Recreational drugs are an emotionally charged issue. In most people's moral universe, copying music isn't even close to marihuana use.
My example would be the 55mph speed limit. Even with relatively strict enforcement and threat of big fines, most drivers broke that law all the time. The millions of drivers who broke the 55 speed limit outnumbered the millions of file sharers we have today, and it still took over 20 years to repeal that law.
Back in the day (1989) you could run Mathematica on a 68030 Mac or Next cube. That's a little more processor power as a Palm III (except no FPU). Display, UI and storage are another matter, but there's still no reason why a 400Mhz PDA can't run something like Mathematica even with software floating point.
Oh there's a debate in government alright. Where were you when the Senate held hearings last week on the RIAA lawsuits? The RIAA might have Congress bought and paid for, but the file sharers still have sheer numbers on its side. When you have millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens engaging in illegal activity something has to give. You can't sue 50 million people each for $150,000 per song. The closest analogy in the past would be the AHRA of 1992 that decriminalized home taping.
Considering that the fuel injection and electronic ignition need a computer to work, I would say not at all. It's not a separate black box, it's built in to the engine computer.
...or you could find an old 60's muscle car with no electronic ignition. As a bonus it's also immune to all EMP, in case you were worried about what to drive after a nuclear holocaust or needed to run from cops who happened to have an EMP gun.
Actually the ACLU is suing for the opposite reason in the California recall, because they haven't deployed enough electronic voting machines. After the 2000 election debacle, California decided to upgrade everything to electronic voting. The deadline for this is the March '04 primary elections. However, not all districts have switched to electronic voting. There are still nine districts that use the "outdated" paper punchcard ballots. The theory goes that since electronic is more reliable than paper (due to hanging chads, read errors, etc), more votes from the urban, Democratic districts would go uncounted, thus disenfranchising voters from those districts. That's the theory at least, which sweeps aside the huge leap in logic in assuming that electronic is better than paper. Personally, I think they're grasping at straws and it's bad for them because it looks like partisan politics.
Hey, I was modded down to 0 Overrated. We probably touched a nerve there. Look, I'm not trying to bash it because I hate BSD, just trying to give my honest criticism.
The whole reason behind the success of Linux has been the friendly and responsive user and developer community. You want to talk about arcane commands and a smug attitude about technical superiority, just look at the BSDs. Technically, they were way ahead of Linux for years since they had an existing stable codebase, and they're still developing lots of good features for servers, but the user friendliness has never advanced past Slackware.
Retail prices fluctuate all the time, but Intel gives plenty of advance notice about price cuts in wholesale quantities. Search news.com for Intel price cuts, and you'll find plenty of stories.
"In other news: disabling incoming connections via NAT or Proxies is sure-fire way to stop exploits."
Yes, they work great until someone plugs in a laptop or dials in from an infected system. Once they've hit the soft underbelly of your network, it's game over.
OK, so maybe not give them martyrdom, but how about some good old public humiliation, like a stock and pillory in Trafalgar Square or that square in London with all the pigeons?
OH NO! He found us out! Gentoo Linux is a conspiracy by the CPU makers and electric companies to make us feel inadequate about our processors. Taking all day and night to compile Gnome, KDE and Mozilla just for a point upgrade from x.xxx.xxx-r1 to x.xxx.xxx-r2 is sure a pain in the ass. How many kW-hours you think we burned up with our 80W Athlons and P4's just for that?
Even if the packaging is different the chip die might still be the same. From the Intel engineer point of view, there's no R&D involved at all. Slap a Xeon 2MB core into a Socket 478 package. From the hobbyist end user point of view, there's really no way to repackage this core to fit in a Xeon server board.
Sure, suspend or sleep have been around a while, but it's hardly reliable. Suspend to RAM works to varying degrees on ATX PCs and laptops (waking up my laptop from sleep mode while running Linux is a 50/50 shot at best). Suspend to disk works to varying degrees on laptops and PCs with Windows 2000 and newer (they call it hibernate).
We already had the Ramen worm that targeted Linux, and it didn't spread nearly as widely as the Code Red that was rampant on IIS servers at the time. There are already enough BIND, Sendmail and Apache servers on the net to make a Linux a target for worms. Slammer exploited a relatively obscure service and look how it spread. Only a small fraction of Windows computers on the net have SQL or MSDE installed.
On Bittorrent, downloaders contribute their bandwidth to upload to other downloaders. The tracker is centrally hosted, but so was Napster's index server. How is that not p2p?
Point of sale systems and custom software like internal databases are a much easier sell for Linux because you don't have to worry about things like opening MS Office documents or why can't my non-IE browser open this web page.
Look to Largo, Florida and Munich, Germany for the pioneers who are deploying Linux desktops to replace Windows desktops.
Engineering Economics is a commonly taught course in many engineering programs, and it's an easy ass class once you get the concept of Time Value of Money. It's all algebra and arithmetic. I'm not saying that's all there is to an MBA, but then again, how many MBA's could solve an algebra equation to save their lives?
SCADA does monitoring only, no control. It's possible that an outage of the SCADA systems could have contributed to the miscommunication and confusion in Ohio from 2PM-4PM, but the power grid is supposed to be able to run without SCADA.
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Recreational drugs are an emotionally charged issue. In most people's moral universe, copying music isn't even close to marihuana use.
My example would be the 55mph speed limit. Even with relatively strict enforcement and threat of big fines, most drivers broke that law all the time. The millions of drivers who broke the 55 speed limit outnumbered the millions of file sharers we have today, and it still took over 20 years to repeal that law.
