I have a brother 1270N network laser I got for a few hundred bucks about 5 years ago that still works, though I haven't had need of it in some time. Hard copies are for old people.
Uhh... profit at any cost is a contradiction in terms. Our prime directive is profit, yes. And that's a good thing. Profit means generating more money than you use. Money is a representation of value. You produce something of value to others and they give you a representation of value in exchange for it. Profit is simply creating more value than you use. What we need to fix is not the profit motive. We need to make sure that no one is commiting fraud or pushing their costs onto others against their will so that true costs are reflected in market prices.
Works fine when I select GNUstep | ACPI from the grub menu. Why is there no web browser on the live cd? Think maybe I'll take a look at getting the OSX Firefox port to compile under GNUstep.
I don't use XP so I can't speak for MS products, but if you compare OSS desktop applications to OS X applications, OSS is left wanting on the interoperability front. Clearly if we limit the discussion to open protocol standards OSS is the class of the field, but if you look at it from an end user's perspective, what they percieve as interoperability is all about the GUI. Being able to drag any file onto an application icon and have it open in that app, for example, or the way the iLife and iWork suites are so tightly integrated. When creating a Keynote presentation you have a dialog with your iTunes library to chose from for background music, or in Pages you can drag photos from your iPhoto collection right onto the page you're writing. OSS can't even agree on a common interface widget toolkit, or at least a standard api so the user can compile everything with a common toolkit or their choice.
I did this a few years back to overclock a 400Mhz Ti-Book to 500Mhz. The resistors are 0Ohm so it's a lot easier just make a solder bridge. You need to buy a really small tip for the iron, cut a tiny peice of solder with a razor, melt it on the tip and quickly and gently drag it across the contacts. If you maitain contact with the iron too long you'll fry other components on the board. That's the biggest difficulty.
Sorry for the shoddy research. I was writing that from memory. It was yellow fever I was thinking of, not smallpox. I appologise. They also discovered DNA and did the research to figure out how to mass produce and productise penicillin. The polio research was done mostly by private institutions, which may have been partly or mostly funded by rockefeller as they were the major player in that area at the time, but I can't seem to find any specific numbers:
http://www.cato.org/dailys/1-14-98.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/people ev ents/p_gates.html
http://www.rockefeller.edu/history.php
There was this article I read comparing the social benefits secured in the 20th century by government programs vs private foundations. I can't seem to find it anywhere and it's driving me crazy! My (admittedly poor) memory of that article is what I was basing my comments on.
Also something interesting I found from wikipedia:
In recent years, the WHO's work has involved more collaboration with NGOs and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as with foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Some of these collaborations may be considered public-private partnerships [3]; half the WHO budget is financed by private foundations and industry.
You are probably correct on the taxes. I was caclulating it from the other end, 30% income tax, 5% sales tax, 15% payroll tax, unemployment insurance tax, corporate income tax, tarrifs, fuel taxes, telecom taxes, not to mention all the indirect taxes caused by increased consumer prices due to over-regulation. I forgot to account for all the deductions and tax breaks, but your average middle class citizen is paying about 50%. It's the corporations with their expensive tax consultants that throw off the total relative to the GDP.
The Gates foundation is still pretty new and just finding it's legs, but they are already pouring hundreds of millions into things like finding a cure for malaria. They're modeling themselves after the major successes of the Rockefeller foundation. The Rockefellers bankrolled most of the research that lead to the major advances in medical science, food production, and public hygene in the early part of the century, plus they built hundreds of schools in the south, and made major contributions towards rebuilding europe after the war. Thought the government payed for the research that cured polio and smallpox? Nope, you can thank the grand daddy of the robber barons for those little gems. Instead of pouring billions into caring for the sick like the big G would have, they instead poured hundreds of millions into finding cures for the root causes. Where do you think the government even got the idea for it's major social programs.
if their taxes were eliminated, that they should still pay, say, 20%, to charities.
They wouldn't *need* to give 20%, because the people who used to need charity would also have twice the resources, plus private charities are vastly more efficient than government programs, and I still think you'd be shocked at how much people are willing to give when they see a real need. Just think if we had 20 Gate's foundations and Rockefeller foundations instead of 2. They've made much more lasting benefits for social causes than the government ever has. Now add to that the most generous middle class society on the planet and double their resources. I'm telling you, you're just flat wrong about the charity thing.
