Ok so you get rich big time so did my grandfather and he's not the kind of guy I want to emulate in my life. He's rich, bitter, autocratic and not a nice man. It dosn't impress me at all that there is success if there is a mass proportion of the individuals who are prone to eventual failure.
Taking risks dosn't mean you have any more bravery than anyone else it's just that you want quick material gain. I think intellectual risks are far easier and more prone to success than material ones. If I take a gamble and decide to learn latin I have at least a sporting chance to learn latin.
Not so with businesses. I know of people who loose almost everything because their idea for a business dosn't work out. The road of business enterprise is littered with corpses of the fallen ones.
I don't think life is a bore when I can expect to have a reliable base for the rest of my life. I want the bills paid and my accounts squared away. In fact I want to be secure with a base level of understanding. Then you can be as reckeless as you want. Go skydiving, live in the woods like Thoreau, or put your head in the mouth of a lion if you wish but at least you have the ability to win. The problem comes when you risk yourself in ways that are potentially nonrecoverable (ie smoke crack, blow all your wad at vegas, start a business and loose your shirt or loose your job.).
Remember you almost never hear about the failures in businesses because they are never able to ideologically spread by a large margin in the least. This is what really allows anyone to think they have an adequate chance beating the big boys.
For those not in the know John Brown was best known for his illconceived, illplaned, and illexecuted raid on the federal armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
What most people do not know is that he basically had a really, really, really crappy life. He tried a score of jobs and failed of many of them. Many of the members of his family died of disentary and other wonderful diseases. He was constantly in debt and being hounded by creditors in addition to being very fanatical and crazy about his ideas and convictions.
Well eventually Brown got hung and his bad political ideas started a nice little miserable 4 year war about two factions in a country that didn't like the look of the either.
Why do I feel that unnecessary risks are bad? Well look at the parable that you relate to in your post about the Crow and the cheese. The crow had a perfectly good piece of cheese but he saw a mouse with something better but opened his mouth to try and get the cheese and he looses not only his own but the mouse leaves as well and he winds up with absolutely *nothing*.
The internet successes are like the stupid Horatio Alger novels that claim that hard work, honesty, and luck will make anyone a rich and happy man. What a crap.
I think that few people are qualified to judge the merits of many of the John Katz articles namely because they don't have the proper background to allow for editing and writing experience. In fact most people don't even read the essays at all and then just flame anyway. That just shows ignorance.
I have to believe that after many years that I say what I think at the time. Too many times than I can count I have been given a negative reaction from slashdot and say what I really think. If that's flamming then so be it.
Yes it has, so far. Unfortunately the time has come when the American Government has decided that the Constitution is an unfortunate oversight on the part of the Founders, who really meant to say that Big
Government was what we should all have. And what does Big Government like? That's right folks, Big Corporations who give Big Donations.
At some point you have to listen to what people say and what they think otherwise you get angry people. Also you have to balance the ammount of money that you need with what a liability it can be.
And the key phrase there is "properly used" I think. The American Government has shown precious few attempts at enforcing these laws in the face of corporate $$$ - the Microsoft case was nothing more than a sop for
the masses who, for once, could see that they were being shafted. You won't see Time-Warner being taken to court by the DOJ, that's for sure.
Really if you like living on the stret then fine bet the whole farm on some company that is probably run but stoned out hippies that are working on their new engine that runs on water or some such.
You cannot have a stable life without a stable job.
If they havn't worked out an easy method of getting computers properly beowulfed in an easy manner why are they working on another spec?
I would love to take a bunch of cheap computers and then connect them and use all their computational power to do various tasks but it's just really not that easy to do or set up. Seems that the only people who are using beowulf setups are scientific researchers that make their own configs from scratch.
I have one question what advantage of being in a country that allows me to create my own business if I am almost doomed to failure?
Starting your own successful company is difficult
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Try applying with an established company that has been around for a while. People usually don't like a resume saying that you had a bunch of jobs that lasted 6months to a year in duration.
I cannot fathom why anyone would want to risk nearly everything they own just to try and make a business that will almost certainly fail soon.
Ok so you can't get big name DVDs from other countries. Is that a bad thing? Persoanlly I would love to see a good list of movies that are effected by this that create a problem for me in the USA that I could understand without any interpreter.
You must type a lot a quite quickly
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Why would anyone need an SMP word? I mean even a puny 8086 can handle the speed which even the best typists type.
And where can I get such a system?
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I have never seen an SMP system where I live at all. Additionally I would think that paying for *two* processors in a computer would be much more expensive than one at least after a few years of waiting.
Not too fun plugging in points taking stupid derivitives. Math is not something that I feel is integral to most courses on programming unless you are programming a math program.
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P4 was supposed to be next gen a long while ago then came IA64 which turns out to be worthless.
How exactly is IA64 worthless. A 64 bit architecture is necessary eventually unless you don't want a unix machine after 2038.
The suggested price and the possible wholesale price?
It's a useful artificial impliment which enhances one's preformance of tasks which are cryptographic in nature.
Next time you want to critize sigs please look at some of the rather banal, smug ones that you see on other's and give them a whirl.
If english isn't your first language then ask what it means first.
Just read the book and adapt the contents to your own open source book. It's just that people are usually lazy.
I believe that any sufficiently advanced topic an be broken down into a format where almost anyone could undetstand.
