Leibowitz work is preserved by a monk who worships it, as a relic in some cargo-cultish way. The monks travails and labours are presented for the first third or so. He's ambushed and killed by brigand/mutants as he is on his way to fulfill his presentation of the illuminated manuscript...
Then the story jumps ahead several hundred years.
It became difficult for me to view the rest of the book as an exercise. Of course that was more than thirty years ago, in my teens.
Kildall was not a party to this. IBM had separate attempted agreements with Digital Research - to which Gates was not party.
BTW, I lived a few doors down from DR's office in an old Victorian house - it had formerly housed my dentist. All of these things are curiously close to me.
No one ever thought there was DOS code swiped from CPM.
What we KNEW is that Gates lied about having an OS ready to IBM, knowing of QDOS - and subsequently swindled QDOS from its creator, to fulfill his contract with IBM.
Obama. Cthonic Manchurian Candidate. Created whole-cloth from nothing.
Where was he, as recently as 2002? Nowhere. With nothing published of note - despite "editorial" resume as expert on Constitutional Law.
The whole "birth certificate" issue was deliberately created to misdirect with an irrelevant absurdity, real and actual questions as to his origins and sponsorship.
There are two major factors working against the bottom 99%: First, the underlying engine driving wealth inequality (taxes under a 70% rate for the very rich) remains in effect, so the top 1% continues to take wealth from the bottom 99% through the normal operation of the economy. This effect can be quantified.
Based on its computer simulation, Macroeconomic Advisers predicts the tax cuts for the rich will have a combined 2011-2012 budgetary effect (the difference between the 35% and 40% tax rate) of $124 billion. [3] The actual cost to the bottom 99% is seven times that, the difference in revenues between the 35% rate and the "equilibrium" 70% rate. (Again, that's the rate at which inequality of wealth and incomes was stable.) Thatâ(TM)s another $868 billion the bottom 99% is losing over these two years, following a similar amount in 2009-2010.
Through the provisions of the December 2010 tax compromise, President Obama countered this drain to some extent. Macroeconomic Advisers identified taxpayer stimulus items in the bill totaling $634 billion, and including those raised its model's growth projections from 3.7 % to 4.3% in 2011-12. These stimulus provisions last only through 2012.... as it extends from the normal operation of the dysfunctional economy to the abnormal functioning of government. We would not be surprised if the bottom 99% loses another $1 trillion from multiplier effects by 2012.
It does nothing to enforce real security. Instead, it enshrines another layer of surveillance and privacy-reduction in law - with an enforcement arm that will be rewarded by stopping "cyber-threats" like using a UK proxy to watch the Olympics online. Then, like under the DMCA you can be treated like a terrorist.
Join me in celebrating the defeat of this additional intrusion of police-state power. Let's hope it's blocked FOREVER!
This is not about any "Security" I know of - unless you mean the kind of "Security" that the DMCA offers toward corporations.
The bill focuses on restriction of tools and activities used to manage, diagnose and secure network connectivity. Users of Wireshark or even ping can be treated like DMCA circumventors, under the provisions of this proposed act.
I'd agree, this is a run by the Real Estate association and Chamber of Commerce in Maracopa County. They have a Florida-scale property collapse on their hand, with a weird combination of extreme street violence, gated bedroom-community "culture" and Scottsdale's girls-gone-wild variety, binge-drinking nightlife.
They run their share of giant data centers in Phoenix and Tempe. Despite being high-technology, I wouldn't say that that's a great match for entrepreneurial software companies.
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Leibowitz work is preserved by a monk who worships it, as a relic in some cargo-cultish way. The monks travails and labours are presented for the first third or so. He's ambushed and killed by brigand/mutants as he is on his way to fulfill his presentation of the illuminated manuscript...
Then the story jumps ahead several hundred years.
It became difficult for me to view the rest of the book as an exercise. Of course that was more than thirty years ago, in my teens.
For a different kind of depressing, read Blish's "Star Trek" paperbacks. Just a poor translation of the original series to print.
"Spock Must Die", indeed!
Yes! Billenium - by JG Ballard.
