Actually, the USA imports about 13% of it's imported oil (they have a lot themselves) from Mexico. Mexico is the 3rd largest source after Canada and Saudi Arabia.
I believe Energia dropped 12 Globalstar satellites (one launch, these things were fairly small) due to an aborted launch. Set Globalstar back by about a year.
Oh now it's my fault they started doing this before I was born? Plus, I don't smoke, and make fire exclusively with matches.
Talking about this kind of thing can make a lot of difference, that is why it is prohibited by dictatorial governments. It is important that Chinese people hear this, they are the ones who have to fix their problem.
I think Energia had some reliability problems. But your basic point is nevertheless correct, there is expertise for heavy lift, single use launchers that is very appropriate for these puposes.
The original discussion was about Microsoft aiding China in the systematic suppression of human rights, in particular the right to free speach. Some people say that China is under no obligation to grant those rights to its people, I say they are. Fortunately, this site is not under the control of China, so that I can express my opinion that indeed they are under this obligation, not just morally but also formally.
These rights were agreed to in 1948 with no thought of China, or diplomatic relations. They were accepted after serious violations which caused the death of many millions of people.
You, anonymous coward, can't really say what should be discussed where and what should not.
Apparently you don't value rights of individual human beings. I do.
With this stuff, the sale of their PC manufacturing business, the Apple deal, and the PS3/Cell technical development, it looks like IBM is giving up on the desktop business. Perhaps they believe it will go away. Certainly the profit margins are not very attractive.
Another article today lists iPods and Blackberries as some of the fastest growing businesses, and lately laptops have overtaken desktops in sales volume. I never really liked being tied to these desktop computers anyway, I want to do my computing at the beach or in the woods.
With the market coverage they have in electronics parts, that is sometimes unavoidable.
Nevertheless I can voice my opinion that some of their laws are unjust and immoral, that they should change those laws, and that they hold those responsible who deny people their proper human rights. That somebody else, somewhere else, is guilty of a similar offence is of no consequence.
China is one of the countries which ignores these rights routinely, on a very large scale. I find that distasteful, and I have no respect for their goverment. Neither do I have respect for people who argue that this is all relative and we should not be critical of the worst offenders.
Consider the insight that could be gained. It's considerably better to try some small objects first, to avoid catastrophic failure on the few planets. Might even learn something about this old one here.
China is a member of the United Nations, and as such has signed on to
certain human rights, among these the right to free expression of opinion.
China thus seems to be in breach of this charter.
Further, being a Chinese citizen (or citizen of most countries) is not like a business contract entered into of free will. For this reason, it seems to me that Chinese (or other countries') laws that could fairly be judged as severely unjust, or sometimes immoral, should not be considered binding on individuals who are citizens through no choice of their own.
Complicated command parsers are overrated, so perhaps they are trying to do this by enumeration:
the will anticipate every command ever to be typed, and special-case it. That could account for the 5 years, and it would add the proper bloat as well.
Each SPE is internally and 8-way SIMD. There
are 8 of them, and they have 8 separate instruction streams. And the article is plain wrong when it says SIMD is novel.
Actually the SPUs are independentt of each other, each executing a different program. Internally, they have 8-way vector units, which are close to what you describe. There is one more level in the processing hierarchy than you guessed:)
As far as spam goes, and mistaking popularity for correctness, yes you are right, and both of these are a big problem already.
But there remains the problem that this technique does not find semantic connections that the authors don't know about.
It gets worse: the method relies on the web site content author to know the semantic content, and to honestly report it. How would you check these things? Voting to determine if the earth revolves around the sun?
C hasn't "given way" to C++, or to anything. There is plenty of C programming going on today. The same is true for C++ vs. C#, there is a lot more C++ in use than C#.
But your site looks bad on my browser, it is making assumptions about my screen that are incorrect. Why would you want to prevent me from fixing that?
Your content is not displayed on your site, it is displayed on my computer, and you don't know my local parameters. What is there to gain, for anyone, by not allowing me to adjust for a mismatch there?
There are some things that really, really have to get done with computing. For those, Unix has been there and still is. Office stuff is nice, it help to make money or tell people that's what you are doing. Science is necessary, and DOS and Windows are irrelvant for this for the most part.
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Actually, the USA imports about 13% of it's imported oil (they have a lot themselves) from Mexico. Mexico is the 3rd largest source after Canada and Saudi Arabia.
I believe Energia dropped 12 Globalstar satellites (one launch, these things were fairly small) due to an aborted launch. Set Globalstar back by about a year.
