Of course Joe CEO gets more face-time with the Pres.
George Bush met last week with the CEOs of the nations top 30 companies - to supposedly get a ground-level view of the economy.
Gee, when do *I* get my private, closed-door meeting with George Bush to tell him what I think of the economy? Where *I* think the tax-breaks should be directed? What *I* think about the death-penalty, church-state separation issues, education, defense, social security?
Hm. I guess I have to keep climbing that corporate ladder, don't I?
It's based on the mistaken claim that it eliminates human error.
Unfortunately, human error will always come into play in an election.
The Voters are human.
The candidates are (presumably) human.
The designers of the ballots are human.
The builders of the vote tally machines are human.
Therefore, it's impossible to eliminate human error. In fact, machines merely *automate* the process of human error.
That's what I have to say to all those fucking republican assholes who were saying it would be unfair to recount the vote because of the element of human error. Duh, mutherfuckers, the statisticians figured that shit out many years ago.
Jesse Ventura has been quoted many times as saying that he wouldn't take that job - He hates the concept of the career politician, and believes that nobody should be allowed to serve more than one term in ANY office. After he's done as governor, he promises he intends to resign.
Of course, if he does not keep that promise, that's a sure sign that he's eminently qualified to be a politician in Amerika.
If it's a BSD program,
or if it's a Cocoa (OPENSTEP) program,
or if it's a Carbon program written to the MP library (other Carbon apps will NOT be MP aware),
or if it's a Classic program (99% of the software available for OS X right now) - we still don't know if MP library is supported under Classic. . . if so, then same limitations as Carbon, but if not, Photoshop, even WITH MP libs won't be MP aware on OS X in the classic environment, until Adobe releases this carbon port of Photoshop (which was supposedly done in two weeks by an intern two years ago - where is it now?)
after READING the article, (wot a concept!) I start to see a method to his madness.
Nowhere does it say that a Mac cube will be used. Nowhere does it say that MacOS 9 will be used.
It's a 120 lb satellite, not engineered to withstand launch stresses, because it will be assembled in orbit. Many of the parts are off the shelf - including probably not more than a motherboard and CPU of a macintosh (much cheaper than designing a controller) - which will probably THINK it's running an Airport - but I'm betting it will be fooled into thinking that it's running airport when it's running some higher-powered device (airport range = 150 feet on disputed radio bandwidth (in France)), (his satellite range, altitude of 120 miles plus azimuth. ..).
In fact, I bet it will run Darwin, probably without a hard-drive, (probably some sheilded flash RAM device instead), and probably with lots of custom software (like TiVo runs Linux). (I'm guessing Darwin because it would be much easier to run the transceiver as Airport that way than trying to hack together something with Linux - BSD is supposedly more reliable than Linux anyway, but I digress and risk a flamewar).
Cooling will be an issue, and so might radiation, but a PPC chip will give him some pretty good computing power without worring about heat as much as with SOME OTHER solutions.
Of course, part of the 120 lbs will probably be gyros, solar panels, the transmitter and amplifier,
but the main gimmick here, is that he's using off the shelf parts, and assembling them in orbit, in an attempt to reduce costs. (in other words, he probably plans on all devices being launched from ISS or Shuttle, assembled in orbit). Yeah, the labor of assembling in orbit is probably LOTS higher, but you end up reducing the overall weight by bunches, by not having to design solar-panel deployment systems, shrouds, and shock-resistant innards.
If he's planning on spending $10 million on the first device (instead of hundreds of millions for standard communications satellites), it sounds like a worthy project to me (*cough* irridium)
At high altitudes (>10,000 feet), driving cars becomes hazardous, because there isn't enough air to adequately cool normal brakes. This, coupled with steep downhills. . .
Darwin already runs on x86, but the Quartz, Aqua, Cocoa and Carbon components are PPC-only. Without those, Darwin is basically a flavor of BSD. Porting these other VERY CRUCIAL pieces is non-trivial.
