Also in 1995, my independent team added an XCMD to Macromedia's Director that let Director "movies" fetch URLs, including data from remote databases. We used an SGML dialect to mark up the datafeeds, like we'd done for realtime financial info. The GUIs were updated asynchronously.
I did not say losing the Iraq War (or knowing it would be lost) was impeachment grounds. I said lying us into war. I think a Congressional investigation into the difference between Bush's intel and the reports he gave Congress, and the people, will show that. Those will produce Impeachment Articles. Then House managers can try to convince 18+ Republican senators to probably destroy their Party's chances to elect a Republican president in 2008, while Democrats control Congress.
So I don't think those Republicans will vote to convict. But I do think Bush should be impeached. I think the Military Commissions destruction of Habeas Corpus, and ignoring it (plus torture) are also impeachable. Unprecedented degrees of subverting the Constitution, with unprecedented consequences.
Yes, lying us into Iraq (and consistently while we've been there) and repeatedly (and unnecessarily) violating the FISA should have Bush impeached. If those crimes weren't committed with the complicity of his Republican Congress (and collaborators among its caged Democratic minority), which still retains 49 Senate votes, he'd be impeached and convicted.
As would those other presidents, specifically Bush Sr, Reagan and Johnson. Maybe even Roosevelt, though I doubt it.
Clinton's "lying" was supposedly when he said he didn't have "sex" with Lewinsky. But he asked for a written definition of "sex", which required mutual genital penetration, and was able to say truthfully that he didn't have sex with her. In the midst of a travesty of justice that made a mockery of impeachment.
Your argument is that we should repeat the injustice that created the precedent emboldening Bush Jr to violate the law in possibly the most extreme manner. I'm not responsible for those previous failures to impeach, and I won't ignore the committment to justice that is the basis for American government.
But you want to do exactly that. You even seem to think that Clinton's impeachment was legit. When investigations show Bush violated FISA to generate intel on domestic political enemies, like challengers to Republican officials, or even just corporate espionage, will that be good enough for you to want impeachment? Because that's why a Democratic Congress was willing to impeach Nixon. And why it wrote the FISA, which Bush violated.
Again: what would you impeach a president for doing? If not lying us into a catastrophic, optional war that's killed (hundreds of) thousands, bankrupted us, and destroyed our previously unparalleled global leadership, then what is impeachable? Third time I'm asking, and all I'm getting is the excuse that "everyone does it". I guess that means you think presidents are above the law. I don't.
No, I know what it means. Just because "deprecation" in favor of a new API is inconceivable to you, doesn't mean that you're looking in the right dictionary. Wherever you got those definitions - and you didn't even cite the first sense, which should have told you that you were looking in the wrong dictionary, for the wrong dialect.
Said of a program or feature that is considered obsolescent and in the process of being phased out, usually in favor of a specified replacement.
I don't care what the English Lit grads mean when they use that obscure English dialect. When you're talking to programmers, we expect deprecation to come with a new replacement.
Good point. Now that I know that their AJAX API is just a presentation layer, not a data access, API, it's clear that Google isn't just "deprecating" an API. It's depreciating the value of that API to outsiders, to capture more of the value for Google. I expect subsequent revisions to include authentication for charging for access to Google.
How could this deprecation of a SOAP API mark the end of "ubiquitous middleware" (as if that even existed) when deprecation means an API change, not a feature shutdown?
Google is replacing SOAP with an AJAX API. Maybe it is a blow to SOAP - which is long overdue for the 1990s graveyard. But how could that be bad for open-access middleware when there's a new, better API?
How come there isn't more combination of CentOS (RHEL) and Fedora (RH)? If Red Hat leverages the same core team to do both their enterprise and "generic" OS versions, how can disparate gratis versions keep up?
I hope by "ween" you meant definitions 4 or 6, and not 5.
I was kidding a bit about "castigation". My cyberskin knows too well how Slashdot "castigation" goes. Usually more like the gibbering of the infinite monkey at its keyboard.
