Either its alive or its dead. There really isnt a middle ground here. Its not mostly alive, or mostly dead. Its one or the other. Wake me up when its anything except dead.
There is no reason to believe that your machine and/or network is not equally compromised. Have you verified the code in your motherboards or nic's eproms? Do you know there isn't a trojan or backdoor hardwired in? Did it come from China's intelligence service or a foreign 'consultant' working at the factory? It may just start acting strange one day, and even after you find out the cause, You may never know who was behind it. It is complete foolishness for a country to outsource the foundation of its security.
Manufacturing 1500, 300 ton ships will generate more pollution than the ships can remove in their lifetime. That is alot of steel, coal, oil(lubricants), and electronics, at the very least.
Well sometimes. Fortran will run faster than C when doing math. C will run faster than fortran when doing strings. You are comparing apples to oranges.
Yank out the transceiver, put in a heat exchanger in its place. Use sheets of 1/2 " peel and stick mirror tiles to cover the dish surface. Pick up a small 4 sided pyramid, put photocells on all 4 sides, and use a couple of differential op-amps to determine which side has the most light hitting it. Use those two signals to run the motor controls to aim the dish. It will always point at the brightest spot in the sky. A small pump feeding fluid (such as connonseed oil) thru the heat exchanger, to a large thermal well( say a buried concrete container full of steel slugs), will gather all the heat you need. Use the secondary loop from the thermal well for your home heating, hot water, cooking. etc. (cottonseed oil will easily heat to 400F)
On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the IEEE's Computer magazine.
Naturally, the editors thought he would be giving a retrospective view of seven years of object-oriented design, using the language he created.
By the end of the interview, the interviewer got more than he had bargained for and, subsequently, the editor decided to suppress its contents, for the good of the industry, but, as with many of these things, there was a leak.
Here is a complete transcript of what was was said,unedited, and unrehearsed, so it isn't as neat as planned interviews.
You will find it interesting...
Interviewer: Well, it's been a few years since you changed the world of software design, how does it feel, looking back?
Stroustrup: Actually, I was thinking about those days, just before you arrived. Do you remember? Everyone was writing 'C' and, the trouble was, they were pretty damn good at it. Universities got pretty good at teaching it, too. They were turning out competent - I stress the word 'competent' - graduates at a phenomenal rate. That's what caused the problem.
Interviewer: problem?
Stroustrup: Yes, problem. Remember when everyone wrote Cobol?
Interviewer: Of course, I did too
Stroustrup: Well, in the beginning, these guys were like demi-gods. Their salaries were high, and they were treated like royalty.
Interviewer: Those were the days, eh?
Stroustrup: Right. So what happened? IBM got sick of it, and invested millions in training programmers, till they were a dime a dozen.
Interviewer: That's why I got out. Salaries dropped within a year, to the point where being a journalist actually paid better.
Stroustrup: Exactly. Well, the same happened with 'C' programmers.
Interviewer: I see, but what's the point?
Stroustrup: Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I thought of this little scheme, which would redress the balance a little. I thought 'I wonder what would happen, if there were a language so complicated, so difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with programmers? Actually, I got some of the ideas from X10, you know, X windows. That was such a bitch of a graphics system, that it only just ran on those Sun 3/60 things. They had all the ingredients for what I wanted. A really ridiculously complex syntax, obscure functions, and pseudo-OO structure. Even now, nobody writes raw X-windows code. Motif is the only way to go if you want to retain your sanity.
[NJW Comment: That explains everything. Most of my thesis work was in raw X-windows.:)]
Interviewer: You're kidding...?
Stroustrup: Not a bit of it. In fact, there was another problem. Unix was written in 'C', which meant that any 'C' programmer could very easily become a systems programmer. Remember what a mainframe systems programmer used to earn?
Interviewer: You bet I do, that's what I used to do.
Stroustrup: OK, so this new language had to divorce itself from Unix, by hiding all the system calls that bound the two together so nicely. This would enable guys who only knew about DOS to earn a decent living too.
Interviewer: I don't believe you said that...
Stroustrup: Well, it's been long enough, now, and I believe most people have figured out for themselves that C++ is a waste of time but, I must say, it's taken them a lot longer than I thought it would.
Interviewer: So how exactly did you do it?
Stroustrup: It was only supposed to be a joke, I never thought people would take the book seriously. Anyone with half a brain can see that object-oriented programming is counter-intuitive, illogical and inefficient.
Interviewer: What?
