Anonymous ignorant Coward, your comment would be funny if it weren't so wrong. The Cell includes a 3.2GHz Power RISC (like a Mac G5), on which Linux runs right now. It's the general purpose computer that runs Ubuntu out of the box, today. Every bit that's ported from Power to the SPEs makes it run that much faster - much, much faster. Like audio or video players or editors running faster than realtime. There's already code that uses the PS3 SPEs to brute-force crack WiFi security keys, which doesn't even have a GUI.
Likely the OpenGL library will need porting to SPEs. But that's the purpose of OpenGL: no need to rewrite the app's graphics engine.
The PS3 needs an OpenGL library that either runs on the Cell SPE(s), or calls functions on the RSX. So far, Sony has locked out the RSX, and I doubt they'll let (unlicensed) Linux apps compete with their licensed products by tapping the RSX (which is unique to PS3, and 9x as fast as the Cell). So really what's needed is OpenGL running on SPEs.
The Ubuntu release includes a version that runs on the Playstation 3, using Sony's official support of running an "other OS" on the platform.
People can run all the usual Ubuntu packages, and use the open source to port code to the PS3's 6 onchip DSPs for extreme graphics and supercomputing that's about 1000x faster than x86.
While it's true that hippies were Baby Boomers, hippies were only a tiny fraction of those Boomers. The media liked showing hippies better than showing the squares who much better represented that generation. Which was one reason why so many "me too" Boomers became hippies. And then became yuppies, then Bushies. They're a generation of followers. We just got lucky that they followed the hippies long enough that the Civil Rights Revolution led by Blacks caught on into a general cultural revolution. Otherwise we'd still be in Vietnam, as well as Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan and everywhere else Boomers have rushed in when their jock masters instructed them.
They also volunteered for Vietnam in greater total numbers and percentage of servicemembers than did their parents for WWII.
Their counterpart in the US, Attorney General Gonzales, is live on TV right now (unconvincingly) lying his way through his botched conspiracy to replace the US prosecutors with ones more completely in the pocket of the "Permanent Republican Majority" scheme that's turned this country into a lawyer's paradise littered with victims amidst corporate anarchy.
Lost generation, or generation of losers - squanderers and congenital cheaters?
Well, I live by the Manhattan Bridge, and reducing truck traffic by even 5% would be well worth it; 10% would be a new world. Retracking the old rail system is an excellent way to actually get value from that unused asset. The Congressional evaluation found that the tunnel would offer a cost:benefit ration unprecedented in a Federal project of its scale, paying for itself in about a decade.
FWIW, I don't see how you can say that a tunnel like this filled with double-stacked container cars wouldn't decrease the bridge traffic substantially. Lowering bridge maintenance, which not only costs a lot directly, but also creates costly traffic problems on those bridges all the time. As well as security problems better solved by freight-only lines through our highly vulnerable port. And the injuries from the extra traffic, and the pollution from truck vs rail.
Do you have a citation for your low traffic reduction numbers?
The rail tunnels between NJ and Manhattan are little commuter rail, not freight. That are already occupied by the large commuter traffic.
The Hudson North of Albany is substantially more than a creek, and a few miles north of its turn near Glens Falls the obstruction is the even wider Lake George and then Lake Champlain. Practically all the way to Canada. Even where the Hudson is no wider than a large river (not the mighty torrent past NYC), it's still an obstacle preventing freight rail that's not crossed by a railroad bridge except right around Albany, about 150mi North of NYC.
We're talking about a major tunnel to carry freight between the mainland and NYC. Currently that's handled by thousands of trucks going over overwhelmed bridges that also carry private cars. Are you suggesting that the Hudson River is not an obstacle?
NYC is on the East side of the Hudson River (except for Staten Island, but that's really Jersey). As is Long Island and New England. The Hudson runs all the way up to near Canada. So that hugely populous part of the country (over 30M people) is divided from the rest of the states. The closest railroad bridge to NYC is over 100 miles North of the City. We've got a couple of tunnels and a couple of bridges for trucks, though our ports have been reduced to a token amount of transfer.
So we've been trying to build the Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel from Jersey City to Brooklyn. It's supposed to cost only $2-3B, which is only <5% the NYC annual budget.
