug publicly, and Samsung didn't fess up to the problem at first either - leaving end users to discover it on their own.
You can see the results here
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsun...
The Qualcomm one has much better talk time - almost twice as much.
You have to wonder what the hell has happened to Arm to be honest. It seems like Apple (A6, A7) and Qualcomm (Scorpion, Krait) do a much better job at Arm core design than Arm/Samsung.
It'll be interesting to see battery life tests on the Snapdragon 801 and Exynos 5422 versions of the S5 to see if Samsung have got big.LITTLE working like it is supposed to. Actually I wonder whether big.LITTLE is even necessary - it seems like it would be much easier to just
He called LLVM a 'terrible setback' and BSD a 'pushover licence'
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.p...
There is extraordinary precedent of Apple being open the quicktime server code has a BSD license. The Webkit engine which is basically in EVERYTHING is BSD licensed. Apple contributes code directly to FreeBSD on many occasions. Apple was instrumental in the adoption and maturity of LLVM.
I'm really tempted to link to some insane Stallman rant about how LLVM/BSD and Apple are EVIL because of the BSD licence. But this is slashdot not reddit and I don't want to turn it into reddit.
Mac fans demonstrate their social skills once again.
Look at page 4
http://techreport.com/review/2...
The 730 drive is in the middle of the pack for sequential reads. None of the drives reach 550MB/s.
Best argument I've heard is that back in the 17th Century India was one of the richest civilisations in the world. Then it was colonised by the Muslims and then the British.
Muslim colonisation was absolutely genocidal - the name Hindu Kush means "slaughterer of the Hindus" and refers to the high death rate of Hindu slaves moved over them.
The British one was no picnic either - famines were common under British rule and stopped when it ended. India's share of world income collapsed from 22.6% in 1700, almost equal to Europe's share of 23.3% at that time, to as low as 3.8% in 1952.
So why does India need a space program? Defence basically. Most of the technologies to launch things into space are useful to launch warheads on a short suborbital flight to fry and enemy city.
And if India wants to avoid a rerun of the last two hundred years it needs to be prepared to fry enemy cities. The world is not a very nice place and only well armed and ruthless civilisations survive.