What I find interesting is that most of these examples you cite were instituted as part of a conservative or Replublican agenda. Hmmmmm.
The Democrats support the same agenda. Check the voting records. I'd call it a Republicrat agenda. I think it's unconsionable to vote for either. I voted for Badnarik.
happy to be there in spite of lower wages than they could get in private industry. The companies I worked for are full of greedy bastards who think primarily of their own gain, and what they can gouge the company and the customer for.
Corporations can only gouge their customers if they're protected from competition by government regulation, otherwise their customers would just go to the competition. I agree though that they do gouge whenever given an opportunity. They'll take full advantage of any market inefficiencies the system gives them. As far as government employed teachers, the ones I know are actively involved in teacher's unions lobying against any and all reforms, kicking and screaming about any attempt at making them accountable for educating their students. I am also a product of the public education system, though I like to think I emerged mostly unscathed through sheer force of will and obstinance. I distinctly remember hiding my programmable calculator under the desk hoping I wouldn't get caught learning to program durring class.
I don't owe anything to my fellow citizens. Their need is not a claim on my ability. I do however choose to help them. It's called charity. I do it out of the kindness of my heart, as a gift, not payment of any debt owed. I have a problem with my fellow citizens taking my property at gun point. (Don't think it's at gun point? Try not paying your taxes and see how long it takes men with guns to show up at your doorstep. They will use them if you resist with any kind of force.) To rub salt in the wound, the money is then mostly wasted and used inefficiently.
As far as England is concerned, we also tried it before Truman's new deal. We got better education for fewer resources. I'm not saying it was perfect or that it would work exaclty the same now, only that it is certainly doable.
You're just flat wrong about charity. Gate's foundation? Church programs? I'm not saying it's as easy to raise funds for ongoing expenses as it is for distasters, but it is done even now with 50% of what people earn being directly or indirectly confiscated by the state. Imagine if people had twice the resources and knew the government wasn't going to help the less fortunate for them.
Do you like the fact that you're paying for military protection for basicly the entire globe, massively subsidising whole industries like airlines, farm corporations, telecom, transportation, and paying to incarcerate and destroy the lives of millions of non-violent cannibus users? Hey at least a few inner city kids are getting a hot lunch (sorry, no education for you)
I don't know a whole lot about public school beuracracy, just anecdotal stories of good teachers that were forced to abandon their methods and conform to the board's wishes. Perhaps these boards I'm thinking of are at the district level. I do know that text books are chosen by the state and the teachers using them have no say in their selection whatsoever.
As far as inequitable education distribution, you're completely ignoring private charity which I gaurantee will be there if the state stops funding schools and gives citizens their money back. Also there are whole new ways of providing education opening up. You could provide someone a decent education with a $300 computer and a modem if you wanted to invest in getting the materials on-line and hire a few teachers to answer questions via email or im. I'm just saying the market is more resourceful than you or I could possibly think up on our own.
I see you're just an uninformed troll, but I'll try to help you out anyway so you don't emberrase yourself like this again.
Go re-read my original post again. I don't recall ever making the suggestion that any prevalant theory shouldn't be taught just because there are anomolies that aren't fully explained by it. I said that these anomolies should be presented to the students so they can understand that it's a theory and not a fact and that it might even be wrong.
If I were a student around the turn of the century studying newtonian physics, let's just say my name is, ohh... Einstein, I'd think I might be interested to know that the movement of the planet mercury around the sun is not adequately explained the existing theory of gravity. The theory of evolution doesn't even come close to being as air tight as your chosen example.
A public school system is, by necessity, open to scrutiny by the entire community. Private schools are not.
Private schools are open to scrutiny by their customers, public schools are beholden to the state education board no matter what their local communities might wish to do to improve them. Private schools on the whole provide a vastly superior education with far fewer resources.
undamentalist religious forces are demanding the weaking of science and math education in schools because these subjects don't coincide with their mythology.
