Even worse,
Why is there subsidy on bio fuels that get produced out of food eaten
by poor people?
This causes as we speak people dying as they can no longer for a cent
or so buy food made out
of it; the prices have doubled if not more for such types of cheap
food because of subsidy in the
1st world countries for this.
I assume EU will take measures to turn back those subsidies on bio fuels
that get produced out of food that feeds billions, who now hardly can
afford to buy food anymore as
it gets burned for energy in first world countries, whereas
commercially spoken it cannot get burned,
it is just because of subsidy it can exist.
Even better i would be in favour of a ban on bio fuels that are
outright food products in 3d world countries.
When i just walked previous week into a shop and my sister was
interested in a new washing machine,
i pointed her to the fact that the thing she was interested in, was
eating 3.8 kW, versus the 100 euro more expensive
thing next to it was eating 1.14 kW. It is something that only very
few will notice.
It is easy to cheaply produce equipment that eats more power than
equipment of competitors, that is the fundamental problem.
Vincent - speaking for himself
On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Jon Aquilina wrote:
how much does a sugar glass window cost now that sugar and other
things are being used for bio fuels?
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
More specifically for HPC, linux seems designed for the desktop, and
for small memory machines.
the only justice I can see in that is that there hasn't been all
that much effort to get bigpages widely/easily used. in
particular, I don't
see that scheduler or general memory-management issues in linux are
particularly biased for desktop or against HPC.
That's funny, because I've heard people get scared that it was the
complete
opposite. That Linux was driven by Big Iron, and that no one cared
about
the "little desktop guy" (Con Kolivas is an interesting history
example).
Con didn't play the game right - you have to have the right
combination of social engineering (especially timing and proactive
response) and good tech
kungfoo. kernel people are biased towards a certain aesthetic that
doesn't
punish big-picture redesigns from scratch, but _does_ punish
solutions in search of a problem.
so the question is, if you had a magic wand, what would you change
in the kernel (or perhaps libc or other support libs, etc)? most
of the things I can think of are not clear-cut. I'd like to be
able to give better info from perf counters to our users (but I
don't think Linux is really in the way). I suspect we lose some
performance due to jitter
injected by the OS (and/or our own monitoring) and would like to
improve,
but again, it's hard to blame Linux. I'd love to have better
options for cluster-aware filesystems. kernel-assisted network
shared memory?
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