Let's be clear on this point: "global warming", if happening, does not say anything at all about the temperature at any given point on the globe. It says that there is an increase in the global average temperature. This sort of change would imply an increase (perhaps dramatic) in the chaos of the weather system: e.g. more and larger hurricanes and tornados, larger swings in temperature from historical data, chaotic deviation from trend lines, etc. Global rise in temperature might also be expected to increase ice cap melting rates, leading to higher water levels and proportionally lower salt content.
The typical example is that you've got a water wheel where each bucket has a hole that leaks water at a fixed rate. Now you allow water to flow into the system - the more water, the faster the wheel goes... up to a point. when the "tipping point" is reached, the system goes haywire, speeding up, slowing down, even reversing direction. Here's a little demo
I'm not saying that this is what is happening here, just that "but we had a mild summer this year" is missing the point.
While I understand and agree with you to a large extent, I'd also like to point out that there are other possible reasons to purchase such items. For instance:
You want or need quality beyond the "standard". I cannot stand the typical disposable culture mindset - I bought an automatic mechanical watch (Omega, not Rolex, btw) after throwing out the nth quartz watch that died shortly after replacing the batteries.
You want or need a custom product. If you are 7 feet tall, you just cannot buy pants from the local megamart. If your house is more than 50 or so years old, home depot isn't going to serve your needs very well...
... just raising the issue that "high quality and hand-made" doesn't always equate to "empty status symbol". That said, there are plenty who pay for the most over-the-top stuff in order to make a (tacky) statement.
Billy was impeached (f*cking unbelievable) because he decided to lie about his blow job.
To be specific, he was impeached because he was manuvered into making a "yes or no" answer to an overly specific statement defining "sexual relations" without including oral sex (I think you should be able to hear for yourself in one of the segments at CNN, but the CNN Real servers don't seem to be happy today). In retrospect, it is pretty clear that this was the intention, given that Starr already knew exactly what had happened between Bill and Monica - by exluding blow jobs from the definition and insisting on a yes/no answer they could trivially make it appear he was lying.
Ob disclaimer: Clinton's behavior was disgraceful but didn't do significant harm to the country. The Starr investigation, on the other hand, was disgraceful, expensive and obviously harmful.
Here, C++ appears to be a winner for the vast majority of programs; where Java scored better with (recursive) algorithms and the use of file IO (where it must be remarked that the C++ code uses iostreams).
I RTFA, and I don't see a "vast majority" of C++ over java - the best C++ (intel) beats the best java (server) times 8 to 6... the same margin that server java beats the best G++. For an on-the-fly compiled system which is fully debuggable and fully portable, this isn't anywhere near a decisive victory, IMHO.
I think the questions to ask are (1) why the heck doesn't C++ win in every case [RTOtherFA for some examples] and (2) what is it about the outliers that make the java vs c++ results so different [obviously, they aren't actually doing the same thing].
Java and C++ are rather different: memory management, object model, portability, even strings (2byte vs 1byte chars) lead to real performance and expressive power (read, "low maintenance") differences.
Bottom line is that fair (that is, useful) benchmarking is a very tricky business - you need much more carefully designed tests to really get at the differences.
If there is a God, he created you. He gave you a mind and a will. And he sustains your existence this very moment.
You are defining "God" as a constant, concious maintainer of the universe - this is far from a widely held belief even among monotheists.
Better implies that there is some "good" that you would like to world to move closer too. And a "bad" that you would like it to move away from. A Christian would say that there is a "good" defined by God's nature from which we can say whether the world is getting "better" or "worse."
Again, you assume a false dichotomy. There are many ways to define "good/bad." "Specified by God through prophets as written in The Book" and "meaningless" are two of many. More examples: The golden rule, best for species, best for earth, and even the law of the jungle.
it is pretty hard to think of any applications for this that more conventional symmetric cryptography such as AES can't address.
Here's one - it is easy to listen in on today's encrypted comms... It is easy to identify inderesting endpoints (US DOD, etc), it is cheap to write likely interesting messages to disk. A few years from now, you just set your Qomputer to decrypt all those stored comms. Just because it is in the past doesn't mean that it is stale (how old is your SSN/bank acount number/etc? How long has that sleeper cell been active?)
Anyone who can afford a wiretap and a diskfarm today and a QC tomorrow will be able to crack an awful lot of sensitive traffic.
With TiVo and the 30 second skip feature, fewer commercials are seen.
True. However, it is important to point out that those commercials that are seen in this circumstance are more likely to actually be watched. This attention factor ought to be worth something to advertisers - IANAA (... Advertiser), but I'd rather pay for adverts which generate known Tivo views than blanket the airwaves hoping that someone, anyone is actually paying attention during the break.
Example: I typically watch the Superbowl twice on my ReplayTV - once for the game (starting around half an hour late) and once for the ads (ok, not this year, in protest of CBS's slap at MoveOn).
