My kids have both read at least the first few books in the series. A few years back, we bought my son the BBC tapes for birthday or Christmas, but promptly lost them in the sub-basement under the filing cabinet. We found them as he was about to leave for college, and finally gave them to him.
But he doesn't have VHS access there, so he left them at home. My daughter and I are 5/6 of the way through, now. They've left Milliway's on Disaster Area's black ship, and are about to plunge into a sun.
There's another aspect of latency here that's being ignored. Here and elsewhere in this thread tree folks are talking about circuitry issues, like the memory controller, DRAM itself, DDR, etc. Those are all valid, but there's one more that's being neglected - wires, drivers, and receivers. By simply putting the DRAM somewhere away from the CPU/Northbridge, up on a DIMM socket, you take a big hit in latency. Even getting Zero-access DRAM wouldn't speed things up that much, because of the physical-related delays.
Oh, I agree with your abstraction comment.
Putting faster things into an FBDIMM just won't do that much, because the speed is physically in the same spot. I did an extensive study of this back prior to 1990 and found these results, and the consolidation of L2 and even Northbridge onto the CPU shows that it's still valid, today. Main memory is going to be slow. Main memory is always going to be slow, because that's a side effect of being "big". Main memory is always going to be "big" as long as the appetite for bits exceeds what can fit onto one chip. Learn to live with it.
Incidentally DRAM latency grows beyond minimum the moment you multiplex row and column addresses. There is a Trcd(max) spec where access is purely row-limited, but in practice that's just about impossible - access is almost always limited by Column access. Trade speed for pins.
Beyond that, even SDR traded off latench for bandwidth, compared to EDO. (I've designed both.) I don't think DDR is that bad a deal, compared with SDR, though I haven't actually done a DDR design, myself. At the very least, DDR offers the half-cycle latency options, and the DDR designs have been architected to scale far higher in frequency than SDR ever was.
I'm not at all concerned about physical access to my computers, for two reasons: 1: I just don't have any data THAT critical on them, and plan to keep it that way. 2: If anyone is attempting to gain physical access to my computers, that means they're IN MY HOUSE, and in that situation, I'm much more concerned about my family. The computers then are simply somewhere in a line of physical possessions I'm less concerned about than my wife and kids.
Perspective. I guess if I kept valuable company data at home, I'd be more concerned.
I really only meant the "start looking for host mothers" remark facetiously.
Equally (if not even more) facetiously, how about if we prosecute and try women for having abortions, then sentence them to receive "surplus" IVF embryos...
Kerry also said that there are some 200,000 embryos currently in limbo as a result of IVF. In other words, sperm and eggs were harvested, embryos created and frozen. Some of those embryos were implanted, and resulted in successful babies. The recipients are now known as "complete families" and have no use for the remaining embryos.
To be fair, some of those families may later change their minds and want another child, but by the time the woman passes childbearing age, those frozen embryos are pure, simple ethical dilemnas. Further, with every IVF, the problem accumulates. Do we keep them frozen forever? Do we start looking for host mothers just so they can be born? Who pays for the refrigerator, and what happens if they can't or won't pay? Do we prosecute?
Is perhaps an appropriate analogy one of Microsoft source code and Open Source programming? In other words, once you've seen Microsoft source code any contribution you make to Open Source may constitute "contamination" and bring threats of legal action to the entire project.
Oh, it's a mess now, but it's OUR mess. If we left, it would become THEIR mess. As it is, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that in the highest circles of the governments I mentioned, they're *glad* we're in Iraq, because we've focused the hate'n'discontent in the region on ourselves and drawn it away from them.
I like your election idea. I have no doubt that even if we offered such an election, the insurgents would fight it like they're fighting the current election.
I won't argue with most of what you said, but I do believe Bush is DIFFERENT.
* I can't say for sure that 9/11 wouldn't have happened with Gore, but IMHO it is much less likely. The Clinton administration had its eye set squarely on the Middle East and the terrorism bred there, and I believe a Gore administration would have, also. As soon as they came in, the Bush administration turned toward missile defense as its first task of Statecraft, and completely dropped the Middle East. Remember the Richard Clarke interviews?
