And we moved on from that because a lot of people got robbed blind or shot, and few big endeavours were worth the risk so education and infrastructure was poor.
It's better that the stupid bitcoin experiment dies now than when average people with something to lose are duped into the scam.
If it's not well regulated, open and the result of mutually beneficial agreement then expect someone smarter than you to take it from you: this rule applies to money, commerce and war.
Nope - private school scholar, mathematics to postgrad, previously worked on producing accounting systems and played with larger numbers on a day-to-day basis than you will probably see in a lifetime. Founded and sold a fairly successful business during the first dot-com boom. Thought about being an actuary once, but was well-advised against it by an ex-actuary who had gone into university lecturing - did do some preliminary qualification and achieve top mark in the country that year, though.
I wouldn't claim to have the genius of some of my ex-colleagues at school and in work, but my record suggests numerical proficiency and I have been as capitalist as a person can be.
These days I'm taking life a lot easier and, among other things, in the middle of a law degree.
After all Capitalism is a system of oppression!
It's a method of exploiting laziness in the privileged which sometimes works.
Not say, a proven mathematical model with decades of incredibly bullshit research to back it up as a model of how wealth flows and is generated.
FTFY. Microeconomics can be thoroughly useful, but macroeconomics is as scientific as theology. Sure, it involves numbers and even some funny symbols, but so does astrology.
Are you absolutely sure that you have thousands of users? Are you sure your donation system is legit? Are you sure you are asking for donations in the right way - visible, polite and proportionate request, etc.?
I've just finished some vague involvement in a fundraising drive via a raffle thing, i.e. selfish and altruistic components. We raised over $2000 over a few weeks via members on some forum alone. Some people are amazingly generous if you give them a reasonable proposition which accords with their interests. Though I guess it can depend on the culture - some groups pour away their money on things that others would never spend a cent on, even though both groups ostensibly "support" something.
Oh, I had the PC Emulator for the original Acorn, but that was 80188 software, not 486 copro!
Writing an OS for ARM never appealed to me even though I knew and loved the instruction set. I wanted something that would work with (then comparatively) well-documented "industry standard" hardware. Also, ARM26 did not iirc restart instructions properly for VM, but maybe I'm remembering wrongly.
That's a much better assumption than preferring familiarity with the Pi.
Also I'd like to see you playing about with basic hardware IO on your desktop. Where do you get the GPIOs for a start?
Yes, we all miss the Beeb's user port &c. Is the point hardware interfacing or systems programming, though? You don't need a whole new architecture just because your PC doesn't have GPIO.
Cost? Old x86 boxes are free - even laptops. Extremely low power+size are of questionable relevance for an educational tool.
Yes, ARM assembler is elegant. I recently found my first Dabs Press ARM Assembler book full of annotations I must have made when I was nine years of age. But the real world is not elegant, and it's really not a dealbreaker.
What is wrong with a VM, exactly? Why can't you develop on a VM and then test at intervals on bare hardware? It's perfectly normal. And an old x86 is effectively junk - somewhat cheaper than a Raspberry Pi.
I can't bear the idea of using a bunch of Beebs as throwaway test devices! but I guess I can understand the philosophy of using something cheap as a buffer for device development, for middle class definitions of cheap. That's entirely not the same as using it as an educational tool for systems programming, though.
I decided not to apply for Cambridge at undergrad level many years ago because it seemed to be full of people who were only there for the piece of paper and the money which would follow.
Yet Cambridge has the best reputation in the country for research and for some undergrad courses (e.g. mathematics). It could afford to select only those who are both intelligent and passionately committed. It certainly does so for certain subjects, according to some of m'colleagues, but not at all for others.
What? I have written a couple of toy operating systems for the x86 platform. The first time round was around 1998 using the Risc PC 486DX4 copro, and the second time round was much easier because I could test using a VMware / VirtualBox VM. They both boot on the bare hardware too.
I don't see why I need a Raspberry Pi for any of this this. And it is indeed not like the '80s, where only the more privileged kids had computers at home, and the programming environments were far more limited.
The Pi may be quite useful as a controller for embedded devices, but it really has very little point as an educational tool for general-purpose systems programming.
