As for Socialism, it has mostly been a lie. Most of what passes for "Socialism" is just an extension of the Capitalist Welfare State. Ie: let's have social programs run by bureacracy and private corporations. Meh. How are you going to guarantee the effectiveness of such programs if their MAIN stakeholders are SYSTEMATICALLY EXCLUDED from developing vision, mission, policy, and decision-making? How? You aren't.
I don't know where you get your information, but in most socialist states (Canada, France, Germany etc), the organizations responsible for critical infrastructure are heavily regulated by the government. Gimme an example otherwise, or are you speaking of "socialism in the US"... which is agreeably, dead on arrival?
So, I would call the direction I am heading as Libertarian Socialism or just plain Anarchism. A social "order" based around ecological and democratic principles. A diminishing of hierarchy, and an activist-lead process.
Now how do you plan to have critical infrastructure handled by "activist-led process"? I like your idea, it just seems so very naieve.
I frequently see views based on views based upon views, frequently each of which is a poorly-optimized sql statement. The developers seem surprised that performance is abysmal in such cases.
You could say the same thing about objects, in OOP. Most developers don't know how to use them well, and poorly defined objects either embedding or inheriting from other such objects can lead to poor performance and very strange bugs. However, most shops still use objects and classes.
However, I will agree that most programmers don't have enought relational DB experience (I wish college CS curriculum would make relational algebra a required class, as RDBMS's are fairly ubiquitous these days).
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Yes, that's right. Some people only use a laptop as
Strong battery, with adequate processor power for usage on the go (centrino/ibook)
Full battery-powered operation, with little/no usage while "plugged in", and minimal processor power
Now, since #2 and #3 are the "sweet spot" (due to business usage), and #1 can be fulfilled by a #2 class laptop, and #4 is pretty much a high-end PDA/palmtop, that leaves little room to have a #3 that can fulfill roles of both #2 and #4. Thus, a strong #2 is the clear "sweet spot" of functionality, since it can play all the roles (esp. since people who are serious about battery life carry spares).
It's not like we haven'tseenthisbefore. Remember those shows back in the 60's? Maybe not, perhaps (like me) you werent born yet. However, the revenue model for advertising requires a "blank spot" to allow affiliated stations to do localized adverts, and to allow for updated advertising (ie, more income) on repeat showings, and syndicated programs (we're talking years and years of potential advertising income from a single TV show).
Consequently, this leaves the "ad spot" model vulernable to time shifting ala VCR or (as in my case) Tivo.
Well, Boo-fucking-Hoo. Now they're greedy and can't get themselves off the multibillion dollar habit. Their loss, my gain.
As for price, they will have to be cheap to stay competitive with Intel's 32-bit offerings.
What, you mean the Xeons they will be competing against? Even if they sell for 2/3 the cost of the Xeon, they'd be rakin' in the bucks, if they get decent yields (the Itanium, for example, has horrible yields due to it's large L3 cache and die size).
The Xeon is Intel's low-end luxury model; If AMD can provide a full-luxury model at lower rates, then they'll pull a Lexus on Detroit.
I would like to see more truly innovative designs like the Shuttle PCs and other stylish cases with a purpose.
The problem with that is that
It would probably not be too innovative if the case were still ATX/etc. compliant
If it did create a new standard (ie, miniATX, flexATX, etc), then the mobo manufacturers have to be on board (or you have to be a mobo manufacturer yourself). This in itself is not an easy proposition
All this contributes to increased costs, and maintenance issues for the user ...
Which brings me to my final point... this is why Apple still rakes in the cash. I just wish some PC vendor would do the same for WinTel market, but then again... Apple styled much, much more than the case/mobo. Which is why they are stylistically successful and we're still using boxy cases (but with clear sides now!).
I think the concept of "Third World" is a bit outdated, and can now be inferred to mean what they say the last paragraph of the link:
The concept of the "third world" still rings true as there are many nations with high infant mortality, high rates of poverty, and dependence on industrialized nations.
Comparing it to the USSR (as 2nd world) really makes no sense any longer, since they... don't exist:-)
Email lists with 3.5 million opt-in targetted blue-chip collected address would costa tiny fraction of that money.
...sigh...
Two things in response:
These aren't only email addresses, now, are they?
This is their fricking *PUNISHMENT* for price-fixing. Geeze, I mean, if I were to be *punished* for something by paying money to get a large saleable list of music customers...
Windows programming for me is very hard because I spend 80% of my time buried in MSDN instead of coding.
