We've said no to bad, kneejerk legislation, and I'm proud to be a voter.
But what is knee-jerk? Creating a law containing sweeping powers to detain and question people related to terrorist activites (whatever that is) in the heated moments after a crisis, or failing to replace said law with something more resonable when it expires?
The answer, of course, is both. I feel that your pride in the Canadian system is somewhat misplaced in that this law was killed because the opposition party (Liberals) voted against it. Of course, *they* introduced it. Ask yourself for a second, if the Liberals were in a majority government position right now and this law came up for renewal, would they have killed their own law?
No, of course not.
This was not about Canada doing the right thing. This was about Canadian politics. The fact that the citizenry benefitted was a happy coincidence.
Score another one for sci-fi. The first reference to this kind of technology I came into was a book called "Nature's End" by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka which was published in 1986. The protagonist used a rolled-up display on a portable computer called an IBM "AXE" if I remember correctly (was a long time ago).
Reading through the book summary today gives me something of a deja-vu (on the heels of the UN report on the environment):
"The authors of the best seller... depict in powerful detail a 21st-century Earth with devastated environment and rampant overpopulation. A rich and comfortable elite coexists with malnourished, pitiful billions, "the victim generation." The rich enjoy youth preservation treatments and other biomedical wonders while the rest just endure the toxicity and pollution."
Only if you've played adventure on the original punchcards... I doubt the kids on this BBS or whatever newfangled open systems trinket this service is even know what a grue is...
It's brainless to think that Apple will not come out with a simpler, cheaper model in six months. Everybody knows they've been working on two different phones. The surprise with this annoucement was that they brought out the smartphone first.
This makes sense (IMHO). You launch your product in a small, dedicated, technical market first and then bring out your average joe consumer market product when you've got the wrinkles ironed out.
As for that dedicated market, people like me have been waiting for a phone like this for a long LONG time. I've spent well over $1300 on smart phones in the last 9 months and have been disappointed with them all. I couldn't give a damn what it costs - I just want it to work really well.
The large, full-colour "hockey-stick" was the key graph in the UN's 2001 report, and the only one to appear six times. The Canadian Government copied it to every household. Four years passed before a leading scientific journal would publish the truth about the graph. Did the UN or the Canadian government apologise? Of course not.
The Canadian government changed. And scrapped the previous government's policy. Actions speak louder than words.
Before I read TFA, I was thinking 'nethack' vs 'diablo', not 'xbox' vs 'windows'. Damn I'm getting old... For crying out loud, could we please specify "gaming console" next time?
FWIW, I for one would prefer the former comparison. Real games are played in text mode - more speed, less cruft.
"If my daughter searches for "chicks" meaning baby chickens, I seriously doubt the first 10 pages will have anything to do with barnyard fowl."
You're right, no baby chicks on Google in the top 10. But no porn either. You're daughter is safe.
"I think it should be a service offered by ISP's, maybe even for extra cost, but it should be a feature people are presented with when they sign up."
Won't happen. Why not? Because if they offered the service and it failed as much as once (which it would) they would be sued.
Years ago I was invited to give a presentation to a number of Canadian MPs about this very issue. I encouraged them to allow the market to deliver solutions to the problem and their role should be one of education. Let people know of the dangers, but don't restrict their personal freedoms (including the freedom to raise their children how they see fit).
For enterprise systems a split-split DNS design is the best. There are three components to this design:
ADVERTISER RESOLVER INTERNAL
The advertiser sits outside, Internet-facing, and is only responsible for resolving outside queries for your own domains. It does not do recursion or dynamic updates, and has a secured cache.
The resolver and internal sit inside, are intranet-facing, and handle internal requests for outside domains, and internal requests for internal domains respectively.
There are lots of articles on-line which show how to set this up.
I bought a 6 acre freshwater island sight-unseen on-line two years ago. Of course I did call around to make sure that the local planning office knew of the island and would give me a building permit for it. I also checked google satellite imagery to check on the overall shape and location of the island before I bought it. But I had 24 hours to do all of the research and make all of the connections before I signed on the dotted line.