But Mayor Bloomberg, like any NYC mayor, is more interested in real estate developers than in the overall economy of NYC, so he opposes it. But it's probably the best tunnel project being considered in the US. It would further integrate the US with itself, making us more productive, not further subsidize the Alaskan oil corporations and make us more dependent on the Russian mafia oil industry.
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Every verb in their acceptance of responsibility is in the "passive voice". Sony didn't do anything - things happened. This is the kind of weasel words that we hear from leaders in government and industry all the time these days. They say "I take full responsibility" to deflect criticism that they're not taking responsibility. Then they don't say "I did (X wrong)". They say "Mistakes were made."
And the pool of resentment that they did something wrong, but refused responsiblity builds up with nowhere to go. Which means they just did something else wrong, in addition to X, that they avoided responsiblity for, by weaseling out while pretending to take responsiblitiy.
Vonage is a big Cisco customer. Why didn't Cisco save their customer to pay them more money later by reporting they had prior art that invalidated Verizon's patent?
Maybe Verizon is a bigger Cisco customer than Vonage is.
OK for capitalism. Now tell me how any of that government-granted monopoly serves to "promote progress in science and the useful arts"? It's obvious that patents do more to inhibit that progress. But they do make quite the buck, if not as many overall as if they actually promoted that progress.
It's true: having a USB master in a small, mobile device running Linux is valuable. Even Treos are themselves USB slaves, so they can't use USB peripherals. I looked for years for a USB hub with a master controller, which never arrived. If I want my Pilot to use a cheap USB webcam, I'm SOL. But one of these could do the trick. If only it would cost $100 - maybe in 5 years this original model will.
Anonymous fuckup Coward has nothing to teach about getting a life when they have nothing better to do than wasting time posting fake concern. You're a jocksniffer.
If it doesn't have the horsepower, bandwidth, battery life and mic/speaker (Bluetooth) to function as a VoIP terminal, then no one will want to learn any new skills to use it, or carry around something that smartphones already beat. But if it does, then the entry of Intel into both the PDA and Linux markets, even just as a reference platform, will be very welcome. Even if it just gives Intel the feedback it needs to better tailor components for other vendors into those markets.
I found keeping the vinyl inside its paper sleeves kept it quite clean. But I found that playing them with a mechanical stylus wore them out fairly quickly. Studies I read in the 1980s (in _Stereo Review_, etc, which were clearly trying to sell CDs) showed that records wore down to worse signal:noise than CDs after less than a dozen plays.
The laser turntable is $9K because they sell so few, so they target the super hifi market with a lot more than just the laser pickup. Now that laser pickups are super cheap, the whole device (maybe not including ADC) should cost under $150, even with good mechanicals for low wow/flutter.
If I put three gyroscopes, each spinning in a different axis at right angles to each other, into a box, wouldn't its increased inertia make it just seem more massive? How does the momentum of all those electrons and other subatomic particles spinning around contribute to its apparent mass?
I believe it abandoned the "analog" system I described for something more like a computer - "digital" they call it. I heard it sucks, but the kids love it. Though the vinyl is too big to fit in it.
If vinyl turntables (with USB, natch) used a laser pickup instead of a mechanical stylus, vinyl would be a lot more popular. Then records wouldn't wear out nearly as much. They could be sold used for more money with less damage. And a laser turntable could scan a record at high speed (maybe 333 1/3 RPM, 100x) for portable (lower-fi) playing on iPod, mobile phone, etc.
Laser pickups themselves wouldn't wear out like a stylus used to, which used to put the turntable out of commission until a new one was bought. Which was sometimes expensive, especially when the electromagnetic transducer cartridge needed repair/replacement. Those were expensive, especially the really hifi ones. Today, laser pickups would be cheaper than that old precision EM stuff. And they could still be analog, like an original videodisc, with audiophiles fighting over imperceptible differences in the analog/digital converter.
I'd get one. Vinyl sounded so much better at its best than any equivalent priced digital system I've ever heard. But then, I prefer to listen to music that was produced for vinyl's acoustic response. Kids today could get into it, too, though, if it really is a hybrid of phat old analog and cheap new digital.
That kind of forced content inside interactive viewers will likely force a resurgence in Java player applets. Of course DRM applets can be written and published, but it won't be mandatory. If the video content is in an open format, then the player must enforce the DRM, which the publisher of the applet can decide for themself. If the content is in some proprietary format, it will not be as popular as content in an open format.