Hell, I went to a mostly M$ endowed CS program (at the time), and when I have to code against the win32api, or MFC, I spend about that amount of time in the books too.
I don't get the whole "how dare they think of offering a product that I dont need" attitude.
Here's why it sucks:
Your friend, a wannabe $MAIN_CHARACTER spends money on this rather than on other stuff that would be more enjoyable, and claims he's 1337
Your ex-surrogate-grand-aunt heard from your 2nd cousin, twice removed, that you liked this series, so they buy you the DVD for christmas (by which time, the *real* special edition DVD, the one you wanted instead of this crippled version is out in stores)
They spent money marketting and selling this and the worst... drumroll
The shitty ads that whet your appetite and keep the interest at insane levels
I hate unneeded product as much as those wasted AOL cd's that keep littering my mailbox.
I don't think that browsers should "innovate" in HTML (like Netscape 2 frames or all the crap in IE), that is the job of w3c, but there are a lot of usability innovations waiting to be done.
Yeah, the kind of stuff that Microsoft doesn't feel the need to work on. Gotta love the tabs and popup blocking.
To be fair, you could program your 3D game to do all FPU calculations in SSE. gcc has an option to do this automatically now. And SSE2 is one step ahead of AltiVec in one regard - it supports a few double-precision operations.
Since AltiVec is 128 bit whereas SSE2 is 64bit, isn't this a moot feature? I mean, double-precision 64bit == 128bit right? Or am I way off base here?
The US was partnered with the USSR when it was busy arming countries like Iraq. Also, it is not proven that the US has helped arm any other country with weapons of mass destruction. This claim is pure conjecture on your part.
Games today are designed to be impressive and
flashy enough to get you to buy them, playable
enough that while you're playing it the first
time through you tell all your friends, but not
replayable so that you're done with it by the
time the next title comes out.
It appears that the article states that exemptions should apply to all ISPs.
...But it would also carve out a broad exemption in the law for mail sent by companies the recipient has done business with, and completely exempt Internet service providers -- including Microsoft.
What does this mean? Well, hotmail will still be a cesspool of forged/autogen'd spams (as will AOL, etc), since the ISPs cannot be held liable. What interests me is that the other ISPs weren't mentioned.
Ultimately, there is the annoying problem of your service provider issuing you spam and selling your personal information... but that seems like another can of worms.
Ladies and gentlemen, you can't have it both ways. Either computers exist on the internet, so they exist in all countries at once and are obligated to follow any law in any place someone decides to sue them with, or they're not. But I for one am sick and tired of reading what feels like opportunistic banner-waving: if it serves my interests, then that's what I want.
Of course you could look at it like that Sears has a business prescence wherever the case was filed, and therefore must represent itself there. Of course, this isn't about computers now, it's about fax machines (a technicality, agreed, but important in this case) and abuse of a local resource (plaintiff's phone line).
Look at the bigger picture. Please.
How's bout you wake up to the cold hard fact that there are no absolutes, and a blanket statement like "they are or they are not" simply doesn't work in the real world? Sometimes the answer is "it's both" and sometimes "it's neither".
I understand how SecurID works. My point is that if you have remote control of a machine that is logged in and not disconnected then it doesn't matter how secure SecurID is. It is much the same principle as logging into a machine with your SecurID and then going for coffee.
My company uses SecurID, and when my connection is active (we use it for VPN), I can't connect to any other machines on my subnet, and blocks off most ports. I'm pretty sure that what you stated is possible, but not trivial by any means.
I dont like his assessment.
I view what I do for a living as an engineering task, largely, and not an artistic one.
Question is, Mr. AC, are you involved in open source programming? Because if not, then you're not the "artist" that Bruce refers to himself as. Doesn't make you any worse, but you're not an artist.
When you follow his 'programming is art' argument you drag every coder into the pretentious arthouse bullshit. The guy starving in the gutter for his 'art' is good, the graphic artist who makes money designing magazine ads is a 'sellout'.
Stop projecting. Get a grip, and move on. Like you say, at least you have your job...
This whole deal about copyrighted material somehow reminds me of the war-on-drugs... Making criminals of all the users didn't work there... Trying to stop the supplies at the street level didn't work either. The only thing that will work is legalizing the controlled substance... then taxing the hell out of it... hehee
Depends on what you mean by "didn't work". If you're talking about civil liberties being preserved while reducing the flow of illegal substances... sure.
Ok, Mr. Conservative,
#1 reason: being part of a couple that gets pregnant outside of marriage. If you're the woman, you now have the financial burden of a child without the full support of a father. Additionally, you don't enjoy the economies of scale enjoyed when two or more income earners live together. If you're the father, the latter point still applies, and you have child support to pay.
