Yeah, so? In the movie, Deckard is well established (and, I think semi-retired) as a replicant hunters by the time the six escape. Even being a replicant, he couldn't be one of the six unless the 'real' deckard was replaced by one of the escapees.
Thinking back to the movie, though (producer's cut), I'd say that a big clue there would have been that he was capable of taking on replicants in hand-to-hand battle. Given that replicants were designed for battle, this would have been an impressive feat for a human.
I think that we're going to be a few bits short of 1 bit for every molecule on earth (I get about 6e13 addresses per gram of matter), but it doesn't matter. With minimum 64bit subnets it's going to be an extremely SPARSE address space (which has it's advantagess). Even so, I don't think that it's going to be an issue for very long time. If humanity's population expands exponentially into the known universe (presuming that most stars have habitable planets with no intelligent life capable of putting up a fight) it would still take a century or two before we couldn't assign each person their own 64bit subnet.
When IP4 came out people KNEW that, unless the internet collapsed under it's own weight (a recurring prediction at that time) that the address space was going to 'fill up' mostly due to sparse address assignments Examples:
IBM, the CIA, and various other 'important' entities of the time each have 16 million address tied up in class A subnets... Guess how many they're using?
I know somebody else who has a 'personal' class C routable address (from long before address space started getting 'tight') of which he's probably not using more than 16 addresses.
I personally know of one company with less than 200 machines that has 4 Class 'C' subnets from two different ISPs.
These are not unexpected events. The issue at the time (as I remember it) was really around machine capability. This was at a time when a SUN workstation with 1/2MB of ram was considered HOT (actually, they hadn't been built yet), 2 MIPS was considered decent for a mainfraime, and the work it would have taken to disassemble a variable-length address would have been noticable.
For those (and, I would expect, other) reasons, it was decided to go with 'only' a 32 bit address space and work on a more 'realistic' address space for later when machines wouldn't care about the extra cost. That time is now.
A 128 bit address space isn't just frigin huge. it's close enough to infinite for just about any practical purpose. Physics is probably going to get in the way before we run out of IP6 addresses. Designing a system that was extendable beyond 128 bits would have been ASKING for trouble. There wouldn't have been need for most people to implement it. This would have meant that we would have these atrophied pieces of code that would be generally unused, untested and misunderstood for years because 'we really don't need that'.
It would also introduce unnecessary coding complexities.
I guess that the short answer is: KISS . . . Keep It Simple, Stupid.
This is a bit off-topic for the real complaint, but: Is it only Linux that this thing breaks?? Usually if something like this breaks Linux, I'd expect it to break other OSes as well. Do you have any complaints in/var/log/messages ~/.xsession-errors (or elsewhere?)
Can you dual boot the machine and see if the problem is with your CPU box? (somebody else mentioned that some machines have a problem with unplugging mice). `ø,,ø`ø,,ø
A garbage can is a very useful place if you have an unwanted Win XX{,XXX} disk. Personally, I'd be willing to vouch for that it was (or should have been) designed for Windows. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø
It doesn't necessarily even mean it passed the test. They may actually get away with that logic in court. (my sister's a lawyer, but she doesn't talk to me) `ø,,ø`ø,,ø
I have a friend who worked at an ISP where our illustrious National LEA called up and asked for a tap to be put on someone's traffic. When he innocently asked for a copy of the court order enabling the tap, the illustrious officer "went ballistic".
It's a lot easier for a police service to get this kind of 'favour' done if they don't have to do all of this politics bulshit with civilians who might just ask questions. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø
>> "Also, the Japanese do not have an army, national defense is provided, at a fee, by the United States." >Semantics aside, the JDF (Japanese Defense Force) is an army/navy/airforce.
People who do not plan illegal activities on the telephone have nothing to fear. It's that simple.
I, on the other hand, have been using 4136 bit encryption keys to share nuclear acquisition plans with my Muslim Girlfriend. Even then, we never speak in cleartext. To the casual observer it would look like cyber sex, but every time I say "I lick your erect nipple", it means that I got 15 grams of Plutonium from our contact at LNL.
You don't want to know what it means when I type "I moan in ecstasy".
Of course I'm not gonna post this, honey! What do you think I am... Stupid? `ø,,ø`ø,,ø
Well, excuse me for pointing this out, but Timothy what's his name who blew up the federal building in Oklahoma wasn't a Muslim, wasn't a foreigner, wasn't a homosexual and wasn't an "enviro-nazi".
