Dennis Ritchie had an impact on the technology world FAR beyond what Jobs and Apple could ever dream of...or how many hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Unix-derived systems are running?
It becomes more obvious when you look at all the derivatives that have come to be. A Unix timeline is a good way to visualize it and the Levenez Unix timeline shows the highlights of the last 40+ years. It gives a good idea of how much amazing activity there has been.
Make it so I can see all the posts without logging in or Javascript. My usage of the site has gone down dramatically because it's a pain in the ass with the (relatively) new system.
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The javascript makes it slow and difficult, especially during moderation when it is easy to accidentally register an unintended action.
From the fine article, it looks like Harvard is already among those supporting Open Access. So it's not just Princeton. I think there are quite a few others now. It's time for a list to be made, to show which universities are the leaders.
However, open access may be going more discipline by discipline rather than institution by institution. Arxiv and PLoS have been big for years for certain fields.
Water takes about 400 years to go full cycle from surface to bottom to surface again.
Do you have a reference for that. No really i am serious. I have seen figures from 100-1000 years for ocean turnover. Yet i have failed miserably at finding good references.
Not any more. I had that oceanography course a Very Long Time Ago and no longer have the text book. AFAIK is was some kind of average accounting for volume of flow and distance. Recent generations have probably had time to come up with better estimates, but
A 2004 EES lecture shows what you have, a guesstimate of 100-1000 years for thermohaline circulation. Some water is going to take a long time to turn over. Other water will go the short route.
Why waste time publishing that crap? It's not even good for PR because it only serves to highlight the failure. It's only worth is documenting years of fail and we have Mitre and CERT for that. Every generation of Windows has been the model of bad design and insecurity, including Vista and Vista7. Before M$ reps revised it,/. even had a vista failure tag, for the version to come along after tagging was implemented. Otherwise there would have been a special tag for the XP SP2 disaster.
The SDL is what has contributed to very shitty quality. Of course the raw material, the managers and the engineers have to be mentioned as being incapable.
Yes. It's what has contributed to very shitty quality. Of course the raw material, the managers and the engineers have to be mentioned as being incapable.
Whatever for? It's not like it's worth publishing except to document years of fail. Every generation of Windows has been the model of bad design and insecurity, including Vista and Vista7. Before M$ reps revised it,/. even had a vista failure tag, for the version to come along after tagging was implemented.
Microsoft's partner Novell forked the code because they are putting toxic elements that are unacceptable to the community at large. Novell is acting as Microshat's proxy to poison the code pool. They weren't allowed to shit in the core project so they made fork and are polluting that. I would say use at your own risk but by you using it, you make computing worse for the rest of us. So don't use anything from Novell.
Novell is putting one trojan horse after another into their fork on behalf of Microsoft. That's where the docx and vba turds are coming from. Even if only strategy rather than the technical and licensing inferiority are not enough to eschew Novell's fork, OpenDocument Format is the future as are scripting languages Javascript and Python. Upgrading to OpenOffice.org and carrying VBA baggage with just guarantees that the systems are out of date before they are deployed. That goes double for the file format, especially since the public sector around the world has been moving back to open formats and naming OpenDocument Format specifically along with HTML and PDF.
Quantity of work is not the same as quality, and goals and licensing are yet another pair of separate factors.
The pressure is keeping it from changing to gas. If you lift it, the pressure drops and it goes to gaseous state. If enough water above it is displaced by anything including bubbles, then the pressure drops and it goes to gas.
There is also the matter of the amount of sediment that the mining, if done on the surface of the ocean floor will stir up and how many years it will take to settle. Fish and other sea life do it in minutes. Sea life does not like changes in turbidity and there is the potential for very far reaching problems lasting a very long time. Water takes about 400 years to go full cycle from surface to bottom to surface again.
