Wasn't it reported somewhere that citizens of EU nations, when offered the "N" versions of Windows either purchased Windows from sources where the full versions were available or pirated the full-versions instead of purchasing the "N" version?
That is correct. Since Microsoft were allowed to price the N-version equivalently to the ordinary version, nobody wanted to pay the same amount of money for less, and thus, few people bought the N-version. If prices had differed by a large enough margin, we'd probably have an entirely different outcome.
Unfortunately for AMD they could end up not being able to take full advantage of their superior (large scale) architecture if OS vendors don't provide better NUMA support.
If there is any problem with the NUMA code in Linux, AMD is welcome to fix those problems themselves, instead of waiting for someone else to do their job for them.
When I was a kid, we got new carpet and had to take our shoes off at the door. Before that we always had to take our hicking boots off and put on regular shoes.
Now maybe I'm going off topic, but anyway: In Sweden, using your shoes indoors is usually frowned upon. It may be related to the fact that wall-to-wall carpeting is quite unusual, and getting even more so over time. Common floor types are parquet or parquet-imitating laminate in bedrooms and living room (sometimes in kitchens too) and floor tiles or linoleum in wet areas (such as bathrooms) and halls (the room just inside the entrance). Carpets are mostly non-fixed, and usually covers only part of the floor.
I'd still rather be held in gitmo than be held in a WWII German or USSR POW camp, much less North Korea or Vietnam.
How do you know being held in Gitmo is any better than being held in any of the other camps you mentioned? Is it because it is operated by the US government, and you trust them not to do as bad things as the operators of those other camps? Sorry, but the world does not agree with you.
Worse, what kind of precident does this set for the situation when U.S. or allied troops are captured by an enemy? Can some tinpot dictator somewhere else in the world be inspired to designate those prisoners as "enemy combatants" and deny them their rights as POWs? Or leave people in prison for indefinite periods of time without charge or hearings about their POW status? The whole thing jeapordizes the protections of the Geneva Conventions for OUR troops -- also something that military personel pointed out when this whole thing started.
Good point. Dubya and his henchmen must know this, but either they don't care or they think that no US soldier will ever be captured by an enemy until the end of time.
Just yesterday I read about some new directive in Russia that media should portray the US as the enemy. Maybe a future war is coming, and US troops should be aware that they would probably be treated in the Gitmo way by the russians if they were ever captured.
I know that it is a less than ideal situation, but the media blows the whole thing way out of proportion
Exposing torture can never be considered out of proportion. I just read up on waterboarding, one of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" allegedly used by the US govenment to extract information from these prisoners. It sounds absolutely horrendous. If this really is used by your government, your country is no better than the terrorists it is interrogating. And your Dick Cheney actually openly supports this technique.
You'll find that bush revoked the right for habeas corpus, for non-us citizens in the war on terror.
If this is true, I would support revoking similar rights of US citizens on EU soil. I mean, fair is fair, if I have no rights when visiting the US, US citizens should have no rights when visiting the EU.
he's not a US citizen, so he doesn't get the same protections and access to a legal trial that a citizen of the US does.
Is this official US policy? Then it wouldn't be more than right to have other countries issue reciprocal rules regarding visiting US citizens. In other words, usually foreigners have the same rights as the natives, at least in western countries, but if the US have rescinded this rule, other countries should rescind it too w.r.t. US citizens. I wonder how long it would take before the US would issue strong complaints, not to mention direct threats of economic sanctions and trade embargoes.
They made a mistake and then set the record straight.
Let me guess, when he was arrested, it made headline news in the national media, while when he was released, a news notice was put in very small print among the least read pages of the local newspaper? This isn't bashing the US, since it happens everywhere. The problem is that many people believe that "if you're arrested, you're probably guilty". This could earn you a label of being a criminal for a very long time.
Would they let you in if you ticked Yes in the form? If not, what would be the difference between lying and telling the trush if one of those questions applied to you? You would be kicked out in both cases, but lying would let you enter and stay for a while until the police found out what you were. Seems like lying would be the better alternative. Is there any downside?
When I went to Europe (Spain, Germany, Sweeden, Belgium) they asked me the same thing: What was the purpose of my travel, where I was going to stay, and I needed to show my two-way ticket.
When did that happen? I would not be too surprised if this was implemented in the last few years. It sometimes seems like the EU politicians are intent on following in the footsteps of their US masters, doing all their mistakes again. I'd be surprised if this was implemented earlier though.
The reason for my doubt is that I have relatives in the former Warsaw Pact, more specifically in Poland. I've never heard about them being asked such questions upon entering Sweden, not even before the disintegration of the pact. And you'd think that the border controls into and out of the Warsaw Pact would be pretty strict (in fact it was, but on the Polish side, I remember sitting in a queue for five hours so that the polish customs officials could check thoroughly each car coming into the country, but that's another story).
I think the "have you been a member of the communist party" question is a mistake on your part. IIRC the correct question is "were you a memeber of the german nazi party during the war".
No, I don't think I was wrong about the communism question, but I now remember that there was a question about being a member of the german nazi party during the war, just like you said. Considering that the war ended 62 years ago, many (most?) people that survived the war have now died from age, making this question less and less relevant. I wonder when they will remove it from the form.