He was a blond-haired (blue-eyed?) conservative who "served his country" in the military and probably voted Republican before he was arrested for the deadliest terrorist attack on US soil in recent history. I know of no evidence that he announced his plans to blow up Oklahoma over any phone line that the FBI bothered to tap.
I could further point out that, although Martin Luther King is now considered a Civil Rights hero, the FBI didn't just wire tap him, they tried to discredit him with their wiretap info. As for the people who shot MLK, the FBI probably considered them good, upstanding members of the KKK.
NOW you can try and justify violations of, and limits on, our civil rights "so the government can protect us". `ø,,ø`ø,,ø
Most of what we have on Cointelpro in the '60s is because they've had to release that ancient data under freedom of information laws.
The Judi Bari case occurred in the 1990. I would also be surprised to find that the FBI didn't try and tap some phone lines of anti-WTO organizers (especially after the reasonably successfull work in Seattle. I know of one person, here in Canada, who had her phone tapped for political activity in 1995. As she put it, "About the only interesting thing they got out of it was some really nice recipes". Other people can probably point to other recent examples.
Taking civil and political rights for granted is probably our greatest risk in losing them. Fighting to maintain such rights is far easier than a fight to get them back. Unfortunately it's not easy to see the value of the fight until we're obviously in the latter situation. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø
Yeah, but still: If the FBI doesn't have the right to tap the phones of people like Martin Luther King and Judi Bari, no right-minded government would be able to sleep soundly.
BTW: The intelligent terrorists will make misleading comments in their phone calls (Think Spock in Wrath of Kahn).
There's a second (less obvious?)issue in this purchase: Industrial espionage. I don't think that it's a big shock that the company they're worried about is serving "more than 20 percent of the companies on Standard & Poor's 500". I would guess that the FBI figures that it's easier to prosecute people for supporting industrial espionage if they're US nationals.
Yes, I did it! I stole Colonel Sanders' secret recipe for Hiroshima chicken. But you just
try and prosecute me in Tokoyo... Pig-san!
Of course if the converse happens, the last thing you'd want is to have to send the poor bugger who programmed the router back to Tokoyo. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø
Made for Portable products. Not something that you'll keep on your desktop..
People need to stick to what the crusoe was designed for.. quit trying to throw it in desktop machines..
Hey, man, I'd LOVE to throw it in a desktop. There are times when I'm bothered by fan noise. A fanless crusoe, a fanless powersupply and a big enough cache that I could leave the hard disk off most of the time, and I'd have a GLORIOUSLY quiet PC. --
So I lose a couple hundred MZ by installing a Crusoe... Like I really care. I do sysadmin not graphics rendering. About the only times I might miss that extra processing speed is when I'm playing Quake. Truth is that even Quake depends at least as much on your display board as it does on your CPU. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø
Remember that the Palm pilot stormed the market with a monochrome display. Things like cell phones and PDAs can still survive just fine with non-full-color displays. 30Khours is 3 years. 100Khours is just over a decade. A Red/Blue/Magenta palm pilot with a 3 year lifespan and a low price might call to me.
Field Replacable Units could mean that even the short green lifespan may not matter. If the actual hardware drivers are built into the FRU, then the main appliance (etc.) could survive through multiple upgrades in the LEP technology. If this stuff is as easy to make as they're making it sound, we could be seeing some seriously kick-butt cheap displays in a few years. At that point who really cares how often you have to replace them? `ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø
Oh,
that's what you meant by "bookmark that webpage for me"...
(sorry). If they have switch rates like 'normal' LEDs (which I expect), it it should be possible to redraw screens at normal video rates.. it will also be possible to build portable 'books' with multiple physical pages....
Hold on... This stuff goes on a SILICON substrate. They may still need a WHOLE lot of work to fit it onto a flexible backing.
Nontheless, it still does mean that we can start to look for nearly-throw-away monitors. -- I mean, who's going to mind that their 19" monitor only lasts a year if the replacement panel only costs $15? (I'm presuming that, by the time they get to market, the green LEPs will have a somewhat longer life. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø
There are people who believe that part of Microsoft's design criteria for active-x was to lock programmers to the Windows system. I'm one of them. The complaint that implementing Active-X would require implementing huge chunks of COM and Win32 makes complete sense within the context of our conspiracy theory. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø
Oh, sure. If they have a well designed, well written hardware access API, Microsoft should be able to implement reasonable hardware improvements without destroying upwards compatibility.
