The Promise of America is not today or yesterday, but the Future. The constitution is an Ideal that we are still striving for. Each and every generation gets closer and closer to the ideal. Somewhat. I'm a bit of a constitution lover myself, but it has been perverted and undermined as time goes on. Its just that everyone is getting screwed now equally.
Amendment I has gone from absolute to interpreted. "Fire!" in a crowded theater is not protected. The list of things not protected have gotten longer and longer over time.
Amendment II is effectively gone. Firearms ownership in this country is now about where Stalin, Hitler and Mao Zedong would have it. With registration and arbitrary and capricious limits on ownership, this amendment is gone - pissed into oblivion but a foolish society that doesn't respect its own Ace in the Hole on Doomsday:
"All too many of the other great tragedies of history -- Stalin's atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few -- were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.
"My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once
- Federal Judge Alex Kozinski , Ninth Circuit. (Romanian naturalized US citizen. Its funny how those like Rand and Kozinski that had to live in the horrible state of Communism appreciate our own rights more than we do.)
Amendment IV: Gone with the patriot act.
Amendment V: Gone with the patriot act.
Amendment VII: Gone. This amendment says any dispute of $20 or more can be brought to trial. Cell phone scum bag companies wouldn't be such scum bags if they had to face a jury of screwed over customers every time they cheated someone.
Amendment VIII: If the death penalty isn't cruel, I don't know what is.
I could go on, but its boring and sad.
The great US of A is the last bastion of freedom, and its crumbling under an unreasonable bureaucracy and a stupid, undisciplined public who have so much time they invent issues (see gun control, "Pro-life", gay marriage (solution: government gets out of defining what marriage is ALTOGETHER)etc.) Welcome to the end of the least-worst system.
Enjoy your little politically correct gay marriage no-guns no-terrorist cartoon world that can never exist but you'll destroy what's good about America to get there.
But from what I understand, this guy came up with most of his best work with only a vague idea of what a mathematical proof was.
He did get invited to England, was decorated academically but did die of disease brought on by an intense dislike of the food and he was not aware of how to properly sleep under covers, and the cold nights caused his health to deteriorate along with malnutrition.
This is not a joke, I've read somewhere reliable that he was never told how to properly put himself to bed - he slept without the covers never knowing (or being shown for that matter) how the bed was to be used.
Apparently, the first 3-4 letters received in England were thought of as hoaxes because he had his own notation for everything, but it was (luckily) discovered that he was no hoax.
Right to bear arms is a fundamental Civil Right in the US. Kerry is awful in this department.
I'm voting for Badnarik, and we need a strong third party to help create a new, healthier political system without these two bought and paid for parties that "represent"
However, I want to be free from Mobocracy, and believe in a constitutional republic with armed civilians and with NONE of the rights being collective, all being individual.
The right to speak freely, pursue religion, marry a dog or same sex, freedom from illegal warrants and searches (like the Patriot Act provides) is married to the right to bear arms. I refuse to allow people who champion certain civil rights portray themselves and activists when the support communist/fascist notion of a Totalitarian state, the collective right - in most cases would be totalitarians disguise their fear of an armed public by saying the Framers intended the right to bear as collective, thoroughly disproved in the Federalist Papers and by many quotes from the framers and reflected in the Framer's respective state constitutions.
When thinking of the words of Rand and Kozinski, why is it that the only people who truly appreciate America escaped from Totalitarian communist regimes?
To quote Alex Kozinski - he said history would be vastly different had American slaves or Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto been able to arm themselves.
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for re-election and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees," wrote Judge Kozinski, a native of Romania. "However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once," he wrote.
And to those fools who speak of any right being collective; here is Ayn Rand to the rescue: "If you accept the Totalitarian idea, if the words "State" or "Collective" are sacred to you, but the word "Individual" is not -- stop right here. You don't have to read further. What we have to say is not for you -- and you are not for us. Let's part here -- but be honest, admit that you are a Totalitarian and go join the Communist Party or the German-American Bund, because they are the logical end of the road you have chosen, and you will end up with one or the other, whether you know it now or not.... -- That each man has inalienable rights which cannot be taken from him for any cause whatsoever. These rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-- That the right of life means that man cannot be deprived of his life for the convenience of any number of other men.
-- That the right of liberty means freedom of individual decision, individual choice, individual judgment and individual initiative; it means also the right to disagree with others.
-- That the right to the pursuit of happiness means man's freedom to choose what constitutes his own private, personal happiness and to work for its achievement; that such a pursuit is neither evil nor reprehensible, but honorable and good; and that a man's happiness is not to be prescribed to him by any other man nor by any number of other men.
-- That these rights have no meaning unless they are the unconditional, personal, private possession of each man, granted to him by the fact of his birth, held by him independently of all other men, and limited only by the exercise of the same rights by other men.
-- That the only just, moral and beneficent form of society is a society based upon the recognition of these inalienable individual rights.
-- That the State exists for Man, and no Man for the State.
-- That the greatest good for all men can be achieved only through the voluntary cooperation of free individuals for mutual benefit, and not through a compulsory sacrifice of all for all.
Srinivasa Ramanujan: He was self-taught but had an uncanny mathematical manipulative ability. Independently, he discovered results of Gauss, Kummer and others on hypergeometric series. He is known for major contributions in Number Theory and Modular Function theory.
Ramanujan worked out the Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series and functional equations of the zeta function on his own. On the other hand he had only a vague idea of what constitutes a mathematical proof, and occasionally did state incorrect results.
Ramanujan was reported to have dreams where Indian deities would paint this an other equations in blood on his mind.
This formula as far as I can tell came from nowhere but a strangely tuned up mind
Slashdot's inferior "lameness" filter won't allow formulas to be written textually with elegance.
1/pi = [sqrt(8)/9801] * summation of variable i from 0 to infinity [{(4i)! [1103 + 26390i]} / {(i!)^4 (396)^4i} ]
Where there sqrt(8)/9801, 1103, 26390, 396 all come from is anyone's guess. The thing generate 8 places of pi every cycle.
Edward Witten's work on unifying the string theories is another set of equations that probably deserve mention, but the practical use for Ramanujan's series and the Chodnovsky improvements to it are undeniable.
Archimedes understood infinity and how to work out the volumes of shapes around 212 BC (The year of his death - he was killed by a Roman soldier invading Syracuse when he said; "Stop disturbing me and my circles!" The soldier was supposed to take Archimedes custody and bring him to Rome).
He has written a book called, The Method, the last surviving copy of it was overwritten for prayers in 1000AD, and then the manuscript was partially discovered in the early 1900's, and just now is the rest being restored using modern technology. Archimedes understanding of infinity and the fundamentals of Calculus would take humanity until Newton / Leibniz, the modern world is probably "off" by possibly 500 years due to The Method having been lost.
I know a compiler guy working at nvidia (In Santa Clara on San Thomas Expressway right down the road from me) and an ASIC design guy (who worked for HP and for Qualcomm before) who works at ATI in Marlborough Massachusetts.
Both enjoy work. So the employees, as far as I can tell, don't get "screwed." Tele-commuting, flex, high pay, great benefits. Yeah, that sounds "screwed."
And I have several Unixen running quite well with ATI cards, so I don't see any screwed customers. Linux, Mac, Windows and FreeBSD seems to have quite adequate support for both company's cards.
I remember the "old days" when special proprietary Unixes had to run on very rare, non commodity overpriced Unix workstation hardware with wildly expensive graphics cards running obscure 3D software that only domain experts could afford. Heck, I own an SGI box and an Ultra 80.
Whining is not becoming - these companies have given the public now/today what was seen as an impossibility, let alone the common man having these technologies, not so long ago.
My grandfathers both fought alongside Australians against Germany and the "Third Reich" in WW2 - the same Australians who were disarmed by this spamming authoritarian government - this current Australian government mocks both democratic and republic government!!! The very carbines and rifles they used to put lead into the chests of those serving fascist tyrants where ripped from rightful possession - or 'excusably' "bought" off of them one by one, as the old grey hairs die, the meaning of freedom is white washed into the sands of history and time. The Red Baron of WW1 fame was reputed to have been shot down by an Aussie. Welcome to a new world order where your rights are in the Lou. The new world order is upon us, that the citizens be disarmed, and we be subjected to propaganda and falsehoods and programmed by our master and made malleable in our DIARMED state. Read Ayn Rand, the Federalist Papers, Jefferson/Madison and other bastions of modern freedom before its too late and we capitulate our freedoms to authoritarian right and left wing juggernauts from which there is no escape!
