Negative. The Chinese system has little resemblance to a system of common law and strict liability. It looks much more like our current system of privilege and regulation, in fact.
"For READS, yes it's mainly about boot time and the first time you open a frequently used program. WRITES on the other hand can't be cached to RAM, not for more than a few seconds (and some not at all). Persistent cache makes all the difference for random writes."
You generally only need to cache writes for a few fractions of a second, until the write head is in position to transfer them to disk. Dynamic RAM is fine for this, and using a persistent medium is not going to magically improve your results here.
"The benchmarks understate the improvement because they generally lack locality and frequent rewrites. Benchmarks typically spread writes all over a 2 TB drive. In actual use, random writes aren't truly random. A database will write to the same xx MBs thousands of times, as will an email client and many other applications. Having the 500 MB that is your database on the flash cache is a huge improvement for these types of workloads. For some other workloads, the improvement is minimal."
The effect you want here is achieved simply and without any problem by simply adding 500mb of RAM to the system cache which knows a lot more about access patterns and files than the on-drive logic can possibly gather.
"You write/read to sectors mapped as blocks, if you read/write to the same block more then a few times then it's worth caching. That's how block caches work."
And that is different from how a conventional cache works how?
Exactly how I said. Persistence. So it helps with boot-times where a standard cache is blank at startup. Once the machine has been up for a minute? No advantage. Probably a disadvantage compared to a cache where there is no need to worry about exceeding maximum writes.
It's apparently only 'some' writes cached, and one wonders how exactly that is done while still being OS agnostic. But not much.
This is just a crappy drive with an expensive cache, which may or may not die more quickly than normal case, whose only real advantage is persistence. Which means it will do little more than make your system boot faster. If you are booting often enough to worry about it you are doing it wrong IMHO. I'd rather spend the money on a faster spindle or a better conventional cache (or both.)
"html 5 is a world with real applications, not to say that traditional html did not have real applications but with html 5 now having so many uses and access to hardware acceleration, I think the only next logical step to gain more commercial popularity"
Stop right there. Commercial popularity is not the goal. Back-trace and reparse world please.
Negative, we live in the real world, where 'regulation' has been perverted and redefined to mean 'hiring an army of bureaucrats and letting them run amok.'
There's no need for regulation in the modern sense, just application of good old fashioned criminal and civil law.
But more than that, there needs to be a bit of a cultural shift. Right now it's way too acceptable to write off all sorts of corruption as 'just the way the world is' and tolerate it rather than digging it out and exposing it to the light.
He doesnt seem to be notable enough for wikipedia but there's a cite in an IBM press conference from two years ago as "Dr. Seungho Ahn, Executive Vice President and Head of the IP Center, Samsung Electronics."
"Yes, I know I will be flamed for this, but I think the thing that is getting lost in the conversation is that we've all be using DRM for years"
No, we havent. You get to speak for yourself, not for me.
"How many of us have netflix or amazon movie streaming? Buy kindle books? Use steam? "
Way too many. Knock it off. If you had simply refused to cooperate with such idiocy from the beginning, these people would have learned their lesson and started selling proper digitial products instead. Since you keep feeding them money, they keep growing. This is not my fault, this is your fault.
Trying to apply a bandage on this mess in the name of interoperability is just digging yourself in deeper.
If you really want to go down that rabbit hole yourself I would say on your head be it, but I am really getting sick and tired of the effect your foolishness has on the larger environment in which we both live, which does affect me. So please, knock it off. Dont spend another penny on Treacherous Computing.
Capitalism only works in a free market. If what you say were ALL they had done, then it would be a very different issue. But the crux of it is that they are actually using their power on all fronts, including lobbying, legislative, law enforcement, to prevent any competition from arising. They arent competing in a free market, they are using their wealth to corrupt the legal system and guarantee themselves profits instead. THAT is the problem.
If competition were allowed, people, even people who dont think they care at all about the issue, will consistently choose the non-drm product *because it works better.* The copyright mafias know this, that is why they work so hard to make sure that competition is illegal and their customers have no choice.
