> However, history has proven that the science of today will always be replaced and corrected by the science of tomorrow.. That is, whatever has been "proven" by now will be replaced with something better in a year, or a couple hundred years.
There is no such thing as a proof of a scientific hypothesis. The best you can do is to get a high degree of corroboration between you theory and the data you measure.
All scientific hypotheses are tentative and open to disproof. This is what makes the difference between science and non-science.
Iceland has had a parliament since the 10th century.
Have a look at other histories besides American ones to see which countries have had democratic institutions for a period of time.
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> Please reconcile your comment with recent Department of Labor statistics which report that entrepreneurship is at an all-time high.
You can argue this multiple ways. It may show the American spirit of individualism, there again it may be that the only respite of people who can't get a job is to start their own company.
Here in the UK many single person companies are contractors plying for hire as programmers, project managers and the like. For some of them this is what they want to do, for others it is the only way of getting employment. Large companies are not interested in taking on permanent staff, they prefer to take on contractors and dump them or send their work offshore when times get hard.
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> I am not sure how it's measured in Europe but I would bet it's different. You may be comparing oranges and apples.
There is a common measure of unemployment across Europe, the Labour Force Survey. The survey seeks information on respondents' personal circumstances and their labour market status during a specific reference period, normally a period of one week or four weeks (depending on the topic) immediately prior to the interview.
The LFS is carried out under a European Union Directive and uses internationally agreed concepts and definitions. It is the source of the internationally comparable (International Labour Organisation) measure known as 'ILO unemployment'.
On this measure the UK jobless rate is just under 5%, with France, Germany and Italy all at around the 9% mark.
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It is difficult to be sure from a distance (I live in the UK), but what seems to be happening in the States is a move to what I can best call a neo-feudal society.
At the top end you have the rich and super-rich, with limited call on their wealth in terms of taxes.
At the bottom end you seem to have people who have to hold down more than one job to make ends meet, have limited access to medical care and whose children receive only a poor quality education.
This leaves your middle classes, who are being squeezed. If they don't work in a service that requires personal contact then they are in danger of being outsourced to cheaper locations elswhere on the globe.
Barons, serfs and guilds is the way it appears to be. It isn't quite as extreme here in Britain, but we are going the same way.
It is a political question. Resources are limited, what are you going to do when they run out? Accept the situation, invade another country?
The consensus of opinion is that we are causing global warming. Given the change in climate could submerge chunks of Florida and California what are you going to do about it?
Not having read the original papers it is difficult to be certain, but the way the results were presented seem to be the wrong way around to me.
What they seemed to be doing was to prove that, for example, Word Shape was the way that reading recognition worked. What they didn't seem to be doing was to advance the hypothesis and trying to test it and disprove it.
"There are no sciences like Sociology" - That Hideous Strength
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Much older than this. Search for ICL Content Addressable Filestore. Sadly never taken up, ICL are now a subsidiary of Fujitsu effectively an MS reseller.
I expect that they will be using MPLS technology. This would allow them to tag voice traffic and improve its QoS.
This will, of course, only work on networks that they run, so expect poor QoS if you have to make calls that cross networks, such as international calls.
This one may be partially true. Sun did licence SysV when they moved from SunOS. However, they have done a large amount of work on it since.
Are we going to see SCO try and claim the work that Sun have done on high quality SMP, multi-path support, hardware partitioning etc. as their "Intellectual Property" in the same way that they are attempting for the NUMA and JFS stuff.
The JRE specification is publicly available, but the Java trademark is owned by Sun. You can create an open source JVM, but you can't have the Java trademark unless it passes the test suite.
For.Net the CLI specification is lodged with ECMA. However, all the runtime libraries are the property of MS.
> I know the Java crowd is going to say they are already cross-platform. But an OPEN SOURCE platform like Mono could really turn.NET into a very cool, cross platform tool where the code could be optimized for each config.
I was under the impression that the likes of Kaffe and Blackdown JRE were OPEN SOURCE. Was I wrong?
> We know Japanese work long hours. We also know they don't work nearly as hard as Americans.
Don't equate working long hours with working hard.
Having worked both in America and Europe I find the Germans work the har4est. They put an enormous amount of effort in while they are at work, but when the whistle blows they go home.
That the RIAA finds a watertight mechanism for blocking music downloads. What happens then?