Chocolate is a relatively recent invention (bred by South/Western "Mexican" Gulf coasters in the last thousand or so years). And not essential to human survival - though some menstruating women would kill me for saying so.
I wonder what results they'd get with oils from oranges or other citrus fruits. Which humans evolved with, along with our sense of smell, and depend upon for survival (unlike most animals, we don't synthesize vitamin C).
And I'd like to see the differential results for chocolate sniffing sorted by gender, and by menstrual phase for females.
It's certainly more informative than the post to which I replied, "Because they'd blow away?", is, say, "insightful".
Look, just because you tried to call me stupid by couldn't get away with it without getting spanked with your own paddle, doesn't mean you can salve your wounded ego by making weak insulting comments elsewhere in reply to mine.
You've got a much more promising career as an anonymous slashstalker. Save your mod points!
It's being done with the purpose of property sales, from a trendy apartment with good views and unique publicity. It's being reported in the name of solar power.
Well, you're right that it's not being done by the developers in the name of solar power. It's being done in the name of "time": the building is named the "Times Residences", and all the quotes from the developers are in terms of time, not the Sun per se. In fact, it rotates 360' over 7 days, which makes its rotation related to the Sun, but not by any connection to solar power. The solar angle comes in because the relatively slow rotation rate can be powered by what they measure in "kettles", which I suppose is a joint British/Dubaian unit of power consumption.
The difference in priority between the news and the salespeople really tells us a lot about their different audiences.
I'd like to see a physical chemist's economic analysis of the difference between compressing gas to CNG vs chemically converting it to a liquid like m/ethanol, and the economics of the different fuelcells that "burn" each. The cost of the machines and the differential efficiencies.
Then there'd be the tradeoffs of (probably) noisy compression vs (possibly) smelly liquefaction.
As for the PSC, they'll have to catch me first. And by the time they did, there'd be enough of us doing it "underground" that we'd have a basis to change those monopoly protection laws to accommodate the new age of distributed power.
The full costs of petrofuel electric delivery aren't reflected in its price. They include environmental and military damage, and other costs hidden by global geopolitical economics. And then there's the actual subsidies to the energy corps.
The main limit to supply/demand of energy these days is the delivery capacity of oil producing nations. Which are tuned to deliver close to the demand, to maximize prices even when Mideast wars aren't creating "risk premiums" that just enrich the risktakers. Global consumption is about 85Gbbl:d the past year, and production is about the same. The Saudis just announced they're cutting production. In fact, it looks like oil production peaked globally for all time back in 2005.
It's all very complex. But as I said, and you've now repeated, actual energy is abundant near Earth's surface, where we live. We shouldn't choose: we should harness enough wind until we can at least guess we're screwing up yet another complex environmental feedback system. Same with tide, geothermal and solar - which all have a lot more slack compared to even modern civilization's consumption rate. Solar especially should directly power DC devices, including remote radio equipment, rather than DC/AC/DC conversion and long lines transmission.
In the future, Americans will never get out of our cars (if we survive). Because we'll all be consuming around 5KW continuously, and we'll need to carry the batteries. We need to get the energy biz out of the Industrial Age centralization and into the distributed Info Age. Any which way we can.
Eventually we'll face the entropy glut Larry Niven envisioned his advanced civilizations dealing with: radiating all that waste heat. I hope we live to have such problems.
Here in NYC, electric costs about $0.18:KWh, or $0.05:Mj. Natural gas costs about $18:Kf^3, which is about $0.017:Mj. Fuelcells get about 40% efficiency, so that would be about $0.043:Mj consumable power. NYC has the highest electric prices in the country, so I don't know if that's competitive everywhere. But that $0.017:Mj is a Bush Era spike, complicated by Mideast wars and Indonesian tsunamis (and the price gouging that kind of press enables). The usual price of natural gas until early 2006 was about $0.009:Mj, though NYC electric has been over $0.06:Mj for years.