"If you believe that Copyright should be able to exist on media and that authors and/or distributors should be able to charge for the video/audio, and you believe that technological protection measures may have some impact to reduce non-paid use of such media, and you believe that it is in the interest of consumers to have standards for these sort of things, then you may view EME as a good thing."
Sorry that's a horrible strawman. Lots of people believe in copyright without condoning DRM in any way shape or form.
"I'd say, my banking is still reasonably safe even if FBI can see, what I'm doing. There is simply nothing there, that they (or the IRS) can't get through traditional means. My banking secrets haven't been secrets for the government (unless the banks are abroad) for a long time â" but smaller-time crooks are still kept away by SSL. "
It's not just the FBI that can see it though. Once the system is compromised, the compromise is out there and discoverable by any number of malicious agents - Russian mob, Chinese competitors, your psycho ex-boyfriend or whoever.
You have it backwards. What you are thinking of as 'plain old' are actually normalised decimal fractions - one particular subset of fractional arithmetic. But decimal is no more inherently sensible than duodecimal, or octal, or binary, or even sexagesimal. A proper education in mathematics should enable one to work in whatever base and with whatever fractions are natural to a given question - instead of training you to use one particular set of variables as a procrustean bed.
Because they continue to be effective ways to teach difficult concepts like fractional volume, which can be very important for people in many fields later in life. Fractional volume, btw, as opposed to fractional length (the subject of the thread) is certainly a concept with application throughout modern society, from the industrial to the financial and the social.
Which is simply more reason why students need practice doing the more difficult calculation early.
This whole notion that everything in education needs to be watered down and simplified for ease of digestion simply cheats the children - who tend to be quite a bit smarter than we think, when given a chance.
Well there's the USA where the government takes an ever growing percentage of our economy to pay for overgrown military-industrial and surveillance-industrial complexes that make us less safe every day, would that work for you?
You are actually both right - corpses left alone in the sea will first sink, then rise again hours later due to those gases you mention. I dont have any data on how long it takes for a whale to go through that process, IIRC it's generally around a day for a human, depending on the weather (warm weather faster, cooler weather slower.)
There is a difference between coining a new word where one is lacking, and simply duplicating an existing word incorrectly. Quotes around "traitor" here would have made a perfectly intelligible post, and would have given warning that the meaning intended was not literal or legal but more figurative at the same time.
It's not a valid word. You are attempting to form the agent noun from treason, and the most common and regular way to do that is with the ending "-er" as in beat+er=beater or roast+er=roaster. But it is incorrect in this case, the noun is irregular, and the correct agent form is traitor "one who commits treason."
Also, the founding fathers saw fit to define treason very very narrowly and to do so in the Constitution itself, which is why the charge would not fit in the US, though it might be possible were this in a different jurisdiction.
"Of course. To put it anatomically, KDE 4.0 had its heart in the right place, even if its other innards were completely jumbled. The problem with Gnome Shell, on the other hand, is that it has its head up its ass."
Aptly put. Sad to say, though, as a result of the excessive attention paid to these projects and their anatomical difficulties, the state of the UI on Gnu/Linux and related systems has arguably degraded. The only consolation is that competing options from MS and Apple have seen the same thing happening. In their case it is clear why they are doing this - they degrade one platform in a bid to gain control of a different market. Monopoly rents being what they are I suspect this is a rational business decision.
It's hard to see any similar motivation for GNOME, which once upon a time was supposed to be about software liberation.
On a UK keyboard you have the alt-gr key in the same place, but on the US keyboard there are two alt keys, not an alt-gr and an alt like a UK keyboard.
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Negative. The Chinese system has little resemblance to a system of common law and strict liability. It looks much more like our current system of privilege and regulation, in fact.
"For READS, yes it's mainly about boot time and the first time you open a frequently used program. WRITES on the other hand can't be cached to RAM, not for more than a few seconds (and some not at all). Persistent cache makes all the difference for random writes."
