The Supreme Court of the US ruled more than ten years ago that the tradition of the US movie industry is well-known to cheat its stockholders and others by accounting tricks that reduce `profit' to zero -- at least on the books.
It's a little like Enron in reverse -- cooking the books to remove all traces of return.
It's quite legal and easy for them to do, and it has been the tradition in Hollywood since it began. And that's how the SC ruled in a case brought by a(n other) writer of one of the Predator series of Movies IIRC. In that case, like this one, Stan seems to have gotten percentage `points' (in Hollywood jargon) instead of real dollars.
The studios find it easy to do this, as they can charge whatever they like for stock footage (stuff they've already shot and used in other movies) since they are the true producers, whatever the credits might say. And all movies use stock footage somewhere. F'rexample, the fire scenes in Gone with the Wind have been used (and charged for at inflated prices) in hundreds of movies.
This and `distribution costs' allow them the room to reduce the booked profits on any and all projects to zero.
The Predator movie the Court ruled on was, at the time, the largest grossing (worldwide) movie in history. And it never made a profit.
I have NOT run across this `moral right' comcept before in the context of it being law anywhere, although as a very young (21-yo) writer-to-be, I was very concerned about this sort of thing. I thought the worst thing that could happen to me was to have my art misunderstood. But now I realize it MUST be misunderstood if it is profound at all, as I don't even completely understand the meaning and reach of the ideas I hatch for a long, long time.
A couple of questions I believe are germaine: What happens to the legal status of a work after the artist dies? How does one get permission from a dead artist? Is the law ignored if there can be no complainant? Or do rights flow to the next-of-kin?
What would happen if Fleetwood Mac (an English/European group) decided they didn't want Bill Clinton to use "Don't Stop (thinking about tomorrow)" during his first election campaign? Could they have, under Euro law, stopped him doing so?
Does the law give DeGaulle's heirs the right to make sure every statue of him reduces the size of his nose to please his own view of himself? What about the sculptor's rights to do as s/he sees fit?
And does the law give us the right to remember Alfred Nobel as a munitions maker instead of the way he obviously wanted to be remembered -- as a man of peace?
If the writer of the German drinking song on which the US' national anthem is based was a Nazi, could he, under this legal theory, have prevented its use?
And how about the writers of the US Constitution, which was adapted from the constitutions of Connecticut and other states? Could Roger Williams or Nathan Hale, assuming either of them had something to do with Connecticut's Charter, have kept the US Constitutional Convention from adding their words to a document they may have had political differences with?
I think it is absurd. One makes one's heart's vision real, gives it to the world and then watches what happens. It's a learning experience, not a control freak's exercise.
The Euro way seems to me to cater to a certain kind of paranoia self-inflated artists are heir to.
IIRC, when Bergman's The Lie (abridged, but edited by Bergman from the Swedish version) played on US commercial TV some thirty years ago, it was broadcast without commercial breaks -- because it was in Bergman's contract.
As a former player/writer in TV/movies, I can assure you that for the last twenty years in the US, the writers/artists have had no rights about `artistical' matters; the producers now expect the TV/Cable/International revenues to cover their production costs, and they have the paperwork drawn up to give them the greatest prof-- um, er, flexibility to package and sell the project after initial theatrical runs.
I know nothing about European artistic license/law -- and from reading this article, I want nothing to do with it. It sounds completely absurd to me. As I understand the article with regards to the use of a religious song in the tree-f*cking scene in I am Curious (Yellow), Kubric would have needed the song writer's permission to use Singin' in the Rain as compellingly as he did in A Clockwork Orange.
If you want artistic control over your project, get it in writing like Bergman or form your own production company like Fritjof Capra did for Mind Walk.
BTW, there is a so-called `director's cut' on some DVDs because the director usually does not even decide what is in the final version of the film in most cases. Sometimes the director of a film is not even invited in for the editing -- and the writer almost never is.
Perhaps this story illustrates the difficulty Europen cinema has competing with the US variety as much as it does a real trend in European artistic rights.
Someone suggested copying the ~/pref.js file from a Mozilla installation to the analogous place in the Phoenix installation; this is supposed to transfer the popup/ad-blocking feature to Phoenix, although, obviously, no new adservers can be added nor any unblocked.
He foresaw the need to replace the minimal government science policy with one that would supply the US with human resources for science, a research infrastructure between Government and universities, and a balance between fundamental research and national goals.
This is precisely what President Eisenhower called "The Military-Industrial Complex" in 1960 when he warned us of the danger of having universities, corporations, hospitals and the government commingling resources, philosophies and priorities.
I would remind gentle/. readers that the electricity a Ford Think (or any electric car) would use has to be generated somehow. This was an attractive solution for California, as most of the electricity-generating plants that serve (my) state are in Arizona and Nevada.