Prepare yourself for the Mediocrity and life long languish and no incentive existence of the new authoritarian overlords!
Never in gaming history EVER has a series gone such a HUGE distance from lofty coolness, replay ability and just a generally an awesome game, Deus Ex, to a piece of crap like DXIW.
If they had simply used the same game engine and made more maps for the original, more of the loyal Deus Ex fans would have pleased, but Ion Scum sold out to the console market to make money. Frankly, rename the series. I know fiscal concerns rule in the gaming business but don't piss off a loyal fan base by ruining games... wait.
I know what happened, Ion ABUSED the name to FOOL people who really liked Deus Ex into thinking the new stuff they were cranking out wasn't pure unadulterated CRAP.
While DXIW was a reasonable FPS, it wasn't jack compared to Deus Ex. Sorry.
And you know what, everything that comes out with the Deus name on it will be crap. I dare them to prove me wrong, but console games are for kiddies. Adult consumers are more discriminating than whiny kids whining for mommie to buy Tony Hawk pro masturbator and other games that get rehashed 1000 times for mommie's pocket book money.
There is something to be said for getting adults to play your game. When the kiddies like it, you may make a lot of money but you lose respect.
And if you need evidence, go look at reader reviews. DXIW is slammed all over the place. Ion defiled the name, they committed trespass against us.
If you want to find old stuff, go to #oldwarez on EFNet (or something similar) or fire up EMule 0.42d and search. Also, Googling the web or google.groups can be rather an effective way to lay your hands on abandonware.
What next? Repton? Alley Cat? Herzog Zwei rom dump?
Historic reference to the final version of DV, 2.80.
From: marsha@test120.qdeck.com (Marsha Ailing) Organization: Quarterdeck Date: Tue, 30 Apr 96 16:48:18 GMT Subject: Fw: #So - DESQview 2.8 Sent to Production Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview X-Newsreader: Quarterdeck Message Center [2.00] Lines: 36
DESQview 2.8 and DESQview 386 2.8 are Now Available for ordering!
The new versions have a good deal in common with previous versions of DESQview. DESQview 2.8 contains a relatively modest number of changes from the previous release, DESQview 2.7. DESQview's version number has changed primarily to reflect a major change in DESQview 386, which is that DESQview 386 v2.8 incorporates QEMM 8.0, where DESQview v2.7 included QEMM 7.5. (DESQview 386 consists of a copy of QEMM and a copy of DESQview running on the same machine. It doesn't matter whether QEMM and DESQview are purchased separately, or together in the DESQview 386 retail package.)
DESQview 2.8 includes a DOS-only version of Manifest, found in the DESQview directory (typically C:\DV). DESQview 386 also includes a version of Manifest that presents both a DOS and Windows interface; this version can be found in the QEMM directory (typically C:\QEMM).
Other changes to DESQview have been minimal. In this release, DESQview has been enhanced to provide better support for network printing under NetWare's VLM, and has been modified to support PCI machines that also support the Micro Channel Bus. An inconsistency involving closing programs started via a command-line parameter to DESQview has been addressed. A number of technical notes have been added to the DESQview distribution; see the section "Technical Notes" below for more details. Finally, DESQview 2.8 works around a problem in DOS's management of the date change at midnight.
That's right, DESQview 2.8 solves the problem referred to in MIDNIGHT.TEC. Having got that licked, we now begin to believe that world peace is an attainable objective.
DESQview 2.8 is not available as a patch. I don't have any pricing yet. -- Marsha Ailing Beta Test Coordinator Quarterdeck Corporation
Marsha@test120.qdeck.com
What's New in DESQview 2.8
DESQview 2.8 contains a relatively modest number of changes from
the previous release, DESQview 2.7. DESQview's version number has
changed primarily to reflect a major change in DESQview 386, which
is that DESQview 386 v2.8 incorporates QEMM 8.0, where DESQview
v2.7 included QEMM 7.5. (DESQview 386 consists of a copy of QEMM
and a copy of DESQview running on the same machine. It doesn't
matter whether QEMM and DESQview are purchased separately, or
together in the DESQview 386 retail package.)
DESQview 2.8 includes a DOS-only version of Manifest, found in the
DESQview directory (typically C:\DV). DESQview 386 also includes
a version of Manifest that presents both a DOS and Windows
interface; this version can be found in the QEMM directory
(typically C:\QEMM).
Other changes to DESQview have been minimal. In this release,
DESQview has been enhanced to provide better support for network
printing under NetWare's VLM, and has been modified to support PCI
machines that also support the Micro Channel Bus. An inconsistency
involving closing programs started via a command-line parameter to
DESQview has been addressed. A number of technical notes have been
added to the DESQview distri
It's a horrible tragedy that the outcry about the radiation leak that never was has lead to the creation of the oil mafia and a gross dependence on fossil fuels (coal is still burned in the US for power).
Nuclear space craft are on the political black list - probably our only shot at ever even dreaming of getting something to Alpha Centauri (that and the solar sail). Nuclear power plants are chastised by a mobocratic public. Has anyone ever considered the amount of weaponized fissionables that the USA has lying around all over the place in our strategic nuclear forces? How many nuclear sub seaman have died of radiation in modern submarines? (Ohio, Seawolf, Los Angeles)?
Nuclear power is designed properly from the get go. It is a no- release system. Combustion, the only other largely used alternative, is pumping crap into the atmosphere all the time. A nuclear meltdown is considered an unacceptable (and as 3 Mile Island proved, even when everything that can be done to cause these things to melt down is done, it still didn't release). Combustion as a rule pumps crap into the atmosphere. A nuclear atmospheric release is basically this: a concentrated form of all the by produce of combustible crap all super concentrat3ed an annoying. It forces one to face the reality: pumping crap into the atmosphere is bad, mmkay.
Cars are demonized by the Volvo bike pathers as well. But its industrial power needs that consume energy voraciously. How much energy does it take to turn Aluminum ore into Aircraft duralumin? I'd be willing to guess some number of joules equal to the output of that commercial jet for over a year of operation. How about the Trek bike's alloy? Or the Volvo uni-body? Humans have to take ROCK and melt it into metal. This is a need nuclear power could have filled for the past 30 years and done so without release anything but steam and some localized heat into water. Now we have soot covering the skies of industrial countries. Thank you, assholes who irrationally hated nuclear power. Enjoy the asthma. Blame it on SUVs, and don't ever think about where alloys and other energy intensive things come from.
Building sized reactors now exist. It is possible to have melt-down-proof reactor (meaning that the design of the reactor is such that when the system degrades, the ability to sustain fission is drastically decreased, meaning a catastrophe in the system will cause total shutdown, not meltdown) It would be possible to have a small reactor in the bottom of a office building provide cheap near unlimited power for years on a single cell. Too bad some dolt secretary whose husband at the trailer park chews a stalk of buckwheat and chews chaw says, my wife aint going to no hocus pocus place where nuclear poppycock and goings on goes on. As he goes off to working painting things while sniffing the leeching and out gassings of industrial paints and solvents.
Dams. No good. Destroys ecosystems. Aswan, the new Chinese dam of death, and Hoover amongst others show that damming is a colossal no no.
Geothermal. You'd think this would have gotten off the ground, but it wont. It requires the building of expensive things one top of vents tat could explode of go dormant, all difficult to predict. No good.
God ideas for our power need:
He3 on the moon. Moon dust has quite a bit of oxygen built into it. Making a moon base's air a bit easier to supply. In addition to that, there is tons of this He3 on the moon, and very little on earth. Apparently, He3 will be trivial to fuse and generate massive amounts of energy.
Giant space mirror. You would think that if we could make a space plane or some other reasonable routing way to get into LEO and HEO, we could use a giant mirror a-la James Bond movies and beam that down to a collector station.
Late-model Windmills. Excellent source of power and probably an all round good idea, but think of all the moving parts in a distributed system such as this. One has to consider the maintenance of these over a large area. A nuclea
PAE already allows 32-bit x86 machines to have more than 4GB in the system. There are numerous 32-bit CPU systems with more than 4GB of memory.
You really mean to say is that each process may need access to more than that much memory, and if an application is written with PAE in mind, I believe even an application can have more.
