Assume you have figured out how to package your computer time capsule. Where will you store it for 50 years?
If it is stored in a school system attic, basement, storage area, etc., you can count on it that some administrator or custodian will decide to throw it out to make space for something else they want to store.
A city or university library that is not part of the school system may be more likely to keep your package for 50 years. Maybe not.
The same argument applies to every kind of site I have been able to think of. At the least, plant multiple capsules in different places.
I am not trying to throw cold water on the time capsule idea. It would be a good project to build a capsule or capsules and store them, even none of them survive.
""" GNU's kernel wasn't finished, so GNU is used with the kernel Linux. The combination of GNU and Linux is the GNU/Linux operating system, now used by millions. (Sometimes this combination is incorrectly called Linux.) """
The GNU/Linux OS is sometimes - even more incorrectly - called the GNU OS.
Whatever the working temperature, it is likely to be hot enough that the only economic way to manufacture large quantities of hydrogen will be electric power. That means either heavy environmental costs for burning coal or a hard political fight for nuclear generating plants.
In a small town information brokering is not a feasible business, but personal information is shared. Examples:
"He pays his bills on time."
"He pays his bills, but usually late."
He is a good plumber, but he will not answer a call during deer season."
"He is a good guy and a lousy electrician."
In an urban society, reputations established by gossip is not available. But reputation is still necessary for people to do business with each other.
Whether information is collected and sold by a business or collected by a government and sold for money or taxes is another issue. The information has to come from someone.
Whoever provides the information will screw it up at least part of the time.
Note: There are also disadvantages to the small town model. Consider prejudice and spite.
A new city-controlled service that competes with TV -cable broadband and phone company DSL may be a good thing.
But does the ordinance that creates it specifically allow other private companies to build competing networks in the future? If not, it is a bad deal for the taxpayers and for potential WiFi users.
The IPCC report summaries are written by bureaucrats, not by the researchers who did the work. If a 'scientific consensus' can be established only by ignoring those who disagree and condemming them if they dare to speak out, then we need a new term.
The difference between government-supported science in the U.S. today and in the USSR in the 1930s and 1940s is that Lysenko could send a dissenter to the Gulag, while today's grant committees can only destroy his career.
Those who will not learn from history are doomed to step in it - again and again.
Reading is passive; writing is active. Typing is not as active as hand-printing or arranging alphabet blocks or some equivalent into words.
Can your brother dictate to you? If so, have him give you the first word. Spell it for him, so he can write it down. Then do the second word, and so on.
What would he like you to read to him? Comics, Westerns, SciFi, magazines,...
After reading a paragraph, help him sound out one of the short words. 'a I no it at bet bit but...'. In each session, concentrate on one or two phonic patterns like 'b?t'.
Some people learn better by writing, some by reading. Most need some of both.
This is tedious, but it works. I taught three girls and one grandson this way, and I am working on another.
""" Society never did get stomped to bits. It just ate the new trend, shat out a few extremists, and kept rolling along. And what's the common thread in all of these scenarios? They were all wild-goose-chases, triggered by malformed prejudices at home. They were all revved into life by cynical people, who could not bear to trust in their fellow humans' ability to see common fucking sense, and wanted the law to mandate it for them..... We need to rebuild the way advertising standards are developed, and applied. Industry self-regulation has pretty much proven to be no regulation at all. """
Is obsessing about advertising and demanding that 'we' rebuild it any different than obsessing about alcohol, drugs, strange music, strange sex,...?
I think Garote has at least as much reason to worry about the effect of today's commercial culture as today's parents have to worry about the drug culture, rap-music that recognizes women only as objects, etc. I am willing to let any of those people and Garote too, warn against whatever they perceive as wicked. I do not assume that _all_ of them are cynical, though some certainly are.
But I do not intend to let them stomp the rest of us to bits. We will just eat the new trends, shit out a few extremists, and keep rolling along.
"but evidence in the lawsuit has suggested that employees were heavily exposed to chemicals and that IBM was aware that their employees got cancer at higher rates than the general population."
The plaintiff's evidence was suggestive. The defendent's (IBM's) evidence was convincing.
Perhaps Slashdot was right to not cover this case very well.
Twenty self-selected scientists who have political axes to grind have spoken. All the rest of the Nobel laureates have not been heard of at this point.
Of course the Union of Concerned Scientists may be an apolitical orginazation.
I'm left trying to explain why it can't be the FINAL solution (to PHBs and Marketroids that were fully informed of the situation prior to any work getting done).
If making money for the company is not a good thing, leave before they go broke.
