I was told that apparently at one time, if the taxpayers paid for it, the taxpayers owned it (subject to military restrictions). And that Prime Computer was founded on exploiting that fact - taking some NASA software, designing hardware to run it more optimally, and making a product line out of it.
Likewise the RBase DBMS, which was supposedly developed by Boeing under government contract.
True or not, those were products that date from before the days when certain political powers pushed to privatize everything and universities weren't out to monetize everything they did.
Around here, the people who style themselves "Libertarians" are twerps who want to be able to drive their BMW's down well-maintained public highways while screaming "Tax is Theft!"
And they're registered as Republicans, not Libertarians.
Republicans are demonstrably just as much into government control as Democrats. The only difference being in what they want the government controlling. Just because Reagan said something once doesn't make the Republican Party a Libertarian party. Especially since by today's uncompromising Republican standards, Reagan judged without his name attached would be condemned as a flaming Liberal.
Somehow, though, in our society --- and this has persisted for centuries, it seems --- there is the idea that getting up early is somehow meritorious and more "moral" than getting up later. Maybe it started with the needs of an agricultural society, but today is seems really misplaced. I get up at 5 am and you get up at 9 so I'm a better person than you are? I hardly think so.
It's because until about 1900, the majority of the populace were farmers, which lacking some serious candlepower is a job that has to be mostly done in daylight. So to get the most number of working hours out of a day means rising with the chickens and working until the sun set.
Of course, that meant that once the sun had set, most of your time was your own and in more extreme climes the "hard" work was something you could only do when it wasn't too cold to grow anything.
The first factories were also likely to operate mostly courtesy of what light came in through the (usually plentiful) windows, so likewise our Captains of Industry wanted the workers filing in at dawn and working until the light faded to uselessness.
Factories were the where the idea of having slack times began to die. Artificial lighting meant that you could extend the work day. Between the two, coupled with the false, but popular idea that "the more you work, the more you get ahead", we kept to the early-rising concept and added more work on top of it.
Realistically, artificial light means that you could work an 8-hour day starting any time, and, of course, factory shifts often do. But the general pattern remains from its agricultural roots. The rulers didn't need such a schedule, nor did the clergy or the scholars - at least the ones who had patrons to supply them with candles.
Few people, if any, have made a well informed, decision to smoke.
I'm afraid I must disagree. At this point, anyone over 3 years old has been informed that smoking is harmful, but new smokers are made daily. They know it's risky, but they discount it because it "makes them look cool" (actually, it makes them look stupid, IMHO). and they think they'll "just quit" before it gets too bad, despite all the evidence that people don't usually manage to do that.
It is unquestionably one of the most effective illustrations that a "well-informed market" is not the same thing as an intelligent market, and why the Religion of the Free Market that bring Utopia to the world is a false faith.
Somewhere around Matt Smith's tenure, the show's logo were the letters "DRWHO" bent into the shape of a perspective view of a Tardis. So yes, on this instance, at least, the "Dr" form is observed, and that's just what I can think up off the top of my head.
The standard gag (following "It's bigger on the inside!") is. "I'm The Doctor. / Doctor? Doctor Who?"
As David Tennant, he identified himself as "Doctor Smith", just to avoid committing to an actual name and to play off "Doctor (Martha) Jones", alias Smith and Jones.
The only time I ever heard him self-identify as "I am Doctor Who" was in the Peter Cushing" movie, and yes, it grated.
If a board thinks that technology and magic are the same thing - a natural error to make when Clarke's Law comes truer daily - then the board is likely to make unrealistic decisions based on the idea that all problems can be solved by waving a wand.
Or, as they say to the people who actually have to realize these decisions: "It's Simple! All You Have To Do Is..."
Maybe a computer camp with boys in it actually is detrimental. Maybe not.
Still, I'd put a lot more faith in a segregated solution if the daughter had jumped up and down and begged and pleaded to go to computer camp and THEN come home saying "I hate computers".
Not every state is Oregon, though. The point isn't choice, however, it's how we've become so impoverished that we really don't have a choice. Everyone "chooses" to be unpaid labor because without those Everyday Low Prices, they'd have to admit that they're not as rich as they would like to think they are.
In fact, locally, I'm not even sure if full-service gas stations exist any more.
I know it's hard to understand for an American, but not every place extorts the citizen's time (which is money)
But Americans love to have their time extorted. That's why they'd rather have everything self-service instead of delegating to someone who does the job often enough to to it more professionally for the amount of time involved.
Air traffic controllers come in basically 3 flavors: airport, regional, and international. Regional and international are more or less similar except that the international controllers are dealing with trans-oceanic traffic and apt to use shortwave or satellite radio for communications.
