I think this is missing the point. A patch is a patch, and a tweak is a tweak. Which one is moot.
The point to me is, here was this functionality for years lying latent in the kernel, as people put up with inferior performance. As soon as the idea is discovered, more than one way of doing it is noticed. Can we have more of these life-changing performance improvements, please, and how? What other potential is tethered by sub optimal performance.
Creative my .
It's a good algorithm, I will concede. But very short on vocabulary. Even the poorest sports writer is read before he is paid. Comparing this with stuff I would read
1. The vocabulary is tiny
2. The writer sounds disinterested and random.
3. Too much appeal to odds, without any courage, zeal, endurance, skill, fighting spirit
It's not an electronic whatsit he wants to play with, it's you!
There is not a substitute for a person teaching him and loving him at that age. As for toys, the simple things work best. I was given 2 x $60 'activity sets' on the birth of my first. I put him down with them one night, and watched him crawl past them as if they didn't exist to an old wine bottle, which he played with for 2 hours.. Biggest reaction is in having a human talk to him.
IMHO the best thing you can do is build their hope in the ressurection as promised by the Bible. Some very heartwarming promises are there for people to read. It is not actually a good idea to keep memories of a dead loved one in front of people, as it stops them moving on. People who leave a dead one's slippers on the hearth, for instance, find it very difficult to ever get on with life. Revisiting those times will mean recalling the anxious years Mother was dying, and the pain, and will not be a good place for young daughters to go. Photograph a special moment, and have it painted, or give them lockets with her photo there. Snap her while she still can smile. They can open the lockets, or close them.
This is not a comment on the wisdom or otherwise of your suggestion, but of practical value. I have a (rooted) HTC dream and if you go that route, replace the battery with one of the double size 2200 mAh ones you can buy on ebay. Also check sensitivity. As a GPS device, my phone is disappointing, because, for instance, it showed me on the wrong one of two parallel roads while I was trying to navigate with it. Other devices receive a poor signal better. But I can't talk into my Garmin. The phone has that extra advantage of an SOS call, and 'Latitude' which allows geolocation if he breaks his backside in some remote area. Also useful is the software to locate from mobile towers, if you can get it.
I got some Dutch thing back plugged into a laptop in the day, Only 8 bit digital, which is crap. (Picoscope's big brother?) It was slow to work right, but they kept asking for it back to add more pullup resistors. I scoped the parallel port with a real 'scope to find nothing was going anywhere near 0V, told them, and they fixed it. Then I had it on a 380V dc Drive, the fuse blew, the inductor peaked, and blew scope, probe & laptop. Burned tracks accross the boards! The small print said something about 500v max, which is also crap:-(.
I used a cheap 20Mhz, because if you were anywhere out in industry you could believe so little of what you saw anyhow, because the leads picked up noise. I never bought Tektronix, and never regretted it. Unless you know you're going to be in low noise environments, keep your money in your pocket. Then you put it back in your car, and bounce it around until the next time you want a 'scope. Buy a well specified meter - not one of these 'scope jobs, but frequency, capacitance, etc.
The fact is if you're doing component repair on site (like I was), you're a loser these days. You're doing Yes/No tests and swapping boards. The clever stuff is done back in the lab, and leave the good 'scope there.
It strikes me that a goodly number of Industrial companies would need support for older software. The cycle is this: A company buys a machine ($0.5M) and runs it for 5 years. During that time, the developers move on, work for the opposition or generally become obnoxious and if you ring up looking for support on a 7-8 year old machine nobody remembers any of it!
As for the approach, if you know C, C++ isn't that bad, but wherever you go you need the ability to keep up to date with many languages, and learn what's coming out.
I would do an open source project. Adopt a redundant one needing maintainers, or do your own. Then you'll have something to be hired on.
People won't hire cobwebs, they need current skills.
That's it. Get that and google them. I am business_kid. You will see in a second where I hang out, what sort of interests & knowledge I have. Certs are no certainty - they show a professional. But I knew a mechanical engineer with a good degree who was in reality only a 'biro engineer'. He could talk a good job, but niot do it.Previous work measures flair. A short test is going to have to be be too short.
My guess is someone who mattered in google got seriously fed up with the idea of having their servers hacked. That isn't an everyday occurrence in a linux box, whereas it can happen every day and you wouldn't notice in M$ software. It certainly isn't regular for google to be hacked. Now the strength of various password systems are known, and they all can be broken in time. If they are going to have this level of effort directed against them, what can they do? Even if they do they best, they will continue to have trouble..