Novell forked the code because they are putting toxic elements that are unacceptable to the Free and Open Source Software community. The quantity of work is not the same as quality, and goals and licensing are yet another pair of separate factors. Novell is acting as Microshat's proxy to poison the code pool. They weren't allowed to shit in the core project so they made fork and are polluting that. I would say use at your own risk but by you using it, you make computing worse for the rest of us. So don't use anything from Novell.
A nitpick about literature heritage, the earliest copy of Beowulf is a translation written in Anglo-Saxon, not Anglo-saxon itself. So it is Anglo-saxon or English literature only the same way that Ibsen is.
In 2008 any standard issue Army computer would've...
But were they able to track down and deal with the individual(s) that deployed Microsoft products?
The military procurement procedures produce a solid paper trail even if on some occasions they produce nothing else. Had they deployed properly engineered products rather than brands infamous for bad design the problem would not have arisen. The US Navy will focus on open systems only, if it can stay clear of the old M$ contractors and M$ resellers.
Never forget. Microsoft has never helped open source. They have only contributed to their own version of it, which is very much unlike open source as it was defined 10+ years ago."
It was implied by the article that the spent grain, draff as it is called, is going to waste. I would really hope that is a mistake in the article.
Spent grain is very nutritious for livestock and unsurprisingly they love it, especially pigs. It's only the alcohol the distillers are interested in, but the farmers and their pigs are interested in the extra nutrients converted by the yeast that remain in the draff. There are also many old, traditional recipes for making bread from spent grain. I know a few that actually brew small beer just to have a supply of spent grain for these recipes.
These "byproducts" are very valuable economically even they might not have a high direct resale value. It's not too unlike metal shops and the filings swept up at the end of the day. I read about a fellow that had arranged to sweep shop floors at the end of each shift for free. After a few years, he had a small team of employees and was covering many shops in the region and turning a good profit. That was before the metal shortage. Once converted to meat or bread they have high value.
If M$ executives and employees would have ditched MSIE if security or performance were an issue. Opera and even Safari are far and above superior, if closed source is an obligation. Keeping MSIE in place AND keeping pieces of it throughout the OS show that there is no intention of MSIE being there to benefit the end-user in anyway.
If we add up the cost over 15 years of all the MSIE malware in one column we will have an astronomical sum. If we then total the combined costs of all Opera, Netscape, Cameleon, Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, and Konqueror malware in another column and subtract that total of non-MSIE costs from the MSIE costs, we will still have an astronomical sum. Based on quarterly malware damage, the sum is probably in the range of 100's to 10's of thousands of billions of dollars. The Apollo program to the moon itself only cost 25 billion and we got integrated circuits out of that. Even for the unrealistically low sum of 1 billion dollars, what kind of rocking Free Software distro, applications or infrastructure could have been created? Even building a full distro from scratch we could have a full kernel, drivers, utilities, desktop, services, and applications for less.
You can put a stop to this and advance technology, economy and security by not feeding the Windows monopoly any more market share.
Tagging this one as "antitrust".
Modern reactors are a lot cheaper, simpler and safer than the old ones. That's part of my point, decommission the old Soviet reactors instead of the modern, safe Western reactors.
The fact that the plant outside the core doesn't become radioactive over time helps. But you still have the problem of what to do with the spent fuel. Looking at the so-called test facilities for long term storage, there is a very large energy cost as the result of finding geologically safe places and digging and maintaining the storage facilities.
They're the same thing. You have material that is processed, packaged, transported to where energy is consumed, then picked up and reprocessed or stored.
In the case of fission, you're not creating any energy, just extracting it from the fissionables. After that you have a disposal problem.
So do alkaline batteries, but both are very inefficient and very, very expensive when all the costs over the lifecycle of the mass used in the product are counted.
If you have any contacts at the site you linked to, "home distiller", then have them fix their web site and get rid of or at least minimize all the scripting.
"I've helped several people with Windows reinstalls (just did it again this weekend, in fact, on a really nice, new Dell laptop that this person was ready to trash and replace after just a year) "
If they were as stupid as you assert, then why did you fuck them over by putting Windows on their computer? They only ever surf the web and send e-mail anyway. So why not set them up with a fresh Fedora or Ubuntu installation? It's easier for them to use and, unless you a bilking them for support fees, a gain for you.
