Let's take the most significant and influential event in America this year... the war in Iraq.
George Bush : in favor (obviously)
John Kerry : in favor
So exactly what would be different ? Get Sick all you want, even though I find the gay marriage stances akin to racism, I don't think they matter in the least for 269,99 million Americans. Get some decent points, like social security, lowering defense budgets (ought to be called "offense" these days), rebuilding dried out American cities, lowering dependence of communities on a single corporation, copyright (please explain to me how in a democratic community in which > 50% breaks the law, the law gets made more strict, and a vendetta is started against singled out individuals, with help from the government...)
Or don't you question the logic of creating a public debate about copyright laws in a democratic society where millions use peer to peer software to violate those laws.
If you want real throughput at very high latency, you should not use tcp. IP/UDP with the right protocol over it (say... something zmodem alike) will use all available bandwidth regardless of latency.
1) right, a human mind can anticipate and react appropriately to any situation then ? Let's put it this way : at least a computer wouldn't drive when drunk, or with a broken car. You, as a human, are not able to anticipate, nor react appropriately when a tire blows. A computer, on the other hand, could coordinate an orchestrated response with all cars on the road in milliseconds, and it would have a much bigger chance of actually resolving the situation.
2) Yes. By a lot. Check out ABS for example. Now let's think about what a ABS system that communicates with everybody on the road could do.
3) When something unpredictable happens, most humans just block up, turn the wheel 20 degrees in some random direction, and hit the break. Brilliant reaction. Even if you were to try, you probably cannot avoid a collision if everyone around you did this (which is going to happen). You know if everyone was tought to turn the same direction in a collision, a lot of damage could be avoided imho). A computer could coordinate a response to the event with all cars around it.
Hmmm an American complaining that his polititians don't follow his view.
Now why would that be ?
Perhaps because both the major parties are heavily sponsored by people you don't like and (surprise !) don't do anything about that. But YOU didn't either.
You must realise that your needs are not going to be serviced by the "democrats" and not by the "republicans". So what is the brilliant move the average American makes in this situation ? He does not vote. Which obviously is equal to a vote for whatever party wins the election, only most people here seem to be too thick to realise that. If you want to damage those parties VOTE. For the love of god VOTE. Doesn't matter who, as long as it's not one of the 2 big ones. Vote green, communist, extreme right, whatever, but not on the bought parties.
And if you truly want to damage them, and you have the option to go for a position in the government, take the opportunity. On a state level even something like 10.000 votes will allow you to be a serious PITA for these bought and paid for politians. What's more you'll defineately experience from up close and personal who's bought and who isn't.
What good will a gun do when the King Of Englands starts pushing you around ? He's probably going to send an army or at least a commando team, so the only thing to make a difference you could do with that gun is shooting yourself (and if it's decently planned, you won't even have that chance)
This is (obviously) not equivalent to using something like java.
Read a bit about the java security architecture before you state something like this.
E.g. in java it is IMPOSSIBLE to call private members of a class. In c++ you can do something like (*(c+2))(5) (granted it'll also need a cast but you hopefully see what this code does). This is not possible in java.
In java security is closed (except for bugs in the jvm implementation). In java you can just load a binary from the internet and execute it, without fearing for security violations.
That this is a trap. The second enough people buy in to this there will be a "security update" making the fees $50/minute per customer and removing all hope of ever asserting your own copyrights.
I don't think linux is threatened by this. Then again, I'm counting on basic intelligence on the part of mangers...
Very nice thing to say. The sad truth is that I have had few classes in high school where I didn't know enough about a subject to lead a teacher on to a wrong conclusion.
My biology teacher had a university degree in physics. That's all nice and well, but I knew a LOT more about any subject that remotely interested me than the teacher.
Same thing for physics. Saying 'you can do it a lot easier this way' is not accepted if you do it every 15 minutes, I can assure you that, and this is VERY unrewarding.
I aced biology, yet the teacher did not read most of my responses, and did not finish my essay on microbiology, so he just looked up 5 things I said, they all turned out to be correct, so he gave me an A. That's a REAL good way to motivate someone "Here you've got an A" "Did you enjoy reading it" "I never read 9/10 of it".
