Alright, I understand that there are circumstances in which the errors of the individuals in a population average towards zero, but it's clearly not a very broadly applicable effect. It is interesting to consider the question, "what are the structural requirements on problems, which allow error-cancellation to be applied to refine the result", and consider how this might be applied to political organization, to cancel out errors such as the current POTUS.
Marx claimed that global communism was inevitable. I'd say that mass-market tiered internet service is about equally likely. The first all-you-can-eat competitor in a given market will wipe up the floor with SBC.
Indeed, this is a brilliant idea for a mole in Microsoft to employ, to force Microsoft to open their source code: Insert GPL component in the core OS; wait until the next version ships; emit a press release documenting irrefutably that Microsoft has released a product derived from GPL code, which is therefore subject to the terms of the GPL. At this point, there's no way they are going to withdraw a product installed on millions of systems, at a cost of billions of dollars, so they are obligated under law to release the source code for the system.
> allows them the total freedom to screw each developer in turn by introducing their own replacement > and deciding the 3rd party app no longer 'meets our strategic vision' and refusing to continue > signing
now *there's* an antitrust suit that would break the beast's back!
Compounding the sadness is the foregone conclusion that if a warrant is requested, it will be issued, whatever the pretext, and damn the cost to it's victim, in this case the loss of 30 library computers for an illimitable time.
It's seeing plenty of use, in the form of the GCC D compiler. But it's no web development system. For that, I would bet on Scheme, were the implementation scene not such a mess. (Scheme being the most accessible of the Lisps).
Of course the telephone system is itself a p2p application. When you can't reach your correspondent using the telephone, but can reach them using Skype, your work will be impeded. It's a luddite reaction similar to those which one can hypothesize occurred when the PSTN was still a novelty, and employers reacted strongly against the possibility that their employees might phone home on company time. Of course that was similarly wrong-headed.
By far the easiest way to build a windows GUI application is to use GCJ + SWT to produce a native executable with a native look and feel, and to package it using NSIS, the nullsoft installer. Another advantage of using this technology is that your application will run unmodified on X11/GTK and OSX systems.
oh how i wish this were true. in fact, it's not good enough. i can't connect one computer to another. that's very viciously, irremediably borken. moreover, the $$ and manhours expended on NAT are vastly, orders of magnitrude, in excess of what it takes to switch over to IPv6.
talk to your isp about when they'll have IPv6, ASAP!
I wouldn't worry about it too much, for, as the article says, global warming is unsustainable. I think what they mean is that we can't keep warming the globe if we all die, so it's self-limiting.
In fact, the 23d century had contemplated declaring war on us, but then they realized that if they bombed us back to the stone age they would not be able to invent time-travel, thus defeating the war effort.
Um... no. Global warming does not result from the heat generated by burning fuel. It results from the failure to re-radiate enough heat from the surface of the earth to maintain climatic equilibrium. While CO2 is relatively transparent to visible and ultra-violet light, when that light interacts with the surface of the earth it is re-radiated largely in the infra-red, which greenhouse gasses such as CO2 and methane transmit less readily.
Reducing energy consumption will hurt people badly. It will result in less economic development, less industrial capacity, less food, less medicine. The goal should be to make both energy consumption and energy production more efficient, in terms of capacity requirements and greenhouse emissions.
I would like to see someone start a Global Cooling Foundation, to focus efforts to underwrite effective amelioration strategies, such as seeding algal growth in the Pacific using chelated iron. Just a few thousand tons of iron in the nutrient-impoverish equatorial regions of the Pacific would more than compensate for all anthropogenic CO2 and methane emissions.
Your comment seems especially apt, given the fact that this purported "ideal fuel" doesn't actually fuel anything: There is nothing that "burns" this fuel to produce useful work/energy.
The SPARCv7 architecture was the pinnacle of 32-bit RISC ISA elegance. As a compiler writer, I found it to be far and away the best ISA target for code generation. The tagged integer instructions made it a dream for higher-level language compilers, the register windows made function calls cheap, and the orthogonality level of the ISA was far and away superior to MIPS and 88k, which were ad hoc and low level in comparison. Moreover, the upward path through superscalar pipelining, branch prediction, etc. -- all the basic architectural innovations of the 90s -- was smooth and predictable. The 64-bit support in more recent revisions is a bit of a hack, IMO.
