Sorry I didn't give any formula, just a reference, I said GDP per hour worked. Your calculation is still not correct (I think), you need to take the whole GDP, divide by the *number* of people in current employmment and by the average working hours (or really by the number of hours worked).
Using the unemployment rate doesn't give you the correct figure because it doesn't give you an insight of what proportion of the people is meant to be employed. The US may have fewer retirees for example (in France people commonly retire at 55).
I'm not responsible for the definition of productivity but it makes sense to me to attribute the wealth generated to the wealth-generating population. If a country has 50% employment it may be because everyone is so efficient that fewer people are needed to do the job (high productivity) or it may be that there isn't enough resources around to put people in employment (low productivity). This is the cause of unemployment that the productivity number is meant to help measure.
Mind you I find this definition of productivity a bit suspect anyway, I don't see how unpaid overtime can be accounted for, and these days it is so prevalent in the West as to skew the statistics immensely in many country.
This is still an interesting calculation, because no one has figured out yet how to put together a reversible computer in practice. Today's real computers perform irreversible computations and are affected by Shneier's limit.
Now a reversible computer would require not forgetting any previous computations, i.e. requires humongous amounts of storage.
I think you forgot to take into account the employment rate. The average working hours are for people in current employment whereas the GDB/capita is average over the whole population.
In his article Mandelbrot is suggesting that the vast majority of the research done in financial circles goes to proprietary short term market analysis and modelling. He is saying that more fundamental research needs to be done on how markets behave, and this is a type of research that is not being done now by any company, because it doesn't have immediate or mid-term benefits for them.
He does have a point, he is saying that a large proportion of the money would be use to purchase proprietary data which is currently not available to academics because it is seen as too valuable by the companies who gather it, yet these companies have no incentive to mine their data for the type of information Mandelbrot hopes to get out of it.
You can get many of the benefits of French workers by gaining citizenship in any of the EU member countries. If you have any British ancestry it probably wouldn't be too hard to get UK citizenship.
Also to get French citizenship the easiest way is to marry some French and live there for a while.
> According to the Council on International and > Public Affairs (CIPA), the real U.S. rate of > unemployment, if properly calculated, would be > 11.4 per cent - more than double the official > rate.
The 20% figure in France is probably not off the mark though, but the situation in the US is not rosy, and being unemployed in the US truly sucks after a while.
Mulholland Drive is very good, it just doesn't have a linear narrative and it doesn't lead the viewer by the hand. It's a straight thriller once you've reconstructed the storyline, but a large proportion of the fun is to find out all the clues the filmmaker has given to the audience to be able to do that job. It's like an oldfashion puzzle.
Note that I don't claim to understand everything about that film but I have an interpretation. There is a great article on Salon about that film.
As much as things can indeed be statistically proven, they are only a guide to understand the past, not the present or the future. Moreover there may be correlation between levels of achievement and lack of offsprings but correlation is not causation.
Fathers do tend to spend more time with their kids now than in the even recent past. This is a good thing. Let's not worry about whether J.C's next engine will be as good as the previous ones. I hope he enjoys his son and don't fret about such stats, which only describe general trends anyway.
Are you still talking about the treaty of Waitangi? This is dated 1830 and for the time surprisingly enlightned I think. In Australia the doctrine was Terra Nullius: no one owned the land before the Westerners arrived. It's only been repelled in a court of law less than 30 years ago. At least Waitangi acknowledged the existence and rights of Natives.
If you think NZ is racist go live just about anywhere else. Australia doesn't even have a treaty with its natives, they only got the vote in the 60s! and Australian aborigene people still live on average 20 years less than the non-natives. Western Europe has historically had huge problems with Judaism, the Reformist churches and more recently Islam and it's not getting better. The US is incredibly racist overall and particularly in the South, just spend a single day in Atlanta. Canada has enormous cultural problems between the french and english-speaking parts of the country. In case you wonder third world countries are not better.
I think maybe you are talking about "the flight of the dragonfly" by R.L. Forward, not "The Mote in God's Eye". In the latter they have FTL travel, unless I'm not recalling correctly. The Forward book is all about a laser-powered solar sail craft.
Play with my daughter, potter in the garden, read some books, play some game, talk to my wife, read my daughter a book, plan some life changes, etc. If you are also having fun at work, what else is there in life?
If you want to play evil overlord and manipulate your large empire be my guest. This is not a guarantee of happiness.
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Hello,
Amnesty International takes a somewhat dim view of this Sheriff's methods, and note that there was at least one suspicious death in custody among other things.
