I'll spell it anyway I want, asswhole. -russ p.s. the guy down the block put up a sign condemning someone who had stolen lights off his plow, and yes, he spelled it "asswhole".
Didn't you see that Usenix paper by Gettys and Packard? They studied the X traffic produced by various toolkits, and they all make far too many roundtrips to the X server. Fix the toolkits, and X programs will run a lot faster.
BTW, X runs nicely on my 32Mbyte 200Mhz PDA. But the X server was written by Keith Packard, so you would expect that. -russ
It was worth it for my ten-year-old son. I think a 14-yo would have thought some of the rides &etc hokey. Legoland was incredible. They had a model of the restaurant up the California coast that we had eaten at the night before. -russ
Gee, I wrote to them with a design for a hydraulic actuator system. I was 12 at the time, so that was, um, 33 years ago. Lego was being sold by Samsonite in the US at the time. I also got a nice letter back saying "Thanks, but we're unable to use your idea at this time." -russ
Compare the quality of Lego blocks to Megablocks. The Megablocks are noticably lower in quality. This subject has been debated in Lego circles for years. The conclusion is that you can't get the quality for a lower price. -russ
I was typing for RMS back when he needed volunteer typists because his wrists hurt too much.
He said "rm" "-rf" "." "config".
Or so I thought. He probably thought he said "rm -rf.config". But what he said afterwards was "NO, NO, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-C!!" And then he said "Did you get enough sleep last night?" As if *I* was at fault! -russ
IMHO, you are much better off getting fooSTATE.US than foo.STATE.US. Why? Because that's what Neustar wants you to do, and because it's cheap enough. They've been allowed to destroy the locality.US registry, so run with it.
Do I sound too cynical? I hope so. I don't want there to be any room for more cynicism where the.us locality domains are concerned. -russ
They lend it to someone who sees an opportunity to be productive, that is, to create things that you WILL buy. Note that there's a time delay between them spending money on something, and selling it. That's what makes it capital spending. -russ
Indeed. On the other hand, many jobs are open to people who simply have a four-year college degrees. So your degree is not "worthless" but is instead worth less. -russ
Well, it's not true that we should prefer job losses to other nations. Instead, people should always seek the greatest profit on each and every trade, modulo the transaction cost of doing so. -russ
No, you don't understand. For certain tech consumer goods, the price over time falls to the cost of manufacturing. What you're missing is that the cost of manufacturing a Ferrari includes the price of (in essence) licensing the Ferrari name. For designer clothing (certainly not "certain tech consumer goods", but I'll run with it anyway), the clothing never stays on the market long enough for competition to reduce the price. In essence, the designer is always making a very high entrepreneurial profit. -russ
Oh? What happens to your money if you don't spend it? Follow the thought to its conclusion. If you don't spend your money but instead leave it in a bank, the bank borrows it from you, and lends it to someone *else* to spend. They make money from renting your money to someone else, and your money is put to good productive use.
The ideas that not spending is bad for the economy is a damnfool idea promulgated by people who call themselves economists. -russ
There is no other possible explanation for prosperity than free trade. Whenever it is absent, people are poor. Whenever it is present, people prosper. Yes, I agree with you that I cannot show that specific people have benefitted by specific trades. That's the nature of the beast. -russ
There are a gazillion ways to be distracted. There's no way we can ban them all. So, instead, the law makes you liable for an accident that you could have prevented. Read my blog entry to see why that's the right thing to do. -russ
Um... the way *my* grandmother used to say it was "Wish in one and and shit in the other and see which fills up first." But then, my grandmother was the salt of the earth... or salty anyway. -russ
Yes, this is a problem. The solution might be a shaft, but then you have two universals to deal with. How about something even more radical: fix the wheel and put the springs into the tire. Wheel diameter has always been limited by the shaft necessary to drive it. If the wheel drives itself, you don't need the shaft. Why not make the wheel larger in diameter, and build springs and shock absorbers into the tire? For that matter, why not make the shock absorbers be electromagnets which dump current into the batteries? -russ
Frankly, I wasn't impressed by Quicksilver. Of course it didn't have an ending, typical of a Stephenson book. Then again, it's only book one of a trilogy, so nobody expected one. -russ
The insiders *are* selling their shares. Darl isn't... because he's already sold them. However, he's got another 600K options coming due soon. If... he... can... just... keep the stock up, he'll have "earned" a few million more for himself. And in any case he can always vote himself a 2M bonus for having attracted so much new investment. -russ
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I'll spell it anyway I want, asswhole.
-russ
p.s. the guy down the block put up a sign condemning someone who had stolen lights off his plow, and yes, he spelled it "asswhole".
Also, XFree96 needed to be a corporation because only corporations could join the X [industry] Consortium (x.org).
