although i can't imagine why, if you *insist* on using a hard-drive, don't use a file system. make a tiny read-only root partition, and a big fat block of raw disk. do your reads and writes to the raw device.
eliminate the disk, doorknob
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eliminate the disk entirely, silly person. boot from flash or from a CD. if you really need to store more data than you can keep in flash between power-cycles, then use CDRs. when one fills up, eject it, and they can pop in a new one. *bam* instant permanent audit trail, in a compact format.
When a corrupt goverment exploits the people for the benefit of their patronage, the inevitable result is violence. Injustice is the primary cause of violence. When injustice is institutionalized, vigilantism and revolution are the only recourse.
I know this will bite me in moderation, but the truth will out.
This guy is right. I've telecommuted for 12 years. You always pay taxes in your state of residence. I'm moving out of the country, so that I won't have to pay income taxes on the first 80,000 of adjusted gross income.
Don't pay a tax lawyer, just get a good book and determine the answer yourself. But it's always the same deal.
You know, I'm really getting fed up with the state of the dialog in the Lutheran church these days. It used to be that I could focus on technical theology by staying away from the radicals in the "confessing church" movement, but lately fully half of the discussion at our convocations is "Nazi-this" and "Nazi-that". I'm just about ready to give up.
Was it DeTocqueville who said something to the effect that democracy in America would last until the people realized that they could vote themselves bread? I guess now we know how long that is. About 150 years from 1783 to 1933.
Or you could argue that the union system broke down 70 years before that, when Lincoln established the American empire.
I hope whoever moderated that as flamebait gets crushed into the dust my metamods.
As regards "economic constraints", it's pretty hard to maintain a university seat per child in a society where 10% of the population could be wiped out by a bad rice crop (as happened in China, under Mao's brilliant leadership). *You* *just* *can't* *pay* *for* *it*. In the U.S. there is *no* reason why college couldn't be compulsory.
You might find it inconvenient to sit in a classroom with someone who asks absurdly simple questions from time to time. But just wait until the same neanderthal is carjacking you or raping you instead. I think it's worth spending a little patience now.
In a commercial environment transaction volume translates into revenue (or you have a broken business model). If your transaction volume is too high, buy another $%^@ box, dumbkopf!
By the way, your boss is obviously an idiot, so I would suggest finding a new job ASAP.
Weeding people out might make sense in China where the seats are necessarily limited due to economic constraints and a large peasant population is essential, but in the U.S. weeding people out is a recipe for disaster. Those weeded out will become the parasites and criminals while those who can be made to succeed will become the wealth-generators and innovators who drive the economy and create value in all of our lives.
Aye! The relationship between industry practice and academic instruction is sooooo tenuous that many a 4.0 CSci grad has opted to fall back to his garage band, and many a high-school drop-out has taken up dreamweaver only to gradually slide into EJB. I qualified to graduate Summa Cum Laude with High Distinction from the upper-tier college of my university, and I feel confident in saying, despite my later success in science and industry, that the work I undertook at each stage in my career was so radically different from that undertaken in previous stages that I can easily understand how a substantial percentage of persons who were wildly successful in one of those domains might be a total failure in another.
Grades suck. They are a disincentive to learning, training the student to earn grades instead of learning. While there is a strong positive correlation with success in business, industry, professional life, and grade performance, it is foolhardy, as any HR person will confirm, to over-interpret that correlation as a correspondence. I could have learned 2-3x as much at university if no grades were issued. But I wouldn't have gotten the plum jobs after.
It's a clever technique. Essentially, it's crypto in which the key is the ring radius. But the time to defeat for reasonable ring sizes will not be very great. Still, it's a good hardening layer on top of conventional cryptography.
And the pay sucks. I had a great gig in Canada, and the pay was great, but that was during the height of the bubble madness, and it didn't last very long before the place foundered on the incompetence of management. No complains, though. They rescued me from the hell of working for Sun by paying more in salaray than I was getting in stock options (no easy feat), and let me telecommute 100% -- and my co-workers were way cool, way smart people. In general, however, your Canadian salary is still lower than U.S., and is paid in play money worth about 65 cents on the dollar to boot.
