I am not paying 150K+ for a car with drum brakes and a live rear axle (hell, if I pay that much it will have a prancin' horse on it, no doubt). Also, no 327 in the corvair. It looks to me to be Camaro (non-Z28) or Nova parts since if they pulled apart a 'vette they would have an independant suspension on the back.
I'd love that jag hearse. I was just looking over a '56 Jaguar 120 saloon... alas, too much rust.
From the article: "Reitz says the typical engine piston, for example, has not been fundamentally improved upon for decades. Yet engineers have no idea whether a different geometry could produce much better engines."
What!? I can't really argue with the first statement, but the second is demonstrably untrue. Hemi-heads and domed pistons most certainly produce 'better' engines. It's not as touted as the Chrysler 426s were, but many of today's four cylinders are hemi-heads.
The article being a waste of your time is hardly specific. Saying it is noncommital isn't quite specific either. Calling it crap and insinuating croneyism is not only non-specific, it is childish.
As for 'main-media source' (whatever the hell that means), this article was posted yesterday at The Freedom Forum Online the media component of a well respected centrist think-tank.
Here's a specific comment: Mr. Katz, I think this piece is a bit to simple for the slashdot audience. I believe most of the readership here is already aware of the situation outlined in the article and have come to their own conclusions regarding it. The Freedom Forum however is a great place for this article due to the generally lower net-awareness of it's readership. (yes that is my real opinion)
Given recent developments, like the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Washington Post agreeing to not print dissenting opinions in exchange for a scoop (see this article) from United Airlines and US Airways, I certainly can't trust traditional media. Just peruse the Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting site and see how much your trust is deserved.
How can you trust an organisation you tacitly admit picks and chooses it's stories not necesarily on the basis of newsworthyness, but on the basis of what they (corporate interests... liberal my rosy red ass) want us to know. The buyer beware aspect of online, 'open' news is there but at least the 'buyer' can, and is encouraged to, research the thing himself rather than relying on the word of some pompous ass on the evening news backed not by an interest in the truth but an interest in the bottom line.
OK, ignorance is not an excuse and there are to many laws on the books for anyone to be fully cognizant of all of them. The solution is obvious: Claim your 5th amendment ("I refuse to testify on the grounds that I might incriminate myself") rights for any question asked in court. Since one cannot know all laws and since not knowing them is not an excuse, one never knows if he is incriminating himself or not so the only logical thing to do is excersise the 5th.
The problem I see lies in the old question: "If a bunch of apes decided to engineer a super-ape would they have come up with humans?". Probably not, apes would see increased strength and agility to be superior rather than increased brain mass and upright posture. We should not decide that one particular method of genetically engineering our children is the correct one. We should emulate nature and try many different combinations of traits as well as maintaining a control group. This, as in nature, would require initial seperation of populations to be at all effective. I would propose the banning of genetic engineering on earth (control group) and encouragement of genetic engineering in non-terestrial habitations (where chances of their needing modification is higher).
A good novel with a similar premise is Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling.
Some people say, we lost our tails Evolving up, from little snails I say it's all, just wind in sails Are we not men? We are Devo!
"This invention relates to an information handling system in which information is derived from a computer at a remote point and transmitted via the public telephone network to terminal apparatus. The invention also includes the terminal apparatus itself. "
That last line is the kicker. As I understand it, the bitmapped CRT display predates the 1989 date of this patent. Game Over. Please don't play again BT.
Well shit, I guess I'm halucinating all of this since I'm on a Powermac 8100/80 with a G3 upgrade running OS8.6. That's six years old for you non-mac types. Runs Office 98, Photoshop 5.5, Quark 4.1, Illustrator 8, Explorer 5, and Quake 3 like a champ. Besides that, backwards compatibility has nothing to do with an old computer running new software, rather it's a new computer's ability to run old software that makes for backwards compatibility. A G4-500 with OS9.0.4 runs the vast majority of Mac software ever made, even 68k code through emulation. When I was running OSX dp3 on a G4 it would do the same in the classic layer.
I also am somewhat dubious of your claims concerning the 3 year old mac. In '97 you're talking 604s at 180+ Mhz (4400s,7300s, 8600s, and 9600s) that should run all of todays software without any problem, at least as well as a P200 would on the other side of the fence. The only powermacs without an upgrade path to at least a G3 are the original PCI based macs (7200s). Those were doomed machines from the start though (the whole Carl Sagan thing;)).
