Perhaps you're confused and think I'm saying Lana'i should have been taken away from Murdoch - I don't.
I don't think Ni-ihau should be taken away from the Robinsons.
I DO think that the Robinsons should only be able to sell it back to the state of Hawaii at fair market value.
You still have not given a good reason why this should be done. Explain why this is okay but buying and selling private islands such as Lana'i or Ni'ihau shouldn't be done.
They are equivalent in principle, not in the amount of land involved. I take it you are not in favor of property rights. I'll ask again: should we also take Ni'ihau away from the Robinsons?
Because you still haven't given a good reason why the act should be revised or why that island can't remain private. I could easily own large tracts of land in the mid west. Should laws be changed so that I can't do that?
And yet the company that makes the most money selling its PCs (ie Apple), still has computer production outsourced to Asia. If they moved their PC production back to the USA, they would not go bankrupt.
What they don't talk about for supercomputing in this article is the interconnect. Because the X86 instruction sets are massive, it generally does not work very well. Piping that many large instructions scales poorly, hell it's hard to get 8 chips on a board let alone having an interconnect bundling 128 or so. This is the advantage that RISC has always had over architecture, and why every supercomputer up to date worth speaking of has used RISC over Intel X86.
I disagree. Half of the top 10 current supercomputers at top500.org are x86 (some with GPGPU), 4 are IBM POWER, and 1 is SPARC64. Most of them are using Infiniband. Honestly, #4 is x86. Just add more computers and it'll be #1. That's basically how the current #1 got there. It's just a matter of how much money institutions are willing to spend to get there.
It's part usability and part marketing. It's the same reason that in blind taste test people prefer Pepsi instead of Coke, but take the blindfolds away and they go back to Coke. Or why women clamor over Louis Vuitton or Hermès bags. Sure they're good bags, but a no-name bag manufacturer that makes a bag that looks the same, made of the same materials, and has the same durability of an LV bag just won't sell as well without the LV logo on it.
I only buy my music on wax cylinders. I hand-crank the engine in my car to get it started. And these new-fangled "computers"? Give me an abacus and a logarithm table, and I'm all set.
Access to cheap and available money raises prices. After the housing bubble popped, house prices started dropping. And now that mortgages are harder to get housing prices have remained low (among other factors of course).
I call shens. Right now (as of 2012-05-08) a new low-end Silverado is $22,195 and a new low-end Prius is $24,000. That's a difference of $1,805. The Silverado has a combined fuel economy of 13 mpg whereas the Prius gets 50 mpg. At $4/gallon, that's about 450 gallons of fuel. The break even point is 5850 miles. I don't know how you came up with 400k miles.
Sorry, it won't be a Prius or Volt; much as I'd love to go the green route, they are not particularly green when factoring in the factory footprint, and I can't use them for much more than commuting.
Actually, about 80-90% of a vehicle's environmental impact is due to the fuel usage over its lifetime.
Not necessarily because it depends on the type of cancer. For example, skin cancers are generally due to extensive sun exposure over time, which causes accumulation of DNA errors. A cell that gets enough of these errors may eventually grow out of control as a result. Leukemias/lymphomas on the other hand, are commonly due to harmful rearrangement of genes. Gene rearrangement is something that these cells normally due when they're developing (that's right, the cells of your immune system have different DNA arrangement than the rest of the cells in your body).
I guess you don't know this but cancer is a collection of heterogeneous diseases whereby cells grow out of control. They range from the benign (eg basal cell carcinoma) to the guaranteed death sentence (eg grade 4 astrocytoma). And they all have different genetic causes. So being able to identify the cause, preventing it, and then curing one particular cancer may not help for other types (eg just cut out basal cell carcinoma and you're cured, but there is no true cure for chronic melogenous leukemia other than stem cell transplant or gene therapy to correct the genetic mutation).
Anyway, finding a "cure for cancer" leads to the question: which one?
While what you say is true about how difficult it is to compile a recent Darwin system (Apple stopped providing bootable Darwin images somewhere around 10.4 or 10.5), I think the greater reason for the lack of an alternative Darwin OS is that no one really cares. Once you've done the work to get Darwin compiled, X running, and KDE running, you might as well have saved your time and installed Debian, FreeBSD, or any other free unix system.
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Perhaps you're confused and think I'm saying Lana'i should have been taken away from Murdoch - I don't.
I don't think Ni-ihau should be taken away from the Robinsons.
I DO think that the Robinsons should only be able to sell it back to the state of Hawaii at fair market value.
You still have not given a good reason why this should be done. Explain why this is okay but buying and selling private islands such as Lana'i or Ni'ihau shouldn't be done.
They are equivalent in principle, not in the amount of land involved. I take it you are not in favor of property rights. I'll ask again: should we also take Ni'ihau away from the Robinsons?