Further, when the California power grid goes down again, not only will you have no TV, you will have no car.
Hydrogen, my friends. Dubya might be wrong about lots of things, but he knows the future of energy. Check out the new developments in extracting hydrogen from shale and rock, much like natural gas. Its only pollution is water vapor, which can be electrolyzed back into hydrogen fuel and ozygen if required.
Hydrogen can also be produced by the electrolysis of seawater using solar cells for power or by heating coal dust in the presence of a catalyst using solar collectors.
California simply tried to legislate a market that will never exist, and, if by some freak it did, would shift the pollution to other states.
Unn, I believe you have posted a command that will not remove ximian, but might install ximian packages instead. Or it might do nothing at all -- I don't intend to test it....
Word is MS's crown jewel, but Word got where it is today buy stealing users from WP.
Not exactly. As I remember it, it was around Windows 3.1's announcement when MS went to WordPerfect (and Lotus as well) BEGGING them to write for Windows, touting Windows' many supposed virtues as an environment.
Neither WP nor Lotus was moved. Perhaps they saw the Windows environment, with its centralized driver data, nullified their investment in having written DOS drivers for every screen, printer and video card (WP-5.1 had a VGA preview WYSIWYG option.) Perhaps they felt betrayed by MS and Intel setting standards for Expanded Memory and then arranging Windows to make use of the (LIM-4) standard very difficult, indeed, for most users who hadn't heard of QEMM memory management.
And perhaps it was WP and Lotus' own hubris. For whatever reason, both WP and Lotus' Windows products were years late and the early versions were crash-happy under Windows to boot.
Anyway, MS virtually gave away VAR licenses for Word and, later, Office to get market share, apparently, and at WP and Lotus' expense.
But MS did not steal users from WP; WP gave them away.
For what it's worth, I STILL depend on WP5.1 for my writing. Good thing it runs fine under DOSEmu. Oh, and it was written in assembler!
United Linux reminds me of when Nash, Hudson and Wyllys combined (Packard and Studebaker did the same for the same reason) to try to salvage businesses that could not compete with the giants (GM, Ford and Chrysler.)
While AMC became one company and United Linux will remain (so it says) a group of independent companies, the economies of scale they hope for will not mean a thing without enough market share to make it work.
This is not to give RH a win by default; at the same time (1954) that I was a high school student looking toward becoming an automotive engineer, GM sent a rep to talk during career day, and he predicted in the near future, there would be only three carmakers in the world: GM, Ford and Chrysler as there was no way to gather enough capitalization and market share anymore.
This was in the same year Soichiro Honda screwed his first washing-machine motor onto a bicycle frame....
As the article notes, amusement-makers, in times of trouble (more on this later) go to the government of the USA for favors through legislation. Whatever relief they are granted, the courts take away. Maybe there IS a god.
The recording and movie industries are in trouble for exactly the same reason they went bust in the late sixties and early seventies (RCA, RKO, Capitol, Columbia, CBS Records, Decca, Warner's) -- all gone because their executives had gotten too old or too rich and out-of-touch to know what the mass audience of young record-buyers and moviegoers wanted. New faces and companies filled that need: In the seventies, it seemed every movie and every recording artist had its own company. Eventually, these smaller units -- some fabulously profitible (NB Apple Records) coagulated. Now, the Jaggers, McCartneys and Harrisons are gone or going and the big record and music companies are in control again, stifling creativity with the same kind of `formulaic' offerings and corruption through deceptive promotion (heard the news? Payola's back) and attempted legislation that they used in the musically-bankrupt fifties. What's the difference between Maria Carey and Dinah Shore, anyway?
To blame the slump in sales of movies (last year, not this one, strangely) and records on the availability of digital copies is exactly like Michael Jackson `proving' his claim that Sony management is racist in its policies by showing his most recent record has sold less than his earlier (and better) ones.
Gil Scott-Heron achieved fifteen seconds of fame by noting `The Revolution Will Not be Televised.' That may be true.
The United Nations (what the `Allies' called themselves) did not win World War Two -- the Corporations (Milo Minderbinder) did.
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Yesterday, on one of those rare occasions that I was using my Windows partition and surfing along downloading an mp3, I decided to preview my selection before it was complete...and, lo, my hard disk starts churning and Netsape (my default browser because of the requirements of Britannica -- thank you!) opens to a pr0n page!
When I think of what a black-hat hacker might have done had I allowed IE to be my default browser or use MS Outlook express and its addressbook, I am driven back to Linux.
I DO believe one gives up all control of one's computer when using Windows. Don't know why, exactly, but it's so.
...please acknowledge that to the extent which the roman alphabet can be mapped to the hebraic alphabet, whatever numerological values exist in the latter must also be inherent in the former.