Stroustrup: And as for 're-useable code' - when did you ever hear of a company re-using its code?
Interviewer: Well, never, actually, but...
Stroustrup: There you are then. Mind you, a few tried, in the early days. There was this Oregon company - Mentor Graphics, I think they were called - re
It is not the speed that is changing. It is the time reference. Time stretched with the expansion of space, and that expansion is not linear, so neither is time.
I would normally agree that 50 years is too long, but this is a special case. This book, or series of books as it later came to be, was a life's work. It was 50 years in the writing; so 50 years of protection is not absurd.
I don't know if he can make the changes or not. I only know that the others show no intention of even trying to, and if it isn't tried, it isn't going to happen. As to Huckabee shoving his beliefs down peoples throats. I don't know. I can only say that he made no attempt to do so, while governor of Arkansas. I don't think you will find the Arkansas label was changed to 'The Baptist State' just because he was governor here. Arkansas is in fact a better place to live because of the attention he paid to fixing the problems that existed here.
Just so you know, I detested Bush when he was governor of Texas, and haven't changed my opinion since then. If it weren't for Huckabee being in the race, I would probably choose Obama.
Well, You can cut and paste, but can you think? You are quoting Charles Koch's emissaries and expect it to be true? This is a man who had 25,000 counts of theft against him, a congressional investigation, and the EPA pursuing criminal charges; only to have it all dropped by a large contribution to George Bush. Ever heard of the Koch method? They were so good at stealing it was given a name. Remember when they dumped benzene into Corpus Christie's water. Go do a little research and try again.
Cato is nothing more than a mouthpiece for its founders use. It does nothing but astroturf for corporate globalists.
That said. Yes taxes did, overall, go up during his 10 years as governor. by a total of 0.2%. Name one other governor who held spending increases to 0.2% over a period of 10 years.
I dont know where he stands on evolution. Based on his background, he probably does not agree with it. To me it doesn't matter if he does or not. What I do see, is that his tax program will return the incentive to manufacture to the US, and remove it from China. This has the dual effect of increased jobs here, and less pollution worldwide. At least we have laws to limit pollution. Its not perfect, maybe not even good, but it certainly beats none at all.
The issue isnt being a nice guy. Its using common sense with regard to administering a government, and in that regard, he tops all the other candidates.
As a resident of Arkansas, I can tell you the following.
1. Huckabee does not hold prayer meetings on the lawn. He administers. He is perfectly able to distinguish between his beliefs and the need for administration. The schools are in much better shape now than they have been in the history of Arkansas. The roads are in better shape than ever. 2. When he came to office, there was a 200 million deficit. When he left office, in spite of doing all the above, there was an 800 million surplus. This was true even though he cut taxes every single year he was in office. He balanced the budget every single year, as a good administrator should. This has nothing to do with being a preacher. it is simply the mark of a good administrator. 3. His proposals for the rebuilding of American infrastructure, taxation, immigration, health care, etc, on the national level simply make sense. Using nothing but his history as a benchmark, I can tell you that unlike 99% of other politicians, he does not talk out of both sides of his mouth. He says what he believes and then stands behind it. It is my belief (obviously) that he is the best choice for American President.
Huckabee vs. Obama would be a fight worth watching.
It may not be healthy to take an attitude of hate towards him, however, the whole idea of 'Its not personal, its just business.' is rubbish. As long as it deals with people, its personal, and must be taken as such.
People do not want to run a 'word processor'. They want to run Word.
They do not want to run image processing software. They want to run photoshop.
They dont want to run a spreadsheet. They want to run Excel.
It does not matter how pretty the GUI is, nor how blindingly simple pointy clicky it may be. It does not matter if it has direct replacements for all the apps they normally use, nor even if those replacements do a better job than what they are used to.
If its not THE application they want, then they dont want the O/S.
"Oh, well then, I cant use that. I have to have WORD..."
I went to sawmills. hard to beat computers and 1000 hp saws. there is a certain satisfaction to seeing your stuff run in realtime. making machines move around and do real stuff, as opposed to just storing numbers in a db.
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Either its alive or its dead. There really isnt a middle ground here. Its not mostly alive, or mostly dead. Its one or the other. Wake me up when its anything except dead.
China would be far more likely to imbed this in the motherboard or nic than to rely on USB as a delivery vehicle.
There is no reason to believe that your machine and/or network is not equally compromised. Have you verified the code in your motherboards or nic's eproms? Do you know there isn't a trojan or backdoor hardwired in? Did it come from China's intelligence service or a foreign 'consultant' working at the factory? It may just start acting strange one day, and even after you find out the cause, You may never know who was behind it. It is complete foolishness for a country to outsource the foundation of its security.
