My memory is a little foggy lately, since I've been hanging around in userland a bit, but I'm fairly certain that using long-mode (64-bit) on modern Intel CPU's for your OS and application would yield plenty of virtual address space, using PAE. Additionally, PAE supports a lot more than 36 bits of addressing on the most recent processors, up to 51 I think. The bigger question, is it practical for one CPU to use all that memory?
Most of the respectable security consultants I've worked with have raved about OpenBSD. Unfortunately, all 7 of my computers have some kind of hardware issues with it. I suppose in a way that really puts the BSDs in a similar boat as Apple, regardless of OS X's roots. Less hardware support = stability? Suddenly I'm less impressed.
Except you also will have to pay for it for a life time.
I buy games brand new, beat them after a week or two, then trade them in for store credit while they are still worth semi-close to new retail. Then I wait until they are released under the greatest hits type label, or when the used copies are in the 15-20 dollar range. This habit worked out really well for me. I get to play the latest games, but recoup as much as I can by trading it in promptly after release, then pick up the cheap copy a year later and it feels like a new game all over again.
GAME PLAY, GAME PLAY, GAME PLAY!
Almost all of these modern engines rock. We don't need someone pointing at the guy who is flexing his e-muscles. IGN, stop wasting our time with this nonsense and review games, then get us scoops on the latest titles and hardware.
Solar is free in the sense that you describe. All the electricity it generates that is spent will eventually heat up some load somewhere, and unspent energy will just heat up the surface, just like if it were a tar covered roof. Nothing is lost, since the energy removed still enters the system in the same quantity, just somewhere else, hopefully nearby.
The article has no real indication that anything was the source, just that the last hop the analyst was able to track was in the UK...which means?
The article mentions bits about the lack of marketing pressure in the FOSS world keep the version numbers sane. Since many FOSS programs have often been forked for direction/feature/standards reasons, and this is the same kinds of changes meriting new version identifiers in commercial software, perhaps that premise is flawed. Sure, those projects might make significant changes and increment the major version number, but the ability to fork and work on the features and changes you want is the source of the wonderfully full FOSS ecosystem. Commercial software companies might learn a thing or two from this. There are tons of forked projects where the original and many of the forked versions are still being used. Not sure how to monetize that process though.
Act of violence != act of preference. Sure they may be based on prejudices, racism, fraudulent statistics, even hate, but seeking an environment someone finds pleasing, especially for raising their children, definitely falls under "the pursuit of happiness" in my humble opinion.
Things ARE different in the military. Additional prosecution for improper, unlawful, or generally shameful behavior. The culture is very professional, and the discipline unmatched in the civilian world. Additionally, most wacko's are filtered through the insane training processes and strict culture. I don't think their role should ever extend to policing the country, but as a veteran, I'd trust an MP over a state/federal/local cop any day in any situation. I don't know how much this says, but the USAF has core values that read as follows "Integrity first. Service before self. Excellence in all we do." Personally, I think that speaks volumes, especially when the comparable mantra is "Protect and serve."
"That Goldman Sachs may just possibly have used security access codes and built a system to acquire trading information PRIOR to transaction commit time points at NYSE."
It is well known that GS has comprised as much as 30% of all NYSE daily traffic over the last several months and more than 50% of high speed program trading.
As a "liquidity provider" they have also been give extraordinary access to the NYSE exchange and their network. High speed quantitative trading is also well known, but in recent months various technical trading parties say that the market has been acting very strange with long held correlations falling apart. That along with the arrest of a (until recently) GS employee for allegedly stealing their code has led to some wild speculation.
"The bank [Goldman Sachs] has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways," [Asst. U.S. Attorney] Facciponti said, according to a recording of the hearing made public yesterday. "The copy in Germany is still out there, and we at this time do not know who else has access to it." Bloomberg
Which raises the question why it's unfair, if someone other than GS uses the code to manipulate markets?
Do any of the quant nerds reading Slashdot have comments on the possibility of this?
Even if the less wild allegations prove true, it seems difficult to have true market pricing when a single participant controls such a large fraction of trades, and almost all crucial trades near 'the bell'."
Until the demand for content that is considered obscene (in current culture) allows for mass profits, the big developers will never take it on.
Send the data stream in a low-attenuation beam to reflect around a black hole. Then in 10000 years pick it up.
Single tasking: Just Say No.
