yeah - can we get a Slashdot section for Whitehouse Petitions? They seem to come up quite a bit lately and I'd rather just killfile the stories, because they all turn out the same.
Stallman may disagree, but he has shown the world how to write a "free" software license GPL3 that's so restrictive nobody in industry wants to use it.
You misunderstand the purpose of the GPL (and I did too until recently). GPL exists to make the software free. Something like BSD is meant to make the people free. Different licenses for different purposes.
"For practical reasons, I'm trying to run my computer off a small fire, which boils water which turns a paddlewheel, which dumps more water into a bucket on a pully which turns a magneto, and I'm not getting a stable waveform. How can I make this work?"
Its probably one source of unease with investing in their shares. One person has total control over the company, he can do pretty much whatever he wants with it and no one can stop him.
Then everything shut down. Drive all that way at 0 dark thirty for a fizzle.
Hey, good for you though. All I did was set an alarm for an hour and a half after I went to sleep (late night at work). This launch, when it happens, will be Space Age 2.0, so it's a fairly momentous milestone. I would have gone out too if I were anywhere near local.
The event was actually still impressive. The announcer even called 'lift-off' then had to backpedal. I was similarly watching the UStream and thought, 'wait, it's not moving.' Then they switched video to the Space-X mission control (which is a bog-standard conference room with a bunch of desks with 3-panel 24" display holders). The Space-X guys went through their make-safe procedure and declared the vehicle safe within about two minutes.
I went back to bed feeling confident these guys know what they are doing. Elon is going to retire on Mars and sell half-million-dollar tourist flights - I can feel it. Time to start saving up (to hell with it - I'll live in a trailer for the last 5 years of my life, but I'll have been in orbit around Mars).
Are you implying, as has been falsely implied many times before, that a small government results in a lower probability of a corrupt, monopolistic economy arising?
So, a government that grants monopolies and immunizes people from responsibility is the way forward?
I would have thought seemingly intelligent people would have moved past that.
No, we read history. Look into medieval Iceland, for an example of this working. Chronological ethnocentrism doesn't help here.
I keep hearing that from Entergy proponents, but the fact is that IBM has been working to move its employment offshore in general, so it's hard to take anything they say about closing plants in Burlington very seriously.
That's true - if Cringely is right they'll be gone in a few years anyway. I guess we'll see - it doesn't look like Vermont Yankee stands much of a chance. I'm not quite sure what Vermont's grid looks like; serious-sounding people on VPR say generation costs could double, which makes me thing Vermont isn't well-connected to the New England grid.
So, you're saying that the drug war is to show people who's in charge, basically?
Basically that's it - there's no rational justification for it, and it's been logically defeated over and over again. People ask, "but why don't they listen / understand / realize?" They play this game like the politicians are just uneducated, thick, don't have all the facts, etc.
Sure there are revenue reasons (both the Drug War support complex and the CIA's black ops funding - even the head of the DEA admitted to that) but if you look back historically, Nixon launched the Drug War at the same time he gave total control of the money supply to the bankers. Both represent a major power shift away from the people and towards the corporate/government complex. The USAPATRIOT Act doubles down on it.
Money does motivate people but power motivates them even more. Power is also a good way to get lots of money, so the two aren't entirely decoupled. Simply saying "follow the money" is a way to pretend that the power balance isn't a major factor.
Maybe it's because the people at the top of that system have completely broken the social contract.
Sorry, but 'social contract' is a fairy tale that's told so you can pretend like you're not supposed to be getting screwed, but instead they're they're just breaking the rules. Bad boys, they need to be brought back in line.
The reality is that you getting screwed is the rule of this socio-economic system. Big governments and their corporate creations locked into a tight positive feedback loop. Hold on tight - these systems all halt eventually (visualize a pair of binary stars spiraling towards each other).
So you can say the drug war is a success for what its real purpose is, but not for its proclaimed purposes. -Noam Chomsky
Big fan of Noam here, but he's not right on this. Yes, there are beneficiaries of the Drug War, but the purpose isn't that benefit, it's to define the power relationship.
