Yes, but are they rolling full IPv6 support, too? I couldn't care less about 100mbit speeds if I'm so NATted that most applications where I could make use of it don't work
Windows NT 3.x was a pretty clean microkernel system. The problem was that performance sucked. So, first comes the graphics subsystem being integrated into the kernel, then the network drivers.....and soon you have something that doesn't much resemble the original (see: Windows 2000).
While i think Tanenbaum's research is important, none of it is really novel. Commercial systems exist that fit his requirements (QNX!). It's the free software side where things are lacking, especially now that CoyotOS is probably dead (Shap going to work for MS).
And lots of cable providers are trying their best to kill off anything that doesn't require a monthly rental box. So far as I can tell, there aren't any clear QAM channels available from my provider where I live (they do have them in other places, but my city is often used as a testbed for the provider.
Sadly, I haven't found a tuner card nearly as good as even my free DTV converter box. Certainly none as good as an ATSC tuner in a modern TV.
My DSL provider pulled the plug on its IPTV service a few months ago. I could run three SD streams without too much of an effect on DSL performance (each mp4 stream seemed to eat ~1.5mpbs). But still not enough bandwidth is available to service most of their customer base for HD content, which is why I think is part of the reason they decided to ditch it (in addition to the STBs being incredibly flaky).
Overall, I think maybe people might be more amenable to a pay-for-play system if it didn't cost too much. But at $1.99 an episode from iTunes, plus the fact that I effectively only pay $25/mo for my TV signal (difference between my cable bundle pack and just the cable modem), doesn't give me much leftover to buy TV episodes.
Just wait until they're forced to join and pay dues to the AFL-CIO.
Despite his massive dose of fail so far, Obama can get worse. I didn't think anyone could do a worse job than Bush did in his final three years, but, "Yes, we can!"
The name "Preston Tucker" floats through my head.....just sayin'.
The way Chrysler and GM are going about their EV/Hybrid programs is the right one. Going IC+electric drive makes a lot more sense than the hybrids on the roads now. For probably 90+% of people, a vehicle that is absolutely limited to a 200mi. range without hours of downtime is out-of-the-question as a primary car. To personalize, I have a 200-mile one-way trip that I make approximately every six weeks for work. It would be a real pain to have to rent a car or take public transportation (then probably rent a car, too, although DC's public transit isn't bad....if you can find a hotel close enough to a stop). Furthermore, I have no place I can charge a plug-in vehicle, either at home or at work, short of running an extension cord out the window.
And, as others have said, $50k is not affordable. I make a decent salary, but I paid less than $50k for my two vehicles combined.
The point is that it's a UI design flaw if a minor calibration error could ever come into play. There's a big difference between a screen that has two possible candidate selections, plus a pgup/pgdn feature to find the other candidates (like the machines in my precinct), and the interface on the machines in TFA.
5. No voter verification after that ballot box ends up at the bottom of San Francisco Bay. 6. There is no election fraud when the candidate/party the squeaky wheel likes wins.
But the machine they show in TFA does suffer from poor interface design. The machines in my precinct...you'd have to miss by an awful lot (meaning ~40% of the entire screen, since I don't think I've ever seen more than two options presented on the screen) to screw it up. You'd then also have to not be able to read later on when it asks you whether your ballot is correct.
1. The do-something-even-if-it's-wrong mantra that is so pervasive in today's society. You don't need to look any farther than the various bailouts from the feds for financial institutions and auto manufacturers. It also leads to #2. 2. If I don't do something, I'm going to get sued. 3. Placebo effect. After numerous studies showing that Vitamin C does nothing to prevent or shorten the duration of cold symptoms, there's still people who'll pop Vitamin C pills like candy at the slightest sniffle or cough. Thank you, Linus Pauling, and the Vitamin manufacturing world.
I live in Southeastern Virginia. In the summertime, there isn't much wind unless there's a storm. Yes, right along the coast, you get morning and evening breeziness due to temperature differences between the air over the water and over the land. Once you get a few miles off shore it's, as the locals say, "slickcalm." The same is true a few miles inland.
I often can see the harbor in Norfolk looking like a mirror at night; not even the slightest hint of a wave, absent the occasional passing boat.
