It's probably time to automatically disconnect all infected computers from the internet, just as people with anti-social tendencies are isolated from society.
If only it were true that they really were concerned about increasing scientific integrity in public life. No doubt, as soon as the subject of AIDS comes up, politics will trump science. As soon as the subject of cannabis comes up, politics will trump science. The mention of creationism leads me to think that this will be a Johnny-one-note organization.
This may be wrong, but I read somewhere that Unix and its variants simply cannot have viruses, period. Only worms and trojans. This was supposedly due to their use of separate VM space for each process. Fact or urban myth?
In the wrong hands, symlinks are a handy means of rendering an otherwise clean system unmaintainable. I've seen this plenty of times on *nix boxes which were sloppily maintained.
Don't expect lean software from someone whose cubicle/computer space is messy. How many neat work spaces are there out there? How many lean programs? Coincidence? I think not.
"I've never been willing to remember (let alone type, every time I want to edit) the names of every one of my source files, when modern IDE's are designed to do it for me..."
People who do the above obviously don't know that one can simply grab the name of a source file in a list somewhere (like maybe an extra xterm sitting somewhere conveniently in view) and paste it onto a command line with one click after typing 'vi'.
(Granted, an IDE which brings up an editor with the right source file in it is easier for this particular task, but I still find IDEs rather confining after skating on the clean isomorphic ice of the Unix development enviromnent for so long.)
I think it is Windows which conditions people to constantly retype commands, due to their moronically stupid command-line windows.
I grew up using X-Windows on Unix systems, and I have always found the cut'n'paste dance to be quite clumsy. First you mouse something, then you go to a menu (or the keyboard), then you mouse again. Slow and time consuming.
I resent the one-size-fits-all mentality engendered by the MS monopoly. This sort of thing should be a user choice.
Good. Maybe when the vaccine is in wide use, and people are still dying of damaged immune systems, Gallo and his cronies at the CDC will be forced to admit that their HIV *hypothesis* is hysteria. FYI: http://www.duesberg.com
http://www.cqs.com/aids.htm
Is there finally a real use for the International Space Station, namely as a control platform for remote cybernetic 'robots'? A person could strap on a control mechanism allowing full freedom of movement of all limbs, without interference from gravitational force at the earths surface.
I would guess that a lot, if not most, of said correspondence is on one or more backup tapes somewhere. It takes a lot of tap dancing to explain away the disapearance of a backup tape.
Why are techie types so heavily drawn to fully automomous robots, virtually ignoring the vast potential inherent in the cybernetic enhancement of already-formidable human faculties?
Not quite. Bass frequencies were attenuated before cutting the disk in order to put the grooves closer together on the disk. Treble frequencies were boosted, so that noise could be correspondingly attenuated by the playback reverse equalization. Some of the first CDs were made with the vinyl RIAA eq. by mistake. Boy were the artists pissed!
Removing the noise is only the first step. A complete restoration would compensate for the transfer functions of the microphone and other recording equipment used for the particular recording. Need to archive and preserve all the recording equipment also!
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It's probably time to automatically disconnect all infected computers from the internet, just as people with anti-social tendencies are isolated from society.
If only it were true that they really were concerned about increasing scientific integrity in public life. No doubt, as soon as the subject of AIDS comes up, politics will trump science. As soon as the subject of cannabis comes up, politics will trump science. The mention of creationism leads me to think that this will be a Johnny-one-note organization.
This may be wrong, but I read somewhere that Unix and its variants simply cannot have viruses, period. Only worms and trojans. This was supposedly due to their use of separate VM space for each process. Fact or urban myth?
Might this finally be the "network appliance" that was possible to build 10 years ago, except for the lack of vision of all concerned?
Women are from Omicron Persei 7, men are from Omicron Persei 9.
Too bad Java Applets "lost" in the "marketplace".
"At one watt, we can cram 7.4 bits into one cycle of a sine wave..."
They're probably talking about bandwidth, not base carrier frequency.
In the wrong hands, symlinks are a handy means of rendering an otherwise clean system unmaintainable. I've seen this plenty of times on *nix boxes which were sloppily maintained.
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I can't wait to see what happens on Windows.
This ruling has as much logic as this hair-brained courts other recent finding that pot grown and used locally is "interstate Commerce".
This is a political court, not a court of law.
"Worth noting that it took almost 20 years for PCs in the corporate environment to actually have a positive impact on productivity"...
Worth noting that PCs did not have a positive impact on productivity until the WWW. Maybe the productivity gains are really due to the WWW.
-Women are from Omicron Persei 7, men are from Omicron Persei 9.
"Will it take a major internet terrorist attack like bringing down a power grid to make governments act?."
Yes.
Of course it will.
There's no info on what if anything they did to the
sound track. Maybe there's a way to get rid of that boxy "old movie" sound.
Don't vote: make mine count more.
Ie: 2 raised to the power of the number of integers,
equals the number of real numbers. I think this
can be credited to George Cantor.
What happens when the emulating system becomes obsolete? Do you emulate it in order to run the first emulator?
Don't expect lean software from someone whose cubicle/computer space is messy. How many neat work spaces are there out there? How many lean programs? Coincidence? I think not.
Is anyone running Common Desktop Environment (CDE) on Linux?
"It seems that a 1GB nano-tube based memory card should last the rest of your life."
Why would anyone ever need that much memory!
"I've never been willing to remember (let alone type, every time I want to edit) the names of every one of my source files, when modern IDE's are designed to do it for me..."
People who do the above obviously don't know that one can simply grab the name of a source file in a list somewhere (like maybe an extra xterm sitting somewhere conveniently in view) and paste it onto a command line with one click after typing 'vi'.
(Granted, an IDE which brings up an editor with the right source file in it is easier for this particular task, but I still find IDEs rather confining after skating on the clean isomorphic ice of the Unix development enviromnent for so long.)
I think it is Windows which conditions people to constantly retype commands, due to their moronically stupid command-line windows.
I grew up using X-Windows on Unix systems, and I have always found the cut'n'paste dance to be quite clumsy. First you mouse something, then you go to a menu (or the keyboard), then you mouse again. Slow and time consuming.
I resent the one-size-fits-all mentality engendered by the MS monopoly. This sort of thing should be a user choice.
Good. Maybe when the vaccine is in wide use, and people are still dying of damaged immune systems, Gallo and his cronies at the CDC will be forced to admit that their HIV *hypothesis* is hysteria.
FYI: http://www.duesberg.com
http://www.cqs.com/aids.htm
Is there finally a real use for the International Space Station, namely as a control platform for remote cybernetic 'robots'? A person could strap on a control mechanism allowing full freedom of movement of all limbs, without interference from gravitational force at the earths surface.
I would guess that a lot, if not most, of said correspondence is on one or more backup tapes somewhere. It takes a lot of tap dancing to explain away the disapearance of a backup tape.
Why are techie types so heavily drawn to fully automomous robots, virtually ignoring the vast potential inherent in the cybernetic enhancement of already-formidable human faculties?
Not quite.
Bass frequencies were attenuated before cutting the disk in order to put the grooves closer together on the disk. Treble frequencies were boosted, so that noise could be correspondingly attenuated by the playback reverse equalization.
Some of the first CDs were made with the vinyl RIAA eq. by mistake. Boy were the artists pissed!
Removing the noise is only the first step.
A complete restoration would compensate for the transfer functions of the microphone and other recording equipment used for the particular recording. Need to archive and preserve all the recording equipment also!