I'm not convinced that keeping an old i386 alive is such a good idea from an environmental point of view. If you get a $25 Raspberry Pi, the added waste to the landfill is not more than a single ISA card from the i386 (e.g. to add network capabilities), but it runs on 3.5 Watts instead of 120. So yes, it is possible to keep old i386 alive with Linux, and no, there is not much point in doing so except the smug "because I can".
It would clock in at rank 3 or 4, because the current rank 3 has 10 petaFLOPS Rpeak, (which isn't an Intel System, but POWER based), and the rank 4 is currently an Intel system at 3 petaFLOPs Rpeak.
It won't work that way, because there are only a few lines of Linux kernels and hundreds of distributions. With Windows, you have a few lines of kernels too, but only a handful of distributions (a.k.a. home, professional, server, database server etc.pp.).
So yes, it's Windows NT 6.1 with the distributions Windows 7 Home and Professional and Windows 2010 Server. But look how many Linux distributions are currently shipping with Linux 3.0!
Boycotts and consumer protests are just the mild variant of riots. Because the libertarian way of doing things does not limit what an individual or a corporation can do, it also doesn't limit what boycotts and consumer protests can do. Basicly: purely libertarian means: more riots, more racketeering, more things that can go wrong, and more collateral damage for every mistake or deliberate misdeed one makes.
There are users with different priviledges for a reason. It is quite possible that a person rightly knows the password for a guest account (for instance for monitoring reasons), but is not entitled any more priviledges. If this person then can escalate the guest priviledges to factory, you have a completely different set of problems than password security.
A list of UIUDs is basicly a database, not a creative work in itself. You only get copyright protection for databases in the E.U., but not in the U.S. (I wonder, why there is no database giant based in the E.U., but a lot of them are in the U.S.:) )
Regulation does imply a more powerful goverment. If someone runs afoul the regulation, the government steps in and hands out punitive fees, prison time or exclusion from government contracts. This amounts to actively reign into formerly autonomous business processes or personal decisions. Each regulation gives the government more power. Before the regulation, the government had no right to interfere. Regulation gives the right to the government. And each additional regulation forces the government to actively administer the regulation, and thus to add governmental jobs. There is no point in regulation if there is no one to enforce it.
To add to that: Also in most of the other Roman provinces which were conquered by Germans, the German ruling elite spoke Latin, because of the tribes being former foederati, like Hispania (visigoths) or Gallia (franconians). And most of the german kingdoms were pretty shortlived. The Vandal kingdom in the former province Africa lasted only some decades before it was conquered by the Bycantinians, which also conquered Italy (Ostrogoths), the south of Hispania and the Narbonnensis in southern Gallia. Other german kingdoms like Burgundy or Lombardy fell victim to the franconian expansion. And finally, the visigoth kingdom in Spain was conquered by the Arabs in 710 AD, and the reconquista was started in northern Spain by local, Roman speaking noblemen. The only lasting german kingdom was that of the Franconians, and where it overlapped with former Roman provinces (mainly Gallia), the gallo-roman population and the ruling Latin speaking elite caused the german language to withdraw. It now mainly shows up in many french names which have german roots: Gérard (Gerhart), Bernard (Bernhart), Guy or Guido (Wido), Rainier (Reinhart), Raimond (Reimund), Louis (Chlodwig, Clovis) or Armand (Hermann).
Martin Luther King's family quarreling over his heritage and estate is no less functional and quite similar to many other families feuding over the heritage and estate of their only ever famous late member.
They never endured long and lasting conquests. The horsemen tribes which ruled there (Huns, Magyars, Mongols, Tatars) did so only for a short time and never managed to establish lasting kingdoms there. The Migration Period which caused many tribes to move west was stopped for more than 500 years at the Roman Limes (if we count the wandering Cimberians and Teutons in 101 BC as the first tribes of the Migration), and when it finally gave way in the 4th and 5th century, mainly german tribes settled in the former Roman provinces, and the established Franconian kingdom soon started to push east again.
Most of the German Rulers (Odoacer, Theodoric) in Italy after the end of the Roman Empire were foederati before, that means Germans contracted to serve Rome. Odoacer for instance was commander in chief of the Roman army before toppling the last Roman Emperor. So the Germans ruling in Italy spoke Latin too - at least their ruling elite did. And their tribes were by far outnumbered (1:10) by the local, Latin or an italian dialect speaking population. So the german rule (which only lasted 70 years in Italy) didn't really make a dent into the local language.