But Canada is really cool. Now if only they didn't have such a horrible corrupt government....
not really. it's just that you're more comfortable with a soldering iron than a butt-polisher. i readily admit that an optical amplifier has at least one more stage than an electrical one, but c'mon, that's just one more component on a circuit board, if you're using an ASIC for the core. being less popular doesn't really mean it's *harder*. but i confess it does mean the probability of tap is lower.
But doesn't everybody use crypto for sensitive data? That being the case, physical vulnerability is down in the noise. Spend your time and money on key management instead, and you'll be safer. At least until those quantum well devices start coming out...
What's illegal? Everytime I buy a computer I get a Windows license. I *always* give it to someone else, and keep the original media for archive, if any. (If none, as in too many crippled OEM installs, I just give them a copy of one of the archive CDs.) But I don't give away 9x licenses, cos I don't want to be responsible for their headaches.
Wouldn't you get a lot better efficiency by just replacing the greenhouse with a big fresnel mirror and focussing the sunlight on a carnot engine or other, more effecient thermoelectric generator?
Either 1) make an extern antenna invisible, as for example by replacing a facade stone with a simulacrum with an embedded antenna, or 2) put the antenna inside. A pair of matched directional yagis (or pringle's can, for pete's sake) can treat a glass window as effectively invisible.
Well, it will *always* cost more for a 32-bit chip with MMU than for an 8-bit chip without. I mean, we're talking about an order of magnitude increase in wafer share per unit. Pin count likewise. Once mask costs are amortized and economy of scale kicks in, that translates pretty directly into $$. Just slightly sublinearly.
I'm not buying this. I've used -fomit-frame-pointer with signals and setjmp/longjmp more times than I've gotten laid since I was married, and never seen a blip. In fact, I've seen compilers for C (slightly modified versions of C, but the modifications were not relevant to this discussion) which used heap allocations exclusively, but fully supported signals and setjmp/longjmp (even call/cc!), so you're going to have to explain your view in greater depth to gain credibility against such apparent counter-evidence.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Being a topic of controversy would not make it a buzzword, but a bone of contention. But static vs dynamic or inferred vs explicit typing are not particularly controversial, except in the minds of persons habituated by the media to a worldview in which all issues resolve in to false dichotomies which represent equally valid viewpoints held by mutually antipathetic parties. Attributing controversy to these or related dichotomies is akin to attributing controversy to wave-particle duality. or the Ext domain wave equation vs the MxP domain wave equation.
gcj has substantially more functionality than JME. You should check out gcc 3.2. It has the advantage of being able to do ahead-of-time compilation. While the optimizations have not matured to the degree of the IBM JDK JIT, for example, they are progressing in fits and starts.
If you make much use of your computer, I imagine you suffer frequent BSOD after your OS install ages for a while. I expect to reinstall any win98se system after 12 months of use -- windows 95, 98fe, and MEd, significantly less. If you have the option when that happens, it's a good time to switch to Windows 2000 Pro, the only reasonably performant and functional operating system Microsoft ever produced (or will produce, I expect, given the DRM/ Palladium thrust). If you get a copy of Windows 2000 from a friend, it only costs you $0.40 for a CD-R.
Of course, for a substantial boost in performance and stability, with equivalent ease-of-use, you could always download or buy Mandrake or RedHat and use KDE3.0.x.
You might prefer windows 2000 pro, since it won't (with media player 6.4) choke you with DRM management, or demand a blood sample when you upgrade your harddrive, and it uses less resources. It's substantially faster than XP or 9x in most existing environments for most applications.
I just copied a friend's disk, and it cost me about $0.40 for the CD-R.
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although i can't imagine why, if you *insist* on
using a hard-drive, don't use a file system.
make a tiny read-only root partition, and a big
fat block of raw disk. do your reads and writes
to the raw device.
eliminate the disk entirely, silly person.
boot from flash or from a CD. if you really
need to store more data than you can keep in
flash between power-cycles, then use CDRs.
when one fills up, eject it, and they can
pop in a new one. *bam* instant permanent
audit trail, in a compact format.