Fascinating -- and bleak. :-)
Now that we do...
God. What a drag.
Hey! Ballard's stuff is bleak! I think someone mentioned James Blish, too. That guy's day job was working for the Tobacco Institute. No wonder...
Then, there is the endless low-level of depression that permeates most Philip K Dick - like a miasma. But he makes you want more, somehow.
"Running MS DOS 3.3" by Van Wolverton.
I had to re-read Peter Norton's massive, "Programmer's guide to the IBM PC & PS/2" two times after that, just to feel better.
Kildall was not a party to this. IBM had separate attempted agreements with Digital Research - to which Gates was not party.
BTW, I lived a few doors down from DR's office in an old Victorian house - it had formerly housed my dentist. All of these things are curiously close to me.
There is no law, except as a rhetoric for justifying power.
You are not a citizen - but merely a subject.
It is 1164 AD - with Nike shoes and a Prius on the curb.
PDP 11/70 creds, over here!
Google now has a clone: SuckToo!
In Dante's version of the Afterlife, men like Gates will spend eternity with red-hot pokers up their hindquarters.
Of course, this is a metaphor. In reality, their eternal punishment will consist of being granted both a conscience and awareness of themselves.
Bought it from a "friend". Already had IBM lined up as a customer. Didn't even buy his friend's "company".
Now nothing was illegal - but my god. What a complete lack of any decent human characteristic.
No one ever thought there was DOS code swiped from CPM.
What we KNEW is that Gates lied about having an OS ready to IBM, knowing of QDOS - and subsequently swindled QDOS from its creator, to fulfill his contract with IBM.
Obama. Cthonic Manchurian Candidate. Created whole-cloth from nothing.
Where was he, as recently as 2002? Nowhere. With nothing published of note - despite "editorial" resume as expert on Constitutional Law.
The whole "birth certificate" issue was deliberately created to misdirect with an irrelevant absurdity, real and actual questions as to his origins and sponsorship.
I'm hacking the "damage" code to enable transparency for Motif widgets. ;-)
Of course, I still have to catch up to the guy who's cloning the SGI IRIX Magic Desktop and 4Dwm...
Sure. Throw in the cops, too.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers".
CDE! GOD YES!
They say that good things come to those that wait, I have WAITED for 20 years, to see this day!
Never mind the "One Percent".
Emphasis added.
http://acivilamericandebate.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/growth-in-inequality-of-wealth-after-2007/
Why trust ANYTHING that comes out of the mouth of an officer in the senior Politburo of AmerCIA?
I suggest "TOMBSTONE".
It does nothing to enforce real security. Instead, it enshrines another layer of surveillance and privacy-reduction in law - with an enforcement arm that will be rewarded by stopping "cyber-threats" like using a UK proxy to watch the Olympics online. Then, like under the DMCA you can be treated like a terrorist.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/dangerously-vague-cybersecurity-legislation
Join me in celebrating the defeat of this additional intrusion of police-state power. Let's hope it's blocked FOREVER!
This is not about any "Security" I know of - unless you mean the kind of "Security" that the DMCA offers toward corporations.
The bill focuses on restriction of tools and activities used to manage, diagnose and secure network connectivity. Users of Wireshark or even ping can be treated like DMCA circumventors, under the provisions of this proposed act.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/frequently-asked-questions-about-lieberman-collins-cyber-security-act
The nightly news always seems to contain a rundown on the latest shooting.
Or maybe it's just when I visit?
I've been to Phoenix. I's MUCH cheaper.
You get what you pay for.
I'd agree, this is a run by the Real Estate association and Chamber of Commerce in Maracopa County. They have a Florida-scale property collapse on their hand, with a weird combination of extreme street violence, gated bedroom-community "culture" and Scottsdale's girls-gone-wild variety, binge-drinking nightlife.
They run their share of giant data centers in Phoenix and Tempe. Despite being high-technology, I wouldn't say that that's a great match for entrepreneurial software companies.
No....
There are Aluminum-skinned replacements, 'tho.
Goodbye, "Leather look"!