I don't think legal immigration is a problem AT ALL. In fact, it is one of the cornerstones of America. What we should have is living wages and tariffs that discourage the kind of corporate defection that has been taking place in the last decades.
Looking at the specs of this chip for the moment, and not the politics of east asia, this little board looks pretty sweet.
First of all the processor - isn't it kinda like a SPARC? I'm pretty sure it is. I guess we'll see.
Secondly, the board looks cool too. Eight analog inputs, built-in character generation (!) of 32,000 chinese characters, extensible to 50,000 +, and built-in 10/100 ethernet.
Going back to the early days of Tibet, they were at several points in history a major, aggressive threat to China. Genghis Khan actually set aside Tibet as holy land, and the Ming Chinese accepted Buddhism and the Tibetan Buddhism in particular, and respected Tibet as a spiritual home and holy land.
I suppose, if you must blame somebody for the state Tibet is in today it would be the European countries that destabilized imperial China in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Then Marx, then Mao.
Technology leakage to China through Taiwan is a very real problem for the US and its allies.
We could produce the chips and associated tech we need so badly over here in America at home. The labor costs are higher in over here, though - average income in Taiwan ROC is just under $3000 per year. This would cut into profits, and, more importantly, corporate bonuses and treats for executives.
It's almost like the US Government WANTS to destroy the American manufacturing base. They certainly are permissive enough when it comes to it (NAFTA anybody?).
For a country that is as backward as mainland China, possessing the ability to make a high-performance 32-bit pipelined microprocessor is a tad surprising.
Hardly. You don't think that the Chinese know everything about the workings of CPU and RAM foundries in Taiwan? You realize that Taiwan is where much of our computer gear is manufactured.
Whether you agree with the policies of the Chinese government, you must realize that China is one of the oldest civilizations in the whole world. America doesn't have exclusive rights to computing you know. Maybe they are tired of watching American companies flop around like beached salmon and want sustainable computing for themselves.
Besides, the chip implements technology published as a standard. How could you call this stealing?
Explorer.exe is like the one bolt that holds together a vehicle in classic Looney Tunes fashion. Once that one bolt comes unscrewed, the whole contraption falls apart. I marvel at the fact that MS continues to make a one-bolt OS.
Apple even releases updates for 10.1 (which was a free update of 10.0). MS has abandoned their largest user base - Win 95/98/Me (by FAR their largest user base, esp. considering piracy around the world).
for the most part it is sufficent for the average user
More like FreeBSD is WAY TOO MUCH for the average user. I'm talking somebody without a geek guardian angel installing / configuring / administering the machine. If you know a thing or two, great, but I can't see myself calling mom and saying "Yeah, Mom, just use rawrite.exe in the dos window to write the two boot floppies, boot off of them, and down 4.8 RELEASE, as I think you'd like the jail (8) command that they finally backported." My Mom knows how to use her computer now, and I am extremely proud of her (I just convinced her to start outputting in PDF instead of MS proprietary formats) but five years ago she was truly frightened of them. I know many people who are this way now. Can you see anyone but perhaps the 3% even making a boot floppy and installing FreeBSD over the net?
I love FreeBSD. It's absolutely beautiful. However, many people look at it and say "What can you DO with it?" They have to find out for themselves.
[1] I just noticed (pause for laughter) that the current technologies page is now highlighting Applescript as a top-level component of the OS, on the same conceptual level as Aqua. Imagine that, an OS that considers scripting and automation to be equally as important as the GUI. That's a nice balance.
I think that Apple is just advertising that Applescript isn't just collecting cobwebs, but can actually be used to build applications which are very sophisticated. Cocoa and Applescript work together. The diagram should actually show Applescript above Cocoa &c, but below Aqua.
Liquid crystals and lasers. Reminds me of my first year of college.
In the Information Arcade we had a glass wall that had adjustable levels of translucency from transparent to fully translucent. We used to get high on LSD and life in there.
It's simple - if they don't want to work on a project, they don't. Most open source developers aren't hoping for an eventual paycheck, and the ones who do are deluding themselves.
No, not really. Linus thought it'd be good to soup up his home-cooked terminal software. Eventually this grew to a nearly complete UNIX re-implementation.