* I don't think Gore would have gone unilaterally into Iraq. For that matter, even had he wanted to I don't think a Republican Congress would have let him.
* As for 2004, there are things Kerry could do to clear up Iraq that Bush simply cannot. Kerry could ask for help from other nations, and it would be received differently than if Bush were to ask, for instance. To get help, Bush would have to eat quantities of crow and humble pie that I don't think ANY president should have to. Even him.
* ANWR would be safe under Gore or Kerry. I don't know why Bush has such a hard-on to get it drilled, since there just isn't that much oil there.
My favorite gambit on Iraq is to call the Arab League to the table and say, "We realize we've made a mistake in Iraq, and we're pulling out on Feb 14. (or pick other date) Are you ready?" I suspect they enjoy hating us almost as much as they enjoy taking our money for oil, but they're no fools. They know that if we left Iraq with no stable government the whole Middle East would be in turmoil and civil war within a month. To begin, the Sunni Triangle would descend into chaos as marriages of convenience against the US fell apart. Next the Northern regions would break away and declare Kurdistan, prompting internal strife in Turkey and Syria as their Kurds wanted to take their territory and join the new nation. After that, the Sunnis having won the struggles would drive out the foreign insurgents, who would then go to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt and make trouble there. I would expect at least one to fall, and Saudi Arabia may well be the least stable. As for the South, with the Shiites, that's a wild card. I don't think they would simply take the South and join Iran. Nor do I think the Sunnis would leave them and the Southern oil fields alone. It would be a mess.
Before the Slashdot anti-Microsoft-bashing forces chime in, it's necessary to add:
Microsoft deserves to participate in the market. They deserve the opportunity to sell their products and compete with other software makers. So do Novell, IBM, Lotus, RedHat, Oracle, etc.
Microsoft is not "entitled" to its strangle-hold on the market. Nor are Novell, IBM, Lotus, RedHat, Oracle, etc.
For that matter, Intel deserves the right to compete in the chip market, as do AMD and Via, but none of them deserve a strangle-hold, either.
>the theoretical maximum efficiency of the space shuttle's engines is about 2% less than the actual
Don't you mean that the other way around, that they're just 2% under the maximum theoretical efficiency? Or are they overachieving theory?
But you know, as far as that goes, if someone has worked WAY too much on those engines, shouldn't we be doing more with them? Shouldn't we be using them, or a cost-reduced version everywhere we can, if they're THAT good?
I guess after everyone gets done tearing apart my sample list, I'm left with the lens, which is fairly easily replacable with a lower-function equivalent. (Lower function because it doesn't refocus like the original equipment, though I guess the original loses that capability with age, anyway.) and cartilage - joints. And from what I hear, none of our replacement joints hold up like the originals did.
Nonliving tissue that's part of the body's basic structure. Think: teeth bones (especially joints) tendons and ligaments lens of the eye basement membrane (think jowls sagging to your shoulders, breasts sagging to the knees) These parts of the body are usually laid down prior to adulthood, and last a "normal" life as nonliving tissue. Humans are largely unique in lasting past reproductive years, and most of the effects of wear and tear on nonliving tissue are seen in those people. There's no repair/replacement mechanism for these tissues because none was ever needed during the course of ordinary evolution.
Speaking of evolution, some might make the argument that dying not too long after reproductive years is good for the race.
You've all missed the real problem with Boeing and Lockmart. It's the nature of government contracts, and has NOTHING to do with NASA.
Government buys launches on a cost-plus basis. They pay the cost of the launch, and grant the "plus" so that Boeing and Lockmart get to make some sort of profit.
There's absolutely NO incentive to reduce launch cost. In fact, there's every incentive to keep launch costs as high as possible, because that maximizes the flow of dollars in.
Another way to reduce launch costs would be to adopt a different cost/profit structure. Adopt a launch-cost curve, to be fixed for some number of years, and pay that cost. That curve starts at today's cost, and then declines at some rate. Companies that can launch cheaper, make more money. At the end of X years, negotiate a new declining launch-cost curve.
Sor according to the AWST article, Falcon I was supposed to have flown several times last year. The top-level subject is the engine test for Falcon V. Once I thought I read that both launchers used the same base components, just that the V had more engines and bigger tanks, etc.
