... I've just had a similar discussion with my frieds (greenish-dems, libertarianish-reps...) a couple of days ago. My solution was for the US to adopt a kind of ZERO-party policy (not one-party, Soviet-style -- where I am originally from -- nor "multi-party", "multi-" meaning, for all practical purposes, "two") -- more along the lines of, it would be illegal to be elected (at whatever level, but especially the highest one) on any party's platform, only on his/her own virtues/accomplishments/whatever...;-)
My friends liked the idea, but I am not sure if outright banning political parties would be acceptable for "The People"... OTOH, how different are the two major parties from the organized crime?;-)
anyone remember the I-opener ? that was a closed (qnx) turnkey just-does-this-and-no-more system.
Well, throw in a WiFi chip into it, shrink to 1/4 of the size (1/8 of the volume), as allowed by tech now, and I would not mind carrying such a beast around!;-) I guess they used to be called 'Palms', or some such, in the earlier days...
Seriously, a no-nonsense portable connected device - what can be wrong with it?
Paul B.
Seems to be a matter of reading 'man fstab' ...
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... pay particular attention to noexec flag -- yes, one can configure his/her generic U**x system not to be able to execute anything off "other media" (including home directories) for what, like, 20 years...;-)
Amazing what those guys back then thought of, is not it?
To a Capitalist, ability and capability is soley determined by price.
I am not sure if Vogue readers are hardened Capitalists, but I doubt that -- for the real ones, "ability and capability" is determined by profit, which is related to price in an (almost) linear way, but with a negative-sign coefficient...;-)
1) Cellphone minutes over here are not "free" (as in beer, but do not get me started on THAT!;-) ) in the US sense -- a normal plan would give you like 120 minutes/month -- but they'd be helpful enough to text you a message that you are 75%/100% close to your limit.
2) In Canada, the smallest bill is $5; rest are coins, loonies and toonies, rather heavy and unpleasant to haul around in your pocket... And it is like $1 CDN for half an hour of parking...
I guess I should be signing up for this service rather than chattin on/....;-)
I was always in favour of an idea that a judge who finally signs on a punishment for a person who is later found innocent would have to have to endure the same punishment him/herself... Would decrease the number of death sentences drastically, do not you think?
and that's one of the problems I see forthcoming: spying between politicians.
How old are you, exactly?!;-) Ever heard of Watergate? Google for 'Nixon' when you have time...
No, not a troll, just a good-spirited shock at how naive people can be to assume that politicians do not spy on each other! (And they better do that than spy on the rest of us!)
Well, I feel that you are thinking like a (hopefully non-;-) ) consumer of Windows and whatever antivirus program Symantec sells. If you think about this move from Symantec's business perspective, it is quite sound: Was not Vista supposed to come with the whole bunch of anntiviral tools from that otehr anti-virus company MS bought, pre-installed? If yes, than the most lucrative segment of Symantec's business is gone, they would have to re-cast themselves as, say "Linux security audit providers" (using their well- known brand!), and for that they need time which this move is buying...
... when I had to replace my wife's iPod they shipped the replacement the next day, but it took DHL like a week to understand that I will frigging stop by their office to pick it up, rather than pay non-return fee to Apple -- "No, we can not deliver to locked apartment buildings, and if we were to leave a notice that it arrived, it would be lost anyway..." -- at list this is my experience after moving to Vancouver, Canada.
Then if you allow SSH, I'll just have to use port 22 for all my filesharing. (Which means I have to run BitTorrent as root, and I'm not willing to do that....)
Why not?;-)
A "root" on one of the _virtual_ servers on your Linux box! Maybe you'll have to connect to some other port to ssh into your real system, but hey!...;-)
... and this is the best "astroturf" campaign I've seen so far -- maybe because it (the book, supposedly the moive) is really not that bad!
On the other hand, I moved on to read "Digital Fortress" and on the first couple dozen pages I realized "Hey, I can understand why a historian or a theologist might be all pissed at Da Vinci Code"! For starters, by definition you can not "brute force" all key length cyphers in almost constant time ("6 minutes to 3 hours"). I'd be much less distracted from the plot if the premise were that NSA knew about weaknesses in all modern stream cyphers which does NOT require brute force.