Report is true, or at least carried on Irish news today. The Irish police were informed by a telex:-/.
They seem to forget that not so long ago, there was a list of 44 illegal organisations or cover names for same (about a dozen at ir's worst) in the business of _using_ explosives here. Nearly all have disarmed, but a few new ones have started. Then there's gangs, drug barons, etc. How did they know it was law abiding people they had on board?
Minimum pay here is €8.65 (=$10-$12) per hour.
It's a bit like a football apprentice. Hundreds start, but few make the top team. Use whatever chances you get to shine, and learn stuff. Some come through, most go away. Learn to lick ass. Try not to have the breakdown before you're 30. Keep your eye on job ads.
There is a known and common enough mutation of fruit flies that gives them 4 wings. They then cannot fly, because muscles only go to 2 wings, and the movement of them is blocked by the other two. If evolutionists actually found in the wild what they told us there were billions of (= a Mutation), you would expect them to misunderstand it. Did they tell us how many flight muscles there were?
Yeah. We don't need your wife. There's plenty of good people to send: Bill Gates, Richard Dawkins, George Bush, to name but three. We should award people the privilege by popular consent.
Not all areas have sufficient checks and balances. In fact, I hereby propound Business_Kid's law, that the effectiveness of the checks and balances in a scientific field are in inverse proportion to the media exposure in the public media. I think stem cell research is an exception to the above law, but it's good elsewhere.
In my area (Electronics hardware) everything can be replicated, and very few headlines appear. Other areas are all headlines and very short on experimentally repeatable substance, for example Evolution.
As for peer review: Galileo and Copernicus would have been silenced by peer review, as the ID movement is today in scientific journals. The real question is: How do you overcome bias?
This new standard means more bullcrap, not more movuies.
Movies last about 2 hours. When they got all that extra space on DVDs they didn't give us MORE movies, or longer movies. They just filled the extra space with crap. "The movie about the movie about the movie", etc. Pointless time wasting by actors with a camera pointed at them (Interviews).
God spare us from the TOC of the new disks, if they ever come out.
I read that differently. The processor would stay much the same, but the net effect of the spintronics stuff would be to reduce (I thought) dissapation in existing circuits. Power calculations have the frequency component in them, so switching losses could theoretically be reduced greatly. If it allowed miniturisation, and it seems to offer promise there, the capacitive element of power consumption would also be reduced. All we need is a major cpu manufacturer to take a gamble on it and plug a few billion into research, hiring me:-)).
This is good news. The real gem that nobody seems to have commented on is google's bots which allow them to list the contents of a site automagically. I presume they have tacked Webenese onto them and watched the stats.
It could be a real boon once it translates into search warnings. But I can see some nasty trouble ahead with False Negatives and False Positives once everybody making spyware/malware/adware/viruses/worms starts reacting to this new threat to their existence. If google decided my clever line of flash was an executable...
Thank goodness none of this really matters when you browse under linux.
Have you been reading the comments? There's no point in me writing otherwise.
The variation in the gene pool allows variation (as in races) without the need of evolution. The proof that they have not 'evolved' is the fact that all races interbreed, have similar intellects, skeletons, similarly complex languages, skills, social mores, etc. This is not the case with, for example, chimpanzees, who have 48 chromosomes whereas humans, as we know, have 46.
You're nearly up with me. I must have explained it poorly. Noah was the common ancestor! His offspring spread out. Any in the period before that were either forefathers of Noah, or their family line died out. All this nicely supports a worldwide flood./Sick of myself quoting Scripture at this stage:)
Genesis chapter 10 gives his immediate descendants. It finishes up saying " 32 These are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth"
Interestingly, the old place names in Mesopotamia relate to these families. So it's history, and geography in one lesson. Kinda convinces you that it happened.
Genesis 11 has the account of Babel, how languages were confused, and records: 8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth."
OK. You asked. Genesis chapter 1. Everything was made "According to it's kind", i.e. there is a range of variation within the species which allows for variety. So Alsatians and dashounds are both dogs (A 'kind'). Yet they can interbreed (I've seen the pups!). Neither can interbreed with cats, however. In the human species, African, Celtic and all other groups can interbreed. So Aborigines and Eskimos can marry and have kids. But humans can't successfully interbreed with chimps. If you want to go into creation/evolution, it's business DOT kid AT gmail DOT com and we'll take it there.
Does this mean that the incurably unintellectual politicians and religious leaders we seem to put in charge of everything can hope to rewire and do a better Job:-)?