You know, that's a hard one to argue with, but I'll try.
One might think that the folks at the World Bank and IMF are cut from the same cloth as the Conservatives in the US who are running us to the brink of ruin, in order to end our entitlement programs.
So I'll take a slightly different attack on it. Whose fault is it if I know a heck of a lot about money and financial instruments than you do, and then loan you far more money than I know you can reasonably pay back? Of course, it's yours, because you took the money. Even though you didn't know better, if you had had MY knowledge, you wouldn't have borrowed that much. Or as is more likely the case, rulers borrowed to the hilts in their country's name, then either absconded or finished their lifetimes, leaving others holding the bag.
At any rate, legal or not, IMHO the World Bank and IMF loaned FAR more than was wise to some countries, and didn't keep an eye on their "investment" to make sure it was properly spent. They now take THEIR foolishness out on the populations of countries whose leaders bilked them, and then disappeared.
In reality, I subscribe to some sort of mix between Capitalism and Socialism. Capitalism recognizes that greed is a powerful motivator, and Socialism denies the Law of the Jungle. After all, what is "pure" Capitalism other than the Law of the Jungle (or Might Makes Right) translated into economic terms rather than physical?
Over a year ago, I was listening to a spot on NPR. Basically, they contended that the Conservatives were planning to push the nation to the edge of bankruptcy, deep into crisis. At that point, the ONLY solution would be to completely undo the last vestiges of the New Deal and Great Society. Social Security and Medicaire gone. The speaker felt that they were being awfully arrogant thinking that they could fine-tune the crisis point that well - that they would be able to bring us to the brink, and then bring us back as they planned. Some more of this brinksmanship is currently evident in the planned devaluation of the dollar. (from a different NPR report) Again, one must question whether or not the Conservatives really have that find hand of control on the US and worldwide economies, to be able to play with things this big, this precisely.
So keep track of the national debt, and watch for the time when it equals the size of the Social Security trust fund, and listen for the Conservative Drums to thump their loudest as it approaches.
How to control spending? The best method we've come up with so far is gridlock. Congress from one party, and the President from the opposite. I thumped this one before the election. Elements of the Press thumped it in the runup to 2000. The nation has classically done "the best" when one party doesn't have exclusive control. Look for things to get worse, before they get better.
Actually, I'm not going to panic. I'm due for renewal in April, and will re-up for this year. Ater that, we'll see. I would expect that in this matter, the scythe will swing well above my head, or even DynDNS.org's head.
Years back, between migrating from AOL and my dialup ISP getting sold, resold, and resold, I decided to go to a third party for a popbox, so I could get a stable email address, and that worked for a few years.
Then the popbox provider changed their policies. It wasn't just that they weren't free - I could have handled that. They really didn't want to fuss with individuals, they wanted to provide for businesses.
So I bought a third-level domain, forwarding email to my ISP's popbox. That worked for a few years, and during that time their billing department was a bit odd, at best. Then last year their billing department got to be too much to deal with. (They wouldn't accept a cashier's check issued to the name of their company - they wanted it to a person . Sounds too shady, to me.)
So I went to DynDNS.org and bought my own domain last year, along with mail forwarding, etc.
You've really just described another sort of honeypot. How about adding the MOTD: "Welcome to WOPR. Do you want to play Global Thermonuclear War?"
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Maybe so, but I think you missed my point.
It's like a ship, and the officers have become kind of like a club, saying, "We're cool, and we deserve high pay, and those crewmen aren't cool and deserve as little as we can give them." That in itself isn't so bad as the fact that the officers really aren't competent, and they've been sort of covering for each other for years.
Plus the ship is heading for dangerous waters. I supposed that's what you mean by, "the market will respond." For justice for the officers, that may be ok. Problem is, the crew didn't have a decent way to get off, and they're still on the boat, too.
That's shy I bring up things like Fannie Mae and Savings & Loan bailout. We've had similar incidents right nearby, and I'm sure everyone can point them out, both local and national. Top Brass who screw up get golden parachutes.
Robert Heinlein once said, as long as authority and responsibility go together, a society will work. Not necessarily work well, but it will work. Right now, their out of whack, IMHO.
