I, for one, will be overjoyed to see the last of Imagination's 'PowerVR' shit, especially on x86, and hope we'll never see the likes of the "GMA500" again.
Yeah, thank goodness. Folks, this is how bad it is: the FreeBSD folks had to patch the VGA text console code to be compatible with the current Intel Atom boards, and the first full release of that code was just a week ago. From origin to present day, nobody had ever managed to implement VGA in a way that would fail when data was written a whole byte at a time to the VGA buffer, but PowerVR did, for a 2012 board release. To be completely fair, the original 1980's VGA spec does call for half-word writes to memory, but as far as testing or design goes, they broke 80-column text mode on an embedded platform, on one of the most popular embedded OS's. Intel didn't catch this or didn't care either. At least Intel now seems to be taking responsibility for their mistake, but boy did it cause a bit of consternation in the field. It's not that text mode is the flagship feature of any device people are making today, but boy, it's something you really expect not to have to fight.
Something grown in a clean environment (though of course the bodies of the animals are likely good at keeping themself clean except for some parasites and such) imho seem less yucky and if you've got some compassion for others that's even better.
I'm curious - is this a form of germ-o-phobia extended into food? Would you eat tofu, pickles, sauerkraut, bread, or any-sort-of-booze, or is the 'yuck' because the controlled rotting (aka fermentation) is on animal proteins specifically?
Most vegans only have a problem with the animal part, but the rotting part is a twist I haven't heard before. Really, we invented that controlled rotting (inviting in good microbes) to keep the bad ones out.
"Windows RT Gains Solution to Allow Customers to Run Any Software They Choose"
And we wonder why people don't "get" Software Freedom. Somebody please remember to name the next software-freedom work-around "murder" just to keep the bad PR going.
Those are often the ones with the most to lose. I did some security work for one which had its entire existence and investors' value 'stored' in the form of trade secrets on one physical server. You can bet security was important to them. Fast forward a few years, they now have licensing deals with several Fortune 50 companies.
Outside a few specialized agencies, governments tend to do a very poor job with security - it's inconvenient and the political appointees don't have time for that kind of 'nonsense'.
Right, kill the lawyers! Let the companies do whatever they want! If Virgin kills too many people we can just stop flying into space with them.
Virgin has many businesses. If they start killing people with their rockets, besides paying for their liability they're going to lose the business of people in all their endeavors. That's the fortune of thousands of people on the line, and they're not going to allow a few shady operators to ruin that for them.
the homeowner's estate sued the manufacturer of every part in the airplane for negligence
See, there's the problem. If we did not have a monopoly on dispute resolution, nobody would *ever* contract with a court that allowed such complaints to proceed. It's destructive to the populous but perpetuates the system, so it survives.
I don't have a strong opinion as to whether GMO foods are dangerous or not. In fact, I think the question is wrong - it seems most likely that some modifications could be harmful while others could be harmless. I'm fairly certain that BT sprayed on an apple tree in the spring is not harmful to humans, but I'm not certain that BT-toxin expressed by the apple and present in the eaten food is harmless to humans. For some modifications it might be that both 'conventional' pesticides and GMO-expressed pesticides are both harmful, one may be more harmful than the other, or that organic is the only safe way to go. But not eating vegetables because of the price of organic may be worse. Science should inform this, but it seems to be incomplete at this time.
The separate issue of labelling has important consequences. In the US, a Natural Rights Republic, the issue of Free Speech is a very important one. It's incredibly dangerous to tread on it for some perceived short-term benefit. For that reason I'm glad the California proposition to mandate labelling failed (whether it really did or not is a separate issue). Compelled speech is one of the worst kinds of free speech infringements.
But the root of the problem lies not in compelled speech, but restrictions on free speech imposed by the FDA. It forbids companies from putting "GMO Free" on their products, so voluntary labelling can't happen. They told Polaner (All Fruit maker) that they couldn't put "GMO Free" on their strawberry spread because a strawberry is produce, "not an organism". They told Spectrum (oils refiner) that their No-GMO label would imply that there is something wrong with GMO's so they couldn't use it.