The only machines that have been totaly ditched, support wise, are the 68k machines. 68030 and below based macs (9+ years old) were dropped with OS8 and 68040 based machines (7+ years old) were dropped with OS8.5. That's allright though, just throw a BSD on the thing and go to town.
The Performas are a different story (although it's been nearly 5 years since they quit making those junkers) but then again so are the PS/2s.
Where the hell is R. Buckminster Fuller on that list!? One of the most prolific and imaginary inventors of the century and a complete and total nerd. "Home, Home, on Lagrange..."
Article II of the Outer Space Treaty provides that:
Outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claims of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
And;
Although the Moon Agreement provides for the creation of an international régime to provide some form of limited property rights in space, the fact that only nine countries have ratified the Moon Agreement poses a significant obstacle to the development of such a régime.
So it's a bit more than tacit, but does not invalidate national sovereignity over their craft. However, like maritime law this can be worked around by registering your craft under the flag of a country whose law is more supportive of your intentions. The vast majority of american owned surface transport sails under Liberian or Panamanian colors for just this reason (although it's the tax law not criminal law they are avoiding).
And when it comes down to it, words on paper mean nothing without the power to enforce them. I'm not sure the government would waste a killsat on an orbital warez server. Then again, getting a few grams of junk in the waresat's (heh, I like that) orbital path would probably be dirt cheap.
Write: 1: To form characters, letters, or words on a surface 2: To form the letters or the words of 3: To put down on paper 4: To make up and set down for others to read 5: To write a letter to 6: To communicate by letter
Since electronic records must be displayed at some point they are writing in senses 1,2, and 4. Taken more literaly, the bits on a disk are 'characters' on a 'surface'. Electronic Background Checks would be libel if they were defametory (gramtically; not necesarily legaly).
In the Bruce Sterling novel Distraction the US is severely defeated in an economic war with China when the chinese destroy IP by publishing it all on high speed servers. While I'm not sure I agree that IP should be abolished, one has to wonder if our economy should be based in large part on as nebulous a product as intelectual property. The industrial age is ending yet only one of the two great industrial ideologies is dead. I fear that in the defeat of communism we may have blinded ourselves to the fact that capitolism may be just as flawed in an age where centrilised controll of production is non-existant. Capitolism (or communism) makes as much sense in the information age as mercantilism made in the industrial age.... none.
BTW, I'm a BeOS freak too... I wonder what JLG, as a 'born-again capitolist', thinks about all this.
While I hate Hole, I must admit that Ms. Love's article was a great piece. Only one thing though:
"At this point the "record collector" geniuses who use Napster don't have the coolest most arcane selection anyway, unless you're into techno. Hardly any pre-1982 REM fans, no '60s punk, even the Alan Parsons Project was underrepresented when I tried to find some Napster buddies"
I admire her cooler-than-though attitude, but I have found a ton of 60's punk (Stooges, Fugs, MC5, Lothar and the Hand People) on Napster. Especially since the Metalica lawsuit, many non-mainstream people have apparently discovered Napster. I've even been finding obscure experimental Japanese bands (Zeni Geva, Merzbo, Guitar Wolf) lately. As for pre-'82 REM fans... uh, their first album (EP really) was released in August of '82 so any fans before then were probably all Athens locals. I have yet to look for the Alan Parsons Project (wasn't that some sort of hovercraft?) and wouldn't know what to look for anyway, so I can't comment on that.
Splitting up Mickeysoft is a bad idea... I can guarantee that most of the slashdot users are for the split just because it is Microsoft.
Maybe, but saying it's just because it's microsoft is disingenous. If it were another monopolistic standards violating maker of substandard software we would be up in arms, but there really isn't one.
If it were RedHat or Debian, those same people would be up in arms saying that they shouldn't be split or whatever.
You underestimate the average slashdot reader. If a linux company acted as Microsoft does the community would go medevil on them.
If Microsoft hadn't become a company, honestly, how many of you people would be using a computer?
Me, at least.
How many of you had for first computer experience to a non MS OS?
Me, at least.
Mine was an Apple IIe.. then Window 3.1.
Mine was a Vic20, then a C-64, then an Amiga 500, then Win3.1.... then, quickly, a Quadra 800. Actually my first computer experience was the IBM 360 at my dad's work, but I didn't really have that.
Microsoft made the computer more usable for the "average" computer user, much like what AOL has done for the internet. If the average computer user were stuck using linux, there would be a LOT let people using computers. Period.
What about MacOS? BeOS? Amiga? Comparing it to Linux is setting up a straw man.