Well, I'm not sure why you insist such a mapping is valid... IF I understand your meaning correctly. As I wrote earlier in the post, it is the unconscious vector in languages like aramaic, I believe, Hebrew for sure, ancient Greek perhaps, but I doubt that Latin Numerals (e.g. LXII)could possibly have been interpreted as Latin words, nor Latin words be homonymous with Roman Numerals. Perhaps the numerals were uppercase to ensure such a separation was made. A similar case can be made for Chinese; where the numbers look like any other ideogram to Westerners, Chinese have no trouble seeing one and the other without driving one meaning into the unconcious. Indeed, from what I know of reading Chinese, numerals and ideograms are identical, but that's another story.
For clarity, it was (and still is, I trust) the custom among those calligraphers and scholars who are chosen to copy the Torah to add the numerical values of each line as a method of proofreading. So, if you can accept that whatever is not conscious is unconscious, (which seems obvious until one looks deeper) then numbers correlate with words. In Hebrew, this correlation was intended; all words that relate to sitting (chair, squat, sofa, settee, bench, bleacher) have the same, unique root, which has a unique number.
Since the unconscious, by that definition, is connected to everything and its language seems to be symbolic imagery, then the importance of the contents of our personal unconscious (a fragment of everything, but more than and other than the conscious,) the two denotations can refer to each other, and are useful as meditational tools, as a mandala is useful.
There is another kind of thinking that is also called `numerology' that is more universally true. I touched on that in my mention of `trinities.' This, clearly, is a different beast, and, just as clearly, is completely symbolic. Its development was the Taro(t).
The numbers' symbolic values and meaning are the same across the two traditions (taro and kabbala).
But I cannot support the use of transliterated numbers to Latinized languages (English, etc.)
If you are interested in my sources, email me.
Annamerikin_AT_operamail_DOT_com
I've done a google search for eight numerology. The most comprehensive result seems to be this link [crystalinks.com]:
Spiritually eight is the goal of the initiate, having gone through the seven stages. Eight is the number of Paradise regained.
Eight is solidarity as the first cube and it denotes perfection by virtue of it's six surfaces. There are eight winds and intermediate directions of space. Eight represents the pairs of opposites. The octagon is the beginning of the transformation of the square into a circle and vice versa.
Numerology only works in languages where letters can also represent numbers, like Hebrew and such -- not English, certainly, nor Chinese, etc.
When a language's letters are numbers, one of the sets must, obviously, be driven into the unconscious, leaving its other for denotation. All trinities, for example, have the characteristics of Mother-Father-Issue (except, of course, to the Catholic Church, where all three aspects are male....) This includes political theory (thesis, entithesis and dialectic,) economics, most fields of endevour.
If eight represents the first day of the second week. I will remind the gentle reader that in order to be reborn, one must die.
As an auto mechanic, I can clarify a few things, although you got almost all of it right:
Ball/roller bearings are (generally) much more expensive to make than most implementations of fluid-dynamic bearings.
Hydrodynamic bearings' load capacity goes up with rpm, meaning a small, fast rotating bearing works better than the same bearing at a slower speed.
Roller-element bearings have limited high-rpm applications. The higher the rpm, the more scuffing the rolling elements are subject to.
Plain hydrodynamic bearings usually require a pump to provide adequate fluid-dynamic pressure.
A "plain" bearing rides on a wedge of oil which is related to the viscosity of the oil, the velocity of rotation and the clearance between the elements. A roller bearing's capacity and max rpm are determined by the surface finish of the rolling elements, the tolerance of the cage (if any) that retains them, and the radial runout of the assembly.
In automobile use, plain (hydrodynamic) bearings are much, much cheaper to make than rolling element bearings because of their ease of manufacture.
Well, I've been chewing your question over for a couple of days now, so I hope you're still following this thread.
In short, to answer your question briefly, I know of no models of the sort you seek; all the ones I know of are proprietary and incomplete. Read on if you are curious as to why this is so and how I know.
Some necessary background. I have almost forty years experience in auto racing and twenty in computing. (Sentences served concurrently...) Two years ago, I joined a new racing team, funded by the dotcom bubble, and with a nearly unlimited budget, as chief mechanic and tuner. So I could choose one of the new, fancy, computer-controlled fuel injection systems for it if I thought it was appropriate. But, like you, I had no mappings for the motor, and, since it was modified heavily and, therefore, quite unique, there could be none unless I made them myself.
This is no mean task. It is much more complex than, for example, predicting weather, as it requires not only to know why it rains, but to predict -- not whether it will rain in Seattle today -- but where and when each drop will fall!
