Indeed. The suggestion from the archivist makes me worry about what else he has come across and destroyed.
It seems from the pictures that part of the equipment for reading these tapes is mostly there. It would need to be cleaned, studied and selectively powered up while sampling output lines. There are plenty of hobbyists and geeks that would love to try to restore the hardware and read those tapes, including myself.
Your focus on "ordinary people" and proposal to get everyone to conform shows a deep disconnect with the principles of discovery and the driving forces of scientific knowledge.
Ordinary people don't understand how a kitchen refrigerator work, and will try to change the subject if you try to explain it to them. If science is to go forward, you need not to concern yourself with 'ordinary people'. History has shown that they are too busy mocking and laughing at higher intellects and their ideas, bringing them down when possible to level the plain field.
When the science is established, there will be other people who have chosen as their calling to educate the masses. I am not saying that one is more important than the other, but it is what it is.
"By definition we can never see or detect or be affected by anything outside of our universe"
It wouldn't be the first time (no pun intended) that we revise a definition based on better understanding.
For example, there could be very weak interactions that are not readily observable at a small scale but are via gravitational distortions by dark matter.
It does not magically reveal itself. Nothing does. But readable text is easy to compare, even to the human eye.
If I were to read code I wrote or supported, I would likely recognize it.
It is relevant for at least the following reasons:
The OpenBSD project has a proactive approach to security https://www.openbsd.org/securi... with people who do what they do because they want to do it.
The Windows model is perpetuate the need for patches so you can make the customer dependent on continuous releases. They never had any intent to procure a secure system and likely never will.
They are certainly fixed by first going through an analysis of the offending code.
But even though code analysis is painful and slow, it doesn't stop the OpenBSD people and others from doing some, historically demonstrating good results for their efforts.
"get to blame Linus Torvalds for everything from kernel panics to Heartbleed"
Heartbleed was due to mistakes introduced into the OpenSSL cryptographic software library and has little to do with the OS, Linux or Linus Torvalds. You credit him with way too much.
I read the Lord of the Ring triology skipping the Hobbit.
When I came upon it much later in life, it seemed that I had somewhat lost interest in imaginary topics.
I don't mean it as a critic for those who still do, and even feel slightly envious, but I get the same feeling when I try to play golf.
Even though I should be enjoying myself, I have a constant nagging feeling that there are real things to learn and much to be done.
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If you mean getting gold from old electronics, it used to be like that, but there can be much more money in auctioning the hardware as it is.
The 'scapper' is interested in money. Whether it comes from gold or not is irrelevant.
Indeed. The suggestion from the archivist makes me worry about what else he has come across and destroyed.
It seems from the pictures that part of the equipment for reading these tapes is mostly there. It would need to be cleaned, studied and selectively powered up while sampling output lines. There are plenty of hobbyists and geeks that would love to try to restore the hardware and read those tapes, including myself.
" why things have not (and most likely won't) changed."
If they are not changing then there is no need for a delay, right?
For example, take the following MIPS Assembly:
...
andi $a3, $t1, 41399
Which translates to: 001100 010010 011110 100001 101101 110011
Can easily be read as zero zero one one zero zero
and as a result will initiates a paradox-correcting timesphere.
That is similar to question I asked while using Windows NT.
It is how I got into UNIX.
Your focus on "ordinary people" and proposal to get everyone to conform shows a deep disconnect with the principles of discovery and the driving forces of scientific knowledge.
Ordinary people don't understand how a kitchen refrigerator work, and will try to change the subject if you try to explain it to them. If science is to go forward, you need not to concern yourself with 'ordinary people'. History has shown that they are too busy mocking and laughing at higher intellects and their ideas, bringing them down when possible to level the plain field.
When the science is established, there will be other people who have chosen as their calling to educate the masses. I am not saying that one is more important than the other, but it is what it is.
Education has been known to be useful. I don't understand why there is an "or" in your statement.
"By definition we can never see or detect or be affected by anything outside of our universe" It wouldn't be the first time (no pun intended) that we revise a definition based on better understanding.
For example, there could be very weak interactions that are not readily observable at a small scale but are via gravitational distortions by dark matter.
"I never turn it off 30 July 2014 12:21:54 AM"
Ever heard of a command called 'uptime' ?
In itself, that is a good reason to start using it.
It does not magically reveal itself. Nothing does. But readable text is easy to compare, even to the human eye.
...
If I were to read code I wrote or supported, I would likely recognize it.
You could even consider using a computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.drdobbs.com/archite...
https://academia.stackexchange...
It is relevant for at least the following reasons:
The OpenBSD project has a proactive approach to security https://www.openbsd.org/securi... with people who do what they do because they want to do it.
The Windows model is perpetuate the need for patches so you can make the customer dependent on continuous releases. They never had any intent to procure a secure system and likely never will.
They are certainly fixed by first going through an analysis of the offending code.
But even though code analysis is painful and slow, it doesn't stop the OpenBSD people and others from doing some, historically demonstrating good results for their efforts.
"get to blame Linus Torvalds for everything from kernel panics to Heartbleed"
Heartbleed was due to mistakes introduced into the OpenSSL cryptographic software library and has little to do with the OS, Linux or Linus Torvalds. You credit him with way too much.
Typically the people buying are not doing it with their own money.
https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procu...
Removing pollutants from the air is very much a city problem.
It is spelled 'Divine' and it is within our control.
God helps those who help themselves
We wouldn't claim that we did that to the other planets because your assertion is complete bullshit.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but something isn't true just because you thought of it.
The opposite is quite possible though.
I was trying to eat a pigeon in a french restaurant that was tough as nail, then I noticed something on its leg.
It was a little piece of paper which I unrolled.
On it is said:
We attack at dawn. Napoleon.
Just to confirm, you are saying that all the good people have left but you are still there?
;)
Sorry, but you kind of opened that up
It is often difficult but not impossible to do good in large organizations; they tend to operate under inertia and accumulate dead weight.
May 29 1919 is very, very old news.
I read the Lord of the Ring triology skipping the Hobbit.
When I came upon it much later in life, it seemed that I had somewhat lost interest in imaginary topics.
I don't mean it as a critic for those who still do, and even feel slightly envious, but I get the same feeling when I try to play golf.
Even though I should be enjoying myself, I have a constant nagging feeling that there are real things to learn and much to be done.
I'll never know what was funny :)
FYI - I stop reading when the word Left or Right is used in a political sentence.
That is a lot of remembering and very few details. Is there any reason you can't be bothered naming the audio editing program?
The fact that x86 assembler code would run faster native is no surprise. Why someone would bother buying such a program is.