Back in the day (1989) you could run Mathematica on a 68030 Mac or Next cube. That's a little more processor power as a Palm III (except no FPU). Display, UI and storage are another matter, but there's still no reason why a 400Mhz PDA can't run something like Mathematica even with software floating point.
Oh there's a debate in government alright. Where were you when the Senate held hearings last week on the RIAA lawsuits? The RIAA might have Congress bought and paid for, but the file sharers still have sheer numbers on its side. When you have millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens engaging in illegal activity something has to give. You can't sue 50 million people each for $150,000 per song. The closest analogy in the past would be the AHRA of 1992 that decriminalized home taping.
Yeah, and it didn't help that Steve Jobs used to run NEXT. Not that either one would've been a bad choice.
Don't forget
- political science
However the counterexample to your argument is
- materials science
Considering that the fuel injection and electronic ignition need a computer to work, I would say not at all. It's not a separate black box, it's built in to the engine computer.
...or you could find an old 60's muscle car with no electronic ignition. As a bonus it's also immune to all EMP, in case you were worried about what to drive after a nuclear holocaust or needed to run from cops who happened to have an EMP gun.
Actually the ACLU is suing for the opposite reason in the California recall, because they haven't deployed enough electronic voting machines. After the 2000 election debacle, California decided to upgrade everything to electronic voting. The deadline for this is the March '04 primary elections. However, not all districts have switched to electronic voting. There are still nine districts that use the "outdated" paper punchcard ballots. The theory goes that since electronic is more reliable than paper (due to hanging chads, read errors, etc), more votes from the urban, Democratic districts would go uncounted, thus disenfranchising voters from those districts. That's the theory at least, which sweeps aside the huge leap in logic in assuming that electronic is better than paper. Personally, I think they're grasping at straws and it's bad for them because it looks like partisan politics.
I think he's talking about the consequences of a criminal record if you get caught with it.
Hey, I was modded down to 0 Overrated. We probably touched a nerve there. Look, I'm not trying to bash it because I hate BSD, just trying to give my honest criticism.
The whole reason behind the success of Linux has been the friendly and responsive user and developer community. You want to talk about arcane commands and a smug attitude about technical superiority, just look at the BSDs. Technically, they were way ahead of Linux for years since they had an existing stable codebase, and they're still developing lots of good features for servers, but the user friendliness has never advanced past Slackware.
Retail prices fluctuate all the time, but Intel gives plenty of advance notice about price cuts in wholesale quantities. Search news.com for Intel price cuts, and you'll find plenty of stories.
"In other news: disabling incoming connections via NAT or Proxies is sure-fire way to stop exploits."
Yes, they work great until someone plugs in a laptop or dials in from an infected system. Once they've hit the soft underbelly of your network, it's game over.
Yeah, like Walmart would ever survive without cheap T shirts and plastic crap from China. Forget about it.
OK, so maybe not give them martyrdom, but how about some good old public humiliation, like a stock and pillory in Trafalgar Square or that square in London with all the pigeons?
OH NO! He found us out! Gentoo Linux is a conspiracy by the CPU makers and electric companies to make us feel inadequate about our processors. Taking all day and night to compile Gnome, KDE and Mozilla just for a point upgrade from x.xxx.xxx-r1 to x.xxx.xxx-r2 is sure a pain in the ass. How many kW-hours you think we burned up with our 80W Athlons and P4's just for that?
Even if the packaging is different the chip die might still be the same. From the Intel engineer point of view, there's no R&D involved at all. Slap a Xeon 2MB core into a Socket 478 package. From the hobbyist end user point of view, there's really no way to repackage this core to fit in a Xeon server board.
Sure, suspend or sleep have been around a while, but it's hardly reliable. Suspend to RAM works to varying degrees on ATX PCs and laptops (waking up my laptop from sleep mode while running Linux is a 50/50 shot at best). Suspend to disk works to varying degrees on laptops and PCs with Windows 2000 and newer (they call it hibernate).
We already had the Ramen worm that targeted Linux, and it didn't spread nearly as widely as the Code Red that was rampant on IIS servers at the time. There are already enough BIND, Sendmail and Apache servers on the net to make a Linux a target for worms. Slammer exploited a relatively obscure service and look how it spread. Only a small fraction of Windows computers on the net have SQL or MSDE installed.
All new car window stickers have a space for percent of U.S./Canadian parts content. It's all just red tape and paperwork. Interesting article here.
On Bittorrent, downloaders contribute their bandwidth to upload to other downloaders. The tracker is centrally hosted, but so was Napster's index server. How is that not p2p?
Point of sale systems and custom software like internal databases are a much easier sell for Linux because you don't have to worry about things like opening MS Office documents or why can't my non-IE browser open this web page.
Look to Largo, Florida and Munich, Germany for the pioneers who are deploying Linux desktops to replace Windows desktops.
Hell yeah. I downloaded the Mandrake 9.2RC2 at almost 200K/s from BT. Don't think the FTP mirrors were ever that fast the first week of a release.
Engineering Economics is a commonly taught course in many engineering programs, and it's an easy ass class once you get the concept of Time Value of Money. It's all algebra and arithmetic. I'm not saying that's all there is to an MBA, but then again, how many MBA's could solve an algebra equation to save their lives?
SCADA does monitoring only, no control. It's possible that an outage of the SCADA systems could have contributed to the miscommunication and confusion in Ohio from 2PM-4PM, but the power grid is supposed to be able to run without SCADA.