You generally only need to cache writes for a few fractions of a second, until the write head is in position to transfer them to disk. Dynamic RAM is fine for this, and using a persistent medium is not going to magically improve your results here.
"The benchmarks understate the improvement because they generally lack locality and frequent rewrites. Benchmarks typically spread writes all over a 2 TB drive. In actual use, random writes aren't truly random. A database will write to the same xx MBs thousands of times, as will an email client and many other applications. Having the 500 MB that is your database on the flash cache is a huge improvement for these types of workloads. For some other workloads, the improvement is minimal."
The effect you want here is achieved simply and without any problem by simply adding 500mb of RAM to the system cache which knows a lot more about access patterns and files than the on-drive logic can possibly gather.
"You write/read to sectors mapped as blocks, if you read/write to the same block more then a few times then it's worth caching. That's how block caches work."
And that is different from how a conventional cache works how?
Exactly how I said. Persistence. So it helps with boot-times where a standard cache is blank at startup. Once the machine has been up for a minute? No advantage. Probably a disadvantage compared to a cache where there is no need to worry about exceeding maximum writes.
It's apparently only 'some' writes cached, and one wonders how exactly that is done while still being OS agnostic. But not much.
This is just a crappy drive with an expensive cache, which may or may not die more quickly than normal case, whose only real advantage is persistence. Which means it will do little more than make your system boot faster. If you are booting often enough to worry about it you are doing it wrong IMHO. I'd rather spend the money on a faster spindle or a better conventional cache (or both.)
"html 5 is a world with real applications, not to say that traditional html did not have real applications but with html 5 now having so many uses and access to hardware acceleration, I think the only next logical step to gain more commercial popularity"
Stop right there. Commercial popularity is not the goal. Back-trace and reparse world please.
Negative, we live in the real world, where 'regulation' has been perverted and redefined to mean 'hiring an army of bureaucrats and letting them run amok.'
There's no need for regulation in the modern sense, just application of good old fashioned criminal and civil law.
But more than that, there needs to be a bit of a cultural shift. Right now it's way too acceptable to write off all sorts of corruption as 'just the way the world is' and tolerate it rather than digging it out and exposing it to the light.
He doesnt seem to be notable enough for wikipedia but there's a cite in an IBM press conference from two years ago as "Dr. Seungho Ahn, Executive Vice President and Head of the IP Center, Samsung Electronics."
He may become an overnight celebrity of sorts.
"Yes, I know I will be flamed for this, but I think the thing that is getting lost in the conversation is that we've all be using DRM for years"
No, we havent. You get to speak for yourself, not for me.
"How many of us have netflix or amazon movie streaming? Buy kindle books? Use steam? "
Way too many. Knock it off. If you had simply refused to cooperate with such idiocy from the beginning, these people would have learned their lesson and started selling proper digitial products instead. Since you keep feeding them money, they keep growing. This is not my fault, this is your fault.
Trying to apply a bandage on this mess in the name of interoperability is just digging yourself in deeper.
If you really want to go down that rabbit hole yourself I would say on your head be it, but I am really getting sick and tired of the effect your foolishness has on the larger environment in which we both live, which does affect me. So please, knock it off. Dont spend another penny on Treacherous Computing.
Capitalism only works in a free market. If what you say were ALL they had done, then it would be a very different issue. But the crux of it is that they are actually using their power on all fronts, including lobbying, legislative, law enforcement, to prevent any competition from arising. They arent competing in a free market, they are using their wealth to corrupt the legal system and guarantee themselves profits instead. THAT is the problem.
If competition were allowed, people, even people who dont think they care at all about the issue, will consistently choose the non-drm product *because it works better.* The copyright mafias know this, that is why they work so hard to make sure that competition is illegal and their customers have no choice.
"If you believe that Copyright should be able to exist on media and that authors and/or distributors should be able to charge for the video/audio, and you believe that technological protection measures may have some impact to reduce non-paid use of such media, and you believe that it is in the interest of consumers to have standards for these sort of things, then you may view EME as a good thing."
