Oh yeah. In my ANSI Common Lisp book. Something about the real power of Lisp being that everything, including the program itself is just a tree structure.
Or on Paul Graham's website. Wonder if Gosling will be coming up with something to compete with Graham's ARC...
It's fairly well-established that Enron corporate officers were given quite a bit of access and input into the formation of energy policy by the current administration:
It's one thing to politely disabuse someone of the notion that an Enron officer is actually a cabinet officer. It's another thing to extrapolate from that connection that the suspicion of a connection between the administration and Enron -- and indeed, the entire "left wing" mindset -- is mere FUD ready to crumble at the first touch.
How can everyone forget Teddy Roosevelt so quickly? Oh yeah, that was back in the day before Republicans became Democrats.
TR, in addition to being wary of corporate power and corruption and using the big anti-trust stick, was also a noted conservationist (I'd say "environmentalist", but that word has been co-opted in the same way that "liberal" has by the right and "homophobe" has by the left). If anything, Republicans have moved farther "right" with regard to these value.
Of course, you might mean the democratic party of another time... and how the democratic party has changed over the years is an interesting subject as well...
I've actually heard of people doing something like this by writing on the back of a check something to the effect of "By endorsing or cashing this check, you agree to the following conditions...."
Not all the different from the $2-$5 checks that periodically come in the mail, which by cashing sign you up for some stupid, inanen service that nearly no one actually needs...
I think it's more likely an issue with the emulation and video hardware. It's my understanding that Quartz (OS X's video rendering/compositing layer) is coupled with the specific sorts of hardware that Apple puts in their machine. Mess with that combo, and it's almost certain you're going to take a performance response hit as far as interacting with the UI or anything visual.
I've got a 333 Mhz Powerbook, and it runs OS X (10.1.5) at a sufficiently snappy speed to get plenty of stuff done. I *did* put a boatload of RAM in (320 MB total), which helps quite a bit, but if a 600 MHz machine isn't doing as well with half the RAM, the fault isn't the design of OS X or the hardware... it's gotta be something in how the emulation is done, or more likely, as I said, the integration between the OS and the video hardware.
Free, 100% Free, when you buy our $580,000 WebSphere Portal software/server combo!
However, just imagine for a moment that you're a company with 1,000+ employees. You probably spend at least $500 per person on MS Office+OS licensing fees per year alone. So... if IBM's product delivers, you could shave $500,000 off that budget. And you're getting WebSphere Portal in the bargain.
Call the IRS help line. The first two years that I did contracting work, calling them and asking questions probably added $500 to my return. They were friendly and helpful -- more so than in many interactions I've had with private corps who you'd think would have a greater incentive to keep the customer satisfied. This year I haven't had such great luck talking to them, though. Wonder if that congressional inquiry is wearing off. But you might try calling and asking them for advice.
Tax software. Two years ago I used Turbo Tax for the first time, and it was worthwhile. While I'm glad I slugged through the paper forms and publications for a while so I could understand some things, the software takes a fair bit of the tedium out of things. Some preparers I'm aware of out there seem to simply use tax software to do the lions share of the work.
If you find yourself tangled up even with these helps, it's time to talk to a pro. Use and consider retaining the services of an accountant and/or tax lawyer.
File for an Extension. You're already close to the wire... give yourself more time. If you're sure you own money, make a payment. You can get a refund on it later, and won't have to pay interest and fees on the outstanding balance.
This could be an absolute godsend for recording hobbyists and professionals. Fanless laptop in one room, hours and hours of tracking space in the other.
Hell that's not a bad idea as far as I'm concerned. These people are under quarrantine for a reason. I see no problem with shooting them if they refuse to comply. We know that people who have it can spread it. These 9 people are putting the lives of too many at risk.
You're not sufficiently paranoid. OK, maybe you are, in a sort of Howard Huges microbial way, but if you'll turn your creative anxieties a different direction for a moment -- to the powers of the state -- maybe you'll understand why death penalties for violating quarantine are a bad plan. What's to keep a state from indefinitely detaining someone in their house -- or hell, just shooting them -- by arbitrarily declaring them quarantined? Who's going to check on them and keep the state honest? By keeping the penalty for breaking a quarantine lower (say, monetary, a few hundred/thousand dollars), you get a safety valve for such problems.
