Losing manufacturing to China is probably the largest problem we face as a country. Especially in fields of advanced manufacturing, it is strategically important to maintain a strong lead in the U.S.
Some have said that we are moving away from a foundation of manufacturing and towards one of information management and service-oriented business. This is a truly horrifying prospect as both depend on a constant influx of *manufacturing* jobs to create demand for these new industries. Losing manufacturing to other countries means losing independence and self-sufficiency. We can't clean each other's pools forever.
The other problem, though, is that China can undercut our labor by a huge amount. It used to be that the Japanese were saying Americans were lazy and overpaid. It took the Chinese and Indians to prove it. So even if we were to begin another "Buy American" program, we would still be at a disadvantage to overseas customers who would simply choose the cheaper Chinese products over the expensive American products.
We are in a race to the bottom, and if we are to pull ourselves out of this death spiral it will be necessary to look to other failed states for examples of what not to do. No empire in its death throes has ever been able to save itself. England is doing a good job of coming back, but their once vast empire is now just a small collection of rainy islands in the North Atlantic.
What with all the rest of the cheap Chinese shit we Americans buy every day, what's the big deal with buying some more cheap shit to generate our electricity?
Hey, cheaper turbines making cheap electricity. We're preserving the American Way of Life.
The concept of a clear box as some sort of booth for performing searches is so far removed from my concept of what America ought to be that I'm terribly saddened and honestly angered that this country has gone so far towards fascism and jack-booted thuggery in so little time. While you may not feel much shame, in general people would usually prefer to be taken to an area that maintains some semblance of privacy in the odd event that such a search is necessary. That we are searching people at all with this much effort is a travesty.
As for getting an attractive person to pat you down, I can only say that I hope you are gay or bisexual because the guard who pats you down is required to be the same gender as you. Of course you already have piercings, so it may go without saying.
I was at LAX with my family several months ago and there was a huge line to go through the metal detectors. Tempers were up, to say the least.
Ahead of me there was a group of Arabs, kaffiyeh, long beard, the works. Behind them was a little white haired lady apparently on her way back to "Mizzurah" after seeing her grandkids in LA. Sweet as can be old lady, the kind that talks to much to strangers on the airplane. Single serving friend, you know.
Guess who gets stopped by the TSA.
Needless to say, everyone in line was a bit pissed that the TSA was giving extra screening to the old lady when they just waved the Arab guys through without a second glance. That's when the guy behind me yelled out, "What the fuck are you morons searching her for? The towelheads are the ones flying shit into buildings!"
Turns out we were all on the same flight to Chicago. Real American guy boarded last, about 15 minutes late. TSA had a word with him, I suppose. Maybe scanned him a few extra times to make sure his DNA was totally fucked up.
There are a few roles that government must play. It must provide its citizens protection and a working legal framework. But when the government decides to dabble in providing other services, especially ones in which there already exists private enterprise, there is nothing gained but bureaucracy and government bloat.
Thomas Jefferson must be rolling over in his grave.
Maemo 5 and Android have received a lot of publicity lately, despite the former not even shipping yet. Both have become famous partly for using the Linux kernel, but now that we have a choice, how do we pick one?
I assume that you'd probably pick the one that you can actually buy. Or you could opt to buy nothing, but that's not really picking one.
It's about bloody time they got this thing started. Of course, being on the pad is just the first step.
Once we've verified the structural integrity of the design, it would be nice to go ahead with astronaut insertion and extended earth orbit. People have been ragging on this design for a while, but I have high hopes that a return to the rocket-centric designs of yesteryear will put us back in the forefront of space exploration.
Without a recoup period, there is no incentive to develop new treatments. 5 years is probably a good balance. 12 is probably too long. And 0 is the type of braindead proposal you'd get at a discussion site like Digg or Fark.
When you buy your house, a lot of your money is ostensibly tossed down the drain to pay for the interest on your loan. However, this interest is actually the cost to you to borrow that money. So the lower the interest, the lower your cost to borrow money. If you had no interest to pay and had no incentive to pay back a loan on time, there simply wouldn't be a loan market. No one would lend to you because there would be no hope of getting any return on their investment. Just as you expect use of money as the benefit of borrowing, they expect a small rate of interest to recompense them for their loss of the use of the money.
In many ways, the financial and pharmalogical industries are very similar in this regard.
Those thin margins exist because competition is keeping the final price down. When the government comes along and imposes a tax on all the businesses, the prices rise, but those margins stay pretty steady.