Fifteen or more years ago, I had a Yamaha motorcyle with unusually-strong throttle response; it featured a primitive, computer-controlled ignition with a fixed timing (no vacuum nor centrifugal advance.) I researched advance curves vs. throttle opening on the 'net and, lo, Google listed a Yamaha paper on the uselessness of ignition mappings!
Since that time, observation has shown me that any model that doesn't adhere to the fixed ignition timing model is doomed to having too many variables. This proved to me that science does not yet understand internal combustion motors completely. This is not surprising, as the Space Shuttle disaster showed, engineers who invented the rubber o-ring did not understand how it worked, either. What is surprising is that even later-model Hondas and Kawasakis still use ignition mapping; MSD still recommends the practice.
(There is a lot of Unformation out there. Don't fall for 'expert advice' unless you have double-checked with reality through scientific research.)
So I chose to use a racing carburetor and my experience instead, as I always have. Here was my reasoning: A racing car has to have very smooth power delivery at all throttle openings, without sudden peaks that could cause the rear wheels to lose their grip momentarily, causing lost time at best, and a spin or worse. The intake gases are traveling down the pipes at about 200 mph, and have staggering amounts of inertia. They echo up and down the pipe like bass in a boombox at various frequencies, and interact thoroughly with the exhaust system (as both intake and exhaust valves are open at the same time in a condition called 'overlap'), themselves, and subtle laws of physics known best by musical instrument makers.
While this is possible on a carbureted car, it is now and, in theory, anyway, always will be impossible on a digitally-controlled motor because of the finite number of bits (depth) on control. This leads to steps in the throttle (31 for a 32-bit processor, 15 for a 16-bit, etc.)
I guesstimate the power of the motor we are using at about 640 hp. Assume completely linear throttle response and a 32-bit processor. This give us about 20 hp per step: Not enough fine control. I extimate 256 bits would be the minimum needed to compete with even the most primitive carburetor for fine throttle control. (This does not lessen the other advantages of fuel injection, but there are analog FI systems, as well.) We are not there yet -- even if we had good ignition and mixture mapping. Add to this the problems of acceleration with the already-explained inertial forces, and we have an impossible situation.
If all theories need a prediction to check their integrity, here's mine: Ferrari will, for the near future, win most Formula One races because they have the proprietary maps (from decades of experience) and the most expensive 64-bit and better processors to enable the driver to have finer control and, in Michael Shumacher, a brilliant driver who can deal with the car's difficult temperament.
Each company keeps information like this quite secret. If not, Honda and Kawasaki would use Yamaha's discovery of the benefits of fixed ignition timing. When there is an Open Source racing team, I will join it and help map some motors; but, till then, my tuning secrets are exactly that: secret. And, as far as I know, everyone else's are, too.
"Many of you offered thoughtful insights that have prompted us to reevaluate this policy.
"Thoughtful insights? From the flood of Slashdot readers? Wow!"
As a former working reporter/editor, may I translate? This is the same language govermental diplomats use.. It is easy to understand without error as long as one understands the vocabulary.
Wide-ranging and frank -- Hurling peronal insults.
Cordial and friendly - Drank whiskey together and reminisced about hookers they shared.
Useful - useless.
Difficult - One guy smashed the other in the face.
Thoughtful insights - Rants.
It's easy once you get the drift....
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If anyone has a "HOWTO install gentoo from floppy" I would be happy to know about it.
No howto, but why not use a floppy-based linux like 2-disk xwindows or baslinux or even tomsrtbt from here to connect to ftp.gentoo.org, download the ISO, mount it as a loopback device and install from the laptop's HD?
Hmm, from freshmeat, it looks like the new version (of links) even has graphics support now
Thassright, graphics support can be compiled in, but I could not get it to display graphics from a terminal as one poster suggested w3m/lynx can do.
To get a graphical-enabled links up, just specify the -g option; otherwise it's a text-mode browser.
The graphical Links seems to be about as fast as Mozilla or Opera for Linux but not nearly as quick to display pages as Dillo (which begins to show text before parsing anything else and, so, is faster if what you want is textual information.) IIRC the graphical links is still Beta, and one might expect the final product to be faster without debugging flags, etc.
As most of my browsing is done on simple pages w/o the need for plugins, Dillo is still my first choice, with Moz next, even though I have an ad-free, registered version 5.x Opera. Dillo is king of speed, beating even lynx to display text.
I had a car whose speedometer went up to 100 miles an hour. Then I traded it for a car whose speedo read up to 133, but neither will do more than 38 miles per hour. Why?
Unm, first, vi is a text editor. It is not a word processor.
Umn, second, your first choice of browsers is ridiculous. To recommend lynx in place of IE makes your post seem either elitist in the extreme or you as quite obtuse. Why no mention of Mozilla or even Netscape?