In the practical world most people even in science and engineering usually only use up through some basic level of differential equations.
The rest is pure theory that dosn't work in the physical universe.
The information cannot be found in a satisfactory format anywhere else.
Ok so you get rich big time so did my grandfather and he's not the kind of guy I want to emulate in my life. He's rich, bitter, autocratic and not a nice man. It dosn't impress me at all that there is success if there is a mass proportion of the individuals who are prone to eventual failure.
Taking risks dosn't mean you have any more bravery than anyone else it's just that you want quick material gain. I think intellectual risks are far easier and more prone to success than material ones. If I take a gamble and decide to learn latin I have at least a sporting chance to learn latin.
Not so with businesses. I know of people who loose almost everything because their idea for a business dosn't work out. The road of business enterprise is littered with corpses of the fallen ones.
I don't think life is a bore when I can expect to have a reliable base for the rest of my life. I want the bills paid and my accounts squared away. In fact I want to be secure with a base level of understanding. Then you can be as reckeless as you want. Go skydiving, live in the woods like Thoreau, or put your head in the mouth of a lion if you wish but at least you have the ability to win. The problem comes when you risk yourself in ways that are potentially nonrecoverable (ie smoke crack, blow all your wad at vegas, start a business and loose your shirt or loose your job.).
Remember you almost never hear about the failures in businesses because they are never able to ideologically spread by a large margin in the least. This is what really allows anyone to think they have an adequate chance beating the big boys.
I doubt I really want to get a Phd in math just to undetstand something like this. Chaos theory is replete with mind bending difficulty.
For those not in the know John Brown was best known for his illconceived, illplaned, and illexecuted raid on the federal armory in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
What most people do not know is that he basically had a really, really, really crappy life. He tried a score of jobs and failed of many of them. Many of the members of his family died of disentary and other wonderful diseases. He was constantly in debt and being hounded by creditors in addition to being very fanatical and crazy about his ideas and convictions.
Well eventually Brown got hung and his bad political ideas started a nice little miserable 4 year war about two factions in a country that didn't like the look of the either.
Why do I feel that unnecessary risks are bad? Well look at the parable that you relate to in your post about the Crow and the cheese. The crow had a perfectly good piece of cheese but he saw a mouse with something better but opened his mouth to try and get the cheese and he looses not only his own but the mouse leaves as well and he winds up with absolutely *nothing*.
The internet successes are like the stupid Horatio Alger novels that claim that hard work, honesty, and luck will make anyone a rich and happy man. What a crap.
Experience? The joy of work (oxymoron)?
sorry for the confusion.
I think that few people are qualified to judge the merits of many of the John Katz articles namely because they don't have the proper background to allow for editing and writing experience. In fact most people don't even read the essays at all and then just flame anyway. That just shows ignorance.
It would be like overhearing a conversation in said bar and then arguing about it and then more people start to hear and then they comment and so on.
I have to believe that after many years that I say what I think at the time. Too many times than I can count I have been given a negative reaction from slashdot and say what I really think. If that's flamming then so be it.
Yes it has, so far. Unfortunately the time has come when the American Government has decided that the Constitution is an unfortunate oversight on the part of the Founders, who really meant to say that Big
Government was what we should all have. And what does Big Government like? That's right folks, Big Corporations who give Big Donations.
At some point you have to listen to what people say and what they think otherwise you get angry people. Also you have to balance the ammount of money that you need with what a liability it can be.
And the key phrase there is "properly used" I think. The American Government has shown precious few attempts at enforcing these laws in the face of corporate $$$ - the Microsoft case was nothing more than a sop for
the masses who, for once, could see that they were being shafted. You won't see Time-Warner being taken to court by the DOJ, that's for sure.
Eventually if they get out of hand yeah.
I mean in the end does it really matter if they guy went off to Namabia and is herding goats or got bagged by the IRS you are still out of a job.
Really if you like living on the stret then fine bet the whole farm on some company that is probably run but stoned out hippies that are working on their new engine that runs on water or some such.
You cannot have a stable life without a stable job.
If they havn't worked out an easy method of getting computers properly beowulfed in an easy manner why are they working on another spec?
I would love to take a bunch of cheap computers and then connect them and use all their computational power to do various tasks but it's just really not that easy to do or set up. Seems that the only people who are using beowulf setups are scientific researchers that make their own configs from scratch.
(newsflash: 90% of small companies go bust)
Wow that's depressing.
I have one question what advantage of being in a country that allows me to create my own business if I am almost doomed to failure?
Try applying with an established company that has been around for a while. People usually don't like a resume saying that you had a bunch of jobs that lasted 6months to a year in duration.
I cannot fathom why anyone would want to risk nearly everything they own just to try and make a business that will almost certainly fail soon.
Ok so you can't get big name DVDs from other countries. Is that a bad thing? Persoanlly I would love to see a good list of movies that are effected by this that create a problem for me in the USA that I could understand without any interpreter.
Why would anyone need an SMP word? I mean even a puny 8086 can handle the speed which even the best typists type.
I have never seen an SMP system where I live at all. Additionally I would think that paying for *two* processors in a computer would be much more expensive than one at least after a few years of waiting.
I ask this in advance because the slashdot crowd usually has cash to burn.
Not too fun plugging in points taking stupid derivitives. Math is not something that I feel is integral to most courses on programming unless you are programming a math program.