And, of course, those four months when this sets up are the months when power is at peak demand (A/C for the folks inland who get up to 100F, and have no breeze or water temperature stabilization at all. It's not at all uncommon to see a 25 degree difference in temperatures between Williamsburg and Virginia Beach during the day in the summer and at night in the winter.)
There seems to be a bit of missing pragmatism in Obama's energy plans. There is no way to know if this will work as well as his experts expect. But an ounce of Uranium, or a barrel of oil will contain the same amount of energy in ten years as they do today. Focusing solely on "green" sources of energy is a huge leap of faith.
Why does one word seem to come to mind with all four of those points......that word being "Microsoft?"
* Think Senators Rockefeller or Snowe have ever knowingly used Linux, much less heard of NetBSD? * Platform standardization! TCO! Integration! * It only works with Windows. * Hi, there, DRM!
But, you know, you have to give it a chance. Enough hopeychange, plus a new federal center for cybersecurity in West Virginia, and we'll be _great_.
1. Rick Boucher isn't a member of the Virginia General Assembly, he's a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Re-read the parent. I didn't limit my statement to the GA, now did I?
2. There was never a heyday of Virginia politicians who spearheaded smart internet laws. You can tell because, if there had been, then we'd have smart internet laws. The closest that we ever got was Gov. Jim Gilmore, who created the Secretary of Technology cabinet position and created those asinine "@" internet license plates.
I was referring to Gilmore, Allen, and to a lesser extent Robb, all three of whom supported initiatives that made Virginia a place friendly to high tech companies.
Gilmore chaired a Congressional Advisory Committee on Internet commerce. Allen pushed that committee's recommendations, even against the wishes of some members of his party, as well as the Republican Governors' Association.
3. You speak of the legislature as a single unit, wondering why "they" did something or "they" didn't do something. It's made up of 140 members, each of whom is free to introduce legislation on a given topic.
Most of whom are blithering idiots, as they prove year after year.
Do you live in Virginia?
That I wrote the comment ought to tell you something...
Did you ask your legislator to introduce such a bill?
My delegate and state senator really have no use for me, just like my Congressman. They're free to ignore me and still win reelection. Hooray for gerrymandered districts. Let's just put it this way, I can't remember the last time a candidate I voted for won (McDonnell, maybe?).
4. In fact, two bills were introduced into the Virginia General Assembly to deal with UCE, both by Del. Manoli Loupassi (R-Richmond). HB1796: Unsolicited bulk electronic mail; penalty and Unsolicited bulk electronic mail (spam); penalty. (HB1797). The former was killed in a Senate Committee for Courts of Justice subcommittee, the latter was killed in a House Courts of Justice subcommittee.
The language is virtually identical to the bill the section of code declared unconstitutional. But your links don't give any information about why it was tabled.
...the Virginia General Assembly didn't take this up during its session this year (runs Jan through early March-ish).
There wasn't anything preventing them from amending the law so it complied with the court ruling. They didn't do that.
Maybe they were waiting for the appeals to be fleshed out. Or maybe it was more important to ban smoking in restaurants to please Governor Timmah. And put in prayer in schools. And strengthen the drunk driving laws. And take up the state song issue again, and....
Not sure.
It might be onn tap for next year. But I'm not so hopeful. The Virginia politicians, with the exception of Rick Boucher (who is starting to waver in his party's mantra of hopeychange), who spearheaded smart Internet laws are gone.
So, with that, hope those of you who voted for the new crew like spam, and taxes on every single thing you purchase on the net.
Hmm....but that resolver doesn't have an AAAA record, either (for itself...google works).:-/ I was going to add to my forwarders.
FWIW, I've noticed my netbsd mailing list messages are normally delivered v6 (hosted @ISC, I think). For many of the tunnels I've used, performance to ftp.netbsd.org is almost identical to using v4.
NAT (or more correctly in most cases PAT) is not a security feature.
More pushback comes from security-mastar types, who've been trained in an IPv4-only world. IPv6 forces them to do two things they hate doing: a) properly secure perimeter devices, and b) ensure that each host is secure.
A lot of it, of course, stems from the Win9x/NT4/2k days, when outbreaks on internal networks caused major business disruptions.