It's a private company granted a monopoly. As such, the USPO is the worst kind of inefficiency and an egregious example of abusing government money to socialize the unprofitable aspects of postal service. The profitable aspects, that of parcel services, is given over to other private companies. Then there's the subsidized junk mail problem.
Between Amazon and eBay, and everything in between, there are more than enough small and large packages shipped here there and everywhere to keep a good profit. USPTO could be profitable if managed as if it was intended to be proftiable as a company or provide a services as a government agency. Instead it does neither, as a victim of B.I.G.G.A.S. ideology.
In addition to 'peak uranium', there is also a matter of cost shifting, either to other budgets or to future dates. There was some storage preparation made near where I lived once and storage facilities use not a small amount of energy to place, build, and operate. About fission, I have gone from cautious support for it to wanting it phased out. Not stopped suddenly or arbitrarily but phased out, keeping the cleanest, safest ones longest.
Again note that I say phased out, not cut out overnight. The newer ones are basically safe and newest ones like pebble bed are very good -- in the short term. It is dangerous and criminally irresponsible to allow the old Soviet reactors to stay in operation. And I object to the stupid practice of shutting down safe reactors in order to increase production in the unsafe reactors.
I still have hopes for fusion, but after all these decades, am no longer realistically expecting much effort to be made. What changed my mind about fission is the energy costs related to storing fission wastes. It looks like storage and waste management may use more energy than was produced by the fission that produced the waste. It's hard to tell and since the payment of that energy debt is pushed into the future, it is hard to get reliable or truthful assessments. Now if we can safely re-use fission byproducts as fuel, and clearly show a long term gain, then fine.
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It becomes more obvious when you look at all the derivatives that have come to be. A Unix timeline is a good way to visualize it and the Levenez Unix timeline shows the highlights of the last 40+ years. It gives a good idea of how much amazing activity there has been.
+1
The javascript makes it slow and difficult, especially during moderation when it is easy to accidentally register an unintended action.
From the fine article, it looks like Harvard is already among those supporting Open Access. So it's not just Princeton. I think there are quite a few others now. It's time for a list to be made, to show which universities are the leaders.
However, open access may be going more discipline by discipline rather than institution by institution. Arxiv and PLoS have been big for years for certain fields.
How was the green chick?
Link to the petition to end software patents then. It's a small step but a step forward nevertheless.
Water takes about 400 years to go full cycle from surface to bottom to surface again.
Do you have a reference for that. No really i am serious. I have seen figures from 100-1000 years for ocean turnover. Yet i have failed miserably at finding good references.
Not any more. I had that oceanography course a Very Long Time Ago and no longer have the text book. AFAIK is was some kind of average accounting for volume of flow and distance. Recent generations have probably had time to come up with better estimates, but A 2004 EES lecture shows what you have, a guesstimate of 100-1000 years for thermohaline circulation. Some water is going to take a long time to turn over. Other water will go the short route.
Why waste time publishing that crap? It's not even good for PR because it only serves to highlight the failure. It's only worth is documenting years of fail and we have Mitre and CERT for that. Every generation of Windows has been the model of bad design and insecurity, including Vista and Vista7. Before M$ reps revised it, /. even had a vista failure tag, for the version to come along after tagging was implemented. Otherwise there would have been a special tag for the XP SP2 disaster.
The SDL is what has contributed to very shitty quality. Of course the raw material, the managers and the engineers have to be mentioned as being incapable.
Yes. It's what has contributed to very shitty quality. Of course the raw material, the managers and the engineers have to be mentioned as being incapable.
Whatever for? It's not like it's worth publishing except to document years of fail. Every generation of Windows has been the model of bad design and insecurity, including Vista and Vista7. Before M$ reps revised it, /. even had a vista failure tag, for the version to come along after tagging was implemented.