I think it's a miniature course in elements of systems programming rather than a tutorial on writing an operating system in the modern sense.
It worries me that something as simple as a Raspberry Pi is offered to all Cambridge undergrads, though. This is supposed to be the best university in the country - why are there people being admitted to its courses who aren't already playing with stuff like this in their spare time as kids?
The developers completely want the rock star to teach them the ways of rocking harder, even if it means that they're a little late for the show due to a hangover.
The day I meet a good worker with this mindset, I'll consider your position.
What keeps me from owning all the houses that wouldn't keep me from owning all the beaches?
Exactly the same thing which enables you to own your computer: society.
Surely there are more ISPs than there were before. What regulation changed?
Depends on the timescale. There are far fewer ISPs here now than there were in the mid-late '90s, despite deregulation, because firms have consolidated. But there were more in the late '90s than say the early '90s - before around 1993 there wasn't much web to fuel the demand for residential Internet (the average man cares little for Usenet;'( ).
I'm not going to address the whole thing, but to disabuse you of your misunderstanding of words...
To use a car analogy, a "reliable" car doesn't work always and forever. Otherwise I'd have said something like "perfect memory" - but that would be daft, because everyone with a memory is aware that memory isn't perfect (long before scientific study).
Read "sufficiently reliable", if you really want, in the sense that you have to assume that your memory is sufficiently reliable to reason.
Moving the goalposts much? Your original question wasn't about truth.
My OP asked for a proof of some aspect of the real world. That's a question seeking truth, not utility.
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Who said that no-one wants war to continue?
And we moved on from that because a lot of people got robbed blind or shot, and few big endeavours were worth the risk so education and infrastructure was poor.
Unless you want war to continue, you must be prepared to enter into a mutually beneficial agreement of well-regulated, open terms.
And if you really want war to continue but just fancy catching your breath (or winning an election), make sure you leave out one of those ingredients.
Excellent.
It's better that the stupid bitcoin experiment dies now than when average people with something to lose are duped into the scam.
If it's not well regulated, open and the result of mutually beneficial agreement then expect someone smarter than you to take it from you: this rule applies to money, commerce and war.
Nope - private school scholar, mathematics to postgrad, previously worked on producing accounting systems and played with larger numbers on a day-to-day basis than you will probably see in a lifetime. Founded and sold a fairly successful business during the first dot-com boom. Thought about being an actuary once, but was well-advised against it by an ex-actuary who had gone into university lecturing - did do some preliminary qualification and achieve top mark in the country that year, though.
I wouldn't claim to have the genius of some of my ex-colleagues at school and in work, but my record suggests numerical proficiency and I have been as capitalist as a person can be.
These days I'm taking life a lot easier and, among other things, in the middle of a law degree.
After all Capitalism is a system of oppression!
It's a method of exploiting laziness in the privileged which sometimes works.
Not say, a proven mathematical model with decades of incredibly bullshit research to back it up as a model of how wealth flows and is generated.
FTFY. Microeconomics can be thoroughly useful, but macroeconomics is as scientific as theology. Sure, it involves numbers and even some funny symbols, but so does astrology.
Charity is a band-aid over the wounds of capitalism.
Are you absolutely sure that you have thousands of users? Are you sure your donation system is legit? Are you sure you are asking for donations in the right way - visible, polite and proportionate request, etc.?
I've just finished some vague involvement in a fundraising drive via a raffle thing, i.e. selfish and altruistic components. We raised over $2000 over a few weeks via members on some forum alone. Some people are amazingly generous if you give them a reasonable proposition which accords with their interests. Though I guess it can depend on the culture - some groups pour away their money on things that others would never spend a cent on, even though both groups ostensibly "support" something.
:o cpu6502, I thought you were all about restrictive ownership of things.
Good on you, though.
Well, no, it's not worth actually going into someone's cinema/store/house and walking off with a physical copy of the film.
Downloading is another matter.
lol@my troll mod. Did I annoy someone in the past who has mod points today or something?
Why is that mindblowing? It's exactly the attitude people have when speeding and just as true.
And there have been some worthwhile films made in the last 15 years from Hunger (re IRA, not the Hunger Games bullshit) to El Perro.
And sometimes I like to unwind with bullshit entertainment, not something deep and clever.
