The Constitution guarantees all persons born or naturalized in the US all the "privileges and immunities" thereof. Way back in the 1800's there was a case in which the Supreme Court tried to almost write this out of the Constitution. They said that "privileges and immunities" didn't include anything like voting or having a fair shot at government jobs or contracts, or getting to go to the same schools or bathrooms as other people, it meant only a few simple rights like the right to sail the navigable waters of the US and the right to travel from place to place. Seems like that ought to include the right to ride on an airliner, and they shouldn't be able to take that away from someone now without a trial.
There are a few possiblities:
Nemerle is functional version of C#.
Felix is functional version of C/C++.
Scala is functional version of Java with.Net version coming.
Schlep translates scheme to readable C.
Cyclone is a safer C with some functional features.
I found out about this last summer, about 6 weeks after NT workstation was dropped from support and I wanted to buy a new printer to hang on my old NT box. MS license the "works with windows" endorsement for the peripheral maker to put on the box. Somehow, you won't see "works with..." listing any MS OS that is out of support. 6 weeks after NT expired, Fry's had 0 printers compatible with NT (according to the box). I bought one that works with NT, but only through a combination of knowledge, brains, and maturity, not because of any help from what's on the box.
I believe that 98 is still the most used OS, that the 27%-35% that it has exceeds that of any of the other variants. If not, it's close. It's odd for a product to become a non-entity when it's at the top of the heap.
For example, if you develop software for home or school use, you are cutting your throat if it won't run on 98, but MS won't help you keep a 98 machine to test that it works for those 50 million potential users. Yecch!
One of the controversial cases of church vs state in early US history involved whether or not the Post Office should be open on Sunday and whether it should transport mail on Sunday. This is back when some of the framers and many who knew the framers were still alive. It was a hot issue, and the buck was passed to a commission headed by Johnson, a Baptist and a war hero. The commission decided that it would be an improper extablishment of a state religion to shut down the US Post Office on Sundays, and thus Post Offices were thereafter open on Sundays and mail moved on Sundays. So, we see that strong efforts to support a strict separation were certainly in place in the early days of our republic. (Madison declared a Thanksgiving, but later said that it was a mistake, so these things are never clear-cut.)
The guy who wrote the pledge back in the 19th century was very religious, but after considering the issue, he decided to leave God out of it. Congress added God in the 1950's. Altering the text of an author's work without permission is an offense against IP law. And, although it is legal after the author's rights are expired, as they were for the pledge in the 1950's, it is very
contrary to the current utmost respect in which
copyright owners are held under the American
system. Restore the old-time values. Restore the author's intent. Get the God out.
It Has to Do With Performances
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ASCAP started all this. Victor Herbert was the main mover, a major mogul and composer/songwriter who was very popular and respected. He wanted protection for songwriters (around 1914) and he got it. After all, music, at least before the recent rounds of the downward spiral, was meant to be contagious, something that you wanted to copy, ie sing to your buddies after you heard the song a few times. This is both how the really good songs can maintain their positions on the hit parade for several centuries and how catchy new songs with amusing lyrics and an interesting bridge can become popular in a matter of months. But Victor Herbert figured that this cntagion was no excuse if you could make a living singing his songs and not paying him a royalty on your performances. Seems reasonable. That's why ASCAP and BMI bust bar owners today for playing a radio. Never heard of Fox News doing that, but they might.
To "keep more waiters, cooks, etc. employed more of the time" is not accomplished unless the total number of restaurant meals eaten increases. It matters little in that regard whether the restaurants have a life expectancy of 1 year or 10 years.
I always thought that there was a little thing that looked like a fan near the point where the magnetron connected to the oven and that its purpose was to change the geometry of the situation as it turned, so that no single standing wave pattern would cause uneven heating in the oven.
How can there be stable nodes in the electric field within the oven if the distance between the oven walls is not a whole multiples of a half-wavelegth? Aren't the dimensions of the cavity set so that multiple patterns of standing waves will co-exist, each with its own nodes?
