So that would work for pictures... Now what about some movies of the family? How would they be arranged? What about a short story that the kid wrote for school?
Hello McFly!! People aren't just storing documents! Music, pictures, movies, email, and so on, all need to be stored. Making a hack for one type of format doesn't help for the 15 other types.
So forget grep. Forget find. HFS isn't cutting it.
So is releasing the standard C libraries as LGPL instead of GPL pumping money into the souless corporations? Should they be relicensed? If the GPL was so perfect, then all the C libraries would be GPL too.
My feeling is that a lot of cops are the high school bullies who, once they graduated from high school, looked frantically for a way to maintain their previous lifestyle, and found it.
>A monopoly over the Internet is just >as bad in the hands of OSS developers >as it would be in the hands of Microsoft.
How? Tell me how that would be worse... If OSS dominated the web, you would be able to use any OS to access the web, and not have to pay for it. People would be able to not worry about strange patent limitations and being sued for single-click patents. The GPL places no restrictions on content created on the web, so anything on the web would be on the web in such a scenario. Any company that wanted to make a closed source application would not be prohibited, or secretly (or blatently, as the case may be) shut out of the standards committee.
So tell me how the web would be worse if it were dominated by the OSS instead of MS. Or shut up.
You know, someday Linux won 't be able to use that answer when people 's grandparents are Linux users. Really, even if you know how to read/write C, it doesn 't mean you will be able to review several dozen.c and.h files to understand what a particualr button click does. What will your answer be then?
Linux needs to become more innovative. The multiple, somewhat overlapping projects are a source of strength. If linux has 7 projects, which all look like the windows version, then we are wasting our time.
One thing I always think about is a multiple desktop based window manager. And no, I'm not talking about different 'screens ' of information. What I would like is new way of organizing projects. Right now, people create a new folder for each project, with all of the relevent files stored in that project 's folder. What wuld be better is a new desktop per project. Then the project files are saved in directories with the same type of files. For example. a project might have files for project descriptions and sceduling, some coding files, emails, results, and so on. All of these files are on the project desktop, easily acessible, with a status file which summarizes your changes. A different project would have its own separate desktop. But similar files would be stored in a common directory. So all of your project result documents would be in one place, easy to find and review. Finally, you would have a way to switch from desktop to desktop.
I think we need to move to a more 'analog' measurement system. Or at least add a few more bits to the scale. Perhaps instead of Good/Evil, we go with: *Very Good *Good *Quasi-Good *Mildly-Good *Neutral *Somewhat Evil *Quite Evil *Evil *Microsoft
So, for example, AOL/Time Warner would be Somewhat Evil, and Google would be Quasi-Good.
Such an intellegent, thoughtful approach to children would have two effects: 1) More healthy, well adjusted kids; and, 2) A considerable reduction in world overpopulation.
While you or I may have done that, it would take another 5999999996 people for it to really be effective.
She also reviewed 4 blenders, 2 vacuum cleaners, 2 food processors, and 3 coffee makers (she reviewed one she didn't like after she reviewed two she liked). And she actually reviewed 3 irons (a Hamilton Beach 15420 got 5 stars, like the other irons).
One one mitten review, she was talking about the neighborhood kid who makes snowballs. she says she lives in Texas. Her dog is a lab. She also really likes knives. Remember that...
My review of G.Cooke : ** stars.
-although a prolific reviewer, she is overenthusastic and redundant. She also is too corporate for my tastes.
I found it quite interesting that she reviewed men's electric shavers. She reviewed the Remington R-9100 for her husband on 10-14-02, then she reviewed the Norelco 8894xl on 11-26-02, both had 5 stars. Maybe the second was for her boyfriend?
She also reviewed A T-Fal 18301 iron (again, 5stars), and also a Bosch tpa1503uc, with, no surprise, 5 stars...
Excellent background link. These bozos are insane.