However, did you send management a memo or email *before* you started the job quick and dirty? Did it say how long you estimated for Q&D, vs how long by the prescribed process? Did you estimate how long to clean it up/make it right after delivering Q&D?
If so, you could have just pointed to that CYA. If you tried to do that verbally, be aware that PHBs and Marketroids *cannot* comprehend/remember that kind of thing if it is verbal.
People or institutions paying research have always had a lot of control over what questions were asked. However ethical researchers have traditionally refused sponsorship that specified the answers in advance.
It is difficult to be an ethical scientist if there is only one sponsor, and they demand you ask their questions and report their answers.
Since many areas of scientific research became too expensive for a single person to support, multiple sources of funding have been the best protection for objectivity.
So government as the primary source of research funding is suspect - much more suspect than the corporations and foundations.
Aside from this argument from human nature look at actual funding and reported results in Climatology and the "Social sciences."
A corporation is just a way to organize a business. The stockholders put up the capital. This gives them the right to appoint the directors who actually run the business.
Because they do not control the corporation, the stockholders are not personnally liable for anything it does - beyond the value of their stock. But they can lose their entire investment.
On the other hand the corporation is civilly liable for its actions, and the directors and the managers they hire have unlimited civil and criminal liability for their actions.
Corporations are neither good nor evil. People can be either, and most of us are mixtures.
IMHO unreasoning fear and hatred of all corporations is just a way to avoid dealing with the individuals who cheat, bully, or steal.
Unreasoning hatred has a cost. Destroying the option to form and run corporations is an excellent way to destroy jobs.
I see a lot of technical comments comparing Microsoft and other vendors' products. They miss the point.
95% of all technical problems are people problems.
If you decide to stay at the company you owe your boss loyalty. That means do everything you can to make the project successful with Microsoft. Also make sure he sees you are doing it.
If the project fails anyway you may get another opportunity to do it right.
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Extend the list to anything by W W Sawyer. His stuff is mostly out of print, but used copies are still available on Amazon.
'What is Calculus About?' is a must read preparation for anyone who plans to take a college-level series.
Assume you have figured out how to package your computer time capsule. Where will you store it for 50 years?
If it is stored in a school system attic, basement, storage area, etc., you can count on it that some administrator or custodian will decide to throw it out to make space for something else they want to store.
A city or university library that is not part of the school system may be more likely to keep your package for 50 years. Maybe not.
The same argument applies to every kind of site I have been able to think of. At the least, plant multiple capsules in different places.
I am not trying to throw cold water on the time capsule idea. It would be a good project to build a capsule or capsules and store them, even none of them survive.
"""
GNU's kernel wasn't finished, so GNU is used with the kernel Linux. The combination of GNU and Linux is the GNU/Linux operating system, now used by millions. (Sometimes this combination is incorrectly called Linux.)
"""
The GNU/Linux OS is sometimes - even more incorrectly - called the GNU OS.
Are their _any_ free clients available? The MetaLink site says you need a supported download client, then points to a commercial downloader.
If there are no free clients, this was an advertisement, not a news post.
Whatever the working temperature, it is likely to be hot enough that the only economic way to manufacture large quantities of hydrogen will be electric power. That means either heavy environmental costs for burning coal or a hard political fight for nuclear generating plants.
In a small town information brokering is not a feasible business, but personal information is shared. Examples:
"He pays his bills on time."
"He pays his bills, but usually late."
He is a good plumber, but he will not answer a call during deer season."
"He is a good guy and a lousy electrician."
In an urban society, reputations established by gossip is not available. But reputation is still necessary for people to do business with each other.
Whether information is collected and sold by a business or collected by a government and sold for money or taxes is another issue. The information has to come from someone.
Whoever provides the information will screw it up at least part of the time.
Note: There are also disadvantages to the small town model. Consider prejudice and spite.
A new city-controlled service that competes with TV -cable broadband and phone company DSL may be a good thing.
But does the ordinance that creates it specifically allow other private companies to build competing networks in the future? If not, it is a bad deal for the taxpayers and for potential WiFi users.
The IPCC report summaries are written by bureaucrats, not by the researchers who did the work. If a 'scientific consensus' can be established only by ignoring those who disagree and condemming them if they dare to speak out, then we need a new term.
The difference between government-supported science in the U.S. today and in the USSR in the 1930s and 1940s is that Lysenko could send a dissenter to the Gulag, while today's grant committees can only destroy his career.
Those who will not learn from history are doomed to step in it - again and again.
Reading is passive; writing is active. Typing is not as active as hand-printing or arranging alphabet blocks or some equivalent into words.
...
...'. In each session, concentrate on one or two phonic patterns like 'b?t'.