THere was some alleged statistical finding some years back (25 or so, IIRC) about there being more tornados on weekdays. This brought about some speculation that the tornados were assisted by the habit of driving on the right and turning right more than left and that this put a little extra angular momentum into the troposphere. The weather people puzzled over this for a while, said that there was way too much energy and angular momentum in a tornado for people to have much effect on them, decided that the statistics were bad, and tried to forget about the whole thing.
Of course, temperature differences in the atmosphere are the energy source for all storms, and now that we have a weekday-vs-weekend temperature change, the tornado thing might get looked at again.
I always treat anyone who makes these far-fetched connections between quantum mecahnnics and unrelated fields as a crackpot until proved otherwise. Never been proved otherwise.
This Elliot Wave hokum was riding high around 15 years ago, and predicting a bad crash for the market. Only they didn't really -- they said they could predict that certain things would happen, but they couldn't say when, kind of like the world has been supposed to end about 300 times in the last 300 years and re-predicted after it didn't happen about 300 more times. Big deal. Wave theory dropped out of sight after coming up dry, and now it's back trying to predict history. I'll predict that sometimes it will be right and sometimes it will be wrong. You can take that to the bank and get checks printed on it.
Everyone wants to plan to be a success. If your company grows like crazy, and you run out of memory at the critical moment, what do you do? Scrap the database and rewrite everything at the worst possible moment? Nah. Use a real RDBMS.
This is a good idea in one way. It ads usefulness to that little green light on the front of your computer. It now means "Your database might not have died yet."
ACID has nothing to do with in-memory, on disk, on paper or WTH. Use a real DBMS if you need one. If you don't, keep playing with this stuff.
What makes this pre-value-or any better than metakit, gigabase, dybase, mnesia, dbisam, sqlite, or any number of other pretty good data storage contrivances that also can make advantageous, expeditious and efficacious use of memory?
I noticed that the author of this thing had a sense of humor or a lawyer. He points our in the fine print, like every morally upright mogul of the megabytes, that the MS trademarks are MS trademarks.
He says that this attachment will prevent viruses from working on your computer. If it crashes your machine, it will, and that's thereby true, I suppose.
He says thanks for using Microsoft products. You're very welcome. Anything I could do to make your job easier.
Re:Why did MS move to C++ in the first place?
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There's an old quote from Bill Gates about how Smalltalk was going to rule the world. Unfortunately, most of the Smalltalk companies were mainframe-centric or worse (from MS's perspective), so MS couldn't acquire the technology, and Smalltalk did tend to run noticeably slow back in the daze of 1-digit Megahertz.
Then C++ started to sprout features and the standard starting coming along, and these developments scared the juice out of all the little companies that had C++ compilers, because it was obviously gonna be so hard to compile it corrrectly and do an IDE and a debugger, and a linker, and a GUI lib and GUI builder, and all the things that have to be in the box to make a language product fly. Microsoft got behind C++ because they saw that most of the competition would shrivel up and die if they tried to compete at that task. Almost all of the competition folded. (Oregon C++, Topspeed, Symantec, Watcom,... ) MS could afford to have 150 people developing and testing their C++ product. Not that it came out much better than most of the competition, but when everyone has a lame product, the biggest company is going to win. MS knew that.
There have been architectures (eg Burroughs etc) that had most exploits designed out back when diskette rhymed with biscuit. Good languages (e.g. Ada and Modula) go way back.
Right now, the most interesting of these better languages looks to be Cyclone (from Cornell) which has some chance of success because it is based on C. Certainly(?), next genration versions of C and C++ ought to prevent such problems unless the programmer explicitly permits them.
Look at all the stuff that Tony Pino stole before he got greedy and did the Brinks job. According to his standards, it's no big deal unless you can get at least one unknowing employee to help you carry the stuff out. He often did that. His wife wouldn't let him bring home a piano or a refrigerator without a receipt, so he'd steal those, too, or talk an employee into writing him one.