Horse hockey. The "market" is terribly skewed and distorted by those doing the driving, and there isn't a reasonable mechanism to replace drivers.
Every now and then, there's an "Aha!" moment in this respect. My first was during the Savings and Loan Bailout. At about that time, a co-worker was griping about the "wealth redistribution" system of the US government with taxes, etc. The savings and loan bailout showed how more of my money was going to people who make more than me than went to people who make less then me.
A more recent example is the Fannie Mae scandal. The CEO messed up, and was booted out of his job. Poor guy is going to have to make due with a lump settlement of nearly $1e8, and a retirement stipend higher than my working salary.
For ANOTHER example I would take US CEOs and execs who whine and moan and complain about how overpaid US workers are, and fight to keep the minimum wage between $5 and $6/hr. I could accept that perhaps US workers were overpaid, and I could perhaps accept that we should be paid more competitively with the rest of the world - if the CEOs and execs took similar globally competitive pay. Remember the old 40:1 top:bottom pay ratio they talked about in Japan? (I honestly can't claim to know top:bottom pay ratio in China or India. Can someone enlighten?)
Alan quite clearly answered the latter, not the former. Actually, the article makes it sound like DVI was poorly (loosely) defined, and HDMI nails it down much better, so things should be more compatible.
That's because he's not stepping on *enough* nails. Think about the bed-of-nails thing. There are so many nails that there isn't enough pressure on any one to puncture the skin. He uses one nail after another, and of course each one hurts.
We need to fill his house with Windows computers, so that no single one will hurt him.
There are of course those who suggest that global warming is, "helping to keep us out of another ice age," or that, "dimming caused by particulates will balance out greenhouse effect." The real answer is that we just don't understand the weather well enough, so to pretend that we can our effects against each other, or against natural forces, is silly.
I suspect that even with Apollo-scale funding, we still couldn't learn enough about weather soon enough, because I'll bet long-baseline observations are a crucial part of the process.
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My kids have both read at least the first few books in the series. A few years back, we bought my son the BBC tapes for birthday or Christmas, but promptly lost them in the sub-basement under the filing cabinet. We found them as he was about to leave for college, and finally gave them to him.
But he doesn't have VHS access there, so he left them at home. My daughter and I are 5/6 of the way through, now. They've left Milliway's on Disaster Area's black ship, and are about to plunge into a sun.
There's another aspect of latency here that's being ignored. Here and elsewhere in this thread tree folks are talking about circuitry issues, like the memory controller, DRAM itself, DDR, etc. Those are all valid, but there's one more that's being neglected - wires, drivers, and receivers. By simply putting the DRAM somewhere away from the CPU/Northbridge, up on a DIMM socket, you take a big hit in latency. Even getting Zero-access DRAM wouldn't speed things up that much, because of the physical-related delays.
Oh, I agree with your abstraction comment.
Putting faster things into an FBDIMM just won't do that much, because the speed is physically in the same spot. I did an extensive study of this back prior to 1990 and found these results, and the consolidation of L2 and even Northbridge onto the CPU shows that it's still valid, today. Main memory is going to be slow. Main memory is always going to be slow, because that's a side effect of being "big". Main memory is always going to be "big" as long as the appetite for bits exceeds what can fit onto one chip. Learn to live with it.
Incidentally DRAM latency grows beyond minimum the moment you multiplex row and column addresses. There is a Trcd(max) spec where access is purely row-limited, but in practice that's just about impossible - access is almost always limited by Column access. Trade speed for pins.
Beyond that, even SDR traded off latench for bandwidth, compared to EDO. (I've designed both.) I don't think DDR is that bad a deal, compared with SDR, though I haven't actually done a DDR design, myself. At the very least, DDR offers the half-cycle latency options, and the DDR designs have been architected to scale far higher in frequency than SDR ever was.
JC already stuck his TIME behind the original 3D drivers for XFree, back in the Utah-GLX days. He was there early on, and has done his time.
That was also a key part of my deciding to buy a Matrox G400 several years ago.
I'm not at all concerned about physical access to my computers, for two reasons:
1: I just don't have any data THAT critical on them, and plan to keep it that way.