(And this leaves aside the moral problems with shooting someone breaking a quarantine, real or supposed... especially with SARS. Not particularly more deadly than the flu. There might be a case to be made for Ebola, which'll kill 90% of its victims, but killing someone who is a vector for a 5% fatal illness, even a virulent one, is trading a probable death for a certain one).
Five years ago, I was working for a non-profit SW firm that produced multimedia educational tools -- helped kids learn to read, do elementary math. Not only was it the most fun sw place I've ever worked (we were supposed to all go see "A Bug's Life" for iddeas, for example) but they actually engineered their software....
And the tech specs were described with states. Beautiful, simple, clean. Yep. Good stuff.
History bears me out on this. Any student of economics knows that free markets invariably produce better outcomes overall than do centralised economies.
Your observations are by and large correct for drug markets... however, you need to be really careful when generalizing about the power of "free" markets (and weaknesses of centralization).
For one thing, there's some argument about what "free market" actually means -- some people say it means something to the effect that supply imbalances are resolved through changes in relative prices rather than through regulation. Some people take that to mean that a free market is free from regulation. This is somewhat problematic, however, especially as you move into realms of IP... for example, the drug market model you mentioned is made practical and real by regulations which define IP. Practically, for modern markets to exist, you have to have regulations/rules which define it.
And all that's to say nothing off markets as a tool of social policy.. if you're looking at an issue from a social policy perspective, markets are tools, nothing more, and nothing less, and need to be tweaked/regulated in order to achieve specific goals.
I think it's a little more true and less ideologically shadowed to make a statement like "decentralized economies in which individual actors can pursue performance/production incentives almost always produce better outcomes overall than do centralized economies," and that was probably the main thrust of your point... the poster you replied to was proposing a very centralized model for drug research, which would very likely be problematic.
Were drug research socialised, we can expect that the overall quality of drugs, and hence of medicine, would be less than it would otherwise be.
Socialization does not necessarily imply centralization, though that's the strong tendancy. It's also worth considering that return on investment is not the only incentive for decentralized actors to participate (though again, it's a strong one). See the public education profession for examples (and yes, I know that teacher shortage predictions are up, but near as I can tell from field observations, this is about as accurate as the IT worker shortage. I know of far more individuals waiting for their pink slips or having trouble finding work than open positions begging for qualified applicants, and this with an artificial scarcity mechanism (certification) in place...). One weaknesses of basic neoclassical economics is its inability to account for utility derived directly from productive labor/service.
The 20th century brought about some grand experiments in centralized planning, and while they ultimately failed as a generally viable society-wide model, I wonder sometimes if some wrong lessons weren't taken from it. It's rarely remembered exactly how scary the early production and scientific accomplishments of the Soviets were... and some economists have even conceded that a while a centralized economy has trouble with quality control, and innovation, it can address some output issues more effectively than a decentralized model. It had its merits, and a centralized model may still have merits in certain niches, sectors and situations.
It's interesting how there've been two poles of ideological expression -- the entire economy centrally controlled by the state vs. an economy of corporate actors whose sole motivation (and obligation) is monetary. I'm hoping that over time that not only will the pragmatic view of market-as-adjustable-tool grow, but that people start to explore the potential of decentralized state and private entities motivated by a more temperate blend of financial and other incentives.
It's interesting that the open source movement already offers an example.
You could argue that this is "Stuff that matters", aside from the already mentioned fact that the other sites will probably not take the pounding like slashdot will (like, say, the Washington Post Dispatch Page, which is already slowing down)
I'll see your herring and raise you a swordfish in #twoweapon combat.
In addition to the regional politics problem, it's also worth noting that North Korea is a tricky problem because of their much more formidable military force -- continuously mobilized, too, thousands of artillery pieces ready to pour shells into downtown Seoul at a moments notice. Lots of South Koreans would die.
However...
However, claiming that NK is a more pressing issue is just uninformed.
Strongly disagree. NK producing plutonium is a larger problem by an order or two of magnitude than Saddam's carefully watched arms supply and thoroughly in check regime. There is no ideological friction between NK and most fundamentalist terrorists, unlike Iraq, and also unlike Iraq, NK needs money badly. They could easily become Plutonium-R-US of the world.