I failed physics. Why ? Because the task of calculating the voltage over a certain connection is not hard if you see that the teacher connected 2 and ports with a not port in between (so yes it was zero, but you were supposed to calculate all the details). I just filled in '0' with the explanation of why I thought it had to be zero, and I was right (moreover I did not make a rounding error like everybody else). This earned my a zero on the question. This is a real motivator know physics.
Teachers have trouble with "smart" pupils. (people who assimilate stuff at 10 times the rate of "normal" people) Respecting and/or helping them will undermine their authority VERY fast. So they crack down on it (and those who don't will get a nervous breakdown in a couple of years, I've seen it happen twice with 2 high school teachers). The sad truth is that 99,9% of teachers is teacher because "it's a living" and has no interest in being good in their subject, just in the money at the end of the month.
Granted they won't allow you to just switch harddisks, but a fileserver is not that expensive (just a cheap pc, with a somewhat big powersupply, a few promise cards for extra ide and 8 or so 200 GB disks should be less than $2000)
You can stream to that over a standard network with peak rates that approach line speed (100 mbit) and I get sustained 90 mbit rates every day (just don't overload those disks, as they are ide disks, not meant for constant use)
people living under capitalism and starving/opressed/... about 5 billion people living under capitalism under a democratic government that is presently capable of taking care of its people... 500 million
so given that you are capitalistic, chances are that you are oppressed and very poor (and let's face it, people generally get thrown around, work in sweatshops etc BECAUSE of capitalism)
one takes 7 kg U238 in one's left hand (98% pure or better, which is not easy but the methods for purifying it are quite well known and stated in every advanced chemistry and physics book (look under separating isotopes)).
I've actually come across a book that had a method for doing that with a microwave (with lots of losses, but I'm sure the process could be perfected). BTW microwave technology was developed by one of the Los Alamos guys, and only much later than that.
Ditto for the right hand.
One smashes both hands together, and *boom* 10 kilotons. (10 kilotons is not all that much these days, but it's enough to destroy any American city in 1 blow)
so yes, a couple of grad students with 50 kg reasonably pure uranium could do it quite easily.
In palestina terrorism isn't a fight for freedom at all - it's fight for your life.
These people giving their life to kill off a few Israeli's are exerting the only military influence that's stopping the Israeli's from just killing them off (which is a popular idea in Israel, you can tell by Sharon getting elected).
Others are trying to protect their culture, their religion. We are decimating their culture fast. We ask, and even force them to change in the name of things like women's rights, human rights (equality of religion), and the worst of it all corporatism. If these people don't succeed in stopping us their culture, their way of life will be a memory in 50 years or so.
Or did you think they try to kill you because you looked at them wrong (from about 5000 miles away).
And you're right, it's a stupid thing to act moral when dealing with immoral people. That does NOT mean you can just go over and kill them.
Just think it. Who is the criminal ? The guy who sacrifices his own life in an act of desperation against a superior force. Or the pilot who pushes a button that fires a rocket to the middle of a street, 50 miles away, in HOPES of hitting a certain person ? Guess which one is the American soldier...
An equivalent reasoning would be that they make a copy in memory from the disk. Then transfer that copy onto a wire via DMA buffers (that are destroyed by the network driver right after they are on the wire). So the actual copy is made in Russia and then transferred to your country.
Why ?
Other option: In algebra, a number is only defined by it's value. Location has nothing to do with it. A 6 in the US is EXACTLY the same (in NO way you can make a distinction within the laws of algebra) as a 6 in Japan. Just think what the consequences would be if that were not the case. An mp3 is really a big number. If I were to ask you the difference between the mp3 on the disk in Russia and the mp3 on your disk, what would you answer ? Then I would test your answer. I would print both mp3's on a white piece of paper and I would ask you to point to the mp3 on your disk. If you really have a difference you should easily be able to do that. Therefore, there is no copy of that mp3. It is simply represented in 2 locations.