Demanding the weakening of math?!? What are you smoking?!? Can I have some? As far as science, you are correct. Scientific theories should not be taught not as facts set in stone. Why shouldn't scientific anomolies that appear to conflict with current prevelant theories be presented to students? Why shouldn't they be taught that Scientists don't understand everything yet and some of the stuff in their text books might even be wrong?
Funny, I seem to have the exact opposite problem. I remembered seeing a review for this dual opteron shuttle pc type thing a while back, the iwill zmaxdp I think it was, and wanted to see what it's going for and maybe get one, but I couldn't find anyone selling it anywhere. The iwill corporate site lists it as a current product, but all I could find were detailed product reviews and photo blogs of its innards. None offered for sale.
Linux is a pretty decent Unix base on which to build a system like this, and GNUStep has the framework and toolset to do all this, all you'd need is a little interest from the hordes that are now pouring all their effort into make kde and gnome into a cheap immitation of XP. If they'd spend 10% of that effort with the GNUStep framwork and tools, you'd have something this good pretty quick. I know I'll be developing all my apps in Cocoa and making sure they cross compile in GNUStep.
Had a nice conversation with the project lead for the mac mini this morning at the apple store in the Westfield mall. He said first day sales blew away any computer apple's ever made, by a sizable margin, although the shuffle blew the mini away for first day sales of any apple product ever. He said he was asked, can you make it this small? (10" square)... yes. Can you make it this small? (8" square)... yes. Can you make it this small? (7" square)... maybe. Can you make it this small? (6 1/2" square)... no. Okay, that's the size then.... oh crap!:)
I too own a pair of SR-60s that I swear by (btw, get the sr-80 foam cups from headphone.com if you haven't already, $15 noticable sonic improvement), but how do you account for the etymotics in your in-ear = crappy bass theory. From what I understand the etymotics blow away the sr-60s. I think you'll find that bass is transmitted wonderfully though the walls of the ear canal even better than though air. In addition the etymotics provide 30+db of isolation.
Acording to my K&R book here (second edition which was updated long after 1984) static variables are initialied by default to 0, and it also states that variables defined outside of functions are implicitly static.
int i;main(){for(;i["]i;++i){--i;}"];read('-'-'-',i+++ "hell\ o, world!\n",'/'/'/'));}read(j,i,p){write(j/p+p,i---j,i/i);} ==== add some whitespace ========== int i; main() {
for (; i["]i;++i){--i;}"]; read('-' - '-', i++ + "hello, world!\n", '/' / '/')); }
read(j, i, p) {
write(j / p + p, i-- - j, i / i); } ===== and char subtraced from itself is 0, and char or pointer divided by itself is 1 ===== int i; main() {
for (; i["]i;++i){--i;}"]; read(0, i++ + "hello, world!\n", 1)); }
read(j, i, p) {
write(j / p + p, i-- - j, 1); } ======= j is always 0, p is always 1, lets remove them ====== int i; main() {
for (; i["]i;++i){--i;}"]; read(i++ + "hello, world!\n")); }
read(i) {
write(0 / 1 + 1, i-- - 0, 1); } ======= 0 / 1 + 1 is 1, subtracting 0 does nothing, decrementing a local variable this is never used afterward also does nothing ======= int i; main() {
for (; i["]i;++i){--i;}"]; read(i++ + "hello, world!\n")); }
read(i) {
write(1, i, 1); } ======== replace read(i) with write(1, i, 1) ===== int i; main() {
for (; i["]i;++i){--i;}"]; write(1, i++ + "hello, world!\n", 1)); } ====== i[n] can be rewritten *(i + n) or *(n + i) ====== int i; main() {
for (; *("]i;++i){--i;}" + i); write(1, "hello, world!\n" + i++, 1)); } === as i gets incrimented, we dereference the next char of the string which is always non-zero till we hit the null terminator, all the matters is that the string is the same length as "hello, world!\n" ===== int i; main() {
for (; *("hello, world!\n" + i); write(1, "hello, world!\n" + i++, 1)); } ===== so now we can see we incriment i, printing out the next character of hello world till we hit the null terminator ====
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I have a brother 1270N network laser I got for a few hundred bucks about 5 years ago that still works, though I haven't had need of it in some time. Hard copies are for old people.