Microsoft will
have brough in $86 million for us including Baystar. The next deal we
should be able to get from $16-20
Assuming that "the next deal" which was in the works at the time of the memo's writing was actually closed as expected, conservatively the total is 86+16=102 and so 102/11=9.27...
This is pretty darn close to the factor of ten implied by the always vague (that's the point) term "order of magnitude".
SCOX refuses to accept the terms of invalid licences.
SCOX has stated that the GPL is not a valid licence.
Therefore, SCOX refuses to accept the terms of GPL licences.
and then...
GPL is the only license under which NMAP has been made available to SCOX.
SCOX doesn't accept GPL licences.
Therefore, SCOX has no licence to use/etc NMAP.
QED
Of course, SCOX probably will argue something along the lines of "GPL must == public domain for the good of the country". If this were to be true, then use of NMAP would not require a licence to use/etc... or maybe they'll say that they'll accept the terms of GPL until such time as it is declared invalid (effectively squirming out of this particular mess).
Um - Having just been purchased by Tivo would seem to have made that pretty unlikely. Ok, Tivo might end up that way, but as far as Strangeberry goes, they seem to have won in a big way.
Also, the last time I drove there, there weren't any lane markers on half the roads...that's just silly!
No no! They always paint the lane markers - the problem is that they are quickly erased by all the people crossing the lines...
IMO, OSS is essentially a movement to shift the software industry from a product/sales business model to a service/support business model... nothing more nothing less.
The old/non-agile industry is upset because they can squeeze more profit from product sales (especially with zero replication cost), than they can from services. This is, of course, a close parallel to the issues behind RIAA, et al. The difference is that the driver here is that OSS software has been freed by the authors, while the music has been "liberated" by the consumers.
Having worked in the service-oriented software development world all my professional life (Contract R&D), this coming status quo doesn't bother me at all.
True, SSC has applied for a trademark... on October 28, 2003. If this is after the friction began, then there is probably significant grounds for disputing the claim.
Nah - Java was used for the same reason it is used for lots-o-p2p systems: designed for ubiquity and portable binaries... and it doesn't suck as much as lots of other choices.
I do know that Cougaar developers use Linux, Windows and OSX, so portability is a reality here.
According to the NPR story I heard, this process actually involved replacing the diploid DNA from the (fertilized) doner egg with the diploid DNA from the original (fertilized) egg.
The origin mother's eggs apparently could be fertilized alright but tended to fail after a relatively small number of divisions. I'd expect the theory was that the origin mother's obvious defect could be left behind with the original mitochondria. Seems a stretch to me, but what do I know?
It is worth noting that the putative child would, in fact, be genetically related to three parents (one via mtDNA).
The point of MD5 is that it is a unidirectional hash: posession of the hashes in insufficient to do anything but compare with code you've already got. If the arrangement information (line numbers and filenames) of the SCO data set are discarded, then there is no way to recover the original. It would be an uphill battle to convince a court that a hash set could be considered derivative if the only possible use of it is to determine the veracity of the parties' claims.
The point is that we don't need SCO to do anything. Presumably any of the many people with legal rights to SCO source code can publish the hash list without divulging any of SCO's (ahem) "IP".
Even more interesting is the theoretical possibility of comparing historical releases of SCO trees against GPL-licensed code, thus (perhaps) demonstrating that SCO has illegally violated the IP of OSS developers.
Of course, hash comparisons alone would be unlikely to convince a judge/jury of anything. They ought to be sufficient grounds for some embarrasing subpoenas, and maybe some really neat cease-and-desist orders, though.
You think Bio and Xanth 1-42 are bad... try reading Anthony's book Firefly. This book eroticises an explicitly described sexual encounter between an adult and a five year old, trying to convince the reader it the "relationship" is consensual. Yech!
I've been following this issue because I am the webadmin for a small non-profit organization. Our site (indeed all the shared-hosting clients of our provider) has been silently blocked by AOL for more than a month for apparently exactly the same reasons that CI Host is complaining about. Cursory web searches suggest that this is not at all unique to CI Host and the (non-CI) company I'm with - at least several of whom appear to contemplating similar lawsuits.
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The typical example is that you've got a water wheel where each bucket has a hole that leaks water at a fixed rate. Now you allow water to flow into the system - the more water, the faster the wheel goes... up to a point. when the "tipping point" is reached, the system goes haywire, speeding up, slowing down, even reversing direction. Here's a little demo
I'm not saying that this is what is happening here, just that "but we had a mild summer this year" is missing the point.
... just raising the issue that "high quality and hand-made" doesn't always equate to "empty status symbol". That said, there are plenty who pay for the most over-the-top stuff in order to make a (tacky) statement.
Ob disclaimer: Clinton's behavior was disgraceful but didn't do significant harm to the country. The Starr investigation, on the other hand, was disgraceful, expensive and obviously harmful.
I think the questions to ask are (1) why the heck doesn't C++ win in every case [RTOtherFA for some examples] and (2) what is it about the outliers that make the java vs c++ results so different [obviously, they aren't actually doing the same thing].