A boat floating in a harbor has some percentage of its total mass below the water. When the tide comes in, the boat rises up. When the tide goes out, the boat sinks back down. But there is no change in the amount of boat mass above and below the water! The only thing that affects whether the boat goes deeper into the water or not is if additional mass is added, removed, or a hole is punched in the bottom. Governments are well known for punching holes into the titanics of industry, though.
By the way I just typed "make menuconfig" and it wiil let you enter a number up to 512 in the "Maximum number of CPUs" field, so the Linux kernel seems ready for up to 512 CPUs (or cores, they are handled the same way by Linux it seems) as far I can tell by this simple test. Entering a number greater than 512 gives the "You have made an invalid entry" message
Whoa. If you change the source a little, you can enter 1000000 into the Maximum number of CPUs field! Linux is ready for up to a million cores.
If you change the code a little more, when I enter a number that's too high for menuconfig, it says "We're not talking about your penis size, Holmes"
Yes, I suppose technically any FPGA could be considered a "core" in its own right, but it's a far cry from the CPU cores that you typically associate with the term.
Putting a stock on a semi-automatic rifle makes it an "assault weapon", but c'mon. It's still a pea shooter.
This report and story are simply American government propaganda. It is difficult to keep Americans believing that this is the "Land of the Free" without creating some sort of external threat. Sometimes those nasty Iranians with their nuclear missile programs are the biggest danger to our American way of life. Other times, it's those copycat Chinese with their industrial espionage trying to take jobs away from good, hard working Americans.
The story in this case is based on the assumption that there is anything worth stealing that is stored on Internet-reachable servers. It's a completely different story when you start questioning why secret information would be put anywhere near the biggest information network in the world. Is the problem a nefarious hacker country, or is the problem an incompetent American government?
Odds are both. However, remove the beam from thine own eye, and all that.
For some background, Darl McBride was the CEO who saw the Linux company SCO through some of the hardest times the company ever went through. As CEO, McBride redefined SCO so as to make it one of the most talked-about computer companies ever. His leadership pushed the SCO reputation to limits most companies never reach.
SCO is a company for the history books nowadays, but just a few years ago it was one of the most influential companies around, garnering interest and vile from MS and a host of Linux vendors. They will be missed.
What you have presented us with here is a "B C" problem. You want to achieve C, so you ask us how to do B. Unfortunately, you never specify what A is, so the best we can do is give you some pointers for B which are probably going to be irrelevant and useless to what you are really trying to achieve.
Most of the comments will probably be about trying to figure out what your A problem is. To that end, why don't you just get a faster line in the first place and forget about this line aggregation stuff you're asking about?
Matthew 7:13-14 Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
How much easier could Satan be making it than providing the game for free online?
If you're going to propose that Moblin is somehow better than Android for non-phone devices, it would be nice to have some backup information to prove your point.
The fact of the matter is that Linux is not designed to be an embedded OS, and the efforts that Moblin and Linux are making are significant but not wholly complete. When, as you say, the OS boots faster, is transparent, and exists invisibly to users (though clearly to developers), then we will have a true "mobile Linux" distribution.
Acer seems to be tempting fate here and begging Microsoft to raise their licensing costs. If they pass their costs onto consumers, will their cheap hardware keep prices low enough to attract customers, even with the higher-priced desktop OS? I don't know, but it seems very dangerous for them to be making such claims at this point.
The one really big hurdle which Android faces and which WinMo and iPhone have worked around is the problem of a moving target. Since Android is a work in progress, with OEMs deciding which version to release, there is only a core set of functionality that could be expected to exist across all versions on all phones. Now, this core set of functionality may be very large and useful, but without a rigorous breakdown of the differences between devices it still feels like a crapshoot.
Attention to this "always in beta" aspect of developing on the Android platform would have been nice. Of course, Google just wants people developing apps and not worrying about how things may change. Unfortunately, this is a serious concern for developers of enterprise applications, and it may end up being Android's Achilles Tendon in the long run.
Can you believe it's been 12 years on since Slashdot came into being? 12 years on and we're still getting major updates.
I gotta hand it to you guys, even when things are working, you're finding new and interesting ways to update the site. I guess this is one of the reasons it's still relevant and popular.
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You're right, of course.
Losing manufacturing to China is probably the largest problem we face as a country. Especially in fields of advanced manufacturing, it is strategically important to maintain a strong lead in the U.S.
Some have said that we are moving away from a foundation of manufacturing and towards one of information management and service-oriented business. This is a truly horrifying prospect as both depend on a constant influx of *manufacturing* jobs to create demand for these new industries. Losing manufacturing to other countries means losing independence and self-sufficiency. We can't clean each other's pools forever.