Panama has nothing to do with U.S. drug laws,
but we killed 15,000 people to remove Manuel
Noriega to a U.S. prison.
When a corrupt goverment exploits the people for
the benefit of their patronage, the inevitable
result is violence. Injustice is the primary
cause of violence. When injustice is
institutionalized, vigilantism and revolution
are the only recourse.
I know this will bite me in moderation, but
the truth will out.
This guy is right. I've telecommuted for 12 years.
You always pay taxes in your state of residence.
I'm moving out of the country, so that I won't have
to pay income taxes on the first 80,000 of adjusted
gross income.
Don't pay a tax lawyer, just get a good book
and determine the answer yourself. But it's
always the same deal.
You know, I'm really getting fed up with the state
of the dialog in the Lutheran church these days.
It used to be that I could focus on technical
theology by staying away from the radicals in the
"confessing church" movement, but lately fully
half of the discussion at our convocations is
"Nazi-this" and "Nazi-that". I'm just about ready
to give up.
Was it DeTocqueville who said something to the effect
that democracy in America would last until the people
realized that they could vote themselves bread?
I guess now we know how long that is. About
150 years from 1783 to 1933.
Or you could argue that the union system broke
down 70 years before that, when Lincoln established
the American empire.
I hope whoever moderated that as flamebait gets
crushed into the dust my metamods.
As regards "economic constraints", it's pretty
hard to maintain a university seat per child
in a society where 10% of the population could
be wiped out by a bad rice crop (as happened
in China, under Mao's brilliant leadership).
*You* *just* *can't* *pay* *for* *it*.
In the U.S. there is *no* reason why college
couldn't be compulsory.
You might find it inconvenient to sit in a
classroom with someone who asks absurdly simple
questions from time to time. But just wait until
the same neanderthal is carjacking you or
raping you instead. I think it's worth spending
a little patience now.
In a commercial environment transaction volume
translates into revenue (or you have a broken
business model). If your transaction volume is
too high, buy another $%^@ box, dumbkopf!
By the way, your boss is obviously an idiot, so
I would suggest finding a new job ASAP.
Weeding people out might make sense in China where
the seats are necessarily limited due to economic
constraints and a large peasant population is
essential, but in the U.S. weeding people out is a
recipe for disaster. Those weeded out will become
the parasites and criminals while those who can be
made to succeed will become the wealth-generators
and innovators who drive the economy and create
value in all of our lives.
Aye! The relationship between industry practice
and academic instruction is sooooo tenuous that
many a 4.0 CSci grad has opted to fall back to his
garage band, and many a high-school drop-out has
taken up dreamweaver only to gradually slide into
EJB. I qualified to graduate Summa Cum Laude with
High Distinction from the upper-tier college of my
university, and I feel confident in saying, despite
my later success in science and industry, that the
work I undertook at each stage in my career was so
radically different from that undertaken in previous
stages that I can easily understand how a substantial
percentage of persons who were wildly successful
in one of those domains might be a total failure
in another.
Grades suck. They are a disincentive to learning,
training the student to earn grades instead of
learning. While there is a strong positive
correlation with success in business, industry,
professional life, and grade performance, it is
foolhardy, as any HR person will confirm, to
over-interpret that correlation as a
correspondence. I could have learned 2-3x as
much at university if no grades were issued.
But I wouldn't have gotten the plum jobs after.
It's a clever technique. Essentially, it's crypto
in which the key is the ring radius. But the
time to defeat for reasonable ring sizes will not
be very great. Still, it's a good hardening layer
on top of conventional cryptography.
And the pay sucks. I had a great gig in Canada,
and the pay was great, but that was during the
height of the bubble madness, and it didn't last
very long before the place foundered on the
incompetence of management. No complains, though.
They rescued me from the hell of working for Sun
by paying more in salaray than I was getting in
stock options (no easy feat), and let me telecommute
100% -- and my co-workers were way cool, way smart
people. In general, however, your Canadian salary
is still lower than U.S., and is paid in play
money worth about 65 cents on the dollar to boot.