The issue is politics. Some dickwad there hates Apple, always has, and he took the clone killing thing personally, and got the PPC budget slashed, PPC projects cancelled, Moto pulled out of Somerset, and he replaced all machines at the company with Dells running NT.
Just to get back at Jobs for killing the clones.
Which admittedly was a shitty thing to do, and is the major reason we don't have CHiRP today. But also, is the major reason Apple is in business, which is the only compelling reason why 99% of PPC boxes are sold. (ie. consider the scenario where cloning continued, Apple went out of business and left a crater in Cupertino - the remaining market for PPC machines was Be and LinuxPPC, maybe BSD PPC, was there such a thing? and NT PPC - which was later cancelled. Be MAY have saved the PPC platform, but realistically, Be was already moving to x86. Without Apple, I believe PPC would have died completely (except for proprietary IBM boxen).
So - the very immature dickwad at Motorola is more to blame than the engineers at Motorola. With copper, and xerogel, and AltiVec, they had a solid track record of pushing chip technology way, way farther than nearly any other player in the biz. but when funding was cut, OF COURSE they wouldn't be able to rescue production.
"how do you feel, living in a country where the president and the vice president have BOTH had DUI's?" (along with much anecdotal evidence that at least Bush got away with it almost habitually - only one DUI, $25 fine).
Well, at least with the Secret Service limos, two drunks are off the streets.
interesting. It's not currently "on", though it was last year. There has been "talk" for years about a refit, knocking down the three big ugly smokestacks. (it's estimated that tens of millions in tourism could be gained if these smokestacks were removed - it's not a mere case of NIMBY, because there's a nuke plant less then 20 miles away).
And the smoke would remain where it was expelled for a LONG time. It would not seep into the soil, or float away into the stratosphere. It would stay. Right along the path of future journeys.
actually, the best sheilding for this kind of radiation is. . . water.
That's one reason why in designs for the mars lander/habitat, water tanks are on the top level, so during solar radiation storms, the astronauts can get underneath them.
Water, and magnetic fields, and miles and miles of rock. Not much else can stop it.
running out of air, freezing to death, radiation, every astronaut since Yuri Gagarin was prepared for these potential fates.
It's called being a hero. Knowing you're expendible is one thing. But knowing that it was for a cause as high as space exploration (imo, there are few higher), makes it worthwhile. Remember the proposal a couple of years ago, at a space-science conference, where a scientist said that if a Mars trip were one-way for the astronaut, it would make the whole project cost about 1/3, and who would volunteer for such a mission - go to Mars, but certain death? Every person in the audience raised their hand.
why should a waitress who marries Bill Gates get millions in alimony if they later divorce? Or any of the assets that Bill owned wholly before their maiirage?
she should get $250 for an hour, like all the rest. (Extra $100 for "greek treatment")
PG&E still owns Diablo Canyon (my backyard), and they only JUST finished a refueling, they were down for a few months before that, for refueling, not "repairs".
naw, I'll just buy solar cells for the roof of my house. - stock options - mmmmmmm. THEN I'll gladly accept "market prices" for electricity. When the power company has to buy my surplus!
nearly every art movement in history has been iconoclastic in nature. Rebeling against each previous movement as being "too established", "too rigid".
Face it. Artists get a kick out of dissing authority. The folks who placed the original monolith were cool, but their 5 minutes is up. Another artist building a monolith would have been "doing the same thing". STEALING someone else's monolith - now that's art.
Next, we need someone to grind a crucifix into it, and soak the whole thing in a big jar of urine!
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Of course Joe CEO gets more face-time with the Pres.
George Bush met last week with the CEOs of the nations top 30 companies - to supposedly get a ground-level view of the economy.
Gee, when do *I* get my private, closed-door meeting with George Bush to tell him what I think of the economy? Where *I* think the tax-breaks should be directed? What *I* think about the death-penalty, church-state separation issues, education, defense, social security?
Hm. I guess I have to keep climbing that corporate ladder, don't I?
what's worse, is that they THINK they invented beer and cars. (er - automobiles).
Ballots are machine counted it's true.
It's based on the mistaken claim that it eliminates human error.