One of my favorites: >PFF's Medical Innovation Project, headed by former Department of >Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan, "seeks to replace >the current process by which new drugs and medical devices are >brought to market." To this end, it proposes transfer of Food & Drug >Administration safety and efficacy testing to private organizations.
Let's work this out - suppose the 'private testing organization' rubber-stamps 'deadagra', an even more potent form of 'viagra'. However, 'deadagra' has some more unpleasent side-effects (say, sterilization?) that somehow didn't come out in the testing phase. How much do you want to bet that the 'private testing organizations' will be immune from lawsuits for that?
These guys have a faith in the marketplace that is unfounded. There are two factors that they keep ignoring - first, the marketplace is never perfectly efficient, and second, that corporations can impact the regulatory environment for their benefit.
I love how they still support 'more competition' in electrical power industry. They probably want to ignore California's experience, or they would state that there were loopholes in the law, and that the guilty parties will be punished. Don't buy that - first, the corporations are the ones that inserted the loopholes in the first place, and second, I see all of those companies keeping a larger chuck of their ill-gotten gains.
Too bad Russia can't allocate more money. But they have bigger problems - crime, poverty, health, gassing of rebels.
I think that every $1 that the US aids Russia saves $2 in the military budget, even after acounting for the corruption. Of course, IANAA (accountant). Then again, Worldcom looked pretty solid to accountants, too...
I just hope Russia is able to maintain their current level of funding for space - every bit counts.
If humanity does not have a significant presence in space (1000000+ people) within the next 200 years, I fear that we will always be on this rock, overcrowding it and eventually destroying it.
I understand what you're saying, but well, face it - a lot of life is boring stuff. Waiting in line at the grocery store, paying bills, driving to Grandma's on Thanksgiving.
Perhaps this will change, as communications (and advertising) starts filling in those blocks of time. Is dealing with boredom a skill that won't be necessary in the future?
This economy and MS's actions have provided an awesome opportunity for Open Source, and put MS at a risk that they haven't seen for more than a decade. Yet open source advocates should keep focused. The software is almost where it needs to be, not quite. Why is this bad? Because there will potentially be a huge flood of new users, who will run crying back to MS if they encounter any significant issue (even if the issue is all in their mind). Basically, if open source loses this round of potential converts, we could be locked out for many many years.
Remember "that which doesn't kill me only makes me stronger".
Of course, you need to remember the mantra "Blame Canada".
So Canada does a lot of things right such as Universal Health Care (cue libertarian nuts to reply with 500 posts knocking it), and they seem to have a clue regarding the internet.
I've visited Canada several times, and it seems like a metric version of the U.S. without as many assholes (or stupid presidents). Of course, I never visited Quebec, so I may be naive on that point.
If they only allow exchanges, I would take another one, come back and ask for a replacement. Wash, rinse, repeat, repeat.... Go through their entire collection of CDs. It only takes 4 or 5 customers to do that before the store policy changes to accept returns.
As an alternative, if you pay with a credit card, you can claim that you were sold defective goods.
I use tantalums instead of electrolytics as a rule. Electrolytic caps have a higher ESR, and the dielectric fluid is prone to leakage. The lifetime of an electrolytic is shorter than that of a tantalum - they have a finite lifetime, as the liquid electrolyte evaporates. While it is true about tantalumns having a particularly impressive failure mechanism, once you remember not to reverse the polarity you don't have problems. Electrolytics also behave poorly when reversed. In addition, electrolytics have a minimum operating voltage and a maximum operation voltage. And how's this: "Conventional aluminum electrolytic capacitors which have gone 6 months or more without voltage applied may have to be reformed." Electrolytics are also physically larger than Tantalums, not smaller. They are indeed more expensive, but worth it.
Yes, I use ceramics whenever possible (esp. NP0/C0G, none of the x7r or worse grades). Ceramics are the best general purpose - no polarity issues, small physical size allows them to be extremely close to the DUT (for bypassing), and they have pretty good SRF. The only problems - the max capacitance you can get isn't too good. Polyprop/polystyrene are better for high fidelity audio type signals (earthquake detection anybody?).