I like the idea of redundant power, including both AC and gas/cell. Especially since the gas pipe brings about 15SCF:min, which is about 100KW. That sure beats any residential electric company I ever heard of. And you can store a reservoir of gas as a "voltage buffer", which you can't do as efficiently (or cheaply) with batteries (even UPS).
I'm just a little surprised that even today's entry level fuelcells aren't getting snapped up to save 20% on electric in places like NYC. At $10K for a 5KW peak output fuelcell run at 2KW average, it would pay for itself after 6 months.
When their efficiency goes to 60-75%, that will be something like $0.023-0.28:Mj, or double the electric rates. Which will have gone up - they always do. Who knows, the solar power rules that require power grids to buy electric generated residentially ("run the meters backwards") might also apply to fuelcells running arbitrage on the gas/electric differential. That would double the savings, allowing maximum fuelcell capacity usage, probably paying for the fuelcell after only a couple of months.
You just described one of the many permutations of Enron's business model. All of which hinged on "deregulation", but retained regulations protecting Enron from investigation of their market abuses. Just ask Grandma Millie.
Who says no one is? That "heat" is just the entropic byproduct of the physical processes at sub/atomic scales. The Earth is just a vast computer built for pan-dimensional shades of the color blue which look like "mice" in our plane, to compute the question to the answer "42".
Turns out that Life, the Universe and Everything still means something mysterious, but it doubtless means a lot of laundry.
In fact, I'm asking for an httpd built on an archtecture like a microkernel OS. Just enough code to offer "plugin" (subprocess) interfaces, and access HW properly.
The fact is, mongrel does not run any existing modules that make HTTP worth running, which is the whole point.
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Also in 1995, my independent team added an XCMD to Macromedia's Director that let Director "movies" fetch URLs, including data from remote databases. We used an SGML dialect to mark up the datafeeds, like we'd done for realtime financial info. The GUIs were updated asynchronously.
AJAX. Even if spelled ADAS.
I did not say losing the Iraq War (or knowing it would be lost) was impeachment grounds. I said lying us into war. I think a Congressional investigation into the difference between Bush's intel and the reports he gave Congress, and the people, will show that. Those will produce Impeachment Articles. Then House managers can try to convince 18+ Republican senators to probably destroy their Party's chances to elect a Republican president in 2008, while Democrats control Congress.
So I don't think those Republicans will vote to convict. But I do think Bush should be impeached. I think the Military Commissions destruction of Habeas Corpus, and ignoring it (plus torture) are also impeachable. Unprecedented degrees of subverting the Constitution, with unprecedented consequences.
Yes, lying us into Iraq (and consistently while we've been there) and repeatedly (and unnecessarily) violating the FISA should have Bush impeached. If those crimes weren't committed with the complicity of his Republican Congress (and collaborators among its caged Democratic minority), which still retains 49 Senate votes, he'd be impeached and convicted.
As would those other presidents, specifically Bush Sr, Reagan and Johnson. Maybe even Roosevelt, though I doubt it.
Clinton's "lying" was supposedly when he said he didn't have "sex" with Lewinsky. But he asked for a written definition of "sex", which required mutual genital penetration, and was able to say truthfully that he didn't have sex with her. In the midst of a travesty of justice that made a mockery of impeachment.
Your argument is that we should repeat the injustice that created the precedent emboldening Bush Jr to violate the law in possibly the most extreme manner. I'm not responsible for those previous failures to impeach, and I won't ignore the committment to justice that is the basis for American government.
But you want to do exactly that. You even seem to think that Clinton's impeachment was legit. When investigations show Bush violated FISA to generate intel on domestic political enemies, like challengers to Republican officials, or even just corporate espionage, will that be good enough for you to want impeachment? Because that's why a Democratic Congress was willing to impeach Nixon. And why it wrote the FISA, which Bush violated.
