I will me-too that post: Sawfish is a masterpiece in the making,
and Konqueror is best thing since sliced cliches on toast. If I it were easier to make Konqueror handle
all of my multimedia types (Java applets, real, xmms
for mp3s) I would have ditched mozilla by now.
Mozilla is wonderful, but what a pig! The Bonobo
junk is such a bloated waste of human resources too:
It's chasing after a boat that has already left the
pier. Nobody cares about COM clones any more. Object-oriented component frameworks were tried and failed, tried and tried, and failed and failed. Now a nice functional interface would win
you some friends.
I notice that you completely failed to address
the argument. Since you are so hostile to the
results, I can only infer that the argument is valid. Instead you attempt to attack a premise,
but you failed utterly.
I make no such assumption. I assume rather (if assumption it be) that only violence can effect
certain specific changes, such as the removal of
a specific killer from the society of people who are being
killed. This is how the justice system works:
It uses violence to remove agents of transgressive
violence from society. When the justice system
fails, vigilantism is the only recourse.
I am certainly willing to use violence to
defend an innocent person from criminal violence,
and if that is a minority position, I will be
very surprised to learn it. But majority/minority
is an irrelevancy. The majority of Germans voted
Hitler the chancellorship in the 1932 plebescite.
Way back in '90 when I was a Thinking Machines,
there was a project to replace the floating-point
chipd in a CM-2 (2048 of them) with FPGAs
to do crypto for NSA.
There are non-violent means of expression,
but expression doesn't mean squat. What is meaningful is effecting change. Express yourself
as much as you like, but if your failure to
kill someone results in the deaths of hundreds
of others, then your failure is a murderous act.
People have a tendency to create subcultures, which act to reinforce their prejudices, and leave them unchallenged. But there is an upside. The same conditions incubate ideas that might otherwise never arise, just as small, isolated populations of animal species are used in husbandry to develop useful (and unuseful)
novel features.
Citizenship is not global. One may be a good citizen of a free association tribe without
being a good citizen of a nation-state. The free
associations have moral superiority to the obsolete nation-states, which in turn have moral
superiority over that most coercive of all
regimes, the inescapable fascism of the globe.
The primary potential detriment of social insularity is to
the individual, not the globe. In the largest
sphere, smaller associations balance each other's diverse
impulses -- parochial extremisms tend to
vanish as the sphere expands. The
failure of the individual to learn from others
is not similarly ameliorated. However, the greater
diversity of culture which arises in a system of
unforced associations allows the *motivated* individual to benefit the more from disparate
perspectives. As Jesus said: To he who has,
more will be given; from he who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Federal legislation to pre-empt? You ARE on crack.
The problem is too *much* legislation. The best
possible case is hopeless political deadlock leading
to total inaction. Federal laws can't legitimately
pre-empt state laws anyhow -- that's in direct
contradiction to the 10th and 9th amendments. But
then we all know that the Constitution is so much
Charmin these days anyhow...
Not only is this article a patent propaganda piece, which intentionally and directly decieves
the naive reader into believing that the NASA
budget was cut, when in fact it has its first
increase since the last Bush presidency ended,
but it is also an obvious troll.
Pathetic.
Re:It isn't just bandwidth
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Cross platform distributed computing is the norm.
You use SMTP and HTTP every day. It's why the net works.
The closed binary formats of Microsoft applications are a nightmare to maintain and
interoperate with. They are late to the show
with SOAP.
Stuff like error
recovery, object persistence, etc., belongs at
higher levels of an application stack, not at the
request/response level.
When an application's native format is XML,
XML RPC is much easier to use than a binary
format. When I persist to XML, and need to pump
an object over the wire, I can just sendfile()
and be done with it.
There is nothing strange about a factor of >2 speed-up in a 2-way run of the same job. Working
on MPPs most of my life, I'm very familiar with
the effect, which is due to the fact that the 2
cpu system has twice as much cache, and hence significantly less bus traffic occurs overall.
The cpus don't stall as much waiting for memory
to load.
That's what openCOLA's Swarmcast does. It satisfies requests for content by distributing the request to caches. They all send pieces to the
requestor. P2P Akamai, if you will.
I did mondo virtuoso work for a hot start-up for
about 5 years. I loved it. I loved the kudos.
I loved the contribution I was making.
I also developed ulcers and migraine
headaches, one of which was so bad that I nearly
died (I.V. fluids, because I couldn't keep down
water). I became estranged from my wife and nearly
lost my family. It took me 5 years of working
at a slacker company (Sun Microsystems) to get
back to normal. Now I can work in the real world
again, but I won't make the same mistake twice.