64-bit machines are a good thing because it allows hardware people a new opportunity to slip in some good stuff (better IO comes to mind) while they are at it.
Having used an AMD64 system in both x86 and native mode, I can say this is a very good thing. Nothing sad about it at all.
Before Black and White there was Populous, rather a fun game that came out for Genesis, PC and SNES, probably others.
Also, SNES has ActRaiser where you play God and ward of evil though acts of God and an Avatar in a side scroller.
None really get into the complexities of religion, but they are certainly themed in that way - leveraging mass devotion to an unseen entity that is quantified as mana by which the entity can act on the natural world.
I used to like the metroliner a lot better than flying from DC to NYC. This happened to be the ONLY line that actually made amtrak money. Fast trains, superior service, on time. THe regular trains did suck though.
The US did invest heavily in trains. It was nixed. Probably because of mob mentality. More about that later.
In the 1970's, Secretary of Transportation John Volpe demanded and encouraged and funded LIMRV, Linear Induction Motor Research Vehicle and TLRV. Tracked Levitated Research Vehicle amongst others. Companies including Ford, Garret and Grumman were asked to come up with designs.
Grumman built and tested TLRV, and was tested at 300mph (480kmh).
Garret built a test vehicle had a speed of 256mph (410kmh) in 1965. That is just 12mph shy of a brand new system in China now being readied for use in the Shanghai metro area, but it was done, again, 38 year before.
With the insane resistance to nuclear power (check out France meeting its power needs beautifully and cleanly for a case study as to why to use it), electrical train designs fell by the wayside. The resistance to nuclear power gave birth to the Oil Mafias of today (and the subsequent cartels, OPEC, and undesirable cash flow to undesirable regions), and these trains fell by the wayside.
If you add up all the miles of railroad in the USA, 194,731km/121,000miles, which is huge compared to other companies by raw number or by per-capita (Russia has 87,157km/54,168mi ; China 71,600km/44,499mi ; India 63,518km/39,477mi ; Japan 23,168km/14,400mi ; Germany 45,514km/28287mi ; Sweden 11,481km/7135mi ; UK 16,893/10500mi). Apparently the US does have railway know-how.
I think it is safe to say when large, uneducated public outcry affects the policies of a government, particularly when it is about the root of all economies, energy; you give birth to more evil demons. By creating this negative stigma about the word nuclear (an MRI in a hospital is really an NMR, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance imaging, but people hate "nuclear.") and all things nuclear, you bought yourself an oil mafia, fossil fuel trains, fossil fuel cars, fossil fuel being used to create energy that melts ore into metal for every car, from SUV to Train to Plane to Automobile (about 70% of ALL power consumed in the US is by industry, about maybe 30% is people and their cars.)
Now solving the new crisis will require pragmatism, like wind and nuclear power. But windmills were just recently protested in the Nantucket Sound and despite having personally lived next to a nuclear power plant (there were no cases of thyroid cancer, but several cases of GI tract cancers caused by industrial solvents poured into the water supply) people don't want this new technology, because every time we rolled it out, people bitch.
Think - the SR-71A flew in late 1965 for the first time. No plane to date (except maybe the Aurora) has topped jet engine in top speed. We've taken that know how and for 30 years did other things with it. All was not lost =).
I agree. I cracked GTA Vice City and GTA Liberty City and I bought them both. The frigging CD-check bullshit would clam up the game in mid-M16-shot. So fucking annoying. This crap encourages cracking. In fact, if it weren't for the crack, I would have had a shittier gaming experience.
Apparently UbiSoft and Macrovision, which I believe makes SafeFuckDisc, have had a major falling out. Several corporate and Academic pundits have all said : don't waste shareholder money on copy protection. The tow words that close together are a misnomer.
One must not forget HS/Link. Allowed the file leecher to use both channels effectivly while downloading. It put the bis in v.32bis. Remember before bis and before 56K, the ultimate bad boy was HST (and of course, Zmodem). But Y-modem-G was the fastest if I dont recall.
If your modem runs at the same speed in both
directions (full duplex), HS/LINK is a win. If you have
a modem that transfers more slowly in one direction than
the other (e.g., USR modems using USR's proprietary HST
protocol), HS/LINK won't gain you much. Most commonn
modems (other than the USR) will benefit from HS/LINK
and the USR Dual Standard modems will benefit as well,
if they're run in V.32 mode
The US did invest heavily in trains. It was nixed. Probably because of mob mentality. More about that later.
In the 1970's, Secretary of Transportation John Volpe demanded and encouraged and funded LIMRV, Linear Induction Motor Research Vehicle and TLRV. Tracked Levitated Research Vehicle amongst others. Companies including Ford, Garret and Grumman were asked to come up with designs.
Grumman built and tested TLRV, and was tested at 300mph (480kmh) - 38 years before this "new" Japanese speed record.
Garret built a test vehicle had a speed of 256mph (410kmh) in 1965. That is just 12mph shy of a brand new system in China now being readied for use in the Shanghai metro area, but it was done, again, 38 years earlier.
With the insane resistance to nuclear power (check out France meeting its power needs beautifully and cleanly for a case study as to why to use it), electrical train designs fell by the wayside. The resistance to nuclear power gave birth to the Oil Mafias of today (and the subsequent cartels, OPEC, and undesirable cash flow to undesirable regions), and these trains fell by the wayside.
If you add up all the miles of railroad in the USA, 194,731km/121,000miles, which is huge compared to other companies by raw number or by per-capita (Russia has 87,157km/54,168mi ; China 71,600km/44,499mi ; India 63,518km/39,477mi ; Japan 23,168km/14,400mi ; Germany 45,514km/28287mi ; Sweden 11,481km/7135mi ; UK 16,893/10500mi). Apparently the US does have railway know-how.
I think it is safe to say when large, uneducated public outcry affects the policies of a government, particularly when it is about the root of all economies, energy; you give birth to more evil demons. By creating this negative stigma about the word nuclear (an MRI in a hospital is really an NMR, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance imaging, but people hate "nuclear.") and all things nuclear, you bought yourself an oil mafia, fossil fuel trains, fossil fuel cars, fossil fuel being used to create energy that melts ore into metal for every car, from SUV to Train to Plane to Automobile (about 70% of ALL power consumed in the US is by industry, about maybe 30% is people and their cars.)
Now solving the new crisis will require pragmatism, like wind and nuclear power. But windmills were just recently protested in the Nantucket Sound and despite having personally lived next to a nuclear power plant (there were no cases of thyroid cancer, but several cases of GI tract cancers caused by industrial solvents poured into the water supply) people don't want this new technology, because every time we rolled it out, people bitch.
Think - the SR-71A flew in late 1965 for the first time. No plane to date (except maybe the Aurora) has topped jet engine in top speed. We've taken that know how and for 30 years did other things with it. All was not lost =).
About Solaris sucking bad on x86. It has to be your hardware or PEBKAC, because on my "main server," Solaris x86 (10/00 (MU2)) has been running for year+ (over 300 days of uptime) (DNS, NFS, Samba, Directory, CVS) unpatched.
It also runs fine on an ASUS P2B-DS which is "old and crusty" but it runs fine.
Besides a storage appliance, just who would you rather have serving NFS?
This PC garbage is going to kill us all. The world is not fair. Trying to use intellect to proscribe proper interfaces to the world makes you a totalitarian. I don't want you to tell me how to speak. I don't want to tell YOU either. And if you don't want to hear me, never talk to me again. In fact, if you taught your kids a banana was a "penis fruit" or some such, I don't care. A lot of this word-influence research was done by people who rely on there being evidence of effects or they have no purpose in life. I think of it all as a fart gas study. If you constantly farted on someone in their formative years, they would grow up fart-traumatized. Now farting must be banned and farters should be fired from work and imprisoned.
I don't care about words. I use profanity from time to time and think those who have the time to think about the words used rather than the idea conveyed are complete idiots. MASTER/SLAVE. Master does not mean, massah, crack da whip. It means the primary/controller/the in-control entity. Slave doesn't mean, I so sorry massah, please don't beat me. It means that slave listens to the master. If you think that's offensive, then you would be a moron that can't think abstractly or needs to hit a dictionary and find that there are more meanings to a word.