Then there is the router problem. Once an internet stream gets into a router, which "copies" it onto another wire. Where does the "original" copy go ? Into oblivion. If that is a copy, routers are obviously big criminals, copying every bit that goes through them. Why is this significant ? Most non-core routers are simply a normal computer (they are as normal as any other computer with 2 network interfaces)
Now how does the air work ? Sound waves are created in the following fashion. A single "bit" of sound is a localized drop in pressure. The actual particles of air are not significantly displaced by the soundwave. Therefore the localized drops and heights in pressure must be copied (evidence: despite the speed of sound, there are no constant winds at speeds of 1000 miles per hour).
Moreover, the human brain cannot process differences in pressure. The human skin can, and the human ear can (a lot more precise). While there is no doubt that the actual experience of music takes place in the brain of a person. Now your brain lies in an environment that is protected from a lot of things, and your body will fight to equalize pressure in your head until your heart fysically fails (you can die from this process). So there is no way for "original" sounds to ever make it to the Brain. Therefore you are experiencing a copy of the original sound. Copying a copyrighted work is not allowed ! You pirate !
look up the lazy unmount option... And besides, NFS has this problem too.
umount -fl/mnt/partition will work, even when the filesystem is having problems. It might not actually be removed from the kernel if you do it that way, but at least it won't bother you any more.
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Let's take the most significant and influential event in America this year ... the war in Iraq.
...)
George Bush : in favor (obviously)
John Kerry : in favor
So exactly what would be different ? Get Sick all you want, even though I find the gay marriage stances akin to racism, I don't think they matter in the least for 269,99 million Americans. Get some decent points, like social security, lowering defense budgets (ought to be called "offense" these days), rebuilding dried out American cities, lowering dependence of communities on a single corporation, copyright (please explain to me how in a democratic community in which > 50% breaks the law, the law gets made more strict, and a vendetta is started against singled out individuals, with help from the government
Or don't you question the logic of creating a public debate about copyright laws in a democratic society where millions use peer to peer software to violate those laws.
And how many bar fights end in a shoot out because of "responsible gun ownership" ?
Yes, but at least they'd make an offer first. An acquisition offer. A big one.
If you want real throughput at very high latency, you should not use tcp. IP/UDP with the right protocol over it (say ... something zmodem alike) will use all available bandwidth regardless of latency.
1) right, a human mind can anticipate and react appropriately to any situation then ? Let's put it this way : at least a computer wouldn't drive when drunk, or with a broken car. You, as a human, are not able to anticipate, nor react appropriately when a tire blows. A computer, on the other hand, could coordinate an orchestrated response with all cars on the road in milliseconds, and it would have a much bigger chance of actually resolving the situation.
2) Yes. By a lot. Check out ABS for example. Now let's think about what a ABS system that communicates with everybody on the road could do.
3) When something unpredictable happens, most humans just block up, turn the wheel 20 degrees in some random direction, and hit the break. Brilliant reaction. Even if you were to try, you probably cannot avoid a collision if everyone around you did this (which is going to happen). You know if everyone was tought to turn the same direction in a collision, a lot of damage could be avoided imho). A computer could coordinate a response to the event with all cars around it.
Hmmm an American complaining that his polititians don't follow his view.
Now why would that be ?
Perhaps because both the major parties are heavily sponsored by people you don't like and (surprise !) don't do anything about that. But YOU didn't either.
You must realise that your needs are not going to be serviced by the "democrats" and not by the "republicans". So what is the brilliant move the average American makes in this situation ? He does not vote. Which obviously is equal to a vote for whatever party wins the election, only most people here seem to be too thick to realise that. If you want to damage those parties VOTE. For the love of god VOTE. Doesn't matter who, as long as it's not one of the 2 big ones. Vote green, communist, extreme right, whatever, but not on the bought parties.
And if you truly want to damage them, and you have the option to go for a position in the government, take the opportunity. On a state level even something like 10.000 votes will allow you to be a serious PITA for these bought and paid for politians. What's more you'll defineately experience from up close and personal who's bought and who isn't.
and how about your actual 4 year old ?
;-p
just a thought
What good will a gun do when the King Of Englands starts pushing you around ? He's probably going to send an army or at least a commando team, so the only thing to make a difference you could do with that gun is shooting yourself (and if it's decently planned, you won't even have that chance)
So would you say the same if I listened in to your cellphone calls to your girlfriend ? Public airwaves and all ...
...