Redundant? I dont think that word means what you think it means.
Hindi
Ill be right along.
Charge them with 3213 instances and fine them per instance. The profit disappears and so does the motivation.
There is no free lunch.
Manufacturing 1500, 300 ton ships will generate more pollution than the ships can remove in their lifetime. That is alot of steel, coal, oil(lubricants), and electronics, at the very least.
Well sometimes.
Fortran will run faster than C when doing math. C will run faster than fortran when doing strings. You are comparing apples to oranges.
Burroughs (now Unisys) CANDE (command and edit language) had this feature in 1969.
Yank out the transceiver, put in a heat exchanger in its place. Use sheets of 1/2 " peel and stick mirror tiles to cover the dish surface. Pick up a small 4 sided pyramid, put photocells on all 4 sides, and use a couple of differential op-amps to determine which side has the most light hitting it.
Use those two signals to run the motor controls to aim the dish. It will always point at the brightest spot in the sky. A small pump feeding fluid (such as connonseed oil) thru the heat exchanger, to a large thermal well( say a buried concrete container full of steel slugs), will gather all the heat you need. Use the secondary loop from the thermal well for your home heating, hot water, cooking. etc. (cottonseed oil will easily heat to 400F)
On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the IEEE's Computer magazine.
Naturally, the editors thought he would be giving a retrospective view of seven years of object-oriented design, using the language he created.
By the end of the interview, the interviewer got more than he had bargained for and, subsequently, the editor decided to suppress its contents, for the good of the industry, but, as with many of these things, there was a leak.
Here is a complete transcript of what was was said,unedited, and unrehearsed, so it isn't as neat as planned interviews.
You will find it interesting...
Interviewer: Well, it's been a few years since you changed the world of software design, how does it feel, looking back?
Stroustrup: Actually, I was thinking about those days, just before you arrived. Do you remember? Everyone was writing 'C' and, the trouble was, they were pretty damn good at it. Universities got pretty good at teaching it, too. They were turning out competent - I stress the word 'competent' - graduates at a phenomenal rate. That's what caused the problem.
Interviewer: problem?
Stroustrup: Yes, problem. Remember when everyone wrote Cobol?
Interviewer: Of course, I did too
Stroustrup: Well, in the beginning, these guys were like demi-gods. Their salaries were high, and they were treated like royalty.
Interviewer: Those were the days, eh?
Stroustrup: Right. So what happened? IBM got sick of it, and invested millions in training programmers, till they were a dime a dozen.
Interviewer: That's why I got out. Salaries dropped within a year, to the point where being a journalist actually paid better.
Stroustrup: Exactly. Well, the same happened with 'C' programmers.
Interviewer: I see, but what's the point?
Stroustrup: Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I thought of this little scheme, which would redress the balance a little. I thought 'I wonder what would happen, if there were a language so complicated, so difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able to swamp the market with programmers? Actually, I got some of the ideas from X10, you know, X windows. That was such a bitch of a graphics system, that it only just ran on those Sun 3/60 things. They had all the ingredients for what I wanted. A really ridiculously complex syntax, obscure functions, and pseudo-OO structure. Even now, nobody writes raw X-windows code. Motif is the only way to go if you want to retain your sanity.
[NJW Comment: That explains everything. Most of my thesis work was in raw X-windows. :)]
Interviewer: You're kidding...?
Stroustrup: Not a bit of it. In fact, there was another problem. Unix was written in 'C', which meant that any 'C' programmer could very easily become a systems programmer. Remember what a mainframe systems programmer used to earn?
Interviewer: You bet I do, that's what I used to do.
Stroustrup: OK, so this new language had to divorce itself from Unix, by hiding all the system calls that bound the two together so nicely. This would enable guys who only knew about DOS to earn a decent living too.
Interviewer: I don't believe you said that...
Stroustrup: Well, it's been long enough, now, and I believe most people have figured out for themselves that C++ is a waste of time but, I must say, it's taken them a lot longer than I thought it would.
Interviewer: So how exactly did you do it?
Stroustrup: It was only supposed to be a joke, I never thought people would take the book seriously. Anyone with half a brain can see that object-oriented programming is counter-intuitive, illogical and inefficient.
Interviewer: What?
Stroustrup: And as for 're-useable code' - when did you ever hear of a company re-using its code?
Interviewer: Well, never, actually, but...