2: If anyone is attempting to gain physical access to my computers, that means they're IN MY HOUSE, and in that situation, I'm much more concerned about my family. The computers then are simply somewhere in a line of physical possessions I'm less concerned about than my wife and kids.
Perspective. I guess if I kept valuable company data at home, I'd be more concerned.
I really only meant the "start looking for host mothers" remark facetiously.
Equally (if not even more) facetiously, how about if we prosecute and try women for having abortions, then sentence them to receive "surplus" IVF embryos...
Kerry also said that there are some 200,000 embryos currently in limbo as a result of IVF. In other words, sperm and eggs were harvested, embryos created and frozen. Some of those embryos were implanted, and resulted in successful babies. The recipients are now known as "complete families" and have no use for the remaining embryos.
To be fair, some of those families may later change their minds and want another child, but by the time the woman passes childbearing age, those frozen embryos are pure, simple ethical dilemnas. Further, with every IVF, the problem accumulates.
Do we keep them frozen forever?
Do we start looking for host mothers just so they can be born?
Who pays for the refrigerator, and what happens if they can't or won't pay? Do we prosecute?
Is perhaps an appropriate analogy one of Microsoft source code and Open Source programming? In other words, once you've seen Microsoft source code any contribution you make to Open Source may constitute "contamination" and bring threats of legal action to the entire project.
Oh, it's a mess now, but it's OUR mess. If we left, it would become THEIR mess. As it is, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that in the highest circles of the governments I mentioned, they're *glad* we're in Iraq, because we've focused the hate'n'discontent in the region on ourselves and drawn it away from them.
I like your election idea. I have no doubt that even if we offered such an election, the insurgents would fight it like they're fighting the current election.
I won't argue with most of what you said, but I do believe Bush is DIFFERENT.
* I can't say for sure that 9/11 wouldn't have happened with Gore, but IMHO it is much less likely. The Clinton administration had its eye set squarely on the Middle East and the terrorism bred there, and I believe a Gore administration would have, also. As soon as they came in, the Bush administration turned toward missile defense as its first task of Statecraft, and completely dropped the Middle East. Remember the Richard Clarke interviews?
* I don't think Gore would have gone unilaterally into Iraq. For that matter, even had he wanted to I don't think a Republican Congress would have let him.
* As for 2004, there are things Kerry could do to clear up Iraq that Bush simply cannot. Kerry could ask for help from other nations, and it would be received differently than if Bush were to ask, for instance. To get help, Bush would have to eat quantities of crow and humble pie that I don't think ANY president should have to. Even him.
* ANWR would be safe under Gore or Kerry. I don't know why Bush has such a hard-on to get it drilled, since there just isn't that much oil there.
My favorite gambit on Iraq is to call the Arab League to the table and say, "We realize we've made a mistake in Iraq, and we're pulling out on Feb 14. (or pick other date) Are you ready?" I suspect they enjoy hating us almost as much as they enjoy taking our money for oil, but they're no fools. They know that if we left Iraq with no stable government the whole Middle East would be in turmoil and civil war within a month. To begin, the Sunni Triangle would descend into chaos as marriages of convenience against the US fell apart. Next the Northern regions would break away and declare Kurdistan, prompting internal strife in Turkey and Syria as their Kurds wanted to take their territory and join the new nation. After that, the Sunnis having won the struggles would drive out the foreign insurgents, who would then go to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt and make trouble there. I would expect at least one to fall, and Saudi Arabia may well be the least stable. As for the South, with the Shiites, that's a wild card. I don't think they would simply take the South and join Iran. Nor do I think the Sunnis would leave them and the Southern oil fields alone. It would be a mess.
Before the Slashdot anti-Microsoft-bashing forces chime in, it's necessary to add:
Microsoft deserves to participate in the market. They deserve the opportunity to sell their products and compete with other software makers. So do Novell, IBM, Lotus, RedHat, Oracle, etc.
Microsoft is not "entitled" to its strangle-hold on the market. Nor are Novell, IBM, Lotus, RedHat, Oracle, etc.
For that matter, Intel deserves the right to compete in the chip market, as do AMD and Via, but none of them deserve a strangle-hold, either.