Result? In my case I couldn't be happier. It is exactly what I was hoping for (well, except for the really bad case of poison ivy I got there last summer...) Bottom line: Use *all* of the technology you have access to if you have to make a decision like that. Even antiquated ones like the telephone.
Yep. Strangely neither of these devices comes with a calendar. Something *I* would expect in a portable communications device. Clearly as these large powerful companies full of smart poeple don't think this is something I should have, I must be wrong...
Sounds like the joyboard that became famous in the Amiga circles. Instead of stomping on it to relive stress Amiga coders would try to sit as motionless as possible on it crosslegged.
This is exactly the product I've been looking for, depending on the quality of the coffee table itself.
Imagine leaving your cube in the office park you work in, heading down the elevator to the lobby and into a CyberBar. You sit with your colleagues at a coffee table-cum-tablet. Drinks can be browsed on the device and ordered from there, where you can also see your tab (and potentially pay). Of course, the actual drinks come on a tray carried by a slim young blonde with tight-fitting black pants...
The point is, you can have drinks, talk shop, and look things up on-line with your buds. Cyber cafes do not interest me. A bar where the tables have embedded, wired, touch-screen computers you can put your drinks on DO.
That puts you at about exactly the same age as me. I got into the ZX-81 through the electronics magazines that I would purchase and solder up the circuits from. I saved up for an entire summer (ready for it? selling worms to fishermen) in order to buy one of the ones that you built yourself. I can honestly say that I built my first computer... And that "worms" have a completely different meaning for me than they do for most computer users...
1K of RAM, membrane keyboard, black and white, hooked to an audio tape recorder to save and restore programs. But the most important part of the ZX-81 was the excellent introduction to BASIC programming that it came with.
Eventually I purchased the 16K expansion which was so wobbly, I ended up soldering it to the rear connector. The combination of wobbly RAM expansion and a membrane keyboard was deadly... When you had to save your programs to casette tape you tended not to back up frequently.
But I digress... Thanks for sharing your memories.
Over the past week I think I have installed (or tried to install) every single freely-available open-source Linux virtualization technology available:
- Xen - Linux-vserver - OpenVZ
Or researched others:
- OpenVPS - FreeVPS
And ones that are not open source:
- VMware Server (the new free Beta version of the old GSX Server product)
My personal recommendation is that you not bother unless you have a lot of time to kill and don't mind disappointment. I have nothing but respect for the fine (and very smart) people who are working on this technology for Linux, but it's not ready for simple people like myself.
I spent two full days (about 24 hours total) working on Xen and in the end I was never able to get iptables to work in a domain. The documentation was mostly incomplete and thus there was a lot of scurrying around trying to find bits and pieces of info that would allow me to get it together.
I had the most success with linux-vserver and it was by far the easiest to get running (after I had re-compiled the rpms (fc4) for my x86_64 smp target machine. My first vserver was pretty badly mangled once I was done with it and, wanting to remove it found that there was no actual *documented* process for deleting it. I dare you to try to find a description anywhere on how to remove a vserver...
Finally I pooched my system by trying OpenVZ.
Virtualization is a "good thing" in my opinion, and as an architect I build it into many of my designs. But in the free Linux space you might end up asking yourself the question "do I really need it." For me the answer is "yes" as I want to run multiple mail servers with different configurations on the same box. For you, unless you really need it, you might want to see if you can make do the old fashioned way.
I'm going to keep playing. If something you have tried works really well for you in a FC4/x86_64/SMP environment please let me know.
Of course if you wanted to get rid of SCA or any of those other "interesting" Amiga virii you could use VirusX. SteveX has a small snippet about it on his blog.
As far as I remember Steve single-handedly protected the Amiga community from virii and never took a cent for his work. It was simply something he found interesting and a challenge. Of course every once in a while some user group somewhere would take up a collection and Steve would find a cheque in his mailbox.