Well - your analysis ignores an important point. How many drivers need to be 650MB in size? If you need only a few 100KB, then the cost for flash is significantly reduced. In addition, with CDs, you need to order a significant number. Any rev to the driver requires a whole new CD run.
Of course, the rest of your analysis is pretty good.
Yeah - there's a lot of times where admitting you were wrong, publically apologizing, and cleaning up your mess is all that is needed. Propose that to the cop when you get pulled over...
I support immigration, but not indentured servants. I think that a lot of immigrants have a tough road, and they are always the ones who take it on the chin when anything goes bad (The war on terrorism is a great example). I've had friends who had to wait years for their spouses to be legally admitted to the US. On another note, I think that there is a hypocrisy on the side of big business: when times are bad (e.g. now), your job is on the line, and there are layoffs, pay cuts, etc. Fine, I accept that as a the current environment. However, when times are good, rather than pony up and pay the going rate, they endevour to change the laws (more H1b visas) so that they don't have to deal with the ramifications. That is why I am against H1b visas.
The purpose that H1b visas exist for is to get technical talent not available in the US. I have not seen that as the case - the company I work at hired an H1b, at 30% less than the going rate for similar employees. To top it off, that person only had skills that were obsolete.
I resent the ad hominem attack - playing the racist card is bogus. I agree that if someone can do my job better than me, then they should have the option. However, if someone can only do a shitty emulation of my job, but has the job only because he is cheap, don't pretend he is doing my job.
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So that would work for pictures...
Now what about some movies of the family? How would they be arranged? What about a short story that the kid wrote for school?
Hello McFly!! People aren't just storing documents! Music, pictures, movies, email, and so on, all need to be stored. Making a hack for one type of format doesn't help for the 15 other types.
So forget grep. Forget find. HFS isn't cutting it.
So is releasing the standard C libraries as LGPL instead of GPL pumping money into the souless corporations? Should they be relicensed?
If the GPL was so perfect, then all the C libraries would be GPL too.
Absolutely correct.
My feeling is that a lot of cops are the high school bullies who, once they graduated from high school, looked frantically for a way to maintain their previous lifestyle, and found it.
Yeah - you're right.
They should let the police go through everyone's garbage, cause they might be missing some other murderers!
>A monopoly over the Internet is just
>as bad in the hands of OSS developers
>as it would be in the hands of Microsoft.
How? Tell me how that would be worse... If OSS dominated the web, you would be able to use any OS to access the web, and not have to pay for it. People would be able to not worry about strange patent limitations and being sued for single-click patents. The GPL places no restrictions on content created on the web, so anything on the web would be on the web in such a scenario. Any company that wanted to make a closed source application would not be prohibited, or secretly (or blatently, as the case may be) shut out of the standards committee.
So tell me how the web would be worse if it were dominated by the OSS instead of MS. Or shut up.
You know, someday Linux won 't be able to use that answer when people 's grandparents are Linux users. Really, even if you know how to read/write C, it doesn 't mean you will be able to review several dozen .c and .h files to understand what a particualr button click does.
What will your answer be then?
Linux needs to become more innovative. The multiple, somewhat overlapping projects are a source of strength. If linux has 7 projects, which all look like the windows version, then we are wasting our time.
One thing I always think about is a multiple desktop based window manager. And no, I'm not talking about different 'screens ' of information. What I would like is new way of organizing projects. Right now, people create a new folder for each project, with all of the relevent files stored in that project 's folder. What wuld be better is a new desktop per project. Then the project files are saved in directories with the same type of files.
For example. a project might have files for project descriptions and sceduling, some coding files, emails, results, and so on. All of these files are on the project desktop, easily acessible, with a status file which summarizes your changes. A different project would have its own separate desktop. But similar files would be stored in a common directory. So all of your project result documents would be in one place, easy to find and review. Finally, you would have a way to switch from desktop to desktop.
