America is not worse than a dictatorship. You should look into it: dictatorships are much worse. Major problems where only the richest get a say in some of the most important matters, but "no one else gets a say in anything" is far from true. Items like this show things are getting worse, but it's not as bad as you say yet.
Besides, your Australia has its serious problems, too, also at the hands of the richest. Fix your own country into a leader for the rest of us instead of whining about us as if you're not in trouble too.
Oh, guntoting Floridiot running for chief of the idiocracy:
The TSA is of course all over Florida, and has been for a decade. Of course you gun fetishists voted for the Congresses and presidents who created the TSA and gave it these insane escalating powers. You were most urgent about Bush/Cheney and their Republicans, who are most responsible for this freedom attacking agency.
You shot your mouths off for years about protecting America with your hobby guns, and you still do. Yet when they deleted your rights instead of protecting them, you cheered, donated and voted for them.
You people would be dangerous even without your guns. With them, you're a menace. A cowardly menace who are worse than useless in the cause of liberty.
If China, the Qaeda or some other enemy had installed exactly these worse than useless attacks on our rights, we'd be nuking them by now. I'm not exaggerating.
Instead it's the bribed 1%ers in Congress, and their (deductible) private jet riding 1% corporate sponsors, who are doing it.
Take note of who actually hates freedom (not just who gets accused of that by some 1%er Republican) and vote against them next November. With all your friends. Especially the ones who insist on things like the 2nd Amendment, or the 10th Amendment. They are targets in this war, and they are voting for the enemy.
How did it work out? Instead of taking Microsoft's lowball offer, Netscape had a $half-billion IPO, the biggest of all time, and the one that still defines "big IPO" a decade and a half (and two or three bubbles) later. Then Netscape was bought by AOL for even more scads of money, which let AOL do to Netscape what Microsoft wanted for less money. So, given the equivalent other results, turning down Microsoft made Netscape's shareholders (including the corporation itself) a lot more money.
But the results were not equivalent. Instead, Netscape forced the Internet to be cross-platform in ways that outlasted even Netscape Inc. According to its own agenda, not Microsoft's (extremely limited and lame one). And Netscape Inc lasted years longer, producing major innovations like Netscape Commerce Server and Netscape Directory Server (among others). Which again set the direction of the entire Internet for at least the next decade and a half (and counting).
In every way you can consider Netscape did the right thing. What could you possibly have been thinking was bad for "Netscape the Company" by turning down Microsoft?
Microsoft was buying Netscape just to screw it and shut it down. M$ evidently decided it was more profitable overall to just kill Netscape the way it did, with all monopolist crimes M$ was convicted of in 1999 - by which time Netscape was dead, because it worked.
But if M$ had bought Netscape in 1994, by the late 1990s the same people in and around Netscape would have been inspired to start a free, competing project like Mozilla - which would have produced something like Firefox as Mozilla did.
These "single turning points" are no match for the overwhelming flow of the rest of events. Which pressure the global Internet for alternatives to the main choice. That diversity and low barrier to entry are the main advantages to the Internet.
Even Microsoft isn't big, powerful or evil enough to stop that.
Learning from the past by asking "what if?" is important.
Maybe not to you. So ignore the story. But to others. Whose insights contribute to the world you live in. Sure, you're a freeloader, but at least don't get in their way.
The US still has the largest manufacturing industry of any country in the world, including China. Something like 20% of the US economy is still manufacturing. The "US doesn't make anything anymore" lie is stupid.
But it is true that the banks have totally taken over. They crashed the US economy and the world's with it, stole $TRILLIONS to get back in business, and are crashing it again and again. The copyright industry is just the same kind of monopolistic fake economy for content that the banks have set up for money.
Some speech for gaining profit is now protected, cf Citizens United.
Blackmail is not protected because it's speech that intimidates harm.
But recording the park is not harming anyone in the park, independent of what's being recorded. Your acts of speaking to (or at) people in the park might or might not be protected. But there's no public interest in stopping you from recording, or from later distributing what you recorded. The free speech in your recording/playback is protected speech.
How do I get a Clearwire 4G card? Can my Sprint HTC Shift 4G be reconfigured to use Clearwire 4G directly? If so, can it keep Sprint for voice and 3G, picking up Sprint's network when Clearwire's not available (not roaming, as I'd directly subscribe to the two networks). If the Android OS and phone HW can do it, but there's no app to do it yet, that's OK - I'll get one, or wait.