And there is no such thing as "international law" unless it is a treaty that the US has signed and ratified, and under the US legal system, any treaty is superseded by subsequent conflicting federal law (e.g., the Detainee Treatment Act). I don't recall suspending the US Constitution and surrendering US sovereignty to the United Nations.
So when the RIAA and MPAA try to force other countries (such as mine) to implement harsh copyright laws "because international treaties says so", we can just create a national law that contravenes this treaty and we'll be in the clear? Thanks for this valuable information, I'll forward it to our parliament immediately.<sarcasm>
Surrender and we'll let everyone go. It is quite simple.
No, it isn't quite simple. What if there is no central hub organization called Al-Qaida, but rather a loose network of such organizations, all by the name Al-Qaida. One such organization surrenders, and three other Al-Qaidas pop up. When can you say "the war is now over"? Well, you can't. Thus, they will be incarcerated for the rest of their lives, without going to trial, because the war against Al-Qaida is an eternal war.
I agree with the gist of your post. When it comes to travel and related subjects, the United States is certainly not the "land of the free". And I'm not only referring to their travel restrictions to certain countries, but also to the ridiculous procedures you have to go through to enter the country. More specifically, I'm referring to the "I am not a communist or a terrorist" forms handed out during flights to the US, that you need to fill in to pass immigration.
that most native people are trying to escape in whatever (non)sea-worthy craft they can create.
Then I guess Cuba should be very sparsely populated by now, as most people have tried to escape (and either succeeded, drowned or having been killed by Cuban forces). But according to Wikipedia, Cuba has a population of a little more than eleven million people on 110,000 km^2, which isn't really sparsely populated. Now of course the Wikipedia article could be manipulated by the cuban government to inflate their numbers...
comparison of the situation in Eastern Europe to the situation in the US
A fully reasonable comparison. When my dad once went to the United States, he first thought that he had gotten on the wrong plane and landed in the Soviet Union (this was while the USSR still existed). Where else would you need to fill in a whole range of papers declaring this and that*, as well as tell the immigration officials where you intend to stay and so on.
*= To a foreigner, the US immigration papers look more than silly, they make a laugh of the entire US (first impressions, you know). You have to answer questions on whether you were ever a member of a communist organization, whether you are going to the US to commit terrorist acts, etc, etc. Do they really expect the communists or terrorists to answer Yes in any of these forms? How naive are those immigration officials really?
They better take a SERIOUS fucking look at their L2 cache sizes.
I see Core 2 Duos with 2 megs per fucking core.
I see Turion 64 X2's with a paltry 256K.
Intel CPUs need a larger cache to compensate for their larger memory access penalties that stems from having the memory controller in the northbridge and not integrated into the processor die as the Athlon 64 CPUs have.
Corporations, much like the life forms that own and operate them, will evolve over time.
Correct.
When that pressure is removed, when that corporate organism achieves total dominance of its environment (that is, market sector), the process of devolution sets in.
It may be correct in the corporate world, but there is no such thing as devolution in evolutionary biology. This is because evolution is undirected, while devolution implies some kind of "backwards evolution", which is absurd for a process that has no direction.
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That is correct. Since Microsoft were allowed to price the N-version equivalently to the ordinary version, nobody wanted to pay the same amount of money for less, and thus, few people bought the N-version. If prices had differed by a large enough margin, we'd probably have an entirely different outcome.
Technically, HyperTransport is not a (shared) bus but a point-to-point link, just like PCI Express, Serial ATA, etc.
This looks like an AMD fanboy if I ever saw one.
If there is any problem with the NUMA code in Linux, AMD is welcome to fix those problems themselves, instead of waiting for someone else to do their job for them.
Now maybe I'm going off topic, but anyway: In Sweden, using your shoes indoors is usually frowned upon. It may be related to the fact that wall-to-wall carpeting is quite unusual, and getting even more so over time. Common floor types are parquet or parquet-imitating laminate in bedrooms and living room (sometimes in kitchens too) and floor tiles or linoleum in wet areas (such as bathrooms) and halls (the room just inside the entrance). Carpets are mostly non-fixed, and usually covers only part of the floor.
How do you know being held in Gitmo is any better than being held in any of the other camps you mentioned? Is it because it is operated by the US government, and you trust them not to do as bad things as the operators of those other camps? Sorry, but the world does not agree with you.
Thank you! An excellent post that shows that there are people in the United States that still know how to use their brains.
Good point. Dubya and his henchmen must know this, but either they don't care or they think that no US soldier will ever be captured by an enemy until the end of time.
Just yesterday I read about some new directive in Russia that media should portray the US as the enemy. Maybe a future war is coming, and US troops should be aware that they would probably be treated in the Gitmo way by the russians if they were ever captured.
Exposing torture can never be considered out of proportion. I just read up on waterboarding, one of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" allegedly used by the US govenment to extract information from these prisoners. It sounds absolutely horrendous. If this really is used by your government, your country is no better than the terrorists it is interrogating. And your Dick Cheney actually openly supports this technique.
