A person hears a lot of good things about New Zealand but also that it sways perhaps a little paternally authoritarian in being too politically correct and "protective". All debatable within the range of democratic practice but when the elected leaders put themselves above scorn that's a bit sinister.
More work for cartoonists and comedians? There's a radio show in the U.S. with skits by "Drunky McPukeShoes" which everyone understands is former Senate Majority Leader Tom DeLay. The MPs might be getting more than they asked for?
Z80 processor, "Sinclair" BASIC. Assembly language. Membrane keyboard with no lowercase.
Then I compounded the mistake with a Commodore! A whole _different_ processor! Commodore BASIC! Single-sided floppy drives.
And then the avalanche: X86, 286, 386, 486, 586, K6-III, AMD XP, K8. With DOS, Coherent, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, OS2 Warp, XP, Red Hat, Fedora, Debian.
Sweet Jesus, the horror of creativity and adaptation! No, far better to teach only one computer system and one set of programs on that computer system. Because if we all concentration really, really hard we can make time stop, right?
[I sometimes wonder how much this mentality correlates with the idea that there is really only one book a person ever needs to read for all time.]
Honestly, it seems for a quarter century now I've been reading that all the blind people in the work will be seeing with implanted photo-receptors "in just a few years". Stories about brain/digital interfaces have just become annoying to me.
Seriously, folks, we don't have habeas corpus anymore. So it's not hard to see an FBI agent say, "Don't want to incriminate yourself? Maybe turning you over to military authorities for an indeterminate stay in Gitmo until we have the time to get around to analyzing your machine could change your mind, ummmm?"
I'll wait for the John Stewart commentary on the meth-induced violence of lesbian biker hackers with AIDS who worship Satan and piss on flags while chanting "Hillary, Hillary".
FOX "news" is for fools. Old story. But I sometimes wonder whether they are happy to be the outrageous scapegoat of the left because it takes the heat off all the untrue crap on the other networks' "news". Seriously, the other networks are just puppies, kitties, drug commercials and 10 minutes of government propaganda too. Don't take my word for it. Count it up some day. That's where the real story is. FOX is beneath the contempt of any thinking person and only serves as fodder for dark comedy.
Harsh reality. Couldn't they send half the crew up passed-out and they wouldn't know what hit them in case of an explosion? Or are they _all_ doing crucial pre-flight check-offs?
But you have to figure a case of the twirlies in space will be a future CIA "harsh interrogation" technique.
Instead of that evil, old inefficient government actually doing some coordinated work.
Makes sense. Contractor doesn't give a crap. What's in it for him? And what formal or informal authority does he have to help establish a responsible backup storage plan? So, hey, the kid's car _was_ off-site storage.
Late last month the House voted to prohibit the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from spending federal money on Executive Order 13422. Democrats called the order a "power grab."
So it'll get enforced with oil industry money funneled through the RNC? Could just as well. The White House has it's own email system run through the RNC so they don't have to be accountable. Funding the "anti-science" wing of government would be an even better tax write-off for corporations.
Especially bumpy road in U.S. news this week with a handful if "interesting" revelations. And it's only Tuesday.
I quit lusting over cool hardware several years ago but it doesn't mean everybody will.
The article strikes a chord though because I've put 80 Plus PSes in two machines so far this summer, one of them a down-wattage, and I'm lusting over one of those Asus $299 linux subnotebooks in the works to replace my old Satellite.
I've only had an X86 box at home since the 80s and only this year putting XP Pro on a qemu cylinder with a Samba share _finally_ got me to rigidly separate the OS that I can zip tar and burn to DVDs for backup and the data on the Samba share that I can backup regularly. Now if I can benefit from the example and get more professional about the greater linux machines in the home.
And as Abbie Hoffman, the alpha Yippie, sung along on acid at Woodstock,
"We WILL get fooled again!! YEEAAAHHH!!!"
I wrote Paul Wellstone (practically a Democratic Saint after the crash) about the unanimous vote on the DMCA: how it was a mockery of competition by making it a felony to play a lawfully purchased DVD on linux, was technological naive and the like.
