You're missing it too. Property rights aren't going to help them when there's not enough land to own for everybody. The average family in Ethiopia has 5.6 children the highest in the world. You say they aren't stupid, but it takes some serious ignorance to not realize that if you can barely afford to feed yourself, you can't afford 6 children. Heck, I live in a reasonably prosperous US state and know I can't afford 6 children! And then there are the idiots who say the poor there "can't afford" to have smaller families, rationalizing the idea by being bad at math.
In the last 70 years, Ethiopia's population has increased fivefold, and is expected to double again in the next 30. You can send them all the food in the world, give them all the advanced machinery and farming technology, and even provide them with a few trillion dollars of foreign aid; but no matter what you do, they will outbreed all your efforts. Until they learn to not breed like rabbits, they have no one to blame for their poverty but their penises.
Gopher is not a good example. When a site already has an IPv4 address it has no incentive to offer it over IPv6 too, since v6 offers no technological benefit to the webhost. Conversely, a site that is only on IPv6 is not going to get any hits, so anyone that wants traffic needs an IPv4 address anyway. IPv4 is simply not going to go away because the people without an address are kicking up a fuss. I would guess that those people will be stuck in their own IPv6 world, while all the content worth viewing would still be on IPv4.
Ocean deserts are natural. They exist because wherever there are nutrients in seawater, you get plankton growth. It grows and grows and grows until all that can be eaten is eaten. Then they die and sink to the bottom. The result is that a desert forms unless the nutrients are continually replenished. The replenishment happens naturally from rivers or coastal upwellings of deep seawater, but most of the open ocean is completely dead.
One benefit of building OTEC plants is that they circulate deep water back to the surface, replenishing nutrients and creating an environment where life can grow. Read "The Millenial Project" by Marshall Savage for a more in-depth discussion of the benefits of ocean colonies.
While these are all good points for a technical presentation, say, at a conference, they are not applicable to a sales presentation. Describing exactly what your product does is precisely what a good salesman wants to prevent. The reason for that, of course, is that if that were to happen, the customer would realize he does not need it, or that he can already get it cheaper elsewhere. "But my product is great!" I hear you saying; well, if it were, you wouldn't be giving a sales presenatation about it. You'd be too busy packing and shipping orders.
Having webmail provide encryption has one obvious problem: you have to give the webmail provider your secret key, implying a level of trust you probably do not have for them. You could, of course, use Thunderbird and Enigmail, but that still will not help you check your mail on any computer that isn't yours. Then there's the hassle of convincing your friends to use encryption. That task pretty much becomes impossible once you mention that a passphrase will henceforth be required to send email. GPG goes to incredible lengths to prevent people from not setting a password on the secret key; an option that would have allowed me to enable encryption transparently. (Yeah, yeah, it's a security risk, but you know what? The threat of a local attack is exactly zero for most people) With all these inconveniences it is no wonder nobody does email encryption when it is so much easier to use plain webmail and not worry about it.
When someone asks you "how are you?", you know, just like everybody else, that the question is not sincere. Both you and the questioner expect an answer along the lines of "I'm fine", even if you're on your death bed. Both the question and the answer are merely part of the social protocol; give a token, get a token. It may seem pretty dumb, but it has worked just fine for centuries, and heck, without empty chit-chat what would people talk about?
Come on, people! We should all know this already. Just because "Algebra II" is a predictor of success, doesn't mean that it causes the success. It is much more likely that the smarter students who are (or at least were, before the depression) more likely to succeed are also more likely to take Algebra II. Making everyone take it is going to have about as much success as cargo cults did.
In "Debt of Honor", Clark and Chavez blind the pilots of a Japanese AWACS. They also use it several times to incapacitate guards. Their device was a 1kW light flash though, so I suppose this new invention is a bit more efficient.
The free market can save them. Whenever there is a sharp rise in demand - raise prices. Charge more for exorcism and make some serious cash. Oh, wait, catholics think that profit is a sin...