Marriage has nothing to do with being a couple, as long as that couple plans to stay together for the benefit of the child. It's called cohabitative child-rearing, and happens regularly all over the world (and was glorified in the movie "Four Weddings And A Funeral"). I know that in France, you can take it one step further and have an official declaration of Concubinage (note: in french), which implies that, for all intents and purposes, you plan to live together for the foreeable future... and there are benefits to declaring thusly (with your French.sig, I would have thought you might have known that, but hey, maybe you're a Quebequois?)
The problem lies with the fact that in the US, we have no real declared state of cohabitation, or even "living together but not married". It's this gap that makes the male more reticent to fully commit to marriage.
In any case, if you're against the causes of single mothers (ie, deadbeat dads as opposed to cohabitation) then I'm with you; It's just that lots of people live happily (even with kids) without marrying, and to lump that into your anti-single mother view is rather myopic.
This issue will certainly be moved up on appeal, and I'd have to believe it will lose as it violates the framework of common carrier.
ISPs are not common carriers. However, this is a case of where the government is trying to "legislate the internet" to their gain. Ephemeral as it is, and boundaryless, it definitely looks like a nice ripe fruit for the picking by your average clueless politician for their personal gain.
The simple fact of the matter is that Osama Bin Laden has declared a Jihad against the United States and its interests. That man has a large following of fundamentalists that believe in his words and will stop at nothing to carry out this 'Holy War' against a people that generally enjoy a peaceful existence.
Gee, why do you think he has so many recruits... you don't think American foreign policy would have anything to do with it, do you?
If you're worried about OBL and his "army" of terrorists, you might want to check out the US Government's School of the Americas.
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As for Socialism, it has mostly been a lie. Most of what passes for "Socialism" is just an extension of the Capitalist Welfare State. Ie: let's have social programs run by bureacracy and private corporations. Meh. How are you going to guarantee the effectiveness of such programs if their MAIN stakeholders are SYSTEMATICALLY EXCLUDED from developing vision, mission, policy, and decision-making? How? You aren't.
I don't know where you get your information, but in most socialist states (Canada, France, Germany etc), the organizations responsible for critical infrastructure are heavily regulated by the government. Gimme an example otherwise, or are you speaking of "socialism in the US"... which is agreeably, dead on arrival?
So, I would call the direction I am heading as Libertarian Socialism or just plain Anarchism. A social "order" based around ecological and democratic principles. A diminishing of hierarchy, and an activist-lead process.
Now how do you plan to have critical infrastructure handled by "activist-led process"? I like your idea, it just seems so very naieve.
You could say the same thing about objects, in OOP. Most developers don't know how to use them well, and poorly defined objects either embedding or inheriting from other such objects can lead to poor performance and very strange bugs. However, most shops still use objects and classes.
However, I will agree that most programmers don't have enought relational DB experience (I wish college CS curriculum would make relational algebra a required class, as RDBMS's are fairly ubiquitous these days).
Now, since #2 and #3 are the "sweet spot" (due to business usage), and #1 can be fulfilled by a #2 class laptop, and #4 is pretty much a high-end PDA/palmtop, that leaves little room to have a #3 that can fulfill roles of both #2 and #4. Thus, a strong #2 is the clear "sweet spot" of functionality, since it can play all the roles (esp. since people who are serious about battery life carry spares).
It's not like we haven't seen this before. Remember those shows back in the 60's? Maybe not, perhaps (like me) you werent born yet. However, the revenue model for advertising requires a "blank spot" to allow affiliated stations to do localized adverts, and to allow for updated advertising (ie, more income) on repeat showings, and syndicated programs (we're talking years and years of potential advertising income from a single TV show).
Consequently, this leaves the "ad spot" model vulernable to time shifting ala VCR or (as in my case) Tivo.
Well, Boo-fucking-Hoo. Now they're greedy and can't get themselves off the multibillion dollar habit. Their loss, my gain.
What, you mean the Xeons they will be competing against? Even if they sell for 2/3 the cost of the Xeon, they'd be rakin' in the bucks, if they get decent yields (the Itanium, for example, has horrible yields due to it's large L3 cache and die size).
The Xeon is Intel's low-end luxury model; If AMD can provide a full-luxury model at lower rates, then they'll pull a Lexus on Detroit.
The problem with that is that
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I think the concept of "Third World" is a bit outdated, and can now be inferred to mean what they say the last paragraph of the link:
The concept of the "third world" still rings true as there are many nations with high infant mortality, high rates of poverty, and dependence on industrialized nations.