That's what makes something like marijuana so perfect to be it's major centerpiece. Hemp even. You can make all the logical, consistent arguments you want, but that doesn't matter. You can be 100% and their proffered arguments can be roundly defeatd, but if you grow it, they'll hurt you. Because they're in charge and you're not. Get that f'ing straight. As they say, "any questions?"
Noam's work on manufactured consent applies more strongly.
How about just limiting to Comcast IPs? (or if you want to be really clever, traceroute and give up if you see it leave Comcast's network).
Sure, there has to be some threshold where you decide 'close' vs 'not close'. It may be that packet time is all you need. Do you really want to go from Comcast in Maine to Comcast in San Diego? Perhaps only if there are no other peers available...
I'd expect a client that implemented this to allow plugins to define 'close'. They'd really only need to export boolean peerIsClose(IPADDR) and that can be arbitrarily complex. I'd then anticipate Comcast would release their own plugin for the software to minimize their peering costs. At least, that was the thinking in 2005 - I'm not up on current peering cost arrangements.
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! " - Goldwater
I think that the invite-only rollout was probably a misstep, as was not allowing business accounts for the first several months. Lack of event integration is also a problem.
Agree with those, but also it's too risky to post on Google Plus if you use other Google services. I did it for a little while, but here's my last post, from Aug. 3rd:
This will be my last Google Plus post until Google changes its business practices. Currently, if you do something on Google Plus that Google interprets as violating its ToS, they'll s-can your whole account. Google Docs, GMail, YouTube, Maps, Android - it's all gone. That's way too big a risk for me. I don't depend on any of those systems critically, but the hassle of having to re-do all that isn't worth the trade-off of posting here on Google Plus.
I hope they do fix this and I can come back. Until then, I'll be on Facebook (begrudgingly).
He swapped pairs from the house to the box (or the box to the DSLAM, can't remember exactly), and from then on my downloads quickly went up near the maximum and stayed there.
heh, I've seen this trick with a neighbor next door I helped (and told to call the phone company). The next day the neighbor across the street called talking about how his service suddenly went to shit.:)
The Tea Party was created by Republican strategist Dick Armey and promoted relentlessly by Fox News
I suspect you're thinking of FreedomWorks. I have many friends who attended one of the first modern Tea Parties - on Tax Day 2008 at the Federal Reserve in Boston. It was mostly Ron Paul folks, like several similar events held around the country.
I don't see a date on your link, but it's probably 2009 or 2010.
They're upsampling to 96K to do their filtering work. It'll get downsampled again after the filter chain is done with it.
You definitely can hear clipping damage if filters are done with too low of a sampling rate.
Have you ever taken an 8-bit-per-channel image and converted it to 16-bit to do image editing, then down to 8-bit again for output? If not, try that now, even just fiddling with the levels widget - you'll see what's happening in the histogram.
Once they force the nuke plant to close that provides most of their power, IBM is most likely pulling out. IIRC power costs are expected to at least double.
I'm not a geologist, but the quantity of slate and shale I saw hiking the green mountains makes me doubt there's nothing there.
There are two small areas of the state with potential reserves, but none of them are under development. (yeah, VPR off Mount Ascutney has good power and range).
But, of course, that has nothing to do with this - it's political grandstanding and local politicians trying to earn their environmentalist-whacko bona fides with national tally keepers.
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Check out what lack of religion did to the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, and others.
No doubt totalitarian socialism had nothing to do with their outcomes, though.
(an all-powerful State can't tolerate any parallel power structures, such as a Church)
"Backward compatibility with earlier versions of Perl is not a goal".
Have listen to the FLOSS Weekly interview with the fellow working on Rakudo. They do intend to get perl5 modules running.
This entire thing is a huge waste of time.
yeah - can we get a Slashdot section for Whitehouse Petitions? They seem to come up quite a bit lately and I'd rather just killfile the stories, because they all turn out the same.