This is tantamount to suggesting driving classes replace modern, automatic transmission and power steered cars with a crank-started, foot-shifted, hand-throttled Model T Ford.
This is the twenty-first century in case your sense of time is no clearer than your thought processes as expressed in your post.
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The Supreme Court of the US ruled more than ten years ago that the tradition of the US movie industry is well-known to cheat its stockholders and others by accounting tricks that reduce `profit' to zero -- at least on the books.
It's a little like Enron in reverse -- cooking the books to remove all traces of return.
It's quite legal and easy for them to do, and it has been the tradition in Hollywood since it began. And that's how the SC ruled in a case brought by a(n other) writer of one of the Predator series of Movies IIRC. In that case, like this one, Stan seems to have gotten percentage `points' (in Hollywood jargon) instead of real dollars.
The studios find it easy to do this, as they can charge whatever they like for stock footage (stuff they've already shot and used in other movies) since they are the true producers, whatever the credits might say. And all movies use stock footage somewhere. F'rexample, the fire scenes in Gone with the Wind have been used (and charged for at inflated prices) in hundreds of movies.
This and `distribution costs' allow them the room to reduce the booked profits on any and all projects to zero.
The Predator movie the Court ruled on was, at the time, the largest grossing (worldwide) movie in history. And it never made a profit.
Neither did Goodwill Hunting or Titanic.
I have NOT run across this `moral right' comcept before in the context of it being law anywhere, although as a very young (21-yo) writer-to-be, I was very concerned about this sort of thing. I thought the worst thing that could happen to me was to have my art misunderstood. But now I realize it MUST be misunderstood if it is profound at all, as I don't even completely understand the meaning and reach of the ideas I hatch for a long, long time.
A couple of questions I believe are germaine: What happens to the legal status of a work after the artist dies? How does one get permission from a dead artist? Is the law ignored if there can be no complainant? Or do rights flow to the next-of-kin?
What would happen if Fleetwood Mac (an English/European group) decided they didn't want Bill Clinton to use "Don't Stop (thinking about tomorrow)" during his first election campaign? Could they have, under Euro law, stopped him doing so?
Does the law give DeGaulle's heirs the right to make sure every statue of him reduces the size of his nose to please his own view of himself? What about the sculptor's rights to do as s/he sees fit?
And does the law give us the right to remember Alfred Nobel as a munitions maker instead of the way he obviously wanted to be remembered -- as a man of peace?
If the writer of the German drinking song on which the US' national anthem is based was a Nazi, could he, under this legal theory, have prevented its use?
And how about the writers of the US Constitution, which was adapted from the constitutions of Connecticut and other states? Could Roger Williams or Nathan Hale, assuming either of them had something to do with Connecticut's Charter, have kept the US Constitutional Convention from adding their words to a document they may have had political differences with?
I think it is absurd. One makes one's heart's vision real, gives it to the world and then watches what happens. It's a learning experience, not a control freak's exercise.
The Euro way seems to me to cater to a certain kind of paranoia self-inflated artists are heir to.
IIRC, when Bergman's The Lie (abridged, but edited by Bergman from the Swedish version) played on US commercial TV some thirty years ago, it was broadcast without commercial breaks -- because it was in Bergman's contract.
As a former player/writer in TV/movies, I can assure you that for the last twenty years in the US, the writers/artists have had no rights about `artistical' matters; the producers now expect the TV/Cable/International revenues to cover their production costs, and they have the paperwork drawn up to give them the greatest prof-- um, er, flexibility to package and sell the project after initial theatrical runs.
I know nothing about European artistic license/law -- and from reading this article, I want nothing to do with it. It sounds completely absurd to me. As I understand the article with regards to the use of a religious song in the tree-f*cking scene in I am Curious (Yellow), Kubric would have needed the song writer's permission to use Singin' in the Rain as compellingly as he did in A Clockwork Orange.
If you want artistic control over your project, get it in writing like Bergman or form your own production company like Fritjof Capra did for Mind Walk.
BTW, there is a so-called `director's cut' on some DVDs because the director usually does not even decide what is in the final version of the film in most cases. Sometimes the director of a film is not even invited in for the editing -- and the writer almost never is.
Perhaps this story illustrates the difficulty Europen cinema has competing with the US variety as much as it does a real trend in European artistic rights.
$96000 (US) was only two-thirds of the cost, according to the article.
Mine does (WP8). Since MS is a major stakeholder in Corel, I expect this will get better. Or disappear.... ;0}
Reconfigure WP to remove everything but PerfectPrint from startup. I have WP with NO ICONs in the tray. Now, how to do that with Mozilla?