The other problem, though, is that China can undercut our labor by a huge amount. It used to be that the Japanese were saying Americans were lazy and overpaid. It took the Chinese and Indians to prove it. So even if we were to begin another "Buy American" program, we would still be at a disadvantage to overseas customers who would simply choose the cheaper Chinese products over the expensive American products.
We are in a race to the bottom, and if we are to pull ourselves out of this death spiral it will be necessary to look to other failed states for examples of what not to do. No empire in its death throes has ever been able to save itself. England is doing a good job of coming back, but their once vast empire is now just a small collection of rainy islands in the North Atlantic.
What with all the rest of the cheap Chinese shit we Americans buy every day, what's the big deal with buying some more cheap shit to generate our electricity?
Hey, cheaper turbines making cheap electricity. We're preserving the American Way of Life.
The concept of a clear box as some sort of booth for performing searches is so far removed from my concept of what America ought to be that I'm terribly saddened and honestly angered that this country has gone so far towards fascism and jack-booted thuggery in so little time. While you may not feel much shame, in general people would usually prefer to be taken to an area that maintains some semblance of privacy in the odd event that such a search is necessary. That we are searching people at all with this much effort is a travesty.
As for getting an attractive person to pat you down, I can only say that I hope you are gay or bisexual because the guard who pats you down is required to be the same gender as you. Of course you already have piercings, so it may go without saying.
I was at LAX with my family several months ago and there was a huge line to go through the metal detectors. Tempers were up, to say the least.
Ahead of me there was a group of Arabs, kaffiyeh, long beard, the works. Behind them was a little white haired lady apparently on her way back to "Mizzurah" after seeing her grandkids in LA. Sweet as can be old lady, the kind that talks to much to strangers on the airplane. Single serving friend, you know.
Guess who gets stopped by the TSA.
Needless to say, everyone in line was a bit pissed that the TSA was giving extra screening to the old lady when they just waved the Arab guys through without a second glance. That's when the guy behind me yelled out, "What the fuck are you morons searching her for? The towelheads are the ones flying shit into buildings!"
Turns out we were all on the same flight to Chicago. Real American guy boarded last, about 15 minutes late. TSA had a word with him, I suppose. Maybe scanned him a few extra times to make sure his DNA was totally fucked up.
There are a few roles that government must play. It must provide its citizens protection and a working legal framework. But when the government decides to dabble in providing other services, especially ones in which there already exists private enterprise, there is nothing gained but bureaucracy and government bloat.
Thomas Jefferson must be rolling over in his grave.
Meme? I heard it on the radio this morning.
Maemo 5 and Android have received a lot of publicity lately, despite the former not even shipping yet. Both have become famous partly for using the Linux kernel, but now that we have a choice, how do we pick one?
I assume that you'd probably pick the one that you can actually buy. Or you could opt to buy nothing, but that's not really picking one.
"We" don't really have a choice, do we?
I got to tour...inside a building that can withstand hurricane force winds. It is truly mind-boggling.
Just moved here from the jungle, have you?
Not necessarily. Take Uranus. Please!
It's about bloody time they got this thing started. Of course, being on the pad is just the first step.
Once we've verified the structural integrity of the design, it would be nice to go ahead with astronaut insertion and extended earth orbit. People have been ragging on this design for a while, but I have high hopes that a return to the rocket-centric designs of yesteryear will put us back in the forefront of space exploration.
Tampon.
IF the drug approval process was faster AND it was easy to reverse engineer drugs THEN patents are needed in medicine
So the net effect of patents is effectively zero in this case.
But you want to get rid of them because of present day technical difficulties that may one day be overcome? That's some good planning there, Lou.
Without a recoup period, there is no incentive to develop new treatments. 5 years is probably a good balance. 12 is probably too long. And 0 is the type of braindead proposal you'd get at a discussion site like Digg or Fark.
When you buy your house, a lot of your money is ostensibly tossed down the drain to pay for the interest on your loan. However, this interest is actually the cost to you to borrow that money. So the lower the interest, the lower your cost to borrow money. If you had no interest to pay and had no incentive to pay back a loan on time, there simply wouldn't be a loan market. No one would lend to you because there would be no hope of getting any return on their investment. Just as you expect use of money as the benefit of borrowing, they expect a small rate of interest to recompense them for their loss of the use of the money.
In many ways, the financial and pharmalogical industries are very similar in this regard.
Those thin margins exist because competition is keeping the final price down. When the government comes along and imposes a tax on all the businesses, the prices rise, but those margins stay pretty steady.