The problem with the concept of "stop payments to the estate as soon as the original author dies" is that it creates an incentive to cause an early death to authors to get their products for free. Thus the idea to either couple the term to the date of first publication or to extend the terms long enough after the death of the author to make it unprofitable to send out the killer squads.
You know that the Tevatron was built with US$ 120 mio of 1983, meaning something about half a billion today? And that there were significant upgrades since then, costing another half a billion? And there are operating costs and much more. And it will never turn a profit, being a purely basic research facility. I don't know if you will get enough money for that on kickstarter.
Innovation means "renewment" from latin nova = new. If I do the same stuff in a new way, I am innovative. If I am doing something new with the same stuff, I am innovative. If I am doing something new with new stuff, I am innovative.
The problem is that like all marketing, "new" is a very flexible word, and so is innovation. From "now with 25% more vapor" to a complete cultural change with other social structures, hierarchies and priorities, all can be "innovative". The author argues, that the increases in productivity that came from the inventions in IR#1 (steam engine and mechanical looms, turning craft and manufacture into industry) and IR#2 (electricity, internal combustion engine, internal plumbing, empowering the individual and making us independent from lots of exterior circumstances) had a much higher impact than the IR#3 (computing and data processing), because IR#3 is more about improvement of service delivery and entertainment than about a complete redesign of complete parts of the society, thus the gains in productivity are much lower.
The first artist who got a copyright on his own work was Albrecht Duerer - 100 years after the first copyrights (imprimatur, as they were called then) were handed out, and only because he was the Albrecht Duerer, and some people felt that his works were actually his to profit on. The first law to recognize that an artist has a general right to his own works was the Statute of Anne 1710 -- 250 years after the first imprimatur. All those laws and principles were designed foremost to protect the manufacturer, the rewarding of the creator has always been an afterthought.
I notice my lefthandedness everytime I don't use the number pad. In fact, I never enter numbers with the number pad, because I am so used to the number keys on top of the keyboard, which I reach with my left hand.
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I'm not convinced that keeping an old i386 alive is such a good idea from an environmental point of view. If you get a $25 Raspberry Pi, the added waste to the landfill is not more than a single ISA card from the i386 (e.g. to add network capabilities), but it runs on 3.5 Watts instead of 120. So yes, it is possible to keep old i386 alive with Linux, and no, there is not much point in doing so except the smug "because I can".
You think, XXV Window may be more appropriate?
It would clock in at rank 3 or 4, because the current rank 3 has 10 petaFLOPS Rpeak, (which isn't an Intel System, but POWER based), and the rank 4 is currently an Intel system at 3 petaFLOPs Rpeak.
There is actually a software, where the first incarnation was called 3, the second 3.1, the third 3.14: TeX (currently being at 3.1415926).
It won't work that way, because there are only a few lines of Linux kernels and hundreds of distributions.
With Windows, you have a few lines of kernels too, but only a handful of distributions (a.k.a. home, professional, server, database server etc.pp.).
So yes, it's Windows NT 6.1 with the distributions Windows 7 Home and Professional and Windows 2010 Server. But look how many Linux distributions are currently shipping with Linux 3.0!
Boycotts and consumer protests are just the mild variant of riots. Because the libertarian way of doing things does not limit what an individual or a corporation can do, it also doesn't limit what boycotts and consumer protests can do.
Basicly: purely libertarian means: more riots, more racketeering, more things that can go wrong, and more collateral damage for every mistake or deliberate misdeed one makes.
Wrong. Completely wrong.
You are missing the most important aspect.
There are users with different priviledges for a reason. It is quite possible that a person rightly knows the password for a guest account (for instance for monitoring reasons), but is not entitled any more priviledges.
If this person then can escalate the guest priviledges to factory, you have a completely different set of problems than password security.
A list of UIUDs is basicly a database, not a creative work in itself. You only get copyright protection for databases in the E.U., but not in the U.S. (I wonder, why there is no database giant based in the E.U., but a lot of them are in the U.S. :) )
Regulation does imply a more powerful goverment. If someone runs afoul the regulation, the government steps in and hands out punitive fees, prison time or exclusion from government contracts. This amounts to actively reign into formerly autonomous business processes or personal decisions.
Each regulation gives the government more power. Before the regulation, the government had no right to interfere. Regulation gives the right to the government. And each additional regulation forces the government to actively administer the regulation, and thus to add governmental jobs.
There is no point in regulation if there is no one to enforce it.