The short-term rush is not worth the long-term
agony.
don't tolerate this crap. write to the major
investors in CRC demanding that they divest.
spread nasty rumours about the company on stock
picking boards. deface their materials in
bookstores and corporate libraries. find
the names of the officers of CRCPress, and
torture them.
What several responses fail to recognize is that
wearable is just one bandwidth bump shy of brain-integrated computing. You may look like
a geek, but you are *smarter*, and more *powerful*, and hence can get more *money* and
*chicks*.
The most serious threats to your individual freedoms come from the enormity and unconstitutional activism of the federal beaurocracy. Neither of the major party candidates represent any threat to this system, but if you refuse to vote your conscience, then consider: At least GW dufus talks the talk of individual freedom. The blood-sucker in the wooden suit just plays class warfare.
What is most interesting to me is the way the word
"precedent" is used in this article. Increasingly, the Fortune 500 is the court in which the issues of our lives are decided, and
the establishment of a precedent in that court
can be reasonably deemed to be of greater practical import in the lives of hoi polloi than
any determination of a court of law.
Mysticism and Logic are Complimentary Principles.
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There is a close relationship between Zen and Logic, which is better appreciated, or at least discussed, from the Logic
side (where things tend to be more lucid and explicit). Programming is (at its best) practical
application of formal logic (Ref: D Gries, The Science of Programming; Ref: Formal Semantics of
Programming Languages; Ref: The lambda papers).
The best theoretical work in logic, or at least
some of the most renowned, addresses the issue of
the limits of logic (Ref: Nagel, Goedel's Theorem; Ref: Turing Computability). Fundamental to Zen is the notion of
the inexpressible truth (Ref: Mu-mon's Gate, "No-thing, not nothing"; Ref: The Encyclopedia of
Philosophy, article "Nothing" (that which Noths)).
Indeed the pinnacle of Logical Atomism is Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", which ends in the words "About that whereof we cannot speak, let us then remain silent".
In the vision of WBYeats, the Mysticism and Logic which BRussell proposed to be antagonistic opposites are in fact interpenetrating complimentary principles of consciousness.
Consciousness itself inheres in the organization
of its unconscious implementation medium.
Mysticism recognizes that this nature of consciousness invalidates the authority of the
logical principles by which it organizes its
experience, and embraces the arational (not irrational) substance of its own existence.
This is a position which can only be arrived at
(consciously) by means of a sophisticated inference. It is the convergence of these two
complimentary principles which validates the
interpretation of complementarity itself.
That's about as much as I can jam into this margin.
Slashdot Mirror
I will me-too that post: Sawfish is a masterpiece in the making,
and Konqueror is best thing since sliced cliches on toast. If I it were easier to make Konqueror handle
all of my multimedia types (Java applets, real, xmms
for mp3s) I would have ditched mozilla by now.
Mozilla is wonderful, but what a pig! The Bonobo
junk is such a bloated waste of human resources too:
It's chasing after a boat that has already left the
pier. Nobody cares about COM clones any more. Object-oriented component frameworks were tried and failed, tried and tried, and failed and failed. Now a nice functional interface would win
you some friends.
Go dude! Revolution now!
I make no such assumption. I assume rather (if assumption it be) that only violence can effect certain specific changes, such as the removal of a specific killer from the society of people who are being killed. This is how the justice system works: It uses violence to remove agents of transgressive violence from society. When the justice system fails, vigilantism is the only recourse.
I am certainly willing to use violence to defend an innocent person from criminal violence, and if that is a minority position, I will be very surprised to learn it. But majority/minority is an irrelevancy. The majority of Germans voted Hitler the chancellorship in the 1932 plebescite.
Way back in '90 when I was a Thinking Machines, there was a project to replace the floating-point chipd in a CM-2 (2048 of them) with FPGAs to do crypto for NSA.
Citizenship is not global. One may be a good citizen of a free association tribe without being a good citizen of a nation-state. The free associations have moral superiority to the obsolete nation-states, which in turn have moral superiority over that most coercive of all regimes, the inescapable fascism of the globe.
The primary potential detriment of social insularity is to the individual, not the globe. In the largest sphere, smaller associations balance each other's diverse impulses -- parochial extremisms tend to vanish as the sphere expands. The failure of the individual to learn from others is not similarly ameliorated. However, the greater diversity of culture which arises in a system of unforced associations allows the *motivated* individual to benefit the more from disparate perspectives. As Jesus said: To he who has, more will be given; from he who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
the speed solution is not to recode as a script, but to move the app from cgi to a loadable module.