It's executive system was always a stinky muddle. I'm glad I did not have to write a VM OS for it. But for actually running the productive code of applications, SPARC was an ideal architecture. Unfortunately, economies of scale have made non-x86 architectures less and less competitive for general-purpose computing. A deal with Apple might have changed that fate.
And some folks will tell you that Jupiter is the second nearest, as it actually radiates more than it absorbs. But then I think by that criterion the Earth itself would be the closest star to the Earth, as I think the fission in the mantle creates a net positive output here as well, thus providing a reductio to the semantic utility of that criterion.
I think there's quite another notion to be derived from the article: That there is no real geometry; geometry is merely a feature of our minds. We experience the world in geometric terms merely because it is how our brains implement conscious models of the world. One can draw similar conclusions from String/Brane Theory and from QED.
As Wittgenstein famously said, the world is the sum of all of the facts. I would observe that those facts are relations, but the categories of geometry are not necessary aspects of those relations. Thus it is entirely possible, even probable, all other things being equal, that geometry is a creation of the interpretive mechanisms of peculiarly human consciousness. You experience only what you are capable of experiencing, and never more.
Indeed it seems very foolhardy to attribute to political psychology what is adequately explained by a grotesquely high valuation. I would rather sell Yahoo, since everyone now knows that Google protects the people, while Yahoo will rat out their grandma for a pat on the head.
What really bums me out about doing network services on the Linux platform is that Linux does not support doors, a la Solaris, so you can't have multiple processes collaborating on a single socket service without a scheduler burp. There was a guy who implemented doors for 2.4, but his code was never adopted into the kernel, and now its rotting away....
Linux is quite tragic that way. Hopefully there will be a Debian user-land on the OpenSolaris kernel soon, and then I can rock-n-roll again.
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Alright, I understand that there are circumstances in which the errors of the individuals in a population average towards zero, but it's clearly not a very broadly applicable effect. It is interesting to consider the question, "what are the structural requirements on problems, which allow error-cancellation to be applied to refine the result", and consider how this might be applied to political organization, to cancel out errors such as the current POTUS.
The notion that torrents or magnet uris are somehow declasse is perverse.
Marx claimed that global communism was inevitable. I'd say that mass-market tiered internet service is about equally likely. The first all-you-can-eat competitor in a given market will wipe up the floor with SBC.
Specifically, don't *ever* work for Sony.
Indeed, this is a brilliant idea for a mole in Microsoft to employ, to force Microsoft to open their source code: Insert GPL component in the core OS; wait until the next version ships; emit a press release documenting irrefutably that Microsoft has released a product derived from GPL code, which is therefore subject to the terms of the GPL. At this point, there's no way they are going to withdraw a product installed on millions of systems, at a cost of billions of dollars, so they are obligated under law to release the source code for the system.
> allows them the total freedom to screw each developer in turn by introducing their own replacement
> and deciding the 3rd party app no longer 'meets our strategic vision' and refusing to continue
> signing
now *there's* an antitrust suit that would break the beast's back!
Bah, Eurotrash talk! I'm stoked for the Latin American edition, so that I can speak proper Latin! How do those Incans say "potatoe" anyhow?
Compounding the sadness is the foregone conclusion that if a warrant is requested, it will be issued, whatever the pretext, and damn the cost to it's victim, in this case the loss of 30 library computers for an illimitable time.
> people hate change.
Only when the status quo is not acutely painful.
It's seeing plenty of use, in the form of the GCC D compiler. But it's no web development system.
For that, I would bet on Scheme, were the implementation scene not such a mess. (Scheme being the most accessible of the Lisps).
Of course the telephone system is itself a p2p application. When you can't reach your correspondent using the telephone, but can reach them using Skype, your work will be impeded. It's a luddite reaction similar to those which one can hypothesize occurred when the PSTN was still a novelty, and
employers reacted strongly against the possibility that their employees might phone home on company time. Of course that was similarly wrong-headed.
Taurine, L-Carnitine, and Korean Ginseng.
By far the easiest way to build a windows GUI application is to use GCJ + SWT to produce a native executable with a native look and feel, and to package it using NSIS, the nullsoft installer. Another advantage of using this technology is that your application will run unmodified on X11/GTK and OSX systems.