There are only around half-a-dozen or so regional ATCs in the USA. These centers may use long-distance communications links to unmanned satellite sites as the original setup was based primarily on ground radar and VHF communications, both of which have range limitations. So that part of the "no humans" systems has existed for decades.
The difference here is in making the airport air traffic control run as a satellite as well. I'm not comfortable with that, since the last line of defense in case everything else goes down at the airport would be having controllers direct planes in by eyeball. Which might be a challenge when you're talking someplace like Atlanta, but at least it's better than nothing.
There are some things that just really shouldn't become too efficient. In the SF Bay area, someone's been cutting major Internet cables. Consider the chaos that could cause if critical air traffic data and communications was going over those lines. Especially, since more than one airport might be fed from the same set of cables, thus removing control not only from primary landing facilities, but their backup locations as well.
De-skilling is a major issue. In more than one field, we've cut off the bottom rungs of the ladder by outsourcing and/or automating the simpler tasks. But it's practice on the simpler tasks that eventually make you an expert. Maybe in some fields, it's acceptable to dispense with experts (if the state of modern software is any indication), but I'm not so sure that dispensing with experts in the arena of Air Traffic Control is something people are going to want.
The idea that the school suffers if this child does not display creativity troubles me. The school does not suffer either way, the only one who suffers is the child. The immediate lesson he has learned is that he must keep his head down and be just like every one else. Creativity will be punished. That is a hell of a thing to teach a child. Way to go
It's not just the child. See it repeated over and over again. The frequency with which incidents like this happen mean that the upcoming generation is going to have all the initiative beaten out of it. From "Can Do!" to "Don't Dare!" in under a century.
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I was told that apparently at one time, if the taxpayers paid for it, the taxpayers owned it (subject to military restrictions). And that Prime Computer was founded on exploiting that fact - taking some NASA software, designing hardware to run it more optimally, and making a product line out of it.
Likewise the RBase DBMS, which was supposedly developed by Boeing under government contract.
True or not, those were products that date from before the days when certain political powers pushed to privatize everything and universities weren't out to monetize everything they did.
Military-Industrial Complex.
Around here, the people who style themselves "Libertarians" are twerps who want to be able to drive their BMW's down well-maintained public highways while screaming "Tax is Theft!"
And they're registered as Republicans, not Libertarians.
Republicans are demonstrably just as much into government control as Democrats. The only difference being in what they want the government controlling. Just because Reagan said something once doesn't make the Republican Party a Libertarian party. Especially since by today's uncompromising Republican standards, Reagan judged without his name attached would be condemned as a flaming Liberal.
"Architect" in this town means "Programmer who isn't located offshore".
Somehow, though, in our society --- and this has persisted for centuries, it seems --- there is the idea that getting up early is somehow meritorious and more "moral" than getting up later. Maybe it started with the needs of an agricultural society, but today is seems really misplaced. I get up at 5 am and you get up at 9 so I'm a better person than you are? I hardly think so.
It's because until about 1900, the majority of the populace were farmers, which lacking some serious candlepower is a job that has to be mostly done in daylight. So to get the most number of working hours out of a day means rising with the chickens and working until the sun set.
Of course, that meant that once the sun had set, most of your time was your own and in more extreme climes the "hard" work was something you could only do when it wasn't too cold to grow anything.
The first factories were also likely to operate mostly courtesy of what light came in through the (usually plentiful) windows, so likewise our Captains of Industry wanted the workers filing in at dawn and working until the light faded to uselessness.
Factories were the where the idea of having slack times began to die. Artificial lighting meant that you could extend the work day. Between the two, coupled with the false, but popular idea that "the more you work, the more you get ahead", we kept to the early-rising concept and added more work on top of it.
Realistically, artificial light means that you could work an 8-hour day starting any time, and, of course, factory shifts often do. But the general pattern remains from its agricultural roots. The rulers didn't need such a schedule, nor did the clergy or the scholars - at least the ones who had patrons to supply them with candles.
No the real question is it made of crystals. Every future computer is made is crystals
Heretic! Every future computer is made of platinum-iridium sponge! Positrons for the Win!
Few people, if any, have made a well informed, decision to smoke.
I'm afraid I must disagree. At this point, anyone over 3 years old has been informed that smoking is harmful, but new smokers are made daily. They know it's risky, but they discount it because it "makes them look cool" (actually, it makes them look stupid, IMHO). and they think they'll "just quit" before it gets too bad, despite all the evidence that people don't usually manage to do that.
It is unquestionably one of the most effective illustrations that a "well-informed market" is not the same thing as an intelligent market, and why the Religion of the Free Market that bring Utopia to the world is a false faith.