If I listened in to conversations you had with your clients, and went on to have a little chat with them too, say
This is (obviously) not equivalent to using something like java.
Read a bit about the java security architecture before you state something like this.
E.g. in java it is IMPOSSIBLE to call private members of a class. In c++ you can do something like (*(c+2))(5) (granted it'll also need a cast but you hopefully see what this code does). This is not possible in java.
In java security is closed (except for bugs in the jvm implementation). In java you can just load a binary from the internet and execute it, without fearing for security violations.
That this is a trap. The second enough people buy in to this there will be a "security update" making the fees $50/minute per customer and removing all hope of ever asserting your own copyrights.
I don't think linux is threatened by this. Then again, I'm counting on basic intelligence on the part of mangers...
and bitlbee of course
... not too shabby at all
... not perfect (by a long shot) but getting there
and eefje so that I can syslog straight to an irc channel
tail -f comes to mind
mutt (although I'm not entirely satisfied)
vim of course
emacs is also going strong
convert is nice
zsh
konsole (the kde terminal emulator)
So American freedom is worth dying for ?
:
Facts
It is not, of course when we're talking about the freedom to discuss the dvd standard.
It is not when we're talking about some "encrypted" internet protocol formats.
It is not when we're saying that adobe encryption is rot13 based.
Point 1:
Americans do not have absolute freedom of speech, no country has, stop "bragging" (because that's what you're doing) about a falsehood.
Point 2.
Yes Europe has a problem with hate speech, that sort of thing happens when the last party spreading hate speech killed millions.
In America speech is restricted because of potential lost income.
Who has the best reason of our 2 continents ? I personally care more about a few million deaths than about a few million potential dollars.
Very nice thing to say. The sad truth is that I have had few classes in high school where I didn't know enough about a subject to lead a teacher on to a wrong conclusion.
My biology teacher had a university degree in physics. That's all nice and well, but I knew a LOT more about any subject that remotely interested me than the teacher.
Same thing for physics. Saying 'you can do it a lot easier this way' is not accepted if you do it every 15 minutes, I can assure you that, and this is VERY unrewarding.
I aced biology, yet the teacher did not read most of my responses, and did not finish my essay on microbiology, so he just looked up 5 things I said, they all turned out to be correct, so he gave me an A. That's a REAL good way to motivate someone "Here you've got an A" "Did you enjoy reading it" "I never read 9/10 of it".
I failed physics. Why ? Because the task of calculating the voltage over a certain connection is not hard if you see that the teacher connected 2 and ports with a not port in between (so yes it was zero, but you were supposed to calculate all the details). I just filled in '0' with the explanation of why I thought it had to be zero, and I was right (moreover I did not make a rounding error like everybody else). This earned my a zero on the question. This is a real motivator know physics.
Teachers have trouble with "smart" pupils. (people who assimilate stuff at 10 times the rate of "normal" people) Respecting and/or helping them will undermine their authority VERY fast. So they crack down on it (and those who don't will get a nervous breakdown in a couple of years, I've seen it happen twice with 2 high school teachers). The sad truth is that 99,9% of teachers is teacher because "it's a living" and has no interest in being good in their subject, just in the money at the end of the month.
Granted they won't allow you to just switch harddisks, but a fileserver is not that expensive (just a cheap pc, with a somewhat big powersupply, a few promise cards for extra ide and 8 or so 200 GB disks should be less than $2000)
You can stream to that over a standard network with peak rates that approach line speed (100 mbit) and I get sustained 90 mbit rates every day (just don't overload those disks, as they are ide disks, not meant for constant use)
Okay if you want to play it that way ...
... 500 million
people living under capitalism and starving/opressed/... about 5 billion
people living under capitalism under a democratic government that is presently capable of taking care of its people
so given that you are capitalistic, chances are that you are oppressed and very poor (and let's face it, people generally get thrown around, work in sweatshops etc BECAUSE of capitalism)
The concept of a nuclear bomb :
one takes 7 kg U238 in one's left hand (98% pure or better, which is not easy but the methods for purifying it are quite well known and stated in every advanced chemistry and physics book (look under separating isotopes)).
