I have vague notions flying around in my head for an advertising campaign for this baby involving the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland and the "I'm late! I'm late!" sequence. Anybody else wanna run with it?
If ground control could seize control of a hijacked plane, we should all know as technologists that others will eventually be able to take control as well. If that happened, we wouldn't even need crazed suicide bombers to pilot the planes; they could instead be ramming landmarks with 747's like kids playing with their RC model planes at a park.
I don't know if they let you actually *register* online, but they put the registry online for you when you're done, and people can purchase the items online if they want to.
Rather it confiscates value from the general populace which may have had access to the resource if it had not been artificially legally granted as an exclusive right of one party by another party. This was actually a fairly well understood economic principle until fairly recently (last 100 years) when certain economists bamboozled the public into believing that there were only two factors of production (labor and capital) instead of the more correct three factors (labor, capital, and natural resources).
The game Monopoly was originally designed to reflect the in-elasticity of natural resources and the effect of monopolizing them on the economy. In other words, whoever owns the resources wins the game...and that IS how the real world works. That aspect of the game is, however, not immediately obvious to most people indoctrinated in the modern misrepresented economic model.
Eurekalert is a general research press-release service. It's searchable though, so you should be able to find what you want fairly easily. Cognitive issues are of some special interest to me too, and I've been fairly pleased with it as an information source.
This is a great idea if it's implemented well. The AS/400 is an example of a system that was entirely implemented around the idea of a full-featured DB implemented as a filesystem.
...and since it still has one of the best uptime records in the industry, and transaction processing times that consistently rank in the best-of-the-best lists, it's a good platform to imitate. Too often it's overlooked because of the green-screen terminals, but at its core, the AS/400 is easily one of the most advanced implementations of computer technology available to the general public.
Dignity and privacy are not being eroded by technology. They're being eroded by people. The technology is simply "how" they're doing it. Take the technology away, and as long as the people are still determined to violate each other, they will find a way to do it.
Higher math skills predict programming aptitude better, I think, than linguistic aptitude only.
If you're doing something like business programming, I think the order of aptitudes that predict your skill well are linguistic (structure and symbolism), accounting (detail oriention and business knowledge), and lastly mathematical (abstract reasoning).
The best programmers of any type, however, will be those that exhibit the highest level of aptitude in both higher math and linguistics. I think that the aptitude for any "mind skill" is going to be highest among those with the greatest skill in both disciplines.
In my opinion, skill in both disciplines suggests a brain that reasons well as a whole.
I pay about $50 US for 600 Kbps DSL service with a full service ISP including shell access and web space. That $50 covers both the line and the ISP charge. From what I understand, if I were using the local Cable broadband solutions it would be $10-$20 cheaper...which sounds approximately like $50 Canadian.
The hardware comparison chart doesn't compare CPUs. It compares only CPU clockspeed, which means, of course, absolutely nothing unless you're comparing like architectures...which this is not.
Even though the PS2 chip is running at half the clock speed of the x86 architectures, it's doing so with a data path 4 times wider than that of the two x86 CPUs. That also doesn't take into account chip-specific features that affect performance like special instruction sets and branch prediction.
That's just brilliant. The whole thing sucks so I'll just ignore it. I'm going to close my eyes so you can't see me...
As for a small group turning the screws on everyone else...you're wrong on that too. There is one party that at least isn't trying to do that: Libertarian.
Finally. Politics is supposed to be selfish dammit! You don't know what's best for anyone else, and you have no right throwing your electoral weight around on their behalf (unless they gave you such a right by voting you into office). The only thing you know enough about to have a right to try to influence is your own self-interest. That's how it's supposed to work. The problem isn't that people aren't being altruistic enough; it's that people often don't think they can have an impact and those that do don't actually understand the principles behind the politics they espouse.
I think there are two main reasons people aren't as anxious to test linux kernel betas as they are windows or other software packages.
The first is that the linux kernel *is a kernel*. If Microsoft publicly beta-released the next version of krnl386.exe, I'm convinced the beta usage rates would be very similar.
The second is that the open development process allows all the potential users to know very well what the new version supplies/fixes so they don't need to try to find out for themselves. When new windows betas come out, people are driven by curiosity to find out what's in the locked box.
Dan Quayle probably would take issue with how "new" the science of character assassination is...
In fact, I'm certain that he'd have no difficulty citing the use of such techniques as early as 1963 and 1865 when the Kennedy and Lincoln characters were assassinated.
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I have vague notions flying around in my head for an advertising campaign for this baby involving the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland and the "I'm late! I'm late!" sequence. Anybody else wanna run with it?