Try and find the Bugs Bunny when he painted himself in black-face and sang old Kentucky home in from of Yosemite Sam. Banned by the thought police. Or Tom's [of Tom and Jerry] fat master, who chased him around the house with the rolling pin. Thought police. Speedy Gonzalez (a number of people in the "Spanish community" miss Speedy, but the thought police have already thought for them). Thought police. Sensitivity training, mail-person vs mailman, person-hole vs. man whole. Anyone who thinks about this or pays credence to it is a fucking idiot that contributes nothing to the world. Get over it, and get on with life.
But you can be Farrakhan and preach all this hateful trash and the thought police can't touch you, that hate mongering is protected. Or you can dunk a Christian cross in urine and call it art, even though this pisses a lot of people off that's protected. But if some gender bent loon tune lady with a beard in a restaurant gets referred to with the wrong pronoun, that's a civil rights suit. You, and I really don't care about transgendered. In fact, I want to hate them now that I have to be "PC" to them. Forcing people to like/respect others is an unnatural act.
The weak always look for ways to create sympathy. They live in a world that is so malleable and open, you can do anything or be anyone. But these small minded retards who like to think for others and cleanse their evil thoughts who can make nothing of themselves doing something useful find a job in making intelligent people's lives more difficult. I ignore these pricks. When duty calls, a big asteroid or comet, a super volcano, a pandemic, a super tsunami, or war against something that threatens our existence, their stupid crap will fall by the wayside and the true leaders can get down to business.
We are being weakened by these people. They don't make the weak-victims they think for any smarter, just more dependent on their "PC" racketeering lead by those like Fake-Reverend Jesse Extortion Jackson and others like him.
Your group-thinking politically correct trash is wholeheartedly rejected by me. I reject it and ignore it and think the whole thing is a ridiculous scam and you weaken the weak and those who are thinking for them are really evil people who get into power by using these ridiculous grievances as fuel for their fires. Every court case, every name change, every time PC wins, the collective intelligence goes down. It takes hundreds of useful people to create what one PC retard in court can undo.
Now I'm going to go laugh my ass off at Blazing Saddles. And while the humor may not be politically correct, its fucking funny. And I have nothing against no one, but I can still have a great time watching a film that parodies ster
Is the world turning upside or what? A military grade battle tested OS - Solaris, is free (or the cost of media, something like $20.) Nuclear bunker file system (logging UFS, not EXT3, a "filesystem"), scalability, awesome recommended update rollups, frequent/daily patch releases, quarterly MUs, and working NFS!
Linux, a random hodge-podge of random C library, random shell, random kernel version with random patches, a random userland with random SYSV and BSD idiosyncrasies is thousands for the ES and AS product?
Goofy.
I'm glad I'm on FreeBSD and Solaris while watching this mess.
Some compounds are listed as d- and l- refer to the highest-numbered asymmetric stereogenic centers. They also do not indicate the sign of rotation of plane-polarized light.
Most interesting organic compounds have multiple stereogenic centers. One of the main reasons plants are used to obtain starting materials for various modern drugs, ergot infested rye (indole substrate), poppies, indica sativa all provide starting points that make it so that creating synthetic materials based on these plant extracts as starting reagents is far easier due to the fact plant enzymes can place each stereogenic center in the right conformation and in wet chemistry this is exceedingly difficult. Mentioning some of the starting plants for illicit drugs is no mistake; they are notoriously sensitive to chiral conformation, and provide some of the most interesting sterochemical research subject matter. Also, due to the draconian laws surrounding federally controlled substances and their precursors, it isn't easy to study these things, despite being hugely important.
To say that stereochemistry is limited to 2-handedness is a ridiculous oversimplification of reality. If I'm not mistaken, C6-H12-O6 "glucose"; has D-glucose has 4 chiral carbon atoms (2^4 = 16 possible stereoisomers) - I believe only one of which is able to provide calories.
Various notations for stereochemistry exist, and one must factor out canonical conformations and take into account the bending of the various stereogenic centers in 3d-space, leading to notations that include "boat" and "chair."
Now, as to the practicality of stereogenics and its use in zero calorie metabolism: this is probably less difficult than separating U238 and U235, but one could probably get an enzyme of modify bacteria to plunk out zero-cal conformations, but in large scale synthetic operations, getting picky with chirality could be problematic / costly. Things are ridiculously hard to separate, and you need to use special techniques such as using tartrate salts and other expensive and slow ways of picking out the various conformations of chiral compounds.
Hey wait a minute! I'm trying to promote FreeBSD on Juniper here! You of all people should be trying to help!
If you have bigger pieces of networking gear, usually Cisco and Juniper will help you out with the smaller cruft you collect. You are their customer and if you whine and beg they do give in. MSRP isn't a rule written in stone.
Also, to the EULAs and licensing agreements and whatnot. I'm not aware of any court upholding the preposterous: -- This is a licensed property that has a HUGE value when you steal it, they can revoke this license at any time [they can't but they say that anyway] and you cannot resell or transfer it [in capitalism, values of things are determined by a market that accepts things at prices. The price is what the market is willing to bear. How can they use the market to sell IOS or Junos then say, you are hereby barred from using the same system they used on you?]
I would be surprised if router companies such as Cisco and Juniper really do have the balls to pull a BSA style jackbooted Ruby Ridge Waco Elian style witch hunt on their paying customers. Then that would really make things like Xorp and other free UNIX derived router projects more appealing. I've actually begged Juniper for an update for a router and he gave it to me. They normally charge $15,000 for a Junos license.
I'll be the first to crap on Cisco about things being ridiculous. Juniper has a much more structured and manageable approach to dealing with the routing problem. So therein lies the evil of monopolies, "good" or bad. They have little motivation to be better than Juniper. But also, I don't seem them going on rampage to try and enforce ridiculous illegal licensing.
The biggest problem I have with PC with UNIX is that interrupts, even with coalescence, is expensive. While FreeBSD does have polling, this is a step in the right direction, but not a viable solution in every case. The real doors get opened when the stack can be offloaded to the card. I suspect the 10GE card from Intel will force some very interesting changes in the way things are done.
I can push more packets though a 6500 than a PC can even imagine. And millions pps is not easy to come by on a PC at any price. At least nothing I could conjure up.
My thinking is fragmented and bizarre because Peet's coffee is coursing through my veins.
I don't know about $30,000. I have a FlexWan, which is a PA card adapter for the 6500's [which is the pricey but elegant way to go], and a PA-T3 and on the 7206VXR. They can be had for much less than $30,000, especially on ebay, but you can get prices down on Cisco if you aren't dumb enough to pay MSRP. You can also get PA-T3+ and PA-2T3+ for your FlexWan or 7200.
I'm no great fan of IOS, I much prefer Junos and my Juniper M10, but you'd be psychotic to even pretend a PC [despite the fact that Olive/Junos is based on FreeBSD from the PC, but each PIC uses network processors] could handle a T3 the way a Cisco or Juniper could. Yeah, its not very much bandwidth, but there are a lot fo interesting things these real pices of equipment can do for you.
Also, using a monitor OS like IOS and network processors is a lot better than interrupt driven crazyness that goes on in a PC.
In fact, I have a spare spare PA-T3 card I would sell you.
(At Watering Hole, 1,000,003 BC / BCE:) Oog, me Oog, my primitve brain found Frylock's supercomputer, seen any gravity waves?
(at Town Well 2003, BC / BCE:) Hi, Job, seen any gravity waves lately? What's gravity? What's a wave? Is that something you leave as an offering to the Gods?
and so on.
I much prefer XFS; should be part of comparison
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I have done filesystem testing and find that when comparing Reiser and EXT3, it is unacceptable to omit XFS and somewhat JFS (which is robust, but a little slow.) Most people forgo in both EXT3 and Reiser the features that slow things down a bit but are more durable in a failure situation. With XFS I get the full protection of the filesystem while enjoying great performance.
XFS is by far the most durable, mature [given a long history inside IRIX] and featured of the Linux filesystems. I also am quite annoyed that RedHat doesn't make it easy to facilitate XFS right out of the box (rootfs support). They merged everything else in there, but somehow seem to favor ext3.
About the only thing I miss when using FreeBSD is XFS. While UFS2+S is robust and very quick, XFS is still my favorite.
I am also offended by RedHat that baits and switches a community by having popular (5.2/6.2/7.1-7.3) versions for free, then they start charging for this Advanced Server product on the same order of magnitude as Microsoft software [RH-AS is over $1000]. RH 8 and 9 are embarrassing. I obtained a copy of RH-AS, and the up2date feature doest work without a subscription, and the RPMS are not distributed in binaries. I'm glad there are several projects to replace up2date server for RedHat. All these problems on an OS that cant even be bothered to support XFS root filesystem.