Stroustrup: There you are then. Mind you, a few tried, in the early days. There was this Oregon company - Mentor Graphics, I think they were called - re
I'm not dead yet. ... I'm feeling better. ...
It is not the speed that is changing. It is the time reference. Time stretched with the expansion of space, and that expansion is not linear, so neither is time.
I would normally agree that 50 years is too long, but this is a special case. This book, or series of books as it later came to be, was a life's work. It was 50 years in the writing; so 50 years of protection is not absurd.
I don't know if he can make the changes or not. I only know that the others show no intention of even trying to, and if it isn't tried, it isn't going to happen. As to Huckabee shoving his beliefs down peoples throats. I don't know. I can only say that he made no attempt to do so, while governor of Arkansas.
I don't think you will find the Arkansas label was changed to 'The Baptist State' just because he was governor here. Arkansas is in fact a better place to live because of the attention he paid to fixing the problems that existed here.
Just so you know, I detested Bush when he was governor of Texas, and haven't changed my opinion since then. If it weren't for Huckabee being in the race, I would probably choose Obama.
Well, You can cut and paste, but can you think? You are quoting Charles Koch's emissaries and expect it to be true? This is a man who had 25,000 counts of theft against him, a congressional investigation, and the EPA pursuing criminal charges; only to have it all dropped by a large contribution to George Bush. Ever heard of the Koch method? They were so good at stealing it was given a name. Remember when they dumped benzene into Corpus Christie's water. Go do a little research and try again.
Cato is nothing more than a mouthpiece for its founders use. It does nothing but astroturf for corporate globalists.
That said. Yes taxes did, overall, go up during his 10 years as governor. by a total of 0.2%. Name one other governor who held spending increases to 0.2%
over a period of 10 years.
What are Jesus Horses?
I dont know where he stands on evolution. Based on his background, he probably does not agree with it. To me it doesn't matter if he does or not.
What I do see, is that his tax program will return the incentive to manufacture to the US, and remove it from China. This has the dual effect of increased jobs here, and less pollution worldwide. At least we have laws to limit pollution. Its not perfect, maybe not even good, but it certainly beats none at all.
The issue isnt being a nice guy. Its using common sense with regard to administering a government, and in that regard, he tops all the other candidates.
As a resident of Arkansas, I can tell you the following.
1. Huckabee does not hold prayer meetings on the lawn. He administers. He is perfectly able to distinguish between his beliefs and the need for
administration. The schools are in much better shape now than they have been in the history of Arkansas. The roads are in better shape than ever.
2. When he came to office, there was a 200 million deficit. When he left office, in spite of doing all the above, there was an 800 million surplus.
This was true even though he cut taxes every single year he was in office. He balanced the budget every single year, as a good administrator should.
This has nothing to do with being a preacher. it is simply the mark of a good administrator.
3. His proposals for the rebuilding of American infrastructure, taxation, immigration, health care, etc, on the national level simply make sense.
Using nothing but his history as a benchmark, I can tell you that unlike 99% of other politicians, he does not talk out of both sides of his mouth.
He says what he believes and then stands behind it. It is my belief (obviously) that he is the best choice for American President.
Huckabee vs. Obama would be a fight worth watching.
127.0.0.1 is a local loop back address.
127.0.0.2 is a non existent address on the same subnet.
it times out even faster than 127.0.0.1
oh, and that is not the only spy site/crap monger i have assigned to that address. I have over 1000 entries all assigned to that address.
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
127.0.0.2 analytics.google.com
The fastest route to bringing Venezuela back to reality is simply to stop buying Citgo products. Dry up the money. Dry up Chavez...
It may not be healthy to take an attitude of hate towards him, however, the whole idea of 'Its not personal, its just business.' is rubbish. As long as it deals with people, its personal, and must be taken as such.
People do not want to run a 'word processor'.
They want to run Word.
They do not want to run image processing software.
They want to run photoshop.
They dont want to run a spreadsheet.
They want to run Excel.
It does not matter how pretty the GUI is, nor how blindingly simple pointy clicky it may be.
It does not matter if it has direct replacements for all the apps they normally use,
nor even if those replacements do a better job than what they are used to.
If its not THE application they want, then they dont want the O/S.
"Oh, well then, I cant use that. I have to have WORD..."
I went to sawmills. hard to beat computers and 1000 hp saws. there is a certain satisfaction to seeing your stuff run in realtime. making machines move around and do real stuff, as opposed to just storing numbers in a db.
great fun