> IPV4+NAT is good enough and cheaper
oh how i wish this were true. in fact, it's not good enough. i can't connect one computer to another. that's very viciously, irremediably borken. moreover, the $$ and manhours expended on NAT are vastly, orders of magnitrude, in excess of what it takes to switch over to IPv6.
talk to your isp about when they'll have IPv6, ASAP!
If you're not paying them anything, you're not their customer, so I don't see in what sense this consititutes cherry-picking customers.
I wouldn't worry about it too much, for, as the article says, global warming is unsustainable. I think what they mean is that we can't keep warming the globe if we all die, so it's self-limiting.
In fact, the 23d century had contemplated declaring war on us, but then they realized that if they bombed us back to the stone age they would not be able to invent time-travel, thus defeating the war effort.
Um... no. Global warming does not result from the heat generated by burning fuel. It results from the failure to re-radiate enough heat from the surface of the earth to maintain climatic equilibrium. While CO2 is relatively transparent to visible and ultra-violet light, when that light interacts with the surface of the earth it is re-radiated largely in the infra-red, which greenhouse gasses such as CO2 and methane transmit less readily.
Reducing energy consumption will hurt people badly. It will result in less economic development, less industrial capacity, less food, less medicine. The goal should be to make both energy consumption and energy production more efficient, in terms of capacity requirements and greenhouse emissions.
I would like to see someone start a Global Cooling Foundation, to focus efforts to underwrite effective amelioration strategies, such as seeding algal growth in the Pacific using chelated iron. Just a few thousand tons of iron in the nutrient-impoverish equatorial regions of the Pacific would more than compensate for all anthropogenic CO2 and methane emissions.
Your comment seems especially apt, given the fact that this purported "ideal fuel" doesn't actually fuel anything: There is nothing that "burns" this fuel to produce useful work/energy.
The SPARCv7 architecture was the pinnacle of 32-bit RISC ISA elegance. As a compiler writer, I found it to be far and away the best ISA target for code generation. The tagged integer instructions made it a dream for higher-level language compilers, the register windows made function calls cheap, and the orthogonality level of the ISA was far and away superior to MIPS and 88k, which were ad hoc and low level in comparison. Moreover, the upward path through superscalar pipelining, branch prediction, etc. -- all the basic architectural innovations of the 90s -- was smooth and predictable. The 64-bit support in more recent revisions is a bit of a hack, IMO.
It's executive system was always a stinky muddle. I'm glad I did not have to write a VM OS for it. But for actually running the productive code of applications, SPARC was an ideal architecture. Unfortunately, economies of scale have made non-x86 architectures less and less competitive for general-purpose computing. A deal with Apple might have changed that fate.
And some folks will tell you that Jupiter is the second nearest, as it actually radiates more than it absorbs. But then I think by that criterion the Earth itself would be the closest star to the Earth, as I think the fission in the mantle creates a net positive output here as well, thus providing a reductio to the semantic utility of that criterion.
"the sun wobbles up and down"
i think copernicus showed that it was really the earth doing that. get with the times, dude. we're all, like, heliocentric and stuff.
I think there's quite another notion to be derived from the article: That there is no real geometry; geometry is merely a feature of our minds. We experience the world in geometric terms merely because it is how our brains implement conscious models of the world. One can draw similar conclusions from String/Brane Theory and from QED.
As Wittgenstein famously said, the world is the sum of all of the facts. I would observe that those facts are relations, but the categories of geometry are not necessary aspects of those relations. Thus it is entirely possible, even probable, all other things being equal, that geometry is a creation of the interpretive mechanisms of peculiarly human consciousness. You experience only what you are capable of experiencing, and never more.
Indeed it seems very foolhardy to attribute to political psychology what is adequately explained by a grotesquely high valuation. I would rather sell Yahoo, since everyone now knows that Google protects the people, while Yahoo will rat out their grandma for a pat on the head.
What really bums me out about doing network services on the Linux platform is that Linux does not support doors, a la Solaris, so you can't have multiple processes collaborating on a single socket service without a scheduler burp. There was a guy who implemented doors for 2.4, but his code was never adopted into the kernel, and now its rotting away....
Linux is quite tragic that way. Hopefully there will be a Debian user-land on the OpenSolaris kernel soon, and then I can rock-n-roll again.