(Although Slashdot's almost as good for that.)
Most good VPNs say they don't keep logs, or say they delete logs within 24 hours.
FTFY.
Oh, I had the PC Emulator for the original Acorn, but that was 80188 software, not 486 copro!
Writing an OS for ARM never appealed to me even though I knew and loved the instruction set. I wanted something that would work with (then comparatively) well-documented "industry standard" hardware. Also, ARM26 did not iirc restart instructions properly for VM, but maybe I'm remembering wrongly.
Assuming you *have* a desktop!
That's a much better assumption than preferring familiarity with the Pi.
Also I'd like to see you playing about with basic hardware IO on your desktop. Where do you get the GPIOs for a start?
Yes, we all miss the Beeb's user port &c. Is the point hardware interfacing or systems programming, though? You don't need a whole new architecture just because your PC doesn't have GPIO.
Cost? Old x86 boxes are free - even laptops. Extremely low power+size are of questionable relevance for an educational tool.
Yes, ARM assembler is elegant. I recently found my first Dabs Press ARM Assembler book full of annotations I must have made when I was nine years of age. But the real world is not elegant, and it's really not a dealbreaker.
What is wrong with a VM, exactly? Why can't you develop on a VM and then test at intervals on bare hardware? It's perfectly normal. And an old x86 is effectively junk - somewhat cheaper than a Raspberry Pi.
I can't bear the idea of using a bunch of Beebs as throwaway test devices! but I guess I can understand the philosophy of using something cheap as a buffer for device development, for middle class definitions of cheap. That's entirely not the same as using it as an educational tool for systems programming, though.
I can't see how your point is relevant to jareth's.
There is a big fat x86 sitting on everyone's desktop which works fine as an educational tool!
I decided not to apply for Cambridge at undergrad level many years ago because it seemed to be full of people who were only there for the piece of paper and the money which would follow.
Yet Cambridge has the best reputation in the country for research and for some undergrad courses (e.g. mathematics). It could afford to select only those who are both intelligent and passionately committed. It certainly does so for certain subjects, according to some of m'colleagues, but not at all for others.
What's wrong with x86?
I wouldn't call them "arts" exactly...
What? I have written a couple of toy operating systems for the x86 platform. The first time round was around 1998 using the Risc PC 486DX4 copro, and the second time round was much easier because I could test using a VMware / VirtualBox VM. They both boot on the bare hardware too.
I don't see why I need a Raspberry Pi for any of this this. And it is indeed not like the '80s, where only the more privileged kids had computers at home, and the programming environments were far more limited.
The Pi may be quite useful as a controller for embedded devices, but it really has very little point as an educational tool for general-purpose systems programming.
I think it's a miniature course in elements of systems programming rather than a tutorial on writing an operating system in the modern sense.
It worries me that something as simple as a Raspberry Pi is offered to all Cambridge undergrads, though. This is supposed to be the best university in the country - why are there people being admitted to its courses who aren't already playing with stuff like this in their spare time as kids?
The developers completely want the rock star to teach them the ways of rocking harder, even if it means that they're a little late for the show due to a hangover.
The day I meet a good worker with this mindset, I'll consider your position.
What keeps me from owning all the houses that wouldn't keep me from owning all the beaches?
Exactly the same thing which enables you to own your computer: society.
Surely there are more ISPs than there were before. What regulation changed?
Depends on the timescale. There are far fewer ISPs here now than there were in the mid-late '90s, despite deregulation, because firms have consolidated. But there were more in the late '90s than say the early '90s - before around 1993 there wasn't much web to fuel the demand for residential Internet (the average man cares little for Usenet ;'( ).
I'm not going to address the whole thing, but to disabuse you of your misunderstanding of words...
To use a car analogy, a "reliable" car doesn't work always and forever. Otherwise I'd have said something like "perfect memory" - but that would be daft, because everyone with a memory is aware that memory isn't perfect (long before scientific study).
Read "sufficiently reliable", if you really want, in the sense that you have to assume that your memory is sufficiently reliable to reason.
Moving the goalposts much? Your original question wasn't about truth.
My OP asked for a proof of some aspect of the real world. That's a question seeking truth, not utility.