Nobody moderated it up. He has high enough karma that he can post at a score of 2. You can tell this since it says 'score:2' but doesn't have anything like 'insightful' or 'interesting' beside it.
Essentially, this is an admission of an inferior product
Oh come on, it is no such thing. It wouldn't surprise me at all if VMWare started including a linux distro for all the people using VMWare for Windows, so that they could run linux in a box without having to go download a distro over a phone line. (Actually, that's not a bad idea at all. And it'd cost them next to nothing.) Would that make linux the inferior operating system?
Much more of a rebellion. The early usanians were quite ambivalent about using English (the language of the oppressor, after all!), there were various movements to make the official language of the country German and even, I think, Hebrew. Nothing actually got done about an official language (it's still argued about today), but that didn't stop Webster, who wrote a big dictionary, from mauling the spelling so centre became center, words ending in -our becoming -or and so forth (including -ise/-ize). His hope was that left-bank English would diverge from the other sort and eventually become a separate language, and he was quite happy to help the process along.
I'm not quite sure how you'd be able to generate a different pronunciation for -ise vs. -ize, though, so I think we can definitely rule out the speech impediment theory.
Yes, any sufficiently complex formal system will in principle have true statements that are not theorems. So what? That doesn't imply that there are no theorems, and it certainly doesn't imply that we formed a set of rules of logic based on our experience of the world. If the rules we use were influenced by our experience of the world, then different experiences would lead to different sets of rules. That doesn't seem to be the case, obviously.
To go back to the original post I replied to:
We have only one real theory of logic, we test the hypothosis frequently, it works out frequently, so we continue to use it
It works out all the time, but we'll let that slide. Our rules of logic aren't falsifiable in the way that newtonian mechanics (or any other physical theory) is. If we happen to nip off somewhere close to a black hole and notice that some things that the theory predicts are not the case, then we know the theory is at best incomplete, and we have some work to do. I don't think you can falsify a rule of logic in the same way. You can't (by definition!) arrive at a false result by following your rules. You may in due course find that there are true results that you can't get to by following your rules, and we're back to Goedel again, but that fact doesn't prove your rule wrong.
The big diffrence between logic and neutonian mechanics is that we have seen the execptions to newtonian mechanics and built better theories.
Eh, no, the big difference between logic and newtonian mechanics is that logic is provably correct (given your axioms), whereas newtonian mechanics (or quantum, or any other physical theory you care to mention) seems to describe what happens and predict what will happen. If your theory's predictions don't match your results, then you need to go and get a better theory. This is, you'll note, all empirical, but logic involves a concept of proof.
Social Darwinism is a good example. There is little doubt that natural sellection plays *some* role in our culture...
I'd say there is quite a lot of doubt about the role of natural selection in culture. Bear in mind that natural selection is a mechanism which tries to explain the huge diversity of life. There is no particular reason why it should have any applicability to culture at all (real question - has anyone got any real evidence for natural selection-like mechanisms operating in culture?). Certainly not in the way it has been used in the past, with "survival of the fittest" as a misused slogan - 'fit' here is not talking about the person who spends the most time at the gym... We are now at Godwin - 1;-)
Ah yes, the restorative powers of the British judicial system, current poster boy one A. Pinochet, of Santiago, Chile. If I ever get sick, I'll just do a bank in London...
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This is a pretty obvious point, but...
Network providers must use.net, anything with strong commercial interest is.com, non-profit organizations are.org, etc. Of those 3, an entity can only qualify into one of them, so there is no overlap.
Almost all network providers are also commercial organizations. In their view, they have a perfect right to both a.com and a.net address. I find it hard to disagree with them.
I seem to think someone suggested that Tensing was actually first up. Not that it matters much, neither of them would have got to the top w/out the other.
Well, it also has the benefit of using less disk space:). You're certainly right that there's a cost involved; whether it makes economic sense is a judgement call for the people concerned. If you think your liklihood of being sued is non-neglible, and lots of damage would be done if you had to release everything, then some sort of retention policy (or, more accurately, planned destruction policy!) makes sense.
