While there is no match for Microsoft, there is an entry for Microsoft Corporation, but read for yourself:
Microsoft Corporation, leading American computer software company. [...]
It goes on for a long time, including a huge history section: Founding (mentions PDP-10, Altair 8800, and Apple), MS-DOS, Application Software, Windows; but also Recent Business Developments, and Legal Challenges (ha!).
Worth reading (if just to put more oil into the flames).
I found that I could test about half of my installed memory on a debian PPC macintosh.
mlock() on Linux allows only locking half of the physical memory per process. By running multiple (i.e., 2) processes at the same time, you can overcome this limitation. But be aware that mlock()ing too much can hang your system (probably due to too few resources).
Unfortunately, a casual glance at the two web sites gives the impression that the commercial use of ListSTAR predates the use of Listar. The first third-party review of ListSTAR seems to be from 1995, with the first "verifyable" review in 1996; whereas Listar seems to have been (developed and) used first in 1997.
While I would like to see open source projects being able to easily block trademark infringement allegiations by referring to "prior art", it doesn't seem to hold here.
-Marcel
PS: IANAL, but isn't the use of the "TM" symbol open widely (i.e., without registering and paying), and just the "(R)" requires these hassles?
And how many see the irony in the name of Pinkertons program, in light of the movie "The Wave", about a class experiment that ends up in pupils snitching on each other in the worst possible fascist style?
The "WaveAmerica" name couldn't have been more appropriately chosen. If you don't know about "The Wave" (the novel), this article provides a good summary. Blue-Eyed is also a good resource to inform kids about other totalitarianism practices.
Despite what anyone around here thinks, the whole "Drugs are a Victimless Crime" argument is one of the lamest pieces of rationalization ever brought up in a political discussion. If a drug were safe and didn't cause people to be hurt it wouldn't be illegal. Look at alcohol and all the damage it does, and it _is_ legal. Just think what would happen if cocaine or heroin suddenly became legal.
Unfortunately, some drugs are more prone to create victims (other than the person taking them) than others:
Alcohol is known to make many people more aggressive. This leads to abuse of spouses etc. Many of the illegal drugs (e.g., pot) have the opposite effect.
Alcohol is known to make many people overestimate their abilities. This leads to drunk driving etc. Many of the illegal drugs do not have this symptom.
Alcohol is known to affect your perception and increase your reaction time. This leads to higher accident (and thus victim) rates for DWI drivers. This also applies to many other drugs, but there are also several that improve your perception.
So, of all the imaginable drugs, alcohol is among the worst when it comes to creating victims other than the (ab)user.
Then tell me, why is alcohol legal while others are not? Is the lobby of the wine/beer/... producers to blame? Is it the fear of the unknown (i.e., the lesser used drugs)? Is it just history?
A tamperproof device in the hands of someone who knows what (s)he's doing, is not tamperproof anymore. Just have a look at what
Ross Anderson and Markus Kuhn are doing to "tamperproof" devices.
Sure it'd be great if we all shared--but forced sharing (welfare, national health care, etc) is the antithesis of freedom. Two wrongs don't make a right.
I strongly disagree. Forced sharing has many good sides, some of which are typically claimed exclusively by BigBusiness):
Things we share: public schools, streets, governments, laws, air, parks (urban and rural)
Sharing enables those who were not born rich to have a chance to break out of poverty (good public schools; healthcare at reasonable terms, which you can get without having to be employed by a strong employer)
Sharing allows us to conserve resources, including space (which in turn allows us to spend less time moving between places, which in turn allows us to go on foot or by bike, conserving even more resources and exercising away that belly)
You get benefits from the synergies: The good school that you want to send your kids to is just closeby, you don't have to drive for hours; you can use the same street as the others use
Yes, there are many systems which implement sharing badly, such as requiring complete sharing or providing the shared resources only in inadequate quality or quantity, so that you have to rely on personal improvements again.
Having lived in Switzerland for the first 30 years of my life, I must say that they (and several of the neighboring countries) have implemented this much better than the U.S. (where I currently live).
I would like to congratulate you to your decision to spend some time abroad. I found (and
again find) this a very stimulating experience,
giving you a lot of insight and allowing you to
see some things from different viewpoints.
I can only recommend Switzerland. Of course, you
might consider me biased, as having grown up there. You get decent salaries, affordable taxes, and excellent public services. Due to the country being multilingual (four official languages), people know about foreign languages, and you will always be able to find help, even if you don't speak one of these four, but only English:-)
For Germany (and many other parts of Europe),
Die Zeit (a German newspaper) offers good job search opportunities, with a lot of links to other, more specialized sites.