It's a Gartner report, of course it's been cooked. Gartner has been clever in throwing the occasional story out about Linux, but it plays to the payer first.
- DO NOT BUY NEW MUSIC. Don't watch TV stations owned by the media conglomerates. Don't go to their web sites. Don't purchase their special-edition DVD box sets. Just stop consuming material from companies that want to shackle you down. If you must buy music, buy used vinyl. If you just can't sit still, go to the (legitimate) theatre. Or go water-skiing. Learn to weave baskets, or find a new fishing spot! Take up the fascinating art of tea ceremony. The point is that it could be done. Reuters news feed in a text-only window on your computer would be all you need to keep abreast of things. If you need to watch the news, watch CBC or BBC (IMHO the 2 finest news sources on cable). It is possible to live without Hollywood and Madison Ave. for a month.
- Watch the stock prices of Sony, EMI, BMG, RCA, etc. plummet faster than Enron.
- On the following month, unless the companies have abandoned their ignorant corrupt ways, and stopped bribing our public officials to introduce Iron Curtain style legislation upon us, we repeat if necessary.
Sure, it happens all the time! People's homes get invaded, and they successfully defend themselves by shooting the bad people, or scaring them away. What is your problem with a responsible person owning a gun? Yes, even an AR-15 (the civilian M-16) or another combat model, like the M14 or a Glock. At its core, basically any available weapon is descended from a military model.
my system still works fine. Same with sendmail, and BIND, and ftp. The point is that in a sane universe, individual components may be removed or even lost but the system will survive. Control is left to the administrator of the machine, not imposed by the vendor. Removal of apps is normal when securing any sort of machine that allows it.
With the MS 'solution' you have no options here. Internet Explorer is a buggy, messy browser, but is already mostly impossible to completely remove. Things are going on in the background which, while some may be turned off, you are quite likely to break shit by doing so! There is real evidence that MS is actually invading your privacy. Just thinking about the bugs in Windows and all MS products, and thinking about the time they spend coming up with new ways to invade your privacy instead of FIXING those bugs makes my mind boggle.
Which model do you choose: an environment of standards and decency, or one tailor-made for the lowest common denominator? At least with '*nix' you aren't sharecropping.
I would have to vote against Spokane. If you want nice views, drive a half-hour east of Spokane to Cour d'Alene Idaho. That's a really nice town.
Portland is my home and I love it. I would recommend the Chinese garden in the middle of town. It's a whole square block, in the middle of Chinatown, built by Chinese artisans. Really sweet. Plus, you can go to the Magic Garden, just across the street, and look at strippers and have the stiffest drinks in town.
Yellowstone is a sweet place to spend some time in the summer. If you are really prepared I'd recommend it any time of the year, but if you haven't studied survival, go in the summer. The problem, of course, is that there are only a very few roads, all of which are crammed to the gills with cars. Cars everywhere. Anytime there is an interesting animal, which live by the millions in the park, traffic jams up for miles. The easiest way to avoid a traffic jam and actually see Yellowstone is to take a hike through the backcountry. There are a bunch of really neat hikes and the ranger stations could give information on what areas are best in that time of year. Also, as the grizzly bears migrate around the park, different areas are restricted to keep bear / human encounters down to a minimum.
Take a good camera. If you can only use a point-n-shoot camera, consider spending some bucks to get a decent, interchangeable lens camera and learn how to use it. Prepare to mail back film to your mom and have her store it in the fridge 'till you get home. Plus, it'll be a fun gadget to use while away from the computer.
Exactly. Why not abandon Vinland and go south? There's a good possibility that clever adventuresome folk like the Vikings wouldn't be content not knowing what lay beond their island.
Anyway, the Mandan is the tribe that I was thinking of. They lived much like their (likely? mostly?) European progenitors.
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I don't think legal immigration is a problem AT ALL. In fact, it is one of the cornerstones of America. What we should have is living wages and tariffs that discourage the kind of corporate defection that has been taking place in the last decades.
Looking at the specs of this chip for the moment, and not the politics of east asia, this little board looks pretty sweet.
First of all the processor - isn't it kinda like a SPARC? I'm pretty sure it is. I guess we'll see.