Ximian, now Novell, did fork OO.o...
Microsoft's partner Novell forked the code because they are putting toxic elements that are unacceptable to the community at large. Novell is acting as Microshat's proxy to poison the code pool. They weren't allowed to shit in the core project so they made fork and are polluting that. I would say use at your own risk but by you using it, you make computing worse for the rest of us. So don't use anything from Novell.
Novell is putting one trojan horse after another into their fork on behalf of Microsoft. That's where the docx and vba turds are coming from. Even if only strategy rather than the technical and licensing inferiority are not enough to eschew Novell's fork, OpenDocument Format is the future as are scripting languages Javascript and Python. Upgrading to OpenOffice.org and carrying VBA baggage with just guarantees that the systems are out of date before they are deployed. That goes double for the file format, especially since the public sector around the world has been moving back to open formats and naming OpenDocument Format specifically along with HTML and PDF.
Quantity of work is not the same as quality, and goals and licensing are yet another pair of separate factors.
The pressure is keeping it from changing to gas. If you lift it, the pressure drops and it goes to gaseous state. If enough water above it is displaced by anything including bubbles, then the pressure drops and it goes to gas.
There is also the matter of the amount of sediment that the mining, if done on the surface of the ocean floor will stir up and how many years it will take to settle. Fish and other sea life do it in minutes. Sea life does not like changes in turbidity and there is the potential for very far reaching problems lasting a very long time. Water takes about 400 years to go full cycle from surface to bottom to surface again.
Novell forked the code because they are putting toxic elements that are unacceptable to the Free and Open Source Software community. The quantity of work is not the same as quality, and goals and licensing are yet another pair of separate factors. Novell is acting as Microshat's proxy to poison the code pool. They weren't allowed to shit in the core project so they made fork and are polluting that. I would say use at your own risk but by you using it, you make computing worse for the rest of us. So don't use anything from Novell.
an Anglo-Saxon tale like Beowulf
A nitpick about literature heritage, the earliest copy of Beowulf is a translation written in Anglo-Saxon, not Anglo-saxon itself. So it is Anglo-saxon or English literature only the same way that Ibsen is.
In 2008 any standard issue Army computer would've...
But were they able to track down and deal with the individual(s) that deployed Microsoft products?
The military procurement procedures produce a solid paper trail even if on some occasions they produce nothing else. Had they deployed properly engineered products rather than brands infamous for bad design the problem would not have arisen. The US Navy will focus on open systems only, if it can stay clear of the old M$ contractors and M$ resellers.
"Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Never forget. Microsoft has never helped open source. They have only contributed to their own version of it, which is very much unlike open source as it was defined 10+ years ago."
M$ loved bees, too. See where their satanic majesties' affection subsequently took the bees within a few years.
and all sorts of hilarity ensued.
Especially if the EXIF data in the uploaded image was modified just so.
It was implied by the article that the spent grain, draff as it is called, is going to waste. I would really hope that is a mistake in the article.
Spent grain is very nutritious for livestock and unsurprisingly they love it, especially pigs. It's only the alcohol the distillers are interested in, but the farmers and their pigs are interested in the extra nutrients converted by the yeast that remain in the draff. There are also many old, traditional recipes for making bread from spent grain. I know a few that actually brew small beer just to have a supply of spent grain for these recipes.
These "byproducts" are very valuable economically even they might not have a high direct resale value. It's not too unlike metal shops and the filings swept up at the end of the day. I read about a fellow that had arranged to sweep shop floors at the end of each shift for free. After a few years, he had a small team of employees and was covering many shops in the region and turning a good profit. That was before the metal shortage. Once converted to meat or bread they have high value.
Even after 15 years, illegally tying MSIE to Windows is still happening. This anti-competitive activity has hurt standards, hurt competition, hurt the economy and held back the net.
There is even a form to report ongoing anti-trust violations, there are so many.