Comparing it to the USSR (as 2nd world) really makes no sense any longer, since they ... don't exist :-)
Hell, I went to a mostly M$ endowed CS program (at the time), and when I have to code against the win32api, or MFC, I spend about that amount of time in the books too.
Here's why it sucks:
and the worst... drumroll
I hate unneeded product as much as those wasted AOL cd's that keep littering my mailbox.
Yeah, the kind of stuff that Microsoft doesn't feel the need to work on. Gotta love the tabs and popup blocking.
My favorite zilla plugin
And their page seems to be blanked out...
Anyone else heard of/played this game? I'd love to try it again..
Personally, I'd be interested if:
Since AltiVec is 128 bit whereas SSE2 is 64bit, isn't this a moot feature? I mean, double-precision 64bit == 128bit right? Or am I way off base here?
Interesting pricing:
$25 for city access, $30 for county (residential)
More Interesting Pricing:
$35 for city access, $40 for count (business)
Not sure if this includes actual access to internet, but 10Mbps is not bad...
The US was partnered with the USSR when it was busy arming countries like Iraq. Also, it is not proven that the US has helped arm any other country with weapons of mass destruction. This claim is pure conjecture on your part.
What about Isreal?
Planned Obselescence... what an interesting concept.
Thanx, but no thanx. I'll stick to games that don't force me to keep buying new stuff. Like nethack, or StarCraft.
What does this mean? Well, hotmail will still be a cesspool of forged/autogen'd spams (as will AOL, etc), since the ISPs cannot be held liable. What interests me is that the other ISPs weren't mentioned.
Ultimately, there is the annoying problem of your service provider issuing you spam and selling your personal information... but that seems like another can of worms.
Of course you could look at it like that Sears has a business prescence wherever the case was filed, and therefore must represent itself there. Of course, this isn't about computers now, it's about fax machines (a technicality, agreed, but important in this case) and abuse of a local resource (plaintiff's phone line).
Look at the bigger picture. Please.
How's bout you wake up to the cold hard fact that there are no absolutes, and a blanket statement like "they are or they are not" simply doesn't work in the real world? Sometimes the answer is "it's both" and sometimes "it's neither".
My company uses SecurID, and when my connection is active (we use it for VPN), I can't connect to any other machines on my subnet, and blocks off most ports. I'm pretty sure that what you stated is possible, but not trivial by any means.
Question is, Mr. AC, are you involved in open source programming? Because if not, then you're not the "artist" that Bruce refers to himself as. Doesn't make you any worse, but you're not an artist.
When you follow his 'programming is art' argument you drag every coder into the pretentious arthouse bullshit. The guy starving in the gutter for his 'art' is good, the graphic artist who makes money designing magazine ads is a 'sellout'.
Stop projecting. Get a grip, and move on. Like you say, at least you have your job...
Depends on what you mean by "didn't work". If you're talking about civil liberties being preserved while reducing the flow of illegal substances... sure.
I think the War On (some) Drugs worked wonderfully for its real intents and real beneficiaries.
I suppose you could find similar intent in the case of RIAA/MPAA, s/Drugs/Media/ etc...
Marriage has nothing to do with being a couple, as long as that couple plans to stay together for the benefit of the child. It's called cohabitative child-rearing, and happens regularly all over the world (and was glorified in the movie "Four Weddings And A Funeral"). I know that in France, you can take it one step further and have an official declaration of Concubinage (note: in french), which implies that, for all intents and purposes, you plan to live together for the foreeable future... and there are benefits to declaring thusly (with your French .sig, I would have thought you might have known that, but hey, maybe you're a Quebequois?)
The problem lies with the fact that in the US, we have no real declared state of cohabitation, or even "living together but not married". It's this gap that makes the male more reticent to fully commit to marriage.
In any case, if you're against the causes of single mothers (ie, deadbeat dads as opposed to cohabitation) then I'm with you; It's just that lots of people live happily (even with kids) without marrying, and to lump that into your anti-single mother view is rather myopic.
ISPs are not common carriers. However, this is a case of where the government is trying to "legislate the internet" to their gain. Ephemeral as it is, and boundaryless, it definitely looks like a nice ripe fruit for the picking by your average clueless politician for their personal gain.
Gee, why do you think he has so many recruits... you don't think American foreign policy would have anything to do with it, do you?
If you're worried about OBL and his "army" of terrorists, you might want to check out the US Government's School of the Americas.
We practically made him the horror that he is now, anyway.