Better examples would be the New York draft riots or the eviction of the Bonus Marchers. In the first, troops machine gunned citizens. In the second, the Army with tanks and bayonets evicted peaceful demonstrators from Washington DC. Look them up for more information.
SCSI drives are not 10 times more expensive, it's more like $10 CHANGING THE INTERFACE ONLY.
There is a lot more difference between the common SCSI and ATA drives than the interface. SCSI drives are usually built for server duty, use a much heavier duty mechanism that will operate for several years working 24X7, and are usually faster and rely on external cooling. ATA drives are light duty drives built for price, suited only for lightly used workstations, and will probaly die after 1.5 years in that service.
Given the coming serial SCSI, it is my considered opinion that serial ATA has no reason to exist. Manufacturers should produce server-duty SCSI drives and workstation-duty SCSI drives with the appropriate difference in mechanical quality and effective life. They'y probably save more money from increased commonality of parts than the trivial extra cost of the SCSI interface chip.
You are far too generous to John Dewey. Modern schooling is patterned after public schools in Prussia. They are deliberately designed to provide a steady supply of low level employees, corporate cogs, and mindless consumers.
For background, you can read http://www.primenet.com/~afhe/gatto3.htm
More related articles are at http://www.primenet.com/~afhe and http://www.johntaylorgatto.com
The non-computer world usually resolves this conflict by making two products, and entry and a professional version. For example, you can go to the hardware store and buy the wimpy little power sander that the raw amateur can use to get a good finish on a piece of wood. Or, you can get the high-powered professional model that can do the job 10 times faster, or which can destroy your work in an instant if you don't know how to use it.
Maybe computer products should come with two user interfaces.
And the amateur interface isn't simply a subset of the professional, as so may products try to do.
I much prefer to deal with corporations rather than government.
If a corporation does someting to annoy me, I ignore them and not give them any more of my trade or money. That's the end of it, nothing further happens.
Whereas if I ignore a government and stop sending them money I'm very likely to have men with guns knocking on my door.
How about that. In some cases the rumors about a green marker pen improving CD play are true.
But does this mean that possessing a green or black marker pen is now illegal under the DMCA because it's a tool for defeating digital copy protection?
Within less that ONE thousand years even the highest level reactor waste is no more radioactive than the rocks it was originally mined from. Certainly less radioactive than the Denver City Hall.
You can find houses in England older than that still in use.
Bootstraping makes the assumption, valid in your biological examples, that the thing you're modeling doesn't change over time. Protein folding certainly doesn't over the time frame form which we have data on protein folding.
I doubt that's true of climate and I'm sure it isn't true of the stock market.
I think you're exactly right about what's going on here. This is a technique much beloved by stock market forecasters. They juggle parameters until they find a model that match the last several years, then assume it will match the future. I need only point out that almost no market analysts can beat the broad market to show how well this technique works.
As for the climate future, I predict that half of the models "validated" on 1950-2000 will predict global cooling and the other half will predict warming.
And you're exactly right that the ones that predict cooling will never be seen in public.
I don't think you can make a case for SCSI based on CPU use. UDMA drives, which is pretty much everything these days, use only slightly more CPU use than SCSI, not enough to matter.
SCSI provides better multiplexing. But that's not significant until you get to more than two or three drives on a channel.
You can get a speed advantage by buying 10,000 or 15,000 RPM SCSI drives rather than 7,500 RPM ATA drives. Better be compulsive about drive cooling if you do this.
But the big thing the extra cost of SCSI buys you is reliability. SCSI drives are designed for servers where the drive gets pounded hour after hour. The current market for ATA drive is so competitive that the manufacturers have starting cutting corners so badly that sometimes the corners fall off.
I've gone through 3 IBM 75GB drives in the past year. I seriously considering SCSI for my next system.
They don't need a large Linux distributor. I'm sure there's enough/.ers in the Portland area to do the job if they'd volunteer a weekend or two. I'd volunteer in a heartbeat except that I'm down here in Arizona.
I suggest someone in the area contact the school system, make the offer, and report back.
> It was Kennedy who saw space exploration as a source of national pride. He pushed the Apollo program.
It's interesting you picked this example. I think that, more than any other human being, Kennedy is responsible for our ABSENCE of presence in space.