Uhh... profit at any cost is a contradiction in terms. Our prime directive is profit, yes. And that's a good thing. Profit means generating more money than you use. Money is a representation of value. You produce something of value to others and they give you a representation of value in exchange for it. Profit is simply creating more value than you use. What we need to fix is not the profit motive. We need to make sure that no one is commiting fraud or pushing their costs onto others against their will so that true costs are reflected in market prices.
Works fine when I select GNUstep | ACPI from the grub menu. Why is there no web browser on the live cd? Think maybe I'll take a look at getting the OSX Firefox port to compile under GNUstep.
I don't use XP so I can't speak for MS products, but if you compare OSS desktop applications to OS X applications, OSS is left wanting on the interoperability front. Clearly if we limit the discussion to open protocol standards OSS is the class of the field, but if you look at it from an end user's perspective, what they percieve as interoperability is all about the GUI. Being able to drag any file onto an application icon and have it open in that app, for example, or the way the iLife and iWork suites are so tightly integrated. When creating a Keynote presentation you have a dialog with your iTunes library to chose from for background music, or in Pages you can drag photos from your iPhoto collection right onto the page you're writing. OSS can't even agree on a common interface widget toolkit, or at least a standard api so the user can compile everything with a common toolkit or their choice.
I did this a few years back to overclock a 400Mhz Ti-Book to 500Mhz. The resistors are 0Ohm so it's a lot easier just make a solder bridge. You need to buy a really small tip for the iron, cut a tiny peice of solder with a razor, melt it on the tip and quickly and gently drag it across the contacts. If you maitain contact with the iron too long you'll fry other components on the board. That's the biggest difficulty.
Sorry for the shoddy research. I was writing that from memory. It was yellow fever I was thinking of, not smallpox. I appologise. They also discovered DNA and did the research to figure out how to mass produce and productise penicillin. The polio research was done mostly by private institutions, which may have been partly or mostly funded by rockefeller as they were the major player in that area at the time, but I can't seem to find any specific numbers:
e ev ents/p_gates.html
http://www.cato.org/dailys/1-14-98.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rockefellers/peopl
http://www.rockefeller.edu/history.php
There was this article I read comparing the social benefits secured in the 20th century by government programs vs private foundations. I can't seem to find it anywhere and it's driving me crazy! My (admittedly poor) memory of that article is what I was basing my comments on.
Also something interesting I found from wikipedia:
In recent years, the WHO's work has involved more collaboration with NGOs and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as with foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Some of these collaborations may be considered public-private partnerships [3]; half the WHO budget is financed by private foundations and industry.
holly crap, how could I forgot to mention property taxes and capital gains tax
You are probably correct on the taxes. I was caclulating it from the other end, 30% income tax, 5% sales tax, 15% payroll tax, unemployment insurance tax, corporate income tax, tarrifs, fuel taxes, telecom taxes, not to mention all the indirect taxes caused by increased consumer prices due to over-regulation. I forgot to account for all the deductions and tax breaks, but your average middle class citizen is paying about 50%. It's the corporations with their expensive tax consultants that throw off the total relative to the GDP.
The Gates foundation is still pretty new and just finding it's legs, but they are already pouring hundreds of millions into things like finding a cure for malaria. They're modeling themselves after the major successes of the Rockefeller foundation. The Rockefellers bankrolled most of the research that lead to the major advances in medical science, food production, and public hygene in the early part of the century, plus they built hundreds of schools in the south, and made major contributions towards rebuilding europe after the war. Thought the government payed for the research that cured polio and smallpox? Nope, you can thank the grand daddy of the robber barons for those little gems. Instead of pouring billions into caring for the sick like the big G would have, they instead poured hundreds of millions into finding cures for the root causes. Where do you think the government even got the idea for it's major social programs.
They wouldn't *need* to give 20%, because the people who used to need charity would also have twice the resources, plus private charities are vastly more efficient than government programs, and I still think you'd be shocked at how much people are willing to give when they see a real need. Just think if we had 20 Gate's foundations and Rockefeller foundations instead of 2. They've made much more lasting benefits for social causes than the government ever has. Now add to that the most generous middle class society on the planet and double their resources. I'm telling you, you're just flat wrong about the charity thing.