I think we need to move to a more 'analog' measurement system. Or at least add a few more bits to the scale.
*Somewhat Evil
Perhaps instead of Good/Evil, we go with:
*Very Good
*Good
*Quasi-Good
*Mildly-Good
*Neutral
*Quite Evil
*Evil
*Microsoft
So, for example, AOL/Time Warner would be Somewhat Evil, and Google would be Quasi-Good.
Such an intellegent, thoughtful approach to children would have two effects:
1) More healthy, well adjusted kids; and,
2) A considerable reduction in world overpopulation.
While you or I may have done that, it would take another 5999999996 people for it to really be effective.
I think I should copyright a 1KHz sinewave for 2:00. I would be able to stop any equipment testing at 1KHz (e.g. stereo ICs and so on...)
She also reviewed 4 blenders, 2 vacuum cleaners, 2 food processors, and 3 coffee makers (she reviewed one she didn't like after she reviewed two she liked). And she actually reviewed 3 irons (a Hamilton Beach 15420 got 5 stars, like the other irons).
One one mitten review, she was talking about the neighborhood kid who makes snowballs. she says she lives in Texas. Her dog is a lab. She also really likes knives. Remember that...
My review of G.Cooke : ** stars.
-although a prolific reviewer, she is overenthusastic and redundant. She also is too corporate for my tastes.
I found it quite interesting that she reviewed men's electric shavers. She reviewed the Remington R-9100 for her husband on 10-14-02, then she reviewed the Norelco 8894xl on 11-26-02, both had 5 stars. Maybe the second was for her boyfriend?
She also reviewed A T-Fal 18301 iron (again, 5stars), and also a Bosch tpa1503uc, with, no surprise, 5 stars...
Hmmmmm....
Excellent background link.
These bozos are insane.
One of my favorites:
>PFF's Medical Innovation Project, headed by former Department of
>Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan, "seeks to replace
>the current process by which new drugs and medical devices are
>brought to market." To this end, it proposes transfer of Food & Drug
>Administration safety and efficacy testing to private organizations.
Let's work this out - suppose the 'private testing organization' rubber-stamps 'deadagra', an even more potent form of 'viagra'. However, 'deadagra' has some more unpleasent side-effects (say, sterilization?) that somehow didn't come out in the testing phase. How much do you want to bet that the 'private testing organizations' will be immune from lawsuits for that?
These guys have a faith in the marketplace that is unfounded. There are two factors that they keep ignoring - first, the marketplace is never perfectly efficient, and second, that corporations can impact the regulatory environment for their benefit.
I love how they still support 'more competition' in electrical power industry. They probably want to ignore California's experience, or they would state that there were loopholes in the law, and that the guilty parties will be punished. Don't buy that - first, the corporations are the ones that inserted the loopholes in the first place, and second, I see all of those companies keeping a larger chuck of their ill-gotten gains.
With $2.7 Million, all a government program can do is print business cards...
Too bad Russia can't allocate more money. But they have bigger problems - crime, poverty, health, gassing of rebels.
I think that every $1 that the US aids Russia saves $2 in the military budget, even after acounting for the corruption. Of course, IANAA (accountant). Then again, Worldcom looked pretty solid to accountants, too...
I just hope Russia is able to maintain their current level of funding for space - every bit counts.
If humanity does not have a significant presence in space (1000000+ people) within the next 200 years, I fear that we will always be on this rock, overcrowding it and eventually destroying it.
I understand what you're saying, but well, face it - a lot of life is boring stuff. Waiting in line at the grocery store, paying bills, driving to Grandma's on Thanksgiving.
Perhaps this will change, as communications (and advertising) starts filling in those blocks of time. Is dealing with boredom a skill that won't be necessary in the future?
This economy and MS's actions have provided an awesome opportunity for Open Source, and put MS at a risk that they haven't seen for more than a decade.