It'll cost you a packet if you do get subpoena'd, BTW, in any case; my understanding is that you have to pay the upfront costs of providing the documents. I don't know if you get them back if the other guy loses at the end of the day, but still, if you have to pick through years worth of backup tapes extracting e-mails from (say) a proprietary, database-type system, it will cost you lots.
And yes, for my sins I did use to work for people who had real reason to worry about this stuff;)
Backups and document retention policies are very much at cross-purposes. If you back up changed files nightly, and have a decently long backup horizon, then it's quite possible that you will have an on-tape copy of something that was thought deleted (e-mail, file, whatever). You have to produce it if you have it, so then you're screwed. And, by the way, you have to produce it. If you don't, or you shred it after you've been asked for it, you could go to jail. Remember Iran-contra, and Oliver North's shredding stuff? In this context shredding == erasing your tape.
I think to get around this, you'd need to design both your directory structure and your backup strategy around your retention policy. You'd have an area where the stuff subject to retention lives. Likely your e-mail system, whatever it is, would be here. By default, stuff gets deleted after a certain period of time (according to policy). Backups of this area are done on separate tapes, which would get recycled in the same time frame, and never archived. (And don't forget to destroy that backup tape you made before you moved those files to any new machines!)
Then your only problem is when you have to explain to the president of the organization (who of course doesn't understand these things) why it is absolutely not possible for him to get back that e-mail from Fred that he left in his in-box one day too long.
That's a problem in a few Wyndham novels, I think. I went through a Wyndham phase a few years back, when the Beeb did a 'Day of the Triffids' serial. I went and read that, The Chrysalids, and also The Kraken Wakes. They all had rather feeble deus ex machina endings, I thought. I don't think it's spoiling them to say that, though; they're pretty good, or at least the first two (TKW didn't leave much of an impression).
Ctrl-p, Ctrl-w, and Ctrl-s work for almost everything (exceptions excepted, of course:). There are many valid criticisms to make of the Windows UI (close button right beside maximize, for example), but those don't really fly.
Eh. I thought Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher did a decent enough job in The Empire Strikes Back, but in the main your right, Lucas doesn't really bring out great acting. (Of course, he also didn't direct Empire.)
I can't believe I'm posting to a Star Wars discussion...
Just a question - if the problem is icons sized in pixels, would systems that use something like Display PDF help, since (presumably) they would know about point sizes, and thus render big enough to see? If so, Apple might be interested...
And that would be illegal. This is precisely what the current case is about. A monopoly by itself is perfectly legal, but using the power that monopoly gives you to get an unfair advantage in other areas is not.
It's also chunks of grass, but in this context it means something similar to "to hell with" or "nuts to". It can also be used a noun, usually as a term of mild (and often friendly) abuse (silly/stupid sod for example). Less friendly would be "Sod off!"; not as offensive as "Fuck off", but could be bad, depending on tone of voice, obviously.
As for where it comes from, given that most English curses are related to animals, sex or defecation, I'd imagine it's related to words like sodomy, sodomite, etc. Perhaps Tom Christiansen chan check in his OED.
Memory usage! in detail! I wish we could get more info like that in reviews, rather than just going through the features checklist. It actually makes it possible to make an informed decision about the program.
My informed decision:
Given the size of the spool files, applix should probably give out vouchers for reductions if you need to buy a new hard drive...
That 1024 bytes figure is a bit misleading, too. According to the technical specs (here) it had a 20-bit word size, and could hold 768 words in memory at once. So, in terms of bits, it manages to beat my ZX81 quite handily.
Yeah, that was very confused. I also couldn't see why people were worried about DOD sites not being 'competitive', whatever that was supposed to mean. I don't see that the military really should be involved in any kind of war for eyeballs (pun intended, and it made me cringe, too), so what does it matter? It's not like they need to make $$$ from their sites...
A quick dejanews search turns up a good number of people calling the key combination that, and without getting called a moron for their trouble. Honestly, this is as bad as usenet spelling flame wars. Anyway, for a more challenging vulcan nerve-pinch, you could try starting the debugger on a box running netware. left ctrl+right ctrl+alt+esc, and sometimes (if your lucky) you don't have to undislocate your fingers afterwards!