Wherever you want to go: Get a company interested in hiring you, then they will do all the paperwork for you (and they are typically effective at doing so). No worries, no lawyers to pay etc.
-Marcel
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Greg,
If you look at their web page (see the link in my original post),
it contains a diagram showing a
"Constant volume combustion chamber",
something that looks like a spark plug, and the
text also talks about a "radically new internal combistion engine". I still
wonder what the want to ignite for combustion,
if all they run on is compressed cars?
-Marcel
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Did you ever wonder why your voice sounds different
when you hear it from a recording? The voice
you
hear while talking has travelled through your head bones.
So your bones are well-suited to transmit audio, and
I doubt there will be any problems from that.
As a quick summary of the address generation procedure:
The machine starts up; it assigns itself a
bootstrap address (potentially using the MAC
address) which will never exit the local
network; it uses this to find a local router;
it asks the router how to obtain the IP address
to be used within the organization and/or
globally. The router will either give it a
network number to prefix the MAC address with,
or the IP address of the local DHCP server.
So it is completely up to the network admin
how to trade simplicity for privacy.
draft-ietf-ipngwg-addrconf-privacy-03 contains a must-read evaluation of the privacy concerns.
-Marcel
BTW: The IP address is longer than the MAC/EUI-64 address to simplify routing. It would be plainly impossible for every router in the world to keep track of each of the several hundred million hosts around.
For fields like physics, chemistry, etc where we general restructure how we teach and view our science roughly every 10 years, a textbook published in 1970 may be teaching not only misleading but WRONG information, and thus limiting the date on these things may be useful. But you'd still want to be able to access that information as potental historical value.
I just finished reading "The Psychology of Computer Programming" (Gerald M. Weinberg, 1971). Despite the datedness of the book,
especially in a fast-moving subject such as computer science, there was still a lot of useful information and truth in it.
And looking at the debates between batch and time-sharing systems was funny in hindsight (yet still enlightening).
But what I'm worried about: What happens, if an electronic book should ever get "out of print"? Is the information in it
completely lost? (The friend who gave me the above-mentioned book assumed so).
What happens to historians or (possibly extraterrestrial) archaeologists, who try to find out something about how we lived?
All the information we have deciphered was written (=encoded) in a way to make it easy to be read and understood.
The historians will need a lot of luck to find out anything about such a world. If they do finally, they will probably be
sued for breaking the DMCA:-(.
While VSTi might still take some time before they get to market, and need to get market acceptance,
there are other textbooks out there, which are "sort of" time-limited.
I did choose a new textbook for this Fall's computer networking class, based
on a preliminary edition I had available. That book did include a companion website
with additional information. Now that the final edition is out, they suddenly limit access to the first six
months after purchasing. While I do understand that they do not want to open up the
entire website to everyone (it contains a complete online copy of the textbook),
the limit to six months is arbitrary and limiting. Outside the first six months, the
right to access such simple things as errata, you have to pay $25.
Slashdot Mirror
Worth reading (if just to put more oil into the flames).
-Marcel
Proof 1:
Proof 2 (shorter version):
-Marcel
PS: Sorry, it's not that funny, but I just couldn't resist.
There has. Michael Beck/David Woodhouse's PC speaker patch also supports parallel port DACs (and has schematics on how to brew your own).
-Marcel
-Marcel
-Marcel
BTW: mlock()ing some memory temporarily can be useful for performance comparisons...
While I would like to see open source projects being able to easily block trademark infringement allegiations by referring to "prior art", it doesn't seem to hold here.
-Marcel
PS: IANAL, but isn't the use of the "TM" symbol open widely (i.e., without registering and paying), and just the "(R)" requires these hassles?
The "WaveAmerica" name couldn't have been more appropriately chosen. If you don't know about "The Wave" (the novel), this article provides a good summary. Blue-Eyed is also a good resource to inform kids about other totalitarianism practices.
-Marcel
-Marcel
-Marcel
Unfortunately, some drugs are more prone to create victims (other than the person taking them) than others:
- Alcohol is known to make many people more aggressive. This leads to abuse of spouses etc. Many of the illegal drugs (e.g., pot) have the opposite effect.
- Alcohol is known to make many people overestimate their abilities. This leads to drunk driving etc. Many of the illegal drugs do not have this symptom.
