There are some excellent technologies in OpenSolaris, and it appears The Illumos Project is going to be the place to find them.
I'm not sure this is a bad thing. Oracle's played its hand, and as opposed to Sun's years of "oh, gosh, we don't know if we want to be open or not - how about almost-open?" Oracle said, "screw you guys, we're going to make money off this thing." I frankly don't care about them not releasing an OpenSolaris binary build - Linus doesn't post binary builds - but keeping the source changes secret until after the commercial release just doesn't deal with the realities of Internet Time.
But, because of Oracle's decisiveness, the ON stack, the libc, etc. are all being done right now. I've tried once or twice to contribute to Nexenta and got stuck in the complexity of rebuilding a kernel, despite having done so in linux forever (to be fair the Nexenta guys were awesomely responsive so I didn't really have to do the build myself). This should be fixed.
It might give the OpenSolaris^W Illumos community a chance to succeed, being actually open.
Of course humans have intentions - brains operate differently than bark. It's of course true that the basis for our brains is simple electro-chemical/quantum interactions, but from that base are built ever more complex structures, some of which generate intentions.
To say a brain has no intentions is to say that a city has no neighborhoods because houses are made of wood, stone and metal, which have no neighborhoods. This is a division error.
I wonder if this could be as big and as interesting(for the geek community) a fight as SCO v Novell
I doubt it. Oracle doesn't want to destroy Java, Google, or Android. They probably don't even care about the money - Google has something else it wants. Probably distributed database patents, which Oracle desperately needs to stay relevant.
It's overpriced, but hardly shitty. Niagra is massively parallel. That hardware is required to run Oracle's database for its core customers, until Oracle can re-tool to a modern database architecture. Yes, Facebook can use a cluster of 40,000 MySQL servers, but your Fortune 50 AR department can't, and their data keeps growing.
Oracle got caught with its performance pants down, and bought a stop-gap measure. Java was nice synergy for them - all their apps run on Java.
if they wanted to do this right, they'd partner with MORE than just 1 carrier.
Translation: "we bid on the VHF auction, which we need to reach all the homes, but Verizon bid more and we figured it would cost less to work with them than to outbid them".
If you're an imaginative person, it brings to mind that M. Night Shyamalan movie about the plants intentionally releasing pollen that was toxic to humans.
Except that plants don't have intentions (doesn't take away from a silly horror flick, of course).
They're going to hit atomic scale transistors fairly soon from what I can see as well
Yeah, there was an article here in the spring on atomic computing, where I did a little math on it. I was surprised, but it worked out that in roughly a decade Moore's Law would get down to atomic transitors if reducing the part size was the method employed.
I had always presumed before that it would never run out, but it's going to have to zig sideways if that's going to be true.
Google recently bought that company working on packet switched CPU's - I guess I really don't care at all about transistor count, just performance - alternates to the superscalar approach would be fine too.
Actually, this is wrong. Mexican citizens are allowed to own various guns, just nothing in a "military" caliber. So, 9mm,.45ACP,.233 are all illegal, but weird rounds like.38 Super are allowed and popular.
It's the corruption thing again. Here's a reference on the subject. There's statute availability vs. actual availability.
However, the law doesn't seem to be very successful in keeping guns out of the hands of the cartels.
Naturally. Only the law-abiding citizens are disarmed, so they need to bend to the will of the cartels. It's their government disarming them, a government largely beholden to the Mexican drug cartels. That works out nicely for them.
because there's no real rule of law there, only an illusion of such
Again, try arming yourself to defend your village against the drug cartels, and the Rule of Law will become apparent.
The drug cartels are more powerful than the government. Mexico is about to become a failed state.
Agreed. If either the Mexican or US governments legalized the drugs this problem would reverse. They all know this, so it appears to be intentional.
Another good example is Somalia. No functioning government, and jihadists and warlords running amok.
That's actually a good counter-example. Somalia's economic activity is increasing at a higher rate, and poverty is declining faster than any other 'sub-Saharan-Africa' country. Check out the article in Harpers on this from this Spring.
Without a sufficiently strong (and uncorrupted) government, this is the result.
It sounds like you're measuring positive outcomes and then declaring that any means necessary are acceptable to achieve it. So far a hundred thousand people have been killed in these wars. The USA has spent over a trillion dollars financing them (actually no, we borrowed the money from China and Japan and the politicians think we can make our grandchildren pay for them).