The Democrats support the same agenda. Check the voting records. I'd call it a Republicrat agenda. I think it's unconsionable to vote for either. I voted for Badnarik.
Corporations can only gouge their customers if they're protected from competition by government regulation, otherwise their customers would just go to the competition. I agree though that they do gouge whenever given an opportunity. They'll take full advantage of any market inefficiencies the system gives them. As far as government employed teachers, the ones I know are actively involved in teacher's unions lobying against any and all reforms, kicking and screaming about any attempt at making them accountable for educating their students. I am also a product of the public education system, though I like to think I emerged mostly unscathed through sheer force of will and obstinance. I distinctly remember hiding my programmable calculator under the desk hoping I wouldn't get caught learning to program durring class.
I don't owe anything to my fellow citizens. Their need is not a claim on my ability. I do however choose to help them. It's called charity. I do it out of the kindness of my heart, as a gift, not payment of any debt owed. I have a problem with my fellow citizens taking my property at gun point. (Don't think it's at gun point? Try not paying your taxes and see how long it takes men with guns to show up at your doorstep. They will use them if you resist with any kind of force.) To rub salt in the wound, the money is then mostly wasted and used inefficiently.
As far as England is concerned, we also tried it before Truman's new deal. We got better education for fewer resources. I'm not saying it was perfect or that it would work exaclty the same now, only that it is certainly doable.
You're just flat wrong about charity. Gate's foundation? Church programs? I'm not saying it's as easy to raise funds for ongoing expenses as it is for distasters, but it is done even now with 50% of what people earn being directly or indirectly confiscated by the state. Imagine if people had twice the resources and knew the government wasn't going to help the less fortunate for them.
Do you like the fact that you're paying for military protection for basicly the entire globe, massively subsidising whole industries like airlines, farm corporations, telecom, transportation, and paying to incarcerate and destroy the lives of millions of non-violent cannibus users? Hey at least a few inner city kids are getting a hot lunch (sorry, no education for you)
I don't know a whole lot about public school beuracracy, just anecdotal stories of good teachers that were forced to abandon their methods and conform to the board's wishes. Perhaps these boards I'm thinking of are at the district level. I do know that text books are chosen by the state and the teachers using them have no say in their selection whatsoever.
As far as inequitable education distribution, you're completely ignoring private charity which I gaurantee will be there if the state stops funding schools and gives citizens their money back. Also there are whole new ways of providing education opening up. You could provide someone a decent education with a $300 computer and a modem if you wanted to invest in getting the materials on-line and hire a few teachers to answer questions via email or im. I'm just saying the market is more resourceful than you or I could possibly think up on our own.
Well, if you're genuinely interested in learning about it, this wikipedia article isn't a bad place to start:
s ts _and_mainstream_scientists_compared
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_creationi
I see you're just an uninformed troll, but I'll try to help you out anyway so you don't emberrase yourself like this again.
Go re-read my original post again. I don't recall ever making the suggestion that any prevalant theory shouldn't be taught just because there are anomolies that aren't fully explained by it. I said that these anomolies should be presented to the students so they can understand that it's a theory and not a fact and that it might even be wrong.
If I were a student around the turn of the century studying newtonian physics, let's just say my name is, ohh... Einstein, I'd think I might be interested to know that the movement of the planet mercury around the sun is not adequately explained the existing theory of gravity. The theory of evolution doesn't even come close to being as air tight as your chosen example.
Private schools are open to scrutiny by their customers, public schools are beholden to the state education board no matter what their local communities might wish to do to improve them. Private schools on the whole provide a vastly superior education with far fewer resources.
Demanding the weakening of math?!? What are you smoking?!? Can I have some? As far as science, you are correct. Scientific theories should not be taught not as facts set in stone. Why shouldn't scientific anomolies that appear to conflict with current prevelant theories be presented to students? Why shouldn't they be taught that Scientists don't understand everything yet and some of the stuff in their text books might even be wrong?