I'd also question if this is what's meant by a "Pro" studio. I understand that it was used in a production capacity for a radio station, so in that sense it's professional I suppose, but it's not at all clear that it had the multitrack and audio manipulation abilities you'd expect from a facility built for recording a band.
Getting away from the other vague technical points, I'd be happy just know what capabilities the studio actually had.
Hmmm. Apple's CoreAudio classes are supposed to be the bee's knees, and before that, NeXTStep had a highly regarded set of classes in the computer music community. Could the GnuStep Project's implementation be a good place to look?
Not personally. I go shootin' with friends who have, though. Yep. There's paperwork and records. That's a good thing. Thing is, Ashcroft is apparently afraid to use the info.
Gun registries don't kill gun ownership, governments do. There is not any clear line between a registry and seizure any more than there is a clear line between firearm ownership and unjust killings. That is to say: either one makes the other more possible, but in the end, it's a finger that pulls the trigger.
Not to mention that in any situation where the U.S. government had the will and power to begin seizing firearms, firearms would be useless as a tool of resistance, with or without a registry. Ask David Koresh.
Last I heard, conventional firearms were getting the kid glove treatment from the intelligence and the DoD when it comes to terror -- we've got Total Information Awareness, but Ashcroft refuses to call on/link in gun ownership databases, presumably because of the 2nd ammendment or because of its sacred cow nature to his supporters.
This isn't totally without logic: you can kill a lot more people more quickly with explosives or an airliner than you can with conventional firearms. But firearm acquisition and use ought to be at least as closely monitored as library book usage.
i go on long bike rides. i used to take my handheld PC with me, but soon i figured it is hard to find a wi-fi spot. So i bought a conector for my nextel phone (approx $45) to my IPAQ and I enjoy connectivity whenever and wherever i want.
I'm really interested in trying to do the same think with my laptop and my Nokia phone, but finding information on how to do it seems to be insanely hard. My suspicion is that the wireless phone co's really don't want you using their network this way (or would like to charge you more for it).
Any tips? What kind of connector do you use between your IPAQ and Nextel phone? Anyone know if there's a USB connector for the Nokia 5190? Do you need special software, or can you just treat it like a standard serial modem on the USB port?
(I have a Mac Powerbook G3, and suspect that if special software is needed I might be in trouble)
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've heard that somewhere before...
Oh yeah. In my ANSI Common Lisp book. Something about the real power of Lisp being that everything, including the program itself is just a tree structure.
Or on Paul Graham's website. Wonder if Gosling will be coming up with something to compete with Graham's ARC...
It's one thing to politely disabuse someone of the notion that an Enron officer is actually a cabinet officer. It's another thing to extrapolate from that connection that the suspicion of a connection between the administration and Enron -- and indeed, the entire "left wing" mindset -- is mere FUD ready to crumble at the first touch.
How can everyone forget Teddy Roosevelt so quickly? Oh yeah, that was back in the day before Republicans became Democrats.
TR, in addition to being wary of corporate power and corruption and using the big anti-trust stick, was also a noted conservationist (I'd say "environmentalist", but that word has been co-opted in the same way that "liberal" has by the right and "homophobe" has by the left). If anything, Republicans have moved farther "right" with regard to these value.
Of course, you might mean the democratic party of another time... and how the democratic party has changed over the years is an interesting subject as well...
I've actually heard of people doing something like this by writing on the back of a check something to the effect of "By endorsing or cashing this check, you agree to the following conditions...."
Not all the different from the $2-$5 checks that periodically come in the mail, which by cashing sign you up for some stupid, inanen service that nearly no one actually needs...
Frankly, after I'd been compromised by Angelina Jolie, I wouldn't be the same again either.
I think it's more likely an issue with the emulation and video hardware. It's my understanding that Quartz (OS X's video rendering/compositing layer) is coupled with the specific sorts of hardware that Apple puts in their machine. Mess with that combo, and it's almost certain you're going to take a performance response hit as far as interacting with the UI or anything visual.
I've got a 333 Mhz Powerbook, and it runs OS X (10.1.5) at a sufficiently snappy speed to get plenty of stuff done. I *did* put a boatload of RAM in (320 MB total), which helps quite a bit, but if a 600 MHz machine isn't doing as well with half the RAM, the fault isn't the design of OS X or the hardware... it's gotta be something in how the emulation is done, or more likely, as I said, the integration between the OS and the video hardware.