If ground control could seize control of a hijacked plane, we should all know as technologists that others will eventually be able to take control as well. If that happened, we wouldn't even need crazed suicide bombers to pilot the planes; they could instead be ramming landmarks with 747's like kids playing with their RC model planes at a park.
I don't know if they let you actually *register* online, but they put the registry online for you when you're done, and people can purchase the items online if they want to.
- land
- oil
- broadcast spectra
- licenses to limited privilege
- water rights
- vertical building rights
- other similar things
does NOT create value.Rather it confiscates value from the general populace which may have had access to the resource if it had not been artificially legally granted as an exclusive right of one party by another party. This was actually a fairly well understood economic principle until fairly recently (last 100 years) when certain economists bamboozled the public into believing that there were only two factors of production (labor and capital) instead of the more correct three factors (labor, capital, and natural resources).
The game Monopoly was originally designed to reflect the in-elasticity of natural resources and the effect of monopolizing them on the economy. In other words, whoever owns the resources wins the game...and that IS how the real world works. That aspect of the game is, however, not immediately obvious to most people indoctrinated in the modern misrepresented economic model.
You might want to check out Eurekalert .
Eurekalert is a general research press-release service. It's searchable though, so you should be able to find what you want fairly easily. Cognitive issues are of some special interest to me too, and I've been fairly pleased with it as an information source.
This is a great idea if it's implemented well. The AS/400 is an example of a system that was entirely implemented around the idea of a full-featured DB implemented as a filesystem.
...and since it still has one of the best uptime records in the industry, and transaction processing times that consistently rank in the best-of-the-best lists, it's a good platform to imitate. Too often it's overlooked because of the green-screen terminals, but at its core, the AS/400 is easily one of the most advanced implementations of computer technology available to the general public.
Dignity and privacy are not being eroded by technology. They're being eroded by people. The technology is simply "how" they're doing it. Take the technology away, and as long as the people are still determined to violate each other, they will find a way to do it.
Whoever moderated the original post of this thread up should get whacked.
"How could you be sure they had not put a back door in?"
Huh? Open Source is the ONLY way you can tell whether there is a back door.
...and profit motives, generally speaking, only fail to fit with Open Source in the minds of people who misunderstand both profits and open source.
If you're doing something like business programming, I think the order of aptitudes that predict your skill well are linguistic (structure and symbolism), accounting (detail oriention and business knowledge), and lastly mathematical (abstract reasoning).
The best programmers of any type, however, will be those that exhibit the highest level of aptitude in both higher math and linguistics. I think that the aptitude for any "mind skill" is going to be highest among those with the greatest skill in both disciplines.
In my opinion, skill in both disciplines suggests a brain that reasons well as a whole.
I pay about $50 US for 600 Kbps DSL service with a full service ISP including shell access and web space. That $50 covers both the line and the ISP charge. From what I understand, if I were using the local Cable broadband solutions it would be $10-$20 cheaper...which sounds approximately like $50 Canadian.
The hardware comparison chart doesn't compare CPUs. It compares only CPU clockspeed, which means, of course, absolutely nothing unless you're comparing like architectures...which this is not.
Even though the PS2 chip is running at half the clock speed of the x86 architectures, it's doing so with a data path 4 times wider than that of the two x86 CPUs. That also doesn't take into account chip-specific features that affect performance like special instruction sets and branch prediction.
That's just brilliant. The whole thing sucks so I'll just ignore it. I'm going to close my eyes so you can't see me...
As for a small group turning the screws on everyone else...you're wrong on that too. There is one party that at least isn't trying to do that: Libertarian.
Finally. Politics is supposed to be selfish dammit! You don't know what's best for anyone else, and you have no right throwing your electoral weight around on their behalf (unless they gave you such a right by voting you into office). The only thing you know enough about to have a right to try to influence is your own self-interest. That's how it's supposed to work. The problem isn't that people aren't being altruistic enough; it's that people often don't think they can have an impact and those that do don't actually understand the principles behind the politics they espouse.
I'd think that it should be e'mail. It's a contraction isn't it? Besides, I always have to complain about being given a restricted set of choices.
I think there are two main reasons people aren't as anxious to test linux kernel betas as they are windows or other software packages.
The first is that the linux kernel *is a kernel*. If Microsoft publicly beta-released the next version of krnl386.exe, I'm convinced the beta usage rates would be very similar.
The second is that the open development process allows all the potential users to know very well what the new version supplies/fixes so they don't need to try to find out for themselves. When new windows betas come out, people are driven by curiosity to find out what's in the locked box.
Dan Quayle probably would take issue with how "new" the science of character assassination is...
In fact, I'm certain that he'd have no difficulty citing the use of such techniques as early as 1963 and 1865 when the Kennedy and Lincoln characters were assassinated.