Again: what would you impeach a president for doing? If not lying us into a catastrophic, optional war that's killed (hundreds of) thousands, bankrupted us, and destroyed our previously unparalleled global leadership, then what is impeachable? Third time I'm asking, and all I'm getting is the excuse that "everyone does it". I guess that means you think presidents are above the law. I don't.
To programmers, "deprecation" means:
I don't care what the English Lit grads mean when they use that obscure English dialect. When you're talking to programmers, we expect deprecation to come with a new replacement.
Good point. Now that I know that their AJAX API is just a presentation layer, not a data access, API, it's clear that Google isn't just "deprecating" an API. It's depreciating the value of that API to outsiders, to capture more of the value for Google. I expect subsequent revisions to include authentication for charging for access to Google.
How could this deprecation of a SOAP API mark the end of "ubiquitous middleware" (as if that even existed) when deprecation means an API change, not a feature shutdown ?
Google is replacing SOAP with an AJAX API. Maybe it is a blow to SOAP - which is long overdue for the 1990s graveyard. But how could that be bad for open-access middleware when there's a new, better API?
It's not Red Hat's problem. But it is the Fedora community's problem.
How come there isn't more combination of CentOS (RHEL) and Fedora (RH)? If Red Hat leverages the same core team to do both their enterprise and "generic" OS versions, how can disparate gratis versions keep up?
How come all the verbs in those quotes about early objects aren't in past tense?
I hope by "ween" you meant definitions 4 or 6, and not 5.
I was kidding a bit about "castigation". My cyberskin knows too well how Slashdot "castigation" goes. Usually more like the gibbering of the infinite monkey at its keyboard.
I was thinking "naval mine" while typing "landmine".
Weird how no other Slashdotter castigated me before you, considering the large traffic that message got.
Chocolate is a relatively recent invention (bred by South/Western "Mexican" Gulf coasters in the last thousand or so years). And not essential to human survival - though some menstruating women would kill me for saying so.
I wonder what results they'd get with oils from oranges or other citrus fruits. Which humans evolved with, along with our sense of smell, and depend upon for survival (unlike most animals, we don't synthesize vitamin C).
And I'd like to see the differential results for chocolate sniffing sorted by gender, and by menstrual phase for females.
It's certainly more informative than the post to which I replied, "Because they'd blow away?", is, say, "insightful".
Look, just because you tried to call me stupid by couldn't get away with it without getting spanked with your own paddle, doesn't mean you can salve your wounded ego by making weak insulting comments elsewhere in reply to mine.
You've got a much more promising career as an anonymous slashstalker. Save your mod points!
Only if you're too stupid to recognize a real person.
Or so stupid that you can't recognize your own stupidity, while spewing it on others.
No, that's not why.
It's being done with the purpose of property sales, from a trendy apartment with good views and unique publicity. It's being reported in the name of solar power.
Well, you're right that it's not being done by the developers in the name of solar power. It's being done in the name of "time": the building is named the "Times Residences", and all the quotes from the developers are in terms of time, not the Sun per se. In fact, it rotates 360' over 7 days, which makes its rotation related to the Sun, but not by any connection to solar power. The solar angle comes in because the relatively slow rotation rate can be powered by what they measure in "kettles", which I suppose is a joint British/Dubaian unit of power consumption.
The difference in priority between the news and the salespeople really tells us a lot about their different audiences.
I'd like to see a physical chemist's economic analysis of the difference between compressing gas to CNG vs chemically converting it to a liquid like m/ethanol, and the economics of the different fuelcells that "burn" each. The cost of the machines and the differential efficiencies.
Then there'd be the tradeoffs of (probably) noisy compression vs (possibly) smelly liquefaction.
As for the PSC, they'll have to catch me first. And by the time they did, there'd be enough of us doing it "underground" that we'd have a basis to change those monopoly protection laws to accommodate the new age of distributed power.
If they just rigged the building with light pipes, it wouldn't have to rotate to keep "facing" the Sun.