Free, 100% Free, when you buy our $580,000 WebSphere Portal software/server combo!
However, just imagine for a moment that you're a company with 1,000+ employees. You probably spend at least $500 per person on MS Office+OS licensing fees per year alone. So... if IBM's product delivers, you could shave $500,000 off that budget. And you're getting WebSphere Portal in the bargain.
Doesn't look so bad.
This could be an absolute godsend for recording hobbyists and professionals. Fanless laptop in one room, hours and hours of tracking space in the other.
Hell that's not a bad idea as far as I'm concerned. These people are under quarrantine for a reason. I see no problem with shooting them if they refuse to comply. We know that people who have it can spread it. These 9 people are putting the lives of too many at risk.
You're not sufficiently paranoid. OK, maybe you are, in a sort of Howard Huges microbial way, but if you'll turn your creative anxieties a different direction for a moment -- to the powers of the state -- maybe you'll understand why death penalties for violating quarantine are a bad plan. What's to keep a state from indefinitely detaining someone in their house -- or hell, just shooting them -- by arbitrarily declaring them quarantined? Who's going to check on them and keep the state honest? By keeping the penalty for breaking a quarantine lower (say, monetary, a few hundred/thousand dollars), you get a safety valve for such problems.
(And this leaves aside the moral problems with shooting someone breaking a quarantine, real or supposed... especially with SARS. Not particularly more deadly than the flu. There might be a case to be made for Ebola, which'll kill 90% of its victims, but killing someone who is a vector for a 5% fatal illness, even a virulent one, is trading a probable death for a certain one).
Five years ago, I was working for a non-profit SW firm that produced multimedia educational tools -- helped kids learn to read, do elementary math. Not only was it the most fun sw place I've ever worked (we were supposed to all go see "A Bug's Life" for iddeas, for example) but they actually engineered their software....
And the tech specs were described with states. Beautiful, simple, clean. Yep. Good stuff.
And mine are on the street if they learn PHP at any point...
:)
Some high schools would agree with you.
("B-but Dad! It's not mine! Denny brought it over on his Red Hat Distribution! And I didn't use it... he just installed it...")
History bears me out on this. Any student of economics knows that free markets invariably produce better outcomes overall than do centralised economies.
.. if you're looking at an issue from a social policy perspective, markets are tools, nothing more, and nothing less, and need to be tweaked/regulated in order to achieve specific goals.
Your observations are by and large correct for drug markets... however, you need to be really careful when generalizing about the power of "free" markets (and weaknesses of centralization).
For one thing, there's some argument about what "free market" actually means -- some people say it means something to the effect that supply imbalances are resolved through changes in relative prices rather than through regulation. Some people take that to mean that a free market is free from regulation. This is somewhat problematic, however, especially as you move into realms of IP... for example, the drug market model you mentioned is made practical and real by regulations which define IP. Practically, for modern markets to exist, you have to have regulations/rules which define it.
And all that's to say nothing off markets as a tool of social policy
I think it's a little more true and less ideologically shadowed to make a statement like "decentralized economies in which individual actors can pursue performance/production incentives almost always produce better outcomes overall than do centralized economies," and that was probably the main thrust of your point... the poster you replied to was proposing a very centralized model for drug research, which would very likely be problematic.
Were drug research socialised, we can expect that the overall quality of drugs, and hence of medicine, would be less than it would otherwise be.
Socialization does not necessarily imply centralization, though that's the strong tendancy. It's also worth considering that return on investment is not the only incentive for decentralized actors to participate (though again, it's a strong one). See the public education profession for examples (and yes, I know that teacher shortage predictions are up, but near as I can tell from field observations, this is about as accurate as the IT worker shortage. I know of far more individuals waiting for their pink slips or having trouble finding work than open positions begging for qualified applicants, and this with an artificial scarcity mechanism (certification) in place...). One weaknesses of basic neoclassical economics is its inability to account for utility derived directly from productive labor/service.
