"Ideally one would desire an indefinitely large memory capacity such that any particular... word would be immediately available.... We are... forced to recognize the possibility of constructing a hierarchy of memories, each of which has greater capacity than the preceding, but which is less quickly accessible."
- A. W. Burks, H. H. Goldstine, and J. von Neumann Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument, 1946
I realize that Burks, Goldstine, and von Neumann are talking about cacheing, while you are talking about parallel processing, but I'd suggest that the idea has been floating around for a very long time. You know, since before the first cpu. Also, I like using that quote:)
I figure that losing a hand is a pretty good way to keep someone from becoming a repeat offender (pretty difficult to work a computer if you lose both hands) and THAT will serve as a pretty strong warning to others.
Whoops! It really looked like you in the security camera! I'm sorry, dude. Yeah, you're innocent. My bad. Here's a complimentary prosthetic hand.
I'm not sure if you were joking or not, but it's always important to consider the accuracy of our judicial system when penalties like that.
The New York City transit system is also an excellent example of why this is a privacy concern. Just because it doesn't store private information doesn't mean it's kosher: If it has a unique ID, then if they arrest you, they can take your card, and search for every transaction you've ever made with it. This has been done with the MetroCard. Folks got arrested, and the MetroCard was used to rule out an alibi: No, you weren't upstate, you used the subway that morning, murderer.
Of course, that's an example of a good outcome to privacy violations, if a criminal goes to jail, but it's not hard to imagine a different story. A cop could bust an innocent. Arrests him, use the cash card to figure out some time that he was near the scene of a crime, and if the cash card is inadmissible, begin looking for other ways to place him there at that time. The cash card could now be the reason an innocent person goes to jail.
Anyway, all I'm saying is that a unique ID system would be completely inappropriate. If the card is both cryptographically secure, and has no identifying information at all, private or otherwise, then it's in the running for something as safe as cash.
Information wants to be free! Let Castle Technology do what they want to with the kernel code. The GPL, after all, is juat another form of copyright. Copyrights only exist to create artifical monopolys that do not exist!
Obviously, the above argument is absurd, but points out that Slashdot has a double standard.
Well, it definitely points out that Slashdot has at least (at least!) two different posters.
Ignoring that possibility, consider a popular position:
Dispersal of valuable information is Good.
Being Pro-GPL, while simultaneously attempting to destroy the copyright system, would be a completely pragmatic method of increasing the dispersal of valuable information. By the time copyright is destroyed, we won't need a damn GPL, because if *everything* is in the public domain, then there's no difference between open and closed source.
My position (as if anyone is interested) is that a 14 year copyright would result in a superior ROI for American society on intellectual property. Until more reasonable copyright legislation is in place, I support civil disobedience that harms people whom abuse copyright. Yes, it would be totally within my moral standards for RISCos to use code that Linus wrote prior to Feb. 7, 1989. Have at, RISCos.
The main point, though, is that if copyright did not exist, the GPL would not be necessary at all. Things would either be trade secrets, trademarked, or free. I'm sure that would be fine with RMS, let alone "Slashdot". Since this has been pointed out enough times in the past, right here... I guess IHBT. IHL. IWHAND.
But they tried to change the last value to a zero?
My question is what stylesheet does it send to Opera6? Opera's argument begins to hint at my question:
Q: Isn't this just a problem with the newly released Opera7?
A: You mean, perhaps MSN had to write special versions of the page for the older Opera6? No. Opera6 handles the pages sent to MSIE6 just fine. Here is a screenshot: [snip]
Ok, Opera6 handles the page sent to MSIE6 perfectly... but does Opera6 also display the messed up stylesheet correctly? Does MSN send the same stylesheet to both Opera versions? There are all kinds of semi-reasonable explanations due to the version differences that have not been ruled out.
Of course, I don't doubt that MS is being malicious, but I'm not sure.
His post does not rely on the personal comments. You could remove them, and his post would not become more or less valid.
If the only reasons for his disagreement were personal attacks, then yes, it would invalidate the argument. But they don't, so it doesn't.
I'll admit, he didn't need to be so personal. You, similarly, don't need to be quite so critical of your fellow humans. I agree with grandparent poster: computers fail their owners, and usually not the other way around. I guarantee, if market forces meant that computers had to be as easy to use as cellphones, it would be totally doable.
I don't work at a help desk, so I don't talk to the real idiots, but when my friends come to me with a computer problem, they've usually done a pretty good job of being a computer user. Its always a little embarassing that software engineers weren't willing to do a better job.
And one other critical factor: Humans have a survival instinct. Robots do not. Humans, when threatened, can respond almost immediately. Robots cannot.
So what? For the money you save by sending up a robot... let the robot be destroyed. Since you'd get to do ten times as many missions, you'd have many many more successes. And no one dies this way, either.
