Yes, but included in the price of that laptop is the cost of OSX already. While Apple's upgrade revenue may be hit, they could even take care of that my moving to a subscription model for OS upgrades that is tied to the extended hardware warranty. If you want Applecare, you will also be paying for the OS upgrades for the warranty period, and warranty service will only be provided to systems with OSX on them. Such tying would not trip government watchdogs for two reasons: Apple's market share is too low for them to be considered a monopoly, and the current administration has replaced the watchdogs with lapdogs anyway.
Briefly, the kibbutzim fall is an effect of people not volunteering for it anymore. It had nothing to do with it being incompatible with the democratic political model.
In other words, when given a chance to vote for a communal model or for a more traditional capitalist one, people vote for the latter. While "incompatible" might be too strong a term, it does seem that free people making free choices do not choose the communist economic model. The only places where communes have existed for long periods of time is where a strong central government forces the residents to stay on them. It appears that in capitalist democracies you need to build walls to keep immigrants out, whereas in socialist autocracies you need to build walls to keep your citizens in.
The Kriegsmarine introduced new rotors throughout the war. Kahn has come to the conclusion that seizing Enigmas was extremely important to Allied intelligence, which a revision of his conclusions in The Cryptographers. More documents are becoming available from the British as the secrecy periods end, and it appears that British Intelligence may have overhyped analysis a bit to cover for covert ops.
It is interesting however that Luftwaffe Enigma was rarely, if ever, successfully penetrated. They trained their code operators better. I think the senior officer's network was never penetrated at all, although that probably had to with the low amount of traffic on it, coupled with frequent key changes. It was the Navy, particularly the U-Boats, that were broken. A lot of that had to do with Doenitz's control fetish producing huge amounts of traffic.
Actually, if you read Kahn's Seizing the Enigma you will find that capturing actual working Enigma machines was a giant boon. That gave you the wiring of the rotors without having to reverse engineer them. It wasn't necessary, but it was a huge timesaver. The actual keytables that were captured with the machines were more useful still, until they had aged for a time.
Didn't I mention I didn't want to discuss the reasons of their rise and fall?:) I only wanted to point out that communism and democracy are not intrinsically in contrast, regardless of the anticommunist obsession Americans grow in.
If the reason that the kibbutzim failed is directly related to a long term incompatibility between the democratic political model and communist economic model, then why they failed is extremely relevant to your point. Therefore, claiming that you don'ty want to discuss those failures severely weakens your argument, because it looks like you are not willing to defend your own example. Is the decline of the kibbutz movement directly linked such a fundamental disconnect? Or are there other reasons? I'm not familar with the kibbutzim (the last time I remember reading about them was actually back in middle school in the late 70s) so please enlighten me.
I mean... they could find somebody dull enough to believe the Onion was actually a real presidential announcement.
A fair amount of the populace is dull enough to believe that Saddam Hussein had a hand in the WTC attacks, and only about 15% of the population believes in human evolution, so I would say that it would be very easy to find such dupes.
If you don't spend R&D money on space or related areas you'll have alot of scientists and engineers doing the equivalent of flipping burgers.
Or maybe mad enough to take their experience in designing accurate and reliable missiles to the highest bidder. Wasn't that what we were worried about after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Resolved: It shall be a Class A felony for any holder of an elective office to hire any agent or use any tax specific computer software to prepare his or her income tax returns.
That law would fix 99% of the problems with our tax code instantly.
I believe that J.P. Morgan was of the belief that the only information a company owed to its stockholders was the dividend it could afford to pay. If the investors were not happy with the divend they could either a.) convince enough shareholders of the fact and elect new Directors, or b.) sell the stock.
There are obvious problems with this model, but the kind of shenanigans Enron engaged in would have been neatly killed if they were required to provide a dividend. Cash leaving the company is a lot harder to forge than an entry in a balance sheet.
And whatever happened to those dual core and low power G5 chips that IBM claimed to have?
I think you just hit on the reason that Apple will be using Intel Inside going forward. IBM didn't deliver on its promises and made Steve look foolish. The man is really, really good at holding a grudge.