There are plenty of other companies hacking out programs for use with Windows, Symantec, Adobe, AOL, Qualcomm that are making money from Windows. Its not like the API's are totally closed and just about impossible to hack a program for the OS, if that was the case, then hell yes, torch the place. But its not.
LOL, Qualcomm (in the SW field at least) has been virtualy destroyed by Outbreak Express. Hmm, I guess it is good that the APIs aren't totally open or Eudora would be an extreme infection vector too. AOL, Adobe, and Symantec are big boys in the industry, able to deal with MS from a position of power that the vast majority of developers cannot hope for. It should also be noted that Qualcomm, Adobe, and Symantec developed for Macintosh first (not sure about AOL).
I truly believe that most of the slashdot users are pissed just because it's Microsoft and the fact that it's (ack) closed source! So what? They created (or bought) the source, its' THEIRS, not OURS. If you hack out open source software, that's YOUR choice.
As a BeOS user I obviously don't care too much about this.
Yes, some of Microsoft's past actions are questionable, but the majority of them have been resolved.
If only the majority of them have been resolved then at least some questionable actions remain. If I shoplift a bunch of CDs and kill somebody then get caught and convicted for a $100 fine for theft then the majority of my crimes have been resolved... but I still get away with murder.
Microsoft Internet Explorer is installed on the machine by default, so what? You can go download Netscape and Uninstall IE. How would the average user go about downloading Netscape if IE wasn't installed? (yea there's ftp.exe, but the average user doesn't know that it exists...) Yea, MSN is installed on a typical install.. so are Prodigy, AT&T WorldNet, AOL + others) which can also be uninstalled.
But Microsoft says you can't uninstall Explorer.
Face it, Microsoft has brought the computer industry to where it is today.
Easily brought to it's knees by a dirt-stupid phillipino with a cursory knowledge of VB scripting. Thanks Microsoft!
Linux brought the internet where it is today.. of course Microsoft had to adapt to the internet standards and create it's own internet programs. It had to keep up with linux in that aspect. Now that it has caught up (and modified standards, which *I* do believe is unacceptable) slashdotters are angry..'They have a monopoly! It's bad!' Do you use windows? No. Why do you care?
Because Microsoft used it's monopoly power to modify standards. Standards by definition are cross-platform so an affect on them affects all users not just Windows users.
I do believe that we have to keep Microsoft in order, bastardizing standards that are worldwide accepted is wrong.. but split MS up.. no.
The problem is that any attempt to 'keep Microsoft in order' has been an abject failure. Their unwillingness to comply with past antitrust settlements has lead the judge to believe that yet more behavrioral injunctions will not work and that the government must take more radical action to fix the problem. Microsoft's intransigence and arrogance has brought this on them.
Here in TVA-land we have the semi-experimental Raccoon Mountain Hydroelectric Plant which consists of a reservoir on top of Raccoon Mtn. (near Chattanooga, TN) that is refilled when power consumption is low and is then used at peak times as an extra source of electricity (drops 1500 feet through this big-assed cavern... very cool to see). Still, I don't quite see every building having a huge reservoir on top of it;)
Re:Power PC603 has already been in space
on
Macs In Space!
·
· Score: 1
The G4 is the MPC7400 with the Altivec instruction set. The PPC750 is the G3 which is a variant of the PPC740 with faster L2 cache.
The one good thing abouth the movie Battlefield Earth is that it is no worse than the novel Battlefield Earth.
Unfortunately it wasn't any better either.
I remember a decade ago or so my mom (yea my mom is an old school scifi freak) telling me to read the book because it was so laughably horrid. Now I've gotten her back by recomending she see the movie for the same reason.
Your point is well taken, but historical hermeticism doesn't really fit into the techno-mage view. Hermeticism was all about changing perception, similar to Timothy Leary's LSD beliefs, rather than actual physical manipulation. They couched their theories in alchemichal formulae that only initiates could decipher in fear of the Inquisition rather than any true belief in the supernatural. Hacking one's own consciousness was the plan; the demons and angels so prevelant in Alchemical treatsies were metaphors for psychological constructs.
The convergence of hermetic mysticism and information technology could be downright fascinating however. It would seem to offer even more than the merging of Architectural science and mysticism that brought about the Freemasons.
Should screaming "FIRE" in a crowded room be covered under free speech?
Of course, however if their is not an actual fire you could be held liable for inciting a riot, disturbing the peace, and/or reckless endangerment. You are free to say what you will, but you are responsible for the effects of such speech, that is what it is all about.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd love that jag hearse. I was just looking over a '56 Jaguar 120 saloon... alas, too much rust.
"Silly monkey, you can not eat lava!"