But Canada is really cool. Now if only they didn't
have such a horrible corrupt government....
not really. it's just that you're more comfortable
with a soldering iron than a butt-polisher.
i readily admit that an optical amplifier has at
least one more stage than an electrical one, but
c'mon, that's just one more component on a circuit
board, if you're using an ASIC for the core.
being less popular doesn't really mean it's
*harder*. but i confess it does mean the
probability of tap is lower.
But doesn't everybody use crypto for sensitive
data? That being the case, physical vulnerability
is down in the noise. Spend your time and money
on key management instead, and you'll be safer.
At least until those quantum well devices start
coming out...
What's illegal? Everytime I buy a computer I get
a Windows license. I *always* give it to someone
else, and keep the original media for archive,
if any. (If none, as in too many crippled OEM
installs, I just give them a copy of one of the
archive CDs.) But I don't give away 9x licenses,
cos I don't want to be responsible for their
headaches.
Wouldn't you get a lot better efficiency by just
replacing the greenhouse with a big fresnel mirror
and focussing the sunlight on a carnot engine or
other, more effecient thermoelectric generator?
Either 1) make an extern antenna invisible,
as for example by replacing a facade stone with
a simulacrum with an embedded antenna, or
2) put the antenna inside. A pair of matched directional yagis (or pringle's can, for pete's
sake) can treat a glass window as effectively
invisible.
Lisp also has strong typing, if you choose.
Well, it will *always* cost more for a 32-bit chip
with MMU than for an 8-bit chip without. I mean,
we're talking about an order of magnitude increase
in wafer share per unit. Pin count likewise.
Once mask costs are amortized and economy of scale
kicks in, that translates pretty directly into
$$. Just slightly sublinearly.
I'm not buying this. I've used -fomit-frame-pointer
with signals and setjmp/longjmp more times than I've
gotten laid since I was married, and never seen a
blip. In fact, I've seen compilers for C (slightly
modified versions of C, but the modifications were
not relevant to this discussion) which used heap
allocations exclusively, but fully supported signals
and setjmp/longjmp (even call/cc!), so you're going
to have to explain your view in greater depth to
gain credibility against such apparent counter-evidence.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means
what you think it means.
Being a topic of controversy would not make it a
buzzword, but a bone of contention. But static
vs dynamic or inferred vs explicit typing are not
particularly controversial, except in the minds of
persons habituated by the media to a worldview in
which all issues resolve in to false dichotomies
which represent equally valid viewpoints held
by mutually antipathetic parties. Attributing
controversy to these or related dichotomies is
akin to attributing controversy to wave-particle
duality. or the Ext domain wave equation vs the
MxP domain wave equation.
gcj has substantially more functionality than JME.
You should check out gcc 3.2. It has the advantage
of being able to do ahead-of-time compilation.
While the optimizations have not matured to the
degree of the IBM JDK JIT, for example, they are
progressing in fits and starts.
If you make much use of your computer, I imagine
you suffer frequent BSOD after your OS install ages
for a while. I expect to reinstall any win98se
system after 12 months of use -- windows 95, 98fe,
and MEd, significantly less. If you have the
option when that happens, it's a good time to switch
to Windows 2000 Pro, the only reasonably performant
and functional operating system Microsoft ever
produced (or will produce, I expect, given the DRM/
Palladium thrust). If you get a copy of Windows
2000 from a friend, it only costs you $0.40 for
a CD-R.
Of course, for a substantial boost in performance
and stability, with equivalent ease-of-use, you
could always download or buy Mandrake or RedHat
and use KDE3.0.x.
the "unknown windows" are probably linux boxes
with their user-agent set so that they can get
into microsoft-only web sites.
You might prefer windows 2000 pro, since it won't
(with media player 6.4) choke you with DRM management, or demand a blood sample when you
upgrade your harddrive, and it uses less resources.
It's substantially faster than XP or 9x in most
existing environments for most applications.
I just copied a friend's disk, and it cost me
about $0.40 for the CD-R.