Personally, I think the answer is not to *abolish* TLDs, but to make them *optional*, and abolish only.com /.net /.org. Then a company doesn't have to register 3 domains, and they only have to register country-level domains in contries where they actually have a presence. But how would you implement it - how do you reconcile those domains if different people own them, who gets the new TLD when they are amalgamated?
Why does the USA always have to be special? Just move all "generic" TLDs to.us and let the owners sort out if they want to stay in.us or move to somewhere else.
Surprised by the bad translations in the comments, here's a more appropriate one (no, online translation tools are not as good as humans): Je, quant à moi, souhaite la bienvenue à nos nouveaux maîtres OVNIs.
Yeah, except that in French a subordinate clause right after a personal pronoun is not very grammatical. Quant à moi, je souhaite la bienvenue... would be more correct. Also, I think O.V.N.I. requires proper punctuation and can't be made plural.
Unfortunately, it's not always so simple. Here in Poland, for example, we have proportional representation so the government is almost certain to be a minority government. Due to this, politicians endlessly fight and argue with each other instead of doing anything useful. Now, you may say this is a good thing because that way at least they don't interfere with what people do. That may be true in a country like Canada. But in a country like Poland, that receives billions of Euros from the EU to build infrastructure, but uses less than a few percent of it because no one can agree on what to do with the money, it may not be such a good thing.
No need to be so picky on words. When editing I first wanted to write "communist era" then "post-communist", but forgot to remove the word era. Here we use the term "post-communist" to refer to any legacy from those times, and the word "communist" alone to refer to political affiliation (in a pejorative way).
What would help quite a lot is converting from coal and petroleum to nuclear power generation. That would pretty much solve the problem over-night, slashing our CO2 production by nearly 50%! What impact that would have on the climate... isn't actually 100% clear. It certainly is likely to have some impact, though.
I agree, but the problem is that a lot of these coal plants are in countries where there are more urgent problems to solve than CO2 emissions. For example, here in Poland over 95 percent of power plants are coal powered. And not the efficient 21 st century type, but the 40 year-old post-communist era type. However, nobody is going to invest in modernizing these power plants when there are so many other infrastructure problems, like the lack of a national highway system (ironically).
it's impossible for a would-be stealth system to counter good timing-attacks
Okay, please tell me what such an attack consists of. I've been thinking about it and I'm truly interested to know. How does code running inside a VM detect what the true time is without the VM being able to fake it?
As a side note there is a question in philosophy that asks whether it is possible for us to really *know* the nature of reality. This is kind of the same but from a computer program's perspective.;)
If you run a VM that emulates the entire PC and run Windows inside it you can get a dump of everything, no matter where it is cached. They have NO way to look outside the VM and NO way to hide anything inside the VM. Please do contradict me if I'm wrong because this would be very interesting, but AFAIK there is no way to get around this.
Funny that they use the same techniques that viruses use to escape detection. Fortunately, they can't do *anything* to prevent someone from running it inside a VM and dumping all of the memory. Yes, it's a lot of work to debug that way, but it always works no matter what.
You might change your point of view when you have kids yourself. I have two teens. Yeah, they do stupid stuff sometimes. Yeah, I have to control what they do. But it's not a war of who can outsmart whom. It's about setting limits, and teaching trust and responsibility. Like another poster said, you have to set rules and make sure they understand the consequences of not obeying those rules.
It's the OS manufacturers that need to get up to speed. The definition of GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes. You're thinking of GiB. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
although it's admittedly a bit more expensive to go to Jupiter than it is to go to Mars.
First, Titan is a moon of Saturn not Jupiter. Second, in most solar system models you can't see this clearly, but Jupiter is more than three times further from us than Mars and Saturn is almost two times further than Jupiter. So, not even considering other technical aspects, it's a lot more expensive to go there than to go to Mars.
People like to fantasize about colonizing outer space but the reality is that we're still far from needing to colonize other planets. If land were lacking our most likely options are (in order of priority):
Expand existing cities outwards, up in the sky, and below the ground
Northern Canada, Siberia, Australia, various deserts and plains
A small society can compensate by integrating outsiders, however, China will have difficulty doing this because of their culture. Women are nothing to them. Now, women who want to move there, please raise your hands. See the issue. (Interestingly, this subject came up in Decathlon today, where the subject this year is China.)
