There's a certain tactile sensation to a physical book. The turning of the pages (and the corresponding rustle), the physical weight (which to some extent implies the weight of the ideas. I doubt that this can be done electronically. Not to mention that you don't have to boot up a book to read it....
You could have a free market without corporations, but capitalism is predicated on one free market in particular: the capital market. Capitalism is basically corporations and governments competing for investment.
Uh, if you issue stock, you have no legal responsibility to the people who bought the stock. There's no interest (closest is dividends, but smaller companies don't pay dividends).
I think I saw that article, as well. It seemed to me that they were talking about an IDE... because most languages are expressed in source code, to use standard compilers, the IDE would have to at some point export the database to text). That said, the idea of an IDE that treats source code as a database is very interesting and even makes some sense to me.
Read this treatise (in PDF, postscript, and TeX format).
Jeez, they're already trying to justify this as a mission-critical OS, when the kernel's in Java and they haven't even resolved important issues like scoping? I think they're a bit ahead of themselves...
Java: can have different binary codes (at the CPU level, unless you happen to have a CPU for which bytecode is a supported machine language), still has a canonical binary form (the.class files). Eidola: has no canonical binary form... It's mathematical. The compilers for this should be interesting...
I believe the local forecasts are sent out as raw data to each of 8000+ boxes, and the boxes generate the local forecasts from the data. THis is why sometimes, when you see TWC on another cable system, the local forecast graphics look different. The studio stuff is (obviously) identical for all cable systems. The local systems also use it to run ad crawls across the bottom of the screen during studio segements.
Up until Opera 5, Opera fit the bill very nicely. I'm not so sure, now that they've integrated an icq client and kept their very basic mailer. It's still a very comapct piece of software.
By the way, the linux version will probably include an icq client and will be ad-supported. However, I've heard that they will make the icq component an optional part of the package.
And of those, (take note MS bashers), two were introduced by Netscape. Hell, was never supported by IE (one of the few good decisions made by microsoft.
With the exception of the midget cameramen, it's nothing new. The NFL's developmental league (NFL Europe) has had:
Helmet cams (first tried, with poor results in, iirc, 1991, then brought back in 2000 with better results)
Miked coaches (been on since I started watching in 1997... I think it goes back to 1995 or 96)
Cameras in locker room (put in in 2000)
The umpire cams were first tested in NFLE last season
Some players were miked last season, as well (at least one per team per game)
Of course, 3 of 8 XFL coaches were NFL Europe coaches last year (Al Luginbill (LA, Amsterdam), Jim Criner (Las Vegas, Scotland), and Galen Hall (Orlando, Rhein)) and a majority of the players have played in Europe (the Las Vegas backup tight-end is even a German: Werner Hippler)
Although assorted minarchists (and anarcho-capitalists) will dispute me, I think that it's been demonstrated that a free market cannot truly exist in the absence of a legal system. Mechanisms for enforcement of contracts (ie: courts) are necessary. You can have a super-open free market, but without contract law, the whole thing collapses. That is really where the Russians went wrong. They had no contract law in 1992, and they effectively have none now.
What needs to be done in order for this plan (which I like, otherwise why would I have submitted the article?) to work in any way is for privacy policies to be fixed and legally binding and enforceable.
This is sort of similar to my modest proposal for insurance for credit card databases. If information=power, and money=power, doesn't it follow that information=money? By looking at it that way, I can see the logic in both proposals. [which is not to say that I fail to see the logic in other proposals.]
The Titanic, IIRC, struck the berg southeast of Newfoundland. It's destination was New York, still at least a day or so away. The Titanic was, I blieve, on pace to set a record, but it would have been 4-5 days. This is 3, which may or may not shatter the record of the SS United States.
The Navy has the ships (the only ones the USAF/Army have are inflatable rafts used on "Special Operations"). They also have a relatively large aviation section. And the Marines are technically part of the Navy (they come under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief Naval Officer).
Since Congress created the Navy in the 1790's, there has been a rivalry between the Army and Navy (thus things like the annual Army/Navy football game). When the Army started developing their Air Corps in World War One, the Navy began pushing to have their own Air Corps. In the 20's they finally succeeded and started building aircraft carriers.