I just wish that Java would let me cache the applet fingerprint, so I can pull it from cache instead of downloading the identical one from each website publishing it.
All it will take will be YouTube to switch for the Flash version to get punched back into serving consumers. And if not YouTube, then it opens a competitive advantage for a new contender to come out of nowhere like YouTube did.
This Net video wave is just getting started. Consumers are more empowered to demand our interests be protected than ever before, in part because of the interactive video networks we've already got. We can get this thing right from the beginning, if we work together.
My DLP is an internal projector onto a 50" panel. Why can't they put 9 of those, 3x3, inside the case, closely registered at their edges? Maybe a video sensor feeding back images of the internal corners where 4 tiles meet, piezos positioning them to accomodate thermal flexing of their common mounting brackets.
I'd like a 4800x3600 display, whether it's 50" or 190". And if the projector could go into a focusable lens, instead of the fixed one in the case, it could project to practically any size on an external screen.
The one I've got costs only about $1200. Why can't it scale up for $5000 to be bigger? And why shouldn't it scale up better than linearly (shared components) to nearly any size?
I said that basic expenses, like the food that would cause food riots, should be exempt from tax. The point of progressive taxes isn't to let everyone live the same lifestyle, regardless of income. It's to protect people from not having enough after taxes to pay for what they need, and also what they want if they have some discretionary income. That's what exempting only the necessities, including not much more than raw food, raw cloth (to sew into clothing), median utilities and rent/mortgage on primary home, should not be taxed. If that's all you can afford in this rich country, then you're not getting any real return like the people earning enough for luxuries are.
Though if you think the poor would riot over not getting tax-free McDonald's, I think you're probably right. I just think we should let them riot over that kind of BS, and get it over with. Those people don't have much stamina, anyway.
I think you're misreading me. I said "raw cloth", not "clothes", would be taxfree. The rich will pay the same tax on those items as anyone else, but less likely to avoid the tax by making their own clothes from raw cloth.
The other basics aren't really subjective in the sense of "anything goes". Food, shelter, clothing, utilities, all in the most economical form are statistically definable. It's actually pretty simple. Further, I didn't say "education supplies": protecting the poor from that means schools should provide the basics as the schools define them, including computers (as we are doing here in NYC). When a constituency defines something like "broadband" as a necessity, as we're doing here in NYC, it becomes taxfree. The current tax code defines a vast array of abusable items in a command economy. Compared to sales tax exemptions for necessities itemized in a legislative process, we'd be throwing away the command and its oppressive infrastructure. Not to mention throwing away the insane privacy invasion of tax reporting by individuals, rather than aggregated (anonymous, though auditable) sales.
Higher quality goods cost more. They last longer, so are often more economical (value over time), which also reduces waste (especially in trash, but also in work transactions). Poor people can invest in quality essentials the same as rich people do, as I have when I've been poor, and even better when they expect to be poor for long periods.
There is no solution to the improvement in life by being rich. The sales tax at least protects the basics, recognizing that there are two types of expenses, which is what all the tax systems claim to achieve, but don't.
My sales tax is certainly not defined as applied to only final retail. In fact, I explicitly said it would also apply to equities (though at a nearly negligible rate). Every sale, wholesale or retail, including commodities like oil, would pay the tax. People with gov't-registered wholesale IDs could pay a lower tax, probably closer to 5% (determined by gov't economists, programmatically in law). Those (by definition) businesses would no longer pay any income tax, either, also cutting their tax-preparation expenses and increasing their flexibility, distributing the economy better for more efficiency.
So it seems to me that sales tax is very fair, with its simple exclusions. Just by making its collectors (sellers) more controllable, but not a separate industry or large government bureaucracy, the amount of uncollected tax will plummet, which will make the system work better. The other ripple effects also strengthen the economy, especially the incentives for savings. And just putting tax on a rational basis, instead of arbitrary income tax, will increase respect and confidence in the system, as it is us.
