One reaches a point, called 'economic reality', or 'interest on capital', at which efficiency *does* become important in a project like this. Given the absurd risks/costs involved, one is likely to reach it sooner rather than later. The fact that NASA and other government entities live outside the realm of 'economic reality', in a fairy land I like to call 'print-your-own-money-ville', it's not suprising this project was scrapped when it came time for commercial implementation.
It's not perfect, but it's also not a shroud of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reflecting heat back onto the surface.
Plus, it's much better than the nuclear fission that nearsighted environmentalists ranted against for years and have recently discovered as a viable option...
Ugh. Running *any* binary on a possibly compromised machine is questionable. That's why Windows virus scanners suck: once you bypass them *once* they become irrelevant.
Under Linux, boot from a read-only media (rescue cd) and verify the md5sums of the files installed against the installation cds. Any binaries that have changed will stick out like a sore thumb. Debian (and other.deb based distros) includes a program to do this, debsums, as well as rpm-based distros (Redhat/Fedora), rpm -V.
I don't know if there's anything similar for Windows, but if there is, it probably isn't free;)
No crap. It's not like msn is objective when it comes to PC software. Everybody knows the antitrust laws were gutted when MS got off the hook.
Besides, what did the FTC *think* a merger between AOL and Time Warner meant, that the news organizations *weren't* going to push their own products?
The fact that CNN isn't taking advantage of this glaring lack of oversight means that somebody is asleep at the wheel at AOL-TW. No wonder their stock tanked.
At the risk of karma-whoring, I would also, seriously, like to thank Mr. Hiibel for standing up for his and our rights. As his site says, we all lost the right to 'be left alone' today.
It takes guts, and money, to take a case all the way to the Supreme Court, especially one like this in which Mr. Hiibel really has nothing to gain by doing so.
It's pathetic that the SCOTUS continues to rubber-stamp the violation of Constitutional rights in the US. This ruling is especially troublesome when viewed in conjunction with the gutting of Habeas Corpus by the current administration.
Truly the United States has squandered it's place as the beacon of freedom for the world. Even disregarding the atrocities that she has committed around the globe in the name of American 'freedom', it is clear that the US has also, repeatedly, failed it's own citizens in every way that matters and continues to do so. Shame on them.
Well, to clarify, you *do* have a right to such access. That doesn't mean anyone has to provide it for you, however.
This confusion comes about because most people don't know the difference between a right and a priviledge. A right is something you have that cannot be taken away except by force. A priviledge is something that someone else provides to you.
For example, you have the right to life. That doesn't mean that the government is going to make sure you live forever, though.
You know, in principle, I agree with that, but surely there's a limit.
At the moment, I'm typing from a 'free' computer at the public library, donated by Bill & Co and maintained by the public dole. I decided to check out some info on gmail, so I clicked on their site, and, lo and behold, Explorer won't load the 'sign in' page. All I see is 'Action Cancelled'.
Now, normally I might chalk this up to 'bofh-ish' behaviour on the part of the library sysadmin, but the funny thing is there's a twelve year old next to me playing a first-person-shooter on Yahoo! games, so I know there can't be *too* many restrictions.
You don't see a fucking difference between the military and the FBI????
You don't see the US *military* torturing and killing people in Iraq?
How old are you? What fucking middle school did you go to? Who was your civics teacher; because either she sucks you you're a retard.
More importantly, what fucking section of the Constitution gives the goddamn US Army the right to exist *at all* unless in time of war? You might want to read it slowly, because it sounds like it'll be your first time.
In case you haven't noticed, the fucking cold war is over. And if you buy into the bullshit that 'terrorism' is due to those eeevil Arabs being *jealous* of how great we are, fucking grow up. Even a casual glance at the causes of domestic terrorism indicates that 'less government intrusion == less terrorism', not the other way around.
This is imho the primary reason OSS fails in the business world and the primary reason geeks don't understand it's failure: The US, through the tax code, gives businesses money to spend on 'capital investments' that they can depreciate for years and years.
For *some* reason, buying a license for commercial software is capital, even though in all practicality you *have* to upgrade when your vendor says so and most all businesses do. If you don't upgrade, bugs and software incompatibilities cause you to eventually abandon use of the product you bought anyways. In all reality, software looks like a service and sounds like a service, yet is priced and taxed as a 'product'.
Can some accountant in the crowd explain to me how a commercial software license is 'capital' and money spent on installing and improving open source software is somehow not a 'capital' expense?