I already answered your question. You have not answered mine. You're basically asserting that property rights don't matter.
Just as I thought: you have no good reason other than "it's an island". Should we also take Ni'ihau away from the Robinsons?
Still waiting...
Because you still haven't given a good reason why the act should be revised or why that island can't remain private. I could easily own large tracts of land in the mid west. Should laws be changed so that I can't do that?
So you're saying we should return all the land back to the Native Americans too then?
The island is private. 99.9% of the Hawaiians live on the other islands.
And yet the company that makes the most money selling its PCs (ie Apple), still has computer production outsourced to Asia. If they moved their PC production back to the USA, they would not go bankrupt.
What they don't talk about for supercomputing in this article is the interconnect. Because the X86 instruction sets are massive, it generally does not work very well. Piping that many large instructions scales poorly, hell it's hard to get 8 chips on a board let alone having an interconnect bundling 128 or so. This is the advantage that RISC has always had over architecture, and why every supercomputer up to date worth speaking of has used RISC over Intel X86.
I disagree. Half of the top 10 current supercomputers at top500.org are x86 (some with GPGPU), 4 are IBM POWER, and 1 is SPARC64. Most of them are using Infiniband. Honestly, #4 is x86. Just add more computers and it'll be #1. That's basically how the current #1 got there. It's just a matter of how much money institutions are willing to spend to get there.
It's part usability and part marketing. It's the same reason that in blind taste test people prefer Pepsi instead of Coke, but take the blindfolds away and they go back to Coke. Or why women clamor over Louis Vuitton or Hermès bags. Sure they're good bags, but a no-name bag manufacturer that makes a bag that looks the same, made of the same materials, and has the same durability of an LV bag just won't sell as well without the LV logo on it.
I only buy my music on wax cylinders. I hand-crank the engine in my car to get it started. And these new-fangled "computers"? Give me an abacus and a logarithm table, and I'm all set.
Actually, vinegar does have caloric content (about 87 cal/cup).
All I know is that all the food I eat is organic. I don't know of any foods that don't contain carbon.
Access to cheap and available money raises prices. After the housing bubble popped, house prices started dropping. And now that mortgages are harder to get housing prices have remained low (among other factors of course).
I call shens. Right now (as of 2012-05-08) a new low-end Silverado is $22,195 and a new low-end Prius is $24,000. That's a difference of $1,805. The Silverado has a combined fuel economy of 13 mpg whereas the Prius gets 50 mpg. At $4 /gallon, that's about 450 gallons of fuel. The break even point is 5850 miles. I don't know how you came up with 400k miles.
It's closer to 50/50 for GSM/CDMA in the USA. Verizon+Sprint =162 million CDMA subscribers.
AT&T+T-Mobile=137million GSM subscribers.
I suppose if you add in the smaller players (MetroPCS, U.S. Cellular, Cricket, etc.) you do end up with a larger majority of CDMA.
Sorry, it won't be a Prius or Volt; much as I'd love to go the green route, they are not particularly green when factoring in the factory footprint, and I can't use them for much more than commuting.
Actually, about 80-90% of a vehicle's environmental impact is due to the fuel usage over its lifetime.
Honestly, I'd rather have syphilis than AIDS. At least there's a cure for syphilis: penicillin. There's not cure for AIDS yet.
Not necessarily because it depends on the type of cancer. For example, skin cancers are generally due to extensive sun exposure over time, which causes accumulation of DNA errors. A cell that gets enough of these errors may eventually grow out of control as a result. Leukemias/lymphomas on the other hand, are commonly due to harmful rearrangement of genes. Gene rearrangement is something that these cells normally due when they're developing (that's right, the cells of your immune system have different DNA arrangement than the rest of the cells in your body).
I guess you don't know this but cancer is a collection of heterogeneous diseases whereby cells grow out of control. They range from the benign (eg basal cell carcinoma) to the guaranteed death sentence (eg grade 4 astrocytoma). And they all have different genetic causes. So being able to identify the cause, preventing it, and then curing one particular cancer may not help for other types (eg just cut out basal cell carcinoma and you're cured, but there is no true cure for chronic melogenous leukemia other than stem cell transplant or gene therapy to correct the genetic mutation).
Anyway, finding a "cure for cancer" leads to the question: which one?
I always thought it was hard, but that takes it to another level
He only left office because he died.
Easy enough to avoid malware. Just run Windows! Wait a minute...
While what you say is true about how difficult it is to compile a recent Darwin system (Apple stopped providing bootable Darwin images somewhere around 10.4 or 10.5), I think the greater reason for the lack of an alternative Darwin OS is that no one really cares. Once you've done the work to get Darwin compiled, X running, and KDE running, you might as well have saved your time and installed Debian, FreeBSD, or any other free unix system.