Note that 1:4 reverse split 11/07, which was before the "global economic clusterf%#k." IOW, even after the news of the IBM buyout, Sun's stock, compared to 10/07 is worth $2.
....mom and dad always told them they were incredibly special, and would do amazing things.
It never occurred to them that there's a hell of a lot more jobs that are sheer drudgery than are a thrill a minute.
In the almost seven years since I graduated from college, I've never been sent overseas for work. I have been sent exciting places like Indianapolis.
But I always had a job during college, too. And because of that, the only thing I expected after graduation was a better salary (but not amazingly better).
because the bulk of the benefits will be impossible to monetize. Since anyone can use the products of basic research, those who fund it create something that their freeloading competitors can use just as easily as they can. So basic research will always be starved under a private sector regime.
No, this is why there is a patent system. I know, much reviled here, but that's what it's for.
So why shouldn't the burden of funding that research fall on the population as a whole?
Because, much like his energy research proposals, it may be completely futile. Ten years from now, we might be regrowing ligaments with stem cells, and driving around in fully electric vehicles. More likely, we won't. But ten years from now, a ligament replacement surgery will still work, and a barrel of oil will still produce the same amount of energy.
My guess is that you're "pro-choice" the way most wackjob libertarians are: you revile abortion as immoral, just not quite as immoral as a government who would dare to ever tell anyone what to do. As soon as you find a way to get the free market to ban abortion, you'll do it.
Sorry./trebek
I accept that at some point, a compelling government interest exists to protect a potential life, and think that attaches probably around the end of the first trimester of pregnancy. I'm opposed to late-term abortion. I'm not opposed to parental notification, except in extreme circumstances (and a judge can decide that).
Finally, if you think that Obama's tiny increases in the marginal rate are going to prevent every American from ever becoming or staying rich (which is what it would take to "kill off the possibility of private funding," you're off your rocker. The rich did very well after Clinton raised taxes. But the poor and the middle class also did very well for themselves, which probably irks you.
No, what Obama is doing is completely different. First, and most importantly, due to inflation and the brackets not being indexed thereto, the upper brackets affect a much larger number of taxpayers today than it did in 1993. Second, the percentage of deduction for charitable giving for those in the top bracket is going to drop to 28% -- a 7% drop in some circumstances.
People used to do that a lot more than they do now. But large construction projects are still sometimes privately-funded. There's one going on near where I live, to replace a bridge that Government couldn't afford to build, then bought, and let fall into a state of serious disrepair, before closing last year. Jordan Bridge
or a law enforced how 'bout you pay for that yourself too.
No, enforcement of laws through the use of force is one of the powers the people ceded to government. An ordinary citizen can sue government to ensure enforcement, but can't do that himself.
Or you want a war fought
Power ceded to Congress
or a private bank bailed out...oh no wait, we have got money for that.
I didn't support that, either. And it's becoming clear that it isn't working. But the administration's view is, "if it's not working, you're not doing it hard enough."
But it means that scientists who until now have had to rely on private donations to work with these newer stem cell lines can apply for government money for the research,
Because the State of California is giving out private donations?
I was kind of pissed at Bush for blocking federal funding on new lines until I really thought about it for awhile. There's nothing that precludes researchers from doing research on new lines.
If people wanted this so bad, what prevented them from pulling out their checkbooks? Hello, there, Silicon Valley. There's lots of rich people there. How about a donation? You, too, Hollywood, if this is such a big issue.
As to why Obama's doing it, well, two reasons. First, it satisfies a niche constituency, who like to see abortion-related topics pressed to the forefront at every opportunity. Second, his tax plan does probably kill off the possibility of private funding.
(I'm pro-choice, BTW. But to look past Obama's shallow political motives, and to ignore the reality of the situation while Bush was president is very foolish.)
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Yes, but are they rolling full IPv6 support, too? I couldn't care less about 100mbit speeds if I'm so NATted that most applications where I could make use of it don't work
Windows NT 3.x was a pretty clean microkernel system. The problem was that performance sucked. So, first comes the graphics subsystem being integrated into the kernel, then the network drivers.....and soon you have something that doesn't much resemble the original (see: Windows 2000).