Other software Steve wrote for the Amiga was BBX (bulletin board), DiskX, WindX, CacheX, BixX, and probably a dozen others I've forgotten over the years.
Most systems will drop you to an operator after assuming that you have a pulse-dial phone if you just ignore all of their prompts. You may have to wait for them to repeat your menu choices a couple of times before this happens.
I typically find this is faster than trying to sort through their menus.
You can think what you want, judging by your lame marketing.sig which contains what seems to be random capitalization and a hanging sentence, I doubt you understood what I was asking.
Can someone please explain to me why TANSTAAFL does not come to bear on this? If I am using fuel to produce electricity to produce hydrogen to improve efficiency, why is there a net gain from this? Is this a matter of improving the efficiency of a closed system? Is the 10% gain in efficiency due to the reduction of deposits in the engine and the rest just marketing?
While I would love to believe this I'm somewhat skeptical.
HOW do you engineer a device like this and NOT put a calendar application on it? It seems like the perfect device to tote from boardroom to boardroom writing notes, setting up appointments, assigning tasks, and sending e-mails.
Argh! Does anybody think Evolution will be compilable on this platform?
Apparently Motorola doesn't feel this way or they wouldn't have added the same support into their new (as yet unreleased) RAZR V3i. The product description does not mention any 100 song limit, however, and the V3i has removable (and presumably upgradeable) flash memory.
I am a the chief technology architect for one of the largest governments in N.A., and my concern here is that Oracle becomes a little too much like Cisco. At this stage, whether you believe it or not, Cisco has a monopoly on the market (not unlike one of your other favourite companies). Sure there are alternatives, but for people like us who have to pick from a list of RFP responses and all of them come back pitching the same manufacturer, your choices are only between vendors, not manufacturers. You get Cisco whether you like it or not.
I don't think that Oracle needs to buy or partner with anyone else, thank you very much. I appreciate their need to ensure they continue to make a tidy profit, but I would rather see any company pursue that through innovation rather than acquisition. Once you get to a certain size, I don't ever see acquisition as a "good thing" for the market.
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But what is knee-jerk? Creating a law containing sweeping powers to detain and question people related to terrorist activites (whatever that is) in the heated moments after a crisis, or failing to replace said law with something more resonable when it expires?
The answer, of course, is both. I feel that your pride in the Canadian system is somewhat misplaced in that this law was killed because the opposition party (Liberals) voted against it. Of course, *they* introduced it. Ask yourself for a second, if the Liberals were in a majority government position right now and this law came up for renewal, would they have killed their own law?
No, of course not.
This was not about Canada doing the right thing. This was about Canadian politics. The fact that the citizenry benefitted was a happy coincidence.
Reading through the book summary today gives me something of a deja-vu (on the heels of the UN report on the environment):
"The authors of the best seller ... depict in powerful detail a 21st-century Earth with devastated environment and rampant overpopulation. A rich and comfortable elite coexists with malnourished, pitiful billions, "the victim generation." The rich enjoy youth preservation treatments and other biomedical wonders while the rest just endure the toxicity and pollution."
The book was set in 2025. A deal today at $0.20!
"Yes, I am horribly old. :("
Only if you've played adventure on the original punchcards... I doubt the kids on this BBS or whatever newfangled open systems trinket this service is even know what a grue is...
Do you remember hunt the whumpus?
It's brainless to think that Apple will not come out with a simpler, cheaper model in six months. Everybody knows they've been working on two different phones. The surprise with this annoucement was that they brought out the smartphone first.
This makes sense (IMHO). You launch your product in a small, dedicated, technical market first and then bring out your average joe consumer market product when you've got the wrinkles ironed out.
As for that dedicated market, people like me have been waiting for a phone like this for a long LONG time. I've spent well over $1300 on smart phones in the last 9 months and have been disappointed with them all. I couldn't give a damn what it costs - I just want it to work really well.
Never mind the actual bills. Can someone please tell me why the keys on drive through instant tellers have braille on them?