Oh, right, Microsoft... Never mind. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø
Essentially free?! What are you smoking?! The ISP I work at pays approximately $2400 per month for the use of 96 DEAs (phone lines).
OK, so that's about $25/line/month.. not much more than a regular residential phone line. Difference is, most residential phone lines are used less than a couple of hours a day. Modem lines probably have ~30-90% utilization. That's what originally pissed off telco's about them.
Then telcos started to notice that (a) people started installing second lines for their modems, (b) heavy modem use was after business hours (non-peak), which meant that
They were getting more money per household
It was using existing infrastructure at off-peak hours
Although they might have continued to lobby regulators for extra charges on the line ($why not?), most telcos were probably secretly happy to have modem lines come in.
There are, of course, exceptions. In the mid '90s one ISP opened a large modem pool in New Westminister because it gave them toll-free access to the Largest part of the metropolitan Vancouver population. The telco sales people were happy, but I guess that they didn't explain things to engineering. Nobody bothered to provision extra bandwith for all of these high-utilization lines. They brought up the new modem pool and, soon thereafter, brought down phone service for the whole exchange. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø
For a true free market economy high amounts of competition is necesary to form the "invisible hand" that controls the price of items. Today there are less and less companies that are getting bigger and bigger.
The biggest difference between communism and end-game capitalism is how obvious it is who's pulling the strings. There's not much difference between a government shutting down the press on an issue and companies using monetary pressure to ensure that mass media only covers 'official' events and riots at the Seattle WTO meetings -- ignoring the 'WTO alternative' events. The end result is the same -- some people know that something happened but they don't know quite what. Other people just believe what they see. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø
One thing to note here is that Maria Klawe (head of SWIFT) used to be the head of Computer Science. She did so much for UBC CS that she became a VP of the university, but she reserved the time to continue her research. (i.e. this is one serious geek babe!)
But another, equally critical, issue is at stake: by systematically discouraging girls from entering the fields of math and science, a way of approaching those fields that may be qualitatively different from the approach taken by males is also lost. Women are needed as engineers, scientists, and technologists. They are needed for their numbers; they are needed for the fresh outlook they may bring to these professions.
Thing to note: sails droids are rarely geeks. Most geeks know that women in the field tend to be above average.
In my experience, the females who get into comp sci/math in university have generally tended to be near the top of the class. It may be because women, once they get in, are just inately better than guys, but my bet would be that girls in school who are 'just' good at the sciences aren't generally encouraged to take that path unless they're overwhelmingly brilliant. (e.g. one friend, in first year pre-med who took an honours calculus course 'for the fun of it' (with her girlfriend). Our math prof convinced her that she didn't REALLY want to be a doctor. She was much happier after she agreed with him. She was also the best student in our class.)
The lack of encouragement to go into the math-oriented sciences results in a statistical bend to fun stuff that is guy-ish in nature. Unless you have a group that consciously looks to make sure that female interests are taken care of (e.g. female-dominated management), it's pretty easy for the women to feel left out. This is accidental social pressure against females in geekdom.
From what I've seen, where women have had a real say in the design of social activities, they seem to feel more welcome. In fact, once that happened, they started to bring non-geek women into the fold (this was my experience at U of Alberta).
BTW: The kinds of stuff it takes to have women feel included isn't all that majour. It's not that guys mind, it's just that we don't think about it. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø
Since the QPL is incompatible with the GNU GPL, you cannot take a GPL-covered program and Qt and link them together, no matter how.
However, if you have written a program that uses Qt, and you want to release your program under the GNU GPL, you can easily do that. You can resolve the conflict for your program by adding a notice like this to it:
As a special exception, you have permission to link this program with the Qt library and distribute executables, as long as you follow the requirements of the GNU GPL in regard to all of the software in the executable aside from Qt.
You can do this, legally, if you are the copyright holder for the program. Add it in the source files, after the notice that says the program is covered by the GNU GPL. .....Updated: 28 June 2000 rms
In other words, it looks like it is possible to create GPL code alongside QPL library as long as you explicitly say so. I would think that it should be possible to do that with the vast majority of the KDE code. If/when TrollTech improves their license, things will get even better.
From what I can see, it would be much harder to release proprietary QTized code that used GPL stuff too (almost impossible, I'd say).
I don't get mad at MS for releasing non-free software. I get mad at them for releasing shitty non-free software and trying to pretend that it's the best there is. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø`ø
(Oh, and if you happen to be on the Canadian border patrol, let me tell you in advance that I have no fruit of vegitables in the car to declare... just a fat bag of Peruvian hash and a whole trunkload full of guns.)