Has it not occurred to you that their political system might also have something to do with it? (both the difficulty for men to emigrate and the unwillingness of women to immigrate).
Is this a good thing? Well, yes and no. I think The Beatles' entry holds to more rigorous standards than Procul Harum's on account of the possibility of one person unintentionally inserting their personal views into Wikipedia. For instance, "Known as the World's Greatest Rock Band" may be appropriate for The Beatles' page but not for Procul Harum's. Yet, we all know how insane fans treat their favorite bands. Passion and emotion are not useful tools when authoring Wikipedia or history in general. And that, in my opinion, is Wikipedia's greatest hinderance.
But on the other hand, the more people view an article the more it is likely to be corrected and balanced for NPOV. This is a little-bit like free market price-correcting mechanisms - it isn't perfect, but in the opinion of many the results are fairly acceptable.
PF usage in task manager still shows that page file is being used. So does the dxdiag.
Page faults still occur by design. Windows has a late commit allocation scheme where the fault handler allocates actual physical pages the first time the program tries to access the memory. A "page fault" doesn't mean that any pages are actually loaded from the page file.
What dxdiag shows is really the amount of memory from paged and non-paged pools. The paged pool is the memory that can be swaped to the page file. The non-paged pool is the memory that is guaranteed to be mapped to physical memory at all times.
Finally, if you want to convince yourself that Windows really doesn't use a page file, just look in the root directory of your system drive. The page file is a file called "pagefile.sys". When you disable the page file and reboot you'll see that the file gets deleted.
In Windows 2000/XP you can't disable swap memory- plain and simple. Swap size can be reduced, that's all, but Windows will only follow your seeting until need arises (and that won't be when Windows has ran out of RAM, as other have explained).
You apparently do not have a Win XP SP2 machine to check this out. In the control panel there is an option "No page file" which is not the same as setting the size to zero. I've been running my machine without a pagefile for over a year without any problems whatsoever.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot provides a link to what Fyodor Yurchikhin said about what Charles Simonyi said about what Bill Gates supposedly intends to do.
Personally, I think the answer is not to *abolish* TLDs, but to make them *optional*, and abolish only .com / .net / .org. Then a company doesn't have to register 3 domains, and they only have to register country-level domains in contries where they actually have a presence. But how would you implement it - how do you reconcile those domains if different people own them, who gets the new TLD when they are amalgamated?
.us and let the owners sort out if they want to stay in .us or move to somewhere else.
Why does the USA always have to be special? Just move all "generic" TLDs to
Surprised by the bad translations in the comments, here's a more appropriate one (no, online translation tools are not as good as humans): Je, quant à moi, souhaite la bienvenue à nos nouveaux maîtres OVNIs.
... would be more correct. Also, I think O.V.N.I. requires proper punctuation and can't be made plural.
Yeah, except that in French a subordinate clause right after a personal pronoun is not very grammatical. Quant à moi, je souhaite la bienvenue
Unfortunately, it's not always so simple. Here in Poland, for example, we have proportional representation so the government is almost certain to be a minority government. Due to this, politicians endlessly fight and argue with each other instead of doing anything useful. Now, you may say this is a good thing because that way at least they don't interfere with what people do. That may be true in a country like Canada. But in a country like Poland, that receives billions of Euros from the EU to build infrastructure, but uses less than a few percent of it because no one can agree on what to do with the money, it may not be such a good thing.
I saw guy on TV the other day who visited the Amazonian jungle, and he said that this is more or less how the local people there watch the World Cup.
No need to be so picky on words. When editing I first wanted to write "communist era" then "post-communist", but forgot to remove the word era. Here we use the term "post-communist" to refer to any legacy from those times, and the word "communist" alone to refer to political affiliation (in a pejorative way).
What would help quite a lot is converting from coal and petroleum to nuclear power generation. That would pretty much solve the problem over-night, slashing our CO2 production by nearly 50%! What impact that would have on the climate... isn't actually 100% clear. It certainly is likely to have some impact, though.
I agree, but the problem is that a lot of these coal plants are in countries where there are more urgent problems to solve than CO2 emissions. For example, here in Poland over 95 percent of power plants are coal powered. And not the efficient 21 st century type, but the 40 year-old post-communist era type. However, nobody is going to invest in modernizing these power plants when there are so many other infrastructure problems, like the lack of a national highway system (ironically).