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Someone suggested copying the ~/pref.js file from a Mozilla installation to the analogous place in the Phoenix installation; this is supposed to transfer the popup/ad-blocking feature to Phoenix, although, obviously, no new adservers can be added nor any unblocked.
This is precisely what President Eisenhower called "The Military-Industrial Complex" in 1960 when he warned us of the danger of having universities, corporations, hospitals and the government commingling resources, philosophies and priorities.
Sundays and Mondays are notoriously slow news days when ANYTHING can get picked up.
I would remind gentle /. readers that the electricity a Ford Think (or any electric car) would use has to be generated somehow. This was an attractive solution for California, as most of the electricity-generating plants that serve (my) state are in Arizona and Nevada.
Further, when the California power grid goes down again, not only will you have no TV, you will have no car.
Hydrogen, my friends. Dubya might be wrong about lots of things, but he knows the future of energy. Check out the new developments in extracting hydrogen from shale and rock, much like natural gas. Its only pollution is water vapor, which can be electrolyzed back into hydrogen fuel and ozygen if required.
Hydrogen can also be produced by the electrolysis of seawater using solar cells for power or by heating coal dust in the presence of a catalyst using solar collectors.
California simply tried to legislate a market that will never exist, and, if by some freak it did, would shift the pollution to other states.
The original poster might try
This command has worked for me (on RH for kde.)
Not exactly. As I remember it, it was around Windows 3.1's announcement when MS went to WordPerfect (and Lotus as well) BEGGING them to write for Windows, touting Windows' many supposed virtues as an environment.
Neither WP nor Lotus was moved. Perhaps they saw the Windows environment, with its centralized driver data, nullified their investment in having written DOS drivers for every screen, printer and video card (WP-5.1 had a VGA preview WYSIWYG option.) Perhaps they felt betrayed by MS and Intel setting standards for Expanded Memory and then arranging Windows to make use of the (LIM-4) standard very difficult, indeed, for most users who hadn't heard of QEMM memory management. And perhaps it was WP and Lotus' own hubris. For whatever reason, both WP and Lotus' Windows products were years late and the early versions were crash-happy under Windows to boot.
Anyway, MS virtually gave away VAR licenses for Word and, later, Office to get market share, apparently, and at WP and Lotus' expense.
But MS did not steal users from WP; WP gave them away.
For what it's worth, I STILL depend on WP5.1 for my writing. Good thing it runs fine under DOSEmu. Oh, and it was written in assembler!
United Linux reminds me of when Nash, Hudson and Wyllys combined (Packard and Studebaker did the same for the same reason) to try to salvage businesses that could not compete with the giants (GM, Ford and Chrysler.)
While AMC became one company and United Linux will remain (so it says) a group of independent companies, the economies of scale they hope for will not mean a thing without enough market share to make it work.
This is not to give RH a win by default; at the same time (1954) that I was a high school student looking toward becoming an automotive engineer, GM sent a rep to talk during career day, and he predicted in the near future, there would be only three carmakers in the world: GM, Ford and Chrysler as there was no way to gather enough capitalization and market share anymore.
This was in the same year Soichiro Honda screwed his first washing-machine motor onto a bicycle frame....
As the article notes, amusement-makers, in times of trouble (more on this later) go to the government of the USA for favors through legislation. Whatever relief they are granted, the courts take away. Maybe there IS a god.
The recording and movie industries are in trouble for exactly the same reason they went bust in the late sixties and early seventies (RCA, RKO, Capitol, Columbia, CBS Records, Decca, Warner's) -- all gone because their executives had gotten too old or too rich and out-of-touch to know what the mass audience of young record-buyers and moviegoers wanted. New faces and companies filled that need: In the seventies, it seemed every movie and every recording artist had its own company. Eventually, these smaller units -- some fabulously profitible (NB Apple Records) coagulated. Now, the Jaggers, McCartneys and Harrisons are gone or going and the big record and music companies are in control again, stifling creativity with the same kind of `formulaic' offerings and corruption through deceptive promotion (heard the news? Payola's back) and attempted legislation that they used in the musically-bankrupt fifties. What's the difference between Maria Carey and Dinah Shore, anyway?
To blame the slump in sales of movies (last year, not this one, strangely) and records on the availability of digital copies is exactly like Michael Jackson `proving' his claim that Sony management is racist in its policies by showing his most recent record has sold less than his earlier (and better) ones.
Gil Scott-Heron achieved fifteen seconds of fame by noting `The Revolution Will Not be Televised.' That may be true.
But it's coming. And it will be on the internet.
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The United Nations (what the `Allies' called themselves) did not win World War Two -- the Corporations (Milo Minderbinder) did.