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Anonymous ignorant Coward, your comment would be funny if it weren't so wrong. The Cell includes a 3.2GHz Power RISC (like a Mac G5), on which Linux runs right now. It's the general purpose computer that runs Ubuntu out of the box, today. Every bit that's ported from Power to the SPEs makes it run that much faster - much, much faster. Like audio or video players or editors running faster than realtime. There's already code that uses the PS3 SPEs to brute-force crack WiFi security keys, which doesn't even have a GUI.
Likely the OpenGL library will need porting to SPEs. But that's the purpose of OpenGL: no need to rewrite the app's graphics engine.
You lose. Game over.
The PS3 needs an OpenGL library that either runs on the Cell SPE(s), or calls functions on the RSX. So far, Sony has locked out the RSX, and I doubt they'll let (unlicensed) Linux apps compete with their licensed products by tapping the RSX (which is unique to PS3, and 9x as fast as the Cell). So really what's needed is OpenGL running on SPEs.
The Ubuntu release includes a version that runs on the Playstation 3, using Sony's official support of running an "other OS" on the platform.
People can run all the usual Ubuntu packages, and use the open source to port code to the PS3's 6 onchip DSPs for extreme graphics and supercomputing that's about 1000x faster than x86.
While it's true that hippies were Baby Boomers, hippies were only a tiny fraction of those Boomers. The media liked showing hippies better than showing the squares who much better represented that generation. Which was one reason why so many "me too" Boomers became hippies. And then became yuppies, then Bushies. They're a generation of followers. We just got lucky that they followed the hippies long enough that the Civil Rights Revolution led by Blacks caught on into a general cultural revolution. Otherwise we'd still be in Vietnam, as well as Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan and everywhere else Boomers have rushed in when their jock masters instructed them.
80s YUPpies were Baby Boomers, too.
They also volunteered for Vietnam in greater total numbers and percentage of servicemembers than did their parents for WWII.
Their counterpart in the US, Attorney General Gonzales, is live on TV right now (unconvincingly) lying his way through his botched conspiracy to replace the US prosecutors with ones more completely in the pocket of the "Permanent Republican Majority" scheme that's turned this country into a lawyer's paradise littered with victims amidst corporate anarchy.
Lost generation, or generation of losers - squanderers and congenital cheaters?
Baby Boomers make terrible lawyers.
Well, I live by the Manhattan Bridge, and reducing truck traffic by even 5% would be well worth it; 10% would be a new world. Retracking the old rail system is an excellent way to actually get value from that unused asset. The Congressional evaluation found that the tunnel would offer a cost:benefit ration unprecedented in a Federal project of its scale, paying for itself in about a decade.
FWIW, I don't see how you can say that a tunnel like this filled with double-stacked container cars wouldn't decrease the bridge traffic substantially. Lowering bridge maintenance, which not only costs a lot directly, but also creates costly traffic problems on those bridges all the time. As well as security problems better solved by freight-only lines through our highly vulnerable port. And the injuries from the extra traffic, and the pollution from truck vs rail.
Do you have a citation for your low traffic reduction numbers?
The rail tunnels between NJ and Manhattan are little commuter rail, not freight. That are already occupied by the large commuter traffic.
The Hudson North of Albany is substantially more than a creek, and a few miles north of its turn near Glens Falls the obstruction is the even wider Lake George and then Lake Champlain. Practically all the way to Canada. Even where the Hudson is no wider than a large river (not the mighty torrent past NYC), it's still an obstacle preventing freight rail that's not crossed by a railroad bridge except right around Albany, about 150mi North of NYC.
We're talking about a major tunnel to carry freight between the mainland and NYC. Currently that's handled by thousands of trucks going over overwhelmed bridges that also carry private cars. Are you suggesting that the Hudson River is not an obstacle?
NYC is on the East side of the Hudson River (except for Staten Island, but that's really Jersey). As is Long Island and New England. The Hudson runs all the way up to near Canada. So that hugely populous part of the country (over 30M people) is divided from the rest of the states. The closest railroad bridge to NYC is over 100 miles North of the City. We've got a couple of tunnels and a couple of bridges for trucks, though our ports have been reduced to a token amount of transfer.
So we've been trying to build the Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel from Jersey City to Brooklyn. It's supposed to cost only $2-3B, which is only <5% the NYC annual budget.