See my other post.
it's impossible for a would-be stealth system to counter good timing-attacks
;)
Okay, please tell me what such an attack consists of. I've been thinking about it and I'm truly interested to know. How does code running inside a VM detect what the true time is without the VM being able to fake it?
As a side note there is a question in philosophy that asks whether it is possible for us to really *know* the nature of reality. This is kind of the same but from a computer program's perspective.
If you run a VM that emulates the entire PC and run Windows inside it you can get a dump of everything, no matter where it is cached. They have NO way to look outside the VM and NO way to hide anything inside the VM. Please do contradict me if I'm wrong because this would be very interesting, but AFAIK there is no way to get around this.
Funny that they use the same techniques that viruses use to escape detection. Fortunately, they can't do *anything* to prevent someone from running it inside a VM and dumping all of the memory. Yes, it's a lot of work to debug that way, but it always works no matter what.
You might change your point of view when you have kids yourself. I have two teens. Yeah, they do stupid stuff sometimes. Yeah, I have to control what they do. But it's not a war of who can outsmart whom. It's about setting limits, and teaching trust and responsibility. Like another poster said, you have to set rules and make sure they understand the consequences of not obeying those rules.
It's the OS manufacturers that need to get up to speed. The definition of GB is 1,000,000,000 bytes. You're thinking of GiB. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
No. The definition of "gigabyte", etc. has been officially changed. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
although it's admittedly a bit more expensive to go to Jupiter than it is to go to Mars.
First, Titan is a moon of Saturn not Jupiter. Second, in most solar system models you can't see this clearly, but Jupiter is more than three times further from us than Mars and Saturn is almost two times further than Jupiter. So, not even considering other technical aspects, it's a lot more expensive to go there than to go to Mars.
IT's also protected by treaty.
Outer space is also protected by treaty. Treaties are going to become pretty useless when there will be no more land to settle.
A small society can compensate by integrating outsiders, however, China will have difficulty doing this because of their culture. Women are nothing to them. Now, women who want to move there, please raise your hands. See the issue. (Interestingly, this subject came up in Decathlon today, where the subject this year is China.)
Has it not occurred to you that their political system might also have something to do with it? (both the difficulty for men to emigrate and the unwillingness of women to immigrate).
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!
Smoking was thought to be harmless....doctors used to smoke.
Used to?
Is this a good thing? Well, yes and no. I think The Beatles' entry holds to more rigorous standards than Procul Harum's on account of the possibility of one person unintentionally inserting their personal views into Wikipedia. For instance, "Known as the World's Greatest Rock Band" may be appropriate for The Beatles' page but not for Procul Harum's. Yet, we all know how insane fans treat their favorite bands. Passion and emotion are not useful tools when authoring Wikipedia or history in general. And that, in my opinion, is Wikipedia's greatest hinderance.
But on the other hand, the more people view an article the more it is likely to be corrected and balanced for NPOV. This is a little-bit like free market price-correcting mechanisms - it isn't perfect, but in the opinion of many the results are fairly acceptable.
PF usage in task manager still shows that page file is being used. So does the dxdiag.
Page faults still occur by design. Windows has a late commit allocation scheme where the fault handler allocates actual physical pages the first time the program tries to access the memory. A "page fault" doesn't mean that any pages are actually loaded from the page file.
What dxdiag shows is really the amount of memory from paged and non-paged pools. The paged pool is the memory that can be swaped to the page file. The non-paged pool is the memory that is guaranteed to be mapped to physical memory at all times.
Finally, if you want to convince yourself that Windows really doesn't use a page file, just look in the root directory of your system drive. The page file is a file called "pagefile.sys". When you disable the page file and reboot you'll see that the file gets deleted.
In Windows 2000/XP you can't disable swap memory- plain and simple. Swap size can be reduced, that's all, but Windows will only follow your seeting until need arises (and that won't be when Windows has ran out of RAM, as other have explained).
You apparently do not have a Win XP SP2 machine to check this out. In the control panel there is an option "No page file" which is not the same as setting the size to zero. I've been running my machine without a pagefile for over a year without any problems whatsoever.
That's why we need to set it up in space.
First there was Chief Hacking Executive, now Senior Design Anthropologist? What next? Chief Chair-Throwing Gorilla? Oh wait...