I had a friend once. Completely anti-establishment. Just for a lark, he liked to run the border -- Bigtime. He took bulk high-grade hydroponic pot down to the States, sold that, and brought guns back to Canada.
The border patrol on both sides hated him. They knew what he was doing, but it took them a while to actually catch him in the act. When Revenue Canada (our border patrol people) caught him, they engaged in some vigilante action.
They used his own guns and smoked him. `ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø,,ø`ø`ø
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Thinking back to the movie, though (producer's cut), I'd say that a big clue there would have been that he was capable of taking on replicants in hand-to-hand battle. Given that replicants were designed for battle, this would have been an impressive feat for a human.
When IP4 came out people KNEW that, unless the internet collapsed under it's own weight (a recurring prediction at that time) that the address space was going to 'fill up' mostly due to sparse address assignments
Examples:
- IBM, the CIA, and various other 'important' entities of the time each have 16 million address tied up in class A subnets... Guess how many they're using?
- I know somebody else who has a 'personal' class C routable address (from long before address space started getting 'tight') of which he's probably not using more than 16 addresses.
- I personally know of one company with less than 200 machines that has 4 Class 'C' subnets from two different ISPs.
These are not unexpected events. The issue at the time (as I remember it) was really around machine capability. This was at a time when a SUN workstation with 1/2MB of ram was considered HOT (actually, they hadn't been built yet), 2 MIPS was considered decent for a mainfraime, and the work it would have taken to disassemble a variable-length address would have been noticable.For those (and, I would expect, other) reasons, it was decided to go with 'only' a 32 bit address space and work on a more 'realistic' address space for later when machines wouldn't care about the extra cost. That time is now.
A 128 bit address space isn't just frigin huge. it's close enough to infinite for just about any practical purpose. Physics is probably going to get in the way before we run out of IP6 addresses. Designing a system that was extendable beyond 128 bits would have been ASKING for trouble. There wouldn't have been need for most people to implement it. This would have meant that we would have these atrophied pieces of code that would be generally unused, untested and misunderstood for years because 'we really don't need that'.
It would also introduce unnecessary coding complexities.
I guess that the short answer is: KISS . . . Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Hey, we had to do something now that Y2K is (more or less) handled.
(from COBOL to IP -- It's gonna be quite the jump for some of those poor sods.
Is it only Linux that this thing breaks?? Usually if something like this breaks Linux, I'd expect it to break other OSes as well.
Do you have any complaints in
Can you dual boot the machine and see if the problem is with your CPU box? (somebody else mentioned that some machines have a problem with unplugging mice).
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A garbage can is a very useful place if you have an unwanted Win XX{,XXX} disk. Personally, I'd be willing to vouch for that it was (or should have been) designed for Windows.
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It doesn't necessarily even mean it passed the test. They may actually get away with that logic in court.
(my sister's a lawyer, but she doesn't talk to me)
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It's a lot easier for a police service to get this kind of 'favour' done if they don't have to do all of this politics bulshit with civilians who might just ask questions.
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You don't want to know what it means when I type "I moan in ecstasy".
Of course I'm not gonna post this, honey! What do you think I am... Stupid?
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He was a blond-haired (blue-eyed?) conservative who "served his country" in the military and probably voted Republican before he was arrested for the deadliest terrorist attack on US soil in recent history. I know of no evidence that he announced his plans to blow up Oklahoma over any phone line that the FBI bothered to tap.
I could further point out that, although Martin Luther King is now considered a Civil Rights hero, the FBI didn't just wire tap him, they tried to discredit him with their wiretap info. As for the people who shot MLK, the FBI probably considered them good, upstanding members of the KKK.
NOW you can try and justify violations of, and limits on, our civil rights "so the government can protect us".
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The Judi Bari case occurred in the 1990. I would also be surprised to find that the FBI didn't try and tap some phone lines of anti-WTO organizers (especially after the reasonably successfull work in Seattle. I know of one person, here in Canada, who had her phone tapped for political activity in 1995. As she put it, "About the only interesting thing they got out of it was some really nice recipes". Other people can probably point to other recent examples.
Taking civil and political rights for granted is probably our greatest risk in losing them. Fighting to maintain such rights is far easier than a fight to get them back. Unfortunately it's not easy to see the value of the fight until we're obviously in the latter situation.
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BTW: The intelligent terrorists will make misleading comments in their phone calls (Think Spock in Wrath of Kahn).