What an incredible waste of energy to rotate the building, in the name of solar power.
The full costs of petrofuel electric delivery aren't reflected in its price. They include environmental and military damage, and other costs hidden by global geopolitical economics. And then there's the actual subsidies to the energy corps.
The main limit to supply/demand of energy these days is the delivery capacity of oil producing nations. Which are tuned to deliver close to the demand, to maximize prices even when Mideast wars aren't creating "risk premiums" that just enrich the risktakers. Global consumption is about 85Gbbl:d the past year, and production is about the same. The Saudis just announced they're cutting production. In fact, it looks like oil production peaked globally for all time back in 2005.
It's all very complex. But as I said, and you've now repeated, actual energy is abundant near Earth's surface, where we live. We shouldn't choose: we should harness enough wind until we can at least guess we're screwing up yet another complex environmental feedback system. Same with tide, geothermal and solar - which all have a lot more slack compared to even modern civilization's consumption rate. Solar especially should directly power DC devices, including remote radio equipment, rather than DC/AC/DC conversion and long lines transmission.
In the future, Americans will never get out of our cars (if we survive). Because we'll all be consuming around 5KW continuously, and we'll need to carry the batteries. We need to get the energy biz out of the Industrial Age centralization and into the distributed Info Age. Any which way we can.
Eventually we'll face the entropy glut Larry Niven envisioned his advanced civilizations dealing with: radiating all that waste heat. I hope we live to have such problems.
Here in NYC, electric costs about $0.18:KWh, or $0.05:Mj. Natural gas costs about $18:Kf^3, which is about $0.017:Mj. Fuelcells get about 40% efficiency, so that would be about $0.043:Mj consumable power. NYC has the highest electric prices in the country, so I don't know if that's competitive everywhere. But that $0.017:Mj is a Bush Era spike, complicated by Mideast wars and Indonesian tsunamis (and the price gouging that kind of press enables). The usual price of natural gas until early 2006 was about $0.009:Mj, though NYC electric has been over $0.06:Mj for years.
I like the idea of redundant power, including both AC and gas/cell. Especially since the gas pipe brings about 15SCF:min, which is about 100KW. That sure beats any residential electric company I ever heard of. And you can store a reservoir of gas as a "voltage buffer", which you can't do as efficiently (or cheaply) with batteries (even UPS).
I'm just a little surprised that even today's entry level fuelcells aren't getting snapped up to save 20% on electric in places like NYC. At $10K for a 5KW peak output fuelcell run at 2KW average, it would pay for itself after 6 months.
When their efficiency goes to 60-75%, that will be something like $0.023-0.28:Mj, or double the electric rates. Which will have gone up - they always do. Who knows, the solar power rules that require power grids to buy electric generated residentially ("run the meters backwards") might also apply to fuelcells running arbitrage on the gas/electric differential. That would double the savings, allowing maximum fuelcell capacity usage, probably paying for the fuelcell after only a couple of months.
You just described one of the many permutations of Enron's business model. All of which hinged on "deregulation", but retained regulations protecting Enron from investigation of their market abuses. Just ask Grandma Millie.
Except blocking them won't help their privacy, for the reasons I mentioned. Because it's not just DoubleClick. And it's not just cookies.
The article addressed several things, some of which were wrong. Hence my post.
Who says no one is? That "heat" is just the entropic byproduct of the physical processes at sub/atomic scales. The Earth is just a vast computer built for pan-dimensional shades of the color blue which look like "mice" in our plane, to compute the question to the answer "42".
Turns out that Life, the Universe and Everything still means something mysterious, but it doubtless means a lot of laundry.
In fact, I'm asking for an httpd built on an archtecture like a microkernel OS. Just enough code to offer "plugin" (subprocess) interfaces, and access HW properly.
The fact is, mongrel does not run any existing modules that make HTTP worth running, which is the whole point.
Yes.
Thanks, I'll take cookies, please.