Its wonderful to see all the meaningful discussion Slashdot can bring to one of its most cherished enterprises. Clearly people are RTFA because otherwise they might not be able to get over the fact that open source is not the same as Open Source. We all know that sharing code goes back to the computer labs of the 70s, but that the current movement known as Open Source is something different than that. Thank the gods we can all stick to discussion of the article at hand.
I really don't think you understand what morality is. Things you disagree with are not necessarily immoral. You don't have the right to tax me because I as a peoiple have not given you the right to tax me. The government taxes me because I and my peers have popularily given them a mandate to perform. You might be amazed, but I am very happy to pay my taxes and receive wonderful services from the governemnt. If the governemnt as a whole ever became so fubar'd that I and my peers no longer give them the popular mandate, then yes it would be immoral for them to force us to pay taxes. However, that is far from the case. Anarchy is not a useful governing system at this time and won't be for centuries. Even if we revolted against the government we would still install a new governing body. Anarchy is not an effective system of governance at this point in time.
Your generalization of interventionist economic models is atrocious. Yes, I agree, this one is bad. However, there are many deals where I approve of the government intervening. Hell, sales tax intervenes in this process and I think its bar-none the best tax system available. I have never seen anyone successfully defend laissez faire as the only moral economic policy. In fact, frankly I'm against laissez faire and think it is a bad policy. But its not immoral.
In the US 8% unemployment is pretty severe, but in some economies 8% unemployment isn't necessarily terrible. I don't actually know as I have little understanding of the french economy outside of my american brethren slamming the more worker-oriented laws. Given the US economy, yes these laws would be terrible, but please put them and the 8% unemployment rate into proper context BEFORE you say there is severe economic failure. Cause frankly, I don't believe you. France seems to be chugging along just as well as we are.
I don't see how this is or even could be immoral though. Stupid != immoral I do agree that the government, even a socialist one, should not try to support dead-end business models. Again, that is just stupid. Its just plain bad for everyone outside of the small book shop owners. Which also means its not a socialist measure, purely protectionist. Complain about the stupidity of the French government and leave morality and socialism bashing out of it.
All laws being equal, that might make sense.
However, I'm certain laws and the cultural ideals behind striking are very different here in the US than it is in France.
There is no good way of comparing "levels of complaining".
Why would you even do that?
Its so freaking subjective its unbelievable someone actually suggested it.
Hopefully I'm not giving more credence to the suggest by responding.
The general British public loved Gandhi and were pretty much in favor of giving the Indians control of their own government if not completely leaving India. And the British military did a pretty good job making every Indian hate them (except the privileged few). Gandhi didn't need to create any fervor there.
I'm pretty certain Gandhi truly believed in peaceful resistance to the point that he was certain wars could be won by it. Delusional? Maybe. But its never really been tried the way Gandhi would have seen happen.
The performance gained by removing the cruft of x86 is not really from the more streamlined architecture, but from all the room that's been cleaned up.
You could have larger caches or the on-die memory controller that Intel desparately needs.
All those "heroic" efforts to make CISC relevant have mostly been related to transforming the CISC ISA of the x86 into (mostly) RISC instructions
though true RISC just doesn't cut it, all current processors have the RISC ideal at heart
Even if QCA took over, VLSI would be necessary. The clocking model requires an electromagnetic field, which is currently created with VLSI technologies.
I've been reading some of this guys other articles, and I'm pretty sure he either feeds on flamefests like demons feed on souls, or the guy really loves dry humor.
At first I thought it was the former, but after reading an article where he openly asks for a date from the chair of the RIAA(who is a lesbian), I firmly believe he just thinks the brits are a bit too wet for his funny bone.
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Its wonderful to see all the meaningful discussion Slashdot can bring to one of its most cherished enterprises. Clearly people are RTFA because otherwise they might not be able to get over the fact that open source is not the same as Open Source. We all know that sharing code goes back to the computer labs of the 70s, but that the current movement known as Open Source is something different than that. Thank the gods we can all stick to discussion of the article at hand.
I really don't think you understand what morality is. Things you disagree with are not necessarily immoral. You don't have the right to tax me because I as a peoiple have not given you the right to tax me. The government taxes me because I and my peers have popularily given them a mandate to perform. You might be amazed, but I am very happy to pay my taxes and receive wonderful services from the governemnt. If the governemnt as a whole ever became so fubar'd that I and my peers no longer give them the popular mandate, then yes it would be immoral for them to force us to pay taxes. However, that is far from the case. Anarchy is not a useful governing system at this time and won't be for centuries. Even if we revolted against the government we would still install a new governing body. Anarchy is not an effective system of governance at this point in time.
Your generalization of interventionist economic models is atrocious. Yes, I agree, this one is bad. However, there are many deals where I approve of the government intervening. Hell, sales tax intervenes in this process and I think its bar-none the best tax system available. I have never seen anyone successfully defend laissez faire as the only moral economic policy. In fact, frankly I'm against laissez faire and think it is a bad policy. But its not immoral.
In the US 8% unemployment is pretty severe, but in some economies 8% unemployment isn't necessarily terrible. I don't actually know as I have little understanding of the french economy outside of my american brethren slamming the more worker-oriented laws. Given the US economy, yes these laws would be terrible, but please put them and the 8% unemployment rate into proper context BEFORE you say there is severe economic failure. Cause frankly, I don't believe you. France seems to be chugging along just as well as we are.
I don't see how this is or even could be immoral though. Stupid != immoral I do agree that the government, even a socialist one, should not try to support dead-end business models. Again, that is just stupid. Its just plain bad for everyone outside of the small book shop owners. Which also means its not a socialist measure, purely protectionist. Complain about the stupidity of the French government and leave morality and socialism bashing out of it.
All laws being equal, that might make sense. However, I'm certain laws and the cultural ideals behind striking are very different here in the US than it is in France. There is no good way of comparing "levels of complaining". Why would you even do that? Its so freaking subjective its unbelievable someone actually suggested it. Hopefully I'm not giving more credence to the suggest by responding.
The general British public loved Gandhi and were pretty much in favor of giving the Indians control of their own government if not completely leaving India. And the British military did a pretty good job making every Indian hate them (except the privileged few). Gandhi didn't need to create any fervor there. I'm pretty certain Gandhi truly believed in peaceful resistance to the point that he was certain wars could be won by it. Delusional? Maybe. But its never really been tried the way Gandhi would have seen happen.
The performance gained by removing the cruft of x86 is not really from the more streamlined architecture, but from all the room that's been cleaned up. You could have larger caches or the on-die memory controller that Intel desparately needs.
All those "heroic" efforts to make CISC relevant have mostly been related to transforming the CISC ISA of the x86 into (mostly) RISC instructions though true RISC just doesn't cut it, all current processors have the RISC ideal at heart
Even if QCA took over, VLSI would be necessary. The clocking model requires an electromagnetic field, which is currently created with VLSI technologies.
Cause, you know, Napolean is just a myth...
of course, Otis = Otto...
I've been reading some of this guys other articles, and I'm pretty sure he either feeds on flamefests like demons feed on souls, or the guy really loves dry humor. At first I thought it was the former, but after reading an article where he openly asks for a date from the chair of the RIAA(who is a lesbian), I firmly believe he just thinks the brits are a bit too wet for his funny bone.