This guy is around 30 years of age -- the ideal age for models for pictures like this. Also the ideal age for getting hired to good tech jobs. I've got a relative about that age who looks much like this bozo and who has done similar modeling work. But once he passed thirty, no more calls for that gig either.
He's just a model, he doesn't know anything, he's not as smart as a real geek, and he makes $5,000/day! But it's temp work.
Fortunately, there is a permanent job for pretty faces who don't have anything more demanding on their minds than which socks go with which cologne that lets you stay employed permanently -- even past age 30! It's called 'executive'.
If you're a real worker, don't fold your arms like the picture. When you reach thirty, you may feel entitled, but if an executive sees you, your position will wind up on one of those lists.
How about revitalizing the role of government specs in government purchasing? The government is such a big customer, if they could simply stop buying system software products that presented too big a risk, the large vendors would find it advantageoous to provide software that didn't.
This worked for accessibility. When 11 state governments said that they would stop buying software with lousy accessibility for persons with disabilities, big software vendor(s) finally did something about it. Why shouldn't it also work for security???
This approach used to bring big advantages to the private sector, as manufacturers had to learn to do the right thing on many products. It has lost its impact recently, as the government has given in to business by buying COTS, no questions asked.
Urbanization has hurt our ability to adapt to 'creative destruction'. When the Great Depression hit, many people survived by growing their own food. Sons who had moved off the farms and to the cities went back home, just like they did during the economic downturns of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Now, many fewer have that option.
If the current market for labor doesn't demonstrate how capitalists reap huge benefits by exploiting a reserve army of the unemployed, now worldwide, I don't know what it would take to convince anyone that Marx got a few things correct (a little too soon). He also predicted that economic fluctuations would become increasingly severe. It behooves us to do something to make sure that doesn't happen.
The theory of free market economists relies on investment to prevent depressions when labor is cheap and interest rates are low, like now. (Like in 1931, too). Where's the investment? Looks like we have way too much capital with nothing to do. Some of our highest-value companies (MS, etc) are just sitting on cash and investing overseas. Capital is competing to make residential mortgage loans around 5% instead of investing in any businesses.
Look what happens whenever a company announces crappy earnings now (or any time over the past decade or so): The market expects them to fire people. They fire people and their stock goes up. Does it occur to investors that the way to make money is to hire people and use them productively? Not anymore. Everyone knows that investments go down the toilet as often as not, but a paycheck cut is a paycheck earned.
And they put the stuff about biological research on the front page of the site too. Folks, this is a nuclear materials factory that's been a nuclear materials factory from the time when nobody knew you should be careful with radioactive material,
through the time when national priorities didn't give us time to be careful with radioactive material, right up to the present, when the corporations and bombmongers have decided that it's not profitable to be careful with radioactive materials. This is no place to go near if you value your DNA. But it's all being marketed so professionally by the same people who renamed the million acres or so of oblivion left over after many nuclear explosions the "Nevada National Research Park!" Hey, GI George, go be a park ranger there.
Do you know that people first started making chocolate chip cookies about the same time as other people started drawing pictures of Mickey Mouse. Somehow, one of these creative acts is now practiced widely without worry of legal consequences, but the other is restricted severely by IP laws. Since it's clear that chocolate chip cookies are a much more original and complex creation than a picture of a mouse, someone ought to go figure. I figure that calling America a banana republic would be an affront to the countries that grow bananas.
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The Constitution guarantees all persons born or naturalized in the US all the "privileges and immunities" thereof. Way back in the 1800's there was a case in which the Supreme Court tried to almost write this out of the Constitution. They said that "privileges and immunities" didn't include anything like voting or having a fair shot at government jobs or contracts, or getting to go to the same schools or bathrooms as other people, it meant only a few simple rights like the right to sail the navigable waters of the US and the right to travel from place to place. Seems like that ought to include the right to ride on an airliner, and they shouldn't be able to take that away from someone now without a trial.
There are a few possiblities: Nemerle is functional version of C#. Felix is functional version of C/C++. Scala is functional version of Java with .Net version coming.
Schlep translates scheme to readable C.
Cyclone is a safer C with some functional features.