Yesterday, on one of those rare occasions that I was using my Windows partition and surfing along downloading an mp3, I decided to preview my selection before it was complete...and, lo, my hard disk starts churning and Netsape (my default browser because of the requirements of Britannica -- thank you!) opens to a pr0n page! When I think of what a black-hat hacker might have done had I allowed IE to be my default browser or use MS Outlook express and its addressbook, I am driven back to Linux. I DO believe one gives up all control of one's computer when using Windows. Don't know why, exactly, but it's so.
Well, I'm not sure why you insist such a mapping is valid ... IF I understand your meaning correctly. As I wrote earlier in the post, it is the unconscious vector in languages like aramaic, I believe, Hebrew for sure, ancient Greek perhaps, but I doubt that Latin Numerals (e.g. LXII)could possibly have been interpreted as Latin words, nor Latin words be homonymous with Roman Numerals. Perhaps the numerals were uppercase to ensure such a separation was made. A similar case can be made for Chinese; where the numbers look like any other ideogram to Westerners, Chinese have no trouble seeing one and the other without driving one meaning into the unconcious. Indeed, from what I know of reading Chinese, numerals and ideograms are identical, but that's another story.
For clarity, it was (and still is, I trust) the custom among those calligraphers and scholars who are chosen to copy the Torah to add the numerical values of each line as a method of proofreading. So, if you can accept that whatever is not conscious is unconscious, (which seems obvious until one looks deeper) then numbers correlate with words. In Hebrew, this correlation was intended; all words that relate to sitting (chair, squat, sofa, settee, bench, bleacher) have the same, unique root, which has a unique number.
Since the unconscious, by that definition, is connected to everything and its language seems to be symbolic imagery, then the importance of the contents of our personal unconscious (a fragment of everything, but more than and other than the conscious,) the two denotations can refer to each other, and are useful as meditational tools, as a mandala is useful.
There is another kind of thinking that is also called `numerology' that is more universally true. I touched on that in my mention of `trinities.' This, clearly, is a different beast, and, just as clearly, is completely symbolic. Its development was the Taro(t).
The numbers' symbolic values and meaning are the same across the two traditions (taro and kabbala).
But I cannot support the use of transliterated numbers to Latinized languages (English, etc.)
If you are interested in my sources, email me. Annamerikin_AT_operamail_DOT_com
Numerology only works in languages where letters can also represent numbers, like Hebrew and such -- not English, certainly, nor Chinese, etc.
When a language's letters are numbers, one of the sets must, obviously, be driven into the unconscious, leaving its other for denotation. All trinities, for example, have the characteristics of Mother-Father-Issue (except, of course, to the Catholic Church, where all three aspects are male....) This includes political theory (thesis, entithesis and dialectic,) economics, most fields of endevour.
If eight represents the first day of the second week. I will remind the gentle reader that in order to be reborn, one must die.
As an auto mechanic, I can clarify a few things, although you got almost all of it right:
Ball/roller bearings are (generally) much more expensive to make than most implementations of fluid-dynamic bearings.
Hydrodynamic bearings' load capacity goes up with rpm, meaning a small, fast rotating bearing works better than the same bearing at a slower speed.
Roller-element bearings have limited high-rpm applications. The higher the rpm, the more scuffing the rolling elements are subject to.
Plain hydrodynamic bearings usually require a pump to provide adequate fluid-dynamic pressure.
A "plain" bearing rides on a wedge of oil which is related to the viscosity of the oil, the velocity of rotation and the clearance between the elements. A roller bearing's capacity and max rpm are determined by the surface finish of the rolling elements, the tolerance of the cage (if any) that retains them, and the radial runout of the assembly.
In automobile use, plain (hydrodynamic) bearings are much, much cheaper to make than rolling element bearings because of their ease of manufacture.
Well, I've been chewing your question over for a couple of days now, so I hope you're still following this thread.
In short, to answer your question briefly, I know of no models of the sort you seek; all the ones I know of are proprietary and incomplete. Read on if you are curious as to why this is so and how I know.
Some necessary background. I have almost forty years experience in auto racing and twenty in computing. (Sentences served concurrently...) Two years ago, I joined a new racing team, funded by the dotcom bubble, and with a nearly unlimited budget, as chief mechanic and tuner. So I could choose one of the new, fancy, computer-controlled fuel injection systems for it if I thought it was appropriate. But, like you, I had no mappings for the motor, and, since it was modified heavily and, therefore, quite unique, there could be none unless I made them myself.
This is no mean task. It is much more complex than, for example, predicting weather, as it requires not only to know why it rains, but to predict -- not whether it will rain in Seattle today -- but where and when each drop will fall!
Fifteen or more years ago, I had a Yamaha motorcyle with unusually-strong throttle response; it featured a primitive, computer-controlled ignition with a fixed timing (no vacuum nor centrifugal advance.) I researched advance curves vs. throttle opening on the 'net and, lo, Google listed a Yamaha paper on the uselessness of ignition mappings!