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Somewhat. I'm a bit of a constitution lover myself, but it has been perverted and undermined as time goes on. Its just that everyone is getting screwed now equally.
Amendment I has gone from absolute to interpreted. "Fire!" in a crowded theater is not protected. The list of things not protected have gotten longer and longer over time.
Amendment II is effectively gone. Firearms ownership in this country is now about where Stalin, Hitler and Mao Zedong would have it. With registration and arbitrary and capricious limits on ownership, this amendment is gone - pissed into oblivion but a foolish society that doesn't respect its own Ace in the Hole on Doomsday:
- Federal Judge Alex Kozinski , Ninth Circuit. (Romanian naturalized US citizen. Its funny how those like Rand and Kozinski that had to live in the horrible state of Communism appreciate our own rights more than we do.)
Amendment IV: Gone with the patriot act.
Amendment V: Gone with the patriot act.
Amendment VII: Gone. This amendment says any dispute of $20 or more can be brought to trial. Cell phone scum bag companies wouldn't be such scum bags if they had to face a jury of screwed over customers every time they cheated someone.
Amendment VIII: If the death penalty isn't cruel, I don't know what is.
I could go on, but its boring and sad.
The great US of A is the last bastion of freedom, and its crumbling under an unreasonable bureaucracy and a stupid, undisciplined public who have so much time they invent issues (see gun control, "Pro-life", gay marriage (solution: government gets out of defining what marriage is ALTOGETHER)etc.) Welcome to the end of the least-worst system.
Enjoy your little politically correct gay marriage no-guns no-terrorist cartoon world that can never exist but you'll destroy what's good about America to get there.
- Sad non-authoritarian centrist libertarian.
It's been proven here:
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http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/fulltext?form
But from what I understand, this guy came up with most of his best work with only a vague idea of what a mathematical proof was.
He did get invited to England, was decorated academically but did die of disease brought on by an intense dislike of the food and he was not aware of how to properly sleep under covers, and the cold nights caused his health to deteriorate along with malnutrition.
This is not a joke, I've read somewhere reliable that he was never told how to properly put himself to bed - he slept without the covers never knowing (or being shown for that matter) how the bed was to be used.
Apparently, the first 3-4 letters received in England were thought of as hoaxes because he had his own notation for everything, but it was (luckily) discovered that he was no hoax.
Right to bear arms is a fundamental Civil Right in the US. Kerry is awful in this department.
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I'm voting for Badnarik, and we need a strong third party to help create a new, healthier political system without these two bought and paid for parties that "represent"
However, I want to be free from Mobocracy, and believe in a constitutional republic with armed civilians and with NONE of the rights being collective, all being individual.
The right to speak freely, pursue religion, marry a dog or same sex, freedom from illegal warrants and searches (like the Patriot Act provides) is married to the right to bear arms. I refuse to allow people who champion certain civil rights portray themselves and activists when the support communist/fascist notion of a Totalitarian state, the collective right - in most cases would be totalitarians disguise their fear of an armed public by saying the Framers intended the right to bear as collective, thoroughly disproved in the Federalist Papers and by many quotes from the framers and reflected in the Framer's respective state constitutions.
When thinking of the words of Rand and Kozinski, why is it that the only people who truly appreciate America escaped from Totalitarian communist regimes?
To quote Alex Kozinski - he said history would be vastly different had American slaves or Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto been able to arm themselves.
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for re-election and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees," wrote Judge Kozinski, a native of Romania. "However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once," he wrote.
And to those fools who speak of any right being collective; here is Ayn Rand to the rescue: "If you accept the Totalitarian idea, if the words "State" or "Collective" are sacred to you, but the word "Individual" is not -- stop right here. You don't have to read further. What we have to say is not for you -- and you are not for us. Let's part here -- but be honest, admit that you are a Totalitarian and go join the Communist Party or the German-American Bund, because they are the logical end of the road you have chosen, and you will end up with one or the other, whether you know it now or not.
-- That each man has inalienable rights which cannot be taken from him for any cause whatsoever. These rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-- That the right of life means that man cannot be deprived of his life for the convenience of any number of other men.
-- That the right of liberty means freedom of individual decision, individual choice, individual judgment and individual initiative; it means also the right to disagree with others.
-- That the right to the pursuit of happiness means man's freedom to choose what constitutes his own private, personal happiness and to work for its achievement; that such a pursuit is neither evil nor reprehensible, but honorable and good; and that a man's happiness is not to be prescribed to him by any other man nor by any number of other men.
-- That these rights have no meaning unless they are the unconditional, personal, private possession of each man, granted to him by the fact of his birth, held by him independently of all other men, and limited only by the exercise of the same rights by other men.
-- That the only just, moral and beneficent form of society is a society based upon the recognition of these inalienable individual rights.
-- That the State exists for Man, and no Man for the State.
-- That the greatest good for all men can be achieved only through the voluntary cooperation of free individuals for mutual benefit, and not through a compulsory sacrifice of all for all.
-- Th
Srinivasa Ramanujan: He was self-taught but had an uncanny mathematical manipulative ability. Independently, he discovered results of Gauss, Kummer and others on hypergeometric series. He is known for major contributions in Number Theory and Modular Function theory.
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Ramanujan worked out the Riemann series, the elliptic integrals, hypergeometric series and functional equations of the zeta function on his own. On the other hand he had only a vague idea of what constitutes a mathematical proof, and occasionally did state incorrect results.
Ramanujan was reported to have dreams where Indian deities would paint this an other equations in blood on his mind.
This formula as far as I can tell came from nowhere but a strangely tuned up mind
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ma2lg/project/ramanujan.gi
Slashdot's inferior "lameness" filter won't allow formulas to be written textually with elegance.
1/pi = [sqrt(8)/9801] * summation of variable i from 0 to infinity [{(4i)! [1103 + 26390i]} / {(i!)^4 (396)^4i} ]
Where there sqrt(8)/9801, 1103, 26390, 396 all come from is anyone's guess. The thing generate 8 places of pi every cycle.
Edward Witten's work on unifying the string theories is another set of equations that probably deserve mention, but the practical use for Ramanujan's series and the Chodnovsky improvements to it are undeniable.
Archimedes understood infinity and how to work out the volumes of shapes around 212 BC (The year of his death - he was killed by a Roman soldier invading Syracuse when he said; "Stop disturbing me and my circles!" The soldier was supposed to take Archimedes custody and bring him to Rome).
He has written a book called, The Method, the last surviving copy of it was overwritten for prayers in 1000AD, and then the manuscript was partially discovered in the early 1900's, and just now is the rest being restored using modern technology. Archimedes understanding of infinity and the fundamentals of Calculus would take humanity until Newton / Leibniz, the modern world is probably "off" by possibly 500 years due to The Method having been lost.
I know a compiler guy working at nvidia (In Santa Clara on San Thomas Expressway right down the road from me) and an ASIC design guy (who worked for HP and for Qualcomm before) who works at ATI in Marlborough Massachusetts.
Both enjoy work. So the employees, as far as I can tell, don't get "screwed." Tele-commuting, flex, high pay, great benefits. Yeah, that sounds "screwed."
And I have several Unixen running quite well with ATI cards, so I don't see any screwed customers. Linux, Mac, Windows and FreeBSD seems to have quite adequate support for both company's cards.
I remember the "old days" when special proprietary Unixes had to run on very rare, non commodity overpriced Unix workstation hardware with wildly expensive graphics cards running obscure 3D software that only domain experts could afford. Heck, I own an SGI box and an Ultra 80.
Whining is not becoming - these companies have given the public now/today what was seen as an impossibility, let alone the common man having these technologies, not so long ago.
My grandfathers both fought alongside Australians against Germany and the "Third Reich" in WW2 - the same Australians who were disarmed by this spamming authoritarian government - this current Australian government mocks both democratic and republic government!!! The very carbines and rifles they used to put lead into the chests of those serving fascist tyrants where ripped from rightful possession - or 'excusably' "bought" off of them one by one, as the old grey hairs die, the meaning of freedom is white washed into the sands of history and time. The Red Baron of WW1 fame was reputed to have been shot down by an Aussie. Welcome to a new world order where your rights are in the Lou. The new world order is upon us, that the citizens be disarmed, and we be subjected to propaganda and falsehoods and programmed by our master and made malleable in our DIARMED state. Read Ayn Rand, the Federalist Papers, Jefferson/Madison and other bastions of modern freedom before its too late and we capitulate our freedoms to authoritarian right and left wing juggernauts from which there is no escape!