Federal legislation to pre-empt? You ARE on crack. The problem is too *much* legislation. The best possible case is hopeless political deadlock leading to total inaction. Federal laws can't legitimately pre-empt state laws anyhow -- that's in direct contradiction to the 10th and 9th amendments. But then we all know that the Constitution is so much Charmin these days anyhow...
Not only is this article a patent propaganda piece, which intentionally and directly decieves the naive reader into believing that the NASA budget was cut, when in fact it has its first increase since the last Bush presidency ended, but it is also an obvious troll. Pathetic.
Stuff like error recovery, object persistence, etc., belongs at higher levels of an application stack, not at the request/response level.
When an application's native format is XML, XML RPC is much easier to use than a binary format. When I persist to XML, and need to pump an object over the wire, I can just sendfile() and be done with it.
There is nothing strange about a factor of >2 speed-up in a 2-way run of the same job. Working on MPPs most of my life, I'm very familiar with the effect, which is due to the fact that the 2 cpu system has twice as much cache, and hence significantly less bus traffic occurs overall. The cpus don't stall as much waiting for memory to load.
This is best code I have ever read, hands down.
One thing it does insure: When the state starts rounding up gays or Christians or racists or anarchists, no one will be able to slow them down.
That's what openCOLA's Swarmcast does. It satisfies requests for content by distributing the request to caches. They all send pieces to the requestor. P2P Akamai, if you will.
I did mondo virtuoso work for a hot start-up for about 5 years. I loved it. I loved the kudos. I loved the contribution I was making. I also developed ulcers and migraine headaches, one of which was so bad that I nearly died (I.V. fluids, because I couldn't keep down water). I became estranged from my wife and nearly lost my family. It took me 5 years of working at a slacker company (Sun Microsystems) to get back to normal. Now I can work in the real world again, but I won't make the same mistake twice. The short-term rush is not worth the long-term agony.
don't tolerate this crap. write to the major investors in CRC demanding that they divest. spread nasty rumours about the company on stock picking boards. deface their materials in bookstores and corporate libraries. find the names of the officers of CRCPress, and torture them.
Make that "The Anthropic *Cosmological* Principle"
Tipler and Barrow's book of this title is highly recommended, and a much more thorough-going and rigorous treatment of the subject than Rees's.
suckers.
AS/400? What about the Cyber, and the Cray-1!
What several responses fail to recognize is that wearable is just one bandwidth bump shy of brain-integrated computing. You may look like a geek, but you are *smarter*, and more *powerful*, and hence can get more *money* and *chicks*.
The most serious threats to your individual freedoms come from the enormity and unconstitutional activism of the federal beaurocracy. Neither of the major party candidates represent any threat to this system, but if you refuse to vote your conscience, then consider: At least GW dufus talks the talk of individual freedom. The blood-sucker in the wooden suit just plays class warfare.
What is most interesting to me is the way the word "precedent" is used in this article. Increasingly, the Fortune 500 is the court in which the issues of our lives are decided, and the establishment of a precedent in that court can be reasonably deemed to be of greater practical import in the lives of hoi polloi than any determination of a court of law.
There is a close relationship between Zen and Logic, which is better appreciated, or at least discussed, from the Logic side (where things tend to be more lucid and explicit). Programming is (at its best) practical application of formal logic (Ref: D Gries, The Science of Programming; Ref: Formal Semantics of Programming Languages; Ref: The lambda papers). The best theoretical work in logic, or at least some of the most renowned, addresses the issue of the limits of logic (Ref: Nagel, Goedel's Theorem; Ref: Turing Computability). Fundamental to Zen is the notion of the inexpressible truth (Ref: Mu-mon's Gate, "No-thing, not nothing"; Ref: The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, article "Nothing" (that which Noths)). Indeed the pinnacle of Logical Atomism is Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", which ends in the words "About that whereof we cannot speak, let us then remain silent". In the vision of WBYeats, the Mysticism and Logic which BRussell proposed to be antagonistic opposites are in fact interpenetrating complimentary principles of consciousness. Consciousness itself inheres in the organization of its unconscious implementation medium. Mysticism recognizes that this nature of consciousness invalidates the authority of the logical principles by which it organizes its experience, and embraces the arational (not irrational) substance of its own existence. This is a position which can only be arrived at (consciously) by means of a sophisticated inference. It is the convergence of these two complimentary principles which validates the interpretation of complementarity itself. That's about as much as I can jam into this margin.