Horse pucky. Consider 'INCR R0'. You have a n-bit implementation of the integer abstraction. As soon as you overflow that register your abstraction leaks all over itself, and anything that depends on it.
The problem with this is that they would then just get multiple accounts. If they needed to send 10,000 messages then they would get 10 accounts and send 1,000 messages for free per account.
Actually, this isn't as much of a problem as you might think. The point is to make spamming uneconomical. If they have to buy or even manage multiple accounts, it's going to increase their costs, and that's good.
Those numbers are truly amazing, 81 responses out of 3.5 millions spams and she makes $1500. Even if you increase the cost (by whatever means) by a mere $1/1000 you cost her $3500 and there go the profits.
Voting should not be done through computers. If there is a problem with the system, we need to be able to count the votes by hand.
Those two statements are not mutually exclusive. Voting by computers (in theory at least) is good. It's fast, accurate, and we can easily implement voting algorithms that are better (mathematically) than majority-winner-take-all.
However, all voting computers should have printers attached, and the user should see the printed result and it should be turned in as a backup. Random polling places should be checked after every election to ensure the honesty of the system.
In addition, the software must not be closed. It doesn't have to be open source, but it does need to go through a third party review, something many voting software companies disallow claiming "trade secrets" to protect their source. This is bad news.
It simply was better than the opposition, and for its time, much of this stuff was revolutionary.
True, the overall picture presented by the suite was better than the competition on the PC, but it was hardly revolutionary. Apple, as usual, had already built Publish/Subscribe in the late 80's and was working on OpenDoc, and the whole idea of embedded documents was explored in the early 80's at MIT and Xerox.
Question. If the region control is in the drive firmware, how can it be bypassed by a software only solution? Don't all read requests go through the drive firmware?
So, given that Microsoft had pretty much zilch leverage and no monopoly, how exactly were they going to ensure that their product won, other than by being better than the competition?
Actually, they took a page from IBM's monopoly playbook (long time ago) and used a technique called bundling. They had all those nasty competitors in word processing, so they created the "office suite." You buy their word processor and get a spreadsheet for free.
Now all the competitors had to scramble, because simply lowering prices wasn't sufficient, they had to have a product offering in the "suite" category, which mean buying or developing something, which either took time or meant that you didn't have a product that was nearly as integrated as MS Office.
While Excel is good, they did not win in the marketplace merely on its merits.
Actually, because of Microsoft's size and resources, it doesn't matter what the loophole is as long as one exists.
Party A asks for API X. MS says no, it's not required under loophole L. Party A must now take MS to court, and spend time and money. MS will happily spend the money merely to delay party A long enough to make them irrelevent.
Oh, I agree it's worth the research, and I, too, still actively use a Newton (MP2K).
I was just noting the power of MS on a fledgling industry and its ability to both kill it or hype it back into life. Sad that we lost 15 years of development, though.
In the late 80's a concept called "Pen Computing" was the Next Big Thing. Companies like Grid were building the hardware, and companies like Go were designing software that would be appropriate to the platform.
Along comes MS with vaporware called "Pen Windows" and the whole industry collapses because everyone wants to see what the 800 lb. gorilla is going to do. Naturally, attempting to kludge up an entirely new UI on top of Windows fails miserably, but not before everyone else runs out of money and the idea dies.
Of course, there were other issues, CPU performance, LCD cost, etc. but the technology was relegated to the Newton (and the subsequent PDA industry) where it has languished for 15 years.
I'm glad I read this. Otherwise I wouldn't have known that there had been a "concerted effort" and the socialists had taking over Vermont. Must have slept throught the CNN coverage.
The evidence is becoming very persuasive that immunizations do bear a large portion of the blame.
Wrong. The Wakefield study that was the first to suggest a link has come under serious methodological criticism.