I believe that 98 is still the most used OS, that the 27%-35% that it has exceeds that of any of the other variants. If not, it's close. It's odd for a product to become a non-entity when it's at the top of the heap.
For example, if you develop software for home or school use, you are cutting your throat if it won't run on 98, but MS won't help you keep a 98 machine to test that it works for those 50 million potential users. Yecch!
One of the controversial cases of church vs state in early US history involved whether or not the Post Office should be open on Sunday and whether it should transport mail on Sunday. This is back when some of the framers and many who knew the framers were still alive. It was a hot issue, and the buck was passed to a commission headed by Johnson, a Baptist and a war hero. The commission decided that it would be an improper extablishment of a state religion to shut down the US Post Office on Sundays, and thus Post Offices were thereafter open on Sundays and mail moved on Sundays. So, we see that strong efforts to support a strict separation were certainly in place in the early days of our republic. (Madison declared a Thanksgiving, but later said that it was a mistake, so these things are never clear-cut.)
The guy who wrote the pledge back in the 19th century was very religious, but after considering the issue, he decided to leave God out of it. Congress added God in the 1950's. Altering the text of an author's work without permission is an offense against IP law. And, although it is legal after the author's rights are expired, as they were for the pledge in the 1950's, it is very contrary to the current utmost respect in which copyright owners are held under the American system. Restore the old-time values. Restore the author's intent. Get the God out.
ASCAP started all this. Victor Herbert was the main mover, a major mogul and composer/songwriter who was very popular and respected. He wanted protection for songwriters (around 1914) and he got it. After all, music, at least before the recent rounds of the downward spiral, was meant to be contagious, something that you wanted to copy, ie sing to your buddies after you heard the song a few times. This is both how the really good songs can maintain their positions on the hit parade for several centuries and how catchy new songs with amusing lyrics and an interesting bridge can become popular in a matter of months. But Victor Herbert figured that this cntagion was no excuse if you could make a living singing his songs and not paying him a royalty on your performances. Seems reasonable. That's why ASCAP and BMI bust bar owners today for playing a radio. Never heard of Fox News doing that, but they might.
To "keep more waiters, cooks, etc. employed more of the time" is not accomplished unless the total number of restaurant meals eaten increases. It matters little in that regard whether the restaurants have a life expectancy of 1 year or 10 years.
How can there be stable nodes in the electric field within the oven if the distance between the oven walls is not a whole multiples of a half-wavelegth? Aren't the dimensions of the cavity set so that multiple patterns of standing waves will co-exist, each with its own nodes?
Of course, temperature differences in the atmosphere are the energy source for all storms, and now that we have a weekday-vs-weekend temperature change, the tornado thing might get looked at again.
This Elliot Wave hokum was riding high around 15 years ago, and predicting a bad crash for the market. Only they didn't really -- they said they could predict that certain things would happen, but they couldn't say when, kind of like the world has been supposed to end about 300 times in the last 300 years and re-predicted after it didn't happen about 300 more times. Big deal. Wave theory dropped out of sight after coming up dry, and now it's back trying to predict history. I'll predict that sometimes it will be right and sometimes it will be wrong. You can take that to the bank and get checks printed on it.
This is a good idea in one way. It ads usefulness to that little green light on the front of your computer. It now means "Your database might not have died yet."
What makes this pre-value-or any better than metakit, gigabase, dybase, mnesia, dbisam, sqlite, or any number of other pretty good data storage contrivances that also can make advantageous, expeditious and efficacious use of memory?
He says that this attachment will prevent viruses from working on your computer. If it crashes your machine, it will, and that's thereby true, I suppose.
He says thanks for using Microsoft products. You're very welcome. Anything I could do to make your job easier.