Interestingly enough, it appears that maybe the porting thing is as easy as Apple has made it out to be. Over on the World of Warcraft support boards, Blizzard has noted that they've been building WoW for OSX Intel nightly along with the Windows and PPC versions since June and it is already in private beta with nVidia, ATI, and Apple employees. Now Blizz does write fairly portable code, as they always release Mac and Windows on the same day, so they may already have had a leg up, but this does seem promising.
I guess my high school friend who was convicted of GTA for joyriding had a bad lawyer then. Either that or the law is not uniform in this regard state to state. At least he wasn't tried as an adult for it and managed to put his life back together. I'm not at all certain the authorities would have been so lenient today. In my hometown there's an epidemic of 14 year old joyriders and the DA has begun to charge them as adults.
Under the law that is Grand Theft Auto. The fact that you returned the car will be taken into account at your sentencing, not conviction. Unpermitted "borrowing" even on a temporary basis is theft in the eyes of the law. It might not always be prosecuted (such as the case where you borrow a neighbor's garden hose to put out a fire in another neighbor's house), but it can be in the eyes of the law.
Remember this is Slashdot -- where everyone has the correct opinion on everything, whether or not they actually do any research into the topic at hand.
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Can you come up with a method of using the Revolution controller that allows snap turning that's as quick and precise as a mouse?
Oh wait...the Soyuz has had a near 100% perfect operation since inception; better than any US hardware.
Um, the Russians lost at least two Soyuz with crew early in the program. While the craft is undoubtably safer than STS, I hardly think that we need to stretch the truth to make a case here. Also the Progress module that rammed Mir is basically an automated Soyuz, so we do know that the Russians have their share of glitches. It happens when you are engaged in such an inherently risky business.
And every nation that did not pursue the flyboy fantasy of winged spacecraft with an exposed heatshield launches cheaper than we do today. The Shuttle was an overly ambitious failure -- an attempt to completely revolutionize space travel when we were still figuring out how to do it the old way. If we had stuck with what we knew, and perhaps developed first a reusable capsule to put on top of those Saturns, then moved to a reclaimable first stage, then started talking about SSTO we'd have been better off. Doing it all at once and from scratch was too much.
This is one case where the Russians had it right -- big dumb boosters were the right choice for the late 20th century.
How is this a step back? The Apollo fire was caused by bad wiring and the unfortunate use of a pure oxygen atmosphere, not the booster. The Apollo 13 near disaster was again not a design flaw, but a miscommunication over a changed configuration when a service module was mishandled by North American. It is important to remember that the Saturn series of boosters had zero mission failures -- a record that has not been matched by any heavy lift system from any nation. Von Braun may have had the morals of a cockroach, but the man could design rockets.
The Shuttle's problems are indeed design flaws. It appears that with today's rocket technologies we cannot build a booster that will not shed debris during launch. Couple that with an exposed reentry vehicle and you have a LCAS event waiting to happen. All to make the pilots happy that they can "land" their brick on a runway.
Imagine if instead of the shuttle we had focused on a reusable crew vehicle to put on top of a constantly evolving Saturn IB, while using the occasional Saturn V to loft things like space stations into orbit. I think it is safe to say that we would have far more hours in orbit than we do today. Nixon's decision to kill Apollo and replace it with the Shuttle to reward his campaign contributors set us back decades.
Anyone hurting or killing others on purpose (that haven't been sentenced to death in a court of law) is a fucking terrorist, whatever their motive.
Hypothetical: I am holding a gun to the head of your three year old child. You have one bullet. In twelve seconds I will kill the child -- yet if you shoot me you are the terrorist?
Bullshit. That is overly simplistic reasoning at the same level as Chimpoleon's "you are either with us or against us" crap. Your arguments would hold a lot more water if you would avoid hyperbole.
I understand that Blizzard's new servers will be located on Mars. Taking into account the seven minute round trip, my performance in Ironforge or Stormwind will actually improve as long as I'm the only person in the zone.
patching is rarely an option so code has to be written very close to the hardware running the console
Um, how does your conclusion follow from your premise? Patching ability is -1 irrelevant to whether or not you write in a portable fashion or hardware specific. This is about wringing out the last drop of performance from the console hardware, not any ability of bare metal coding to avoid bugs. As a former assembly and device driver programmer for machines you've probably never heard of, I can testify that bare metal multiplies bugs, not eliminates them!