Funny, I seem to have the exact opposite problem. I remembered seeing a review for this dual opteron shuttle pc type thing a while back, the iwill zmaxdp I think it was, and wanted to see what it's going for and maybe get one, but I couldn't find anyone selling it anywhere. The iwill corporate site lists it as a current product, but all I could find were detailed product reviews and photo blogs of its innards. None offered for sale.
Linux is a pretty decent Unix base on which to build a system like this, and GNUStep has the framework and toolset to do all this, all you'd need is a little interest from the hordes that are now pouring all their effort into make kde and gnome into a cheap immitation of XP. If they'd spend 10% of that effort with the GNUStep framwork and tools, you'd have something this good pretty quick. I know I'll be developing all my apps in Cocoa and making sure they cross compile in GNUStep.
The mini already passed the previous best first day for an apple computer (Imac G5), just on pre-orders.
Had a nice conversation with the project lead for the mac mini this morning at the apple store in the Westfield mall. He said first day sales blew away any computer apple's ever made, by a sizable margin, although the shuffle blew the mini away for first day sales of any apple product ever. He said he was asked, can you make it this small? (10" square)... yes. Can you make it this small? (8" square)... yes. Can you make it this small? (7" square)... maybe. Can you make it this small? (6 1/2" square)... no. Okay, that's the size then.... oh crap! :)
I too own a pair of SR-60s that I swear by (btw, get the sr-80 foam cups from headphone.com if you haven't already, $15 noticable sonic improvement), but how do you account for the etymotics in your in-ear = crappy bass theory. From what I understand the etymotics blow away the sr-60s. I think you'll find that bass is transmitted wonderfully though the walls of the ear canal even better than though air. In addition the etymotics provide 30+db of isolation.
I've never used it myself but I understand that cinepaint (aka movie gimp) has been used to edit several hollywood movies, and it's GPL.
hmmm... so is that done by the kernel then? Otherwise I could just modify gcc to not initialiaze globals couldn't I?
Acording to my K&R book here (second edition which was updated long after 1984) static variables are initialied by default to 0, and it also states that variables defined outside of functions are implicitly static.
global variables are initialized to zero, local stack variables are undefined
int i;main(){for(;i["]i;++i){--i;}"];read('-'-'-',i+++ "hell\j ,i/i);}
o, world!\n",'/'/'/'));}read(j,i,p){write(j/p+p,i---
==== add some whitespace ==========
int i;
main()
{
for (; i["]i;++i){--i;}"]; read('-' - '-', i++ + "hello, world!\n", '/' / '/'));
}
read(j, i, p)
{
write(j / p + p, i-- - j, i / i);
}
===== and char subtraced from itself is 0, and char or pointer divided by itself is 1 =====
int i;
main()
{
for (; i["]i;++i){--i;}"]; read(0, i++ + "hello, world!\n", 1));
}
read(j, i, p)
{
write(j / p + p, i-- - j, 1);
}
======= j is always 0, p is always 1, lets remove them ======
int i;
main()
{
for (; i["]i;++i){--i;}"]; read(i++ + "hello, world!\n"));
}
read(i)
{
write(0 / 1 + 1, i-- - 0, 1);
}
======= 0 / 1 + 1 is 1, subtracting 0 does nothing, decrementing a local variable this is never used afterward also does nothing =======
int i;
main()
{
for (; i["]i;++i){--i;}"]; read(i++ + "hello, world!\n"));
}
read(i)
{
write(1, i, 1);
}
======== replace read(i) with write(1, i, 1) =====
int i;
main()
{
for (; i["]i;++i){--i;}"]; write(1, i++ + "hello, world!\n", 1));
}
====== i[n] can be rewritten *(i + n) or *(n + i) ======
int i;
main()
{
for (; *("]i;++i){--i;}" + i); write(1, "hello, world!\n" + i++, 1));
}
=== as i gets incrimented, we dereference the next char of the string which is always non-zero till we hit the null terminator, all the matters is that the string is the same length as "hello, world!\n" =====
int i;
main()
{
for (; *("hello, world!\n" + i); write(1, "hello, world!\n" + i++, 1));
}
===== so now we can see we incriment i, printing out the next character of hello world till we hit the null terminator ====