Secondly, the board looks cool too. Eight analog inputs, built-in character generation (!) of 32,000 chinese characters, extensible to 50,000 +, and built-in 10/100 ethernet.
Going back to the early days of Tibet, they were at several points in history a major, aggressive threat to China. Genghis Khan actually set aside Tibet as holy land, and the Ming Chinese accepted Buddhism and the Tibetan Buddhism in particular, and respected Tibet as a spiritual home and holy land.
I suppose, if you must blame somebody for the state Tibet is in today it would be the European countries that destabilized imperial China in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Then Marx, then Mao.
Other good generic Japanese words in corporate names -
??Kawa (or sometimes Gawa) - river
??Yama - mountain
??Hon - root or origin or book
??Ryu (or sometimes Hyu) - dragon
??Dai (or sometimes Tai) - big
Technology leakage to China through Taiwan is a very real problem for the US and its allies.
We could produce the chips and associated tech we need so badly over here in America at home. The labor costs are higher in over here, though - average income in Taiwan ROC is just under $3000 per year. This would cut into profits, and, more importantly, corporate bonuses and treats for executives.
It's almost like the US Government WANTS to destroy the American manufacturing base. They certainly are permissive enough when it comes to it (NAFTA anybody?).
For a country that is as backward as mainland China, possessing the ability to make a high-performance 32-bit pipelined microprocessor is a tad surprising.
Hardly. You don't think that the Chinese know everything about the workings of CPU and RAM foundries in Taiwan? You realize that Taiwan is where much of our computer gear is manufactured.
Whether you agree with the policies of the Chinese government, you must realize that China is one of the oldest civilizations in the whole world. America doesn't have exclusive rights to computing you know. Maybe they are tired of watching American companies flop around like beached salmon and want sustainable computing for themselves.
Besides, the chip implements technology published as a standard. How could you call this stealing?
If the ftp daemon goes down, at least the rest of the system works. It's obvious which is a more intelligent design.
Explorer.exe is like the one bolt that holds together a vehicle in classic Looney Tunes fashion. Once that one bolt comes unscrewed, the whole contraption falls apart. I marvel at the fact that MS continues to make a one-bolt OS.
Apple even releases updates for 10.1 (which was a free update of 10.0). MS has abandoned their largest user base - Win 95/98/Me (by FAR their largest user base, esp. considering piracy around the world).
for the most part it is sufficent for the average user
More like FreeBSD is WAY TOO MUCH for the average user. I'm talking somebody without a geek guardian angel installing / configuring / administering the machine. If you know a thing or two, great, but I can't see myself calling mom and saying "Yeah, Mom, just use rawrite.exe in the dos window to write the two boot floppies, boot off of them, and down 4.8 RELEASE, as I think you'd like the jail (8) command that they finally backported." My Mom knows how to use her computer now, and I am extremely proud of her (I just convinced her to start outputting in PDF instead of MS proprietary formats) but five years ago she was truly frightened of them. I know many people who are this way now. Can you see anyone but perhaps the 3% even making a boot floppy and installing FreeBSD over the net?
I love FreeBSD. It's absolutely beautiful. However, many people look at it and say "What can you DO with it?" They have to find out for themselves.
[1] I just noticed (pause for laughter) that the current technologies page is now highlighting Applescript as a top-level component of the OS, on the same conceptual level as Aqua. Imagine that, an OS that considers scripting and automation to be equally as important as the GUI. That's a nice balance.
I think that Apple is just advertising that Applescript isn't just collecting cobwebs, but can actually be used to build applications which are very sophisticated. Cocoa and Applescript work together. The diagram should actually show Applescript above Cocoa &c, but below Aqua.
Liquid crystals and lasers. Reminds me of my first year of college.
In the Information Arcade we had a glass wall that had adjustable levels of translucency from transparent to fully translucent. We used to get high on LSD and life in there.
Liquid crystals and lasers.
but what about compensation for the developers
It's simple - if they don't want to work on a project, they don't. Most open source developers aren't hoping for an eventual paycheck, and the ones who do are deluding themselves.
No, not really. Linus thought it'd be good to soup up his home-cooked terminal software. Eventually this grew to a nearly complete UNIX re-implementation.
It's a Gartner report, of course it's been cooked. Gartner has been clever in throwing the occasional story out about Linux, but it plays to the payer first.