How much is Sweden paying for these wars you support? Could you send some of your money to our Treasury to help out? (NATO members have already pull nearly all of their troops out). I'm not necessarily arguing against the actions on their merit, I'm simply asserting that it's not the job of the USA government to do it.
I don't get your weird paranoia thing. Care to answer the question of how they handle multiple bill sizes? Variable straightening guides? Some sort of auto-straighteners?
BTW, we still haven't found Bin Laden. Getting him should have been job #1.
Why would you think he's still alive, since he hasn't been seen since Tora Bora? Oh, right, the government prosecuting the war 'to get him' says he is.
So you don't cónsider the removal of a barbaric religious dictatorship cause in and of itself?
It's a moral cause, but not one appropriate for the US government.
Quoth John Quincy Adams:
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
If Americans want to deal with this on their own, they can. The IRA's war on the UK was mostly funded from Boston. Ross Perot hired mercenaries to get his employees out of Iran. Etc. Getting the government involved in crusades leads to disaster.
we are there due to bush's ego (firstly) and secondly, because the current president LIKES the extra powers he gets from keeping the country in a perma-state of fear and war.
'War Profiteering' has to figure in as a distant third.
Yeah, we did in high school. It was written before refrigeration, a complete game changer in all kinds of food. The local butcher buying from the local farmer never sold this kind of meat.
Move to a better country? More advanced countries don't have all the problems with inept and corrupt government regulators that we do. When was the last time you heard of an e.coli outbreak in Western Europe?
I'm unqualified to answer - I don't read their local news. I can't argue with the corruption you mention, though.
They also have the natural advantage of being surrounded by very high mountains. We have a completely open border to the south (and north too).
The Japanese emperor wanted to land on the West Coast of the United States during WWII. His top general told him it was insanity. He told them the Americans were armed, and that 'there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass'. This is why the Constitution refers to a militia and the basis of the Militia Act. This is why a standing army is not allowed to exist in the United States for more than two years (har, har).
You're just one voter out of a couple hundred million. Everyone else is getting what they want.
Ha, yeah, right. Even if it were so, 'tyranny of the majority' is what the USA was supposed to defend against. As the kids here say, 'epic FAIL'.
2) improve education. We haven't done so well with that over the last half-century or so.
Agreed. Look at the cost of education over the same period. Surely it's ripe for competition?
How are you going to get to your turnpikes? What if you want to drive to a government office? Should you pay a toll for that to a private company? That's fascism, not democracy.
I'd love for my neighbors to be able to take over maintenance of our road. It's terribly maintained, and we spend more fixing our suspensions than we would maintaining the road. They finally regraded it this year after 10 years of complaints. Meanwhile we pay taxes to not maintain our road.
FYI, you do pay a toll to drive to your government office - it's built into the price of gas. Call it fascism if you must.
Having toll roads everywhere is infeasible and utterly ridiculous, and support of this notion is a sign of a lunatic libertarian.
Historical fact contradicts your assertion, but perhaps you can explain to me how it's infeasible with transponder technology?
From government-run public schools. What's your solution to that? Eliminate public education? So only rich people's children can be educated?
Obviously the money is there, as public schools (which don't work, obviously) are being funded. They're also terribly inefficient. If I had back the $3000/yr I pay in school taxes (more than some Chinese factory workers make in a year) and school prices were back to the inflation-adjusted levels they were at in 1950, I could spend that same money on a private school. And I have a small house in a low-tax locale.
Big-government proponents inevitably assert that humans are evil and incapable of altruism and charity, when experience and neuroscience proves the opposite. Then they back a system that's proven to be broken. This is emotional nonsense.
Our Founding Fathers would be ashamed of you. They were proponents of small government, but not of the utter anarchy that you advocate.
Our Founding Fathers would be totally ashamed of the terror they created. It's not their fault, really - Jefferson never expected the USA to last more than 2-3 generations. He, in fact, argued forcefully against the moral ability of a people to compel a government on their posterity (and did not participate in the Constitution). The Constitution is a flawed document - it's a document of power, mostly, not rights. You'll notice that only 6 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence signed the Constitution - and very few of them had died, many had the opportunity. It's jus
Or we could just assume people have a working knowledge of geography, and they can hit up Wikipedia if they don't. Then those of us who are well-familiar with Portugal's location can get to the story...