They have the best scenery in the world (seen LoTR?) and a progressist society: they were the first country to give women and natives (Maoris) the vote in 1893; at present women hold the 4 highest offices in the country: Prime Minister (Helen Clark), Governor General, Attorney General and Chief Justice. They have one of the lowest crime rate in the world: 1/4th that of the US and half that of Canada.
Soldiers only get in the army if they can get through a tough physical exam, and they retire young, moreover they volunteer. I'd hate to be a 50-year old with any kind of heart condition forced to do hard labor by 120F weather. It seems a pretty dangerous way to go.
This story still makes headlines in Australia. For example only a few weeks back someone was interviewed in the papers saying that at the time he saw a dingo with a baby in its mouth but because he didn't trust police for some reason he didn't report it.
The woman was pardonned after 4 years, on the balance of evidence going her way essentially.
Some big problem with the engine are that the environment cannot be truly 3D (can't climb stairs and find yourself in a second level from which you can see the first. You have to change area), also the tilesets are minuscule. They could improve the engine greatly and improve the experience.
Right now you are correct, but apparently Longhorn will require 2GB just to run.
Most computer sold today have 512MB in them and people do use that amount of memory and start swapping soon after startup. Once you have the memory you realize you can have all your apps loaded up and switch between them, it really does change your way of working.
No matter how much memory you have Linux will use it up and it does make things faster. If you have enough RAM Linux caches everything you read from the HD and then read from the cache. Try a `du *' twice from your home directory to see what I mean. Notice how the second time is so much faster?
People are getting into video editing. It's not mainstream but it won't take 10 years to catch up.
I've been needing more than 2GB for a long time, I work in image analysis, my code has been running on 64-bit machines (alphas and sparcs) for about 10 years now. One machine at work is a 4-way opteron with 32GB in it and we are using the lot.
I can't wait to have more than 4GB on my desktop. Right now the price of the memory is the problem.
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Sorry I didn't give any formula, just a reference, I said GDP per hour worked. Your calculation is still not correct (I think), you need to take the whole GDP, divide by the *number* of people in current employmment and by the average working hours (or really by the number of hours worked).
Using the unemployment rate doesn't give you the correct figure because it doesn't give you an insight of what proportion of the people is meant to be employed. The US may have fewer retirees for example (in France people commonly retire at 55).
I'm not responsible for the definition of productivity but it makes sense to me to attribute the wealth generated to the wealth-generating population. If a country has 50% employment it may be because everyone is so efficient that fewer people are needed to do the job (high productivity) or it may be that there isn't enough resources around to put people in employment (low productivity). This is the cause of unemployment that the productivity number is meant to help measure.
Mind you I find this definition of productivity a bit suspect anyway, I don't see how unpaid overtime can be accounted for, and these days it is so prevalent in the West as to skew the statistics immensely in many country.
In fact it is trivial to factor large primes. If P is a prime of any size, its factors are 1 and P by definition.
This is still an interesting calculation, because no one has figured out yet how to put together a reversible computer in practice. Today's real computers perform irreversible computations and are affected by Shneier's limit.
Now a reversible computer would require not forgetting any previous computations, i.e. requires humongous amounts of storage.
I think you forgot to take into account the employment rate. The average working hours are for people in current employment whereas the GDB/capita is average over the whole population.
In his article Mandelbrot is suggesting that the vast majority of the research done in financial circles goes to proprietary short term market analysis and modelling. He is saying that more fundamental research needs to be done on how markets behave, and this is a type of research that is not being done now by any company, because it doesn't have immediate or mid-term benefits for them.
He does have a point, he is saying that a large proportion of the money would be use to purchase proprietary data which is currently not available to academics because it is seen as too valuable by the companies who gather it, yet these companies have no incentive to mine their data for the type of information Mandelbrot hopes to get out of it.
You can get many of the benefits of French workers by gaining citizenship in any of the EU member countries. If you have any British ancestry it probably wouldn't be too hard to get UK citizenship.
Also to get French citizenship the easiest way is to marry some French and live there for a while.
And what's the REAL unemployment rate of the US?
> According to the Council on International and
> Public Affairs (CIPA), the real U.S. rate of
> unemployment, if properly calculated, would be
> 11.4 per cent - more than double the official
> rate.
According to other people it goes as high as 15%.
The 20% figure in France is probably not off the mark though, but the situation in the US is not rosy, and being unemployed in the US truly sucks after a while.
The parent is right:
*productivity* per capita, not GDP. Productivity is the GDP per hour worked.
