If you figure it costs about $10,000/lb to launch stuff into space, launching 16 pounds would leave $96,000 for administration and profit. The numbers are plausible. And if they start launching from a Virgin space plane, then the launch costs could do down dramatically.
The scary thing is that having a Liberal or NDP government would be just as bad. We need a government that's for individual freedom first and foremost.
I don't know about all engines, but MySQL's InnoDB suffered a lot of concurrency issues until very recently with the latest releases in the 5.1 branch. It would be interesting to see the test repeated now. I hear PostgreSQL has improved quite a bit, too. All that being said, memory bandwidth will also be an issue with concurrency. Databases are very bandwidth and memory intensive.
Databases use mostly integer math at their core. It's the opposite of graphics. Databases also do a ton of conditional branching (indexes on columns in a databases are usually stored as trees). Because of all the branch prediction, there's not a lot of benefit in doing branch prediction, because chances are high the branch prediction logic will pick the wrong branch. Furthermore, branching is not very parallelizable. And because databases are often running more than one query at a time, a CPU designed for databases should be composed of simple units that do integer math very fast. And that's exactly what Sun's Niagara processors are: 8 cores running 4 threads apiece, and fast at integer math.
Another post above mentions parallelizing searches, but that would be an uncommon use case. Almost all searches done in a database use a keyword index, and again, indexes are usually stored as trees.
It's funny you should say that. I run Ubuntu on my home machine. The motherboard (A7V133) is from 2001. The Duron processor is from 2003. And you know what? It runs great. The only thing I can't do is play high resolution H264. Oh, and some bloated apps like Amarok make things swap a bit, though I only have 896 MB of RAM. When I use it, it doesn't "feel" any slower than the dualcore Opteron I have at work (also running Ubuntu).
Part of the problem is the obscenely high rates newspapers charge for ads on their websites. Where I work, we do media buys, and often get quoted prices over $10 CPM. With click-through rates usually under 0.2%, the advertising is ridiculously over-priced -- so no one who doesn't have very deep pockets buys it. I imagine most of their advertising is remenant ads bought in bulk by large corporations.
So the question is, what are the things that we can tax and minimize the negative impact on the economy?
No tax is a net benefit. The obvious answer is to cut taxes to the smallest amount possible -- and cut spending to match. People can spend their own money. They don't need a thief to do it for them.
They're not saving the salt flats to avoid natural resource exploitation. They're not saving the salt flats to sell to the highest bidder. No, they're saving them for their secret development: they need the dilithium to make crystals for their warp drive!
GPL or Apache doesn't really matters -- what matters is if you can make money. There essential matter is whether the software in question is a tool you use or the product you sell itself. If it's just a tool, the GPL makes sense, so you get contributions back. If it's your product itself, neither GPL nor Apache makes sense.
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I hope you don't have any children, to do your part.
I conquered my xenophobia and all that parellels it by cointaining it all within a virtualbox!
If you figure it costs about $10,000/lb to launch stuff into space, launching 16 pounds would leave $96,000 for administration and profit. The numbers are plausible. And if they start launching from a Virgin space plane, then the launch costs could do down dramatically.
Yes, but the connection is useless for remote administration: they only get a half shell.
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The scary thing is that having a Liberal or NDP government would be just as bad. We need a government that's for individual freedom first and foremost.
Well lets tell them both it's unwanted! Join the protest: http://www.digitalprivacy.ca/
You think so?
Then please join the protest!
Only if it's PINK!!! :D
I don't know about all engines, but MySQL's InnoDB suffered a lot of concurrency issues until very recently with the latest releases in the 5.1 branch. It would be interesting to see the test repeated now. I hear PostgreSQL has improved quite a bit, too. All that being said, memory bandwidth will also be an issue with concurrency. Databases are very bandwidth and memory intensive.
Oh hey, Zombie Girl wrote a song about you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjvIuadN59g
Databases use mostly integer math at their core. It's the opposite of graphics. Databases also do a ton of conditional branching (indexes on columns in a databases are usually stored as trees). Because of all the branch prediction, there's not a lot of benefit in doing branch prediction, because chances are high the branch prediction logic will pick the wrong branch. Furthermore, branching is not very parallelizable. And because databases are often running more than one query at a time, a CPU designed for databases should be composed of simple units that do integer math very fast. And that's exactly what Sun's Niagara processors are: 8 cores running 4 threads apiece, and fast at integer math.
Another post above mentions parallelizing searches, but that would be an uncommon use case. Almost all searches done in a database use a keyword index, and again, indexes are usually stored as trees.
It's funny you should say that. I run Ubuntu on my home machine. The motherboard (A7V133) is from 2001. The Duron processor is from 2003. And you know what? It runs great. The only thing I can't do is play high resolution H264. Oh, and some bloated apps like Amarok make things swap a bit, though I only have 896 MB of RAM. When I use it, it doesn't "feel" any slower than the dualcore Opteron I have at work (also running Ubuntu).
So in fact, it IS bloat. Vista/7 is bloated.
Part of the problem is the obscenely high rates newspapers charge for ads on their websites. Where I work, we do media buys, and often get quoted prices over $10 CPM. With click-through rates usually under 0.2%, the advertising is ridiculously over-priced -- so no one who doesn't have very deep pockets buys it. I imagine most of their advertising is remenant ads bought in bulk by large corporations.
Shut up, dweeb.
No tax is a net benefit. The obvious answer is to cut taxes to the smallest amount possible -- and cut spending to match. People can spend their own money. They don't need a thief to do it for them.
And how do you compile the code? Do you tear it up in to bite size pieces and masticate a while?
I blame Bill Gates and Microsoft -- they're framed for everything else! :D
Well in that case, I'll just bring a pen with me and the Air Force will be mine! Mwuahahah!!
I think we're too late for a thread of +5 Funny's though.
When it comes to patents in the textile industry, you reap what you sew!
They're not saving the salt flats to avoid natural resource exploitation. They're not saving the salt flats to sell to the highest bidder. No, they're saving them for their secret development: they need the dilithium to make crystals for their warp drive!
GPL or Apache doesn't really matters -- what matters is if you can make money. There essential matter is whether the software in question is a tool you use or the product you sell itself. If it's just a tool, the GPL makes sense, so you get contributions back. If it's your product itself, neither GPL nor Apache makes sense.
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