Since that time, observation has shown me that any model that doesn't adhere to the fixed ignition timing model is doomed to having too many variables. This proved to me that science does not yet understand internal combustion motors completely. This is not surprising, as the Space Shuttle disaster showed, engineers who invented the rubber o-ring did not understand how it worked, either. What is surprising is that even later-model Hondas and Kawasakis still use ignition mapping; MSD still recommends the practice.
(There is a lot of Unformation out there. Don't fall for 'expert advice' unless you have double-checked with reality through scientific research.)
So I chose to use a racing carburetor and my experience instead, as I always have. Here was my reasoning: A racing car has to have very smooth power delivery at all throttle openings, without sudden peaks that could cause the rear wheels to lose their grip momentarily, causing lost time at best, and a spin or worse. The intake gases are traveling down the pipes at about 200 mph, and have staggering amounts of inertia. They echo up and down the pipe like bass in a boombox at various frequencies, and interact thoroughly with the exhaust system (as both intake and exhaust valves are open at the same time in a condition called 'overlap'), themselves, and subtle laws of physics known best by musical instrument makers.
While this is possible on a carbureted car, it is now and, in theory, anyway, always will be impossible on a digitally-controlled motor because of the finite number of bits (depth) on control. This leads to steps in the throttle (31 for a 32-bit processor, 15 for a 16-bit, etc.)
I guesstimate the power of the motor we are using at about 640 hp. Assume completely linear throttle response and a 32-bit processor. This give us about 20 hp per step: Not enough fine control. I extimate 256 bits would be the minimum needed to compete with even the most primitive carburetor for fine throttle control. (This does not lessen the other advantages of fuel injection, but there are analog FI systems, as well.) We are not there yet -- even if we had good ignition and mixture mapping. Add to this the problems of acceleration with the already-explained inertial forces, and we have an impossible situation.
If all theories need a prediction to check their integrity, here's mine: Ferrari will, for the near future, win most Formula One races because they have the proprietary maps (from decades of experience) and the most expensive 64-bit and better processors to enable the driver to have finer control and, in Michael Shumacher, a brilliant driver who can deal with the car's difficult temperament.
Each company keeps information like this quite secret. If not, Honda and Kawasaki would use Yamaha's discovery of the benefits of fixed ignition timing. When there is an Open Source racing team, I will join it and help map some motors; but, till then, my tuning secrets are exactly that: secret. And, as far as I know, everyone else's are, too.
As a former working reporter/editor, may I translate? This is the same language govermental diplomats use.. It is easy to understand without error as long as one understands the vocabulary.
Wide-ranging and frank -- Hurling peronal insults.
Cordial and friendly - Drank whiskey together and reminisced about hookers they shared.
Useful - useless.
Difficult - One guy smashed the other in the face.
Thoughtful insights - Rants.
It's easy once you get the drift....
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Don't be judgmental. It is wrong!
If anyone has a "HOWTO install gentoo from floppy" I would be happy to know about it.
No howto, but why not use a floppy-based linux like 2-disk xwindows or baslinux or even tomsrtbt from here to connect to ftp.gentoo.org, download the ISO, mount it as a loopback device and install from the laptop's HD?
Hmm, from freshmeat, it looks like the new version (of links) even has graphics support now
Thassright, graphics support can be compiled in, but I could not get it to display graphics from a terminal as one poster suggested w3m/lynx can do.
To get a graphical-enabled links up, just specify the -g option; otherwise it's a text-mode browser.
The graphical Links seems to be about as fast as Mozilla or Opera for Linux but not nearly as quick to display pages as Dillo (which begins to show text before parsing anything else and, so, is faster if what you want is textual information.) IIRC the graphical links is still Beta, and one might expect the final product to be faster without debugging flags, etc.
As most of my browsing is done on simple pages w/o the need for plugins, Dillo is still my first choice, with Moz next, even though I have an ad-free, registered version 5.x Opera. Dillo is king of speed, beating even lynx to display text.
I had a car whose speedometer went up to 100 miles an hour. Then I traded it for a car whose speedo read up to 133, but neither will do more than 38 miles per hour. Why?
Unm, first, vi is a text editor. It is not a word processor.
Umn, second, your first choice of browsers is ridiculous. To recommend lynx in place of IE makes your post seem either elitist in the extreme or you as quite obtuse. Why no mention of Mozilla or even Netscape?
This is tantamount to suggesting driving classes replace modern, automatic transmission and power steered cars with a crank-started, foot-shifted, hand-throttled Model T Ford.
This is the twenty-first century in case your sense of time is no clearer than your thought processes as expressed in your post.