The most recent study (Taylor, 1999) showed the following:
1. The authors showed that the number of ASD cases has been increasing since 1979, with no jump after the introduction of the MMR vaccine in 1988. 2. The authors found that children who were vaccinated before 18 months of age were diagnosed with autism at ages similar to children who were vaccinated after 18 months of age, indicating that the vaccination did not result in earlier expression of ASD characteristics. 3. The authors discovered that at age two, the MMR vaccination coverage among ASD cases was nearly identical to vaccination coverage of children in the same birth cohorts in the whole region, providing evidence of a lack of overall association between the ASD and the vaccination. 4. Taylor and colleagues established that the first diagnosis of autism or initial signs of behavioral regression were not more likely to occur within time periods following MMR vaccination than during other time periods. However, parental concern clustered at six months post-vaccination. 5. The results of the study were similar when cases of classical autism were analyzed separately.
See the National Vaccine Information Center [909shot.com] for some good articles on links to this and other complications.
Also note the paranoid quotes of the founder:
". . . If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit on what individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow." - Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-Founder NVIC
Since 1977, when the first autism twin study demonstrated higher concordance rates of autism among identical twins than fraternal twins, the evidence for inherited factors in autism has gained widespread recognition among researchers.
This article does state that autism does not follow the standard patterns for dominant, recessive or X-linked disorders, however.
The presence of Altivec is a clear indication that Apple was involved and/or will be using the chip. Up until now, IBM has resisted adding Altivec to its version of PPC, and Apple depends on it heavily.
...was about predictions. The rest was about a very disturbing trend in the industry: the death of pure research. Far more worthy of comment that a few lame predictions.
You miss the point. It's not the reuse of the same four genetic letters that's at issue (though it would be interesting to see some non-carbon-based life forms). It's that they are in identical sequences.
Is your writing artistic expression if you share the exact same sentences 97% of the time with a previous work?
You might want to discuss this theory with a publisher, if you're correct that you can publish the same novel over, and over again you can make a ton of money.
Wait, isn't that what Tom Clancy does? Oh, it's OK, we were talking about art.
The philosophy of TMTOWTDI ("There's more than one way to do it.") is a direct result of observing that the Author of the universe is humble, and chooses to exercise control in subtle rather than in heavy-handed ways. The universe doesn't come with enforced style guidelines.
Hmmm. Seems to me that could equally be the basis for an argument against an "Author". If you look at life on earth, there is basically only one way to do it. It's all genes and DNA and every complex living thing shares something in common with the others. There is no "artistic expression" that shows up at all.
There are similar theories that indicate why Africa seems to be hit much harder by AIDS than European countries.
When the "black death" hit Europe, it killed as much as 1/3 of the population. The survivors likely had a genetic advantage that helped them survive. This same genetic resistance which was an advantage 700 years ago appears to be valuable today. Sub-saharan Africa did not suffer the same rampant spread of the plague, and thus those genes were less likely to be preserved in the general population.
In his encyclical Humani Generis (1950), Pius XII had stated that there was no opposition between evolution and the doctrine of the faith about man and his vocation. John Paul II has also reconfirmed this position. As I read it, they allow evolution to describe what happened to the body and make the soul the center of a spiritual creation.
I actually chose the MP2000 because of the larger size, though I could do with less weight, because I was interested in note-taking.
When I went to a startup a few years back, it was our first computer. It sent and recieved faxes, sent and recieved e-mail, and I used the HWR to take the notes of the first Board of Director's meetings. (And yes, they were readable afterwards.)
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Um, the above comment is a troll, will someone please moderate it as such.
discrimination normally implies an unfair identification, where in this case there is a legitimate difference.
So living in a poor neighborhood is legitimate grounds for discrimination? Unfortunately, we already have amply grounds to show where this leads. Beyond the well-publicized "driving while black" issue, there was a recent case in Houston, where police arrested a number of innocent people for "loitering" in a "high crime" area, the exact population profiled here.
The problem is that there is significant overlap between groups, for example in an area that has poor black population, the biggest contributing factor with regard to crime is poverty, but the police can't tell that you're poor by looking at you. It's very easy, however, for them to tell that you're black.
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Microsoft and Apple have a number of cross-license agreements, so that's not a valid test.
There are no "Leaky Abstractions" in assembly.
Horse pucky. Consider 'INCR R0'. You have a n-bit implementation of the integer abstraction. As soon as you overflow that register your abstraction leaks all over itself, and anything that depends on it.
