First off - It's expensive or impractical to do alot of things with LEO's that people do today with Geosynchronous satellites. Example - Satellite TV? Any sort of broadcast media doesn't work real well with the current LEO system (it could -but it is MUCH more expensive.)
For instance - Iridium had 60 some odd satellites to get world wide coverage. You would probably have to have a similar number to give a single location 24 hour coverage....(not cheap...)
Now to the issue of India having this technology. What if Pakistan and India decide to have an arm's race. That is just one de-stabalizing possibility.
Maybe it'll be with China?
Then there is the issue of other technologies like weapons of mass distruction that always come along with this path. Will India sell these to third world countries.
Yes - the US is probably worried - along with all of India's neighbors (that includes Russia, Pakistan, and China for starters...)
From my point of view - we are not wise enough socially or scientifically to start messing with our own DNA in this way. I think this is a technology that should be left on the shelf. The fact that you CAN do something doesn't mean it should be done!
That isn't to say that there isn't reasonable and ethical uses for cloning technology - say from stem cells to build a new liver for someone, or similar approaches...but entire beings - nope- should be done!
This post is bad science - how about some "observational science." A gay friend and I were brought together due to the un-timely death of a mutual friend. I mentioned that it had been a pretty bad year with this being the 5th funeral that year.... he mentioned that this was the 33rd funeral he'd been to in the last two years. Most all of these were due to AIDS....all these people had also had HIV...
D'uh!
As for the companies spending only one third of their capital on research. Maybe it would suprise some of you folks to know that the average High-Tech corporation only spends 10% to 15% on their R&D. So a 33% spending rate on R&D is amazingly high. It's truly astounding what you can do with just a little more information..
Sheesh!
(Now I'm going to go lite some candles before the lites go out do to lack of power around here...where is that Generator switch?)
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EDA dump files are BIG too. Try simulating a 1 million gate design and see how big the dump file gets for a reasonable run. We're talking several GBytes very quickly.
D'uh!
Interesting observation, but I think you're cause and effect are a bit off. I don't remember the exact dates, but there was a period rougly around 68-76 where the death penalty wasn't available in the US due to supreme court rulings. That changed in the late 70's.
Just a slight correction here. It wasn't the poor design of NT that killed NT on these processors, it was market realities! Number of Intel processors shipped / number of Alphas shipped = near infinity! (no division by zero detected either...)
Uhm - excuse me but ALL new designs that are power sensitive applications use CMOS design technologies today, not Bipolar Junction transistors(BJT's) (If you don't believe me - take a look at my profile;-)
As for this embedded browser being to big, nope. I've recently been on a hunt for such things commercially, and 2.5Mb is within the nominal range of such products (between 1Mb and 3Mb) and this guy is touting ALL the features I was seeing people charge 1Million dollars for!
Were as I drove a 84 300ZX for 11 years - about the same distance between that and a 240Z as there is between a 0.12 kernel (my first) and a 2.4.x kernel;-)
A few points here from one who watched the Linus vs Andy T debate in real time.
It is well know what Linus thinks of Microkernels, while QNX (which was quite spiffy on an IBM PC-1!) proves that all microkernels are not created equal.
The Linux of today is not nearly as peppy compared to the Linux of yesteryear performance wise. At the same time, the first Linux kernels could only handle 64Mb processes. The original Linux was like a Datsun 240Z compared to your Grand-dad's DeSoto. Not alot of features - but it was FAST.
Compared to Minix at the time - it was lightyears ahead! Minix was REALLY designed to STAY on a 8088.
Finally - if Microkernels were God's gift to the world. Why did it take 10 years to get to a useable state, while Linux got there in less than two years?
Centralized, i.e. a world government. You say it is autocratic - how so? Autocratic implies absolute and despotic. There is a ruling assembly made up of those with a franchise. The franchise is available to anyone willing to do federal service. This isn't a closed system, but one with a particular set of rules for entry. There aren't any other criteria like "you have to own land" or your skin is of a certain color," or your uncle is "The great leader." How is this either absolute or despotic?
A dictatorship of a tiny minority of veterans - Hmm, how do you know that the veterans are a minority? Does it say so in the book? Maybe they are the majority group in this society? (Probably not but the book doesn't go to that level of detail does it?)
Hmm - massive economic and social regimentation. If you look at the first part of the book, it isn't really that regimented. The military aspect certainly is...but what military isn't? Please demonstrate this point from the book?
I'd say you read the book and assigned these additional properties to the government. Now that is certainly a fair thing to do while reading the book, but it also opens up the possibility that others read it and walked away with different assumptions when filling in the details in their own mind.