Also, your arguments based on critical thinking capabilities completely miss the mark. The advantage to humans is their physical abilities. We have very sophisticated sensory and motor abilities that are difficult to duplicate with mechanics. However, everything that requires critical thinking (determining how to build scrubbers, for example), is done by humans on the ground. This is whether or not there are humans in the craft.
As far as ability to determine items of interest outside of the solar system... that is the least relevant complaint I've ever heard. We can worry about that in 100 years. And I think that a relatively simple expert system *could* solve that problem.
I really must insist that it's 100% the public's fault. I *never* listen to Clear Channel, and I have no moral reasons whatsoever for my choice. I listen to NPR and college radio only, and I do it because they play what I like to hear.
If everyone in the Bay Area is listening to bad alternative/bad hip hop/bad oldies, they're morons. And they *do* have options. UC Berkeley's radio is excellent, as is SFSU's. If anyone else felt like listening in, CCC might have to do something to compete. As it is, they apparently give bay area listeners exactly what they want.
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1) Yes, unions are just trying to save themselves a revenue stream here.
2) This is messed up. The gov't gave broadcasters certain frequencies on the condition that they'd follow rules (provide local content). They are not doing that.
Of course, I think all frequencies should be regulated in the same manner as visible light: You can't blind anyone.
Given that we've decided not to deregulate radio properly, it would at least be nice if we could at least follow the few decentralizing regulations that we've got.
>> A fifth open source BSD might seem excessive to some, but there are still many ways for such a project to differentiate itself.
> Hmmm....I'm not convinced, you'll have to try harder.
A Mach based BSD with a DisplayPDF buffered windowing system, binary compatible with Quartz? And a really clean GUI that uses the same widget dimensions (not pixmaps:) as Aqua? And GNUStep style binary compatibility with Cocoa applications?
I can think of other ones, but that just popped into mind. Call it BSD/Ten or GNU/Ten, depending on licensing preference.
And I don't drink coffee. I just put the compound in a cup, go to my cube to drink it, and collapse under my desk in ecstacy. A few hours later I wake up covered in jism and ready to work.
Or it's due to poor motion tracking of your head. If your field of view doesn't move at the same pace as your inner ear, I imagine you'd fall down vomiting in a few minutes.
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Nice, well rounded troll. I'm shocked you got so much attention. You're really pushing the envelope.
MS's arguments with the NSA had nothing to do with the status of the IP after the NSA invested in it, but rather whether or not the NSA should be involved.
Of course, this is the government of a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COUNTRY, and trade laws had nothing whatsoever to do with their original argument. Somehow, however, due to the brilliance of your troll, you'll probably even get people to start explaining how the GPL and/or the US Constitution works. Bravo.
As your respondents have pointed out, it is impossible to determine what pending patents a company may hold. However, if I understand correctly, JEDEC requires everyone involved in the standard to contract that if they hold patents on any technology that's going into their standard, they must allow JEDEC to determine licensing on that patent.
As ajakk points out in his post, apparently JEDEC has failed to enforce such agreements in the past, and this will harm them in their current efforts. I don't know where he got this info (I hain't read the article.) but I certainly didn't know that this sort of agreement could be invalidated due to their previous behavior.
Iduno. I'm not a lawyer. Hell, I code VB. You shouldn't trust my opinions on spatula operation, let alone legal matters...
1) I don't know anything about Ogg Vorbis 2) Isn't there some integer decoder everyone was talking about a while back? I think they could use that to deal with this problem. 3) I think there are other serious barriers of entry. That is, the discrepancies between a vorbis file's output and the original might be more difficult to encode than the audio in the first place, and the resulting filesizes might be bigger than FLAC (Or hell, have no advantage over uncompressed audio in the first place.) 4) I don't know anything about Ogg Vorbis.
Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith said: "With their power, used wisely, we might be able to save my people from the growing Shadow in the East."
You said: "Dont' know where you are, but from my location, Redmond is west."
Mordor is in the East though. Of course, Faramir was the Steward of Gondor, not the King, but whatever.
Gotta run. The electrical tape on my spectacles is coming undone.
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Apple was also involved in the creation of the Zeroconf standard with the IETF. I'm not sure what your point is.
Huh.
... word would be immediately available .... ... forced to recognize the possibility of constructing a hierarchy of memories, each of which has greater capacity than the preceding, but which is less quickly accessible."
:)
"Ideally one would desire an indefinitely large memory capacity such that any particular
We are
- A. W. Burks, H. H. Goldstine, and J. von Neumann
Preliminary Discussion of the Logical Design of an Electronic Computing Instrument, 1946
As quoted on page 538 of my computer architecture textbook, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, second edition.