Of course there is a gem too obscure for general public but very funny for some people in my very small field of superconducting electronics -- the "top secret Cray/Josephsnon II computer". A group of would-be builders of just such a beast in late 90s (google for HTMT), which included myself, were appaled that it was already considered obsolete by the same organization which funded us!;-)
However, Kurth says there's a limit to the types of career vocations he will pursue. For instance, he says he recently turned down an offer from a pornography producer who wanted to become a mentor.
No, really... What teaches you the appreciation of the true meaning of good programming is under-powered hardware (for your task, of course) and hardware in real life will always feel underpowered if you ambitious enough.
You start coding at low-level, then learn that simple change of an algorithm helps more than all the lines of assembly code you sneaked into your program, you know...
Of course a PC which can run Excel under XP will not give a kid that challenge, but a good one will discover Mindstorms/STAMPs/PICs/FPGA ref. design boards/etc., and go from there.
I can only wish I'd have toys like this when I was growing up!
... Is NASA policy NEVER mentioning the industrial contractors whose engineers designed and whose techs actually build the damn this in their press releases.
I used to work for the company that built Hubble (at the time called TRW, now NGST), and it was considered (from within) one of their greatest achivements in the civilian/scientific spacecraft...
If you google now for "TRW Hubble" you'll find a whole bunch of articles mentioning that TRW was selected to build JWST, "Hubble replacement", but not too many mentioning that we did actually built the original Hubble. But it could be google's fault, after all!;-)
Paul B.
P.S. I had absolutely NOTHING to do with that program, but it still makes me sad for the guys who did.
Most real life CAD software (as in, what is used to build chips inside your little computer box or your cellphone) used to be (~8 years ago) on Solaris, occasional HP/AIX, Linux. Now it is Linux, Solaris, the rest are somewhat supported, but not exactly healthy... You can get some FPGA/PCB/Solid 3D CAD on Windows, but it is nowhere near the true industrial-strength quality. Think about it this way, if you pay $100,000 for a seat, it does not really matter how much the hardware is and Sun's was winning due to general stability/availability. IBM (the big Cadence shop) pushed Cadence to release the Linux version of their software simultaneously with the Solaris version about 5 years ago, since then Linux was gaining popularity...
There are no good techical reasons not to recompile something like this for OS-X, but if you can imagine porting a package which comes as a bookshelf of CDs from UN*X to Win API, I'd like some of the stuff you are smoking!;-)
... of Leasure Suit Larry II -- this is how old I am!;-) Still have to catch up with all those new MMORGS (BTW, anyone can suggest a client which would work on FC5?)
I'd rather see the school loan out computers, but requiring a security deposit.
Loan... Computers... For 3-5 years... ??? You know, though I'd generally agree with your comment (and even mod it up!), _computers_ is a kind of a thing you can _loan_, but not to someone you'd claim you care about!
Think what a 3 year old computer is worth now and come back with better solution...;-)
Of course it was reported all over that the reason for Apple switching to Intel processors was because of speed and power consumption -- this is what makes consumer happier ("Hey, an extra GHz!".
But another reason was that Apple was VERY unhappy for a while with the rate IBM produced PPC processors and their rather poor chip yields. Introducing more exotic SOI process would not help keeping these yields up, for sure!
We will see if IBM will be able to fulfill demand for PS3 Cell processors -- I wish them best, but...
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... I've just had a similar discussion with my frieds (greenish-dems, libertarianish-reps...) a couple of days ago. My solution was for the US to adopt a kind of ZERO-party policy (not one-party, Soviet-style -- where I am originally from -- nor "multi-party", "multi-" meaning, for all practical purposes, "two") -- more along the lines of, it would be illegal to be elected (at whatever level, but especially the highest one) on any party's platform, only on his/her own virtues/accomplishments/whatever... ;-)
;-)
My friends liked the idea, but I am not sure if outright banning political parties would be acceptable for "The People"... OTOH, how different are the two major parties from the organized crime?
Paul B.
anyone remember the I-opener ? that was a closed (qnx) turnkey just-does-this-and-no-more system.