In WWII, it was decided that it was a good idea to keep the split air forces, because it was deemed easier to train sailors to fly than to train fliers (who were themselves often converted soldiers) to sail.
It wasn't until 1947 that the Air Force was formed out of the US Army Air Corps.
By international law, IIRC, territorial waters extend 12 miles off the coast, though the US, Canada, and other nations have taken the position that 12 miles = 100+ miles.
Hewing to a 12 mile rule might add a few hours to the time. Instead of arriving at 8 am in London, you get there at noon. Big deal.
The US (and most other countries) have outlawed non-military supersonic flight in their airspaces. This is a major reason the only cities the Concorde ever served regularly were (other than London/Paris) New York, Washington, Miami, and Rio de Janeiro. To go 500 miles inland is to add one hour to the flight time, decreasing the average speed aignificantly. This would reduce the Concorde's advantage, time, which is the reason they could get away with those high ticket prices.
I think Denis Leary said it best (granted, this was in reference to a case a few years ago when Judas Priest were sued for causing a suicide):
"Does this mean that I can sue Dan Fogelberg for turning me into a pu**y in the 70's? "'Your honor, between the defendant and James Taylor, I didn't get a bl*wj*b until I was 27.'"
Maybe this is a little off-base, but I think it speaks to the issue raised: does media alone incite action?
In case you can't tell from my post, I think it doesn't.
As good as AMD and Transmeta are/will be, I don't think we'l ever see real SMP laptops, or at reasonably current ones.
Ever taken a look inside a laptop? There's not much open space. This causes two issues when designing chips: form factor and heat.
To reduce the form factor means cutting down on the # of transistors on the chip (hence computational ability) or moving to a smaller process.
The heat issues are probably surmountable, though, but difficult.
This implies to me that if you want a dual-processor laptop, you'll have to have two CPU's with less power (each) than a single-CPU laptop. Considering how few applications are enhanced by multiprocessor boxes, you would in all probability have performance that was either equivalent to or not quite better than, a top-of-the line single-CPU laptop. Factor in the higher cost associated with the twin CPU approach, and there's almost no reason to have an SMP laptop.
Of course, IANA chip designer, so this could very easily be wrong!
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There's a certain tactile sensation to a physical book. The turning of the pages (and the corresponding rustle), the physical weight (which to some extent implies the weight of the ideas. I doubt that this can be done electronically. Not to mention that you don't have to boot up a book to read it....
You could have a free market without corporations, but capitalism is predicated on one free market in particular: the capital market. Capitalism is basically corporations and governments competing for investment.
Uh, if you issue stock, you have no legal responsibility to the people who bought the stock. There's no interest (closest is dividends, but smaller companies don't pay dividends).
I think I saw that article, as well. It seemed to me that they were talking about an IDE... because most languages are expressed in source code, to use standard compilers, the IDE would have to at some point export the database to text). That said, the idea of an IDE that treats source code as a database is very interesting and even makes some sense to me.
Sorry about that, replace OS with language...
Jeez, they're already trying to justify this as a mission-critical OS, when the kernel's in Java and they haven't even resolved important issues like scoping? I think they're a bit ahead of themselves...
Java: can have different binary codes (at the CPU level, unless you happen to have a CPU for which bytecode is a supported machine language), still has a canonical binary form (the .class files). Eidola: has no canonical binary form... It's mathematical. The compilers for this should be interesting...
I believe the local forecasts are sent out as raw data to each of 8000+ boxes, and the boxes generate the local forecasts from the data. THis is why sometimes, when you see TWC on another cable system, the local forecast graphics look different. The studio stuff is (obviously) identical for all cable systems. The local systems also use it to run ad crawls across the bottom of the screen during studio segements.
Up until Opera 5, Opera fit the bill very nicely. I'm not so sure, now that they've integrated an icq client and kept their very basic mailer. It's still a very comapct piece of software.
By the way, the linux version will probably include an icq client and will be ad-supported. However, I've heard that they will make the icq component an optional part of the package.