Prepare yourself for the Mediocrity and life long languish and no incentive existence of the new authoritarian overlords!
Long live the free spirit of man!
Never in gaming history EVER has a series gone such a HUGE distance from lofty coolness, replay ability and just a generally an awesome game, Deus Ex, to a piece of crap like DXIW.
... wait.
If they had simply used the same game engine and made more maps for the original, more of the loyal Deus Ex fans would have pleased, but Ion Scum sold out to the console market to make money. Frankly, rename the series. I know fiscal concerns rule in the gaming business but don't piss off a loyal fan base by ruining games
I know what happened, Ion ABUSED the name to FOOL people who really liked Deus Ex into thinking the new stuff they were cranking out wasn't pure unadulterated CRAP.
While DXIW was a reasonable FPS, it wasn't jack compared to Deus Ex. Sorry.
And you know what, everything that comes out with the Deus name on it will be crap. I dare them to prove me wrong, but console games are for kiddies. Adult consumers are more discriminating than whiny kids whining for mommie to buy Tony Hawk pro masturbator and other games that get rehashed 1000 times for mommie's pocket book money.
There is something to be said for getting adults to play your game. When the kiddies like it, you may make a lot of money but you lose respect.
And if you need evidence, go look at reader reviews. DXIW is slammed all over the place. Ion defiled the name, they committed trespass against us.
Download DESQView 2.8, QEMM 8.03 or 9, and other stuff here:
http://www.chsoft.com/dv.html
If you want to find old stuff, go to #oldwarez on EFNet (or something similar) or fire up EMule 0.42d and search. Also, Googling the web or google.groups can be rather an effective way to lay your hands on abandonware.
What next? Repton? Alley Cat? Herzog Zwei rom dump?
Historic reference to the final version of DV, 2.80.
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DESQview 2.8 and DESQview 386 2.8 are Now Available for ordering!
The new versions have a good deal in common with previous versions of
DESQview. DESQview 2.8 contains a relatively modest number of changes from the
previous release, DESQview 2.7. DESQview's version number has changed
primarily to reflect a major change in DESQview 386, which is that DESQview 386
v2.8 incorporates QEMM 8.0, where DESQview v2.7 included QEMM 7.5. (DESQview
386 consists of a copy of QEMM and a copy of DESQview running on the same
machine. It doesn't matter whether QEMM and DESQview are purchased separately,
or together in the DESQview 386 retail package.)
DESQview 2.8 includes a DOS-only version of Manifest, found in the DESQview
directory (typically C:\DV). DESQview 386 also includes a version of Manifest
that presents both a DOS and Windows interface; this version can be found in
the QEMM directory (typically C:\QEMM).
Other changes to DESQview have been minimal. In this release, DESQview has
been enhanced to provide better support for network printing under NetWare's
VLM, and has been modified to support PCI machines that also support the Micro
Channel Bus. An inconsistency involving closing programs started via a
command-line parameter to DESQview has been addressed. A number of technical
notes have been added to the DESQview distribution; see the section "Technical
Notes" below for more details. Finally, DESQview 2.8 works around a problem
in DOS's management of the date change at midnight.
That's right, DESQview 2.8 solves the problem referred to in
MIDNIGHT.TEC. Having got that licked, we now begin to believe that world
peace is an attainable objective.
DESQview 2.8 is not available as a patch.
I don't have any pricing yet.
--
Marsha Ailing
Beta Test Coordinator
Quarterdeck Corporation
Marsha@test120.qdeck.com
What's New in DESQview 2.8
DESQview 2.8 contains a relatively modest number of changes from
the previous release, DESQview 2.7. DESQview's version number has
changed primarily to reflect a major change in DESQview 386, which
is that DESQview 386 v2.8 incorporates QEMM 8.0, where DESQview
v2.7 included QEMM 7.5. (DESQview 386 consists of a copy of QEMM
and a copy of DESQview running on the same machine. It doesn't
matter whether QEMM and DESQview are purchased separately, or
together in the DESQview 386 retail package.)
DESQview 2.8 includes a DOS-only version of Manifest, found in the
DESQview directory (typically C:\DV). DESQview 386 also includes
a version of Manifest that presents both a DOS and Windows
interface; this version can be found in the QEMM directory
(typically C:\QEMM).
Other changes to DESQview have been minimal. In this release,
DESQview has been enhanced to provide better support for network
printing under NetWare's VLM, and has been modified to support PCI
machines that also support the Micro Channel Bus. An inconsistency
involving closing programs started via a command-line parameter to
DESQview has been addressed. A number of technical notes have been
added to the DESQview distri
It's a horrible tragedy that the outcry about the radiation leak that never was has lead to the creation of the oil mafia and a gross dependence on fossil fuels (coal is still burned in the US for power).
Nuclear space craft are on the political black list - probably our only shot at ever even dreaming of getting something to Alpha Centauri (that and the solar sail). Nuclear power plants are chastised by a mobocratic public. Has anyone ever considered the amount of weaponized fissionables that the USA has lying around all over the place in our strategic nuclear forces? How many nuclear sub seaman have died of radiation in modern submarines? (Ohio, Seawolf, Los Angeles)?
Nuclear power is designed properly from the get go. It is a no- release system. Combustion, the only other largely used alternative, is pumping crap into the atmosphere all the time. A nuclear meltdown is considered an unacceptable (and as 3 Mile Island proved, even when everything that can be done to cause these things to melt down is done, it still didn't release). Combustion as a rule pumps crap into the atmosphere. A nuclear atmospheric release is basically this: a concentrated form of all the by produce of combustible crap all super concentrat3ed an annoying. It forces one to face the reality: pumping crap into the atmosphere is bad, mmkay.
Cars are demonized by the Volvo bike pathers as well. But its industrial power needs that consume energy voraciously. How much energy does it take to turn Aluminum ore into Aircraft duralumin? I'd be willing to guess some number of joules equal to the output of that commercial jet for over a year of operation. How about the Trek bike's alloy? Or the Volvo uni-body? Humans have to take ROCK and melt it into metal. This is a need nuclear power could have filled for the past 30 years and done so without release anything but steam and some localized heat into water. Now we have soot covering the skies of industrial countries. Thank you, assholes who irrationally hated nuclear power. Enjoy the asthma. Blame it on SUVs, and don't ever think about where alloys and other energy intensive things come from.
Building sized reactors now exist. It is possible to have melt-down-proof reactor (meaning that the design of the reactor is such that when the system degrades, the ability to sustain fission is drastically decreased, meaning a catastrophe in the system will cause total shutdown, not meltdown) It would be possible to have a small reactor in the bottom of a office building provide cheap near unlimited power for years on a single cell. Too bad some dolt secretary whose husband at the trailer park chews a stalk of buckwheat and chews chaw says, my wife aint going to no hocus pocus place where nuclear poppycock and goings on goes on. As he goes off to working painting things while sniffing the leeching and out gassings of industrial paints and solvents.
Dams. No good. Destroys ecosystems. Aswan, the new Chinese dam of death, and Hoover amongst others show that damming is a colossal no no.
Geothermal. You'd think this would have gotten off the ground, but it wont. It requires the building of expensive things one top of vents tat could explode of go dormant, all difficult to predict. No good.
God ideas for our power need:
He3 on the moon. Moon dust has quite a bit of oxygen built into it. Making a moon base's air a bit easier to supply. In addition to that, there is tons of this He3 on the moon, and very little on earth. Apparently, He3 will be trivial to fuse and generate massive amounts of energy.
Giant space mirror. You would think that if we could make a space plane or some other reasonable routing way to get into LEO and HEO, we could use a giant mirror a-la James Bond movies and beam that down to a collector station.
Late-model Windmills. Excellent source of power and probably an all round good idea, but think of all the moving parts in a distributed system such as this. One has to consider the maintenance of these over a large area. A nuclea
PAE already allows 32-bit x86 machines to have more than 4GB in the system. There are numerous 32-bit CPU systems with more than 4GB of memory.
You really mean to say is that each process may need access to more than that much memory, and if an application is written with PAE in mind, I believe even an application can have more.