;-) I guess they used to be called 'Palms', or some such, in the earlier days...
Well, throw in a WiFi chip into it, shrink to 1/4 of the size (1/8 of the volume), as allowed by tech now, and I would not mind carrying such a beast around!
Seriously, a no-nonsense portable connected device - what can be wrong with it?
Paul B.
... pay particular attention to noexec flag -- yes, one can configure his/her generic U**x system not to be able to execute anything off "other media" (including home directories) for what, like, 20 years... ;-)
Amazing what those guys back then thought of, is not it?
Paul B.
To a Capitalist, ability and capability is soley determined by price.
;-)
I am not sure if Vogue readers are hardened Capitalists, but I doubt that -- for the real ones, "ability and capability" is determined by profit, which is related to price in an (almost) linear way, but with a negative-sign coefficient...
Paul B.
1) Cellphone minutes over here are not "free" (as in beer, but do not get me started on THAT! ;-) ) in the US sense -- a normal plan would give you like 120 minutes/month -- but they'd be helpful enough to text you a message that you are 75%/100% close to your limit.
/. ... ;-)
2) In Canada, the smallest bill is $5; rest are coins, loonies and toonies, rather heavy and unpleasant to haul around in your pocket... And it is like $1 CDN for half an hour of parking...
I guess I should be signing up for this service rather than chattin on
Paul B.
I was always in favour of an idea that a judge who finally signs on a punishment for a person who is later found innocent would have to have to endure the same punishment him/herself... Would decrease the number of death sentences drastically, do not you think?
Paul B.
and that's one of the problems I see forthcoming: spying between politicians.
;-) Ever heard of Watergate? Google for 'Nixon' when you have time...
How old are you, exactly?!
No, not a troll, just a good-spirited shock at how naive people can be to assume that politicians do not spy on each other! (And they better do that than spy on the rest of us!)
Paul B.
Well, I feel that you are thinking like a (hopefully non- ;-) ) consumer of Windows and whatever antivirus program Symantec sells. If you think about this move from Symantec's business perspective, it is quite sound: Was not Vista supposed to come with the whole bunch of anntiviral tools from that otehr anti-virus company MS bought, pre-installed?
If yes, than the most lucrative segment of Symantec's
business is gone, they would have to re-cast themselves as,
say "Linux security audit providers" (using their well-
known brand!), and for that they need time which this move
is buying...
Just my $0.02,
Paul B.
... when I had to replace my wife's iPod they shipped the replacement the next day, but it took DHL like a week to understand that I will frigging stop by their office to pick it up, rather than pay non-return fee to Apple -- "No, we can not deliver to locked apartment buildings, and if we were to leave a notice that it arrived, it would be lost anyway..." -- at list this is my experience after moving to Vancouver, Canada.
Paul B.
Then if you allow SSH, I'll just have to use port 22 for all my filesharing. (Which means I have to run BitTorrent as root, and I'm not willing to do that....)
;-)
... ;-)
Why not?
A "root" on one of the _virtual_ servers on your Linux box! Maybe you'll have to connect to some other port to ssh into your real system, but hey!
Paul B,
... and this is the best "astroturf" campaign I've seen so far -- maybe because it (the book, supposedly the moive) is really not that bad!
;-)
On the other hand, I moved on to read "Digital Fortress" and on the first couple dozen pages I realized "Hey, I can understand why a historian or a theologist might be all pissed at Da Vinci Code"! For starters, by definition you can not "brute force" all key length cyphers in almost constant time ("6 minutes to 3 hours"). I'd be much less distracted from the plot if the premise were that NSA knew about weaknesses in all modern stream cyphers which does NOT require brute force.
Of course there is a gem too obscure for general public but very funny for some people in my very small field of superconducting electronics -- the "top secret Cray/Josephsnon II computer". A group of would-be builders of just such a beast in late 90s (google for HTMT), which included myself, were appaled that it was already considered obsolete by the same organization which funded us!
Paul B.
However, Kurth says there's a limit to the types of career vocations he will pursue. For instance, he says he recently turned down an offer from a pornography producer who wanted to become a mentor.