He replied that it was the right thing to do and he'd do it again. Hey, the money for the political ads has to come from somewhere. You think "gas and oil" you think Cheney and Republicans, right? Why is it so unthinkable that when you hear "Democrats" you should think MPAA and RIAA? It probably salves their consciences that the product delights people and no baby seals were slaughtered in the process.
What really hurts is that John Conyers is one of the few people chronicling the abuses of the Bush administration and he has RIAA money.
Not to start off too negatively but make sure you have warm relationships and firm understandings with the "Commerce Departments" of the African nations involved from the beginning as well. _They_ should be your central concern and you didn't mention that, right? You might look at the example of the British do-gooder who started the FreePlay solar/crank radio plant in Cape Provence. Initially, he had a lot of trouble with regulations from South Africa in getting the plant operational and then he found out that many African countries aren't particularly eager to support media access for its citizens. The radios ended up being more successful with American boaters, campers and grillers.
"Africa" is a broad generalization but I wouldn't underestimate the latter point even in this day -- particularly in central Africa. Sure, we can get magazines imported into the U.S. like New African -- but where were they actually printed? Even publishing is a surprisingly small native industry. South Africa didn't get television until the 70s for gosh sakes -- for the same reasons of political censorship as similarly repressive black African countries. The truth standard has been BBC shortwave for decades and I think there is still a lot of hostility from governments when you tell them you want to introduce "your truth" from the outside instead of the truth they give their people. Bless their innocent little minds, perhaps because of the standard the BBC has set for plain spoken truth, I'm not sure this "you vs. us" mentality is the worst evil. I don't believe even South Africa started broadly using sophisticated Madison Avenue techniques like "It's an implicit message that it's your own fault you're a real loser if you aren't [insert billboard of affluent Soweto living room enjoying KWV wine]" until the last years of apartheid. I'm just saying don't underestimate the need to clearly and directly sell the benefits of access to the governments involved as well as address their fears about introducing a new data channel into their countries and form some firm relationships in doing so. And do it early because it will greatly increase your credibility when looking for resources.
Just offshore cable to a hub? Or are you going in-land? Be aware of African's challenges. One reason Africa is skipping copper and going wireless is that the people will strip the copper off the poles as fast as you can put it up, right? Just look at all the horrible gas line explosions in Nigeria as people tap into pipelines to collect buckets of gas. Things like that that we can't imagine here.
Looks like you are still brainstorming and data gathering. Aside from contact with the African countries involved, check out a good business library (with access to business information databases) and that should help you put together your business plan that will direct you toward the people you need to contact. And an adequately detailed plan means you have the base to present to them.
Actually, adding the complexity of all this virtualization into the kernel is a little scary to me.
I just upgraded my wife on Debian Sarge testing with a Win4Lin 2.4-27 kernel. Web designer who demanded PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash, and IE but the Win98 Win4Lin base and apps were getting dated. Did a dist upgrade to Etch Stable and installed XP Pro on QEMU with kqemu. Was good. The kqemu performance was very adequate, net, samba share and got her apps working.
But then I upgraded to Etch testing. First, qemu itself had changed -- blog rumor says he changed the base virtualized hardware and my XP didn't start. Downgraded and pinned that. Couldn't use the 2.6-21 kernel with nvidia. I understand it has been a function issue within the paravirtualization. Could work around that an easy way -- in which case qemu wouldn't work again. Or I understand a person can hack some source. Also, I let a bochsbios upgrade slip in. Another package that killed qemu that I had to downgrade and pin.
So I ended up with sort of a Debian Etch testing but with several packages pinned back to stable that works fine but it has been a bit of a minefield. And it is my understanding that the virtualization built into the kernel is at the heart of the problem.
They probably read it as Divine Millennial Creationism Act.
We've come a long way in my lifetime. I lived in a state college dorm that had a "don't hassle the marijuana users" policy in 1970. An RA lost his job for ignoring the dorm drug dealer when the college refused to accept his logic that the users wouldn't have anything to use without their dealer. Remember that the DMCA applies to using libdvdcss to watch a legally acquired DVD on linux. So an RA could be aiding and abetting a felon for failure to narc on a guy watching his DVD collection on linux.