Sorry that's a horrible strawman. Lots of people believe in copyright without condoning DRM in any way shape or form.
"I'd say, my banking is still reasonably safe even if FBI can see, what I'm doing. There is simply nothing there, that they (or the IRS) can't get through traditional means. My banking secrets haven't been secrets for the government (unless the banks are abroad) for a long time â" but smaller-time crooks are still kept away by SSL. "
It's not just the FBI that can see it though. Once the system is compromised, the compromise is out there and discoverable by any number of malicious agents - Russian mob, Chinese competitors, your psycho ex-boyfriend or whoever.
You have it backwards. What you are thinking of as 'plain old' are actually normalised decimal fractions - one particular subset of fractional arithmetic. But decimal is no more inherently sensible than duodecimal, or octal, or binary, or even sexagesimal. A proper education in mathematics should enable one to work in whatever base and with whatever fractions are natural to a given question - instead of training you to use one particular set of variables as a procrustean bed.
Because they continue to be effective ways to teach difficult concepts like fractional volume, which can be very important for people in many fields later in life. Fractional volume, btw, as opposed to fractional length (the subject of the thread) is certainly a concept with application throughout modern society, from the industrial to the financial and the social.
Actually I think that translates to "Elijah Trojanson" but it's probably close enough for funny.
Which is simply more reason why students need practice doing the more difficult calculation early.
This whole notion that everything in education needs to be watered down and simplified for ease of digestion simply cheats the children - who tend to be quite a bit smarter than we think, when given a chance.
Well there's the USA where the government takes an ever growing percentage of our economy to pay for overgrown military-industrial and surveillance-industrial complexes that make us less safe every day, would that work for you?
You'll be at a fair fraction of 1Gb, not 1GB.
GPs point.
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Your head.
Robert Anton Wilson put it a bit more succinctly. "National Security is the number 1 cause of national insecurity."
You are actually both right - corpses left alone in the sea will first sink, then rise again hours later due to those gases you mention. I dont have any data on how long it takes for a whale to go through that process, IIRC it's generally around a day for a human, depending on the weather (warm weather faster, cooler weather slower.)
There is a difference between coining a new word where one is lacking, and simply duplicating an existing word incorrectly. Quotes around "traitor" here would have made a perfectly intelligible post, and would have given warning that the meaning intended was not literal or legal but more figurative at the same time.
It's not a valid word. You are attempting to form the agent noun from treason, and the most common and regular way to do that is with the ending "-er" as in beat+er=beater or roast+er=roaster. But it is incorrect in this case, the noun is irregular, and the correct agent form is traitor "one who commits treason."
Also, the founding fathers saw fit to define treason very very narrowly and to do so in the Constitution itself, which is why the charge would not fit in the US, though it might be possible were this in a different jurisdiction.
That's not a valid word, you are trying for 'traitor.'
At least in the US, that charge would not apply here.
I could see a few billion counts of civil rights violation however.
"Of course. To put it anatomically, KDE 4.0 had its heart in the right place, even if its other innards were completely jumbled. The problem with Gnome Shell, on the other hand, is that it has its head up its ass."
Aptly put. Sad to say, though, as a result of the excessive attention paid to these projects and their anatomical difficulties, the state of the UI on Gnu/Linux and related systems has arguably degraded. The only consolation is that competing options from MS and Apple have seen the same thing happening. In their case it is clear why they are doing this - they degrade one platform in a bid to gain control of a different market. Monopoly rents being what they are I suspect this is a rational business decision.
It's hard to see any similar motivation for GNOME, which once upon a time was supposed to be about software liberation.
"First one that comes to my find is "Why do I click 'Start' to stop?""
So you can start stopping, doh. ;)
On a UK keyboard you have the alt-gr key in the same place, but on the US keyboard there are two alt keys, not an alt-gr and an alt like a UK keyboard.