Can your brother dictate to you? If so, have him give you the first word. Spell it for him, so he can write it down. Then do the second word, and so on.
What would he like you to read to him? Comics, Westerns, SciFi, magazines,
After reading a paragraph, help him sound out one of the short words. 'a I no it at bet bit but
Some people learn better by writing, some by reading. Most need some of both.
This is tedious, but it works. I taught three girls and one grandson this way, and I am working on another.
""" ....
...?
Society never did get stomped to bits. It just ate the new trend, shat out a few extremists, and kept rolling along. And what's the common thread in all of these scenarios? They were all wild-goose-chases, triggered by malformed prejudices at home. They were all revved into life by cynical people, who could not bear to trust in their fellow humans' ability to see common fucking sense, and wanted the law to mandate it for them.
We need to rebuild the way advertising standards are developed, and applied. Industry self-regulation has pretty much proven to be no regulation at all.
"""
Is obsessing about advertising and demanding that 'we' rebuild it any different than obsessing about alcohol, drugs, strange music, strange sex,
I think Garote has at least as much reason to worry about the effect of today's commercial culture as today's parents have to worry about the drug culture, rap-music that recognizes women only as objects, etc. I am willing to let any of those people and Garote too, warn against whatever they perceive as wicked. I do not assume that _all_ of them are cynical, though some certainly are.
But I do not intend to let them stomp the rest of us to bits. We will just eat the new trends, shit out a few extremists, and keep rolling along.
I received my copy this week. It looks good, _but_
How can someone who receives a free program written for MS Windows that I write with the non-commercial Qt 3.3.1?
I can develop with the copy that comes with the book. How can someone else get a copy without buying the book.
Can someone post a URL for free download of the 3.3.1 non-commercial version (not 2.3)? Not just www.trolltech.com - the actual URL for downloading.
Or am I mis-interpreting the license? Is it OK for me to distribute the non-commercial version of Qt for Windows along with a GPL'd program?
"but evidence in the lawsuit has suggested that employees were heavily exposed to chemicals and that IBM was aware that their employees got cancer at higher rates than the general population."
The plaintiff's evidence was suggestive. The defendent's (IBM's) evidence was convincing.
Perhaps Slashdot was right to not cover this case very well.
Twenty self-selected scientists who have political axes to grind have spoken. All the rest of the Nobel laureates have not been heard of at this point.
Of course the Union of Concerned Scientists may be an apolitical orginazation.
I'm left trying to explain why it can't be the FINAL solution (to PHBs and Marketroids that were fully informed of the situation prior to any work getting done).
If making money for the company is not a good thing, leave before they go broke.
However, did you send management a memo or email *before* you started the job quick and dirty? Did it say how long you estimated for Q&D, vs how long by the prescribed process? Did you estimate how long to clean it up/make it right after delivering Q&D?
If so, you could have just pointed to that CYA. If you tried to do that verbally, be aware that PHBs and Marketroids *cannot* comprehend/remember that kind of thing if it is verbal.
I am satisfied with my D-Link at present. I use it for NAT only.
However D-Link has spammed me ever since I bought the product, and they just WILL NOT quit, no matter how many times I have asked.
People or institutions paying research have always had a lot of control over what questions were asked. However ethical researchers have traditionally refused sponsorship that specified the answers in advance. It is difficult to be an ethical scientist if there is only one sponsor, and they demand you ask their questions and report their answers. Since many areas of scientific research became too expensive for a single person to support, multiple sources of funding have been the best protection for objectivity. So government as the primary source of research funding is suspect - much more suspect than the corporations and foundations. Aside from this argument from human nature look at actual funding and reported results in Climatology and the "Social sciences."
A corporation is just a way to organize a business. The stockholders put up the capital. This gives them the right to appoint the directors who actually run the business.
Because they do not control the corporation, the stockholders are not personnally liable for anything it does - beyond the value of their stock. But they can lose their entire investment.
On the other hand the corporation is civilly liable for its actions, and the directors and the managers they hire have unlimited civil and criminal liability for their actions.
Corporations are neither good nor evil. People can be either, and most of us are mixtures.
IMHO unreasoning fear and hatred of all corporations is just a way to avoid dealing with the individuals who cheat, bully, or steal.
Unreasoning hatred has a cost. Destroying the option to form and run corporations is an excellent way to destroy jobs.
I see a lot of technical comments comparing Microsoft and other vendors' products. They miss the point.
95% of all technical problems are people problems.
If you decide to stay at the company you owe your boss loyalty. That means do everything you can to make the project successful with Microsoft. Also make sure he sees you are doing it.
If the project fails anyway you may get another opportunity to do it right.