The Bible reports a Worldwide flood in 2370 B.C.E. which seems preserved in some form in every national grouping as a flood legend of some sort. Over 150 such have been identified. That fits with the 2000 - 5000 year analysis.
Genesis 11 reports on the tower of Babel, and how the language problem there caused widespread migration. Moving East from Babel or Babylon gets one by land into India/Asia. Moving South gets one into the Arabian Peninsula, or Ethopia/African Continent (13 mile boat trip). Moving West gets the migrant to Egypt - North Africa (No Suez Canal - remember?) Moving North you can reach Turkey/Greece/Europe, or in to the Republics that were the USSR.
What also supports this in the article is that everyone previous to this period is either a direct relation (i.e. ancestors of Noah) of their families died out (Flood Victims).
To put this in perspective, modern Electronics was being invented. The hardware advances werer hi8ge at the time. Designing your computer you had the choice of something like: Rockwell's 6500 (8 bit 1 Mhz cpu) Motorola's very first 6800 Intel's (Who's Intel? Never heard of them) 8080 was under development or mebbe in prototype The Next kid onto the block was Zilog with the Z80 in 1973 or thereabouts. When Motorola introduced the 16 bit 68000 (at a blistering 15Mhz eventually) hey, that was for minicomputers & mainframes. When they got them to 33 Mhz, serious mainframes only. HP were paying some lot to develop their own 12 bit processor, because none of the others were good enough:-)
The Rockwell, Motorola and Intel chips were pretty primitive. Support chips were basically non existent. Suddenly a thing like a PIO, timer or UART would save six square inches of board space.
Beyond basic logic devices. all logic families were bare. You had 74xx (not 74ls or hc or anbything) and about a few dozen types at most. The PC and Mac were 13 years away and even the unix epoch was future.
That's the much smaller half of these leaks. Many things on suspend, e.g. the average "Green" pc, or the television, video, dvd player, & sound systems on Standby will use a lot more power than these game consoles. Then there's the fact that people never power off their Wall Warts (little mains power supplies) for charging mobiles, etc.
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I think this is missing the point. A patch is a patch, and a tweak is a tweak. Which one is moot. The point to me is, here was this functionality for years lying latent in the kernel, as people put up with inferior performance. As soon as the idea is discovered, more than one way of doing it is noticed. Can we have more of these life-changing performance improvements, please, and how? What other potential is tethered by sub optimal performance.
Creative my . It's a good algorithm, I will concede. But very short on vocabulary. Even the poorest sports writer is read before he is paid. Comparing this with stuff I would read 1. The vocabulary is tiny 2. The writer sounds disinterested and random. 3. Too much appeal to odds, without any courage, zeal, endurance, skill, fighting spirit
It's not an electronic whatsit he wants to play with, it's you! There is not a substitute for a person teaching him and loving him at that age. As for toys, the simple things work best. I was given 2 x $60 'activity sets' on the birth of my first. I put him down with them one night, and watched him crawl past them as if they didn't exist to an old wine bottle, which he played with for 2 hours.. Biggest reaction is in having a human talk to him.
IMHO the best thing you can do is build their hope in the ressurection as promised by the Bible. Some very heartwarming promises are there for people to read. It is not actually a good idea to keep memories of a dead loved one in front of people, as it stops them moving on. People who leave a dead one's slippers on the hearth, for instance, find it very difficult to ever get on with life. Revisiting those times will mean recalling the anxious years Mother was dying, and the pain, and will not be a good place for young daughters to go. Photograph a special moment, and have it painted, or give them lockets with her photo there. Snap her while she still can smile. They can open the lockets, or close them.
This is not a comment on the wisdom or otherwise of your suggestion, but of practical value. I have a (rooted) HTC dream and if you go that route, replace the battery with one of the double size 2200 mAh ones you can buy on ebay. Also check sensitivity. As a GPS device, my phone is disappointing, because, for instance, it showed me on the wrong one of two parallel roads while I was trying to navigate with it. Other devices receive a poor signal better. But I can't talk into my Garmin. The phone has that extra advantage of an SOS call, and 'Latitude' which allows geolocation if he breaks his backside in some remote area. Also useful is the software to locate from mobile towers, if you can get it.