I would sooner trust the government to protect my anti-government speech than I would trust Verizon to protect my anti-Verizon speech.
Protect? From whom? Verizon doesn't have a violent monopoly to stifle your speech. Is there any example ever of Verizon using violence against its customers to stifle their speech?
Come to think of it, with a plug-type burial, a 'top-kill' of 12 bags of cement should be easy enough. No need to even mix - pour in the fast-set in a 4' sonotube and be happy if it's set up in a month's time.
I can't imagine any family choosing this, if they were willing to screw grandpa into the ground and have him rest vertically they'd probably be just as inclined to choose cremation first.
Paupers cemeteries would probably be interested, if the price was right, and they didn't have rocky soil.
I suspect the previous problem was getting the head of the coffin 6' under. On a regular 8' coffin you'd need a hole 14' deep - that's pier-setting equipment, not the auger on the PTO of a tractor.
Still, over the course of thousands of burials, perhaps it would pay for itself. Most funerals I've been to lately don't even lower the coffin into the grave anymore (I found that emotionally disappointing, frankly).
Overall, I'd be more concerned with the lower surface area of the dirt over the buoyant coffin and the lower weight of that dirt. It's got to be 5:1 or worse. Re-burying can't be cheap.
But ultimately, as things are today, I trust our Federal government to not-censor my speech against the government much more than I trust Verizon to not-censor my speech against Verizon.
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There are some excellent technologies in OpenSolaris, and it appears The Illumos Project is going to be the place to find them.
I'm not sure this is a bad thing. Oracle's played its hand, and as opposed to Sun's years of "oh, gosh, we don't know if we want to be open or not - how about almost-open?" Oracle said, "screw you guys, we're going to make money off this thing." I frankly don't care about them not releasing an OpenSolaris binary build - Linus doesn't post binary builds - but keeping the source changes secret until after the commercial release just doesn't deal with the realities of Internet Time.
But, because of Oracle's decisiveness, the ON stack, the libc, etc. are all being done right now. I've tried once or twice to contribute to Nexenta and got stuck in the complexity of rebuilding a kernel, despite having done so in linux forever (to be fair the Nexenta guys were awesomely responsive so I didn't really have to do the build myself). This should be fixed.
It might give the OpenSolaris^W Illumos community a chance to succeed, being actually open.
How did this toxic pollen evolve?
Of course humans have intentions - brains operate differently than bark. It's of course true that the basis for our brains is simple electro-chemical/quantum interactions, but from that base are built ever more complex structures, some of which generate intentions.
To say a brain has no intentions is to say that a city has no neighborhoods because houses are made of wood, stone and metal, which have no neighborhoods. This is a division error.
I wonder if this could be as big and as interesting(for the geek community) a fight as SCO v Novell
I doubt it. Oracle doesn't want to destroy Java, Google, or Android. They probably don't even care about the money - Google has something else it wants. Probably distributed database patents, which Oracle desperately needs to stay relevant.
their overpriced shitty hardware (to commoditize)
It's overpriced, but hardly shitty. Niagra is massively parallel. That hardware is required to run Oracle's database for its core customers, until Oracle can re-tool to a modern database architecture. Yes, Facebook can use a cluster of 40,000 MySQL servers, but your Fortune 50 AR department can't, and their data keeps growing.
Oracle got caught with its performance pants down, and bought a stop-gap measure. Java was nice synergy for them - all their apps run on Java.
if they wanted to do this right, they'd partner with MORE than just 1 carrier.
Translation: "we bid on the VHF auction, which we need to reach all the homes, but Verizon bid more and we figured it would cost less to work with them than to outbid them".
If you're an imaginative person, it brings to mind that M. Night Shyamalan movie about the plants intentionally releasing pollen that was toxic to humans.
Except that plants don't have intentions (doesn't take away from a silly horror flick, of course).
They're going to hit atomic scale transistors fairly soon from what I can see as well
Yeah, there was an article here in the spring on atomic computing, where I did a little math on it. I was surprised, but it worked out that in roughly a decade Moore's Law would get down to atomic transitors if reducing the part size was the method employed.