The problem with this is that they would then just get multiple accounts. If they needed to send 10,000 messages then they would get 10 accounts and send 1,000 messages for free per account.
Actually, this isn't as much of a problem as you might think. The point is to make spamming uneconomical. If they have to buy or even manage multiple accounts, it's going to increase their costs, and that's good.
Those numbers are truly amazing, 81 responses out of 3.5 millions spams and she makes $1500. Even if you increase the cost (by whatever means) by a mere $1/1000 you cost her $3500 and there go the profits.
Voting should not be done through computers. If there is a problem with the system, we need to be able to count the votes by hand.
Those two statements are not mutually exclusive. Voting by computers (in theory at least) is good. It's fast, accurate, and we can easily implement voting algorithms that are better (mathematically) than majority-winner-take-all.
However, all voting computers should have printers attached, and the user should see the printed result and it should be turned in as a backup. Random polling places should be checked after every election to ensure the honesty of the system.
In addition, the software must not be closed. It doesn't have to be open source, but it does need to go through a third party review, something many voting software companies disallow claiming "trade secrets" to protect their source. This is bad news.
Dang. I'm starting to worry about those copy-protected CD's now.
It simply was better than the opposition, and for its time, much of this stuff was revolutionary.
True, the overall picture presented by the suite was better than the competition on the PC, but it was hardly revolutionary. Apple, as usual, had already built Publish/Subscribe in the late 80's and was working on OpenDoc, and the whole idea of embedded documents was explored in the early 80's at MIT and Xerox.
Question. If the region control is in the drive firmware, how can it be bypassed by a software only solution? Don't all read requests go through the drive firmware?
So, given that Microsoft had pretty much zilch leverage and no monopoly, how exactly were they going to ensure that their product won, other than by being better than the competition?
Actually, they took a page from IBM's monopoly playbook (long time ago) and used a technique called bundling. They had all those nasty competitors in word processing, so they created the "office suite." You buy their word processor and get a spreadsheet for free.
Now all the competitors had to scramble, because simply lowering prices wasn't sufficient, they had to have a product offering in the "suite" category, which mean buying or developing something, which either took time or meant that you didn't have a product that was nearly as integrated as MS Office.
While Excel is good, they did not win in the marketplace merely on its merits.
Actually, because of Microsoft's size and resources, it doesn't matter what the loophole is as long as one exists.
Party A asks for API X.
MS says no, it's not required under loophole L.
Party A must now take MS to court, and spend time and money. MS will happily spend the money merely to delay party A long enough to make them irrelevent.
Oh, I agree it's worth the research, and I, too, still actively use a Newton (MP2K).
I was just noting the power of MS on a fledgling industry and its ability to both kill it or hype it back into life. Sad that we lost 15 years of development, though.
In the late 80's a concept called "Pen Computing" was the Next Big Thing. Companies like Grid were building the hardware, and companies like Go were designing software that would be appropriate to the platform.
Along comes MS with vaporware called "Pen Windows" and the whole industry collapses because everyone wants to see what the 800 lb. gorilla is going to do. Naturally, attempting to kludge up an entirely new UI on top of Windows fails miserably, but not before everyone else runs out of money and the idea dies.
Of course, there were other issues, CPU performance, LCD cost, etc. but the technology was relegated to the Newton (and the subsequent PDA industry) where it has languished for 15 years.
I'm glad I read this. Otherwise I wouldn't have known that there had been a "concerted effort" and the socialists had taking over Vermont. Must have slept throught the CNN coverage.
The evidence is becoming very persuasive that immunizations do bear a large portion of the blame.
Wrong. The Wakefield study that was the first to suggest a link has come under serious methodological criticism.
The most recent study (Taylor, 1999) showed the following:
1. The authors showed that the number of ASD cases has been increasing since 1979, with no jump after the introduction of the MMR vaccine in 1988.
2. The authors found that children who were vaccinated before 18 months of age were diagnosed with autism at ages similar to children who were vaccinated after 18 months of age, indicating that the vaccination did not result in earlier expression of ASD characteristics.