64-bit machines are a good thing because it allows hardware people a new opportunity to slip in some good stuff (better IO comes to mind) while they are at it.
Having used an AMD64 system in both x86 and native mode, I can say this is a very good thing. Nothing sad about it at all.
Before Black and White there was Populous, rather a fun game that came out for Genesis, PC and SNES, probably others.
Also, SNES has ActRaiser where you play God and ward of evil though acts of God and an Avatar in a side scroller.
None really get into the complexities of religion, but they are certainly themed in that way - leveraging mass devotion to an unseen entity that is quantified as mana by which the entity can act on the natural world.
I used to like the metroliner a lot better than flying from DC to NYC. This happened to be the ONLY line that actually made amtrak money. Fast trains, superior service, on time. THe regular trains did suck though.
The US did invest heavily in trains. It was nixed. Probably because of mob mentality. More about that later.
In the 1970's, Secretary of Transportation John Volpe demanded and encouraged and funded LIMRV, Linear Induction Motor Research Vehicle and TLRV. Tracked Levitated Research Vehicle amongst others. Companies including Ford, Garret and Grumman were asked to come up with designs.
Grumman built and tested TLRV, and was tested at 300mph (480kmh).
Garret built a test vehicle had a speed of 256mph (410kmh) in 1965. That is just 12mph shy of a brand new system in China now being readied for use in the Shanghai metro area, but it was done, again, 38 year before.
With the insane resistance to nuclear power (check out France meeting its power needs beautifully and cleanly for a case study as to why to use it), electrical train designs fell by the wayside. The resistance to nuclear power gave birth to the Oil Mafias of today (and the subsequent cartels, OPEC, and undesirable cash flow to undesirable regions), and these trains fell by the wayside.
If you add up all the miles of railroad in the USA, 194,731km/121,000miles, which is huge compared to other companies by raw number or by per-capita (Russia has 87,157km/54,168mi ; China 71,600km/44,499mi ; India 63,518km/39,477mi ; Japan 23,168km/14,400mi ; Germany 45,514km/28287mi ; Sweden 11,481km/7135mi ; UK 16,893/10500mi). Apparently the US does have railway know-how.
I think it is safe to say when large, uneducated public outcry affects the policies of a government, particularly when it is about the root of all economies, energy; you give birth to more evil demons. By creating this negative stigma about the word nuclear (an MRI in a hospital is really an NMR, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance imaging, but people hate "nuclear.") and all things nuclear, you bought yourself an oil mafia, fossil fuel trains, fossil fuel cars, fossil fuel being used to create energy that melts ore into metal for every car, from SUV to Train to Plane to Automobile (about 70% of ALL power consumed in the US is by industry, about maybe 30% is people and their cars.)
Now solving the new crisis will require pragmatism, like wind and nuclear power. But windmills were just recently protested in the Nantucket Sound and despite having personally lived next to a nuclear power plant (there were no cases of thyroid cancer, but several cases of GI tract cancers caused by industrial solvents poured into the water supply) people don't want this new technology, because every time we rolled it out, people bitch.
Think - the SR-71A flew in late 1965 for the first time. No plane to date (except maybe the Aurora) has topped jet engine in top speed. We've taken that know how and for 30 years did other things with it. All was not lost =).
Recently I built SSH and had to use /usr/ccs/bin/strip over GNU strip on Solaris for the binary to work at all.
I strongly disagree with the lambasting you seem to be garnering from people who seem to have little experience with Solaris and managing it properly.
I personally think that any GNU/"stuff" should be used sparingly from the companion CD wherever possible.
I agree. I cracked GTA Vice City and GTA Liberty City and I bought them both. The frigging CD-check bullshit would clam up the game in mid-M16-shot. So fucking annoying. This crap encourages cracking. In fact, if it weren't for the crack, I would have had a shittier gaming experience.
Apparently UbiSoft and Macrovision, which I believe makes SafeFuckDisc, have had a major falling out. Several corporate and Academic pundits have all said : don't waste shareholder money on copy protection. The tow words that close together are a misnomer.
The US did invest heavily in trains. It was nixed. Probably because of mob mentality. More about that later.
In the 1970's, Secretary of Transportation John Volpe demanded and encouraged and funded LIMRV, Linear Induction Motor Research Vehicle and TLRV. Tracked Levitated Research Vehicle amongst others. Companies including Ford, Garret and Grumman were asked to come up with designs.
Grumman built and tested TLRV, and was tested at 300mph (480kmh) - 38 years before this "new" Japanese speed record.
Garret built a test vehicle had a speed of 256mph (410kmh) in 1965. That is just 12mph shy of a brand new system in China now being readied for use in the Shanghai metro area, but it was done, again, 38 years earlier.
With the insane resistance to nuclear power (check out France meeting its power needs beautifully and cleanly for a case study as to why to use it), electrical train designs fell by the wayside. The resistance to nuclear power gave birth to the Oil Mafias of today (and the subsequent cartels, OPEC, and undesirable cash flow to undesirable regions), and these trains fell by the wayside.
If you add up all the miles of railroad in the USA, 194,731km/121,000miles, which is huge compared to other companies by raw number or by per-capita (Russia has 87,157km/54,168mi ; China 71,600km/44,499mi ; India 63,518km/39,477mi ; Japan 23,168km/14,400mi ; Germany 45,514km/28287mi ; Sweden 11,481km/7135mi ; UK 16,893/10500mi). Apparently the US does have railway know-how.
I think it is safe to say when large, uneducated public outcry affects the policies of a government, particularly when it is about the root of all economies, energy; you give birth to more evil demons. By creating this negative stigma about the word nuclear (an MRI in a hospital is really an NMR, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance imaging, but people hate "nuclear.") and all things nuclear, you bought yourself an oil mafia, fossil fuel trains, fossil fuel cars, fossil fuel being used to create energy that melts ore into metal for every car, from SUV to Train to Plane to Automobile (about 70% of ALL power consumed in the US is by industry, about maybe 30% is people and their cars.)
Now solving the new crisis will require pragmatism, like wind and nuclear power. But windmills were just recently protested in the Nantucket Sound and despite having personally lived next to a nuclear power plant (there were no cases of thyroid cancer, but several cases of GI tract cancers caused by industrial solvents poured into the water supply) people don't want this new technology, because every time we rolled it out, people bitch.
Think - the SR-71A flew in late 1965 for the first time. No plane to date (except maybe the Aurora) has topped jet engine in top speed. We've taken that know how and for 30 years did other things with it. All was not lost =).
About Solaris sucking bad on x86. It has to be your hardware or PEBKAC, because on my "main server," Solaris x86 (10/00 (MU2)) has been running for year+ (over 300 days of uptime) (DNS, NFS, Samba, Directory, CVS) unpatched.
It also runs fine on an ASUS P2B-DS which is "old and crusty" but it runs fine.
Besides a storage appliance, just who would you rather have serving NFS?
This PC garbage is going to kill us all. The world is not fair. Trying to use intellect to proscribe proper interfaces to the world makes you a totalitarian. I don't want you to tell me how to speak. I don't want to tell YOU either. And if you don't want to hear me, never talk to me again. In fact, if you taught your kids a banana was a "penis fruit" or some such, I don't care.
A lot of this word-influence research was done by people who rely on there being evidence of effects or they have no purpose in life. I think of it all as a fart gas study. If you constantly farted on someone in their formative years, they would grow up fart-traumatized. Now farting must be banned and farters should be fired from work and imprisoned.
I don't care about words. I use profanity from time to time and think those who have the time to think about the words used rather than the idea conveyed are complete idiots. MASTER/SLAVE. Master does not mean, massah, crack da whip. It means the primary/controller/the in-control entity. Slave doesn't mean, I so sorry massah, please don't beat me. It means that slave listens to the master. If you think that's offensive, then you would be a moron that can't think abstractly or needs to hit a dictionary and find that there are more meanings to a word.
Try and find the Bugs Bunny when he painted himself in black-face and sang old Kentucky home in from of Yosemite Sam. Banned by the thought police. Or Tom's [of Tom and Jerry] fat master, who chased him around the house with the rolling pin. Thought police. Speedy Gonzalez (a number of people in the "Spanish community" miss Speedy, but the thought police have already thought for them). Thought police. Sensitivity training, mail-person vs mailman, person-hole vs. man whole. Anyone who thinks about this or pays credence to it is a fucking idiot that contributes nothing to the world. Get over it, and get on with life.