Somewhere around Matt Smith's tenure, the show's logo were the letters "DRWHO" bent into the shape of a perspective view of a Tardis. So yes, on this instance, at least, the "Dr" form is observed, and that's just what I can think up off the top of my head.
The standard gag (following "It's bigger on the inside!") is. "I'm The Doctor. / Doctor? Doctor Who?"
As David Tennant, he identified himself as "Doctor Smith", just to avoid committing to an actual name and to play off "Doctor (Martha) Jones", alias Smith and Jones.
The only time I ever heard him self-identify as "I am Doctor Who" was in the Peter Cushing" movie, and yes, it grated.
Actually, he already got a private meeting with the Pope. Then he announced his retirement.
Maybe the Pope tweaked his conscience. Or whatever politicians use in place of one.
Too late. A reputable evangelist has already stated that the Super-Moon this weekend will herald the End of the World.
You wouldn't call a Man of God a liar, would you?
Out of IP addresses? Sounds like a good time to invade somewhere where they mine them!
I thought they pumped them out of the ground!
Surely there's a country out there that needs some Freedom!
IT is one thing. Technology is another.
If a board thinks that technology and magic are the same thing - a natural error to make when Clarke's Law comes truer daily - then the board is likely to make unrealistic decisions based on the idea that all problems can be solved by waving a wand.
Or, as they say to the people who actually have to realize these decisions: "It's Simple! All You Have To Do Is..."
It's possible to run as many Tomcats as you like, each and every one of which can listen on either or both protocol types and on multiple ports.
All you need is enough RAM and CPU and network bandwidth to hold them all.
Actually, I don't think it's Tomcat that made that decision. From what I recall, the JVM itself defaulted to IPv6 on certain releases.
That information isn't me. I'm much more complex that what can be deduced from that information. It isn't even a copy of me.
Procrustes had a solution for that.
Maybe a computer camp with boys in it actually is detrimental. Maybe not.
Still, I'd put a lot more faith in a segregated solution if the daughter had jumped up and down and begged and pleaded to go to computer camp and THEN come home saying "I hate computers".
Not every state is Oregon, though. The point isn't choice, however, it's how we've become so impoverished that we really don't have a choice. Everyone "chooses" to be unpaid labor because without those Everyday Low Prices, they'd have to admit that they're not as rich as they would like to think they are.
In fact, locally, I'm not even sure if full-service gas stations exist any more.
I know it's hard to understand for an American, but not every place extorts the citizen's time (which is money)
But Americans love to have their time extorted. That's why they'd rather have everything self-service instead of delegating to someone who does the job often enough to to it more professionally for the amount of time involved.
Air traffic controllers come in basically 3 flavors: airport, regional, and international. Regional and international are more or less similar except that the international controllers are dealing with trans-oceanic traffic and apt to use shortwave or satellite radio for communications.
There are only around half-a-dozen or so regional ATCs in the USA. These centers may use long-distance communications links to unmanned satellite sites as the original setup was based primarily on ground radar and VHF communications, both of which have range limitations. So that part of the "no humans" systems has existed for decades.
The difference here is in making the airport air traffic control run as a satellite as well. I'm not comfortable with that, since the last line of defense in case everything else goes down at the airport would be having controllers direct planes in by eyeball. Which might be a challenge when you're talking someplace like Atlanta, but at least it's better than nothing.
There are some things that just really shouldn't become too efficient. In the SF Bay area, someone's been cutting major Internet cables. Consider the chaos that could cause if critical air traffic data and communications was going over those lines. Especially, since more than one airport might be fed from the same set of cables, thus removing control not only from primary landing facilities, but their backup locations as well.
De-skilling is a major issue. In more than one field, we've cut off the bottom rungs of the ladder by outsourcing and/or automating the simpler tasks. But it's practice on the simpler tasks that eventually make you an expert. Maybe in some fields, it's acceptable to dispense with experts (if the state of modern software is any indication), but I'm not so sure that dispensing with experts in the arena of Air Traffic Control is something people are going to want.
The idea that the school suffers if this child does not display creativity troubles me. The school does not suffer either way, the only one who suffers is the child. The immediate lesson he has learned is that he must keep his head down and be just like every one else. Creativity will be punished.
That is a hell of a thing to teach a child.
Way to go
It's not just the child. See it repeated over and over again. The frequency with which incidents like this happen mean that the upcoming generation is going to have all the initiative beaten out of it. From "Can Do!" to "Don't Dare!" in under a century.
Myself, I look forward to the day when everybody can manufacture their own automobile transmission.
At the rate they're going, before too much longer HP will be just 2 guys in a garage.
I had a friend who claimed the the Italians had never lost a war, even if it meant they had to change sides to make sure of it.
He was Italian, BTW.
I thought that homeopathy was supposed to be the basis of Trickle-Down Economics!