While i think Tanenbaum's research is important, none of it is really novel. Commercial systems exist that fit his requirements (QNX!). It's the free software side where things are lacking, especially now that CoyotOS is probably dead (Shap going to work for MS).
And lots of cable providers are trying their best to kill off anything that doesn't require a monthly rental box. So far as I can tell, there aren't any clear QAM channels available from my provider where I live (they do have them in other places, but my city is often used as a testbed for the provider.
Sadly, I haven't found a tuner card nearly as good as even my free DTV converter box. Certainly none as good as an ATSC tuner in a modern TV.
My DSL provider pulled the plug on its IPTV service a few months ago. I could run three SD streams without too much of an effect on DSL performance (each mp4 stream seemed to eat ~1.5mpbs). But still not enough bandwidth is available to service most of their customer base for HD content, which is why I think is part of the reason they decided to ditch it (in addition to the STBs being incredibly flaky).
Overall, I think maybe people might be more amenable to a pay-for-play system if it didn't cost too much. But at $1.99 an episode from iTunes, plus the fact that I effectively only pay $25/mo for my TV signal (difference between my cable bundle pack and just the cable modem), doesn't give me much leftover to buy TV episodes.
First Orkut, now SATCOM?
....if this, too, leads back to BAE, and the problems they had surrounding the project a couple of years ago.
Just wait until they're forced to join and pay dues to the AFL-CIO.
Despite his massive dose of fail so far, Obama can get worse. I didn't think anyone could do a worse job than Bush did in his final three years, but, "Yes, we can!"
The name "Preston Tucker" floats through my head.....just sayin'.
The way Chrysler and GM are going about their EV/Hybrid programs is the right one. Going IC+electric drive makes a lot more sense than the hybrids on the roads now. For probably 90+% of people, a vehicle that is absolutely limited to a 200mi. range without hours of downtime is out-of-the-question as a primary car. To personalize, I have a 200-mile one-way trip that I make approximately every six weeks for work. It would be a real pain to have to rent a car or take public transportation (then probably rent a car, too, although DC's public transit isn't bad....if you can find a hotel close enough to a stop). Furthermore, I have no place I can charge a plug-in vehicle, either at home or at work, short of running an extension cord out the window.
And, as others have said, $50k is not affordable. I make a decent salary, but I paid less than $50k for my two vehicles combined.
Comprehending what I wrote -- you fail it.
The point is that it's a UI design flaw if a minor calibration error could ever come into play. There's a big difference between a screen that has two possible candidate selections, plus a pgup/pgdn feature to find the other candidates (like the machines in my precinct), and the interface on the machines in TFA.
You forgot a couple...
5. No voter verification after that ballot box ends up at the bottom of San Francisco Bay.
6. There is no election fraud when the candidate/party the squeaky wheel likes wins.
But the machine they show in TFA does suffer from poor interface design. The machines in my precinct...you'd have to miss by an awful lot (meaning ~40% of the entire screen, since I don't think I've ever seen more than two options presented on the screen) to screw it up. You'd then also have to not be able to read later on when it asks you whether your ballot is correct.
It's a combination of three things.
1. The do-something-even-if-it's-wrong mantra that is so pervasive in today's society. You don't need to look any farther than the various bailouts from the feds for financial institutions and auto manufacturers. It also leads to #2.
2. If I don't do something, I'm going to get sued.
3. Placebo effect. After numerous studies showing that Vitamin C does nothing to prevent or shorten the duration of cold symptoms, there's still people who'll pop Vitamin C pills like candy at the slightest sniffle or cough. Thank you, Linus Pauling, and the Vitamin manufacturing world.
Except the Southern half of that coast for a good four months of the year.
Bermuda High
I live in Southeastern Virginia. In the summertime, there isn't much wind unless there's a storm. Yes, right along the coast, you get morning and evening breeziness due to temperature differences between the air over the water and over the land. Once you get a few miles off shore it's, as the locals say, "slickcalm." The same is true a few miles inland.
I often can see the harbor in Norfolk looking like a mirror at night; not even the slightest hint of a wave, absent the occasional passing boat.
And, of course, those four months when this sets up are the months when power is at peak demand (A/C for the folks inland who get up to 100F, and have no breeze or water temperature stabilization at all. It's not at all uncommon to see a 25 degree difference in temperatures between Williamsburg and Virginia Beach during the day in the summer and at night in the winter.)
