Perhaps with your system you could go and break 8-bit RSA ? This would be wonderful and a blow to quantum computing. With proper hardware progress, 9-bit RSA cracking would be just around the corner:-)
How is this insightful ? This is ridiculous hyperbole.
When I live, I work at my institution, I make money which I invest, put into a retirement plan, buy a house with, etc. When I die I stop making any money and all of these assets go to my dependents.
When Bob Dylan lives, he composes, plays music, gets covers, etc. He makes money from that, he invests, he puts money into various savings, houses, yachts, whatever. When he dies it all goes to his dependents.
Say copyright of his works expires. It does not go to any state. it goes to the public. How is that a death tax exactly?
The big ships with enormous diesel engines exhale lots of nasty NOx and SOx (acid rains) but are very effective in terms of CO2, so in terms of pollution, I'm not sure this is such a huge problem.
I don't know. I use both Linux and OS X every day too. What market are we talking about ?
- what if OS X desktop Lion or its successor is as locked down as iOS is now ? Also Linux is improving every day. I don't see OS X improving much. Same filesystem since 10.0 !
- OS X no longer has any server momentum. OS X server is very meh. Linux server is everywhere.
- OS X embedded (aka iOS) is very locked down and I'd be very unhappy if I couldn't jailbreak my iPhone.
Sure the unemployed get more *handout* from the government, but the CEO from a large F500 company gets an enormous salary, contributed by the whole *society*, no matter how you look at it: society provides the whole framework.
While gridlock is in, previous laws are still in effect. Gridlock only allows older laws to come into full fruition. We can only conclude that at least some laws improve the economy, as long as we let them time to come into effect. No?
NASA should have been pushing the envelope in new propulsion systems.
They did, but as a background effort. The problem is basic physics. Essentially we have a choice between chemical propulsion, which is essentially as efficient now as it will ever be, or nuclear propulsion, which is extremely polluting. There is no other choice given our current knowledge of physics.
With nuclear propulsion we think we can go anywhere in the Solar system without too much effort, but the expense is staggering. Think sending millions of tons of material into orbit, or if you prefer thousand of space stations. Think spending 100 of trillions instead of mere billions. it got cancelled in the 70s because of the cold war. There was a hard-won treaty that said the cold war would not extend into space and that killed all space nuclear research right off.
This is something that can only work in global peacetime. Also we probably need controlled fusion rather than controlled fission. In other words, we are not ready, either politically or scientifically.
That's OK, the successful band in question continued to be the most successful band in history for decades even after they broke up and released no new material. So why do any of this hard creative work?
I want a device that connects to a KVM arrangement wirelessly if I'm in the office or at home, but works like a small tablet if none is around. Essentially you'll have a fast secure connexion to all your files and programs all the time, and the device will not even need to be on the desk.
You realize, of course, that you are talking of something you personally don't know anything about, and that your opinion is of course as subjective as everybody's...
They actually completely own the beginner's instrument market from Pianos to Flutes via Saxophones and Violins, they actually make pretty good instruments, and like you said very consistent quality.
Anybody remembers their amazing calculators like the PC-1211 ? aka the Tandy TRS80-PC1. This calculator was programmable in BASIC, in the very early 1980s they were the way to get a hand on a programmable computer if you were a destitute high-school student. I never got one but I got its competitor the Casio FX702P in 1982 when I was in year 11 I think. Very capable beasts with K7 backup and printers...
Not outdated experience on the Hack, today's experience. It has come a very long way for sure. Only a couple of years ago it was unusable except as a curiosity. Now it is possible to use a Hack as a reasonable everyday machine, but it is still frustrating at times.
Say you want to put a hardware RAID controller on your Hack? (or your MacPro for that matter). You have a choice of one vendor and one card on the Pro, a bit more on the Hack, but nothing fabulous. Many of the more interesting cards are not supported at all.
What about sound cards ? TRIM on SSDs ? Apple doesn't feel it's a priority, so not today. Perhaps for 10.7.
The HCL like you say for OS/X is not slim, it's downright anemic.
This is exactly what I wrote. Apple doesn't think OSX is a priority in their business plan. It helped them get back on their feet some years ago, but they are not lavishly spending resources on it. This is why Mac market share will remain at less than 10%, I think.
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More like because people in power want to exercise it.
Perhaps with your system you could go and break 8-bit RSA ? This would be wonderful and a blow to quantum computing. With proper hardware progress, 9-bit RSA cracking would be just around the corner :-)
Right, the only mistake Sun did was open-source too much. Like all the closed shop were doing wonderfully well too.
Thanks Sun.
How is this insightful ? This is ridiculous hyperbole.
When I live, I work at my institution, I make money which I invest, put into a retirement plan, buy a house with, etc. When I die I stop making any money and all of these assets go to my dependents.
When Bob Dylan lives, he composes, plays music, gets covers, etc. He makes money from that, he invests, he puts money into various savings, houses, yachts, whatever. When he dies it all goes to his dependents.