A boat floating in a harbor has some percentage of its total mass below the water. When the tide comes in, the boat rises up. When the tide goes out, the boat sinks back down. But there is no change in the amount of boat mass above and below the water! The only thing that affects whether the boat goes deeper into the water or not is if additional mass is added, removed, or a hole is punched in the bottom. Governments are well known for punching holes into the titanics of industry, though.
More seriously, do you have any reference for "Linux is ready for up to a million cores" ?
There was an article on Wikipedia that said so. And my local copy of the Linux kernel source has a comment that says so.
By the way I just typed "make menuconfig" and it wiil let you enter a number up to 512 in the "Maximum number of CPUs" field, so the Linux kernel seems ready for up to 512 CPUs (or cores, they are handled the same way by Linux it seems) as far I can tell by this simple test. Entering a number greater than 512 gives the "You have made an invalid entry" message
Whoa. If you change the source a little, you can enter 1000000 into the Maximum number of CPUs field! Linux is ready for up to a million cores.
If you change the code a little more, when I enter a number that's too high for menuconfig, it says "We're not talking about your penis size, Holmes"
Yes, I suppose technically any FPGA could be considered a "core" in its own right, but it's a far cry from the CPU cores that you typically associate with the term.
Putting a stock on a semi-automatic rifle makes it an "assault weapon", but c'mon. It's still a pea shooter.
This report and story are simply American government propaganda. It is difficult to keep Americans believing that this is the "Land of the Free" without creating some sort of external threat. Sometimes those nasty Iranians with their nuclear missile programs are the biggest danger to our American way of life. Other times, it's those copycat Chinese with their industrial espionage trying to take jobs away from good, hard working Americans.
The story in this case is based on the assumption that there is anything worth stealing that is stored on Internet-reachable servers. It's a completely different story when you start questioning why secret information would be put anywhere near the biggest information network in the world. Is the problem a nefarious hacker country, or is the problem an incompetent American government?
Odds are both. However, remove the beam from thine own eye, and all that.
For some background, Darl McBride was the CEO who saw the Linux company SCO through some of the hardest times the company ever went through. As CEO, McBride redefined SCO so as to make it one of the most talked-about computer companies ever. His leadership pushed the SCO reputation to limits most companies never reach.
SCO is a company for the history books nowadays, but just a few years ago it was one of the most influential companies around, garnering interest and vile from MS and a host of Linux vendors. They will be missed.
HTC is the Sony of mobile phones. Cool features, but crap quality.
If they're not willing to share their (OUR) source, I wouldn't be at all upset if they got the legal bat to the side of their corporate head.
What you have presented us with here is a "B C" problem. You want to achieve C, so you ask us how to do B. Unfortunately, you never specify what A is, so the best we can do is give you some pointers for B which are probably going to be irrelevant and useless to what you are really trying to achieve.
Most of the comments will probably be about trying to figure out what your A problem is. To that end, why don't you just get a faster line in the first place and forget about this line aggregation stuff you're asking about?
Matthew 7:13-14
Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
How much easier could Satan be making it than providing the game for free online?
Some required reading
If you're going to propose that Moblin is somehow better than Android for non-phone devices, it would be nice to have some backup information to prove your point.
The fact of the matter is that Linux is not designed to be an embedded OS, and the efforts that Moblin and Linux are making are significant but not wholly complete. When, as you say, the OS boots faster, is transparent, and exists invisibly to users (though clearly to developers), then we will have a true "mobile Linux" distribution.
Acer seems to be tempting fate here and begging Microsoft to raise their licensing costs. If they pass their costs onto consumers, will their cheap hardware keep prices low enough to attract customers, even with the higher-priced desktop OS? I don't know, but it seems very dangerous for them to be making such claims at this point.
The one really big hurdle which Android faces and which WinMo and iPhone have worked around is the problem of a moving target. Since Android is a work in progress, with OEMs deciding which version to release, there is only a core set of functionality that could be expected to exist across all versions on all phones. Now, this core set of functionality may be very large and useful, but without a rigorous breakdown of the differences between devices it still feels like a crapshoot.
Attention to this "always in beta" aspect of developing on the Android platform would have been nice. Of course, Google just wants people developing apps and not worrying about how things may change. Unfortunately, this is a serious concern for developers of enterprise applications, and it may end up being Android's Achilles Tendon in the long run.
This spread is worthless without pink.
Can you believe it's been 12 years on since Slashdot came into being? 12 years on and we're still getting major updates.
I gotta hand it to you guys, even when things are working, you're finding new and interesting ways to update the site. I guess this is one of the reasons it's still relevant and popular.