The difficult thing about programming these boards is all the states they go through in the lifecycle of getting code securely loaded. There are a million different utility scripts to change the state of code trust.
I'm curious to see how linux handles all this secure code loading stuff. Let's hope it's easier.
It probably won't be. The segment 0 and segment 1 code (which dictate the lifecycle) presumably won't change much...
CP/Q is a protected-mode operating system originally developed by IBM research in the mid 1980's. At one point it was under consideration for adoption as IBM's strategic PC OS, but the nod went to OS/2 instead.
It's been used as an embedded OS in a number of boxes, including high-end printers.
The desire to move away from CP/Q to Linux is prompted more by "political" considerations than technical ones (e.g., broaden the toolset/developer experience base)
If I remember correctly, the DMCA passed by a voice vote, so there's no record of who supported it and who didn't. This was probably intentional. And if they did this, it's unlikely that they listened to any of their constituents (save the corporations, who seem to have drafted it) no matter how vocal. After all, they can "plausibly" deny that they voted for it...must have been the other reps that did, right?
It passed the senate 99-0, so it's gonna be tough...
This is simply the subscription model, with the subscribers being ISPs on behalf of their clients rather than the end content consumer.
It's not clear to me how this can succeed.
A content provider whose content is sufficiently compelling that consumers will happily pay for it can simply collect subscriptions itself (cf. The Wall Street Journal Online).
A content provider whose content is not sufficiently compelling is SOL - if consumers aren't willing to pay for the content, why should ISPs be willing to pay for it?
I suppose a small content provider who could have been successfully charging subscriptions but couldn't manage the overhead might find this attractive, but a tool to help with direct subscriptions might fit that need better.
In brief, you have to set the computation up so that only those computations that lead to the right answer interfere constructively. All the wrong ones cancel each other out.
This is why [...] the Second Amendment [is a good thing:] to guarantee that the people always have a last resort against a tyrannical government.
I weary of this NRA-inspired doublespeak.
The "guarantee" to which you refer is simply an assurance that you can use your gun to commit suicide.
I would really love to see Charlton Heston and his bunch try to go up against your average armored division...
The rule is that a patentable idea should not be obvious to "one skilled in the art."
The problem is that the patent office doesn't seem to hire any software engineers...
Not everybody votes that way
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The exact voting procedure is up to the states, or perhaps parts of the states. In Kentucky we have electronic voting machines - no paper.
Getting everyone to agree on a single standard might help, or might not. Instilling the notion in voters that they need to doublecheck things and ask questions if they're having problems would probably help more...
I see a lot of "if you don't like who's running, write someone in" posts.
In Kentucky, at least, you can't write in anyone in a Presidential election. (I know because I once was refused the right to write in a candidate for governor. I called the election commission to complain, and they told me that the only office that doesn't take write-ins is President.)
I'd be willing to bet a (very) small amount of money that it's the same way in most states, since technically you're not voting for President, you're voting for a member of the electoral college..
I'm going to wait until Monday night, check the University of Iowa presidential futures market, and vote for the major party candidate who's behind.
My state is going for Bush regardless, but I want to give whichever candidate wins as little reason as possible to interpret his victory as some kind of mandate.
I would also encourage everyone to vote in a manner calculated to not give the same party control of the White House and Congress. Neither major party's stated goals are worthy of wholesale adoption...
From an accounting standpoint, "goodwill" is the excess a company has paid to acquire other companies over the book value of said companies.
It has nothing to do with trust or customer sat.
I don't know how goodwill is handled in a merger (and it probably depends on whether the merger is handled as a purchase or a pooling of interests), but in principle it could disappear entirely (if the buyer paid only the book value of the acquired firm's "hard" assets), increase, or decrease.
In a nutshell, Calculating God is the story of paleontologist Thomas Jericho's encounter with two alien species which visit earth, and which reveal that the cataclysmic events that shaped Earth's evolution (meteor impact, mass extinctions, etc.) all happened simultaneously on their home planets as well. Inasmuch as the aliens' home planets are pretty much by definition outside the light cone of the cataclysmic events on earth, it makes no sense to say they happened simultaneously (there will be reference frames in which they did, and reference frames in which they didn't), which appears to me to negate the mysticism on which the book's premise depends. I think...
(my theory, anyway): They don't design or build their own laptops anymore. (I'm not sure Dell ever did, or perhaps they gave it up after their first disastrous foray into notebooks.) Dell's going to have to wait for Compal and the other Taiwanese manufacturers to switch over before they'll have something to sell. Dunno whose machine Compaq puts their badge on, but no doubt someone else will either tell me or point out that I have no idea what I'm talking about...