If this is true, I would support revoking similar rights of US citizens on EU soil. I mean, fair is fair, if I have no rights when visiting the US, US citizens should have no rights when visiting the EU.
Is this official US policy? Then it wouldn't be more than right to have other countries issue reciprocal rules regarding visiting US citizens. In other words, usually foreigners have the same rights as the natives, at least in western countries, but if the US have rescinded this rule, other countries should rescind it too w.r.t. US citizens. I wonder how long it would take before the US would issue strong complaints, not to mention direct threats of economic sanctions and trade embargoes.
Let me guess, Dubya told the public that they were terrorist organizations, so they must be. After all, he has a private telephone line to god.
Let me guess, when he was arrested, it made headline news in the national media, while when he was released, a news notice was put in very small print among the least read pages of the local newspaper? This isn't bashing the US, since it happens everywhere. The problem is that many people believe that "if you're arrested, you're probably guilty". This could earn you a label of being a criminal for a very long time.
For many if not most people, being locked in by the authorities equals being jailed, whatever fancy name the authorities hang on it this week.
Would they let you in if you ticked Yes in the form? If not, what would be the difference between lying and telling the trush if one of those questions applied to you? You would be kicked out in both cases, but lying would let you enter and stay for a while until the police found out what you were. Seems like lying would be the better alternative. Is there any downside?
That's right, I'm Swedish.
When I went to Europe (Spain, Germany, Sweeden, Belgium) they asked me the same thing: What was the purpose of my travel, where I was going to stay, and I needed to show my two-way ticket.When did that happen? I would not be too surprised if this was implemented in the last few years. It sometimes seems like the EU politicians are intent on following in the footsteps of their US masters, doing all their mistakes again. I'd be surprised if this was implemented earlier though.
The reason for my doubt is that I have relatives in the former Warsaw Pact, more specifically in Poland. I've never heard about them being asked such questions upon entering Sweden, not even before the disintegration of the pact. And you'd think that the border controls into and out of the Warsaw Pact would be pretty strict (in fact it was, but on the Polish side, I remember sitting in a queue for five hours so that the polish customs officials could check thoroughly each car coming into the country, but that's another story).
No, I don't think I was wrong about the communism question, but I now remember that there was a question about being a member of the german nazi party during the war, just like you said. Considering that the war ended 62 years ago, many (most?) people that survived the war have now died from age, making this question less and less relevant. I wonder when they will remove it from the form.
So when the RIAA and MPAA try to force other countries (such as mine) to implement harsh copyright laws "because international treaties says so", we can just create a national law that contravenes this treaty and we'll be in the clear? Thanks for this valuable information, I'll forward it to our parliament immediately.<sarcasm>
No, it isn't quite simple. What if there is no central hub organization called Al-Qaida, but rather a loose network of such organizations, all by the name Al-Qaida. One such organization surrenders, and three other Al-Qaidas pop up. When can you say "the war is now over"? Well, you can't. Thus, they will be incarcerated for the rest of their lives, without going to trial, because the war against Al-Qaida is an eternal war.
I agree with the gist of your post. When it comes to travel and related subjects, the United States is certainly not the "land of the free". And I'm not only referring to their travel restrictions to certain countries, but also to the ridiculous procedures you have to go through to enter the country. More specifically, I'm referring to the "I am not a communist or a terrorist" forms handed out during flights to the US, that you need to fill in to pass immigration.
Then I guess Cuba should be very sparsely populated by now, as most people have tried to escape (and either succeeded, drowned or having been killed by Cuban forces). But according to Wikipedia, Cuba has a population of a little more than eleven million people on 110,000 km^2, which isn't really sparsely populated. Now of course the Wikipedia article could be manipulated by the cuban government to inflate their numbers...
I agree. Communism can only work in environments where greed is not a factor, such as in a family. There it can work well though.
A fully reasonable comparison. When my dad once went to the United States, he first thought that he had gotten on the wrong plane and landed in the Soviet Union (this was while the USSR still existed). Where else would you need to fill in a whole range of papers declaring this and that*, as well as tell the immigration officials where you intend to stay and so on.
*= To a foreigner, the US immigration papers look more than silly, they make a laugh of the entire US (first impressions, you know). You have to answer questions on whether you were ever a member of a communist organization, whether you are going to the US to commit terrorist acts, etc, etc. Do they really expect the communists or terrorists to answer Yes in any of these forms? How naive are those immigration officials really?
No offense, but it is insanely ridiculous.
They better take a SERIOUS fucking look at their L2 cache sizes.
I see Core 2 Duos with 2 megs per fucking core.
I see Turion 64 X2's with a paltry 256K.
Intel CPUs need a larger cache to compensate for their larger memory access penalties that stems from having the memory controller in the northbridge and not integrated into the processor die as the Athlon 64 CPUs have.
Correct.
When that pressure is removed, when that corporate organism achieves total dominance of its environment (that is, market sector), the process of devolution sets in.It may be correct in the corporate world, but there is no such thing as devolution in evolutionary biology. This is because evolution is undirected, while devolution implies some kind of "backwards evolution", which is absurd for a process that has no direction.