Yeah, that's a great way to get a person to believe that you're *not* out to get them: act like you have something to hide. We're talking about mental cases here, not five-year-olds.
That's funny because I've been mistaken for a Home Depot employee several times as well. I guess as a computer tech, I'm about the same age as the average Home Depot employee and I probably dress better than the average customer.
as a way to skirt burdensome Federal laws and gain a foothold in an otherwise closed industry.
For instance, starting, say, an automobile manufacturer, might not be worth the overhead if you have to operate within a single state. If, on the other hand, you were sharing research and methods with other, similar franchises in other states, you might have a chance to compete and add some innovation to a staid industry.
Well I'm sorry but you should find out how science really works, then. Because my understanding is that these things called 'theories' are posited and the best one at the moment is usually taken to be the truth. And seeing as how there isn't a way to 'prove' a scientific theory, only to 'disprove' one, along with the fact that this 'probability wave' is inherently unobservable and thus un-disprovable, your concession that 'many worlds' is just as good an explanation otherwise would tend to make my argument true until you can disprove it;)
You're absolutely right about the lasers. However the whole point of many worlds/parallel universes interpretation is that it conveniently and consistently sidesteps the 'wave/particle duality'. In fact, it can be argued that such a 'duality' hasn't existed for half a century, as even modern interpretations of quantum mechanics interpret subatomic particles as such, observing Feynman interactions, taking every possible path, and interfering *as though* they were waves.
David has stated before what the test is and it would be fairly obvious to you if you understood his hypothesis at all. I'll give you a hint: he isn't called the 'father of quantum computing' for nothing.
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One reaches a point, called 'economic reality', or 'interest on capital', at which efficiency *does* become important in a project like this. Given the absurd risks/costs involved, one is likely to reach it sooner rather than later. The fact that NASA and other government entities live outside the realm of 'economic reality', in a fairy land I like to call 'print-your-own-money-ville', it's not suprising this project was scrapped when it came time for commercial implementation.
It's not perfect, but it's also not a shroud of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reflecting heat back onto the surface.
Plus, it's much better than the nuclear fission that nearsighted environmentalists ranted against for years and have recently discovered as a viable option...
Ugh. Running *any* binary on a possibly compromised machine is questionable. That's why Windows virus scanners suck: once you bypass them *once* they become irrelevant.
.deb based distros) includes a program to do this, debsums, as well as rpm-based distros (Redhat/Fedora), rpm -V.
;)
Under Linux, boot from a read-only media (rescue cd) and verify the md5sums of the files installed against the installation cds. Any binaries that have changed will stick out like a sore thumb. Debian (and other
I don't know if there's anything similar for Windows, but if there is, it probably isn't free
No crap. It's not like msn is objective when it comes to PC software. Everybody knows the antitrust laws were gutted when MS got off the hook.
Besides, what did the FTC *think* a merger between AOL and Time Warner meant, that the news organizations *weren't* going to push their own products?
The fact that CNN isn't taking advantage of this glaring lack of oversight means that somebody is asleep at the wheel at AOL-TW. No wonder their stock tanked.
At the risk of karma-whoring, I would also, seriously, like to thank Mr. Hiibel for standing up for his and our rights. As his site says, we all lost the right to 'be left alone' today.
It takes guts, and money, to take a case all the way to the Supreme Court, especially one like this in which Mr. Hiibel really has nothing to gain by doing so.
It's pathetic that the SCOTUS continues to rubber-stamp the violation of Constitutional rights in the US. This ruling is especially troublesome when viewed in conjunction with the gutting of Habeas Corpus by the current administration.
Truly the United States has squandered it's place as the beacon of freedom for the world. Even disregarding the atrocities that she has committed around the globe in the name of American 'freedom', it is clear that the US has also, repeatedly, failed it's own citizens in every way that matters and continues to do so. Shame on them.
WiFi + Proxy Server + wget + driving 120 mph == internet *while* I drive ;)
Well, to clarify, you *do* have a right to such access. That doesn't mean anyone has to provide it for you, however.
This confusion comes about because most people don't know the difference between a right and a priviledge. A right is something you have that cannot be taken away except by force. A priviledge is something that someone else provides to you.
For example, you have the right to life. That doesn't mean that the government is going to make sure you live forever, though.
You know, in principle, I agree with that, but surely there's a limit.