In for 100 meg, in for the CD I guess. But I better be able to hear a pin drop in quiet moments. In 5-1.
Sheesh. The Australian linux club a few years ago put a whole bunch of the 2-hour lectures of a multi-day conference on a CD.iso using speex with room for photos, Powerpoint presentations, souvenir video and the HTML framework.
A 275 pp pulp I got at a precocious age still devoted a significant percentage to analog. But, then, 5 years later Pickering was still offering high school classes bulk rates on slide rules.
Heh, heh. Seagate utilities or not -- The way a linux person might love nvidia, I had a soft spot for Matrox because they were pretty much _the_ company that supported accelerated OS/2. But that was a long time ago. Man, not competitive with nvidia on price so we get all these niche-market things. That said, I have an old 32 meg dual-head DVI that I'm keeping because I think it would be ideal for a machine I want to run Xen.
If there's something the world probably didn't need, it's another planar walker
I think that is unfair. They are experimenting with a _different_ paradigm. And the article finishes with the call for further research in adapting to other terrains and the like.
These "baby steps" are precisely the concise research AI needs. It looks like they have made progress in how people _really_ walk. OK, so building on that foundation let's continue work on the interfaces and control units to sense, recognize and adapt to changing conditions.
If there is any generalization about real world AI that holds true, it is in how much the difficulty is under-appreciated.
I have to agree. This seems like a weak story. Sure, there are a lot of databases, the government has access to them, and I think we can all agree that they _could_ be, might be, maybe even _are_, for all we know, being used for unpleasant things and that it's an important current issue in society.
But this story isn't about that. If you don't weed through databases and look for correlations among them, how do you find identify theft? Hang around ATMs waiting for somebody who looks suspicious?
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Finally! That should put to rest those arguments on /. about whether Microsoft is a classy company or not.
What is it with home improvements and political corruption? "Hey, how about a nice patio or pool? Nobody'll _ever_ notice!"
We had a local politician the other year using government employee time to build him a deck.
TV commercials notwithstanding, there are oddly no mountainous dirt roads and swamps between my home and work.
A person hears a lot of good things about New Zealand but also that it sways perhaps a little paternally authoritarian in being too politically correct and "protective". All debatable within the range of democratic practice but when the elected leaders put themselves above scorn that's a bit sinister.
More work for cartoonists and comedians? There's a radio show in the U.S. with skits by "Drunky McPukeShoes" which everyone understands is former Senate Majority Leader Tom DeLay. The MPs might be getting more than they asked for?
Z80 processor, "Sinclair" BASIC. Assembly language. Membrane keyboard with no lowercase.
Then I compounded the mistake with a Commodore! A whole _different_ processor! Commodore BASIC! Single-sided floppy drives.
And then the avalanche: X86, 286, 386, 486, 586, K6-III, AMD XP, K8. With DOS, Coherent, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, OS2 Warp, XP, Red Hat, Fedora, Debian.
Sweet Jesus, the horror of creativity and adaptation! No, far better to teach only one computer system and one set of programs on that computer system. Because if we all concentration really, really hard we can make time stop, right?
[I sometimes wonder how much this mentality correlates with the idea that there is really only one book a person ever needs to read for all time.]
Honestly, it seems for a quarter century now I've been reading that all the blind people in the work will be seeing with implanted photo-receptors "in just a few years". Stories about brain/digital interfaces have just become annoying to me.
Citizen, don't get caught looking suspicious.
Seriously, folks, we don't have habeas corpus anymore. So it's not hard to see an FBI agent say, "Don't want to incriminate yourself? Maybe turning you over to military authorities for an indeterminate stay in Gitmo until we have the time to get around to analyzing your machine could change your mind, ummmm?"
I'll wait for the John Stewart commentary on the meth-induced violence of lesbian biker hackers with AIDS who worship Satan and piss on flags while chanting "Hillary, Hillary".
FOX "news" is for fools. Old story. But I sometimes wonder whether they are happy to be the outrageous scapegoat of the left because it takes the heat off all the untrue crap on the other networks' "news". Seriously, the other networks are just puppies, kitties, drug commercials and 10 minutes of government propaganda too. Don't take my word for it. Count it up some day. That's where the real story is. FOX is beneath the contempt of any thinking person and only serves as fodder for dark comedy.