There seems to be a bit of missing pragmatism in Obama's energy plans. There is no way to know if this will work as well as his experts expect. But an ounce of Uranium, or a barrel of oil will contain the same amount of energy in ten years as they do today. Focusing solely on "green" sources of energy is a huge leap of faith.
Why does one word seem to come to mind with all four of those points......that word being "Microsoft?"
* Think Senators Rockefeller or Snowe have ever knowingly used Linux, much less heard of NetBSD?
* Platform standardization! TCO! Integration!
* It only works with Windows.
* Hi, there, DRM!
But, you know, you have to give it a chance. Enough hopeychange, plus a new federal center for cybersecurity in West Virginia, and we'll be _great_.
1. Rick Boucher isn't a member of the Virginia General Assembly, he's a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Re-read the parent. I didn't limit my statement to the GA, now did I?
2. There was never a heyday of Virginia politicians who spearheaded smart internet laws. You can tell because, if there had been, then we'd have smart internet laws. The closest that we ever got was Gov. Jim Gilmore, who created the Secretary of Technology cabinet position and created those asinine "@" internet license plates.
I was referring to Gilmore, Allen, and to a lesser extent Robb, all three of whom supported initiatives that made Virginia a place friendly to high tech companies.
Gilmore chaired a Congressional Advisory Committee on Internet commerce. Allen pushed that committee's recommendations, even against the wishes of some members of his party, as well as the Republican Governors' Association.
3. You speak of the legislature as a single unit, wondering why "they" did something or "they" didn't do something. It's made up of 140 members, each of whom is free to introduce legislation on a given topic.
Most of whom are blithering idiots, as they prove year after year.
Do you live in Virginia?
That I wrote the comment ought to tell you something...
Did you ask your legislator to introduce such a bill?
My delegate and state senator really have no use for me, just like my Congressman. They're free to ignore me and still win reelection. Hooray for gerrymandered districts. Let's just put it this way, I can't remember the last time a candidate I voted for won (McDonnell, maybe?).
4. In fact, two bills were introduced into the Virginia General Assembly to deal with UCE, both by Del. Manoli Loupassi (R-Richmond). HB1796: Unsolicited bulk electronic mail; penalty and Unsolicited bulk electronic mail (spam); penalty. (HB1797). The former was killed in a Senate Committee for Courts of Justice subcommittee, the latter was killed in a House Courts of Justice subcommittee.
The language is virtually identical to the bill the section of code declared unconstitutional. But your links don't give any information about why it was tabled.
...the Virginia General Assembly didn't take this up during its session this year (runs Jan through early March-ish).
There wasn't anything preventing them from amending the law so it complied with the court ruling. They didn't do that.
Maybe they were waiting for the appeals to be fleshed out. Or maybe it was more important to ban smoking in restaurants to please Governor Timmah. And put in prayer in schools. And strengthen the drunk driving laws. And take up the state song issue again, and....
Not sure.
It might be onn tap for next year. But I'm not so hopeful. The Virginia politicians, with the exception of Rick Boucher (who is starting to waver in his party's mantra of hopeychange), who spearheaded smart Internet laws are gone.
So, with that, hope those of you who voted for the new crew like spam, and taxes on every single thing you purchase on the net.
Hmm....but that resolver doesn't have an AAAA record, either (for itself...google works). :-/ I was going to add to my forwarders.
FWIW, I've noticed my netbsd mailing list messages are normally delivered v6 (hosted @ISC, I think). For many of the tunnels I've used, performance to ftp.netbsd.org is almost identical to using v4.
NAT (or more correctly in most cases PAT) is not a security feature.
More pushback comes from security-mastar types, who've been trained in an IPv4-only world. IPv6 forces them to do two things they hate doing: a) properly secure perimeter devices, and b) ensure that each host is secure.
A lot of it, of course, stems from the Win9x/NT4/2k days, when outbreaks on internal networks caused major business disruptions.
Digital clocks are so 1980s. :-/
(I prefer a digital readout, myself. I've been wearing an analog watch for years now, and still have to do a doubletake at it sometimes.)