I got some Dutch thing back plugged into a laptop in the day, Only 8 bit digital, which is crap. (Picoscope's big brother?) It was slow to work right, but they kept asking for it back to add more pullup resistors. I scoped the parallel port with a real 'scope to find nothing was going anywhere near 0V, told them, and they fixed it. Then I had it on a 380V dc Drive, the fuse blew, the inductor peaked, and blew scope, probe & laptop. Burned tracks accross the boards! The small print said something about 500v max, which is also crap :-(.
I used a cheap 20Mhz, because if you were anywhere out in industry you could believe so little of what you saw anyhow, because the leads picked up noise. I never bought Tektronix, and never regretted it. Unless you know you're going to be in low noise environments, keep your money in your pocket. Then you put it back in your car, and bounce it around until the next time you want a 'scope. Buy a well specified meter - not one of these 'scope jobs, but frequency, capacitance, etc.
The fact is if you're doing component repair on site (like I was), you're a loser these days. You're doing Yes/No tests and swapping boards. The clever stuff is done back in the lab, and leave the good 'scope there.
It strikes me that a goodly number of Industrial companies would need support for older software. The cycle is this: A company buys a machine ($0.5M) and runs it for 5 years. During that time, the developers move on, work for the opposition or generally become obnoxious and if you ring up looking for support on a 7-8 year old machine nobody remembers any of it! As for the approach, if you know C, C++ isn't that bad, but wherever you go you need the ability to keep up to date with many languages, and learn what's coming out. I would do an open source project. Adopt a redundant one needing maintainers, or do your own. Then you'll have something to be hired on. People won't hire cobwebs, they need current skills.
That's it. Get that and google them. I am business_kid. You will see in a second where I hang out, what sort of interests & knowledge I have. Certs are no certainty - they show a professional. But I knew a mechanical engineer with a good degree who was in reality only a 'biro engineer'. He could talk a good job, but niot do it.Previous work measures flair. A short test is going to have to be be too short.
My guess is someone who mattered in google got seriously fed up with the idea of having their servers hacked. That isn't an everyday occurrence in a linux box, whereas it can happen every day and you wouldn't notice in M$ software. It certainly isn't regular for google to be hacked. Now the strength of various password systems are known, and they all can be broken in time. If they are going to have this level of effort directed against them, what can they do? Even if they do they best, they will continue to have trouble..
Report is true, or at least carried on Irish news today. The Irish police were informed by a telex :-/.
They seem to forget that not so long ago, there was a list of 44 illegal organisations or cover names for same (about a dozen at ir's worst) in the business of _using_ explosives here. Nearly all have disarmed, but a few new ones have started. Then there's gangs, drug barons, etc. How did they know it was law abiding people they had on board?
Minimum pay here is €8.65 (=$10-$12) per hour. It's a bit like a football apprentice. Hundreds start, but few make the top team. Use whatever chances you get to shine, and learn stuff. Some come through, most go away. Learn to lick ass. Try not to have the breakdown before you're 30. Keep your eye on job ads.
There is a known and common enough mutation of fruit flies that gives them 4 wings. They then cannot fly, because muscles only go to 2 wings, and the movement of them is blocked by the other two. If evolutionists actually found in the wild what they told us there were billions of (= a Mutation), you would expect them to misunderstand it. Did they tell us how many flight muscles there were?
Just make sure my wife isn't on board.
Yeah. We don't need your wife. There's plenty of good people to send: Bill Gates, Richard Dawkins, George Bush, to name but three. We should award people the privilege by popular consent.
Not all areas have sufficient checks and balances. In fact, I hereby propound Business_Kid's law, that the effectiveness of the checks and balances in a scientific field are in inverse proportion to the media exposure in the public media. I think stem cell research is an exception to the above law, but it's good elsewhere. In my area (Electronics hardware) everything can be replicated, and very few headlines appear. Other areas are all headlines and very short on experimentally repeatable substance, for example Evolution. As for peer review: Galileo and Copernicus would have been silenced by peer review, as the ID movement is today in scientific journals. The real question is: How do you overcome bias?
This new standard means more bullcrap, not more movuies. Movies last about 2 hours. When they got all that extra space on DVDs they didn't give us MORE movies, or longer movies. They just filled the extra space with crap. "The movie about the movie about the movie", etc. Pointless time wasting by actors with a camera pointed at them (Interviews). God spare us from the TOC of the new disks, if they ever come out.
I read that differently. The processor would stay much the same, but the net effect of the spintronics stuff would be to reduce (I thought) dissapation in existing circuits. Power calculations have the frequency component in them, so switching losses could theoretically be reduced greatly. If it allowed miniturisation, and it seems to offer promise there, the capacitive element of power consumption would also be reduced. All we need is a major cpu manufacturer to take a gamble on it and plug a few billion into research, hiring me :-)).