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Anyone who thinks that "fair use" means giving away copies of music or books is a thief and an idiot.
Or the senior Senator from Utah...
The difficult thing about programming these boards is all the states they go through in the lifecycle of getting code securely loaded. There are a million different utility scripts to change the state of code trust.
I'm curious to see how linux handles all this secure code loading stuff. Let's hope it's easier.
It probably won't be. The segment 0 and segment 1 code (which dictate the lifecycle) presumably won't change much...
Probably not, but it's as close as you're going to be able to get.
BTW, how much do they cost?
The CP/Q-based version is about USD 2K. I don't think the Linux-based version is for sale yet.
CP/Q is a protected-mode operating system originally developed by IBM research in the mid 1980's. At one point it was under consideration for adoption as IBM's strategic PC OS, but the nod went to OS/2 instead.
It's been used as an embedded OS in a number of boxes, including high-end printers.
The desire to move away from CP/Q to Linux is prompted more by "political" considerations than technical ones (e.g., broaden the toolset/developer experience base)
There are lots of links from the site to the official documents, including the affadavit that will be presented to the grand jury.
Item 19 is of the most interest, I believe.
It passed the senate 99-0, so it's gonna be tough...
It's not clear to me how this can succeed.
A content provider whose content is sufficiently compelling that consumers will happily pay for it can simply collect subscriptions itself (cf. The Wall Street Journal Online).
A content provider whose content is not sufficiently compelling is SOL - if consumers aren't willing to pay for the content, why should ISPs be willing to pay for it?
I suppose a small content provider who could have been successfully charging subscriptions but couldn't manage the overhead might find this attractive, but a tool to help with direct subscriptions might fit that need better.
In brief, you have to set the computation up so that only those computations that lead to the right answer interfere constructively. All the wrong ones cancel each other out.
Many states (including KY, where I reside) levy property taxes on the assets (tangible and intangible) used in a business.
The rates in KY aren't particularly high, but every little bit helps...
This is why [...] the Second Amendment [is a good thing:] to guarantee that the people always have a last resort against a tyrannical government. I weary of this NRA-inspired doublespeak. The "guarantee" to which you refer is simply an assurance that you can use your gun to commit suicide. I would really love to see Charlton Heston and his bunch try to go up against your average armored division...
The rule is that a patentable idea should not be obvious to "one skilled in the art." The problem is that the patent office doesn't seem to hire any software engineers...
Getting everyone to agree on a single standard might help, or might not. Instilling the notion in voters that they need to doublecheck things and ask questions if they're having problems would probably help more...
In Kentucky, at least, you can't write in anyone in a Presidential election. (I know because I once was refused the right to write in a candidate for governor. I called the election commission to complain, and they told me that the only office that doesn't take write-ins is President.)
I'd be willing to bet a (very) small amount of money that it's the same way in most states, since technically you're not voting for President, you're voting for a member of the electoral college..
My state is going for Bush regardless, but I want to give whichever candidate wins as little reason as possible to interpret his victory as some kind of mandate.
I would also encourage everyone to vote in a manner calculated to not give the same party control of the White House and Congress. Neither major party's stated goals are worthy of wholesale adoption...
What would Perl be like if it was coded by a native Japanese speaker? All the Perl I've seen looks like it was...
It has nothing to do with trust or customer sat.
I don't know how goodwill is handled in a merger (and it probably depends on whether the merger is handled as a purchase or a pooling of interests), but in principle it could disappear entirely (if the buyer paid only the book value of the acquired firm's "hard" assets), increase, or decrease.
In a nutshell, Calculating God is the story of paleontologist Thomas Jericho's encounter with two alien species which visit earth, and which reveal that the cataclysmic events that shaped Earth's evolution (meteor impact, mass extinctions, etc.) all happened simultaneously on their home planets as well. Inasmuch as the aliens' home planets are pretty much by definition outside the light cone of the cataclysmic events on earth, it makes no sense to say they happened simultaneously (there will be reference frames in which they did, and reference frames in which they didn't), which appears to me to negate the mysticism on which the book's premise depends. I think...
(my theory, anyway): They don't design or build their own laptops anymore. (I'm not sure Dell ever did, or perhaps they gave it up after their first disastrous foray into notebooks.) Dell's going to have to wait for Compal and the other Taiwanese manufacturers to switch over before they'll have something to sell. Dunno whose machine Compaq puts their badge on, but no doubt someone else will either tell me or point out that I have no idea what I'm talking about...