Unfortunately, human error will always come into play in an election.
The Voters are human.
The candidates are (presumably) human.
The designers of the ballots are human.
The builders of the vote tally machines are human.
Therefore, it's impossible to eliminate human error. In fact, machines merely *automate* the process of human error.
That's what I have to say to all those fucking republican assholes who were saying it would be unfair to recount the vote because of the element of human error. Duh, mutherfuckers, the statisticians figured that shit out many years ago.
Jesse Ventura has been quoted many times as saying that he wouldn't take that job - He hates the concept of the career politician, and believes that nobody should be allowed to serve more than one term in ANY office. After he's done as governor, he promises he intends to resign.
Of course, if he does not keep that promise, that's a sure sign that he's eminently qualified to be a politician in Amerika.
I was thinking of going for Yamaha, but I heard they've gone down hill. . .
how about the cable TV model?
DO pay, AND see ads.
PAY MORE for PPV stuff. (and see ads in the form of product placement IN the PPV movies).
Kuro5hin has 1000 users?
OS X *is* MP, kinda.
If it's a BSD program,
or if it's a Cocoa (OPENSTEP) program,
or if it's a Carbon program written to the MP library (other Carbon apps will NOT be MP aware),
or if it's a Classic program (99% of the software available for OS X right now) - we still don't know if MP library is supported under Classic. . . if so, then same limitations as Carbon, but if not, Photoshop, even WITH MP libs won't be MP aware on OS X in the classic environment, until Adobe releases this carbon port of Photoshop (which was supposedly done in two weeks by an intern two years ago - where is it now?)
MS' consumer pricing model;
get an unbreakable lock on the business market, let the consumers migrate to Linux if they want. Who cares about those cheap ass bastards anyway?
after READING the article, (wot a concept!) I start to see a method to his madness.
.).
Nowhere does it say that a Mac cube will be used. Nowhere does it say that MacOS 9 will be used.
It's a 120 lb satellite, not engineered to withstand launch stresses, because it will be assembled in orbit. Many of the parts are off the shelf - including probably not more than a motherboard and CPU of a macintosh (much cheaper than designing a controller) - which will probably THINK it's running an Airport - but I'm betting it will be fooled into thinking that it's running airport when it's running some higher-powered device (airport range = 150 feet on disputed radio bandwidth (in France)), (his satellite range, altitude of 120 miles plus azimuth. .
In fact, I bet it will run Darwin, probably without a hard-drive, (probably some sheilded flash RAM device instead), and probably with lots of custom software (like TiVo runs Linux). (I'm guessing Darwin because it would be much easier to run the transceiver as Airport that way than trying to hack together something with Linux - BSD is supposedly more reliable than Linux anyway, but I digress and risk a flamewar).
Cooling will be an issue, and so might radiation, but a PPC chip will give him some pretty good computing power without worring about heat as much as with SOME OTHER solutions.
Of course, part of the 120 lbs will probably be gyros, solar panels, the transmitter and amplifier,
but the main gimmick here, is that he's using off the shelf parts, and assembling them in orbit, in an attempt to reduce costs. (in other words, he probably plans on all devices being launched from ISS or Shuttle, assembled in orbit). Yeah, the labor of assembling in orbit is probably LOTS higher, but you end up reducing the overall weight by bunches, by not having to design solar-panel deployment systems, shrouds, and shock-resistant innards.
If he's planning on spending $10 million on the first device (instead of hundreds of millions for standard communications satellites), it sounds like a worthy project to me (*cough* irridium)
this is true.
At high altitudes (>10,000 feet), driving cars becomes hazardous, because there isn't enough air to adequately cool normal brakes. This, coupled with steep downhills. . .
misinformation!
OS X is NOT being ported to x86.
Darwin already runs on x86, but the Quartz, Aqua, Cocoa and Carbon components are PPC-only. Without those, Darwin is basically a flavor of BSD. Porting these other VERY CRUCIAL pieces is non-trivial.
The Motorola issue isn't incompetence.