What!? I can't really argue with the first statement, but the second is demonstrably untrue. Hemi-heads and domed pistons most certainly produce 'better' engines. It's not as touted as the Chrysler 426s were, but many of today's four cylinders are hemi-heads.
C++
Unified
Non-
Inspired
Language
Intended
Not for
Gnu or
Unix
Specialists
As for 'main-media source' (whatever the hell that means), this article was posted yesterday at The Freedom Forum Online the media component of a well respected centrist think-tank.
Here's a specific comment: Mr. Katz, I think this piece is a bit to simple for the slashdot audience. I believe most of the readership here is already aware of the situation outlined in the article and have come to their own conclusions regarding it. The Freedom Forum however is a great place for this article due to the generally lower net-awareness of it's readership. (yes that is my real opinion)
How can you trust an organisation you tacitly admit picks and chooses it's stories not necesarily on the basis of newsworthyness, but on the basis of what they (corporate interests... liberal my rosy red ass) want us to know. The buyer beware aspect of online, 'open' news is there but at least the 'buyer' can, and is encouraged to, research the thing himself rather than relying on the word of some pompous ass on the evening news backed not by an interest in the truth but an interest in the bottom line.
A good novel with a similar premise is Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling.
Some people say, we lost our tails
Evolving up, from little snails
I say it's all, just wind in sails
Are we not men? We are Devo!
That last line is the kicker. As I understand it, the bitmapped CRT display predates the 1989 date of this patent. Game Over. Please don't play again BT.
I also am somewhat dubious of your claims concerning the 3 year old mac. In '97 you're talking 604s at 180+ Mhz (4400s,7300s, 8600s, and 9600s) that should run all of todays software without any problem, at least as well as a P200 would on the other side of the fence. The only powermacs without an upgrade path to at least a G3 are the original PCI based macs (7200s). Those were doomed machines from the start though (the whole Carl Sagan thing ;)).
The only machines that have been totaly ditched, support wise, are the 68k machines. 68030 and below based macs (9+ years old) were dropped with OS8 and 68040 based machines (7+ years old) were dropped with OS8.5. That's allright though, just throw a BSD on the thing and go to town.
The Performas are a different story (although it's been nearly 5 years since they quit making those junkers) but then again so are the PS/2s.
Article II of the Outer Space Treaty provides that:
Outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claims of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
And;
Although the Moon Agreement provides for the creation of an international régime to provide some form of limited property rights in space, the fact that only nine countries have ratified the Moon Agreement poses a significant obstacle to the development of such a régime.
So it's a bit more than tacit, but does not invalidate national sovereignity over their craft. However, like maritime law this can be worked around by registering your craft under the flag of a country whose law is more supportive of your intentions. The vast majority of american owned surface transport sails under Liberian or Panamanian colors for just this reason (although it's the tax law not criminal law they are avoiding).
And when it comes down to it, words on paper mean nothing without the power to enforce them. I'm not sure the government would waste a killsat on an orbital warez server. Then again, getting a few grams of junk in the waresat's (heh, I like that) orbital path would probably be dirt cheap.
1: To form characters, letters, or words on a surface
2: To form the letters or the words of
3: To put down on paper
4: To make up and set down for others to read
5: To write a letter to
6: To communicate by letter
Since electronic records must be displayed at some point they are writing in senses 1,2, and 4. Taken more literaly, the bits on a disk are 'characters' on a 'surface'. Electronic Background Checks would be libel if they were defametory (gramtically; not necesarily legaly).
BTW, I'm a BeOS freak too... I wonder what JLG, as a 'born-again capitolist', thinks about all this.
Personaly, I'd use all those space lego sets for a case.... hmmm, I got an old Powerbook Duo laying around...
"At this point the "record collector" geniuses who use Napster don't have the coolest most arcane selection anyway, unless you're into techno. Hardly any pre-1982 REM fans, no '60s punk, even the Alan Parsons Project was underrepresented when I tried to find some Napster buddies"
I admire her cooler-than-though attitude, but I have found a ton of 60's punk (Stooges, Fugs, MC5, Lothar and the Hand People) on Napster. Especially since the Metalica lawsuit, many non-mainstream people have apparently discovered Napster. I've even been finding obscure experimental Japanese bands (Zeni Geva, Merzbo, Guitar Wolf) lately. As for pre-'82 REM fans... uh, their first album (EP really) was released in August of '82 so any fans before then were probably all Athens locals. I have yet to look for the Alan Parsons Project (wasn't that some sort of hovercraft?) and wouldn't know what to look for anyway, so I can't comment on that.