Java and C++ are rather different: memory management, object model, portability, even strings (2byte vs 1byte chars) lead to real performance and expressive power (read, "low maintenance") differences.
Bottom line is that fair (that is, useful) benchmarking is a very tricky business - you need much more carefully designed tests to really get at the differences.
Here's one - it is easy to listen in on today's encrypted comms... It is easy to identify inderesting endpoints (US DOD, etc), it is cheap to write likely interesting messages to disk. A few years from now, you just set your Qomputer to decrypt all those stored comms. Just because it is in the past doesn't mean that it is stale (how old is your SSN/bank acount number/etc? How long has that sleeper cell been active?)
Anyone who can afford a wiretap and a diskfarm today and a QC tomorrow will be able to crack an awful lot of sensitive traffic.
Example: I typically watch the Superbowl twice on my ReplayTV - once for the game (starting around half an hour late) and once for the ads (ok, not this year, in protest of CBS's slap at MoveOn).
- SCOX refuses to accept the terms of invalid licences.
- SCOX has stated that the GPL is not a valid licence.
- Therefore, SCOX refuses to accept the terms of GPL licences.
and then...- GPL is the only license under which NMAP has been made available to SCOX.
- SCOX doesn't accept GPL licences.
- Therefore, SCOX has no licence to use/etc NMAP.
QEDOf course, SCOX probably will argue something along the lines of "GPL must == public domain for the good of the country". If this were to be true, then use of NMAP would not require a licence to use/etc... or maybe they'll say that they'll accept the terms of GPL until such time as it is declared invalid (effectively squirming out of this particular mess).
Um - Having just been purchased by Tivo would seem to have made that pretty unlikely. Ok, Tivo might end up that way, but as far as Strangeberry goes, they seem to have won in a big way.
TSG has enough FUD for everyone... If BSD is lucky, the SCOundrels in charge will be resting comfortably in jail before they get that far.
Also, the last time I drove there, there weren't any lane markers on half the roads...that's just silly!
No no! They always paint the lane markers - the problem is that they are quickly erased by all the people crossing the lines...
The old/non-agile industry is upset because they can squeeze more profit from product sales (especially with zero replication cost), than they can from services. This is, of course, a close parallel to the issues behind RIAA, et al. The difference is that the driver here is that OSS software has been freed by the authors, while the music has been "liberated" by the consumers.
Having worked in the service-oriented software development world all my professional life (Contract R&D), this coming status quo doesn't bother me at all.
True, SSC has applied for a trademark... on October 28, 2003. If this is after the friction began, then there is probably significant grounds for disputing the claim.
Or maybe demand a perpetual, non-revokable Unix license?
Greens: apache on linux
Libertarians: apache on freebsd
Communists: apache on linux
Socialists: apache on linux
Lest you want to draw unwarranted conclusions:
Halliburton: apache on linux
Tobacco.org: apache on freebsd
Whitehouse.gov: apache on linux
Oddly...
ATF: netscape on solaris
US Army: webstar on OSX
whitehouse.com: IIS on linux (so netcraft claims!!)
fun fun fun...
I do know that Cougaar developers use Linux, Windows and OSX, so portability is a reality here.
You don't happen to live in Florida, do you?
Heh - where was Acme before that?
(sorry - couldn't help it)
The origin mother's eggs apparently could be fertilized alright but tended to fail after a relatively small number of divisions. I'd expect the theory was that the origin mother's obvious defect could be left behind with the original mitochondria. Seems a stretch to me, but what do I know?
It is worth noting that the putative child would, in fact, be genetically related to three parents (one via mtDNA).
The point of MD5 is that it is a unidirectional hash: posession of the hashes in insufficient to do anything but compare with code you've already got. If the arrangement information (line numbers and filenames) of the SCO data set are discarded, then there is no way to recover the original. It would be an uphill battle to convince a court that a hash set could be considered derivative if the only possible use of it is to determine the veracity of the parties' claims.
The point is that we don't need SCO to do anything. Presumably any of the many people with legal rights to SCO source code can publish the hash list without divulging any of SCO's (ahem) "IP". Even more interesting is the theoretical possibility of comparing historical releases of SCO trees against GPL-licensed code, thus (perhaps) demonstrating that SCO has illegally violated the IP of OSS developers. Of course, hash comparisons alone would be unlikely to convince a judge/jury of anything. They ought to be sufficient grounds for some embarrasing subpoenas, and maybe some really neat cease-and-desist orders, though.
You think Bio and Xanth 1-42 are bad... try reading Anthony's book Firefly. This book eroticises an explicitly described sexual encounter between an adult and a five year old, trying to convince the reader it the "relationship" is consensual. Yech!
I've been following this issue because I am the webadmin for a small non-profit organization. Our site (indeed all the shared-hosting clients of our provider) has been silently blocked by AOL for more than a month for apparently exactly the same reasons that CI Host is complaining about. Cursory web searches suggest that this is not at all unique to CI Host and the (non-CI) company I'm with - at least several of whom appear to contemplating similar lawsuits.