The main highway out of New Orleans is washed away. Where are these trucks going to travel to dump the stuff? The Corps believes that they can pump it out in four to six weeks after the holes are patched. I would doubt that a fleet of trucks hauling gel could do it any faster, and they would use far more gasoline as each truck has to haul its own weight in addition to the weight of the water + gel agent on every trip in and out. The pumps are far more efficient.
Why is trucking out a gel (which will weigh more than the water that's already there) superior to just pumping it back into the lake or into the river after the levees are patched? The first step must be to prevent new water from getting in, then you can worry about getting the old water out.
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Yes, but included in the price of that laptop is the cost of OSX already. While Apple's upgrade revenue may be hit, they could even take care of that my moving to a subscription model for OS upgrades that is tied to the extended hardware warranty. If you want Applecare, you will also be paying for the OS upgrades for the warranty period, and warranty service will only be provided to systems with OSX on them. Such tying would not trip government watchdogs for two reasons: Apple's market share is too low for them to be considered a monopoly, and the current administration has replaced the watchdogs with lapdogs anyway.
In other words, when given a chance to vote for a communal model or for a more traditional capitalist one, people vote for the latter. While "incompatible" might be too strong a term, it does seem that free people making free choices do not choose the communist economic model. The only places where communes have existed for long periods of time is where a strong central government forces the residents to stay on them. It appears that in capitalist democracies you need to build walls to keep immigrants out, whereas in socialist autocracies you need to build walls to keep your citizens in.
It is interesting however that Luftwaffe Enigma was rarely, if ever, successfully penetrated. They trained their code operators better. I think the senior officer's network was never penetrated at all, although that probably had to with the low amount of traffic on it, coupled with frequent key changes. It was the Navy, particularly the U-Boats, that were broken. A lot of that had to do with Doenitz's control fetish producing huge amounts of traffic.
Actually, if you read Kahn's Seizing the Enigma you will find that capturing actual working Enigma machines was a giant boon. That gave you the wiring of the rotors without having to reverse engineer them. It wasn't necessary, but it was a huge timesaver. The actual keytables that were captured with the machines were more useful still, until they had aged for a time.
If the reason that the kibbutzim failed is directly related to a long term incompatibility between the democratic political model and communist economic model, then why they failed is extremely relevant to your point. Therefore, claiming that you don'ty want to discuss those failures severely weakens your argument, because it looks like you are not willing to defend your own example. Is the decline of the kibbutz movement directly linked such a fundamental disconnect? Or are there other reasons? I'm not familar with the kibbutzim (the last time I remember reading about them was actually back in middle school in the late 70s) so please enlighten me.
A fair amount of the populace is dull enough to believe that Saddam Hussein had a hand in the WTC attacks, and only about 15% of the population believes in human evolution, so I would say that it would be very easy to find such dupes.
Or maybe mad enough to take their experience in designing accurate and reliable missiles to the highest bidder. Wasn't that what we were worried about after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
He is, however, perfectly and innately qualified to speak about Windows.
And Saddam's WMD programs. Hell, he might even have the qualifications for a Supreme Court Justice at this point.
Resolved: It shall be a Class A felony for any holder of an elective office to hire any agent or use any tax specific computer software to prepare his or her income tax returns.
That law would fix 99% of the problems with our tax code instantly.
There are obvious problems with this model, but the kind of shenanigans Enron engaged in would have been neatly killed if they were required to provide a dividend. Cash leaving the company is a lot harder to forge than an entry in a balance sheet.
I think you just hit on the reason that Apple will be using Intel Inside going forward. IBM didn't deliver on its promises and made Steve look foolish. The man is really, really good at holding a grudge.
