Er, did we read the same article? How do you reconcile your statements of Brin opposing "benevolent monarchy" with his "selling out our liberty"?
Please explain where Brin's devotion to "the global superstate" manifests itself?
While not a Brin apologist, I find your statement that He's threatened by the notion of heroes, because heroism is essentially individualistic to be a gross mischaracterization. To the contrary, he appears to be in favor of an individualist hero, as opposed to heros relying on dogma or instinct over rational thought.
To be sure, Brin barely touches on the political implications of monarchy vs. an elected republican government, but he's talking about the modern mythos in movies.
I was about to state all this, when I saw your finely crafted response (good job). Then I did some research
Like any rational human, Leonardo abhorred war -- he called it "beastly madness" -- but since Renaissance Italy was constantly at war he couldn't avoid it. He designed numerous weapons, including missiles, multi-barreled machine guns, grenades, mortars, and even a modern-style tank. He drew the line, however, with his plans for an underwater breathing device, which he refused to reveal, saying that men would likely use it for "evil in war."
You can't swing a cat without hitting an internet cafe, usually within a block or so of a Tube station. Some may even let you plug in, otherwise just put your data on a floppy.
Best rate I was able to find was 1 pound an hour, and it was fast and reliable.
To find good deals, ask the folks behind the counter in any coffee shop.
The Web is simply the presentation layer. What he's talking about is a platform-agnostic operating environment, where an application can run and access more or less the same system services no matter the actual hardware or OS, and be able to move between platforms without recompiling.
Ok, so I've been waiting 15 years to post this somewhere.
The first one was a Primos error on a PR1ME 750, when making an improper exit from a Primos shell script recursion or nesting level:
Error in crawlout from inner ring 3.
The second requires some explanation.
At a local junior college there was a Vax 11/750, and the $SCRATCH disk was of course world-writable. Problem is, it was also used for system swap space. Vaxen are remarkably robust, and VMS was touted to us as such (I later came to fall in love with VMS), so I came up with the bright idea of creating a program that would consume as much physical memory as possible (much more than the 8MB RAM this machine had). The accounts were limited to what resources a process could consume, so I ran the program four-deep (SPAWN/NOWAIT) on 16 terminals at the same time.
The system slowed, then stopped responding to us. My cohorts and myself ran into the machine room to examine the console, and hopefully to stop the processes. The console had printed
System paging space low, system continuing.
We tried a console interrupt, but there was no immediate response. We figured it would have to swap something in to service us, so we waited (the system disk access light was OUT, indicating heavy I/O thrashing).
After about 10 minutes, the console printed another message:
System paging space critical, system trying to continue.
Jeffery Harrow used to do an online advanced-technology journal for Digital (then Compaq, then he was laid off). He continues to do a great job at his own site now. It's available in web and various downloadable audio formats. If you haven't read/listened to him before, you can grab a bunch of back issues and listen to them on a road trip.
Free newsletter subscription, too. This guy is a web treasure, no idea how he makes his living these days.
He has a nice summary of what's he's doing with the newsletter.
Starting at midnight on August 19, 2002, Information Wave customers will no longer be able to reach the RIAA's web site.
So this isn't merely preventing the RIAA from entering the ISP's network, it's blocking any customer access to the RIAA site. What if I want to read what the RIAA has to say about a topic? The ISP has decided what the customer can and cannot read.
It's unlikely that the smartcard management is done via the Linux portion of the system. I imagine that the receivers/decoders are the same logic as in the other units (General Instrumets, etc.) and they just handle the encrypted stream from the satellite or the Linux PVR code streaming it from disk.
Ergen does not want another Direct TV on his hands.
This article could be construed as off-topic, but I don't think it is. I'm interested in not only advertising online for my books, but actually selling them online, digitally (send bits, not atoms!).
The problem is, the first one sold this way will be the last. I'm very much against CD copy protection, despite not having used napster. I want to do what *I* want with the things I buy. But I also realize that many people take advantage of this, and that if I put out a book without DRM, it will be widely pirated, and my revenue goes down. I consider the Stephen King experiment (_The Plant_) to me a failure (and yes, I paid for chapters, just to see what would happen).
So what's an artist to do? If you create music, how can you give people freedom with it, without getting taken advantage of? What about drawings? (I'd be interested to hear how Ryan Bliss is doing financially with his approach.)
Look at car penetration stats for the country and it'll prove my point right away.
Myth Alert - Until 1993, no US auto manufacturer shipped cars to Japan with right-hand drive. That couldn't have anything to do with poor sales there, could it?
That said, they are very protectionist.
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Somewhere... out there... in a parallel universe... people get free socks out of thin air. Of course, these socks are always half of a pair. It's not possible to send both socks in a pair into one of these parallel universes. I'm not sure which law of physics this would falls under.
Most digital phone systems use something called "Forward Power Control". The base (tower) will instruct your handset to reduce its power output to just above the minimum required to maintain the connection. This serves several purposes, like increasing your battery life when in a good covereage area, and not having nearby handsets overshadow distant ones.