The large, full-colour "hockey-stick" was the key graph in the UN's 2001 report, and the only one to appear six times. The Canadian Government copied it to every household. Four years passed before a leading scientific journal would publish the truth about the graph. Did the UN or the Canadian government apologise? Of course not.
The Canadian government changed. And scrapped the previous government's policy. Actions speak louder than words.
Before I read TFA, I was thinking 'nethack' vs 'diablo', not 'xbox' vs 'windows'. Damn I'm getting old... For crying out loud, could we please specify "gaming console" next time?
FWIW, I for one would prefer the former comparison. Real games are played in text mode - more speed, less cruft.
Sounds great. Can I buy one that sells the electricity it has stored back to the utility when the price is high? Hell, I'll take a couple...
You're right, no baby chicks on Google in the top 10. But no porn either. You're daughter is safe.
"I think it should be a service offered by ISP's, maybe even for extra cost, but it should be a feature people are presented with when they sign up."
Won't happen. Why not? Because if they offered the service and it failed as much as once (which it would) they would be sued.
Years ago I was invited to give a presentation to a number of Canadian MPs about this very issue. I encouraged them to allow the market to deliver solutions to the problem and their role should be one of education. Let people know of the dangers, but don't restrict their personal freedoms (including the freedom to raise their children how they see fit).
For enterprise systems a split-split DNS design is the best. There are three components to this design:
ADVERTISER
RESOLVER
INTERNAL
The advertiser sits outside, Internet-facing, and is only responsible for resolving outside queries for your own domains. It does not do recursion or dynamic updates, and has a secured cache.
The resolver and internal sit inside, are intranet-facing, and handle internal requests for outside domains, and internal requests for internal domains respectively.
There are lots of articles on-line which show how to set this up.
I bought a 6 acre freshwater island sight-unseen on-line two years ago. Of course I did call around to make sure that the local planning office knew of the island and would give me a building permit for it. I also checked google satellite imagery to check on the overall shape and location of the island before I bought it. But I had 24 hours to do all of the research and make all of the connections before I signed on the dotted line.
Result? In my case I couldn't be happier. It is exactly what I was hoping for (well, except for the really bad case of poison ivy I got there last summer...) Bottom line: Use *all* of the technology you have access to if you have to make a decision like that. Even antiquated ones like the telephone.
Yep. Strangely neither of these devices comes with a calendar. Something *I* would expect in a portable communications device. Clearly as these large powerful companies full of smart poeple don't think this is something I should have, I must be wrong...
Sounds like the joyboard that became famous in the Amiga circles. Instead of stomping on it to relive stress Amiga coders would try to sit as motionless as possible on it crosslegged.
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This is exactly the product I've been looking for, depending on the quality of the coffee table itself.
Imagine leaving your cube in the office park you work in, heading down the elevator to the lobby and into a CyberBar. You sit with your colleagues at a coffee table-cum-tablet. Drinks can be browsed on the device and ordered from there, where you can also see your tab (and potentially pay). Of course, the actual drinks come on a tray carried by a slim young blonde with tight-fitting black pants...
The point is, you can have drinks, talk shop, and look things up on-line with your buds. Cyber cafes do not interest me. A bar where the tables have embedded, wired, touch-screen computers you can put your drinks on DO.
All I have ever known of Slime Moulds I learned from Nethack... My, that was a yummy slime mold!
That puts you at about exactly the same age as me. I got into the ZX-81 through the electronics magazines that I would purchase and solder up the circuits from. I saved up for an entire summer (ready for it? selling worms to fishermen) in order to buy one of the ones that you built yourself. I can honestly say that I built my first computer... And that "worms" have a completely different meaning for me than they do for most computer users...
1K of RAM, membrane keyboard, black and white, hooked to an audio tape recorder to save and restore programs. But the most important part of the ZX-81 was the excellent introduction to BASIC programming that it came with.