Interestingly enough, it appears that maybe the porting thing is as easy as Apple has made it out to be. Over on the World of Warcraft support boards, Blizzard has noted that they've been building WoW for OSX Intel nightly along with the Windows and PPC versions since June and it is already in private beta with nVidia, ATI, and Apple employees. Now Blizz does write fairly portable code, as they always release Mac and Windows on the same day, so they may already have had a leg up, but this does seem promising.
Ah, I see you have never visited Detroit.
I guess my high school friend who was convicted of GTA for joyriding had a bad lawyer then. Either that or the law is not uniform in this regard state to state. At least he wasn't tried as an adult for it and managed to put his life back together. I'm not at all certain the authorities would have been so lenient today. In my hometown there's an epidemic of 14 year old joyriders and the DA has begun to charge them as adults.
Under the law that is Grand Theft Auto. The fact that you returned the car will be taken into account at your sentencing, not conviction. Unpermitted "borrowing" even on a temporary basis is theft in the eyes of the law. It might not always be prosecuted (such as the case where you borrow a neighbor's garden hose to put out a fire in another neighbor's house), but it can be in the eyes of the law.
Remember this is Slashdot -- where everyone has the correct opinion on everything, whether or not they actually do any research into the topic at hand.
A button assigned to 180 degree turn?
Um, the Russians lost at least two Soyuz with crew early in the program. While the craft is undoubtably safer than STS, I hardly think that we need to stretch the truth to make a case here. Also the Progress module that rammed Mir is basically an automated Soyuz, so we do know that the Russians have their share of glitches. It happens when you are engaged in such an inherently risky business.
And every nation that did not pursue the flyboy fantasy of winged spacecraft with an exposed heatshield launches cheaper than we do today. The Shuttle was an overly ambitious failure -- an attempt to completely revolutionize space travel when we were still figuring out how to do it the old way. If we had stuck with what we knew, and perhaps developed first a reusable capsule to put on top of those Saturns, then moved to a reclaimable first stage, then started talking about SSTO we'd have been better off. Doing it all at once and from scratch was too much.
This is one case where the Russians had it right -- big dumb boosters were the right choice for the late 20th century.
The Shuttle's problems are indeed design flaws. It appears that with today's rocket technologies we cannot build a booster that will not shed debris during launch. Couple that with an exposed reentry vehicle and you have a LCAS event waiting to happen. All to make the pilots happy that they can "land" their brick on a runway.
Imagine if instead of the shuttle we had focused on a reusable crew vehicle to put on top of a constantly evolving Saturn IB, while using the occasional Saturn V to loft things like space stations into orbit. I think it is safe to say that we would have far more hours in orbit than we do today. Nixon's decision to kill Apollo and replace it with the Shuttle to reward his campaign contributors set us back decades.
Hypothetical: I am holding a gun to the head of your three year old child. You have one bullet. In twelve seconds I will kill the child -- yet if you shoot me you are the terrorist?
Bullshit. That is overly simplistic reasoning at the same level as Chimpoleon's "you are either with us or against us" crap. Your arguments would hold a lot more water if you would avoid hyperbole.
I understand that Blizzard's new servers will be located on Mars. Taking into account the seven minute round trip, my performance in Ironforge or Stormwind will actually improve as long as I'm the only person in the zone.
Um, how does your conclusion follow from your premise? Patching ability is -1 irrelevant to whether or not you write in a portable fashion or hardware specific. This is about wringing out the last drop of performance from the console hardware, not any ability of bare metal coding to avoid bugs. As a former assembly and device driver programmer for machines you've probably never heard of, I can testify that bare metal multiplies bugs, not eliminates them!
The main highway out of New Orleans is washed away. Where are these trucks going to travel to dump the stuff? The Corps believes that they can pump it out in four to six weeks after the holes are patched. I would doubt that a fleet of trucks hauling gel could do it any faster, and they would use far more gasoline as each truck has to haul its own weight in addition to the weight of the water + gel agent on every trip in and out. The pumps are far more efficient.
Why is trucking out a gel (which will weigh more than the water that's already there) superior to just pumping it back into the lake or into the river after the levees are patched? The first step must be to prevent new water from getting in, then you can worry about getting the old water out.
Hell upgraded to SunOS? I thought they were a Windows shop for sure.