Harsh reality. Couldn't they send half the crew up passed-out and they wouldn't know what hit them in case of an explosion? Or are they _all_ doing crucial pre-flight check-offs?
But you have to figure a case of the twirlies in space will be a future CIA "harsh interrogation" technique.
Instead of that evil, old inefficient government actually doing some coordinated work.
Makes sense. Contractor doesn't give a crap. What's in it for him? And what formal or informal authority does he have to help establish a responsible backup storage plan? So, hey, the kid's car _was_ off-site storage.
Late last month the House voted to prohibit the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from spending federal money on Executive Order 13422. Democrats called the order a "power grab."
So it'll get enforced with oil industry money funneled through the RNC? Could just as well. The White House has it's own email system run through the RNC so they don't have to be accountable. Funding the "anti-science" wing of government would be an even better tax write-off for corporations.
Especially bumpy road in U.S. news this week with a handful if "interesting" revelations. And it's only Tuesday.
I quit lusting over cool hardware several years ago but it doesn't mean everybody will.
The article strikes a chord though because I've put 80 Plus PSes in two machines so far this summer, one of them a down-wattage, and I'm lusting over one of those Asus $299 linux subnotebooks in the works to replace my old Satellite.
I've only had an X86 box at home since the 80s and only this year putting XP Pro on a qemu cylinder with a Samba share _finally_ got me to rigidly separate the OS that I can zip tar and burn to DVDs for backup and the data on the Samba share that I can backup regularly. Now if I can benefit from the example and get more professional about the greater linux machines in the home.
And as Abbie Hoffman, the alpha Yippie, sung along on acid at Woodstock,
"We WILL get fooled again!! YEEAAAHHH!!!"
I wrote Paul Wellstone (practically a Democratic Saint after the crash) about the unanimous vote on the DMCA: how it was a mockery of competition by making it a felony to play a lawfully purchased DVD on linux, was technological naive and the like.
He replied that it was the right thing to do and he'd do it again. Hey, the money for the political ads has to come from somewhere. You think "gas and oil" you think Cheney and Republicans, right? Why is it so unthinkable that when you hear "Democrats" you should think MPAA and RIAA? It probably salves their consciences that the product delights people and no baby seals were slaughtered in the process.
What really hurts is that John Conyers is one of the few people chronicling the abuses of the Bush administration and he has RIAA money.
Not to start off too negatively but make sure you have warm relationships and firm understandings with the "Commerce Departments" of the African nations involved from the beginning as well. _They_ should be your central concern and you didn't mention that, right? You might look at the example of the British do-gooder who started the FreePlay solar/crank radio plant in Cape Provence. Initially, he had a lot of trouble with regulations from South Africa in getting the plant operational and then he found out that many African countries aren't particularly eager to support media access for its citizens. The radios ended up being more successful with American boaters, campers and grillers.
"Africa" is a broad generalization but I wouldn't underestimate the latter point even in this day -- particularly in central Africa. Sure, we can get magazines imported into the U.S. like New African -- but where were they actually printed? Even publishing is a surprisingly small native industry. South Africa didn't get television until the 70s for gosh sakes -- for the same reasons of political censorship as similarly repressive black African countries. The truth standard has been BBC shortwave for decades and I think there is still a lot of hostility from governments when you tell them you want to introduce "your truth" from the outside instead of the truth they give their people. Bless their innocent little minds, perhaps because of the standard the BBC has set for plain spoken truth, I'm not sure this "you vs. us" mentality is the worst evil. I don't believe even South Africa started broadly using sophisticated Madison Avenue techniques like "It's an implicit message that it's your own fault you're a real loser if you aren't [insert billboard of affluent Soweto living room enjoying KWV wine]" until the last years of apartheid. I'm just saying don't underestimate the need to clearly and directly sell the benefits of access to the governments involved as well as address their fears about introducing a new data channel into their countries and form some firm relationships in doing so. And do it early because it will greatly increase your credibility when looking for resources.