Please tell me what details in the book beyond the "world government" and the fact that the vote only goes to veterans?
Ah - good debating technique - don't like the definition of something, ignore it or merely say it ain't so.
Look, I got the definition from a main-stream dictionary. It includes ALL of the aspects of facism. You don't get points for claiming it isn't any good just because you don't like the definition.
Now - try answering the question posed. How is ST illustrating a fascist government. Use this definition or don't bother answering.
You still didn't answer the first question. How is the society in "Starship troopers" Fascist? You bandy about the term (as did the reviewers of the movie) without really looking it up to validate that it applies. How does that society fit the definition?
Hmm - first I wanted just wanted to present the definition of "fascist" from the Meriam-webster dictionary.
"a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation an often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition"
Okay - in Star Ship Troopers - the only people allowed to vote are veterans. Anyone can join up and do federal service. There is no dictator present, but an elected assembly if I remember correctly. I also don't see any representation that the state is greater than the individual in this government. Individuals are free to pursue their individual interests. The main limitiation is the right of francise in choosing the government. You have to be a veteran.
So - please explain how this is fascist?
Lastly - did you know that Asimov and Heinlien respected each other considerably. You'll find that Asimov dedicated at least one book to RAH if you bother to look.
Now to the book at hand. RAH was a story teller. He did go in for some social comment, but he was much more interested in telling a compelling story. If you bothered to look into it you'd find that he was considerably bothered by the 60's era reaction to this book. He didn't expected it, and it was rather a pain in the but as described by his wife in "Grumblings from the Grave"
Me thinks you take things to seriously. Further, if you don't like RAH's writtings, why did you bother to read three of his books?
Just curious who you work for. Do you wish them to go out of business so that you can't make a living? Or are you just generally against all capitalistic efforts?
Look - shooting a company for trying to be successful in what they do to make money is nonsense.
China is trying to claim national soverienty over a language representation? Uhm - bet Taiwan is pissed! For that matter, doesn't Japanese use the same pictographs for part of their language?
Back in around 1980 - soon after I graduated from college, California passed a law that stated that any work done without company resources on your own time was yours and no-one elses. My understanding was that the state law invalidated any employment contract that claimed to the contrary. I know this because my then employer sent out a memo explaining things.
SO - if you are doing work for the university, and the university is in CA, then you are covered by this situation. Any work you do on University time or on their equipment is owned by them -simple work for hire situation. Any work you do using your own resources is owned by you exclusively.
What I don't understand was at some point it wasn't legal to patent ISA's. See IBM versus Amdahl as the example. I thought this got litigated on during the 70's and IBM lost? But then, you would think patenting algorithms, i.e. natural laws was illegal. Guess that's changed somewhere along the line.
That is pure nonsense. ANYTHING that is written automatically has a level of copyright available to it. If a work is created "for hire" like a memo written by an employee of a firm, you can safely assume that it owned by the company, and that the company holds the copyright to the document. End of discussion!
Well - the VERY first time I used an NT-4 box I tried to open a file with Wordpad from a floppy. Turns out the floppy was damaged. Got my self a complete reboot on that one.
Think about that for a second. A damaged file and an editor took out the OS?
To be fair, I used another NT box for half a year (mostly running an X server to access unix boxes) and didn't have any problems. But that was all these boxes did.
As for journaling files sytems, when the journaling file systems from SGI, or IBM are considered, and they are out of beta, that is a moot argument. This is happening REAL fast, so that argument also goes away Real Soon Now.
You want real world examples of Linux reliability. HMMM - Google, and Deja come immediately to mind. I'd also like an answer as to why Hotmail couldn't be run on NT4? Hmmmm???
There are also several clustering technologies (and I don't think Beowulf, etc should be considered - they need to be web oriented stuff) that are coming along. TurboLinux has such an offering, and has had such for better than a year. You'll just dismiss it because it's from a "small company." I'm afraid that is a non-argument. Such things exist already.
Seems after consideration of your entire tome here - you had nothing useful to say;-)
In the Merkey rant that was printed in "Kernel Traffic" he mentioned having dirt on MS that would take care of any serious threats. Don't know what it was though.
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First off - It's expensive or impractical to do alot of things with LEO's that people do today with Geosynchronous satellites. Example - Satellite TV? Any sort of broadcast media doesn't work real well with the current LEO system (it could -but it is MUCH more expensive.)
For instance - Iridium had 60 some odd satellites to get world wide coverage. You would probably have to have a similar number to give a single location 24 hour coverage....(not cheap...)
Now to the issue of India having this technology. What if Pakistan and India decide to have an arm's race. That is just one de-stabalizing possibility.