Not. The BSD is mean to make *other* people free (abusingly free, I may add, but that's just IMHO).
Right, 'people', not 'person'. The population of the world - 1.
(abusingly free, I may add, but that's just IMHO).
Yep, often times. Freedom allows that.
Stallman may disagree, but he has shown the world how to write a "free" software license GPL3 that's so restrictive nobody in industry wants to use it.
You misunderstand the purpose of the GPL (and I did too until recently). GPL exists to make the software free. Something like BSD is meant to make the people free. Different licenses for different purposes.
"For practical reasons, I'm trying to run my computer off a small fire, which boils water which turns a paddlewheel, which dumps more water into a bucket on a pully which turns a magneto, and I'm not getting a stable waveform. How can I make this work?"
"Just plug it into the wall outlet."
"Read TFS!"
of $16 billion, nearly $12 billion had to be bought by the usual suspect banks
So, actual market demand was for $4B. I know we can't simply say the market price was $38/4 but wow, maybe $7B or so @ ~ $19.
Who here thinks Zuckerberg was a massive dick to somebody at GM a while back? Dish served cold and all that.
Its probably one source of unease with investing in their shares. One person has total control over the company, he can do pretty much whatever he wants with it and no one can stop him.
On the other hand, there's Yahoo, HP, et. al. ...
Then everything shut down. Drive all that way at 0 dark thirty for a fizzle.
Hey, good for you though. All I did was set an alarm for an hour and a half after I went to sleep (late night at work). This launch, when it happens, will be Space Age 2.0, so it's a fairly momentous milestone. I would have gone out too if I were anywhere near local.
The event was actually still impressive. The announcer even called 'lift-off' then had to backpedal. I was similarly watching the UStream and thought, 'wait, it's not moving.' Then they switched video to the Space-X mission control (which is a bog-standard conference room with a bunch of desks with 3-panel 24" display holders). The Space-X guys went through their make-safe procedure and declared the vehicle safe within about two minutes.
I went back to bed feeling confident these guys know what they are doing. Elon is going to retire on Mars and sell half-million-dollar tourist flights - I can feel it. Time to start saving up (to hell with it - I'll live in a trailer for the last 5 years of my life, but I'll have been in orbit around Mars).
Are you implying, as has been falsely implied many times before, that a small government results in a lower probability of a corrupt, monopolistic economy arising?
So, a government that grants monopolies and immunizes people from responsibility is the way forward?
I would have thought seemingly intelligent people would have moved past that.
No, we read history. Look into medieval Iceland, for an example of this working. Chronological ethnocentrism doesn't help here.
I keep hearing that from Entergy proponents, but the fact is that IBM has been working to move its employment offshore in general, so it's hard to take anything they say about closing plants in Burlington very seriously.
That's true - if Cringely is right they'll be gone in a few years anyway. I guess we'll see - it doesn't look like Vermont Yankee stands much of a chance. I'm not quite sure what Vermont's grid looks like; serious-sounding people on VPR say generation costs could double, which makes me thing Vermont isn't well-connected to the New England grid.
So, you're saying that the drug war is to show people who's in charge, basically?
Basically that's it - there's no rational justification for it, and it's been logically defeated over and over again. People ask, "but why don't they listen / understand / realize?" They play this game like the politicians are just uneducated, thick, don't have all the facts, etc.
Sure there are revenue reasons (both the Drug War support complex and the CIA's black ops funding - even the head of the DEA admitted to that) but if you look back historically, Nixon launched the Drug War at the same time he gave total control of the money supply to the bankers. Both represent a major power shift away from the people and towards the corporate/government complex. The USAPATRIOT Act doubles down on it.
Money does motivate people but power motivates them even more. Power is also a good way to get lots of money, so the two aren't entirely decoupled. Simply saying "follow the money" is a way to pretend that the power balance isn't a major factor.