I'd like to have more information on the foods I buy at the store. It's clear that 'the market' wants to provide it. Freedom of speech isn't just a good idea, it's the Supreme Law. It's time the FDA stopped breaking it.
The only bit of gear I really want but can't buy is a personal display (glasses/goggles/visor/microvision, I don't really care) that will give me a modern resolution (HD at least) and a refresh rate that's at least as good as VNC on localhost.
My phone has a mini-HDMI connector and bluetooth keyboards are fine - I don't even need wireless, but would like to leave the laptop home if I'm just doing occasional computing.
The technology is all here, so I'm hoping somebody introduce one at this year's CES.
Under present NM law, if a rocket causes a sonic boom then everyone in the state could sue Virgin
I'll assume here that NM doesn't have a specific sonic-boom tort, and that what's really being asked for here is a special carve-out for spaceflight in a general-purpose batshit-insane legal system.
And people wonder why businesses are 'all' going overseas. How about fixing the general case, not giving special perks to those with lobbyists?
They should never have merged in the new Anaconda in the state its in.
This looks to me like a failure of release management. Look at the "Contingency Plan" for the new anaconda UI. They basically said, "we don't have one" and the feature got accepted anyway. So, here we are today.
I don't blame the anaconda guys for finding out that the problem was harder than they thought. That happens.
But process is an important part of what makes Fedora Fedora - if anaconda is "too big to fail" then the process is broken, and Fedora is broken.
I hope the management team has realized that next time somebody says, "we can't have a contingency plan because of X," they respond, "we then you need to re-factor X so you can have a contingency plan."
It's true, though, that the current Atom chipset is poorly considered. They even broke VGA text mode, for Pete's sake. FreeBSD 9.1 has the patch, at least, but boy was I surprised last spring!
Yeah, this e-mail sample represents only people who randomly send email to addresses they make up and hope for the best (and spend actual time doing so).
Does anyone know if scanners from 1996 were able to scan in a document, launch an e-mail application, and attach said document to the e-mail?
Yes, Paperport from Visoneer was one. The Mac version was AppleScriptable and people regularly did things like transfer scanned images into e-mails, Filemaker databases, etc.
aside: the term TFS is looking for is "Legal Plunder". Bastiat coined it in 1850 in The Law, and it was then an existing problem, so don't expect a quick resolution so long as the same power structures remain in place (people hate to admit that they're the ones with the role of being fleeced).
Now that's the way to do it! Unfortunately, you have to play by the rules, but you protect yourself and your personal assets by doing so.
Unfortunately, in this case they did it to file trademarks with the State and launch lawsuits against the 'other' faction of ONH who they had philosophical disagreements with (no surprise - the degree of involvement of the State in resolving their complaints).
I'll replace my CFL with LED light bulbs when they are as good as CFLs for area lighting and do not cost much more than them.
Just curious how you'd calculate the proffered life expectancy of LED's over CFL's. In theory they should last 5-10x as long, but that doesn't translate into a 5-10x price premium, counting the time value of money.
I'm also skeptical that any electronics manufactured today will last 50 years - maybe 20 years if I'm lucky and that won't command a 4x price multiple on CFL's (assuming they last 5 years which the old decent ones do).
Our Constitution guarantees us a number of ways to work through government for change.
And if the Government obeyed its restrictions in the Constitution, those would be valid methods.
"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it." - Spooner
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I, for one, will be overjoyed to see the last of Imagination's 'PowerVR' shit, especially on x86, and hope we'll never see the likes of the "GMA500" again.
Yeah, thank goodness. Folks, this is how bad it is: the FreeBSD folks had to patch the VGA text console code to be compatible with the current Intel Atom boards, and the first full release of that code was just a week ago. From origin to present day, nobody had ever managed to implement VGA in a way that would fail when data was written a whole byte at a time to the VGA buffer, but PowerVR did, for a 2012 board release. To be completely fair, the original 1980's VGA spec does call for half-word writes to memory, but as far as testing or design goes, they broke 80-column text mode on an embedded platform, on one of the most popular embedded OS's. Intel didn't catch this or didn't care either. At least Intel now seems to be taking responsibility for their mistake, but boy did it cause a bit of consternation in the field. It's not that text mode is the flagship feature of any device people are making today, but boy, it's something you really expect not to have to fight.