The 20th century brought about some grand experiments in centralized planning, and while they ultimately failed as a generally viable society-wide model, I wonder sometimes if some wrong lessons weren't taken from it. It's rarely remembered exactly how scary the early production and scientific accomplishments of the Soviets were... and some economists have even conceded that a while a centralized economy has trouble with quality control, and innovation, it can address some output issues more effectively than a decentralized model. It had its merits, and a centralized model may still have merits in certain niches, sectors and situations.
It's interesting how there've been two poles of ideological expression -- the entire economy centrally controlled by the state vs. an economy of corporate actors whose sole motivation (and obligation) is monetary. I'm hoping that over time that not only will the pragmatic view of market-as-adjustable-tool grow, but that people start to explore the potential of decentralized state and private entities motivated by a more temperate blend of financial and other incentives.
It's interesting that the open source movement already offers an example.
I was thinking more of an "Electronic Thumb"... :)
You could argue that this is "Stuff that matters", aside from the already mentioned fact that the other sites will probably not take the pounding like slashdot will (like, say, the Washington Post Dispatch Page, which is already slowing down)
I'll see your herring and raise you a swordfish in #twoweapon combat.
In addition to the regional politics problem, it's also worth noting that North Korea is a tricky problem because of their much more formidable military force -- continuously mobilized, too, thousands of artillery pieces ready to pour shells into downtown Seoul at a moments notice. Lots of South Koreans would die.
However...
However, claiming that NK is a more pressing issue is just uninformed.
Strongly disagree. NK producing plutonium is a larger problem by an order or two of magnitude than Saddam's carefully watched arms supply and thoroughly in check regime. There is no ideological friction between NK and most fundamentalist terrorists, unlike Iraq, and also unlike Iraq, NK needs money badly. They could easily become Plutonium-R-US of the world.
Yes, you're right, I was over simplifying to the point of inaccuracy.
:)
That's beautiful.
Correct URL for Where is Raed: http://dear_raed.blogspot.com
I'd also question if this is what's meant by a "Pro" studio. I understand that it was used in a production capacity for a radio station, so in that sense it's professional I suppose, but it's not at all clear that it had the multitrack and audio manipulation abilities you'd expect from a facility built for recording a band.
Getting away from the other vague technical points, I'd be happy just know what capabilities the studio actually had.
Hmmm. Apple's CoreAudio classes are supposed to be the bee's knees, and before that, NeXTStep had a highly regarded set of classes in the computer music community. Could the GnuStep Project's implementation be a good place to look?
Not personally. I go shootin' with friends who have, though. Yep. There's paperwork and records. That's a good thing. Thing is, Ashcroft is apparently afraid to use the info.
Gun registries don't kill gun ownership, governments do. There is not any clear line between a registry and seizure any more than there is a clear line between firearm ownership and unjust killings. That is to say: either one makes the other more possible, but in the end, it's a finger that pulls the trigger.
Not to mention that in any situation where the U.S. government had the will and power to begin seizing firearms, firearms would be useless as a tool of resistance, with or without a registry. Ask David Koresh.
Now's your chance to make money. Make a handheld, heck, set up a kiosk in the mall.
Or perhaps the manufacturers will decide to do this at the checkout counter.
Last I heard, conventional firearms were getting the kid glove treatment from the intelligence and the DoD when it comes to terror -- we've got Total Information Awareness, but Ashcroft refuses to call on/link in gun ownership databases, presumably because of the 2nd ammendment or because of its sacred cow nature to his supporters.
This isn't totally without logic: you can kill a lot more people more quickly with explosives or an airliner than you can with conventional firearms. But firearm acquisition and use ought to be at least as closely monitored as library book usage.
i go on long bike rides. i used to take my handheld PC with me, but soon i figured it is hard to find a wi-fi spot. So i bought a conector for my nextel phone (approx $45) to my IPAQ and I enjoy connectivity whenever and wherever i want.
I'm really interested in trying to do the same think with my laptop and my Nokia phone, but finding information on how to do it seems to be insanely hard. My suspicion is that the wireless phone co's really don't want you using their network this way (or would like to charge you more for it).
Any tips? What kind of connector do you use between your IPAQ and Nextel phone? Anyone know if there's a USB connector for the Nokia 5190? Do you need special software, or can you just treat it like a standard serial modem on the USB port?
(I have a Mac Powerbook G3, and suspect that if special software is needed I might be in trouble)