Maybe it'll be with China?
Then there is the issue of other technologies like weapons of mass distruction that always come along with this path. Will India sell these to third world countries.
Yes - the US is probably worried - along with all of India's neighbors (that includes Russia, Pakistan, and China for starters...)
Absolutely! Scientists SHOULD know better.
Heck - everyone KNOWS it is the cell phones that 20 some-things are using that are killing their brain cells!
This argument is morally corrupt in my mind.
I have the technology to build an H-bomb, and the material. So I go build one and use it.
I must have been ready!?!
Exchange the H-bomb for cloning. It's a simple argument, but I think/believe the technology you are talking about is JUST as influential.
If you read the whole post, you'll find that I think there are places where the technology is useful and a reasonable application.
What I object to is the cloning of the entire being. I think THAT is where we should just not bother to go.
From my point of view - we are not wise enough socially or scientifically to start messing with our own DNA in this way. I think this is a technology that should be left on the shelf. The fact that you CAN do something doesn't mean it should be done!
That isn't to say that there isn't reasonable and ethical uses for cloning technology - say from stem cells to build a new liver for someone, or similar approaches...but entire beings - nope- should be done!
This post is bad science - how about some "observational science." A gay friend and I were brought together due to the un-timely death of a mutual friend. I mentioned that it had been a pretty bad year with this being the 5th funeral that year.... he mentioned that this was the 33rd funeral he'd been to in the last two years. Most all of these were due to AIDS....all these people had also had HIV...
D'uh!
As for the companies spending only one third of their capital on research. Maybe it would suprise some of you folks to know that the average High-Tech corporation only spends 10% to 15% on their R&D. So a 33% spending rate on R&D is amazingly high. It's truly astounding what you can do with just a little more information..
Sheesh!
(Now I'm going to go lite some candles before the lites go out do to lack of power around here...where is that Generator switch?)
EDA dump files are BIG too. Try simulating a 1 million gate design and see how big the dump file gets for a reasonable run. We're talking several GBytes very quickly. D'uh!
Interesting observation, but I think you're cause and effect are a bit off. I don't remember the exact dates, but there was a period rougly around 68-76 where the death penalty wasn't available in the US due to supreme court rulings. That changed in the late 70's.
;-)
Try again.
Wouldn't XML do this job? (speaking as one who doesn't know to much about same?)
Just a slight correction here. It wasn't the poor design of NT that killed NT on these processors, it was market realities! Number of Intel processors shipped / number of Alphas shipped = near infinity! (no division by zero detected either...)
I know it's flame bait - but I'll give you one product you may have heard of. Tivo is a linux based product.
;-)
Just takes one now doesn't it
Uhm - excuse me but ALL new designs that are power sensitive applications use CMOS design technologies today, not Bipolar Junction transistors(BJT's) (If you don't believe me - take a look at my profile ;-)
As for this embedded browser being to big, nope. I've recently been on a hunt for such things commercially, and 2.5Mb is within the nominal range of such products (between 1Mb and 3Mb) and this guy is touting ALL the features I was seeing people charge 1Million dollars for!
Were as I drove a 84 300ZX for 11 years - about the same distance between that and a 240Z as there is between a 0.12 kernel (my first) and a 2.4.x kernel ;-)
A few points here from one who watched the Linus vs Andy T debate in real time.
It is well know what Linus thinks of Microkernels, while QNX (which was quite spiffy on an IBM PC-1!) proves that all microkernels are not created equal.
The Linux of today is not nearly as peppy compared to the Linux of yesteryear performance wise. At the same time, the first Linux kernels could only handle 64Mb processes. The original Linux was like a Datsun 240Z compared to your Grand-dad's DeSoto. Not alot of features - but it was FAST.
Compared to Minix at the time - it was lightyears ahead! Minix was REALLY designed to STAY on a 8088.
Finally - if Microkernels were God's gift to the world. Why did it take 10 years to get to a useable state, while Linux got there in less than two years?
Centralized, i.e. a world government. You say it is autocratic - how so? Autocratic implies absolute and despotic. There is a ruling assembly made up of those with a franchise. The franchise is available to anyone willing to do federal service. This isn't a closed system, but one with a particular set of rules for entry. There aren't any other criteria like "you have to own land" or your skin is of a certain color," or your uncle is "The great leader." How is this either absolute or despotic?
A dictatorship of a tiny minority of veterans - Hmm, how do you know that the veterans are a minority? Does it say so in the book? Maybe they are the majority group in this society? (Probably not but the book doesn't go to that level of detail does it?)