All we have to do is keep doing what we're doing. Our Greenhouse pollution is installing limits to our population even faster than our population is growing. When some more Greenhouse disasters force hundreds of millions of refugees, our species will no longer be able to support so many.
The best thing we could do, for population control and in general, is to educate and empower women. That makes them less mere baby factories, for men and for their own self-defeating purposes. And it gives the (small margin) majority of people more to give back to more than just themselves and the few people immediately around them.
Ultimately our problem is not so much the number of us as the ratio of our numbers to our ability to communicate amidst that complexity. But women are globally so uneducated and so weakened that just improving their education and power would dramatically increase the overall power to communicate. Combined with the consequential slowing or perhaps even reversing the population growth, we'd have the whole problem pinched.
I think it would be interesting to run Linux on one of the Zynq's ARMs, and run Linux on OpenRISC on the FPGA, and port Linux functions from SW into HW while leaving a complete SW Linux on the ARM. The tight integration on the chip of the two Linux instances could make the tools more effective. But really just fun, I think.
I have coded device drivers, though I have not coded Verilog or VHDL for devices. I know there will be a HW/SW interface, but I'd like it to be FPGA configs that put most of the logic into circuits that don't consume CPU cycles - but can be changed digitally as the devices and OS change around the needed interface. I'd like the OS driver to be the minimum interface to the processes accessing the device. Mapped registers that "virtualize" the device into just an API that's almost all reconfigurable HW would be good. The runtime driver logic translating protocols between the HW the OS runs on and the HW that is the device can be mostly in HW. Not so much to accelerate the device IO but to make the whole IO layer more flexible and parallel. Like if I want to plug more devices into the CPU, I can just plug in more device connectors to FPGA pins behind a header, and reconfig the FPGA to present more registers. It's more complex than that to implement, but not as complex as managing multiple drivers and the bottleneck of only so much IO port HW.
Hey, you don't happen to know where I can get a PIC18F core that'll run on a Zynq-7000? I've got an embedded PIC board with code I'd like to try turning "soft", possibly as a peripheral to a soft CPU running Linux, on the Zynq as a "virtual HW" host. Once it's all in gates I want to try porting Linux and PIC code into straight circuits. Possible?
OpenRISC/FPGA seems like an interesting platform on which to study converting OS functions from iterated CPU code into parallel circuits. Device drivers come to mind, and all the OS functions that lookup DBMs or/etc config params, but any kernel module might be a candidate. Is anyone grinding away at the OS to move it off of the CPU and into circuits?
The version number is useful as long as it's unique to each version, so you don't want them to drop it.
It's more useful if it increments with each version, though by how much doesn't matter.
A really useful version number would be a multipart that tracks independently incrementing versions of each of GUI, APIs, and file formats. That way users (and admins, and developers) could use the number to see whether a version is compatible with their people, SW or data. But nobody ever does that, though it's the only reasonable way to number versions. They go the other way, and number versions for stupidity.
Or Solaris, which was released by Sun as a successor to SunOS 4.x as "Solaris 2", while retroactively renaming SunOS 4.x as "Solaris 1". Then after Solaris 2.6 Sun called the next version Solaris 7.
There's other reasons other than marketing saying "higher version numbers are more advanced!", but they're even stupider.
Windows, for all its BS in numbering, was doing the right thing by naming versions after the release year. But I guess the further they got from the magically futuristic "2000", the more they wanted to to something like Sun did. So now we have Windows 7, even though there was never a Windows 5 or 6 (and 4.x was NT, which had its own version numbers in parallel with non-NT Windows).
Ubuntu's year.month is good. So of course everyone calls the Ubuntu version by its alliterative animal name, which must be converted into an ordinal number to mean anything. But who's counting?
Depends on how he's interviewing them. If he's just walking up to them like anyone else would in the park, and leaves them alone if they ignore him or tell him to go away, what's the point of a permit? If he's bearing down on them with lights and a big crew, that's the kind of non-park activity that might require a permit. If he's chasing them with a guy in a bigfoot suit shouting questions at them, no permit should be allowed for that.
The point is that the recording is not a legitimate basis for a permit requirement. The park should protect people from getting hassled. But not from other people in the park talking to them. Your right to enjoyment of a public space doesn't include a right for other people not to exist.
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America is not worse than a dictatorship. You should look into it: dictatorships are much worse. Major problems where only the richest get a say in some of the most important matters, but "no one else gets a say in anything" is far from true. Items like this show things are getting worse, but it's not as bad as you say yet.
Besides, your Australia has its serious problems, too, also at the hands of the richest. Fix your own country into a leader for the rest of us instead of whining about us as if you're not in trouble too.