-russ
Didn't you see that Usenix paper by Gettys and Packard? They studied the X traffic produced by various toolkits, and they all make far too many roundtrips to the X server. Fix the toolkits, and X programs will run a lot faster.
BTW, X runs nicely on my 32Mbyte 200Mhz PDA. But the X server was written by Keith Packard, so you would expect that.
-russ
For the record, I think it's a great idea.
-russ
It was worth it for my ten-year-old son. I think a 14-yo would have thought some of the rides &etc hokey. Legoland was incredible. They had a model of the restaurant up the California coast that we had eaten at the night before.
-russ
Gee, I wrote to them with a design for a hydraulic actuator system. I was 12 at the time, so that was, um, 33 years ago. Lego was being sold by Samsonite in the US at the time. I also got a nice letter back saying "Thanks, but we're unable to use your idea at this time."
-russ
Glenn Fleishman already has a response, which can be basically summarized as "You and what investors?"
-russ
Compare the quality of Lego blocks to Megablocks. The Megablocks are noticably lower in quality. This subject has been debated in Lego circles for years. The conclusion is that you can't get the quality for a lower price.
-russ
I was typing for RMS back when he needed volunteer typists because his wrists hurt too much.
.config". But what he said afterwards was "NO, NO, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-C!!" And then he said "Did you get enough sleep last night?" As if *I* was at fault!
He said "rm" "-rf" "." "config".
Or so I thought. He probably thought he said "rm -rf
-russ
IMHO, you are much better off getting fooSTATE.US than foo.STATE.US. Why? Because that's what Neustar wants you to do, and because it's cheap enough. They've been allowed to destroy the locality.US registry, so run with it.
.us locality domains are concerned.
Do I sound too cynical? I hope so. I don't want there to be any room for more cynicism where the
-russ
They lend it to someone who sees an opportunity to be productive, that is, to create things that you WILL buy. Note that there's a time delay between them spending money on something, and selling it. That's what makes it capital spending.
-russ
Indeed. On the other hand, many jobs are open to people who simply have a four-year college degrees. So your degree is not "worthless" but is instead worth less.
-russ
Well, it's not true that we should prefer job losses to other nations. Instead, people should always seek the greatest profit on each and every trade, modulo the transaction cost of doing so.
-russ
No, you don't understand. For certain tech consumer goods, the price over time falls to the cost of manufacturing. What you're missing is that the cost of manufacturing a Ferrari includes the price of (in essence) licensing the Ferrari name. For designer clothing (certainly not "certain tech consumer goods", but I'll run with it anyway), the clothing never stays on the market long enough for competition to reduce the price. In essence, the designer is always making a very high entrepreneurial profit.
-russ
"I don't spend that is bad for the economy."
Oh? What happens to your money if you don't spend it? Follow the thought to its conclusion. If you don't spend your money but instead leave it in a bank, the bank borrows it from you, and lends it to someone *else* to spend. They make money from renting your money to someone else, and your money is put to good productive use.
The ideas that not spending is bad for the economy is a damnfool idea promulgated by people who call themselves economists.
-russ
There is no other possible explanation for prosperity than free trade. Whenever it is absent, people are poor. Whenever it is present, people prosper. Yes, I agree with you that I cannot show that specific people have benefitted by specific trades. That's the nature of the beast.
-russ
There are a gazillion ways to be distracted. There's no way we can ban them all. So, instead, the law makes you liable for an accident that you could have prevented. Read my blog entry to see why that's the right thing to do.
-russ
Um ... the way *my* grandmother used to say it was "Wish in one and and shit in the other and see which fills up first." But then, my grandmother was the salt of the earth ... or salty anyway.
-russ
Yes, this is a problem. The solution might be a shaft, but then you have two universals to deal with. How about something even more radical: fix the wheel and put the springs into the tire. Wheel diameter has always been limited by the shaft necessary to drive it. If the wheel drives itself, you don't need the shaft. Why not make the wheel larger in diameter, and build springs and shock absorbers into the tire? For that matter, why not make the shock absorbers be electromagnets which dump current into the batteries?
-russ
John Nagle, too. Oh, and that Karl Auerbach guy, if only for implementing the first packet driver. :-)
-russ
Mod this parent up! Why *do* we need to rank things???
-russ
Hard to get the book together when you're writing it with a fucking quill pen.
-russ
Frankly, I wasn't impressed by Quicksilver. Of course it didn't have an ending, typical of a Stephenson book. Then again, it's only book one of a trilogy, so nobody expected one.
-russ
The insiders *are* selling their shares. Darl isn't ... because he's already sold them. However, he's got another 600K options coming due soon. If ... he ... can ... just ... keep the stock up, he'll have "earned" a few million more for himself. And in any case he can always vote himself a 2M bonus for having attracted so much new investment.
-russ
Is that from the Constitution or something? They repealed that back in 1865. Where have you been?
-russ