But you can be Farrakhan and preach all this hateful trash and the thought police can't touch you, that hate mongering is protected. Or you can dunk a Christian cross in urine and call it art, even though this pisses a lot of people off that's protected. But if some gender bent loon tune lady with a beard in a restaurant gets referred to with the wrong pronoun, that's a civil rights suit. You, and I really don't care about transgendered. In fact, I want to hate them now that I have to be "PC" to them. Forcing people to like/respect others is an unnatural act.
The weak always look for ways to create sympathy. They live in a world that is so malleable and open, you can do anything or be anyone. But these small minded retards who like to think for others and cleanse their evil thoughts who can make nothing of themselves doing something useful find a job in making intelligent people's lives more difficult. I ignore these pricks. When duty calls, a big asteroid or comet, a super volcano, a pandemic, a super tsunami, or war against something that threatens our existence, their stupid crap will fall by the wayside and the true leaders can get down to business.
We are being weakened by these people. They don't make the weak-victims they think for any smarter, just more dependent on their "PC" racketeering lead by those like Fake-Reverend Jesse Extortion Jackson and others like him.
Your group-thinking politically correct trash is wholeheartedly rejected by me. I reject it and ignore it and think the whole thing is a ridiculous scam and you weaken the weak and those who are thinking for them are really evil people who get into power by using these ridiculous grievances as fuel for their fires. Every court case, every name change, every time PC wins, the collective intelligence goes down. It takes hundreds of useful people to create what one PC retard in court can undo.
Now I'm going to go laugh my ass off at Blazing Saddles. And while the humor may not be politically correct, its fucking funny. And I have nothing against no one, but I can still have a great time watching a film that parodies ster
From the terrible secret of space.
Is the world turning upside or what? A military grade battle tested OS - Solaris, is free (or the cost of media, something like $20.) Nuclear bunker file system (logging UFS, not EXT3, a "filesystem"), scalability, awesome recommended update rollups, frequent/daily patch releases, quarterly MUs, and working NFS!
Linux, a random hodge-podge of random C library, random shell, random kernel version with random patches, a random userland with random SYSV and BSD idiosyncrasies is thousands for the ES and AS product?
Goofy.
I'm glad I'm on FreeBSD and Solaris while watching this mess.
Some compounds are listed as d- and l- refer to the highest-numbered asymmetric stereogenic centers. They also do not indicate the sign of rotation of plane-polarized light.
Most interesting organic compounds have multiple stereogenic centers. One of the main reasons plants are used to obtain starting materials for various modern drugs, ergot infested rye (indole substrate), poppies, indica sativa all provide starting points that make it so that creating synthetic materials based on these plant extracts as starting reagents is far easier due to the fact plant enzymes can place each stereogenic center in the right conformation and in wet chemistry this is exceedingly difficult. Mentioning some of the starting plants for illicit drugs is no mistake; they are notoriously sensitive to chiral conformation, and provide some of the most interesting sterochemical research subject matter. Also, due to the draconian laws surrounding federally controlled substances and their precursors, it isn't easy to study these things, despite being hugely important.
To say that stereochemistry is limited to 2-handedness is a ridiculous oversimplification of reality. If I'm not mistaken, C6-H12-O6 "glucose"; has D-glucose has 4 chiral carbon atoms (2^4 = 16 possible stereoisomers) - I believe only one of which is able to provide calories.
Various notations for stereochemistry exist, and one must factor out canonical conformations and take into account the bending of the various stereogenic centers in 3d-space, leading to notations that include "boat" and "chair."
Now, as to the practicality of stereogenics and its use in zero calorie metabolism: this is probably less difficult than separating U238 and U235, but one could probably get an enzyme of modify bacteria to plunk out zero-cal conformations, but in large scale synthetic operations, getting picky with chirality could be problematic / costly. Things are ridiculously hard to separate, and you need to use special techniques such as using tartrate salts and other expensive and slow ways of picking out the various conformations of chiral compounds.
Hey wait a minute! I'm trying to promote FreeBSD on Juniper here! You of all people should be trying to help!
If you have bigger pieces of networking gear, usually Cisco and Juniper will help you out with the smaller cruft you collect. You are their customer and if you whine and beg they do give in. MSRP isn't a rule written in stone.
Also, to the EULAs and licensing agreements and whatnot. I'm not aware of any court upholding the preposterous: -- This is a licensed property that has a HUGE value when you steal it, they can revoke this license at any time [they can't but they say that anyway] and you cannot resell or transfer it [in capitalism, values of things are determined by a market that accepts things at prices. The price is what the market is willing to bear. How can they use the market to sell IOS or Junos then say, you are hereby barred from using the same system they used on you?]
I would be surprised if router companies such as Cisco and Juniper really do have the balls to pull a BSA style jackbooted Ruby Ridge Waco Elian style witch hunt on their paying customers. Then that would really make things like Xorp and other free UNIX derived router projects more appealing. I've actually begged Juniper for an update for a router and he gave it to me. They normally charge $15,000 for a Junos license.
I'll be the first to crap on Cisco about things being ridiculous. Juniper has a much more structured and manageable approach to dealing with the routing problem. So therein lies the evil of monopolies, "good" or bad. They have little motivation to be better than Juniper. But also, I don't seem them going on rampage to try and enforce ridiculous illegal licensing.
The biggest problem I have with PC with UNIX is that interrupts, even with coalescence, is expensive. While FreeBSD does have polling, this is a step in the right direction, but not a viable solution in every case. The real doors get opened when the stack can be offloaded to the card. I suspect the 10GE card from Intel will force some very interesting changes in the way things are done.
I can push more packets though a 6500 than a PC can even imagine. And millions pps is not easy to come by on a PC at any price. At least nothing I could conjure up.
My thinking is fragmented and bizarre because Peet's coffee is coursing through my veins.
I don't know about $30,000. I have a FlexWan, which is a PA card adapter for the 6500's [which is the pricey but elegant way to go], and a PA-T3 and on the 7206VXR. They can be had for much less than $30,000, especially on ebay, but you can get prices down on Cisco if you aren't dumb enough to pay MSRP. You can also get PA-T3+ and PA-2T3+ for your FlexWan or 7200.
Here is a 7206VXR for ~$8000 that has what you want.
I'm no great fan of IOS, I much prefer Junos and my Juniper M10, but you'd be psychotic to even pretend a PC [despite the fact that Olive/Junos is based on FreeBSD from the PC, but each PIC uses network processors] could handle a T3 the way a Cisco or Juniper could. Yeah, its not very much bandwidth, but there are a lot fo interesting things these real pices of equipment can do for you.
Also, using a monitor OS like IOS and network processors is a lot better than interrupt driven crazyness that goes on in a PC.
In fact, I have a spare spare PA-T3 card I would sell you.
Yeah, better than:
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(At Watering Hole, 1,000,003 BC / BCE
Oog, me Oog, my primitve brain found Frylock's supercomputer, seen any gravity waves?
(at Town Well 2003, BC / BCE
Hi, Job, seen any gravity waves lately?
What's gravity? What's a wave? Is that something you leave as an offering to the Gods?
and so on.
I have done filesystem testing and find that when comparing Reiser and EXT3, it is unacceptable to omit XFS and somewhat JFS (which is robust, but a little slow.) Most people forgo in both EXT3 and Reiser the features that slow things down a bit but are more durable in a failure situation. With XFS I get the full protection of the filesystem while enjoying great performance.
XFS is by far the most durable, mature [given a long history inside IRIX] and featured of the Linux filesystems. I also am quite annoyed that RedHat doesn't make it easy to facilitate XFS right out of the box (rootfs support). They merged everything else in there, but somehow seem to favor ext3.
About the only thing I miss when using FreeBSD is XFS. While UFS2+S is robust and very quick, XFS is still my favorite.
I am also offended by RedHat that baits and switches a community by having popular (5.2/6.2/7.1-7.3) versions for free, then they start charging for this Advanced Server product on the same order of magnitude as Microsoft software [RH-AS is over $1000]. RH 8 and 9 are embarrassing. I obtained a copy of RH-AS, and the up2date feature doest work without a subscription, and the RPMS are not distributed in binaries. I'm glad there are several projects to replace up2date server for RedHat. All these problems on an OS that cant even be bothered to support XFS root filesystem.
FreeBSD is still Free. Thank goodness.