Hmm - massive economic and social regimentation. If you look at the first part of the book, it isn't really that regimented. The military aspect certainly is...but what military isn't? Please demonstrate this point from the book?
I'd say you read the book and assigned these additional properties to the government. Now that is certainly a fair thing to do while reading the book, but it also opens up the possibility that others read it and walked away with different assumptions when filling in the details in their own mind.
Please tell me what details in the book beyond the "world government" and the fact that the vote only goes to veterans?
Ah - good debating technique - don't like the definition of something, ignore it or merely say it ain't so.
Look, I got the definition from a main-stream dictionary. It includes ALL of the aspects of facism. You don't get points for claiming it isn't any good just because you don't like the definition.
Now - try answering the question posed. How is ST illustrating a fascist government. Use this definition or don't bother answering.
You still didn't answer the first question. How is the society in "Starship troopers" Fascist? You bandy about the term (as did the reviewers of the movie) without really looking it up to validate that it applies. How does that society fit the definition?
Hmm - first I wanted just wanted to present the definition of "fascist" from the Meriam-webster dictionary.
"a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation an often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition"
Okay - in Star Ship Troopers - the only people allowed to vote are veterans. Anyone can join up and do federal service. There is no dictator present, but an elected assembly if I remember correctly. I also don't see any representation that the state is greater than the individual in this government. Individuals are free to pursue their individual interests. The main limitiation is the right of francise in choosing the government. You have to be a veteran.
So - please explain how this is fascist?
Lastly - did you know that Asimov and Heinlien respected each other considerably. You'll find that Asimov dedicated at least one book to RAH if you bother to look.
Now to the book at hand. RAH was a story teller. He did go in for some social comment, but he was much more interested in telling a compelling story. If you bothered to look into it you'd find that he was considerably bothered by the 60's era reaction to this book. He didn't expected it, and it was rather a pain in the but as described by his wife in "Grumblings from the Grave"
Me thinks you take things to seriously. Further, if you don't like RAH's writtings, why did you bother to read three of his books?
So Harry,
Just curious who you work for. Do you wish them to go out of business so that you can't make a living? Or are you just generally against all capitalistic efforts?
Look - shooting a company for trying to be successful in what they do to make money is nonsense.
China is trying to claim national soverienty over a language representation? Uhm - bet Taiwan is pissed! For that matter, doesn't Japanese use the same pictographs for part of their language?
I'll follow up with my own 2 cents worth here.
Back in around 1980 - soon after I graduated from college, California passed a law that stated that any work done without company resources on your own time was yours and no-one elses. My understanding was that the state law invalidated any employment contract that claimed to the contrary. I know this because my then employer sent out a memo explaining things.
SO - if you are doing work for the university, and the university is in CA, then you are covered by this situation. Any work you do on University time or on their equipment is owned by them -simple work for hire situation. Any work you do using your own resources is owned by you exclusively.
What I don't understand was at some point it wasn't legal to patent ISA's. See IBM versus Amdahl as the example. I thought this got litigated on during the 70's and IBM lost? But then, you would think patenting algorithms, i.e. natural laws was illegal. Guess that's changed somewhere along the line.
Pitty!
That is pure nonsense. ANYTHING that is written automatically has a level of copyright available to it. If a work is created "for hire" like a memo written by an employee of a firm, you can safely assume that it owned by the company, and that the company holds the copyright to the document. End of discussion!
Well - that substantiates my action of not filling in the long form beyond how many people were living here!
Go ahead government - correlate away! GIGO dudes!
Well - the VERY first time I used an NT-4 box I tried to open a file with Wordpad from a floppy. Turns out the floppy was damaged. Got my self a complete reboot on that one.
;-)
Think about that for a second. A damaged file and an editor took out the OS?
To be fair, I used another NT box for half a year (mostly running an X server to access unix boxes) and didn't have any problems. But that was all these boxes did.
As for journaling files sytems, when the journaling file systems from SGI, or IBM are considered, and they are out of beta, that is a moot argument. This is happening REAL fast, so that argument also goes away Real Soon Now.
You want real world examples of Linux reliability. HMMM - Google, and Deja come immediately to mind. I'd also like an answer as to why Hotmail couldn't be run on NT4? Hmmmm???
There are also several clustering technologies (and I don't think Beowulf, etc should be considered - they need to be web oriented stuff) that are coming along. TurboLinux has such an offering, and has had such for better than a year. You'll just dismiss it because it's from a "small company." I'm afraid that is a non-argument. Such things exist already.
Seems after consideration of your entire tome here - you had nothing useful to say
In the Merkey rant that was printed in "Kernel Traffic" he mentioned having dirt on MS that would take care of any serious threats. Don't know what it was though.