When Kennedy came to office, the space program was operating under Werner von Braun's plan, which was
1. Build a reusable surface to low Earth orbit shuttle (all stages were reusable).
2. Using that, build a permanent manned orbiting station.
3. Using that, build in orbit a lunar shuttle that travels between Earth and lunar orbit.
4. After observational missions, the shuttle carries a lunar orbit to lunar surface vehicle.
This was projected to get us to the moon in the late 70s, but with the road paved, developed, and settled all the way.
This wasn't good enough for Kennedy. He sold the future for the sake of getting there first and substituted the Apollo program, and dead-end effort with no purpose beyond stepping on the moon once. The Apollo program was doomed by design.
By the way, in the American system of government, the President does not decide what gets funded or not. That decision is made by the Congress, and both the House and the Senate were run by the Democrat Party during the entire length of Nixon's term in office.
Taking the wording literally, I can't sync my Handspring with a machine running XP because pushing the sync button on the Handspring causes the sync soft to run on the machine.
To have confidence in the scanner system, all of the software involved would have to be Open Source and there would have to be a good configuration control procedure to insure that the published source is actually used during the election.
If the counting programs are closed source, you have no idea at all how or if your vote is counted.
And since everywhere those scanners are used the counting program is provided by the same company who treats the program as a trade secret, you don't know if that company has decided the outcome of the election and programmed the computers accordingly.
The best election system is one where you mark your selections on paper and they are counted at the polling place with anyone allowed to watch the counting.
> > Isn't it funny how that bible states that the earth is round? and this was written in the bible when the earth was still considered to be flat. Isn't that interesting? Think about it...
Most likely it's because the roundness of the Earth was well-known since the ancient Greeks.
Eratosthenes make a pretty good measurement of the diameter of the Earth somewhere around 250 BC. Ptolemy made a less good one. Even at the time of Columbus most educated people knew that the Earth was round.
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The Navajo Nation has stronger ties to Denver and Albuquerque than to Phoenix and sets their time accordingly.
Better examples would be the New York draft riots or the eviction of the Bonus Marchers. In the first, troops machine gunned citizens. In the second, the Army with tanks and bayonets evicted peaceful demonstrators from Washington DC. Look them up for more information.
SCSI drives are not 10 times more expensive, it's more like $10 CHANGING THE INTERFACE ONLY.
There is a lot more difference between the common SCSI and ATA drives than the interface. SCSI drives are usually built for server duty, use a much heavier duty mechanism that will operate for several years working 24X7, and are usually faster and rely on external cooling. ATA drives are light duty drives built for price, suited only for lightly used workstations, and will probaly die after 1.5 years in that service.
Given the coming serial SCSI, it is my considered opinion that serial ATA has no reason to exist. Manufacturers should produce server-duty SCSI drives and workstation-duty SCSI drives with the appropriate difference in mechanical quality and effective life. They'y probably save more money from increased commonality of parts than the trivial extra cost of the SCSI interface chip.
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Except that this patent isn't for a eBay type operation. It's for an escrow service like escrow.com.
You are far too generous to John Dewey. Modern schooling is patterned after public schools in Prussia. They are deliberately designed to provide a steady supply of low level employees, corporate cogs, and mindless consumers.
For background, you can read http://www.primenet.com/~afhe/gatto3.htm
More related articles are at http://www.primenet.com/~afhe and
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com
Enjoy.
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And I completely fail to understand why we need both serial ATA and serial SCSI. The industry would benefit from a unification.
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You should listen to this person. He understands how the political game works.
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It's not a 10,000 year problem. In 600 years the reactor fuel will be no more radioactive than the ore that was mined to produce it.
Keeping someting for 600 years is not that much problem. There are occupied dwellings in England that old.
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>Ease of use
>Ease of learning
The non-computer world usually resolves this conflict by making two products, and entry and a professional version. For example, you can go to the hardware store and buy the wimpy little power sander that the raw amateur can use to get a good finish on a piece of wood. Or, you can get the high-powered professional model that can do the job 10 times faster, or which can destroy your work in an instant if you don't know how to use it.
Maybe computer products should come with two user interfaces.
And the amateur interface isn't simply a subset of the professional, as so may products try to do.
++PLS
I much prefer to deal with corporations rather than government.
If a corporation does someting to annoy me, I ignore them and not give them any more of my trade or money. That's the end of it, nothing further happens.
Whereas if I ignore a government and stop sending them money I'm very likely to have men with guns knocking on my door.
A corporation can't put me in jail.
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How about that. In some cases the rumors about a green marker pen improving CD play are true.