>the theoretical maximum efficiency of the space shuttle's engines is about 2% less than the actual
Don't you mean that the other way around, that they're just 2% under the maximum theoretical efficiency? Or are they overachieving theory?
But you know, as far as that goes, if someone has worked WAY too much on those engines, shouldn't we be doing more with them? Shouldn't we be using them, or a cost-reduced version everywhere we can, if they're THAT good?
I guess after everyone gets done tearing apart my sample list, I'm left with the lens, which is fairly easily replacable with a lower-function equivalent. (Lower function because it doesn't refocus like the original equipment, though I guess the original loses that capability with age, anyway.) and cartilage - joints. And from what I hear, none of our replacement joints hold up like the originals did.
Nonliving tissue that's part of the body's basic structure. Think:
teeth
bones (especially joints)
tendons and ligaments
lens of the eye
basement membrane (think jowls sagging to your shoulders, breasts sagging to the knees)
These parts of the body are usually laid down prior to adulthood, and last a "normal" life as nonliving tissue. Humans are largely unique in lasting past reproductive years, and most of the effects of wear and tear on nonliving tissue are seen in those people. There's no repair/replacement mechanism for these tissues because none was ever needed during the course of ordinary evolution.
Speaking of evolution, some might make the argument that dying not too long after reproductive years is good for the race.
You've all missed the real problem with Boeing and Lockmart. It's the nature of government contracts, and has NOTHING to do with NASA.
Government buys launches on a cost-plus basis. They pay the cost of the launch, and grant the "plus" so that Boeing and Lockmart get to make some sort of profit.
There's absolutely NO incentive to reduce launch cost. In fact, there's every incentive to keep launch costs as high as possible, because that maximizes the flow of dollars in.
Another way to reduce launch costs would be to adopt a different cost/profit structure. Adopt a launch-cost curve, to be fixed for some number of years, and pay that cost. That curve starts at today's cost, and then declines at some rate. Companies that can launch cheaper, make more money. At the end of X years, negotiate a new declining launch-cost curve.
Sor according to the AWST article, Falcon I was supposed to have flown several times last year. The top-level subject is the engine test for Falcon V. Once I thought I read that both launchers used the same base components, just that the V had more engines and bigger tanks, etc.
Has SpaceX flown anything?
You know, that's a hard one to argue with, but I'll try.
One might think that the folks at the World Bank and IMF are cut from the same cloth as the Conservatives in the US who are running us to the brink of ruin, in order to end our entitlement programs.
So I'll take a slightly different attack on it. Whose fault is it if I know a heck of a lot about money and financial instruments than you do, and then loan you far more money than I know you can reasonably pay back? Of course, it's yours, because you took the money. Even though you didn't know better, if you had had MY knowledge, you wouldn't have borrowed that much. Or as is more likely the case, rulers borrowed to the hilts in their country's name, then either absconded or finished their lifetimes, leaving others holding the bag.
At any rate, legal or not, IMHO the World Bank and IMF loaned FAR more than was wise to some countries, and didn't keep an eye on their "investment" to make sure it was properly spent. They now take THEIR foolishness out on the populations of countries whose leaders bilked them, and then disappeared.
In reality, I subscribe to some sort of mix between Capitalism and Socialism. Capitalism recognizes that greed is a powerful motivator, and Socialism denies the Law of the Jungle. After all, what is "pure" Capitalism other than the Law of the Jungle (or Might Makes Right) translated into economic terms rather than physical?
Over a year ago, I was listening to a spot on NPR. Basically, they contended that the Conservatives were planning to push the nation to the edge of bankruptcy, deep into crisis. At that point, the ONLY solution would be to completely undo the last vestiges of the New Deal and Great Society. Social Security and Medicaire gone. The speaker felt that they were being awfully arrogant thinking that they could fine-tune the crisis point that well - that they would be able to bring us to the brink, and then bring us back as they planned. Some more of this brinksmanship is currently evident in the planned devaluation of the dollar. (from a different NPR report) Again, one must question whether or not the Conservatives really have that find hand of control on the US and worldwide economies, to be able to play with things this big, this precisely.
So keep track of the national debt, and watch for the time when it equals the size of the Social Security trust fund, and listen for the Conservative Drums to thump their loudest as it approaches.