- Alcohol is known to affect your perception and increase your reaction time. This leads to higher accident (and thus victim) rates for DWI drivers. This also applies to many other drugs, but there are also several that improve your perception.
So, of all the imaginable drugs, alcohol is among the worst when it comes to creating victims other than the (ab)user.Then tell me, why is alcohol legal while others are not? Is the lobby of the wine/beer/... producers to blame? Is it the fear of the unknown (i.e., the lesser used drugs)? Is it just history?
-Marcel
-Marcel
I strongly disagree. Forced sharing has many good sides, some of which are typically claimed exclusively by BigBusiness):
- Things we share: public schools, streets, governments, laws, air, parks (urban and rural)
- Sharing enables those who were not born rich to have a chance to break out of poverty (good public schools; healthcare at reasonable terms, which you can get without having to be employed by a strong employer)
- Sharing allows us to conserve resources, including space (which in turn allows us to spend less time moving between places, which in turn allows us to go on foot or by bike, conserving even more resources and exercising away that belly)
- You get benefits from the synergies: The good school that you want to send your kids to is just closeby, you don't have to drive for hours; you can use the same street as the others use
Yes, there are many systems which implement sharing badly, such as requiring complete sharing or providing the shared resources only in inadequate quality or quantity, so that you have to rely on personal improvements again.Having lived in Switzerland for the first 30 years of my life, I must say that they (and several of the neighboring countries) have implemented this much better than the U.S. (where I currently live).
-Marcel
I can only recommend Switzerland. Of course, you might consider me biased, as having grown up there. You get decent salaries, affordable taxes, and excellent public services. Due to the country being multilingual (four official languages), people know about foreign languages, and you will always be able to find help, even if you don't speak one of these four, but only English :-)
If you are looking for a position, there are several online resources available (use this link for research-related jobs.
For Germany (and many other parts of Europe), Die Zeit (a German newspaper) offers good job search opportunities, with a lot of links to other, more specialized sites.
Wherever you want to go: Get a company interested in hiring you, then they will do all the paperwork for you (and they are typically effective at doing so). No worries, no lawyers to pay etc.
-Marcel
If you look at their web page (see the link in my original post), it contains a diagram showing a "Constant volume combustion chamber", something that looks like a spark plug, and the text also talks about a "radically new internal combistion engine". I still wonder what the want to ignite for combustion, if all they run on is compressed cars?
-Marcel
-Marcel
And what do you do to hang up? Give it the finger?
Did you ever wonder why your voice sounds different when you hear it from a recording? The voice you hear while talking has travelled through your head bones. So your bones are well-suited to transmit audio, and I doubt there will be any problems from that.
The machine starts up; it assigns itself a bootstrap address (potentially using the MAC address) which will never exit the local network; it uses this to find a local router; it asks the router how to obtain the IP address to be used within the organization and/or globally. The router will either give it a network number to prefix the MAC address with, or the IP address of the local DHCP server.
So it is completely up to the network admin how to trade simplicity for privacy. draft-ietf-ipngwg-addrconf-privacy-03 contains a must-read evaluation of the privacy concerns.
-Marcel
BTW: The IP address is longer than the MAC/EUI-64 address to simplify routing. It would be plainly impossible for every router in the world to keep track of each of the several hundred million hosts around.
I just finished reading "The Psychology of Computer Programming" (Gerald M. Weinberg, 1971). Despite the datedness of the book, especially in a fast-moving subject such as computer science, there was still a lot of useful information and truth in it. And looking at the debates between batch and time-sharing systems was funny in hindsight (yet still enlightening).
But what I'm worried about: What happens, if an electronic book should ever get "out of print"? Is the information in it completely lost? (The friend who gave me the above-mentioned book assumed so).
What happens to historians or (possibly extraterrestrial) archaeologists, who try to find out something about how we lived? All the information we have deciphered was written (=encoded) in a way to make it easy to be read and understood. The historians will need a lot of luck to find out anything about such a world. If they do finally, they will probably be sued for breaking the DMCA :-(.
While VSTi might still take some time before they get to market, and need to get market acceptance, there are other textbooks out there, which are "sort of" time-limited. I did choose a new textbook for this Fall's computer networking class, based on a preliminary edition I had available. That book did include a companion website with additional information. Now that the final edition is out, they suddenly limit access to the first six months after purchasing. While I do understand that they do not want to open up the entire website to everyone (it contains a complete online copy of the textbook), the limit to six months is arbitrary and limiting. Outside the first six months, the right to access such simple things as errata, you have to pay $25.