Note that 1:4 reverse split 11/07, which was before the "global economic clusterf%#k." IOW, even after the news of the IBM buyout, Sun's stock, compared to 10/07 is worth $2.
I'll make it even better. To get to Indianapolis, I had to fly through.....CLEVELAND!
I'm a uk based software engineer
There's the difference right there. As a European, travelling internationally is not all that different than domestic travel in the US.
The nearest foreign territory to me (Bermuda), is an hour plane ride, or several hours on a boat.
....mom and dad always told them they were incredibly special, and would do amazing things.
It never occurred to them that there's a hell of a lot more jobs that are sheer drudgery than are a thrill a minute.
In the almost seven years since I graduated from college, I've never been sent overseas for work. I have been sent exciting places like Indianapolis.
But I always had a job during college, too. And because of that, the only thing I expected after graduation was a better salary (but not amazingly better).
because the bulk of the benefits will be impossible to monetize. Since anyone can use the products of basic research, those who fund it create something that their freeloading competitors can use just as easily as they can. So basic research will always be starved under a private sector regime.
No, this is why there is a patent system. I know, much reviled here, but that's what it's for.
So why shouldn't the burden of funding that research fall on the population as a whole?
Because, much like his energy research proposals, it may be completely futile. Ten years from now, we might be regrowing ligaments with stem cells, and driving around in fully electric vehicles. More likely, we won't. But ten years from now, a ligament replacement surgery will still work, and a barrel of oil will still produce the same amount of energy.
My guess is that you're "pro-choice" the way most wackjob libertarians are: you revile abortion as immoral, just not quite as immoral as a government who would dare to ever tell anyone what to do. As soon as you find a way to get the free market to ban abortion, you'll do it.
Sorry. /trebek
I accept that at some point, a compelling government interest exists to protect a potential life, and think that attaches probably around the end of the first trimester of pregnancy. I'm opposed to late-term abortion. I'm not opposed to parental notification, except in extreme circumstances (and a judge can decide that).
Finally, if you think that Obama's tiny increases in the marginal rate are going to prevent every American from ever becoming or staying rich (which is what it would take to "kill off the possibility of private funding," you're off your rocker. The rich did very well after Clinton raised taxes. But the poor and the middle class also did very well for themselves, which probably irks you.
No, what Obama is doing is completely different. First, and most importantly, due to inflation and the brackets not being indexed thereto, the upper brackets affect a much larger number of taxpayers today than it did in 1993. Second, the percentage of deduction for charitable giving for those in the top bracket is going to drop to 28% -- a 7% drop in some circumstances.
Hell yeah! And if you want a road built
People used to do that a lot more than they do now. But large construction projects are still sometimes privately-funded. There's one going on near where I live, to replace a bridge that Government couldn't afford to build, then bought, and let fall into a state of serious disrepair, before closing last year. Jordan Bridge
or a law enforced how 'bout you pay for that yourself too.
No, enforcement of laws through the use of force is one of the powers the people ceded to government. An ordinary citizen can sue government to ensure enforcement, but can't do that himself.
Or you want a war fought
Power ceded to Congress
or a private bank bailed out...oh no wait, we have got money for that.
I didn't support that, either. And it's becoming clear that it isn't working. But the administration's view is, "if it's not working, you're not doing it hard enough."
I foresee stunning success.
But it means that scientists who until now have had to rely on private donations to work with these newer stem cell lines can apply for government money for the research,
Because the State of California is giving out private donations?
I was kind of pissed at Bush for blocking federal funding on new lines until I really thought about it for awhile. There's nothing that precludes researchers from doing research on new lines.
If people wanted this so bad, what prevented them from pulling out their checkbooks? Hello, there, Silicon Valley. There's lots of rich people there. How about a donation? You, too, Hollywood, if this is such a big issue.
As to why Obama's doing it, well, two reasons. First, it satisfies a niche constituency, who like to see abortion-related topics pressed to the forefront at every opportunity. Second, his tax plan does probably kill off the possibility of private funding.
(I'm pro-choice, BTW. But to look past Obama's shallow political motives, and to ignore the reality of the situation while Bush was president is very foolish.)
*shh!*
You're not supposed to talk about that.