To add to that: Also in most of the other Roman provinces which were conquered by Germans, the German ruling elite spoke Latin, because of the tribes being former foederati, like Hispania (visigoths) or Gallia (franconians). And most of the german kingdoms were pretty shortlived. The Vandal kingdom in the former province Africa lasted only some decades before it was conquered by the Bycantinians, which also conquered Italy (Ostrogoths), the south of Hispania and the Narbonnensis in southern Gallia. Other german kingdoms like Burgundy or Lombardy fell victim to the franconian expansion. And finally, the visigoth kingdom in Spain was conquered by the Arabs in 710 AD, and the reconquista was started in northern Spain by local, Roman speaking noblemen.
The only lasting german kingdom was that of the Franconians, and where it overlapped with former Roman provinces (mainly Gallia), the gallo-roman population and the ruling Latin speaking elite caused the german language to withdraw. It now mainly shows up in many french names which have german roots: Gérard (Gerhart), Bernard (Bernhart), Guy or Guido (Wido), Rainier (Reinhart), Raimond (Reimund), Louis (Chlodwig, Clovis) or Armand (Hermann).
Martin Luther King's family quarreling over his heritage and estate is no less functional and quite similar to many other families feuding over the heritage and estate of their only ever famous late member.
They never endured long and lasting conquests. The horsemen tribes which ruled there (Huns, Magyars, Mongols, Tatars) did so only for a short time and never managed to establish lasting kingdoms there. The Migration Period which caused many tribes to move west was stopped for more than 500 years at the Roman Limes (if we count the wandering Cimberians and Teutons in 101 BC as the first tribes of the Migration), and when it finally gave way in the 4th and 5th century, mainly german tribes settled in the former Roman provinces, and the established Franconian kingdom soon started to push east again.
Most of the German Rulers (Odoacer, Theodoric) in Italy after the end of the Roman Empire were foederati before, that means Germans contracted to serve Rome. Odoacer for instance was commander in chief of the Roman army before toppling the last Roman Emperor. So the Germans ruling in Italy spoke Latin too - at least their ruling elite did. And their tribes were by far outnumbered (1:10) by the local, Latin or an italian dialect speaking population. So the german rule (which only lasted 70 years in Italy) didn't really make a dent into the local language.
Each corporation that is a direct competitor to the original licensee for instance.
The problem with the concept of "stop payments to the estate as soon as the original author dies" is that it creates an incentive to cause an early death to authors to get their products for free. Thus the idea to either couple the term to the date of first publication or to extend the terms long enough after the death of the author to make it unprofitable to send out the killer squads.
You mean: contributing to CyanogenMod?
You know that the Tevatron was built with US$ 120 mio of 1983, meaning something about half a billion today? And that there were significant upgrades since then, costing another half a billion? And there are operating costs and much more. And it will never turn a profit, being a purely basic research facility. I don't know if you will get enough money for that on kickstarter.
I don't. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp-growth
Looks as if Germany's GDP is managing just fine.
You are thinking of the Bumber Dumper?
I have to protest this one.
Innovation means "renewment" from latin nova = new. If I do the same stuff in a new way, I am innovative. If I am doing something new with the same stuff, I am innovative. If I am doing something new with new stuff, I am innovative.
The problem is that like all marketing, "new" is a very flexible word, and so is innovation. From "now with 25% more vapor" to a complete cultural change with other social structures, hierarchies and priorities, all can be "innovative". The author argues, that the increases in productivity that came from the inventions in IR#1 (steam engine and mechanical looms, turning craft and manufacture into industry) and IR#2 (electricity, internal combustion engine, internal plumbing, empowering the individual and making us independent from lots of exterior circumstances) had a much higher impact than the IR#3 (computing and data processing), because IR#3 is more about improvement of service delivery and entertainment than about a complete redesign of complete parts of the society, thus the gains in productivity are much lower.
College-aged women have an easier time getting laid.
Essentially, all fly-by-wire planes fly you. Not only in Soviet Russia.
The first artist who got a copyright on his own work was Albrecht Duerer - 100 years after the first copyrights (imprimatur, as they were called then) were handed out, and only because he was the Albrecht Duerer , and some people felt that his works were actually his to profit on. The first law to recognize that an artist has a general right to his own works was the Statute of Anne 1710 -- 250 years after the first imprimatur. All those laws and principles were designed foremost to protect the manufacturer, the rewarding of the creator has always been an afterthought.
I notice my lefthandedness everytime I don't use the number pad. In fact, I never enter numbers with the number pad, because I am so used to the number keys on top of the keyboard, which I reach with my left hand.
A large portion of the reasons for Dell to lie about their accounting was that they didn't want anyone to figure that they were collapsing.