How to control spending?
The best method we've come up with so far is gridlock. Congress from one party, and the President from the opposite. I thumped this one before the election. Elements of the Press thumped it in the runup to 2000. The nation has classically done "the best" when one party doesn't have exclusive control. Look for things to get worse, before they get better.
Actually, I'm not going to panic. I'm due for renewal in April, and will re-up for this year. Ater that, we'll see. I would expect that in this matter, the scythe will swing well above my head, or even DynDNS.org's head.
Years back, between migrating from AOL and my dialup ISP getting sold, resold, and resold, I decided to go to a third party for a popbox, so I could get a stable email address, and that worked for a few years.
Then the popbox provider changed their policies. It wasn't just that they weren't free - I could have handled that. They really didn't want to fuss with individuals, they wanted to provide for businesses.
So I bought a third-level domain, forwarding email to my ISP's popbox. That worked for a few years, and during that time their billing department was a bit odd, at best. Then last year their billing department got to be too much to deal with. (They wouldn't accept a cashier's check issued to the name of their company - they wanted it to a person . Sounds too shady, to me.)
So I went to DynDNS.org and bought my own domain last year, along with mail forwarding, etc.
My domain is a ".net".
You've really just described another sort of honeypot. How about adding the MOTD:
"Welcome to WOPR. Do you want to play Global Thermonuclear War?"
Maybe so, but I think you missed my point.
It's like a ship, and the officers have become kind of like a club, saying, "We're cool, and we deserve high pay, and those crewmen aren't cool and deserve as little as we can give them." That in itself isn't so bad as the fact that the officers really aren't competent, and they've been sort of covering for each other for years.
Plus the ship is heading for dangerous waters. I supposed that's what you mean by, "the market will respond." For justice for the officers, that may be ok. Problem is, the crew didn't have a decent way to get off, and they're still on the boat, too.
That's shy I bring up things like Fannie Mae and Savings & Loan bailout. We've had similar incidents right nearby, and I'm sure everyone can point them out, both local and national. Top Brass who screw up get golden parachutes.
Robert Heinlein once said, as long as authority and responsibility go together, a society will work. Not necessarily work well, but it will work. Right now, their out of whack, IMHO.
Horse hockey. The "market" is terribly skewed and distorted by those doing the driving, and there isn't a reasonable mechanism to replace drivers.
Every now and then, there's an "Aha!" moment in this respect. My first was during the Savings and Loan Bailout. At about that time, a co-worker was griping about the "wealth redistribution" system of the US government with taxes, etc. The savings and loan bailout showed how more of my money was going to people who make more than me than went to people who make less then me.
A more recent example is the Fannie Mae scandal. The CEO messed up, and was booted out of his job. Poor guy is going to have to make due with a lump settlement of nearly $1e8, and a retirement stipend higher than my working salary.
For ANOTHER example I would take US CEOs and execs who whine and moan and complain about how overpaid US workers are, and fight to keep the minimum wage between $5 and $6/hr. I could accept that perhaps US workers were overpaid, and I could perhaps accept that we should be paid more competitively with the rest of the world - if the CEOs and execs took similar globally competitive pay. Remember the old 40:1 top:bottom pay ratio they talked about in Japan? (I honestly can't claim to know top:bottom pay ratio in China or India. Can someone enlighten?)
The question was "for" you, not "to" you.
Alan quite clearly answered the latter, not the former. Actually, the article makes it sound like DVI was poorly (loosely) defined, and HDMI nails it down much better, so things should be more compatible.
That's because he's not stepping on *enough* nails. Think about the bed-of-nails thing. There are so many nails that there isn't enough pressure on any one to puncture the skin. He uses one nail after another, and of course each one hurts.
We need to fill his house with Windows computers, so that no single one will hurt him.
There are of course those who suggest that global warming is, "helping to keep us out of another ice age," or that, "dimming caused by particulates will balance out greenhouse effect." The real answer is that we just don't understand the weather well enough, so to pretend that we can our effects against each other, or against natural forces, is silly.
I suspect that even with Apollo-scale funding, we still couldn't learn enough about weather soon enough, because I'll bet long-baseline observations are a crucial part of the process.