But Mayor Bloomberg, like any NYC mayor, is more interested in real estate developers than in the overall economy of NYC, so he opposes it. But it's probably the best tunnel project being considered in the US. It would further integrate the US with itself, making us more productive, not further subsidize the Alaskan oil corporations and make us more dependent on the Russian mafia oil industry.
I made a mistake: I didn't close the "B" tag after "Mistakes were made." I should have used the preview button. Sorry.
There, that wasn't so hard.
Every verb in their acceptance of responsibility is in the "passive voice". Sony didn't do anything - things happened. This is the kind of weasel words that we hear from leaders in government and industry all the time these days. They say "I take full responsibility" to deflect criticism that they're not taking responsibility. Then they don't say " I did (X wrong)". They say "Mistakes were made."
And the pool of resentment that they did something wrong, but refused responsiblity builds up with nowhere to go. Which means they just did something else wrong, in addition to X, that they avoided responsiblity for, by weaseling out while pretending to take responsiblitiy.
Vonage is a big Cisco customer. Why didn't Cisco save their customer to pay them more money later by reporting they had prior art that invalidated Verizon's patent?
Maybe Verizon is a bigger Cisco customer than Vonage is.
OK for capitalism. Now tell me how any of that government-granted monopoly serves to "promote progress in science and the useful arts"? It's obvious that patents do more to inhibit that progress. But they do make quite the buck, if not as many overall as if they actually promoted that progress.
It's true: having a USB master in a small, mobile device running Linux is valuable. Even Treos are themselves USB slaves, so they can't use USB peripherals. I looked for years for a USB hub with a master controller, which never arrived. If I want my Pilot to use a cheap USB webcam, I'm SOL. But one of these could do the trick. If only it would cost $100 - maybe in 5 years this original model will.
Anonymous fuckup Coward has nothing to teach about getting a life when they have nothing better to do than wasting time posting fake concern. You're a jocksniffer.
If it doesn't have the horsepower, bandwidth, battery life and mic/speaker (Bluetooth) to function as a VoIP terminal, then no one will want to learn any new skills to use it, or carry around something that smartphones already beat. But if it does, then the entry of Intel into both the PDA and Linux markets, even just as a reference platform, will be very welcome. Even if it just gives Intel the feedback it needs to better tailor components for other vendors into those markets.
I found keeping the vinyl inside its paper sleeves kept it quite clean. But I found that playing them with a mechanical stylus wore them out fairly quickly. Studies I read in the 1980s (in _Stereo Review_, etc, which were clearly trying to sell CDs) showed that records wore down to worse signal:noise than CDs after less than a dozen plays.
The laser turntable is $9K because they sell so few, so they target the super hifi market with a lot more than just the laser pickup. Now that laser pickups are super cheap, the whole device (maybe not including ADC) should cost under $150, even with good mechanicals for low wow/flutter.
If I put three gyroscopes, each spinning in a different axis at right angles to each other, into a box, wouldn't its increased inertia make it just seem more massive? How does the momentum of all those electrons and other subatomic particles spinning around contribute to its apparent mass?
This country has turned into a piece of shit. Thanks, Republicans.
The discouraging part of their promo is the part where they breathlessly offer "Request More Info & a Free CD!"
I believe it abandoned the "analog" system I described for something more like a computer - "digital" they call it. I heard it sucks, but the kids love it. Though the vinyl is too big to fit in it.
If vinyl turntables (with USB, natch) used a laser pickup instead of a mechanical stylus, vinyl would be a lot more popular. Then records wouldn't wear out nearly as much. They could be sold used for more money with less damage. And a laser turntable could scan a record at high speed (maybe 333 1/3 RPM, 100x) for portable (lower-fi) playing on iPod, mobile phone, etc.
Laser pickups themselves wouldn't wear out like a stylus used to, which used to put the turntable out of commission until a new one was bought. Which was sometimes expensive, especially when the electromagnetic transducer cartridge needed repair/replacement. Those were expensive, especially the really hifi ones. Today, laser pickups would be cheaper than that old precision EM stuff. And they could still be analog, like an original videodisc, with audiophiles fighting over imperceptible differences in the analog/digital converter.
I'd get one. Vinyl sounded so much better at its best than any equivalent priced digital system I've ever heard. But then, I prefer to listen to music that was produced for vinyl's acoustic response. Kids today could get into it, too, though, if it really is a hybrid of phat old analog and cheap new digital.