I've actually come across a book that had a method for doing that with a microwave (with lots of losses, but I'm sure the process could be perfected). BTW microwave technology was developed by one of the Los Alamos guys, and only much later than that.
Ditto for the right hand.
One smashes both hands together, and *boom* 10 kilotons. (10 kilotons is not all that much these days, but it's enough to destroy any American city in 1 blow)
so yes, a couple of grad students with 50 kg reasonably pure uranium could do it quite easily.
In palestina terrorism isn't a fight for freedom at all - it's fight for your life.
...
These people giving their life to kill off a few Israeli's are exerting the only military influence that's stopping the Israeli's from just killing them off (which is a popular idea in Israel, you can tell by Sharon getting elected).
Others are trying to protect their culture, their religion. We are decimating their culture fast. We ask, and even force them to change in the name of things like women's rights, human rights (equality of religion), and the worst of it all corporatism. If these people don't succeed in stopping us their culture, their way of life will be a memory in 50 years or so.
Or did you think they try to kill you because you looked at them wrong (from about 5000 miles away).
And you're right, it's a stupid thing to act moral when dealing with immoral people. That does NOT mean you can just go over and kill them.
Just think it. Who is the criminal ? The guy who sacrifices his own life in an act of desperation against a superior force. Or the pilot who pushes a button that fires a rocket to the middle of a street, 50 miles away, in HOPES of hitting a certain person ? Guess which one is the American soldier
An equivalent reasoning would be that they make a copy in memory from the disk. Then transfer that copy onto a wire via DMA buffers (that are destroyed by the network driver right after they are on the wire). So the actual copy is made in Russia and then transferred to your country.
:
Why ?
Other option
In algebra, a number is only defined by it's value. Location has nothing to do with it. A 6 in the US is EXACTLY the same (in NO way you can make a distinction within the laws of algebra) as a 6 in Japan. Just think what the consequences would be if that were not the case. An mp3 is really a big number. If I were to ask you the difference between the mp3 on the disk in Russia and the mp3 on your disk, what would you answer ? Then I would test your answer. I would print both mp3's on a white piece of paper and I would ask you to point to the mp3 on your disk. If you really have a difference you should easily be able to do that. Therefore, there is no copy of that mp3. It is simply represented in 2 locations.
Then there is the router problem. Once an internet stream gets into a router, which "copies" it onto another wire. Where does the "original" copy go ? Into oblivion. If that is a copy, routers are obviously big criminals, copying every bit that goes through them. Why is this significant ? Most non-core routers are simply a normal computer (they are as normal as any other computer with 2 network interfaces)
Now how does the air work ? Sound waves are created in the following fashion. A single "bit" of sound is a localized drop in pressure. The actual particles of air are not significantly displaced by the soundwave. Therefore the localized drops and heights in pressure must be copied (evidence: despite the speed of sound, there are no constant winds at speeds of 1000 miles per hour).
Moreover, the human brain cannot process differences in pressure. The human skin can, and the human ear can (a lot more precise). While there is no doubt that the actual experience of music takes place in the brain of a person. Now your brain lies in an environment that is protected from a lot of things, and your body will fight to equalize pressure in your head until your heart fysically fails (you can die from this process). So there is no way for "original" sounds to ever make it to the Brain. Therefore you are experiencing a copy of the original sound. Copying a copyrighted work is not allowed ! You pirate !
In Belgium that system has now been sustained for almost 40 years I believe.
look up the lazy unmount option ... And besides, NFS has this problem too.
/mnt/partition will work, even when the filesystem is having problems. It might not actually be removed from the kernel if you do it that way, but at least it won't bother you any more.
umount -fl
And because it is inneficient (which it isn't because it has lots of incentives to lower taxes) you let people die that cannot pay ?
You should first be ethical, and only after that worry about your little wallet.
And you're working in the insurance business to boot.
Yes, the real solution would be to pronounce punishments in % of yearly earnings.
If that happened, a parking ticket would be the same punishment for a CEO as for a homeless person.
What right do you have to have police protection against burglars and thieves or murderers ?
What right do you have to a fire department ?
What right do you have to use of the roads ?
What right do you have for an army to protect you ?
What right do you have to a cable to connect to the internet ?
and most importantly
what right do you have to a stable economy ?