Oh, guntoting Floridiot running for chief of the idiocracy:
The TSA is of course all over Florida, and has been for a decade. Of course you gun fetishists voted for the Congresses and presidents who created the TSA and gave it these insane escalating powers. You were most urgent about Bush/Cheney and their Republicans, who are most responsible for this freedom attacking agency.
You shot your mouths off for years about protecting America with your hobby guns, and you still do. Yet when they deleted your rights instead of protecting them, you cheered, donated and voted for them.
You people would be dangerous even without your guns. With them, you're a menace. A cowardly menace who are worse than useless in the cause of liberty.
If China, the Qaeda or some other enemy had installed exactly these worse than useless attacks on our rights, we'd be nuking them by now. I'm not exaggerating.
Instead it's the bribed 1%ers in Congress, and their (deductible) private jet riding 1% corporate sponsors, who are doing it.
Take note of who actually hates freedom (not just who gets accused of that by some 1%er Republican) and vote against them next November. With all your friends. Especially the ones who insist on things like the 2nd Amendment, or the 10th Amendment. They are targets in this war, and they are voting for the enemy.
Thanks. But I've been letting it get to me just enough to righteously flame numbskull nerds since about 1998.
How did it work out? Instead of taking Microsoft's lowball offer, Netscape had a $half-billion IPO, the biggest of all time, and the one that still defines "big IPO" a decade and a half (and two or three bubbles) later. Then Netscape was bought by AOL for even more scads of money, which let AOL do to Netscape what Microsoft wanted for less money. So, given the equivalent other results, turning down Microsoft made Netscape's shareholders (including the corporation itself) a lot more money.
But the results were not equivalent. Instead, Netscape forced the Internet to be cross-platform in ways that outlasted even Netscape Inc. According to its own agenda, not Microsoft's (extremely limited and lame one). And Netscape Inc lasted years longer, producing major innovations like Netscape Commerce Server and Netscape Directory Server (among others). Which again set the direction of the entire Internet for at least the next decade and a half (and counting).
In every way you can consider Netscape did the right thing. What could you possibly have been thinking was bad for "Netscape the Company" by turning down Microsoft?
Microsoft was buying Netscape just to screw it and shut it down. M$ evidently decided it was more profitable overall to just kill Netscape the way it did, with all monopolist crimes M$ was convicted of in 1999 - by which time Netscape was dead, because it worked.
But if M$ had bought Netscape in 1994, by the late 1990s the same people in and around Netscape would have been inspired to start a free, competing project like Mozilla - which would have produced something like Firefox as Mozilla did.
These "single turning points" are no match for the overwhelming flow of the rest of events. Which pressure the global Internet for alternatives to the main choice. That diversity and low barrier to entry are the main advantages to the Internet.
Even Microsoft isn't big, powerful or evil enough to stop that.
Learning from the past by asking "what if?" is important.
Maybe not to you. So ignore the story. But to others. Whose insights contribute to the world you live in. Sure, you're a freeloader, but at least don't get in their way.
Some nerds are really dumbdowners.
The US still has the largest manufacturing industry of any country in the world, including China. Something like 20% of the US economy is still manufacturing. The "US doesn't make anything anymore" lie is stupid.
But it is true that the banks have totally taken over. They crashed the US economy and the world's with it, stole $TRILLIONS to get back in business, and are crashing it again and again. The copyright industry is just the same kind of monopolistic fake economy for content that the banks have set up for money.
Harass? No. And a film permit isn't the permit that prohibits harassment.
You're just siding with the man.
Some speech for gaining profit is now protected, cf Citizens United.
Blackmail is not protected because it's speech that intimidates harm.
But recording the park is not harming anyone in the park, independent of what's being recorded. Your acts of speaking to (or at) people in the park might or might not be protected. But there's no public interest in stopping you from recording, or from later distributing what you recorded. The free speech in your recording/playback is protected speech.
How do I get a Clearwire 4G card? Can my Sprint HTC Shift 4G be reconfigured to use Clearwire 4G directly? If so, can it keep Sprint for voice and 3G, picking up Sprint's network when Clearwire's not available (not roaming, as I'd directly subscribe to the two networks). If the Android OS and phone HW can do it, but there's no app to do it yet, that's OK - I'll get one, or wait.
You obviously have never had a female speak with you. Your interest in sex is purely hypothetical.
All we have to do is keep doing what we're doing. Our Greenhouse pollution is installing limits to our population even faster than our population is growing. When some more Greenhouse disasters force hundreds of millions of refugees, our species will no longer be able to support so many.