I guess, no luck...
Paul
No, really... What teaches you the appreciation of the true meaning of good programming is under-powered hardware (for your task, of course) and hardware in real life will always feel underpowered if you ambitious enough.
You start coding at low-level, then learn that simple change of an algorithm helps more than all the lines of assembly code you sneaked into your program, you know...
Of course a PC which can run Excel under XP will not give a kid that challenge, but a good one will discover Mindstorms/STAMPs/PICs/FPGA ref. design boards/etc., and go from there.
I can only wish I'd have toys like this when I was growing up!
Paul B.
Ok, OK, OK -- It was Chandra! (The X-ray one, you know...)
Yes, my fault -- keep downmodding me till noone can notice that I was totally wrong!
(And it does not distract from my main point -- that NASA does not like to give any credit to contractors, be it TRW or L-M.)
Paul
... Is NASA policy NEVER mentioning the industrial contractors whose engineers designed and whose techs actually build the damn this in their press releases.
;-)
I used to work for the company that built Hubble (at the time called TRW, now NGST), and it was considered (from within) one of their greatest achivements in the civilian/scientific spacecraft...
If you google now for "TRW Hubble" you'll find a whole bunch of articles mentioning that TRW was selected to build JWST, "Hubble replacement", but not too many mentioning that we did actually built the original Hubble. But it could be google's fault, after all!
Paul B.
P.S. I had absolutely NOTHING to do with that program, but it still makes me sad for the guys who did.
Most real life CAD software (as in, what is used to build chips inside your little computer box or your cellphone) used to be (~8 years ago) on Solaris, occasional HP/AIX, Linux. Now it is Linux, Solaris, the rest are somewhat supported, but not exactly healthy... You can get some FPGA/PCB/Solid 3D CAD on Windows, but it is nowhere near the true industrial-strength quality. Think about it this way, if you pay $100,000 for a seat, it does not really matter how much the hardware is and Sun's was winning due to general stability/availability. IBM (the big Cadence shop) pushed Cadence to release the Linux version of their software simultaneously with the Solaris version about 5 years ago, since then Linux was gaining popularity...
;-)
There are no good techical reasons not to recompile something like this for OS-X, but if you can imagine porting a package which comes as a bookshelf of CDs from UN*X to Win API, I'd like some of the stuff you are smoking!
Paul
... of Leasure Suit Larry II -- this is how old I am! ;-) Still have to catch up with all those new MMORGS (BTW, anyone can suggest a client which would work on FC5?)
Paul
Where are my (freshly expired) mod points!!!... ;-)
Paul B.
My other car is first.
No wonder he likes parentheses and pays particular attention to punctuation -- because it is so rare in his choice of programming language(s).
(I am of the same kind myself (as in, preferring functional LISP-like languages) ).
Paul B.
I'd rather see the school loan out computers, but requiring a security deposit.
;-)
Loan... Computers... For 3-5 years... ??? You know, though I'd generally agree with your comment (and even mod it up!), _computers_ is a kind of a thing you can _loan_, but not to someone you'd claim you care about!
Think what a 3 year old computer is worth now and come back with better solution...
Paul B.
devide is spelled as divide...
Just thought you might like the reference...
Paul B.
... to mod this one up! (posted before in this thread, you know...).
Paul B.
I've always wondered what's the point of these laws? I agree it is offensive to see a "NO MINORITIES" ad...
;-)
Would you feel the same about a "NO MINORS" ad (err, "disclaimer")?
Paul B.
There are millions (perhaps even an infinite number) of theory-variants...
;-) Big difference, you know...
But is this infinite number countable -- or is it continuous?
Paul B.
Of course it was reported all over that the reason for Apple switching to Intel processors was because of speed and power consumption -- this is what makes consumer happier ("Hey, an extra GHz!".
But another reason was that Apple was VERY unhappy for a while with the rate IBM produced PPC processors and their rather poor chip yields. Introducing more exotic SOI process would not help keeping these yields up, for sure!
We will see if IBM will be able to fulfill demand for PS3 Cell processors -- I wish them best, but...
Paul B.