I had always presumed before that it would never run out, but it's going to have to zig sideways if that's going to be true.
Google recently bought that company working on packet switched CPU's - I guess I really don't care at all about transistor count, just performance - alternates to the superscalar approach would be fine too.
Actually, this is wrong. Mexican citizens are allowed to own various guns, just nothing in a "military" caliber. So, 9mm, .45ACP, .233 are all illegal, but weird rounds like .38 Super are allowed and popular.
It's the corruption thing again. Here's a reference on the subject. There's statute availability vs. actual availability.
However, the law doesn't seem to be very successful in keeping guns out of the hands of the cartels.
Naturally. Only the law-abiding citizens are disarmed, so they need to bend to the will of the cartels. It's their government disarming them, a government largely beholden to the Mexican drug cartels. That works out nicely for them.
because there's no real rule of law there, only an illusion of such
Again, try arming yourself to defend your village against the drug cartels, and the Rule of Law will become apparent.
The drug cartels are more powerful than the government. Mexico is about to become a failed state.
Agreed. If either the Mexican or US governments legalized the drugs this problem would reverse. They all know this, so it appears to be intentional.
Another good example is Somalia. No functioning government, and jihadists and warlords running amok.
That's actually a good counter-example. Somalia's economic activity is increasing at a higher rate, and poverty is declining faster than any other 'sub-Saharan-Africa' country. Check out the article in Harpers on this from this Spring.
Without a sufficiently strong (and uncorrupted) government, this is the result.
Aye, there's the rub. This is an open problem.
It sounds like you're measuring positive outcomes and then declaring that any means necessary are acceptable to achieve it. So far a hundred thousand people have been killed in these wars. The USA has spent over a trillion dollars financing them (actually no, we borrowed the money from China and Japan and the politicians think we can make our grandchildren pay for them).
How much is Sweden paying for these wars you support? Could you send some of your money to our Treasury to help out? (NATO members have already pull nearly all of their troops out). I'm not necessarily arguing against the actions on their merit, I'm simply asserting that it's not the job of the USA government to do it.
I don't get your weird paranoia thing. Care to answer the question of how they handle multiple bill sizes? Variable straightening guides? Some sort of auto-straighteners?
BTW, we still haven't found Bin Laden. Getting him should have been job #1.
Why would you think he's still alive, since he hasn't been seen since Tora Bora? Oh, right, the government prosecuting the war 'to get him' says he is.
So you don't cónsider the removal of a barbaric religious dictatorship cause in and of itself?
It's a moral cause, but not one appropriate for the US government.
Quoth John Quincy Adams:
If Americans want to deal with this on their own, they can. The IRA's war on the UK was mostly funded from Boston. Ross Perot hired mercenaries to get his employees out of Iran. Etc. Getting the government involved in crusades leads to disaster.
we are there due to bush's ego (firstly) and secondly, because the current president LIKES the extra powers he gets from keeping the country in a perma-state of fear and war.
'War Profiteering' has to figure in as a distant third.
Read "The Jungle".
Yeah, we did in high school. It was written before refrigeration, a complete game changer in all kinds of food. The local butcher buying from the local farmer never sold this kind of meat.
Move to a better country? More advanced countries don't have all the problems with inept and corrupt government regulators that we do. When was the last time you heard of an e.coli outbreak in Western Europe?
I'm unqualified to answer - I don't read their local news. I can't argue with the corruption you mention, though.
They also have the natural advantage of being surrounded by very high mountains. We have a completely open border to the south (and north too).
The Japanese emperor wanted to land on the West Coast of the United States during WWII. His top general told him it was insanity. He told them the Americans were armed, and that 'there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass'. This is why the Constitution refers to a militia and the basis of the Militia Act. This is why a standing army is not allowed to exist in the United States for more than two years (har, har).
You're just one voter out of a couple hundred million. Everyone else is getting what they want.
Ha, yeah, right. Even if it were so, 'tyranny of the majority' is what the USA was supposed to defend against. As the kids here say, 'epic FAIL'.
2) improve education. We haven't done so well with that over the last half-century or so.
Agreed. Look at the cost of education over the same period. Surely it's ripe for competition?
How are you going to get to your turnpikes? What if you want to drive to a government office? Should you pay a toll for that to a private company? That's fascism, not democracy.