Oh now it's my fault they started doing this before I was born? Plus, I don't smoke, and make fire exclusively with matches.
Talking about this kind of thing can make a lot of difference, that is why it is prohibited by dictatorial governments. It is important that Chinese people hear this, they are the ones who have to fix their problem.
I think Energia had some reliability problems. But your basic point is nevertheless correct, there is expertise for heavy lift, single use launchers that is very appropriate for these puposes.
The original discussion was about Microsoft aiding China in the systematic suppression of human rights, in particular the right to free speach. Some people say that China is under no obligation to grant those rights to its people, I say they are. Fortunately, this site is not under the control of China, so that I can express my opinion that indeed they are under this obligation, not just morally but also formally.
These rights were agreed to in 1948 with no thought of China, or diplomatic relations. They were accepted after serious violations which caused the death of many millions of people.
You, anonymous coward, can't really say what should be discussed where and what should not.
Apparently you don't value rights of individual human beings. I do.
With this stuff, the sale of their PC manufacturing business, the Apple deal, and the PS3/Cell technical development, it looks like IBM is giving up on the desktop business. Perhaps they believe it will go away. Certainly the profit margins are not very attractive.
Another article today lists iPods and Blackberries as some of the fastest growing businesses, and lately laptops have overtaken desktops in sales volume. I never really liked being tied to these desktop computers anyway, I want to do my computing at the beach or in the woods.
With the market coverage they have in electronics parts, that is sometimes unavoidable.
Nevertheless I can voice my opinion that some of their laws are unjust and immoral, that they should change those laws, and that they hold those responsible who deny people their proper human rights. That somebody else, somewhere else, is guilty of a similar offence is of no consequence.
China is one of the countries which ignores these rights routinely, on a very large scale. I find that distasteful, and I have no respect for their goverment. Neither do I have respect for people who argue that this is all relative and we should not be critical of the worst offenders.
Consider the insight that could be gained. It's considerably better to try some small objects first, to avoid catastrophic failure on the few planets. Might even learn something about this old one here.
China is a member of the United Nations, and as such has signed on to certain human rights, among these the right to free expression of opinion.
China thus seems to be in breach of this charter.
Further, being a Chinese citizen (or citizen of most countries) is not like a business contract entered into of free will. For this reason, it seems to me that Chinese (or other countries') laws that could fairly be judged as severely unjust, or sometimes immoral, should not be considered binding on individuals who are citizens through no choice of their own.
Every legal foreign employee pays income tax in the USA, and in California, without any representation whatsoever. They pay all other taxes as well.
really, is it?
Complicated command parsers are overrated, so perhaps they are trying to do this by enumeration: the will anticipate every command ever to be typed, and special-case it. That could account for the 5 years, and it would add the proper bloat as well.
I thought the proper way to report this was that Mr. C says, not that he thinks something. We have evidence that he says things.
Indeed, the science in question is called "accounting".
Each SPE is internally and 8-way SIMD. There are 8 of them, and they have 8 separate instruction streams. And the article is plain wrong when it says SIMD is novel.
Actually the SPUs are independentt of each other, each executing a different program. Internally, they have 8-way vector units, which are close to what you describe. There is one more level in the processing hierarchy than you guessed :)
There are a bunch of links and an index of news stories about Cell here cell.raw.net.
It could also be that the original analysis as wrong, and the priviledge escalation was due to the exprimental setup, not a problem in ELF.
And MS still believes they are not very useful, except they can add bloat. That's why they are now needed.
As far as spam goes, and mistaking popularity for correctness, yes you are right, and both of these are a big problem already.
But there remains the problem that this technique does not find semantic connections that the authors don't know about.
It gets worse: the method relies on the web site content author to know the semantic content, and to honestly report it. How would you check these things? Voting to determine if the earth revolves around the sun?
C hasn't "given way" to C++, or to anything. There is plenty of C programming going on today. The same is true for C++ vs. C#, there is a lot more C++ in use than C#.
But your site looks bad on my browser, it is making assumptions about my screen that are incorrect. Why would you want to prevent me from fixing that?
Your content is not displayed on your site, it is displayed on my computer, and you don't know my local parameters. What is there to gain, for anyone, by not allowing me to adjust for a mismatch there?
There are some things that really, really have to get done with computing. For those, Unix has been there and still is. Office stuff is nice, it help to make money or tell people that's what you are doing. Science is necessary, and DOS and Windows are irrelvant for this for the most part.