I realize that Burks, Goldstine, and von Neumann are talking about cacheing, while you are talking about parallel processing, but I'd suggest that the idea has been floating around for a very long time. You know, since before the first cpu. Also, I like using that quote
I figure that losing a hand is a pretty good way to keep someone from becoming a repeat offender (pretty difficult to work a computer if you lose both hands) and THAT will serve as a pretty strong warning to others.
Whoops! It really looked like you in the security camera! I'm sorry, dude. Yeah, you're innocent. My bad. Here's a complimentary prosthetic hand.
I'm not sure if you were joking or not, but it's always important to consider the accuracy of our judicial system when penalties like that.
The New York City transit system is also an excellent example of why this is a privacy concern. Just because it doesn't store private information doesn't mean it's kosher: If it has a unique ID, then if they arrest you, they can take your card, and search for every transaction you've ever made with it. This has been done with the MetroCard. Folks got arrested, and the MetroCard was used to rule out an alibi: No, you weren't upstate, you used the subway that morning, murderer.
Of course, that's an example of a good outcome to privacy violations, if a criminal goes to jail, but it's not hard to imagine a different story. A cop could bust an innocent. Arrests him, use the cash card to figure out some time that he was near the scene of a crime, and if the cash card is inadmissible, begin looking for other ways to place him there at that time. The cash card could now be the reason an innocent person goes to jail.
Anyway, all I'm saying is that a unique ID system would be completely inappropriate. If the card is both cryptographically secure, and has no identifying information at all, private or otherwise, then it's in the running for something as safe as cash.
Well. If I have some counterfeit Windows XP shrinkwrap boxes, bought them at full price, and sold them accidentally, I might get in some trouble.
If someone then *told* me I was selling counterfeit Windows XP boxes, and I continued selling them, I might get in a lot of trouble.
Just 'cause I didn't create the copy doesn't mean I can sell it. Does it?
Obviously, the above argument is absurd, but points out that Slashdot has a double standard.
Well, it definitely points out that Slashdot has at least (at least!) two different posters.
Ignoring that possibility, consider a popular position:
Dispersal of valuable information is Good.
Being Pro-GPL, while simultaneously attempting to destroy the copyright system, would be a completely pragmatic method of increasing the dispersal of valuable information. By the time copyright is destroyed, we won't need a damn GPL, because if *everything* is in the public domain, then there's no difference between open and closed source.
My position (as if anyone is interested) is that a 14 year copyright would result in a superior ROI for American society on intellectual property. Until more reasonable copyright legislation is in place, I support civil disobedience that harms people whom abuse copyright. Yes, it would be totally within my moral standards for RISCos to use code that Linus wrote prior to Feb. 7, 1989. Have at, RISCos.
The main point, though, is that if copyright did not exist, the GPL would not be necessary at all. Things would either be trade secrets, trademarked, or free. I'm sure that would be fine with RMS, let alone "Slashdot". Since this has been pointed out enough times in the past, right here... I guess IHBT. IHL. IWHAND.
As if Linux were a paperclip-and-rubberband based operating system...
Perhaps an old version of the document read:But they tried to change the last value to a zero?
My question is what stylesheet does it send to Opera6? Opera's argument begins to hint at my question:
Q: Isn't this just a problem with the newly released Opera7?
A: You mean, perhaps MSN had to write special versions of the page for the older Opera6? No. Opera6 handles the pages sent to MSIE6 just fine. Here is a screenshot: [snip]
Ok, Opera6 handles the page sent to MSIE6 perfectly... but does Opera6 also display the messed up stylesheet correctly? Does MSN send the same stylesheet to both Opera versions? There are all kinds of semi-reasonable explanations due to the version differences that have not been ruled out.
Of course, I don't doubt that MS is being malicious, but I'm not sure.
His post does not rely on the personal comments. You could remove them, and his post would not become more or less valid.
If the only reasons for his disagreement were personal attacks, then yes, it would invalidate the argument. But they don't, so it doesn't.
I'll admit, he didn't need to be so personal. You, similarly, don't need to be quite so critical of your fellow humans. I agree with grandparent poster: computers fail their owners, and usually not the other way around. I guarantee, if market forces meant that computers had to be as easy to use as cellphones, it would be totally doable.
I don't work at a help desk, so I don't talk to the real idiots, but when my friends come to me with a computer problem, they've usually done a pretty good job of being a computer user. Its always a little embarassing that software engineers weren't willing to do a better job.
I wonder how large a no-fly zone would be required to protect a space elevator from terrorists.
Good point. We should put the space elevator in the middle of Iraq.
(Yes, I know it has to be on the equator. I'm joking.)
And one other critical factor: Humans have a survival instinct. Robots do not. Humans, when threatened, can respond almost immediately. Robots cannot.
So what? For the money you save by sending up a robot... let the robot be destroyed. Since you'd get to do ten times as many missions, you'd have many many more successes. And no one dies this way, either.