If M$ executives and employees would have ditched MSIE if security or performance were an issue. Opera and even Safari are far and above superior, if closed source is an obligation. Keeping MSIE in place AND keeping pieces of it throughout the OS show that there is no intention of MSIE being there to benefit the end-user in anyway. If we add up the cost over 15 years of all the MSIE malware in one column we will have an astronomical sum. If we then total the combined costs of all Opera, Netscape, Cameleon, Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, and Konqueror malware in another column and subtract that total of non-MSIE costs from the MSIE costs, we will still have an astronomical sum. Based on quarterly malware damage, the sum is probably in the range of 100's to 10's of thousands of billions of dollars. The Apollo program to the moon itself only cost 25 billion and we got integrated circuits out of that. Even for the unrealistically low sum of 1 billion dollars, what kind of rocking Free Software distro, applications or infrastructure could have been created? Even building a full distro from scratch we could have a full kernel, drivers, utilities, desktop, services, and applications for less.
You can put a stop to this and advance technology, economy and security by not feeding the Windows monopoly any more market share. Tagging this one as "antitrust".
Modern reactors are a lot cheaper, simpler and safer than the old ones. That's part of my point, decommission the old Soviet reactors instead of the modern, safe Western reactors.
The fact that the plant outside the core doesn't become radioactive over time helps. But you still have the problem of what to do with the spent fuel. Looking at the so-called test facilities for long term storage, there is a very large energy cost as the result of finding geologically safe places and digging and maintaining the storage facilities.
They're the same thing. You have material that is processed, packaged, transported to where energy is consumed, then picked up and reprocessed or stored.
In the case of fission, you're not creating any energy, just extracting it from the fissionables. After that you have a disposal problem.
So do alkaline batteries, but both are very inefficient and very, very expensive when all the costs over the lifecycle of the mass used in the product are counted.
If you have any contacts at the site you linked to, "home distiller", then have them fix their web site and get rid of or at least minimize all the scripting.
"I've helped several people with Windows reinstalls (just did it again this weekend, in fact, on a really nice, new Dell laptop that this person was ready to trash and replace after just a year) "
If they were as stupid as you assert, then why did you fuck them over by putting Windows on their computer? They only ever surf the web and send e-mail anyway. So why not set them up with a fresh Fedora or Ubuntu installation? It's easier for them to use and, unless you a bilking them for support fees, a gain for you.
It's a private company granted a monopoly. As such, the USPO is the worst kind of inefficiency and an egregious example of abusing government money to socialize the unprofitable aspects of postal service. The profitable aspects, that of parcel services, is given over to other private companies. Then there's the subsidized junk mail problem.
Between Amazon and eBay, and everything in between, there are more than enough small and large packages shipped here there and everywhere to keep a good profit. USPTO could be profitable if managed as if it was intended to be proftiable as a company or provide a services as a government agency. Instead it does neither, as a victim of B.I.G.G.A.S. ideology.
In addition to 'peak uranium', there is also a matter of cost shifting, either to other budgets or to future dates. There was some storage preparation made near where I lived once and storage facilities use not a small amount of energy to place, build, and operate. About fission, I have gone from cautious support for it to wanting it phased out. Not stopped suddenly or arbitrarily but phased out, keeping the cleanest, safest ones longest.
Again note that I say phased out, not cut out overnight. The newer ones are basically safe and newest ones like pebble bed are very good -- in the short term. It is dangerous and criminally irresponsible to allow the old Soviet reactors to stay in operation. And I object to the stupid practice of shutting down safe reactors in order to increase production in the unsafe reactors.
I still have hopes for fusion, but after all these decades, am no longer realistically expecting much effort to be made. What changed my mind about fission is the energy costs related to storing fission wastes. It looks like storage and waste management may use more energy than was produced by the fission that produced the waste. It's hard to tell and since the payment of that energy debt is pushed into the future, it is hard to get reliable or truthful assessments. Now if we can safely re-use fission byproducts as fuel, and clearly show a long term gain, then fine.