3. The authors discovered that at age two, the MMR vaccination coverage among ASD cases was nearly identical to vaccination coverage of children in the same birth cohorts in the whole region, providing evidence of a lack of overall association between the ASD and the vaccination.
4. Taylor and colleagues established that the first diagnosis of autism or initial signs of behavioral regression were not more likely to occur within time periods following MMR vaccination than during other time periods. However, parental concern clustered at six months post-vaccination.
5. The results of the study were similar when cases of classical autism were analyzed separately.
See the National Vaccine Information Center [909shot.com] for some good articles on links to this and other complications.
Also note the paranoid quotes of the founder:
". . . If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will
to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today,
there will be no limit on what individual freedoms the State can take away
in the name of the greater good tomorrow."
- Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-Founder NVIC
From Autism Today:
Since 1977, when the first autism twin study demonstrated higher concordance rates of autism among identical twins than fraternal twins, the evidence for inherited factors in autism has gained widespread recognition among researchers.
This article does state that autism does not follow the standard patterns for dominant, recessive or X-linked disorders, however.
The presence of Altivec is a clear indication that Apple was involved and/or will be using the chip. Up until now, IBM has resisted adding Altivec to its version of PPC, and Apple depends on it heavily.
...was about predictions. The rest was about a very disturbing trend in the industry: the death of pure research. Far more worthy of comment that a few lame predictions.
What a pain. If you try to look at their coverage map, you get an error if you don't accept cookies. Tacky, tacky, tacky.
You miss the point. It's not the reuse of the same four genetic letters that's at issue (though it would be interesting to see some non-carbon-based life forms). It's that they are in identical sequences.
Is your writing artistic expression if you share the exact same sentences 97% of the time with a previous work?
You might want to discuss this theory with a publisher, if you're correct that you can publish the same novel over, and over again you can make a ton of money.
Wait, isn't that what Tom Clancy does? Oh, it's OK, we were talking about art.
The philosophy of TMTOWTDI ("There's more than one way to do it.") is a direct result of observing that the Author of the universe is humble, and chooses to exercise control in subtle rather than in heavy-handed ways. The universe doesn't come with enforced style guidelines.
Hmmm. Seems to me that could equally be the basis for an argument against an "Author". If you look at life on earth, there is basically only one way to do it. It's all genes and DNA and every complex living thing shares something in common with the others. There is no "artistic expression" that shows up at all.
There are similar theories that indicate why Africa seems to be hit much harder by AIDS than European countries.
When the "black death" hit Europe, it killed as much as 1/3 of the population. The survivors likely had a genetic advantage that helped them survive. This same genetic resistance which was an advantage 700 years ago appears to be valuable today. Sub-saharan Africa did not suffer the same rampant spread of the plague, and thus those genes were less likely to be preserved in the general population.
a fairly recent phenomenon
For certain definitions of recent.
In his encyclical Humani Generis (1950), Pius XII had stated that there was no opposition between evolution and the doctrine of the faith about man and his vocation. John Paul II has also reconfirmed this position. As I read it, they allow evolution to describe what happened to the body and make the soul the center of a spiritual creation.
I actually chose the MP2000 because of the larger size, though I could do with less weight, because I was interested in note-taking.
When I went to a startup a few years back, it was our first computer. It sent and recieved faxes, sent and recieved e-mail, and I used the HWR to take the notes of the first Board of Director's meetings. (And yes, they were readable afterwards.)
Um, the above comment is a troll, will someone please moderate it as such.
discrimination normally implies an unfair identification, where in this case there is a legitimate difference.
So living in a poor neighborhood is legitimate grounds for discrimination? Unfortunately, we already have amply grounds to show where this leads. Beyond the well-publicized "driving while black" issue, there was a
recent case in Houston, where police arrested a number of innocent people for "loitering" in a "high crime" area, the exact population profiled here.
The problem is that there is significant overlap between groups, for example in an area that has poor black population, the biggest contributing factor with regard to crime is poverty, but the police can't tell that you're poor by looking at you. It's very easy, however, for them to tell that you're black.