> *I* want to be the controller of my individual identity online
The whole reason for needing an e-ID is that I do not trust *you* to identify yourself. A third party we both trust is required, or you'll just pretend to be whomever you want and I'll be left holding the bag.
This can not possibly reverse decades of conditioning that watching advertising has wrought on a typical mind. Advertising is what makes you want things you do not need. Advertising is what gets you to spend on things that you would not have heard of otherwise. Advertising is what gets you to buy things impulsively without researching alternatives, checking prices in multiple places to get a better deal, or thinking about whether you can do just fine without the damn thing. If you could train people to have an attitude of default hostility toward advertising of any kind, then you will have a nation of savers. Otherwise people will keep spending and spending and spending, because that is what they have been trained to do.
Clearly we see something about it you don't. You are welcome to love your "interesting modern languages", while we love our C++. We certainly have no obligation to help you with yours.
Yes, you hate C++. We get it. Instead of complaining about it so much, just don't use it, stick to your own favorite language, whatever it may be, and leave C++ alone. There are plenty of us who love C++ and wouldn't give it up for anything. We mind our own business, write great code, and try to avoid complaining about whatever it is you are using. Please try to do the same.
Ok, so let's make a computer science degree exclusively about "computer science" as opposed to "computer programming". Then we might as well dispense with the CS degree requirement for the vast majority of programming positions. Then we should realize that the market for "computer scientists", the ones that design pure math algorithms and do scientific studies of computer-related systems, is extremely small and already overfilled. Then everyone will realize that going into "computer science" as opposed to a trade school "computer programming" is a losing proposition. Eventually we'll just have "computer programming" schools, and "computer science" schools will all die. Oh, wait. Couldn't we just rename the existing degree and just teach computer programming?
If you can't hear the gpu cooler above the sound of the stock cpu cooler what does it matter?
It matters because those of us who can't stand the noise do not use the stock CPU cooler. I have a completely passive CPU cooler, for example, and a total system noise at ~15dB. In such a setup the stock GPU fan sounds like a tortured scream of overheated silicone.
Modding will be required at those levels to keep them both cook and silent.
I'm not really opposed to modding; I am just dreading doing liquid cooling again. It was a serious PITA the last time I tried it, but I suppose there really is no other option...
But before you go down that road, you might want enable V-Sync on all your games. This way, you still get that silky-smooth frame rate without processing graphics to infinity.
The 3850 can't get 60fps on all the games I play. Fallout 3, for example, often stutters at as low as 30fps. FS X can't maintain 60fps with any but the lowest settings. Heck, even Sims 3 stutters. So no, 3850 is not really ideal for 3D gaming of any kind. But, since nobody cares about silence any more, there appears to be no way to achieve the degree of silence I want without liquid cooling. Oh well.
I'm wondering what to replace my Radeon 3850 with. Is there anything newer that's faster and can run with a passive heatsink? I put an Accelero X1 heatsink on my 3850 and the temperatures are just fine. With all the recent cards though, it seems impossible to go silent with anything but liquid cooling, which would be a lot of work to install.
The x86 instruction set is horrible. Lots of things have side effects like setting condition registers, which cause complex interactions between instructions in a pipelined implementation
Yeah they do, but when you are writing for ARM, you have to replicate those complex interactions when you want them. ARM may have a simpler instruction set (for now; it has been increasing in complexity steadily, and frankly will soon be even harder to understand than x86), but it takes more instructions to do the same thing. x86-64 is great if you want to program in assembly. The instructions are very expressive and the whole set of them feels specifically designed for hand coding. You can write some really tight and small stuff in x86-64 assembly. ARM, on the other hand, is designed for a high-level compiler, which doesn't mind throwing more instructions at a problem. Result is bloated code that clogs your caches. I'd take x86-64 any day.