The issue is politics. Some dickwad there hates Apple, always has, and he took the clone killing thing personally, and got the PPC budget slashed, PPC projects cancelled, Moto pulled out of Somerset, and he replaced all machines at the company with Dells running NT.
Just to get back at Jobs for killing the clones.
Which admittedly was a shitty thing to do, and is the major reason we don't have CHiRP today. But also, is the major reason Apple is in business, which is the only compelling reason why 99% of PPC boxes are sold. (ie. consider the scenario where cloning continued, Apple went out of business and left a crater in Cupertino - the remaining market for PPC machines was Be and LinuxPPC, maybe BSD PPC, was there such a thing? and NT PPC - which was later cancelled. Be MAY have saved the PPC platform, but realistically, Be was already moving to x86. Without Apple, I believe PPC would have died completely (except for proprietary IBM boxen).
So - the very immature dickwad at Motorola is more to blame than the engineers at Motorola. With copper, and xerogel, and AltiVec, they had a solid track record of pushing chip technology way, way farther than nearly any other player in the biz. but when funding was cut, OF COURSE they wouldn't be able to rescue production.
Heh, the more appropriate question would be;
"how do you feel, living in a country where the president and the vice president have BOTH had DUI's?" (along with much anecdotal evidence that at least Bush got away with it almost habitually - only one DUI, $25 fine).
Well, at least with the Secret Service limos, two drunks are off the streets.
We weren't taken by suprise by Pearl Harbor.
We sacrificed Pearl Harbor to prevent the Japanese from finding out we had cracked their codes.
DUH!
Haven't you watched the History channel?
SETI nothing. How 'bout Gamma Ray bursts? (they can get data from the Gamma Ray observatories, and zero in quickly to examine the radio signature)
interesting. It's not currently "on", though it was last year. There has been "talk" for years about a refit, knocking down the three big ugly smokestacks. (it's estimated that tens of millions in tourism could be gained if these smokestacks were removed - it's not a mere case of NIMBY, because there's a nuke plant less then 20 miles away).
we CAN'T fix this planet we're on.
Otherwise, we'd interfere with people's right to get obnoxiously rich.
yes.
And the smoke would remain where it was expelled for a LONG time. It would not seep into the soil, or float away into the stratosphere. It would stay. Right along the path of future journeys.
actually, the best sheilding for this kind of radiation is. . . water.
That's one reason why in designs for the mars lander/habitat, water tanks are on the top level, so during solar radiation storms, the astronauts can get underneath them.
Water, and magnetic fields, and miles and miles of rock. Not much else can stop it.
running out of air, freezing to death, radiation, every astronaut since Yuri Gagarin was prepared for these potential fates.
It's called being a hero. Knowing you're expendible is one thing. But knowing that it was for a cause as high as space exploration (imo, there are few higher), makes it worthwhile. Remember the proposal a couple of years ago, at a space-science conference, where a scientist said that if a Mars trip were one-way for the astronaut, it would make the whole project cost about 1/3, and who would volunteer for such a mission - go to Mars, but certain death? Every person in the audience raised their hand.
IMO,
why should a waitress who marries Bill Gates get millions in alimony if they later divorce? Or any of the assets that Bill owned wholly before their maiirage?
she should get $250 for an hour, like all the rest. (Extra $100 for "greek treatment")
PG&E still owns Diablo Canyon (my backyard), and they only JUST finished a refueling, they were down for a few months before that, for refueling, not "repairs".
naw, I'll just buy solar cells for the roof of my house. - stock options - mmmmmmm. THEN I'll gladly accept "market prices" for electricity. When the power company has to buy my surplus!
Screw you PG&E.
nearly every art movement in history has been iconoclastic in nature. Rebeling against each previous movement as being "too established", "too rigid".
Face it. Artists get a kick out of dissing authority. The folks who placed the original monolith were cool, but their 5 minutes is up. Another artist building a monolith would have been "doing the same thing". STEALING someone else's monolith - now that's art.
Next, we need someone to grind a crucifix into it, and soak the whole thing in a big jar of urine!