Then C++ started to sprout features and the standard starting coming along, and these developments scared the juice out of all the little companies that had C++ compilers, because it was obviously gonna be so hard to compile it corrrectly and do an IDE and a debugger, and a linker, and a GUI lib and GUI builder, and all the things that have to be in the box to make a language product fly. Microsoft got behind C++ because they saw that most of the competition would shrivel up and die if they tried to compete at that task. Almost all of the competition folded. (Oregon C++, Topspeed, Symantec, Watcom, ... ) MS could afford to have 150 people developing and testing their C++ product. Not that it came out much better than most of the competition, but when everyone has a lame product, the biggest company is going to win. MS knew that.
Actually, Modula-3 has been doing that for years.
Right now, the most interesting of these better languages looks to be Cyclone (from Cornell) which has some chance of success because it is based on C. Certainly(?), next genration versions of C and C++ ought to prevent such problems unless the programmer explicitly permits them.
Look at all the stuff that Tony Pino stole before he got greedy and did the Brinks job. According to his standards, it's no big deal unless you can get at least one unknowing employee to help you carry the stuff out. He often did that. His wife wouldn't let him bring home a piano or a refrigerator without a receipt, so he'd steal those, too, or talk an employee into writing him one.
He's just a model, he doesn't know anything, he's not as smart as a real geek, and he makes $5,000/day! But it's temp work.
Fortunately, there is a permanent job for pretty faces who don't have anything more demanding on their minds than which socks go with which cologne that lets you stay employed permanently -- even past age 30! It's called 'executive'.
If you're a real worker, don't fold your arms like the picture. When you reach thirty, you may feel entitled, but if an executive sees you, your position will wind up on one of those lists.
I think. Does this mean I don't get to keep them?
How much would it weigh if it was made of water?
How much does all the spam sent on the internet each day weigh?
Is there any place big enough to store it?
How much does the near vacuum in all the CRTs connected to the internet weigh?
How many ergs are there in all the electrons flying at all the CRT's on earth at any one instant?
This worked for accessibility. When 11 state governments said that they would stop buying software with lousy accessibility for persons with disabilities, big software vendor(s) finally did something about it. Why shouldn't it also work for security???
This approach used to bring big advantages to the private sector, as manufacturers had to learn to do the right thing on many products. It has lost its impact recently, as the government has given in to business by buying COTS, no questions asked.
If the current market for labor doesn't demonstrate how capitalists reap huge benefits by exploiting a reserve army of the unemployed, now worldwide, I don't know what it would take to convince anyone that Marx got a few things correct (a little too soon). He also predicted that economic fluctuations would become increasingly severe. It behooves us to do something to make sure that doesn't happen.
The theory of free market economists relies on investment to prevent depressions when labor is cheap and interest rates are low, like now. (Like in 1931, too). Where's the investment? Looks like we have way too much capital with nothing to do. Some of our highest-value companies (MS, etc) are just sitting on cash and investing overseas. Capital is competing to make residential mortgage loans around 5% instead of investing in any businesses.
Look what happens whenever a company announces crappy earnings now (or any time over the past decade or so): The market expects them to fire people. They fire people and their stock goes up. Does it occur to investors that the way to make money is to hire people and use them productively? Not anymore. Everyone knows that investments go down the toilet as often as not, but a paycheck cut is a paycheck earned.
Good that it runs linux. If it ran Windows, millions of people might live.
And they put the stuff about biological research on the front page of the site too. Folks, this is a nuclear materials factory that's been a nuclear materials factory from the time when nobody knew you should be careful with radioactive material, through the time when national priorities didn't give us time to be careful with radioactive material, right up to the present, when the corporations and bombmongers have decided that it's not profitable to be careful with radioactive materials. This is no place to go near if you value your DNA. But it's all being marketed so professionally by the same people who renamed the million acres or so of oblivion left over after many nuclear explosions the "Nevada National Research Park!" Hey, GI George, go be a park ranger there.
Do you know that people first started making chocolate chip cookies about the same time as other people started drawing pictures of Mickey Mouse. Somehow, one of these creative acts is now practiced widely without worry of legal consequences, but the other is restricted severely by IP laws. Since it's clear that chocolate chip cookies are a much more original and complex creation than a picture of a mouse, someone ought to go figure. I figure that calling America a banana republic would be an affront to the countries that grow bananas.