Say copyright of his works expires. It does not go to any state. it goes to the public. How is that a death tax exactly?
This is a classic No True Scotsman.
Yes, I agree. He has a story about a guy who wants to stop smoking that I found truly terrifying.
Only about 3-5% of email worldwide traffic is not spam. This is a huge waste of resources.
The big ships with enormous diesel engines exhale lots of nasty NOx and SOx (acid rains) but are very effective in terms of CO2, so in terms of pollution, I'm not sure this is such a huge problem.
I don't know. I use both Linux and OS X every day too. What market are we talking about ?
- what if OS X desktop Lion or its successor is as locked down as iOS is now ? Also Linux is improving every day. I don't see OS X improving much. Same filesystem since 10.0 !
- OS X no longer has any server momentum. OS X server is very meh. Linux server is everywhere.
- OS X embedded (aka iOS) is very locked down and I'd be very unhappy if I couldn't jailbreak my iPhone.
society != government
Sure the unemployed get more *handout* from the government, but the CEO from a large F500 company gets an enormous salary, contributed by the whole *society*, no matter how you look at it: society provides the whole framework.
I don't completely follow your reasoning,
While gridlock is in, previous laws are still in effect. Gridlock only allows older laws to come into full fruition. We can only conclude that at least some laws improve the economy, as long as we let them time to come into effect. No?
There is an enormous amount of new physics expected from the LHC. The Higgs is only the beginning.
Observing random cosmic rays high-energy collisions is currently done using the atmosphere and large arrays of ground-based detectors, not satellites.
Hello,
They did, but as a background effort. The problem is basic physics. Essentially we have a choice between chemical propulsion, which is essentially as efficient now as it will ever be, or nuclear propulsion, which is extremely polluting. There is no other choice given our current knowledge of physics.
With nuclear propulsion we think we can go anywhere in the Solar system without too much effort, but the expense is staggering. Think sending millions of tons of material into orbit, or if you prefer thousand of space stations. Think spending 100 of trillions instead of mere billions. it got cancelled in the 70s because of the cold war. There was a hard-won treaty that said the cold war would not extend into space and that killed all space nuclear research right off.
This is something that can only work in global peacetime. Also we probably need controlled fusion rather than controlled fission. In other words, we are not ready, either politically or scientifically.
Look up "artificial retina", not the kind to restore vision to the blind, but the kind to perform computer vision tasks
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel1%2F4%2F5792%2F00222178.pdf%3Farnumber%3D222178&authDecision=-203
Very similar to what you are suggesting.
Building the computer and quoting high numbers on the Linpack benchmark is a solved problem, requiring only financial means.
Actually writing efficient parallel code for many applications is definitely not a solved problem.
Precisely. Don't forget the dam to power that baby up and its cooling equipment, the cabling and the housing.
That's OK, the successful band in question continued to be the most successful band in history for decades even after they broke up and released no new material. So why do any of this hard creative work?
I want a device that connects to a KVM arrangement wirelessly if I'm in the office or at home, but works like a small tablet if none is around. Essentially you'll have a fast secure connexion to all your files and programs all the time, and the device will not even need to be on the desk.
It will come, the technology exists.
The hardware in the iPhone or the TiVo is nothing special, it is indeed the software that makes all the difference.
You realize, of course, that you are talking of something you personally don't know anything about, and that your opinion is of course as subjective as everybody's...
They actually completely own the beginner's instrument market from Pianos to Flutes via Saxophones and Violins, they actually make pretty good instruments, and like you said very consistent quality.
Anybody remembers their amazing calculators like the PC-1211 ? aka the Tandy TRS80-PC1. This calculator was programmable in BASIC, in the very early 1980s they were the way to get a hand on a programmable computer if you were a destitute high-school student. I never got one but I got its competitor the Casio FX702P in 1982 when I was in year 11 I think. Very capable beasts with K7 backup and printers...
Perhaps if Google paid up more taxe you would pay less ?
Yes, and look, it will run DRMed walled apps ! My wish has been granted indeed.
Not a troll, just not YOUR experience.
Not outdated experience on the Hack, today's experience. It has come a very long way for sure. Only a couple of years ago it was unusable except as a curiosity. Now it is possible to use a Hack as a reasonable everyday machine, but it is still frustrating at times.
Say you want to put a hardware RAID controller on your Hack? (or your MacPro for that matter). You have a choice of one vendor and one card on the Pro, a bit more on the Hack, but nothing fabulous. Many of the more interesting cards are not supported at all.
What about sound cards ? TRIM on SSDs ? Apple doesn't feel it's a priority, so not today. Perhaps for 10.7.
The HCL like you say for OS/X is not slim, it's downright anemic.
This is exactly what I wrote. Apple doesn't think OSX is a priority in their business plan. It helped them get back on their feet some years ago, but they are not lavishly spending resources on it. This is why Mac market share will remain at less than 10%, I think.