Maybe, but saying it's just because it's microsoft is disingenous. If it were another monopolistic standards violating maker of substandard software we would be up in arms, but there really isn't one.
If it were RedHat or Debian, those same people would be up in arms saying that they shouldn't be split or whatever.
You underestimate the average slashdot reader. If a linux company acted as Microsoft does the community would go medevil on them.
If Microsoft hadn't become a company, honestly, how many of you people would be using a computer?
Me, at least.
How many of you had for first computer experience to a non MS OS?
Me, at least.
Mine was an Apple IIe.. then Window 3.1.
Mine was a Vic20, then a C-64, then an Amiga 500, then Win3.1.... then, quickly, a Quadra 800. Actually my first computer experience was the IBM 360 at my dad's work, but I didn't really have that.
Microsoft made the computer more usable for the "average" computer user, much like what AOL has done for the internet. If the average computer user were stuck using linux, there would be a LOT let people using computers. Period.
What about MacOS? BeOS? Amiga? Comparing it to Linux is setting up a straw man.
There are plenty of other companies hacking out programs for use with Windows, Symantec, Adobe, AOL, Qualcomm that are making money from Windows. Its not like the API's are totally closed and just about impossible to hack a program for the OS, if that was the case, then hell yes, torch the place. But its not.
LOL, Qualcomm (in the SW field at least) has been virtualy destroyed by Outbreak Express. Hmm, I guess it is good that the APIs aren't totally open or Eudora would be an extreme infection vector too. AOL, Adobe, and Symantec are big boys in the industry, able to deal with MS from a position of power that the vast majority of developers cannot hope for. It should also be noted that Qualcomm, Adobe, and Symantec developed for Macintosh first (not sure about AOL).
I truly believe that most of the slashdot users are pissed just because it's Microsoft and the fact that it's (ack) closed source! So what? They created (or bought) the source, its' THEIRS, not OURS. If you hack out open source software, that's YOUR choice.
As a BeOS user I obviously don't care too much about this.
Yes, some of Microsoft's past actions are questionable, but the majority of them have been resolved.
If only the majority of them have been resolved then at least some questionable actions remain. If I shoplift a bunch of CDs and kill somebody then get caught and convicted for a $100 fine for theft then the majority of my crimes have been resolved... but I still get away with murder.
Microsoft Internet Explorer is installed on the machine by default, so what? You can go download Netscape and Uninstall IE. How would the average user go about downloading Netscape if IE wasn't installed? (yea there's ftp.exe, but the average user doesn't know that it exists...) Yea, MSN is installed on a typical install.. so are Prodigy, AT&T WorldNet, AOL + others) which can also be uninstalled.
But Microsoft says you can't uninstall Explorer.
Face it, Microsoft has brought the computer industry to where it is today.
Easily brought to it's knees by a dirt-stupid phillipino with a cursory knowledge of VB scripting. Thanks Microsoft!
Linux brought the internet where it is today.. of course Microsoft had to adapt to the internet standards and create it's own internet programs. It had to keep up with linux in that aspect. Now that it has caught up (and modified standards, which *I* do believe is unacceptable) slashdotters are angry..'They have a monopoly! It's bad!' Do you use windows? No. Why do you care?
Because Microsoft used it's monopoly power to modify standards. Standards by definition are cross-platform so an affect on them affects all users not just Windows users.
I do believe that we have to keep Microsoft in order, bastardizing standards that are worldwide accepted is wrong.. but split MS up.. no.
The problem is that any attempt to 'keep Microsoft in order' has been an abject failure. Their unwillingness to comply with past antitrust settlements has lead the judge to believe that yet more behavrioral injunctions will not work and that the government must take more radical action to fix the problem. Microsoft's intransigence and arrogance has brought this on them.
Where!? (the gas not the bitching)
I put $27 worth of premium in my rex this morning and it was $1.69/gallon here in Tennessee. It's actually cheaper in Georgia due to lower sales tax.
Unfortunately it wasn't any better either.
I remember a decade ago or so my mom (yea my mom is an old school scifi freak) telling me to read the book because it was so laughably horrid. Now I've gotten her back by recomending she see the movie for the same reason.
The convergence of hermetic mysticism and information technology could be downright fascinating however. It would seem to offer even more than the merging of Architectural science and mysticism that brought about the Freemasons.
Of course, however if their is not an actual fire you could be held liable for inciting a riot, disturbing the peace, and/or reckless endangerment. You are free to say what you will, but you are responsible for the effects of such speech, that is what it is all about.