I'd love for my neighbors to be able to take over maintenance of our road. It's terribly maintained, and we spend more fixing our suspensions than we would maintaining the road. They finally regraded it this year after 10 years of complaints. Meanwhile we pay taxes to not maintain our road.
FYI, you do pay a toll to drive to your government office - it's built into the price of gas. Call it fascism if you must.
Having toll roads everywhere is infeasible and utterly ridiculous, and support of this notion is a sign of a lunatic libertarian.
Historical fact contradicts your assertion, but perhaps you can explain to me how it's infeasible with transponder technology?
From government-run public schools. What's your solution to that? Eliminate public education? So only rich people's children can be educated?
Obviously the money is there, as public schools (which don't work, obviously) are being funded. They're also terribly inefficient. If I had back the $3000/yr I pay in school taxes (more than some Chinese factory workers make in a year) and school prices were back to the inflation-adjusted levels they were at in 1950, I could spend that same money on a private school. And I have a small house in a low-tax locale.
Big-government proponents inevitably assert that humans are evil and incapable of altruism and charity, when experience and neuroscience proves the opposite. Then they back a system that's proven to be broken. This is emotional nonsense.
Our Founding Fathers would be ashamed of you. They were proponents of small government, but not of the utter anarchy that you advocate.
Our Founding Fathers would be totally ashamed of the terror they created. It's not their fault, really - Jefferson never expected the USA to last more than 2-3 generations. He, in fact, argued forcefully against the moral ability of a people to compel a government on their posterity (and did not participate in the Constitution). The Constitution is a flawed document - it's a document of power, mostly, not rights. You'll notice that only 6 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence signed the Constitution - and very few of them had died, many had the opportunity. It's jus
I mentioned to them that during the domestication of wolves as much as we selected them, they selected us too. They were baffled.
Just wait until next time you tell them that cheese selected for Europeans. That culture is an active part of determining genotype is hard to grasp.
Citation needed
Laffer Curve
100kWh/year
You realize that's like a hundred pounds of coal a year, right?
Or we could just assume people have a working knowledge of geography, and they can hit up Wikipedia if they don't. Then those of us who are well-familiar with Portugal's location can get to the story...
It's utterly *mandatory, in order to create true competition within natural monopolies
Of course not, running a second power line is inefficient, but if abusive monopoly prices are in effect, it's entirely do-able.
Or you can be clever and think up work-arounds, like how T-Mobile can get telephone service to my house, despite the 'natural monopoly' of the ILEC.
I would sooner trust the government to protect my anti-government speech than I would trust Verizon to protect my anti-Verizon speech.
Protect? From whom? Verizon doesn't have a violent monopoly to stifle your speech. Is there any example ever of Verizon using violence against its customers to stifle their speech?
Crazy that a dollar note is the same size as $50!
Well, they're both intrinsically worthless! Say, how do vending machines over your way handle processing of multiple bill sizes?
Come to think of it, with a plug-type burial, a 'top-kill' of 12 bags of cement should be easy enough. No need to even mix - pour in the fast-set in a 4' sonotube and be happy if it's set up in a month's time.
I can't imagine any family choosing this, if they were willing to screw grandpa into the ground and have him rest vertically they'd probably be just as inclined to choose cremation first.
Paupers cemeteries would probably be interested, if the price was right, and they didn't have rocky soil.
I suspect the previous problem was getting the head of the coffin 6' under. On a regular 8' coffin you'd need a hole 14' deep - that's pier-setting equipment, not the auger on the PTO of a tractor.
Still, over the course of thousands of burials, perhaps it would pay for itself. Most funerals I've been to lately don't even lower the coffin into the grave anymore (I found that emotionally disappointing, frankly).
Overall, I'd be more concerned with the lower surface area of the dirt over the buoyant coffin and the lower weight of that dirt. It's got to be 5:1 or worse. Re-burying can't be cheap.
Nah, I want an open air Roman style cremation. Think the County Health Department will give me any fits with that?
You're dead and burned up, what are they going to do?
(just set enough aside to make it worth sombody's while)
But ultimately, as things are today, I trust our Federal government to not-censor my speech against the government much more than I trust Verizon to not-censor my speech against Verizon.
really?