This is good news. The real gem that nobody seems to have commented on is google's bots which allow them to list the contents of a site automagically. I presume they have tacked Webenese onto them and watched the stats.
...
It could be a real boon once it translates into search warnings. But I can see some nasty trouble ahead with False Negatives and False Positives once everybody making spyware/malware/adware/viruses/worms starts reacting to this new threat to their existence. If google decided my clever line of flash was an executable
Thank goodness none of this really matters when you browse under linux.
Have you been reading the comments? There's no point in me writing otherwise.
The variation in the gene pool allows variation (as in races) without the need of evolution.
The proof that they have not 'evolved' is the fact that all races interbreed, have similar intellects,
skeletons, similarly complex languages, skills, social mores, etc. This is not the case with, for
example, chimpanzees, who have 48 chromosomes whereas humans, as we know, have 46.
You're nearly up with me. I must have explained it poorly. /Sick of myself quoting Scripture at this stage :)
Noah was the common ancestor! His offspring spread out.
Any in the period before that were either forefathers of Noah, or
their family line died out. All this nicely supports a worldwide flood.
Genesis chapter 10 gives his immediate descendants. It finishes up saying
" 32 These are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their lines of descent,
within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth"
Interestingly, the old place names in Mesopotamia relate to these families.
So it's history, and geography in one lesson. Kinda convinces you that it happened.
Genesis 11 has the account of Babel, how languages were confused, and records:
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the
whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth."
OK. You asked. Genesis chapter 1.
Everything was made "According to it's kind", i.e. there is a range of variation within the species
which allows for variety. So Alsatians and dashounds are both dogs (A 'kind'). Yet they can interbreed
(I've seen the pups!). Neither can interbreed with cats, however.
In the human species, African, Celtic and all other groups can interbreed. So Aborigines and Eskimos
can marry and have kids. But humans can't successfully interbreed with chimps.
If you want to go into creation/evolution, it's business DOT kid AT gmail DOT com and we'll take it there.
Does this mean that the incurably unintellectual politicians and religious leaders we seem to put in charge of everything can hope to rewire and do a better Job :-)?
We do have some other sources to consider.
The Bible reports a Worldwide flood in 2370 B.C.E. which seems preserved in some form in
every national grouping as a flood legend of some sort. Over 150 such have been identified.
That fits with the 2000 - 5000 year analysis.
Genesis 11 reports on the tower of Babel, and how the language problem there caused
widespread migration. Moving East from Babel or Babylon gets one by land into India/Asia.
Moving South gets one into the Arabian Peninsula, or Ethopia/African Continent (13 mile boat trip).
Moving West gets the migrant to Egypt - North Africa (No Suez Canal - remember?)
Moving North you can reach Turkey/Greece/Europe, or in to the Republics that were the USSR.
What also supports this in the article is that everyone previous to this period is either a
direct relation (i.e. ancestors of Noah) of their families died out (Flood Victims).
To put this in perspective, modern Electronics was being invented. The hardware advances werer hi8ge at the time. :-)
Designing your computer you had the choice of something like:
Rockwell's 6500 (8 bit 1 Mhz cpu)
Motorola's very first 6800
Intel's (Who's Intel? Never heard of them) 8080 was under development or mebbe in prototype
The Next kid onto the block was Zilog with the Z80 in 1973 or thereabouts.
When Motorola introduced the 16 bit 68000 (at a blistering 15Mhz eventually) hey, that was for
minicomputers & mainframes. When they got them to 33 Mhz, serious mainframes only.
HP were paying some lot to develop their own 12 bit processor, because none of the others were good enough
The Rockwell, Motorola and Intel chips were pretty primitive. Support chips were basically non existent.
Suddenly a thing like a PIO, timer or UART would save six square inches of board space.
Beyond basic logic devices. all logic families were bare. You had 74xx (not 74ls or hc or anbything) and about
a few dozen types at most. The PC and Mac were 13 years away and even the unix epoch was future.
That's the much smaller half of these leaks. Many things on suspend, e.g. the average "Green" pc, or the television, video, dvd player, & sound systems on Standby will use a lot more power than these game consoles. Then there's the fact that people never power off their Wall Warts (little mains power supplies) for charging mobiles, etc.
It's nice to know that Nasa have discovered new ways to spend the US $billions without researching new weapons :-D.