Here's another suggestion on what you should do:
- Pick a month.
- DO NOT BUY NEW MUSIC. Don't watch TV stations owned by the media conglomerates. Don't go to their web sites. Don't purchase their special-edition DVD box sets. Just stop consuming material from companies that want to shackle you down. If you must buy music, buy used vinyl. If you just can't sit still, go to the (legitimate) theatre. Or go water-skiing. Learn to weave baskets, or find a new fishing spot! Take up the fascinating art of tea ceremony. The point is that it could be done. Reuters news feed in a text-only window on your computer would be all you need to keep abreast of things. If you need to watch the news, watch CBC or BBC (IMHO the 2 finest news sources on cable). It is possible to live without Hollywood and Madison Ave. for a month.
- Watch the stock prices of Sony, EMI, BMG, RCA, etc. plummet faster than Enron.
- On the following month, unless the companies have abandoned their ignorant corrupt ways, and stopped bribing our public officials to introduce Iron Curtain style legislation upon us, we repeat if necessary.
Sure, it happens all the time! People's homes get invaded, and they successfully defend themselves by shooting the bad people, or scaring them away. What is your problem with a responsible person owning a gun? Yes, even an AR-15 (the civilian M-16) or another combat model, like the M14 or a Glock. At its core, basically any available weapon is descended from a military model.
Guess what? If I do a
/usr/bin/telnet
sudo rm
my system still works fine. Same with sendmail, and BIND, and ftp. The point is that in a sane universe, individual components may be removed or even lost but the system will survive. Control is left to the administrator of the machine, not imposed by the vendor. Removal of apps is normal when securing any sort of machine that allows it.
With the MS 'solution' you have no options here. Internet Explorer is a buggy, messy browser, but is already mostly impossible to completely remove. Things are going on in the background which, while some may be turned off, you are quite likely to break shit by doing so! There is real evidence that MS is actually invading your privacy. Just thinking about the bugs in Windows and all MS products, and thinking about the time they spend coming up with new ways to invade your privacy instead of FIXING those bugs makes my mind boggle.
Which model do you choose: an environment of standards and decency, or one tailor-made for the lowest common denominator? At least with '*nix' you aren't sharecropping.
From my fortune file:
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Considering that we get like 90% of our electronics from Asia anyway, we don't have to do anything over here.
I would have to vote against Spokane. If you want nice views, drive a half-hour east of Spokane to Cour d'Alene Idaho. That's a really nice town.
Portland is my home and I love it. I would recommend the Chinese garden in the middle of town. It's a whole square block, in the middle of Chinatown, built by Chinese artisans. Really sweet. Plus, you can go to the Magic Garden, just across the street, and look at strippers and have the stiffest drinks in town.
Yellowstone is a sweet place to spend some time in the summer. If you are really prepared I'd recommend it any time of the year, but if you haven't studied survival, go in the summer. The problem, of course, is that there are only a very few roads, all of which are crammed to the gills with cars. Cars everywhere. Anytime there is an interesting animal, which live by the millions in the park, traffic jams up for miles. The easiest way to avoid a traffic jam and actually see Yellowstone is to take a hike through the backcountry. There are a bunch of really neat hikes and the ranger stations could give information on what areas are best in that time of year. Also, as the grizzly bears migrate around the park, different areas are restricted to keep bear / human encounters down to a minimum.
Take a good camera. If you can only use a point-n-shoot camera, consider spending some bucks to get a decent, interchangeable lens camera and learn how to use it. Prepare to mail back film to your mom and have her store it in the fridge 'till you get home. Plus, it'll be a fun gadget to use while away from the computer.
The PPC970 can be had down at the shop for a hunered dollars an yall can git yerselfs sum addem motha breads at the bakery.
Yeah, it's romanji. Each syllable is a beat, so you get ro-man-ji or just as valid ro-ma-n-ji.
Butting consonants together happens all the time. Chinkushyo.
Exactly. Why not abandon Vinland and go south? There's a good possibility that clever adventuresome folk like the Vikings wouldn't be content not knowing what lay beond their island.
Anyway, the Mandan is the tribe that I was thinking of. They lived much like their (likely? mostly?) European progenitors.