It looks very cool, but before it moves from being cool to actually being useful, I think the whole GUI metaphor would need to change to something that makes intelligent use of 3 dimensions. Then we could produce apps which used that metaphor and the 3D window manager would be more than just eye-candy.
I don't see that. You don't need to have NetWare to have NDS any more, and the pricing for NDS for NT is not absurd. I think the NT/Netware wars are pretty much over (I'd still pick Netware over NT any day of the week, though, absent any other choices!). That's not saying that it wasn't a factor in the pricing decision, but I'd be surprised if it were the primary factor.
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Nobody moderated it up. He has high enough karma
that he can post at a score of 2. You can tell this
since it says 'score:2' but doesn't have anything like
'insightful' or 'interesting' beside it.
Oh come on, it is no such thing. It wouldn't surprise me at all if VMWare started including a linux distro for all the people using VMWare for Windows, so that they could run linux in a box without having to go download a distro over a phone line. (Actually, that's not a bad idea at all. And it'd cost them next to nothing.) Would that make linux the inferior operating system?
Much more of a rebellion. The early usanians were quite ambivalent about using English (the language of the oppressor, after all!), there were various movements to make the official language of the country German and even, I think, Hebrew. Nothing actually got done about an official language (it's still argued about today), but that didn't stop Webster, who wrote a big dictionary, from mauling the spelling so centre became center, words ending in -our becoming -or and so forth (including -ise/-ize). His hope was that left-bank English would diverge from the other sort and eventually become a separate language, and he was quite happy to help the process along.
I'm not quite sure how you'd be able to generate a different pronunciation for -ise vs. -ize, though, so I think we can definitely rule out the speech impediment theory.
Yes, any sufficiently complex formal system will in principle have true statements that are not theorems. So what? That doesn't imply that there are no theorems, and it certainly doesn't imply that we formed a set of rules of logic based on our experience of the world. If the rules we use were influenced by our experience of the world, then different experiences would lead to different sets of rules. That doesn't seem to be the case, obviously.
To go back to the original post I replied to:
We have only one real theory of logic, we test the hypothosis frequently, it works out frequently, so we continue to use it
It works out all the time, but we'll let that slide. Our rules of logic aren't falsifiable in the way that newtonian mechanics (or any other physical theory) is. If we happen to nip off somewhere close to a black hole and notice that some things that the theory predicts are not the case, then we know the theory is at best incomplete, and we have some work to do. I don't think you can falsify a rule of logic in the same way. You can't (by definition!) arrive at a false result by following your rules. You may in due course find that there are true results that you can't get to by following your rules, and we're back to Goedel again, but that fact doesn't prove your rule wrong.
Eh, no, the big difference between logic and newtonian mechanics is that logic is provably correct (given your axioms), whereas newtonian mechanics (or quantum, or any other physical theory you care to mention) seems to describe what happens and predict what will happen. If your theory's predictions don't match your results, then you need to go and get a better theory. This is, you'll note, all empirical, but logic involves a concept of proof.
Social Darwinism is a good example. There is little doubt that natural sellection plays *some* role in our culture...
I'd say there is quite a lot of doubt about the role of natural selection in culture. Bear in mind that natural selection is a mechanism which tries to explain the huge diversity of life. There is no particular reason why it should have any applicability to culture at all (real question - has anyone got any real evidence for natural selection-like mechanisms operating in culture?). Certainly not in the way it has been used in the past, with "survival of the fittest" as a misused slogan - 'fit' here is not talking about the person who spends the most time at the gym... We are now at Godwin - 1 ;-)
Ah yes, the restorative powers of the British judicial system, current poster boy one A. Pinochet, of Santiago, Chile. If I ever get sick, I'll just do a bank in London...
I seem to think someone suggested that Tensing was actually first up. Not that it matters much, neither of them would have got to the top w/out the other.
It'll cost you a packet if you do get subpoena'd, BTW, in any case; my understanding is that you have to pay the upfront costs of providing the documents. I don't know if you get them back if the other guy loses at the end of the day, but still, if you have to pick through years worth of backup tapes extracting e-mails from (say) a proprietary, database-type system, it will cost you lots.