And of those, (take note MS bashers), two were introduced by Netscape. Hell, was never supported by IE (one of the few good decisions made by microsoft.
I believe Opera supports hover... even in the Linux beta-5. I'd test it right now, but I'm not on a machine with Opera.
- Helmet cams (first tried, with poor results in, iirc, 1991, then brought back in 2000 with better results)
- Miked coaches (been on since I started watching in 1997... I think it goes back to 1995 or 96)
- Cameras in locker room (put in in 2000)
- The umpire cams were first tested in NFLE last season
- Some players were miked last season, as well (at least one per team per game)
Of course, 3 of 8 XFL coaches were NFL Europe coaches last year (Al Luginbill (LA, Amsterdam), Jim Criner (Las Vegas, Scotland), and Galen Hall (Orlando, Rhein)) and a majority of the players have played in Europe (the Las Vegas backup tight-end is even a German: Werner Hippler)What needs to be done in order for this plan (which I like, otherwise why would I have submitted the article?) to work in any way is for privacy policies to be fixed and legally binding and enforceable.
This is sort of similar to my modest proposal for insurance for credit card databases. If information=power, and money=power, doesn't it follow that information=money? By looking at it that way, I can see the logic in both proposals. [which is not to say that I fail to see the logic in other proposals.]
Although we're not as powerful as some have said in this very thread, we're probably more numerous than you are saying.
And the other .04%?
The Titanic, IIRC, struck the berg southeast of Newfoundland. It's destination was New York, still at least a day or so away. The Titanic was, I blieve, on pace to set a record, but it would have been 4-5 days. This is 3, which may or may not shatter the record of the SS United States.
According to the USAF:
I see these gigantic puppies in the air all the time: one of the key bases for these is a former B-52 base, Westover, that's now a Reserve base.
Since Congress created the Navy in the 1790's, there has been a rivalry between the Army and Navy (thus things like the annual Army/Navy football game). When the Army started developing their Air Corps in World War One, the Navy began pushing to have their own Air Corps. In the 20's they finally succeeded and started building aircraft carriers.
In WWII, it was decided that it was a good idea to keep the split air forces, because it was deemed easier to train sailors to fly than to train fliers (who were themselves often converted soldiers) to sail.
It wasn't until 1947 that the Air Force was formed out of the US Army Air Corps.
Hewing to a 12 mile rule might add a few hours to the time. Instead of arriving at 8 am in London, you get there at noon. Big deal.
The US (and most other countries) have outlawed non-military supersonic flight in their airspaces. This is a major reason the only cities the Concorde ever served regularly were (other than London/Paris) New York, Washington, Miami, and Rio de Janeiro. To go 500 miles inland is to add one hour to the flight time, decreasing the average speed aignificantly. This would reduce the Concorde's advantage, time, which is the reason they could get away with those high ticket prices.
I thought that AOL's email client was a port of OE. If that's so, then why is AOL immune to this security hole (a possible first)?
Perhaps the flaw is that the people who use Bleem are the most likely to use pirated games?
"Does this mean that I can sue Dan Fogelberg for turning me into a pu**y in the 70's?
"'Your honor, between the defendant and James Taylor, I didn't get a bl*wj*b until I was 27.'"
Maybe this is a little off-base, but I think it speaks to the issue raised: does media alone incite action?
In case you can't tell from my post, I think it doesn't.
I'm serious!
Ever taken a look inside a laptop? There's not much open space. This causes two issues when designing chips: form factor and heat.
To reduce the form factor means cutting down on the # of transistors on the chip (hence computational ability) or moving to a smaller process.
The heat issues are probably surmountable, though, but difficult.
This implies to me that if you want a dual-processor laptop, you'll have to have two CPU's with less power (each) than a single-CPU laptop. Considering how few applications are enhanced by multiprocessor boxes, you would in all probability have performance that was either equivalent to or not quite better than, a top-of-the line single-CPU laptop. Factor in the higher cost associated with the twin CPU approach, and there's almost no reason to have an SMP laptop.
Of course, IANA chip designer, so this could very easily be wrong!
Methinks the post you're replying to is intended as humorous. Just because it hasn't been modded that way yet doesn't mean that it's not funny.