There's a second (less obvious?)issue in this purchase: Industrial espionage. I don't think that it's a big shock that the company they're worried about is serving "more than 20 percent of the companies on Standard & Poor's 500". I would guess that the FBI figures that it's easier to prosecute people for supporting industrial espionage if they're US nationals.
Of course if the converse happens, the last thing you'd want is to have to send the poor bugger who programmed the router back to Tokoyo.`ø,,ø`ø,,ø
So I lose a couple hundred MZ by installing a Crusoe... Like I really care. I do sysadmin not graphics rendering. About the only times I might miss that extra processing speed is when I'm playing Quake. Truth is that even Quake depends at least as much on your display board as it does on your CPU.
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Ewe Kahn have aye peace of text that glows through your spill checker grate butt is bad english.
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Field Replacable Units could mean that even the short green lifespan may not matter. If the actual hardware drivers are built into the FRU, then the main appliance (etc.) could survive through multiple upgrades in the LEP technology. If this stuff is as easy to make as they're making it sound, we could be seeing some seriously kick-butt cheap displays in a few years. At that point who really cares how often you have to replace them?
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If they have switch rates like 'normal' LEDs (which I expect), it it should be possible to redraw screens at normal video rates.. it will also be possible to build portable 'books' with multiple physical pages....
Hold on... This stuff goes on a SILICON substrate. They may still need a WHOLE lot of work to fit it onto a flexible backing.
Nontheless, it still does mean that we can start to look for nearly-throw-away monitors. -- I mean, who's going to mind that their 19" monitor only lasts a year if the replacement panel only costs $15? (I'm presuming that, by the time they get to market, the green LEPs will have a somewhat longer life.
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There are people who believe that part of Microsoft's design criteria for active-x was to lock programmers to the Windows system. I'm one of them. The complaint that implementing Active-X would require implementing huge chunks of COM and Win32 makes complete sense within the context of our conspiracy theory.
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Oh, right, Microsoft... Never mind.
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Then telcos started to notice that (a) people started installing second lines for their modems, (b) heavy modem use was after business hours (non-peak), which meant that
- They were getting more money per household
- It was using existing infrastructure at off-peak hours
Although they might have continued to lobby regulators for extra charges on the line ($why not?), most telcos were probably secretly happy to have modem lines come in.There are, of course, exceptions. In the mid '90s one ISP opened a large modem pool in New Westminister because it gave them toll-free access to the Largest part of the metropolitan Vancouver population. The telco sales people were happy, but I guess that they didn't explain things to engineering. Nobody bothered to provision extra bandwith for all of these high-utilization lines. They brought up the new modem pool and, soon thereafter, brought down phone service for the whole exchange.
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One thing to note here is that Maria Klawe (head of SWIFT) used to be the head of Computer Science. She did so much for UBC CS that she became a VP of the university, but she reserved the time to continue her research. (i.e. this is one serious geek babe!)
A quote from one of her Technical Reports just caught my eye:
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In my experience, the females who get into comp sci/math in university have generally tended to be near the top of the class. It may be because women, once they get in, are just inately better than guys, but my bet would be that girls in school who are 'just' good at the sciences aren't generally encouraged to take that path unless they're overwhelmingly brilliant.
(e.g. one friend, in first year pre-med who took an honours calculus course 'for the fun of it' (with her girlfriend). Our math prof convinced her that she didn't REALLY want to be a doctor. She was much happier after she agreed with him. She was also the best student in our class.)
The lack of encouragement to go into the math-oriented sciences results in a statistical bend to fun stuff that is guy-ish in nature. Unless you have a group that consciously looks to make sure that female interests are taken care of (e.g. female-dominated management), it's pretty easy for the women to feel left out. This is accidental social pressure against females in geekdom.
From what I've seen, where women have had a real say in the design of social activities, they seem to feel more welcome. In fact, once that happened, they started to bring non-geek women into the fold (this was my experience at U of Alberta).
BTW: The kinds of stuff it takes to have women feel included isn't all that majour. It's not that guys mind, it's just that we don't think about it.
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From what I can see, it would be much harder to release proprietary QTized code that used GPL stuff too (almost impossible, I'd say).
I don't get mad at MS for releasing non-free software. I get mad at them for releasing shitty non-free software and trying to pretend that it's the best there is.
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The border patrol on both sides hated him. They knew what he was doing, but it took them a while to actually catch him in the act. When Revenue Canada (our border patrol people) caught him, they engaged in some vigilante action.
They used his own guns and smoked him.
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