Something grown in a clean environment (though of course the bodies of the animals are likely good at keeping themself clean except for some parasites and such) imho seem less yucky and if you've got some compassion for others that's even better.
I'm curious - is this a form of germ-o-phobia extended into food? Would you eat tofu, pickles, sauerkraut, bread, or any-sort-of-booze, or is the 'yuck' because the controlled rotting (aka fermentation) is on animal proteins specifically?
Most vegans only have a problem with the animal part, but the rotting part is a twist I haven't heard before. Really, we invented that controlled rotting (inviting in good microbes) to keep the bad ones out.
"Windows RT Gains Solution to Allow Customers to Run Any Software They Choose"
And we wonder why people don't "get" Software Freedom. Somebody please remember to name the next software-freedom work-around "murder" just to keep the bad PR going.
For unrelated/unregulated industries
Those are often the ones with the most to lose. I did some security work for one which had its entire existence and investors' value 'stored' in the form of trade secrets on one physical server. You can bet security was important to them. Fast forward a few years, they now have licensing deals with several Fortune 50 companies.
Outside a few specialized agencies, governments tend to do a very poor job with security - it's inconvenient and the political appointees don't have time for that kind of 'nonsense'.
Good comment - much more helpful than the "employers should understand VLAN's" one I was going to leave. :)
Right, kill the lawyers! Let the companies do whatever they want! If Virgin kills too many people we can just stop flying into space with them.
Virgin has many businesses. If they start killing people with their rockets, besides paying for their liability they're going to lose the business of people in all their endeavors. That's the fortune of thousands of people on the line, and they're not going to allow a few shady operators to ruin that for them.
the homeowner's estate sued the manufacturer of every part in the airplane for negligence
See, there's the problem. If we did not have a monopoly on dispute resolution, nobody would *ever* contract with a court that allowed such complaints to proceed. It's destructive to the populous but perpetuates the system, so it survives.
I don't have a strong opinion as to whether GMO foods are dangerous or not. In fact, I think the question is wrong - it seems most likely that some modifications could be harmful while others could be harmless. I'm fairly certain that BT sprayed on an apple tree in the spring is not harmful to humans, but I'm not certain that BT-toxin expressed by the apple and present in the eaten food is harmless to humans. For some modifications it might be that both 'conventional' pesticides and GMO-expressed pesticides are both harmful, one may be more harmful than the other, or that organic is the only safe way to go. But not eating vegetables because of the price of organic may be worse. Science should inform this, but it seems to be incomplete at this time.
The separate issue of labelling has important consequences. In the US, a Natural Rights Republic, the issue of Free Speech is a very important one. It's incredibly dangerous to tread on it for some perceived short-term benefit. For that reason I'm glad the California proposition to mandate labelling failed (whether it really did or not is a separate issue). Compelled speech is one of the worst kinds of free speech infringements.
But the root of the problem lies not in compelled speech, but restrictions on free speech imposed by the FDA. It forbids companies from putting "GMO Free" on their products, so voluntary labelling can't happen. They told Polaner (All Fruit maker) that they couldn't put "GMO Free" on their strawberry spread because a strawberry is produce, "not an organism". They told Spectrum (oils refiner) that their No-GMO label would imply that there is something wrong with GMO's so they couldn't use it.
I'd like to have more information on the foods I buy at the store. It's clear that 'the market' wants to provide it. Freedom of speech isn't just a good idea, it's the Supreme Law. It's time the FDA stopped breaking it.
The only bit of gear I really want but can't buy is a personal display (glasses/goggles/visor/microvision, I don't really care) that will give me a modern resolution (HD at least) and a refresh rate that's at least as good as VNC on localhost.
My phone has a mini-HDMI connector and bluetooth keyboards are fine - I don't even need wireless, but would like to leave the laptop home if I'm just doing occasional computing.
