Total Information Awareness, the Defense Department's system to record and monitor everything Americans do, will fail to detect coming attacks on the United States -- but TIA will find new life as an invaluable opposition-research tool for political campaigns. For example, Democrats will aim the system at Trent Lott in an effort to discover "patterns" of Republicans with questionable histories on race relations -- and TIA will attempt to predict the next time one of them will make a racist gaffe. This will cause Republicans to call for TIA to be immediately dismantled, but Democrats will accuse them of being soft on terrorism.
Ok, so, I can buy the democrats using the Republicans' own tool against them, but HONESTLY, you think that they'll really use REPUBLICAN party cries that we should have more big brother monitoring, more warfare, more so forth? For them to make that statement would require a change in platform that is distinctly toward the right. They'll use the tool, they'll maybe make predictions, they won't dare tell their constituents that we need more wiretaps... if they did that they might as well change their party mascot to the elephant;-)
That's part of the problem. You get your free phone and tie yourself into a 2 year contract with a provider. If you want to break that contract you're charged a fee that's high enough to pay for several months of service. Either way, they're getting money without providing service. They'll never turn away anyone. They couldn't expand fast enough if they wanted to, and they have no motivation to do so anyway.
I went to the mall and brought up IE on an 800 MHz mac faster than it comes up on my 2GHz Windows box or Mozilla on my 2GHz Linux box. Perhaps that's all cruft from having a system that's heavily used, but it certainly seemed well tuned to me.
Well, I apologize, I didn't mean for that to come out as it did. What I was saying wasn't that they organized and yadda yadda (though a couple hundred years ago they did). What I was saying was that there are cities such as blandings utah and other such areas that are somewhat dominated by one group. I wasn't trying to sound offensive, what I was saying was that this has never succeeded and never will, the best you'll get is a large constituency that will stay there until the end of time. Just like any other political group that has tried the same thing. I see no reason to compete directly with your former faith. I was merely saying that much more influential groups than some damn website can't even make a scratch.
Does this strike anyone else as idiotic?
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Ok, so, the idea is to move a whole shitload of people to one area and create a state where libertarianism rules supreme. This sounds vaguely like what the Mormons do, and they've got a good head start on us. You might get a significant constituency, or a city, but a state is certainly outside the grasp of this.
Ok, so, I work in a lab with several programmers from a rival company (at my client's facility). While there, I sit at a Sun workstation.
Ok, so, from bash I use name completion in the shell right. Every time I do that, the keyboard beeps. I'm sure that these windows programmers think that I'm breaking that damn computer with all of those "error beeps."
Actually, I think that you could see that error message.
If you are booting Linux via a serial connection, so all of the text output is being pushed to serial, then you would see the error message over serial, even though your monitor never comes up.
I don't really care if MS uses Palladium to stop people from pirating software, good on them. The REAL problem is them using Digital Rights Management to control what software you can run on your computer regardless of license.
Without the right signature for DRM, you can't run a piece of software that isn't licensed to run on that hardware. IE, not "I don't have my 30 day license," but "I wrote some software, and didn't pay the company that made the OS so I could write it." In other words, bye bye Linux.
The article doesn't seem to cover if his patents cover this, since thats what I THOUGHT they were talking about until the last few lines where they talk about piracy.
The companies have confirmed in an experiment that data can be transmitted at 10 megabits per second, comparable to the speed of a broadband Internet connection, it said.
And in what area are you getting 10 megabits to begin with? I want to move there. That's roughly 5x the cap where I live.
Three Dimensional Robot?
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This is TRUELY revolutionary by relation to all of those 2 dimensional robots I see around.
So, how does the doctor work with a 3 dimensional robot? Do you draw funny glasses on him?
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...or an XBox from ThinkGeek.com?
Duh, it's humor
Total Information Awareness, the Defense Department's system to record and monitor everything Americans do, will fail to detect coming attacks on the United States -- but TIA will find new life as an invaluable opposition-research tool for political campaigns. For example, Democrats will aim the system at Trent Lott in an effort to discover "patterns" of Republicans with questionable histories on race relations -- and TIA will attempt to predict the next time one of them will make a racist gaffe. This will cause Republicans to call for TIA to be immediately dismantled, but Democrats will accuse them of being soft on terrorism.