Also, your arguments based on critical thinking capabilities completely miss the mark. The advantage to humans is their physical abilities. We have very sophisticated sensory and motor abilities that are difficult to duplicate with mechanics. However, everything that requires critical thinking (determining how to build scrubbers, for example), is done by humans on the ground. This is whether or not there are humans in the craft.
As far as ability to determine items of interest outside of the solar system... that is the least relevant complaint I've ever heard. We can worry about that in 100 years. And I think that a relatively simple expert system *could* solve that problem.
Wait a second... have I been trolled?
I really must insist that it's 100% the public's fault. I *never* listen to Clear Channel, and I have no moral reasons whatsoever for my choice. I listen to NPR and college radio only, and I do it because they play what I like to hear.
If everyone in the Bay Area is listening to bad alternative/bad hip hop/bad oldies, they're morons. And they *do* have options. UC Berkeley's radio is excellent, as is SFSU's. If anyone else felt like listening in, CCC might have to do something to compete. As it is, they apparently give bay area listeners exactly what they want.
1) Yes, unions are just trying to save themselves a revenue stream here.
2) This is messed up. The gov't gave broadcasters certain frequencies on the condition that they'd follow rules (provide local content). They are not doing that.
Of course, I think all frequencies should be regulated in the same manner as visible light: You can't blind anyone.
Given that we've decided not to deregulate radio properly, it would at least be nice if we could at least follow the few decentralizing regulations that we've got.
Nah, it'd be worth it for the project to differentiate itself. It could eventually be a very important product.
>> A fifth open source BSD might seem excessive to some, but there are still many ways for such a project to differentiate itself.
:) as Aqua? And GNUStep style binary compatibility with Cocoa applications?
> Hmmm....I'm not convinced, you'll have to try harder.
A Mach based BSD with a DisplayPDF buffered windowing system, binary compatible with Quartz? And a really clean GUI that uses the same widget dimensions (not pixmaps
I can think of other ones, but that just popped into mind. Call it BSD/Ten or GNU/Ten, depending on licensing preference.
Obscene != troll, mods. That was funny.
And I don't drink coffee. I just put the compound in a cup, go to my cube to drink it, and collapse under my desk in ecstacy. A few hours later I wake up covered in jism and ready to work.
>> My girlfriend sent me this link earlier today
> That's the difference between Mac geeks and non-Mac geeks.
> Mac geeks have girlfriends
Either that, or Mac geeks are girls.
Or it's due to poor motion tracking of your head. If your field of view doesn't move at the same pace as your inner ear, I imagine you'd fall down vomiting in a few minutes.
Nice, well rounded troll. I'm shocked you got so much attention. You're really pushing the envelope.
MS's arguments with the NSA had nothing to do with the status of the IP after the NSA invested in it, but rather whether or not the NSA should be involved.
Of course, this is the government of a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COUNTRY, and trade laws had nothing whatsoever to do with their original argument. Somehow, however, due to the brilliance of your troll, you'll probably even get people to start explaining how the GPL and/or the US Constitution works. Bravo.
I got a can from him. It worked. Why is this apparently a lost technology?
They discovered that it causes impotence, hair loss, and many of the canisters were contaminated with herpes.
As your respondents have pointed out, it is impossible to determine what pending patents a company may hold. However, if I understand correctly, JEDEC requires everyone involved in the standard to contract that if they hold patents on any technology that's going into their standard, they must allow JEDEC to determine licensing on that patent.
As ajakk points out in his post, apparently JEDEC has failed to enforce such agreements in the past, and this will harm them in their current efforts. I don't know where he got this info (I hain't read the article.) but I certainly didn't know that this sort of agreement could be invalidated due to their previous behavior.
Iduno. I'm not a lawyer. Hell, I code VB. You shouldn't trust my opinions on spatula operation, let alone legal matters...
Earth to PhysicsGenius! (What kinda login is that anyway?)
It's a troll kind of login. You guessed right. He's been at it for a while.
1) I don't know anything about Ogg Vorbis
2) Isn't there some integer decoder everyone was talking about a while back? I think they could use that to deal with this problem.
3) I think there are other serious barriers of entry. That is, the discrepancies between a vorbis file's output and the original might be more difficult to encode than the audio in the first place, and the resulting filesizes might be bigger than FLAC (Or hell, have no advantage over uncompressed audio in the first place.)
4) I don't know anything about Ogg Vorbis.
Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith said: "With their power, used wisely, we might be able to save my people from the growing Shadow in the East."
You said: "Dont' know where you are, but from my location, Redmond is west."
Mordor is in the East though. Of course, Faramir was the Steward of Gondor, not the King, but whatever.
Gotta run. The electrical tape on my spectacles is coming undone.