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You're missing it too. Property rights aren't going to help them when there's not enough land to own for everybody. The average family in Ethiopia has 5.6 children the highest in the world. You say they aren't stupid, but it takes some serious ignorance to not realize that if you can barely afford to feed yourself, you can't afford 6 children. Heck, I live in a reasonably prosperous US state and know I can't afford 6 children! And then there are the idiots who say the poor there "can't afford" to have smaller families, rationalizing the idea by being bad at math.
In the last 70 years, Ethiopia's population has increased fivefold, and is expected to double again in the next 30. You can send them all the food in the world, give them all the advanced machinery and farming technology, and even provide them with a few trillion dollars of foreign aid; but no matter what you do, they will outbreed all your efforts. Until they learn to not breed like rabbits, they have no one to blame for their poverty but their penises.
Christ has risen! News at eleven!
Gopher is not a good example. When a site already has an IPv4 address it has no incentive to offer it over IPv6 too, since v6 offers no technological benefit to the webhost. Conversely, a site that is only on IPv6 is not going to get any hits, so anyone that wants traffic needs an IPv4 address anyway. IPv4 is simply not going to go away because the people without an address are kicking up a fuss. I would guess that those people will be stuck in their own IPv6 world, while all the content worth viewing would still be on IPv4.
Because you can't just plug fiber into your computer. Most motherboards come with ethernet ports, but I have never seen one with fiber input.
Ocean deserts are natural. They exist because wherever there are nutrients in seawater, you get plankton growth. It grows and grows and grows until all that can be eaten is eaten. Then they die and sink to the bottom. The result is that a desert forms unless the nutrients are continually replenished. The replenishment happens naturally from rivers or coastal upwellings of deep seawater, but most of the open ocean is completely dead.
One benefit of building OTEC plants is that they circulate deep water back to the surface, replenishing nutrients and creating an environment where life can grow. Read "The Millenial Project" by Marshall Savage for a more in-depth discussion of the benefits of ocean colonies.
Such irony that it is being sold at a time when TV is no longer worth watching.
So how many people check email on a daily basis? And why isn't that front page news?
While these are all good points for a technical presentation, say, at a conference, they are not applicable to a sales presentation. Describing exactly what your product does is precisely what a good salesman wants to prevent. The reason for that, of course, is that if that were to happen, the customer would realize he does not need it, or that he can already get it cheaper elsewhere. "But my product is great!" I hear you saying; well, if it were, you wouldn't be giving a sales presenatation about it. You'd be too busy packing and shipping orders.
Yeah, Benjamin Franklin, for example.
Having webmail provide encryption has one obvious problem: you have to give the webmail provider your secret key, implying a level of trust you probably do not have for them. You could, of course, use Thunderbird and Enigmail, but that still will not help you check your mail on any computer that isn't yours. Then there's the hassle of convincing your friends to use encryption. That task pretty much becomes impossible once you mention that a passphrase will henceforth be required to send email. GPG goes to incredible lengths to prevent people from not setting a password on the secret key; an option that would have allowed me to enable encryption transparently. (Yeah, yeah, it's a security risk, but you know what? The threat of a local attack is exactly zero for most people) With all these inconveniences it is no wonder nobody does email encryption when it is so much easier to use plain webmail and not worry about it.
When someone asks you "how are you?", you know, just like everybody else, that the question is not sincere. Both you and the questioner expect an answer along the lines of "I'm fine", even if you're on your death bed. Both the question and the answer are merely part of the social protocol; give a token, get a token. It may seem pretty dumb, but it has worked just fine for centuries, and heck, without empty chit-chat what would people talk about?
Come on, people! We should all know this already. Just because "Algebra II" is a predictor of success, doesn't mean that it causes the success. It is much more likely that the smarter students who are (or at least were, before the depression) more likely to succeed are also more likely to take Algebra II. Making everyone take it is going to have about as much success as cargo cults did.