And yes, for my sins I did use to work for people who had real reason to worry about this stuff ;)
I think to get around this, you'd need to design both your directory structure and your backup strategy around your retention policy. You'd have an area where the stuff subject to retention lives. Likely your e-mail system, whatever it is, would be here. By default, stuff gets deleted after a certain period of time (according to policy). Backups of this area are done on separate tapes, which would get recycled in the same time frame, and never archived. (And don't forget to destroy that backup tape you made before you moved those files to any new machines!)
Then your only problem is when you have to explain to the president of the organization (who of course doesn't understand these things) why it is absolutely not possible for him to get back that e-mail from Fred that he left in his in-box one day too long.
That's a problem in a few Wyndham novels, I think. I went through a Wyndham phase a few years back, when the Beeb did a 'Day of the Triffids' serial. I went and read that, The Chrysalids, and also The Kraken Wakes. They all had rather feeble deus ex machina endings, I thought. I don't think it's spoiling them to say that, though; they're pretty good, or at least the first two (TKW didn't leave much of an impression).
Bah, it would make it easier for them. Having to build your own (M)MIX emulator/assembler/monitor should be part of the fun.
Ctrl-p, Ctrl-w, and Ctrl-s work for almost everything (exceptions excepted, of course :). There are many valid criticisms to make of the Windows UI (close button right beside maximize, for example), but those don't really fly.
Eh. I thought Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher did a decent enough job in The Empire Strikes Back, but in the main your right, Lucas doesn't really bring out great acting. (Of course, he also didn't direct Empire.)
I can't believe I'm posting to a Star Wars discussion...
Just a question - if the problem is icons sized in pixels, would systems that use something like Display PDF help, since (presumably) they would know about point sizes, and thus render big enough to see? If so, Apple might be interested...
And that would be illegal. This is precisely what the current case is about. A monopoly by itself is perfectly legal, but using the power that monopoly gives you to get an unfair advantage in other areas is not.
It's also chunks of grass, but in this context it means something similar to "to hell with" or "nuts to". It can also be used a noun, usually as a term of mild (and often friendly) abuse (silly/stupid sod for example). Less friendly would be "Sod off!"; not as offensive as "Fuck off", but could be bad, depending on tone of voice, obviously.
As for where it comes from, given that most English curses are related to animals, sex or defecation, I'd imagine it's related to words like sodomy, sodomite, etc. Perhaps Tom Christiansen chan check in his OED.
Huh? What kind of plugin should I use for that?
Memory usage! in detail! I wish we could get more info like that in reviews, rather than just going through the features checklist. It actually makes it possible to make an informed decision about the program.
My informed decision:
Given the size of the spool files, applix should probably give out vouchers for reductions if you need to buy a new hard drive...
That 1024 bytes figure is a bit misleading, too. According to the technical specs (here) it had a 20-bit word size, and could hold 768 words in memory at once. So, in terms of bits, it manages to beat my ZX81 quite handily.
Yeah, that was very confused. I also couldn't see why people were worried about DOD sites not being 'competitive', whatever that was supposed to mean. I don't see that the military really should be involved in any kind of war for eyeballs (pun intended, and it made me cringe, too), so what does it matter? It's not like they need to make $$$ from their sites...
A quick dejanews search turns up a good number of people calling the key combination that, and without getting called a moron for their trouble. Honestly, this is as bad as usenet spelling flame wars. Anyway, for a more challenging vulcan nerve-pinch, you could try starting the debugger on a box running netware. left ctrl+right ctrl+alt+esc, and sometimes (if your lucky) you don't have to undislocate your fingers afterwards!
It looks very cool, but before it moves from being cool to actually being useful, I think the whole GUI metaphor would need to change to something that makes intelligent use of 3 dimensions. Then we could produce apps which used that metaphor and the 3D window manager would be more than just eye-candy.
I don't see that. You don't need to have NetWare to have NDS any more, and the pricing for NDS for NT is not absurd. I think the NT/Netware wars are pretty much over (I'd still pick Netware over NT any day of the week, though, absent any other choices!). That's not saying that it wasn't a factor in the pricing decision, but I'd be surprised if it were the primary factor.