But does this mean that possessing a green or black marker pen is now illegal under the DMCA because it's a tool for defeating digital copy protection?
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Consider the location. There are more speakers of Navajo in the realtive vicinity than speakers of Russian.
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Within less that ONE thousand years even the highest level reactor waste is no more radioactive than the rocks it was originally mined from. Certainly less radioactive than the Denver City Hall.
You can find houses in England older than that still in use.
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Bootstraping makes the assumption, valid in your biological examples, that the thing you're modeling doesn't change over time. Protein folding certainly doesn't over the time frame form which we have data on protein folding.
I doubt that's true of climate and I'm sure it isn't true of the stock market.
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I think you're exactly right about what's going on here. This is a technique much beloved by stock market forecasters. They juggle parameters until they find a model that match the last several years, then assume it will match the future. I need only point out that almost no market analysts can beat the broad market to show how well this technique works.
As for the climate future, I predict that half of the models "validated" on 1950-2000 will predict global cooling and the other half will predict warming.
And you're exactly right that the ones that predict cooling will never be seen in public.
++PLS
I don't think you can make a case for SCSI based on CPU use. UDMA drives, which is pretty much everything these days, use only slightly more CPU use than SCSI, not enough to matter.
SCSI provides better multiplexing. But that's not significant until you get to more than two or three drives on a channel.
You can get a speed advantage by buying 10,000 or 15,000 RPM SCSI drives rather than 7,500 RPM ATA drives. Better be compulsive about drive cooling if you do this.
But the big thing the extra cost of SCSI buys you is reliability. SCSI drives are designed for servers where the drive gets pounded hour after hour. The current market for ATA drive is so competitive that the manufacturers have starting cutting corners so badly that sometimes the corners fall off.
I've gone through 3 IBM 75GB drives in the past year. I seriously considering SCSI for my next system.
++PLS
They don't need a large Linux distributor. I'm sure there's enough /.ers in the Portland area to do the job if they'd volunteer a weekend or two. I'd volunteer in a heartbeat except that I'm down here in Arizona.
I suggest someone in the area contact the school system, make the offer, and report back.
++PLS
> It was Kennedy who saw space exploration as a source of national pride. He pushed the Apollo program.
It's interesting you picked this example. I think that, more than any other human being, Kennedy is responsible for our ABSENCE of presence in space.
When Kennedy came to office, the space program was operating under Werner von Braun's plan, which was
1. Build a reusable surface to low Earth orbit shuttle (all stages were reusable).
2. Using that, build a permanent manned orbiting station.
3. Using that, build in orbit a lunar shuttle that travels between Earth and lunar orbit.
4. After observational missions, the shuttle carries a lunar orbit to lunar surface vehicle.
This was projected to get us to the moon in the late 70s, but with the road paved, developed, and settled all the way.
This wasn't good enough for Kennedy. He sold the future for the sake of getting there first and substituted the Apollo program, and dead-end effort with no purpose beyond stepping on the moon once. The Apollo program was doomed by design.
By the way, in the American system of government, the President does not decide what gets funded or not. That decision is made by the Congress, and both the House and the Senate were run by the Democrat Party during the entire length of Nixon's term in office.
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Taking the wording literally, I can't sync my Handspring with a machine running XP because pushing the sync button on the Handspring causes the sync soft to run on the machine.
So who are the good non-proprietary motherboard makers these days?
I absolutely can't agree.
To have confidence in the scanner system, all of the software involved would have to be Open Source and there would have to be a good configuration control procedure to insure that the published source is actually used during the election.
If the counting programs are closed source, you have no idea at all how or if your vote is counted.
And since everywhere those scanners are used the counting program is provided by the same company who treats the program as a trade secret, you don't know if that company has decided the outcome of the election and programmed the computers accordingly.
The best election system is one where you mark your selections on paper and they are counted at the polling place with anyone allowed to watch the counting.
++PLS
> > Isn't it funny how that bible states that the earth is round? and this was written in the bible when the earth was still considered to be flat. Isn't that interesting? Think about it...
Most likely it's because the roundness of the Earth was well-known since the ancient Greeks.
Eratosthenes make a pretty good measurement of the diameter of the Earth somewhere around 250 BC. Ptolemy made a less good one. Even at the time of Columbus most educated people knew that the Earth was round.
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Is it plausible to use the other two pair for telephone?
payment is.
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