That kind of forced content inside interactive viewers will likely force a resurgence in Java player applets. Of course DRM applets can be written and published, but it won't be mandatory. If the video content is in an open format, then the player must enforce the DRM, which the publisher of the applet can decide for themself. If the content is in some proprietary format, it will not be as popular as content in an open format.
I just wish that Java would let me cache the applet fingerprint, so I can pull it from cache instead of downloading the identical one from each website publishing it.
All it will take will be YouTube to switch for the Flash version to get punched back into serving consumers. And if not YouTube, then it opens a competitive advantage for a new contender to come out of nowhere like YouTube did.
This Net video wave is just getting started. Consumers are more empowered to demand our interests be protected than ever before, in part because of the interactive video networks we've already got. We can get this thing right from the beginning, if we work together.
My DLP is an internal projector onto a 50" panel. Why can't they put 9 of those, 3x3, inside the case, closely registered at their edges? Maybe a video sensor feeding back images of the internal corners where 4 tiles meet, piezos positioning them to accomodate thermal flexing of their common mounting brackets.
I'd like a 4800x3600 display, whether it's 50" or 190". And if the projector could go into a focusable lens, instead of the fixed one in the case, it could project to practically any size on an external screen.
The one I've got costs only about $1200. Why can't it scale up for $5000 to be bigger? And why shouldn't it scale up better than linearly (shared components) to nearly any size?
I said that basic expenses, like the food that would cause food riots, should be exempt from tax. The point of progressive taxes isn't to let everyone live the same lifestyle, regardless of income. It's to protect people from not having enough after taxes to pay for what they need, and also what they want if they have some discretionary income. That's what exempting only the necessities, including not much more than raw food, raw cloth (to sew into clothing), median utilities and rent/mortgage on primary home, should not be taxed. If that's all you can afford in this rich country, then you're not getting any real return like the people earning enough for luxuries are.
Though if you think the poor would riot over not getting tax-free McDonald's, I think you're probably right. I just think we should let them riot over that kind of BS, and get it over with. Those people don't have much stamina, anyway.
I think you're misreading me. I said "raw cloth", not "clothes", would be taxfree. The rich will pay the same tax on those items as anyone else, but less likely to avoid the tax by making their own clothes from raw cloth.
The other basics aren't really subjective in the sense of "anything goes". Food, shelter, clothing, utilities, all in the most economical form are statistically definable. It's actually pretty simple. Further, I didn't say "education supplies": protecting the poor from that means schools should provide the basics as the schools define them, including computers (as we are doing here in NYC). When a constituency defines something like "broadband" as a necessity, as we're doing here in NYC, it becomes taxfree. The current tax code defines a vast array of abusable items in a command economy. Compared to sales tax exemptions for necessities itemized in a legislative process, we'd be throwing away the command and its oppressive infrastructure. Not to mention throwing away the insane privacy invasion of tax reporting by individuals, rather than aggregated (anonymous, though auditable) sales.
Higher quality goods cost more. They last longer, so are often more economical (value over time), which also reduces waste (especially in trash, but also in work transactions). Poor people can invest in quality essentials the same as rich people do, as I have when I've been poor, and even better when they expect to be poor for long periods.
There is no solution to the improvement in life by being rich. The sales tax at least protects the basics, recognizing that there are two types of expenses, which is what all the tax systems claim to achieve, but don't.
My sales tax is certainly not defined as applied to only final retail. In fact, I explicitly said it would also apply to equities (though at a nearly negligible rate). Every sale, wholesale or retail, including commodities like oil, would pay the tax. People with gov't-registered wholesale IDs could pay a lower tax, probably closer to 5% (determined by gov't economists, programmatically in law). Those (by definition) businesses would no longer pay any income tax, either, also cutting their tax-preparation expenses and increasing their flexibility, distributing the economy better for more efficiency.
So it seems to me that sales tax is very fair, with its simple exclusions. Just by making its collectors (sellers) more controllable, but not a separate industry or large government bureaucracy, the amount of uncollected tax will plummet, which will make the system work better. The other ripple effects also strengthen the economy, especially the incentives for savings. And just putting tax on a rational basis, instead of arbitrary income tax, will increase respect and confidence in the system, as it is us.