At the moment, I'm typing from a 'free' computer at the public library, donated by Bill & Co and maintained by the public dole. I decided to check out some info on gmail, so I clicked on their site, and, lo and behold, Explorer won't load the 'sign in' page. All I see is 'Action Cancelled'.
Now, normally I might chalk this up to 'bofh-ish' behaviour on the part of the library sysadmin, but the funny thing is there's a twelve year old next to me playing a first-person-shooter on Yahoo! games, so I know there can't be *too* many restrictions.
You don't see a fucking difference between the military and the FBI????
You don't see the US *military* torturing and killing people in Iraq?
How old are you? What fucking middle school did you go to? Who was your civics teacher; because either she sucks you you're a retard.
More importantly, what fucking section of the Constitution gives the goddamn US Army the right to exist *at all* unless in time of war? You might want to read it slowly, because it sounds like it'll be your first time.
In case you haven't noticed, the fucking cold war is over. And if you buy into the bullshit that 'terrorism' is due to those eeevil Arabs being *jealous* of how great we are, fucking grow up. Even a casual glance at the causes of domestic terrorism indicates that 'less government intrusion == less terrorism', not the other way around.
the most power the EU will wield will be economic power ;)
Don't forget the 'golden rule'
That's funny because, for Republicans in the US, the 'conservative' label is also just a historical anachronism.
That's alright, you can put your sugar into the product the US *really* wants from Australia: wine.
HP didn't start doing that until pretty recently, and might I say it's the *worst* design they could've possibly come up with.
I seriously feel like it would be easier to tap in morse code like a previous post when I'm using one of those damn things.
Ah, the accounting argument.
This is imho the primary reason OSS fails in the business world and the primary reason geeks don't understand it's failure: The US, through the tax code, gives businesses money to spend on 'capital investments' that they can depreciate for years and years.
For *some* reason, buying a license for commercial software is capital, even though in all practicality you *have* to upgrade when your vendor says so and most all businesses do. If you don't upgrade, bugs and software incompatibilities cause you to eventually abandon use of the product you bought anyways. In all reality, software looks like a service and sounds like a service, yet is priced and taxed as a 'product'.
Can some accountant in the crowd explain to me how a commercial software license is 'capital' and money spent on installing and improving open source software is somehow not a 'capital' expense?
That's why I don't do web design. Customers want webpages that look nice and shiny and are completely devoid of functionality or standards-compliance.
What they get is graphical artists running Windows NT servers out of their homes and webpages that aren't supported and never work properly.
I don't care if there is money in it, I won't do it.
How did you get that job if you have to ask?
And the second question, what hosting company is it so that I can avoid using them?
"I believe I'll vote for a third party candidate."
"Go ahead, throw your vote away!"
Yeah, that's a great way to get a person to believe that you're *not* out to get them: act like you have something to hide. We're talking about mental cases here, not five-year-olds.
That's funny because I've been mistaken for a Home Depot employee several times as well. I guess as a computer tech, I'm about the same age as the average Home Depot employee and I probably dress better than the average customer.
as a way to skirt burdensome Federal laws and gain a foothold in an otherwise closed industry.
For instance, starting, say, an automobile manufacturer, might not be worth the overhead if you have to operate within a single state. If, on the other hand, you were sharing research and methods with other, similar franchises in other states, you might have a chance to compete and add some innovation to a staid industry.
Well I'm sorry but you should find out how science really works, then. Because my understanding is that these things called 'theories' are posited and the best one at the moment is usually taken to be the truth. And seeing as how there isn't a way to 'prove' a scientific theory, only to 'disprove' one, along with the fact that this 'probability wave' is inherently unobservable and thus un-disprovable, your concession that 'many worlds' is just as good an explanation otherwise would tend to make my argument true until you can disprove it ;)
If by 'consistent' you mean 'completely random', then I guess you might be on to something ;)
And I hate to break it to you, but you just described parallel universes.
Unless of course you have a better way of explaining how this 'probability wave' actually exists in reality?
You're absolutely right about the lasers. However the whole point of many worlds/parallel universes interpretation is that it conveniently and consistently sidesteps the 'wave/particle duality'. In fact, it can be argued that such a 'duality' hasn't existed for half a century, as even modern interpretations of quantum mechanics interpret subatomic particles as such, observing Feynman interactions, taking every possible path, and interfering *as though* they were waves.
David has stated before what the test is and it would be fairly obvious to you if you understood his hypothesis at all. I'll give you a hint: he isn't called the 'father of quantum computing' for nothing.