Maybe it's because the people at the top of that system have completely broken the social contract.
Sorry, but 'social contract' is a fairy tale that's told so you can pretend like you're not supposed to be getting screwed, but instead they're they're just breaking the rules. Bad boys, they need to be brought back in line.
The reality is that you getting screwed is the rule of this socio-economic system. Big governments and their corporate creations locked into a tight positive feedback loop. Hold on tight - these systems all halt eventually (visualize a pair of binary stars spiraling towards each other).
So you can say the drug war is a success for what its real purpose is, but not for its proclaimed purposes. -Noam Chomsky
Big fan of Noam here, but he's not right on this. Yes, there are beneficiaries of the Drug War, but the purpose isn't that benefit, it's to define the power relationship.
That's what makes something like marijuana so perfect to be it's major centerpiece. Hemp even. You can make all the logical, consistent arguments you want, but that doesn't matter. You can be 100% and their proffered arguments can be roundly defeatd, but if you grow it, they'll hurt you. Because they're in charge and you're not. Get that f'ing straight. As they say, "any questions?"
Noam's work on manufactured consent applies more strongly.
We're fucking doomed.
Oh, but, no the system can't be irreparibly broken. That would be uncomfortable and put a damper on my chronological ethnocentrism.
All the local dams put their power onto the grid - no local benefits, unfortunately.
How about just limiting to Comcast IPs? (or if you want to be really clever, traceroute and give up if you see it leave Comcast's network).
Sure, there has to be some threshold where you decide 'close' vs 'not close'. It may be that packet time is all you need. Do you really want to go from Comcast in Maine to Comcast in San Diego? Perhaps only if there are no other peers available...
I'd expect a client that implemented this to allow plugins to define 'close'. They'd really only need to export boolean peerIsClose(IPADDR) and that can be arbitrarily complex. I'd then anticipate Comcast would release their own plugin for the software to minimize their peering costs. At least, that was the thinking in 2005 - I'm not up on current peering cost arrangements.
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! " - Goldwater
I think that the invite-only rollout was probably a misstep, as was not allowing business accounts for the first several months. Lack of event integration is also a problem.
Agree with those, but also it's too risky to post on Google Plus if you use other Google services. I did it for a little while, but here's my last post, from Aug. 3rd:
He swapped pairs from the house to the box (or the box to the DSLAM, can't remember exactly), and from then on my downloads quickly went up near the maximum and stayed there.
heh, I've seen this trick with a neighbor next door I helped (and told to call the phone company). The next day the neighbor across the street called talking about how his service suddenly went to shit. :)
The Tea Party was created by Republican strategist Dick Armey and promoted relentlessly by Fox News
I suspect you're thinking of FreedomWorks. I have many friends who attended one of the first modern Tea Parties - on Tax Day 2008 at the Federal Reserve in Boston. It was mostly Ron Paul folks, like several similar events held around the country.
I don't see a date on your link, but it's probably 2009 or 2010.
They're upsampling to 96K to do their filtering work. It'll get downsampled again after the filter chain is done with it.
You definitely can hear clipping damage if filters are done with too low of a sampling rate.
Have you ever taken an 8-bit-per-channel image and converted it to 16-bit to do image editing, then down to 8-bit again for output? If not, try that now, even just fiddling with the levels widget - you'll see what's happening in the histogram.
hell IBM is a huge part of their tax payer base
Once they force the nuke plant to close that provides most of their power, IBM is most likely pulling out. IIRC power costs are expected to at least double.
Jane Fonda is apparently responsible.
Vermonters have been overrun by plain weirdos.
TFTFY
I'm not a geologist, but the quantity of slate and shale I saw hiking the green mountains makes me doubt there's nothing there.
There are two small areas of the state with potential reserves, but none of them are under development. (yeah, VPR off Mount Ascutney has good power and range).
But, of course, that has nothing to do with this - it's political grandstanding and local politicians trying to earn their environmentalist-whacko bona fides with national tally keepers.