In "Debt of Honor", Clark and Chavez blind the pilots of a Japanese AWACS. They also use it several times to incapacitate guards. Their device was a 1kW light flash though, so I suppose this new invention is a bit more efficient.
The free market can save them. Whenever there is a sharp rise in demand - raise prices. Charge more for exorcism and make some serious cash. Oh, wait, catholics think that profit is a sin...
Those of us who care, already whitelist cookies. Those who don't, are not going to bother setting the DNT flag in the first place.
> *I* want to be the controller of my individual identity online
The whole reason for needing an e-ID is that I do not trust *you* to identify yourself. A third party we both trust is required, or you'll just pretend to be whomever you want and I'll be left holding the bag.
This can not possibly reverse decades of conditioning that watching advertising has wrought on a typical mind. Advertising is what makes you want things you do not need. Advertising is what gets you to spend on things that you would not have heard of otherwise. Advertising is what gets you to buy things impulsively without researching alternatives, checking prices in multiple places to get a better deal, or thinking about whether you can do just fine without the damn thing. If you could train people to have an attitude of default hostility toward advertising of any kind, then you will have a nation of savers. Otherwise people will keep spending and spending and spending, because that is what they have been trained to do.
Clearly we see something about it you don't. You are welcome to love your "interesting modern languages", while we love our C++. We certainly have no obligation to help you with yours.
Yes, you hate C++. We get it. Instead of complaining about it so much, just don't use it, stick to your own favorite language, whatever it may be, and leave C++ alone. There are plenty of us who love C++ and wouldn't give it up for anything. We mind our own business, write great code, and try to avoid complaining about whatever it is you are using. Please try to do the same.
Ok, so let's make a computer science degree exclusively about "computer science" as opposed to "computer programming". Then we might as well dispense with the CS degree requirement for the vast majority of programming positions. Then we should realize that the market for "computer scientists", the ones that design pure math algorithms and do scientific studies of computer-related systems, is extremely small and already overfilled. Then everyone will realize that going into "computer science" as opposed to a trade school "computer programming" is a losing proposition. Eventually we'll just have "computer programming" schools, and "computer science" schools will all die. Oh, wait. Couldn't we just rename the existing degree and just teach computer programming?
It matters because those of us who can't stand the noise do not use the stock CPU cooler. I have a completely passive CPU cooler, for example, and a total system noise at ~15dB. In such a setup the stock GPU fan sounds like a tortured scream of overheated silicone.
Just drill a little deeper, Lews Therin, and you will reach the true source. It is your only salvation.
I'm not really opposed to modding; I am just dreading doing liquid cooling again. It was a serious PITA the last time I tried it, but I suppose there really is no other option...
The 3850 can't get 60fps on all the games I play. Fallout 3, for example, often stutters at as low as 30fps. FS X can't maintain 60fps with any but the lowest settings. Heck, even Sims 3 stutters. So no, 3850 is not really ideal for 3D gaming of any kind. But, since nobody cares about silence any more, there appears to be no way to achieve the degree of silence I want without liquid cooling. Oh well.
I'm wondering what to replace my Radeon 3850 with. Is there anything newer that's faster and can run with a passive heatsink? I put an Accelero X1 heatsink on my 3850 and the temperatures are just fine. With all the recent cards though, it seems impossible to go silent with anything but liquid cooling, which would be a lot of work to install.
Yeah they do, but when you are writing for ARM, you have to replicate those complex interactions when you want them. ARM may have a simpler instruction set (for now; it has been increasing in complexity steadily, and frankly will soon be even harder to understand than x86), but it takes more instructions to do the same thing. x86-64 is great if you want to program in assembly. The instructions are very expressive and the whole set of them feels specifically designed for hand coding. You can write some really tight and small stuff in x86-64 assembly. ARM, on the other hand, is designed for a high-level compiler, which doesn't mind throwing more instructions at a problem. Result is bloated code that clogs your caches. I'd take x86-64 any day.