Re: Pent up demand
What kind of "pent up demand" is that though? More like karmic lust.
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> Surely we can easily predict when we need leap seconds, couldn't a non-connected machine be programmed to insert them at the right time?
You wish!
Slowdown however depends on many random effects - tides, air pressure, random displacements of masses within the earth's interior, continental drift etc. So it's not particularly deterministic.
As opposed to billions lying in off shore accounts doing nothing but waiting for a tax amnesty.
You really need to know the basic fact that that money is not "lying there". It's being used. Maybe to finance your job. It's just that someone has a claim on it.
And as long as the tax part hasn't been hoovered away, it's probably being used to produce stuff people want as opposed to stuff bureaucrats imagine people want (less the skim-off for bureaucrats' paycheck, of course)
NANOTECHNOLOGHY from SPACE!
SCIENTISTS say "IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE A DIATOM"
Page 3: PROOF of QUASI-BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING by NON-HUMAN ENTITIES.
Page 4: Worried housewives ask: "Does SPACE OBAMA know about this?"
Page 5: Carrier Strike Group DISPATCHED to LOW EARTH ORBIT: KERRY announces PROTECTION of FREEDOM against all SPACE DIATOMS. "This will not stand. Oh! The inhumanity!!".
PUTIN OUTED AS SPACE MONSTER SUPPORTER ON PAGE 12!! Jon Stewart: "Only elderly fat housewives root for DIATOMS and PUTIN. FAIL!"
And evidently Belgium.
Nazi flemish speakers, dependent and destitute Walloons, crumbling infrastructure, nepotism that would make the MIC blush, a large and unfriendly Muslim population, high taxes, mafiosi everywhere, weird killing sprees, dangerous child molesters, a dysfunctional government, rumors of violent secession soon, and danish pastry.
They got it all.
Everyone who invested in Nokia made out with a lot of money because they were all investing when it was at rock bottom.
Implying it's not still at rock bottom (oh look a dead cat bounce). Now that they burned the mobile division down and will sell it, it's not going up quickly either.
Lawsuits are gonna fly. I can feel it.
Matty, Matty.
It's pretty retarded to newspeak the meaning of "sheeple" into "those who DISTRUST the well-intentioned government".
Now get off your mall scooter and take a deep breath. What's the matter? Fearing that the market of Itaniums will crash even more when the NSA is put on a leash?
False flag attacks - a trusted tool in international politics. Mix with the sound and fury of the pliant mainstream media, and pretend there is necessity to "do something" immediately while climbing on the high horse of your glorious civilization and off you go.
As seen by Hergé:
Israeli NGO (more like QUANGO, amIrite) threatens to sue Facebook for hosting Iranian ministers
Legal Action Center on Monday threatened to sue Facebook if it does not immediately and permanently take down a social media site recently provided to “15 ministers of Iran.”
A letter from Shurat Hadin to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and general counsel Colin Stretch noted that the state and government of Iran are under “numerous sanctions by the United States government.”
Next, Shurat Hadin said that various laws, presidential executive orders and regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury make it illegal “to export or supply goods, technology or services” to Iran or its government.
Yah no, that's a very 80-ish approach.
You SHOULD put your data into a database. That's what they are *for*.
Unless you want to reinvent the wheel. Backup, synchronization, access logic, indexing, typing, structure, portability etc. etc. etc.
> the file system as a DB (as in, each record was in a text file)
Ultimately, you have to develop all your management layer again and transactions are a no-no.
> or all the data was in an XML file and loaded into memory
Horrible solution at freshmen level.
Some dude above said: (Random Hollywood Story storypoints elided) That's a pretty positive list for a crim.
Must be one of those crims who also tweet about their actions.
I know that knives are pretty much considered banned and hard to acquire in the UK but this is just beyond stupid. JUST KNIFE YOUR MARK like a real Yakuza. Or are you some kind of mall scooter monster?
An then the article says:
unregulated sharing of designs online
Oh shit, something is unregulated. You know what else is not regulated? Underground dinner parties in New York
Meanwhile, in the real world:
Building a VSS Vintorez in the USA
Hell yeah. Hey wait, these guys are building the weapons while not even HAVING the design? Women and children will surely DIE!
Yes!
Plus -> cores as near the memory as possible. Back to the active memories of the early 90s, please!
On a tangent, the IEEE Computer issue of August 2013 has a focus on "Next Generation Memory". As IEEE still cannot be arsed to provide open access to the hallowed Intellectual Property (steady revenue stream FTW), one has to go down to the Uni Library:
The Nonvolatile Memory Transformation of Client Storage
Refactor, Reduce, Recycle: Restructuring the I/O Stack for the Future of Storage
How Persistent Memory Will Change Software Systems. There is also a YouTube video on this, but I can't watch it because "An error occurred; please try again later"
And Intel sold XScale? Oh well. More x86 then. Based on the marketing section's idea that one can "leverage" existing x86 software for completely new infrastructure, I suppose.
Thanks to the magic of American national security politics, a number of young men who grew up in Nepal have found their way west, over northern India and across the breadth of Pakistan, to work at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, destroying million-dollar trucks bought by American taxpayers. [JOBS!] They wield blowtorches and wear fireproof suits in the crushing heat, and — according to reporting by Ernesto Londoño at The Washington Post — it takes about 12 hours to demolish each of the vehicles. The trucks need to be cut into pieces small enough to be fed into industrial metal shredders, which grind the parts down into tiny bits of scrap that are sold locally for a few cents per pound. In May, about 11 million pounds [HOW MUCH??] of this scrap were apparently sold; by now it is probably more. The contractors who buy it call it “gold dust.”
The reason it takes so much time and effort to break down the trucks is because they were designed to be indestructible. They are Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, which everyone just calls MRAPs. In the early years of the Iraq war, one brave soldier confronted the visiting defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to ask why troops were salvaging scrap metal out of junkyards to bolt onto soft-skinned Humvees as “hillbilly armor.” By about 2007 we finally started supplying MRAPs to the battlefield.
Their prodigious armoring and smart V-shaped hulls were designed to deflect blasts from roadside bombs and more. If you have ever ridden in one, it feels roughly as if you’ve put a steering wheel and some seat belts inside a bank vault and taken it out for a spin. Those are the million-dollar vehicles that third-country contractors at Kandahar are now shredding, by the thousands, into gold dust for the Afghan scrap market.