Just offshore cable to a hub? Or are you going in-land? Be aware of African's challenges. One reason Africa is skipping copper and going wireless is that the people will strip the copper off the poles as fast as you can put it up, right? Just look at all the horrible gas line explosions in Nigeria as people tap into pipelines to collect buckets of gas. Things like that that we can't imagine here.
Looks like you are still brainstorming and data gathering. Aside from contact with the African countries involved, check out a good business library (with access to business information databases) and that should help you put together your business plan that will direct you toward the people you need to contact. And an adequately detailed plan means you have the base to present to them.
Actually, adding the complexity of all this virtualization into the kernel is a little scary to me.
I just upgraded my wife on Debian Sarge testing with a Win4Lin 2.4-27 kernel. Web designer who demanded PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash, and IE but the Win98 Win4Lin base and apps were getting dated. Did a dist upgrade to Etch Stable and installed XP Pro on QEMU with kqemu. Was good. The kqemu performance was very adequate, net, samba share and got her apps working.
But then I upgraded to Etch testing. First, qemu itself had changed -- blog rumor says he changed the base virtualized hardware and my XP didn't start. Downgraded and pinned that. Couldn't use the 2.6-21 kernel with nvidia. I understand it has been a function issue within the paravirtualization. Could work around that an easy way -- in which case qemu wouldn't work again. Or I understand a person can hack some source. Also, I let a bochsbios upgrade slip in. Another package that killed qemu that I had to downgrade and pin.
So I ended up with sort of a Debian Etch testing but with several packages pinned back to stable that works fine but it has been a bit of a minefield. And it is my understanding that the virtualization built into the kernel is at the heart of the problem.
They probably read it as Divine Millennial Creationism Act.
We've come a long way in my lifetime. I lived in a state college dorm that had a "don't hassle the marijuana users" policy in 1970. An RA lost his job for ignoring the dorm drug dealer when the college refused to accept his logic that the users wouldn't have anything to use without their dealer. Remember that the DMCA applies to using libdvdcss to watch a legally acquired DVD on linux. So an RA could be aiding and abetting a felon for failure to narc on a guy watching his DVD collection on linux.
In for 100 meg, in for the CD I guess. But I better be able to hear a pin drop in quiet moments. In 5-1.
.iso using speex with room for photos, Powerpoint presentations, souvenir video and the HTML framework.
Sheesh. The Australian linux club a few years ago put a whole bunch of the 2-hour lectures of a multi-day conference on a CD
In other words, pretty stupid, guys.
But I'm moving into the future right now.
I seem to remember Zeno thought it illogical. But that was in my past.
A 275 pp pulp I got at a precocious age still devoted a significant percentage to analog. But, then, 5 years later Pickering was still offering high school classes bulk rates on slide rules.
it isn't a bad goal to fall short of.
Spoken as a Debian user with Nvidia drivers, Doom 3 and such on the hard drive.
I guess the motto is, "I'd rather be a hypocritical idealist than an unprincipled 'realist'".
Heh, heh. Seagate utilities or not -- The way a linux person might love nvidia, I had a soft spot for Matrox because they were pretty much _the_ company that supported accelerated OS/2. But that was a long time ago. Man, not competitive with nvidia on price so we get all these niche-market things. That said, I have an old 32 meg dual-head DVI that I'm keeping because I think it would be ideal for a machine I want to run Xen.
not having doors on the toilets?
Not to mention orgies. (not just in factories and the military)
If there's something the world probably didn't need, it's another planar walker
I think that is unfair. They are experimenting with a _different_ paradigm. And the article finishes with the call for further research in adapting to other terrains and the like.
These "baby steps" are precisely the concise research AI needs. It looks like they have made progress in how people _really_ walk. OK, so building on that foundation let's continue work on the interfaces and control units to sense, recognize and adapt to changing conditions.
If there is any generalization about real world AI that holds true, it is in how much the difficulty is under-appreciated.
I have to agree. This seems like a weak story. Sure, there are a lot of databases, the government has access to them, and I think we can all agree that they _could_ be, might be, maybe even _are_, for all we know, being used for unpleasant things and that it's an important current issue in society.
But this story isn't about that. If you don't weed through databases and look for correlations among them, how do you find identify theft? Hang around ATMs waiting for somebody who looks suspicious?