Eventually I purchased the 16K expansion which was so wobbly, I ended up soldering it to the rear connector. The combination of wobbly RAM expansion and a membrane keyboard was deadly... When you had to save your programs to casette tape you tended not to back up frequently.
But I digress... Thanks for sharing your memories.
Over the past week I think I have installed (or tried to install) every single freely-available open-source Linux virtualization technology available:
- Xen
- Linux-vserver
- OpenVZ
Or researched others:
- OpenVPS
- FreeVPS
And ones that are not open source:
- VMware Server (the new free Beta version of the old GSX Server product)
My personal recommendation is that you not bother unless you have a lot of time to kill and don't mind disappointment. I have nothing but respect for the fine (and very smart) people who are working on this technology for Linux, but it's not ready for simple people like myself.
I spent two full days (about 24 hours total) working on Xen and in the end I was never able to get iptables to work in a domain. The documentation was mostly incomplete and thus there was a lot of scurrying around trying to find bits and pieces of info that would allow me to get it together.
I had the most success with linux-vserver and it was by far the easiest to get running (after I had re-compiled the rpms (fc4) for my x86_64 smp target machine. My first vserver was pretty badly mangled once I was done with it and, wanting to remove it found that there was no actual *documented* process for deleting it. I dare you to try to find a description anywhere on how to remove a vserver...
Finally I pooched my system by trying OpenVZ.
Virtualization is a "good thing" in my opinion, and as an architect I build it into many of my designs. But in the free Linux space you might end up asking yourself the question "do I really need it." For me the answer is "yes" as I want to run multiple mail servers with different configurations on the same box. For you, unless you really need it, you might want to see if you can make do the old fashioned way.
I'm going to keep playing. If something you have tried works really well for you in a FC4/x86_64/SMP environment please let me know.
Yep, and much like the polar bears in the North, some of our native species are having trouble adapting.
Of course if you wanted to get rid of SCA or any of those other "interesting" Amiga virii you could use VirusX. SteveX has a small snippet about it on his blog.
As far as I remember Steve single-handedly protected the Amiga community from virii and never took a cent for his work. It was simply something he found interesting and a challenge. Of course every once in a while some user group somewhere would take up a collection and Steve would find a cheque in his mailbox.
Other software Steve wrote for the Amiga was BBX (bulletin board), DiskX, WindX, CacheX, BixX, and probably a dozen others I've forgotten over the years.
Most systems will drop you to an operator after assuming that you have a pulse-dial phone if you just ignore all of their prompts. You may have to wait for them to repeat your menu choices a couple of times before this happens.
I typically find this is faster than trying to sort through their menus.
You can think what you want, judging by your lame marketing .sig which contains what seems to be random capitalization and a hanging sentence, I doubt you understood what I was asking.
Can someone please explain to me why TANSTAAFL does not come to bear on this? If I am using fuel to produce electricity to produce hydrogen to improve efficiency, why is there a net gain from this? Is this a matter of improving the efficiency of a closed system? Is the 10% gain in efficiency due to the reduction of deposits in the engine and the rest just marketing?
While I would love to believe this I'm somewhat skeptical.
Thanks.
Argh! Does anybody think Evolution will be compilable on this platform?
Interesting theory, but probably dead wrong.
Thank you for your insightful comment on this.
I am a the chief technology architect for one of the largest governments in N.A., and my concern here is that Oracle becomes a little too much like Cisco. At this stage, whether you believe it or not, Cisco has a monopoly on the market (not unlike one of your other favourite companies). Sure there are alternatives, but for people like us who have to pick from a list of RFP responses and all of them come back pitching the same manufacturer, your choices are only between vendors, not manufacturers. You get Cisco whether you like it or not.
I don't think that Oracle needs to buy or partner with anyone else, thank you very much. I appreciate their need to ensure they continue to make a tidy profit, but I would rather see any company pursue that through innovation rather than acquisition. Once you get to a certain size, I don't ever see acquisition as a "good thing" for the market.
For what it's worth...