Measured as the GDP per hour worked at a percent of the OECD average, you have the following figures:
USA: 120
The Netherlands: 121
France: 123
Norway: 126
Belgium: 128
Germany: 105
From "Monthly Labor Review, July 1999, pp:33-41"
I thought he was perfect in "The talented Mr. Ripley"
Mulholland Drive is very good, it just doesn't have a linear narrative and it doesn't lead the viewer by the hand. It's a straight thriller once you've reconstructed the storyline, but a large proportion of the fun is to find out all the clues the filmmaker has given to the audience to be able to do that job. It's like an oldfashion puzzle.
Note that I don't claim to understand everything about that film but I have an interpretation. There is a great article on Salon about that film.
With all due respect, ST works very well as a satire and is fairly subtle about it. I found it enjoyable at that level.
As much as things can indeed be statistically proven, they are only a guide to understand the past, not the present or the future. Moreover there may be correlation between levels of achievement and lack of offsprings but correlation is not causation.
Fathers do tend to spend more time with their kids now than in the even recent past. This is a good thing. Let's not worry about whether J.C's next engine will be as good as the previous ones. I hope he enjoys his son and don't fret about such stats, which only describe general trends anyway.
Are you still talking about the treaty of Waitangi? This is dated 1830 and for the time surprisingly enlightned I think. In Australia the doctrine was Terra Nullius: no one owned the land before the Westerners arrived. It's only been repelled in a court of law less than 30 years ago. At least Waitangi acknowledged the existence and rights of Natives.
If you think NZ is racist go live just about anywhere else. Australia doesn't even have a treaty with its natives, they only got the vote in the 60s! and Australian aborigene people still live on average 20 years less than the non-natives. Western Europe has historically had huge problems with Judaism, the Reformist churches and more recently Islam and it's not getting better. The US is incredibly racist overall and particularly in the South, just spend a single day in Atlanta. Canada has enormous cultural problems between the french and english-speaking parts of the country. In case you wonder third world countries are not better.
As others have pointed out you can angle your solar sail and generate a sideway force.
I think maybe you are talking about "the flight of the dragonfly" by R.L. Forward, not "The Mote in God's Eye". In the latter they have FTL travel, unless I'm not recalling correctly. The Forward book is all about a laser-powered solar sail craft.
Isn't that what you want, to slow down at your destination?
Play with my daughter, potter in the garden, read some books, play some game, talk to my wife, read my daughter a book, plan some life changes, etc. If you are also having fun at work, what else is there in life?
If you want to play evil overlord and manipulate your large empire be my guest. This is not a guarantee of happiness.
Hello,
Amnesty International takes a somewhat dim view of this Sheriff's methods, and note that there was at least one suspicious death in custody among other things.
New Zealand,
They have the best scenery in the world (seen LoTR?) and a progressist society: they were the first country to give women and natives (Maoris) the vote in 1893; at present women hold the 4 highest offices in the country: Prime Minister (Helen Clark), Governor General, Attorney General and Chief Justice. They have one of the lowest crime rate in the world: 1/4th that of the US and half that of Canada.
Soldiers only get in the army if they can get through a tough physical exam, and they retire young, moreover they volunteer. I'd hate to be a 50-year old with any kind of heart condition forced to do hard labor by 120F weather. It seems a pretty dangerous way to go.
This story still makes headlines in Australia. For example only a few weeks back someone was interviewed in the papers saying that at the time he saw a dingo with a baby in its mouth but because he didn't trust police for some reason he didn't report it.
The woman was pardonned after 4 years, on the balance of evidence going her way essentially.
Some big problem with the engine are that the environment cannot be truly 3D (can't climb stairs and find yourself in a second level from which you can see the first. You have to change area), also the tilesets are minuscule. They could improve the engine greatly and improve the experience.
You can have a familiar too if you are a magic user, and sometimes you can confuse ennemies into joining your party for a short length of time.
Right now you are correct, but apparently Longhorn will require 2GB just to run.
Most computer sold today have 512MB in them and people do use that amount of memory and start swapping soon after startup. Once you have the memory you realize you can have all your apps loaded up and switch between them, it really does change your way of working.
No matter how much memory you have Linux will use it up and it does make things faster. If you have enough RAM Linux caches everything you read from the HD and then read from the cache. Try a `du *' twice from your home directory to see what I mean. Notice how the second time is so much faster?
People are getting into video editing. It's not mainstream but it won't take 10 years to catch up.
I've been needing more than 2GB for a long time, I work in image analysis, my code has been running on 64-bit machines (alphas and sparcs) for about 10 years now. One machine at work is a 4-way opteron with 32GB in it and we are using the lot.
I can't wait to have more than 4GB on my desktop. Right now the price of the memory is the problem.