Interestingly, much of the hardware design done to accomodate cryptographic work is finding a new life in bioinformatics, where some of the same problems exist (pattern matching, sieves on huge amounts of data, etc.).
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Er, did we read the same article? How do you reconcile your statements of Brin opposing "benevolent monarchy" with his "selling out our liberty"?
Please explain where Brin's devotion to "the global superstate" manifests itself?
While not a Brin apologist, I find your statement that He's threatened by the notion of heroes, because heroism is essentially individualistic to be a gross mischaracterization. To the contrary, he appears to be in favor of an individualist hero, as opposed to heros relying on dogma or instinct over rational thought.
To be sure, Brin barely touches on the political implications of monarchy vs. an elected republican government, but he's talking about the modern mythos in movies.
Like any rational human, Leonardo abhorred war -- he called it "beastly madness" -- but since Renaissance Italy was constantly at war he couldn't avoid it. He designed numerous weapons, including missiles, multi-barreled machine guns, grenades, mortars, and even a modern-style tank. He drew the line, however, with his plans for an underwater breathing device, which he refused to reveal, saying that men would likely use it for "evil in war."
So perhaps one could say he's a realist.
The new forms that information will take may be quite unrecognizable to us "old folk."
Best rate I was able to find was 1 pound an hour, and it was fast and reliable.
To find good deals, ask the folks behind the counter in any coffee shop.
Oh wait, that was Java.
The first one was a Primos error on a PR1ME 750, when making an improper exit from a Primos shell script recursion or nesting level:
Error in crawlout from inner ring 3.
The second requires some explanation.
At a local junior college there was a Vax 11/750, and the $SCRATCH disk was of course world-writable. Problem is, it was also used for system swap space. Vaxen are remarkably robust, and VMS was touted to us as such (I later came to fall in love with VMS), so I came up with the bright idea of creating a program that would consume as much physical memory as possible (much more than the 8MB RAM this machine had). The accounts were limited to what resources a process could consume, so I ran the program four-deep (SPAWN/NOWAIT) on 16 terminals at the same time.
The system slowed, then stopped responding to us. My cohorts and myself ran into the machine room to examine the console, and hopefully to stop the processes. The console had printed
System paging space low, system continuing.
We tried a console interrupt, but there was no immediate response. We figured it would have to swap something in to service us, so we waited (the system disk access light was OUT, indicating heavy I/O thrashing).
After about 10 minutes, the console printed another message:
System paging space critical, system trying to continue.
That was the last message until we hit the power.
Jeffery Harrow used to do an online advanced-technology journal for Digital (then Compaq, then he was laid off). He continues to do a great job at his own site now. It's available in web and various downloadable audio formats. If you haven't read/listened to him before, you can grab a bunch of back issues and listen to them on a road trip.
Free newsletter subscription, too. This guy is a web treasure, no idea how he makes his living these days.
He has a nice summary of what's he's doing with the newsletter.
Starting at midnight on August 19, 2002, Information Wave customers will no longer be able to reach the RIAA's web site.
So this isn't merely preventing the RIAA from entering the ISP's network, it's blocking any customer access to the RIAA site. What if I want to read what the RIAA has to say about a topic? The ISP has decided what the customer can and cannot read.
Welcome to China.
Try "Atlas Shrugged" or "The Fountainhead".
The answer to undesirable speech is more speech.
Ergen does not want another Direct TV on his hands.
Apple will treat these cases as intentional user abuse and bill accordingly.
The problem is, the first one sold this way will be the last. I'm very much against CD copy protection, despite not having used napster. I want to do what *I* want with the things I buy. But I also realize that many people take advantage of this, and that if I put out a book without DRM, it will be widely pirated, and my revenue goes down. I consider the Stephen King experiment (_The Plant_) to me a failure (and yes, I paid for chapters, just to see what would happen).
So what's an artist to do? If you create music, how can you give people freedom with it, without getting taken advantage of? What about drawings? (I'd be interested to hear how Ryan Bliss is doing financially with his approach.)
Uh, hello, McFly, April 22.
I thought that Oracle was licensed per CPU, not per user? 270K CPU's?
Which, interestingly enough, is what's proposed for possible life on Europa. (Attempt no landings there.)
Myth Alert - Until 1993, no US auto manufacturer shipped cars to Japan with right-hand drive. That couldn't have anything to do with poor sales there, could it?
That said, they are very protectionist.
The Polo Exclusion Principle.
When she received evidence (not hearsay) that wiretap authority is being abused, she changed her mind quire publicly about Clipper and key escrow.
Anyone staying true to the scientific method deserves a fair critique.
Now for those of us that STARTED with 4096 bits several years ago...
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Most digital phone systems use something called "Forward Power Control". The base (tower) will instruct your handset to reduce its power output to just above the minimum required to maintain the connection. This serves several purposes, like increasing your battery life when in a good covereage area, and not having nearby handsets overshadow distant ones.
Interestingly, much of the hardware design done to accomodate cryptographic work is finding a new life in bioinformatics, where some of the same problems exist (pattern matching, sieves on huge amounts of data, etc.).
You spelled that wrong.
Paper and pencil anyone?
Err, it was written by physicists...