At the end of the next quarter would you expect music sales to have gone up or down? My belief would be that it goes down, people can't try before they buy, and they won't buy a complete album when they only want a couple of tracks.
So what do the RIAA then blame the reduced sales on? Would they accept that it is their policies, the marketroid based bands or would they just put the prices up?
Do we then get into another cycle, or rather spiral, or would the RIAA finally accept that online music is the way of the future?
The era of flying cars started in Britain about 2010. The Smart car company was the progenitor, essentially by adding a pair of wings to its lightweight vehicle. The introduction was timely, in that the minority coalition of Conservative and New Labour parties, under their "Privatise everything" policy were introducing tolls on all roads. The flying car avoided this by not using roads at all.
The concept quickly spread to Europe, causing the Channel Tunnel company to become bankrupt.
The idea was imported to America but was a distinct failure. Although the country would have seemed ideal for such an invention the inability of American companies to make a "Flying Humvee" that would do more than half a mile on full fuel load meant that it never caught on.
> Does it (Linux) run under a hypervisor, or on the bare metal?
You can run it on the bare metal, but you lose a lot by doing so. Much better to run it under VM, when you can have a large number of instances running simultaneously. You can generate a new instance in about 90s.
For those who don't know VM, this corresponds to installing a new version of Linux.
This would explain why we have been running SuSE on our mainframes for the last two years then.
IBM has had marketing agreements with Red Hat, SuSE and and TurboLinux for quite some time. It may favour Red Hat in the States, but it seems quite agnostic about which distribution to recommend to customers.
> Sun has no history of doing _anything_ at all interesting in terms of UI work.
Many years ago, when X11 was in its infancy Sun came out with a windowing system called NeWS. Like X11 it was network transparent, but it used a variant of Display Postscript.
So yes, Sun do have a history in UI and have done some interesting work there.
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When the Americans lose 270,000 civilians in a war then they will be allowed to make disparaging remarks about other countries.
Oh, and the French also lost 50% more military casualties than the Americans in the European Theatre during the second world war.
> However, history has proven that the science of today will always be replaced and corrected by the science of tomorrow.. That is, whatever has been "proven" by now will be replaced with something better in a year, or a couple hundred years.
There is no such thing as a proof of a scientific hypothesis. The best you can do is to get a high degree of corroboration between you theory and the data you measure.
All scientific hypotheses are tentative and open to disproof. This is what makes the difference between science and non-science.
Iceland has had a parliament since the 10th century.
Have a look at other histories besides American ones to see which countries have had democratic institutions for a period of time.
> Please reconcile your comment with recent Department of Labor statistics which report that entrepreneurship is at an all-time high.
You can argue this multiple ways. It may show the American spirit of individualism, there again it may be that the only respite of people who can't get a job is to start their own company.
Here in the UK many single person companies are contractors plying for hire as programmers, project managers and the like. For some of them this is what they want to do, for others it is the only way of getting employment. Large companies are not interested in taking on permanent staff, they prefer to take on contractors and dump them or send their work offshore when times get hard.
> I am not sure how it's measured in Europe but I would bet it's different. You may be comparing oranges and apples.
There is a common measure of unemployment across Europe, the Labour Force Survey. The survey seeks information on respondents' personal circumstances and their labour market status during a specific reference period, normally a period of one week or four weeks (depending on the topic) immediately prior to the interview.
The LFS is carried out under a European Union Directive and uses internationally agreed concepts and definitions. It is the source of the internationally comparable (International Labour Organisation) measure known as 'ILO unemployment'.
On this measure the UK jobless rate is just under 5%, with France, Germany and Italy all at around the 9% mark.
It is difficult to be sure from a distance (I live in the UK), but what seems to be happening in the States is a move to what I can best call a neo-feudal society.
At the top end you have the rich and super-rich, with limited call on their wealth in terms of taxes.
At the bottom end you seem to have people who have to hold down more than one job to make ends meet, have limited access to medical care and whose children receive only a poor quality education.
This leaves your middle classes, who are being squeezed. If they don't work in a service that requires personal contact then they are in danger of being outsourced to cheaper locations elswhere on the globe.
Barons, serfs and guilds is the way it appears to be. It isn't quite as extreme here in Britain, but we are going the same way.
Personally I wouldn't pay attention to an organisation that can't even put together a web site properly.
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And no, I'm not talking about
It is a political question. Resources are limited, what are you going to do when they run out? Accept the situation, invade another country?