The technology is all here, so I'm hoping somebody introduce one at this year's CES.
Under present NM law, if a rocket causes a sonic boom then everyone in the state could sue Virgin
I'll assume here that NM doesn't have a specific sonic-boom tort, and that what's really being asked for here is a special carve-out for spaceflight in a general-purpose batshit-insane legal system.
And people wonder why businesses are 'all' going overseas. How about fixing the general case, not giving special perks to those with lobbyists?
It's not Windows 8 I'm concerned with... it's forcing Sharepoint on the Military...
Hey, anything that slows down their drone bombing campaigns is a net win.
At that point it's your DUTY to call in the suspicion.
Who agreed that this 'duty' exists? "Keep your mouth shut and don't rat out your friends" is the ancient wisdom that seems to work best.
They should never have merged in the new Anaconda in the state its in.
This looks to me like a failure of release management. Look at the "Contingency Plan" for the new anaconda UI. They basically said, "we don't have one" and the feature got accepted anyway. So, here we are today.
I don't blame the anaconda guys for finding out that the problem was harder than they thought. That happens.
But process is an important part of what makes Fedora Fedora - if anaconda is "too big to fail" then the process is broken, and Fedora is broken.
I hope the management team has realized that next time somebody says, "we can't have a contingency plan because of X," they respond, "we then you need to re-factor X so you can have a contingency plan."
That is exactly what TFA was all about
Thank you for this.
It's true, though, that the current Atom chipset is poorly considered. They even broke VGA text mode, for Pete's sake. FreeBSD 9.1 has the patch, at least, but boy was I surprised last spring!
Yeah, this e-mail sample represents only people who randomly send email to addresses they make up and hope for the best (and spend actual time doing so).
Watch as millions of Canadians pump just the right amount of gas into their tank so that the price is always rounded down.
Hey, that's most of a plot for a Superman VII movie. Or, Captain Canuck #1, as it were.
Does anyone know if scanners from 1996 were able to scan in a document, launch an e-mail application, and attach said document to the e-mail?
Yes, Paperport from Visoneer was one. The Mac version was AppleScriptable and people regularly did things like transfer scanned images into e-mails, Filemaker databases, etc.
aside: the term TFS is looking for is "Legal Plunder". Bastiat coined it in 1850 in The Law, and it was then an existing problem, so don't expect a quick resolution so long as the same power structures remain in place (people hate to admit that they're the ones with the role of being fleeced).
OP: We should build a spaceship. :thunk:
AC: You're wrong, you don't have a spaceship.
Because the amount of energy required to provide suitable electro-magnetic shielding for the duration of the journey would be prohibitive.
Can you express the degree of prohibitiveness in units of nuclear submarine reactors?
Now that's the way to do it! Unfortunately, you have to play by the rules, but you protect yourself and your personal assets by doing so.
Unfortunately, in this case they did it to file trademarks with the State and launch lawsuits against the 'other' faction of ONH who they had philosophical disagreements with (no surprise - the degree of involvement of the State in resolving their complaints).
I'll replace my CFL with LED light bulbs when they are as good as CFLs for area lighting and do not cost much more than them.
Just curious how you'd calculate the proffered life expectancy of LED's over CFL's. In theory they should last 5-10x as long, but that doesn't translate into a 5-10x price premium, counting the time value of money.
I'm also skeptical that any electronics manufactured today will last 50 years - maybe 20 years if I'm lucky and that won't command a 4x price multiple on CFL's (assuming they last 5 years which the old decent ones do).
They wanted to make sure nothing was going to happen and look, it didn't.
Could it be that they failed because they were infiltrated, manipulated, and de-funded?
But to the larger point, most of the recent successful revolutions (Orange, Velvet, Icelandic) were non-violent.
Isn't that pretty much how every revolution ever has worked?
Our Constitution guarantees us a number of ways to work through government for change.
And if the Government obeyed its restrictions in the Constitution, those would be valid methods.
"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it." - Spooner
OWS organized itself as the antithesis of any incorporated entity
Actually, here in NH a splinter group of ONH incorporated itself as a non-profit. I think they still rail against corporations...