;-)
Ok, so, I can buy the democrats using the Republicans' own tool against them, but HONESTLY, you think that they'll really use REPUBLICAN party cries that we should have more big brother monitoring, more warfare, more so forth? For them to make that statement would require a change in platform that is distinctly toward the right. They'll use the tool, they'll maybe make predictions, they won't dare tell their constituents that we need more wiretaps... if they did that they might as well change their party mascot to the elephant
How long ago were you a Unix Operator, and when did this "StartOffice" product come out?
Hey, lets not go torturing the poor fellow!
*sigh* emacs vs just about any other ide?
goodness.
Huge bloated development environments?
You're speaking of gcc/make vs MSVC++?
I use Forte at work, it's what I would refer to as "somewhat complete" despite its shortcomings in a few areas.
I don't see any filters over that fan... Wouldn't it be better if there were SOMETHING there to block dust from getting in?
That's part of the problem. You get your free phone and tie yourself into a 2 year contract with a provider. If you want to break that contract you're charged a fee that's high enough to pay for several months of service. Either way, they're getting money without providing service. They'll never turn away anyone. They couldn't expand fast enough if they wanted to, and they have no motivation to do so anyway.
When I ran the MacOS box it loaded as soon as the icon was clicked. Not "in under a second," but indistinguishable from the mouse click.
I went to the mall and brought up IE on an 800 MHz mac faster than it comes up on my 2GHz Windows box or Mozilla on my 2GHz Linux box. Perhaps that's all cruft from having a system that's heavily used, but it certainly seemed well tuned to me.
For a book deal?
That's nothing. He's practically doing it pro-bono.
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Uhh...
Performance is an issue in enterprise applications. The difference between buying 50 servers and 100 servers matters.
I've had one of these for a few years now, not this model, but a different one.
It's about as likely to work as I am to find a date.
Wow, you got really pissed off there.
Well, I apologize, I didn't mean for that to come out as it did. What I was saying wasn't that they organized and yadda yadda (though a couple hundred years ago they did). What I was saying was that there are cities such as blandings utah and other such areas that are somewhat dominated by one group. I wasn't trying to sound offensive, what I was saying was that this has never succeeded and never will, the best you'll get is a large constituency that will stay there until the end of time. Just like any other political group that has tried the same thing. I see no reason to compete directly with your former faith. I was merely saying that much more influential groups than some damn website can't even make a scratch.
Ok, so, the idea is to move a whole shitload of people to one area and create a state where libertarianism rules supreme. This sounds vaguely like what the Mormons do, and they've got a good head start on us. You might get a significant constituency, or a city, but a state is certainly outside the grasp of this.
Oh even better... Linux distributions that won't run Matlab or Oracle.
Right, hardware. If I didn't pay the Microsoft tax.
Ok, so, I work in a lab with several programmers from a rival company (at my client's facility). While there, I sit at a Sun workstation.
Ok, so, from bash I use name completion in the shell right. Every time I do that, the keyboard beeps. I'm sure that these windows programmers think that I'm breaking that damn computer with all of those "error beeps."
Actually, I think that you could see that error message.
If you are booting Linux via a serial connection, so all of the text output is being pushed to serial, then you would see the error message over serial, even though your monitor never comes up.
I don't really care if MS uses Palladium to stop people from pirating software, good on them. The REAL problem is them using Digital Rights Management to control what software you can run on your computer regardless of license.
Without the right signature for DRM, you can't run a piece of software that isn't licensed to run on that hardware. IE, not "I don't have my 30 day license," but "I wrote some software, and didn't pay the company that made the OS so I could write it." In other words, bye bye Linux.
The article doesn't seem to cover if his patents cover this, since thats what I THOUGHT they were talking about until the last few lines where they talk about piracy.
The companies have confirmed in an experiment that data can be transmitted at 10 megabits per second, comparable to the speed of a broadband Internet connection, it said.
And in what area are you getting 10 megabits to begin with? I want to move there. That's roughly 5x the cap where I live.
This is TRUELY revolutionary by relation to all of those 2 dimensional robots I see around.
So, how does the doctor work with a 3 dimensional robot? Do you draw funny glasses on him?