Nature bats last.
The best thing we could do, for population control and in general, is to educate and empower women. That makes them less mere baby factories, for men and for their own self-defeating purposes. And it gives the (small margin) majority of people more to give back to more than just themselves and the few people immediately around them.
Ultimately our problem is not so much the number of us as the ratio of our numbers to our ability to communicate amidst that complexity. But women are globally so uneducated and so weakened that just improving their education and power would dramatically increase the overall power to communicate. Combined with the consequential slowing or perhaps even reversing the population growth, we'd have the whole problem pinched.
I think it would be interesting to run Linux on one of the Zynq's ARMs, and run Linux on OpenRISC on the FPGA, and port Linux functions from SW into HW while leaving a complete SW Linux on the ARM. The tight integration on the chip of the two Linux instances could make the tools more effective. But really just fun, I think.
I have coded device drivers, though I have not coded Verilog or VHDL for devices. I know there will be a HW/SW interface, but I'd like it to be FPGA configs that put most of the logic into circuits that don't consume CPU cycles - but can be changed digitally as the devices and OS change around the needed interface. I'd like the OS driver to be the minimum interface to the processes accessing the device. Mapped registers that "virtualize" the device into just an API that's almost all reconfigurable HW would be good. The runtime driver logic translating protocols between the HW the OS runs on and the HW that is the device can be mostly in HW. Not so much to accelerate the device IO but to make the whole IO layer more flexible and parallel. Like if I want to plug more devices into the CPU, I can just plug in more device connectors to FPGA pins behind a header, and reconfig the FPGA to present more registers. It's more complex than that to implement, but not as complex as managing multiple drivers and the bottleneck of only so much IO port HW.
Hey, you don't happen to know where I can get a PIC18F core that'll run on a Zynq-7000? I've got an embedded PIC board with code I'd like to try turning "soft", possibly as a peripheral to a soft CPU running Linux, on the Zynq as a "virtual HW" host. Once it's all in gates I want to try porting Linux and PIC code into straight circuits. Possible?
OpenRISC/FPGA seems like an interesting platform on which to study converting OS functions from iterated CPU code into parallel circuits. Device drivers come to mind, and all the OS functions that lookup DBMs or /etc config params, but any kernel module might be a candidate. Is anyone grinding away at the OS to move it off of the CPU and into circuits?
Can I implement it on a Zynq-7000? How many gates does it consume (and so how many left over on the Zynq)?
The version number is useful as long as it's unique to each version, so you don't want them to drop it.
It's more useful if it increments with each version, though by how much doesn't matter.
A really useful version number would be a multipart that tracks independently incrementing versions of each of GUI, APIs, and file formats. That way users (and admins, and developers) could use the number to see whether a version is compatible with their people, SW or data. But nobody ever does that, though it's the only reasonable way to number versions. They go the other way, and number versions for stupidity.
Word for Linux 3.11 for Workgroups for Pen Computing FTW!
Or Solaris, which was released by Sun as a successor to SunOS 4.x as "Solaris 2", while retroactively renaming SunOS 4.x as "Solaris 1". Then after Solaris 2.6 Sun called the next version Solaris 7.
There's other reasons other than marketing saying "higher version numbers are more advanced!", but they're even stupider.
Windows, for all its BS in numbering, was doing the right thing by naming versions after the release year. But I guess the further they got from the magically futuristic "2000", the more they wanted to to something like Sun did. So now we have Windows 7, even though there was never a Windows 5 or 6 (and 4.x was NT, which had its own version numbers in parallel with non-NT Windows).
Ubuntu's year.month is good. So of course everyone calls the Ubuntu version by its alliterative animal name, which must be converted into an ordinal number to mean anything. But who's counting?
Is there an FPGA big enough to implement the OpenRISC on it? Has anyone done that yet?
Depends on how he's interviewing them. If he's just walking up to them like anyone else would in the park, and leaves them alone if they ignore him or tell him to go away, what's the point of a permit? If he's bearing down on them with lights and a big crew, that's the kind of non-park activity that might require a permit. If he's chasing them with a guy in a bigfoot suit shouting questions at them, no permit should be allowed for that.
The point is that the recording is not a legitimate basis for a permit requirement. The park should protect people from getting hassled. But not from other people in the park talking to them. Your right to enjoyment of a public space doesn't include a right for other people not to exist.
When I occasionally do get a 4G signal (standing on a sidewalk with my 4G phone), I've tested Sprint to download up to 3.4Mbps.