The consensus of opinion is that we are causing global warming. Given the change in climate could submerge chunks of Florida and California what are you going to do about it?
Not having read the original papers it is difficult to be certain, but the way the results were presented seem to be the wrong way around to me.
What they seemed to be doing was to prove that, for example, Word Shape was the way that reading recognition worked. What they didn't seem to be doing was to advance the hypothesis and trying to test it and disprove it.
"There are no sciences like Sociology" - That Hideous Strength
He would have given us prehensile noses.
Much older than this. Search for ICL Content Addressable Filestore. Sadly never taken up, ICL are now a subsidiary of Fujitsu effectively an MS reseller.
Innovative? When did RMS write Emacs? That was when piece tables were innovative.
Otherwise nobody is going to have enough memory to run Longhorn.
I expect that they will be using MPLS technology. This would allow them to tag voice traffic and improve its QoS.
This will, of course, only work on networks that they run, so expect poor QoS if you have to make calls that cross networks, such as international calls.
This one may be partially true. Sun did licence SysV when they moved from SunOS. However, they have done a large amount of work on it since.
Are we going to see SCO try and claim the work that Sun have done on high quality SMP, multi-path support, hardware partitioning etc. as their "Intellectual Property" in the same way that they are attempting for the NUMA and JFS stuff.
Rober Kilroy-Silk is only one of them. You might also mention that they are neo-fascist racists and xenophobes.
The JRE specification is publicly available, but the Java trademark is owned by Sun. You can create an open source JVM, but you can't have the Java trademark unless it passes the test suite.
.Net the CLI specification is lodged with ECMA. However, all the runtime libraries are the property of MS.
.Net.
For
I actually find Java freer than
> I know the Java crowd is going to say they are already cross-platform. But an OPEN SOURCE platform like Mono could really turn .NET into a very cool, cross platform tool where the code could be optimized for each config.
I was under the impression that the likes of Kaffe and Blackdown JRE were OPEN SOURCE. Was I wrong?
> We know Japanese work long hours. We also know they don't work nearly as hard as Americans.
Don't equate working long hours with working hard.
Having worked both in America and Europe I find the Germans work the har4est. They put an enormous amount of effort in while they are at work, but when the whistle blows they go home.
That the RIAA finds a watertight mechanism for blocking music downloads. What happens then?
At the end of the next quarter would you expect music sales to have gone up or down? My belief would be that it goes down, people can't try before they buy, and they won't buy a complete album when they only want a couple of tracks.
So what do the RIAA then blame the reduced sales on? Would they accept that it is their policies, the marketroid based bands or would they just put the prices up?
Do we then get into another cycle, or rather spiral, or would the RIAA finally accept that online music is the way of the future?
The era of flying cars started in Britain about 2010. The Smart car company was the progenitor, essentially by adding a pair of wings to its lightweight vehicle. The introduction was timely, in that the minority coalition of Conservative and New Labour parties, under their "Privatise everything" policy were introducing tolls on all roads. The flying car avoided this by not using roads at all.
The concept quickly spread to Europe, causing the Channel Tunnel company to become bankrupt.
The idea was imported to America but was a distinct failure. Although the country would have seemed ideal for such an invention the inability of American companies to make a "Flying Humvee" that would do more than half a mile on full fuel load meant that it never caught on.
> Does it (Linux) run under a hypervisor, or on the bare metal?
You can run it on the bare metal, but you lose a lot by doing so. Much better to run it under VM, when you can have a large number of instances running simultaneously. You can generate a new instance in about 90s.
For those who don't know VM, this corresponds to installing a new version of Linux.
> Historically, IBM has been a 'Red Hat shop,'
This would explain why we have been running SuSE on our mainframes for the last two years then.
IBM has had marketing agreements with Red Hat, SuSE and and TurboLinux for quite some time. It may favour Red Hat in the States, but it seems quite agnostic about which distribution to recommend to customers.
> Sun has no history of doing _anything_ at all interesting in terms of UI work.
Many years ago, when X11 was in its infancy Sun came out with a windowing system called NeWS. Like X11 it was network transparent, but it used a variant of Display Postscript.
So yes, Sun do have a history in UI and have done some interesting work there.
Not used jahshaka, so I can't comment on it.
I have used Cinelerra, which is pretty powerful though its UI could do with being a bit better.