Yet open source advocates should keep focused. The software is almost where it needs to be, not quite. Why is this bad? Because there will potentially be a huge flood of new users, who will run crying back to MS if they encounter any significant issue (even if the issue is all in their mind). Basically, if open source loses this round of potential converts, we could be locked out for many many years.
Remember "that which doesn't kill me only makes me stronger".
Of course, you need to remember the mantra "Blame Canada".
So Canada does a lot of things right such as Universal Health Care (cue libertarian nuts to reply with 500 posts knocking it), and they seem to have a clue regarding the internet.
I've visited Canada several times, and it seems like a metric version of the U.S. without as many assholes (or stupid presidents). Of course, I never visited Quebec, so I may be naive on that point.
If they only allow exchanges, I would take another one, come back and ask for a replacement. Wash, rinse, repeat, repeat.... Go through their entire collection of CDs. It only takes 4 or 5 customers to do that before the store policy changes to accept returns.
As an alternative, if you pay with a credit card, you can claim that you were sold defective goods.
Airbags!
You may want to pile snow and other cushioning material around the tree-trunks to reduce any head trauma when none of the above methods pan out.
I use tantalums instead of electrolytics as a rule. Electrolytic caps have a higher ESR, and the dielectric fluid is prone to leakage. The lifetime of an electrolytic is shorter than that of a tantalum - they have a finite lifetime, as the liquid electrolyte evaporates.
While it is true about tantalumns having a particularly impressive failure mechanism, once you remember not to reverse the polarity you don't have problems. Electrolytics also behave poorly when reversed. In addition, electrolytics have a minimum operating voltage and a maximum operation voltage. And how's this:
"Conventional aluminum electrolytic capacitors which have gone 6 months or more without voltage applied may have to be reformed."
Electrolytics are also physically larger than Tantalums, not smaller. They are indeed more expensive, but worth it.
Yes, I use ceramics whenever possible (esp. NP0/C0G, none of the x7r or worse grades). Ceramics are the best general purpose - no polarity issues, small physical size allows them to be extremely close to the DUT (for bypassing), and they have pretty good SRF. The only problems - the max capacitance you can get isn't too good. Polyprop/polystyrene are better for high fidelity audio type signals (earthquake detection anybody?).
Well - your analysis ignores an important point.
How many drivers need to be 650MB in size?
If you need only a few 100KB, then the cost for flash is significantly reduced. In addition, with CDs, you need to order a significant number. Any rev to the driver requires a whole new CD run.
Of course, the rest of your analysis is pretty good.
Yeah - there's a lot of times where admitting you were wrong, publically apologizing, and cleaning up your mess is all that is needed. Propose that to the cop when you get pulled over...
Yes, that is true. Of course, the potential problem is that shitty becomes standard.
How long is "the long run", anyway? Even in mature industries such as steel or automobiles, there is still a lot of things to work out.
This is the free-market fairytale - "in the long run the market will fix everything."
I don't believe in the that myth. There is a large area where the free market shouldn't apply. For example, power generation, or prison, or war.
I beg to differ.
I support immigration, but not indentured servants. I think that a lot of immigrants have a tough road, and they are always the ones who take it on the chin when anything goes bad (The war on terrorism is a great example). I've had friends who had to wait years for their spouses to be legally admitted to the US.
On another note, I think that there is a hypocrisy on the side of big business: when times are bad (e.g. now), your job is on the line, and there are layoffs, pay cuts, etc. Fine, I accept that as a the current environment. However, when times are good, rather than pony up and pay the going rate, they endevour to change the laws (more H1b visas) so that they don't have to deal with the ramifications. That is why I am against H1b visas.
The purpose that H1b visas exist for is to get technical talent not available in the US. I have not seen that as the case - the company I work at hired an H1b, at 30% less than the going rate for similar employees. To top it off, that person only had skills that were obsolete.
I resent the ad hominem attack - playing the racist card is bogus. I agree that if someone can do my job better than me, then they should have the option. However, if someone can only do a shitty emulation of my job, but has the job only because he is cheap, don't pretend he is doing my job.