For the record, it was called Foxfire, not Foxfile. It was quite interesting, mixing text with graphics. It's what a lot of people were reading while we waited for the internet.
Exactly right. What I call organic is just smaller, local farmers practicing sustainable agriculture very close to their market. Despite 50 years of attempting to hide the fact, agriculture does not scale well, at least not for perishables. Only the concentration of profits is more efficient in large-scale agriculture operations. One thing local suppliers (in the northeast US, at least) can't supply is vegetables through the winter. I guess that's what California is for.
I thought the same thing. Adobe, Symantec, Microsoft write the most hole-riddled, performance hogging, and attack-vector-filled software there is. It comes with the territory-- it's where good software and evil software meet. It fries me that anti-virus software is only marginally less annoying than the viruses they protect us from.
Dude, thanks for the information. I did not know they were all the same. My noisy drive is a Seagate Bigfoot 20 gig drive that's around 15 years old, 5 1/4 format half-height that weighs five pounds. I can't believe I blamed the noise on the interface.
ATA came before SATA. One use I've found for ATA is to increase the number of drives supported on a motherboard. I use one as a boot disk for a FreeNAS box. The drive is basically read-only, so I don't expect write cache issues. ATA drives are very slow and noisy, and the reason that technology is obsolete.
none of the people who were involved were ever charged with anything,
This is not true, they prosecuted and convicted Scooter Libby over the Valerie Plame outing, and he lost his job. I am pretty certain he was pardoned, though not exonerated. It looks like he took the fall for the Cheney office.
The worst part is Cheney wasn't even after Plame, he was after Plame's husband for reporting that Saddam Hussein was _not_ shopping for yellowcake uranium ore in Africa. For interfering with the Iraqi WMD lie, the White House outed the wife of the messenger (former diplomat). Cheney and Bush thought they were playing war with their toy soldiers-- war is so often a perversion old men engage in using young men as their living toy soldiers.
Evacuating large groups of people for months at a time, and killing and burying their livestock "WAY deep" constitutes a magnitude of liability no private company is prepared to take on. Your comment suggests you are in favor of large, coercive groups of quasi-governmental officials with the power to evacuate or temporarily relocate populations, organized and financed by the government, and all for the sake of continued profits for the power companies. Seriously.
The problems with the plant were not caused by the earthquake or the tsunami, they were caused by the electricity going out. It was not the freak failure of some madly over-spec'ed equipment, it was the simple failure to anticipate a lack of electrical service to power the pumps that were supposed to cool the plant. Once cooling failed, the accidents just happened randomly -- the roofs blowing off two reactors from hydrogen build-up, and various cracks and leaks caused, or highlighted, by pumping sea water through the plants for emergency cooling. Basically, once the power went off, none of their emergency response protocols were relevant.
This confirms (for me, at least) Amory Lovins' assertion that the US will never build another nuclear plant because there's no way it will ever be cost effective, even when most of the liability risk is assumed by the government. This WSJ article is snake oil being sold by some would-be investors (or sellers of investments).
This is the most insightful post I've read so far in this thread. Assange is not traitorous, because Assange is not a US citizen!
And he's a journalist, no matter what others may feel about his stories. Exposing this kind of crap is his job.
Reading your comment between the lines reveals you believe the following three things:
1. The website with the highest number of "units" wins, and no website with a lower number is legitimate.
2. Any single example of a "unit" is the same as any other, hence generic. The only important comparison value is quantity vs. price.
3. Despite this flattening of value, expensive somehow trumps free, and newer is better than older.
These ideas are quite current, and popular, but I think they're rarely examined. And I disagree.
This is the most realistic post here. Mortgages last 30 years. Tech lasts 10 years. And predicting the next generation of tech is an inexact science. Lots of people (myself included) will install older, cheaper recycled tech, making the half-life even less. I have friends who own a 60's-70's era home built with "revolutionary" electrical conveniences so that all the wiring passes through a central part of the house through proprietary and hopelessly obsolete electrical equipment, and electricians won't work on it. They've rewired around most of it, but it still causes problems.
Also think about how much energy you'll expend trying to maintain in working order some old WindowsXP laptop and wifi link required to activate the generator circuit in the back of the house in case the power goes out. Tech is great today, but can have a bumpy life cycle, and its replacement is almost guaranteed to be laughably incompatible. Just keeping batteries charged is a PITA.
I completely agree with you. I don't know whether you got a flamebait because of the sarcasm, the gratuitous Apple dig, or because you're AC, but your comment perfectly decodes today's advertising and media message, promoted and motivated by inconsistent banking regulations and unbalanced tax code. "Stuff" means debt, and people trading debt for stuff means the wheels of capitalism keep turning. Much of pop culture is solely of use in establishing the value of "stuff" so that people will want it, and go into debt for it. And debt pays for consumer purchasing growth.
It's not that difficult to manage one's personal debt. It's much harder to tune out the din of advertising that attempts to lure us into debt. Skepticism, even of the sneering and sarcastic variety, can be very valuable.
To take in a billion dollars, the gov would have to sell roughly 110,000 free pass tickets every day for a year. I don't believe that's likely to happen.
I'd look for direct quotations from the poor misguided politician from elsewhere-- I wouldn't believe that particular news site if they said it was Sunday. If it turns out to be true (that the candidate thinks the state should sell free passes), it's another indication of the growing belief it should be possible to purchase one's way around our laws and regulations.
And where did he get the "billion dollars" estimate of what this measure would bring in? I know where it came from. Don't look there.
The government doesn't have to "comprehensively monitor" Wikileaks... Wikileaks publishes the stuff openly. That's why the government is so irritated by it.
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It's worse, I'm pretty sure this guy is the chair of the committee.
The liability in this case is not to the law, but to the lawyers.
For the record, it was called Foxfire, not Foxfile. It was quite interesting, mixing text with graphics. It's what a lot of people were reading while we waited for the internet.
Exactly right. What I call organic is just smaller, local farmers practicing sustainable agriculture very close to their market. Despite 50 years of attempting to hide the fact, agriculture does not scale well, at least not for perishables. Only the concentration of profits is more efficient in large-scale agriculture operations. One thing local suppliers (in the northeast US, at least) can't supply is vegetables through the winter. I guess that's what California is for.
I thought the same thing. Adobe, Symantec, Microsoft write the most hole-riddled, performance hogging, and attack-vector-filled software there is. It comes with the territory-- it's where good software and evil software meet. It fries me that anti-virus software is only marginally less annoying than the viruses they protect us from.
Dude, thanks for the information. I did not know they were all the same. My noisy drive is a Seagate Bigfoot 20 gig drive that's around 15 years old, 5 1/4 format half-height that weighs five pounds. I can't believe I blamed the noise on the interface.
ATA came before SATA. One use I've found for ATA is to increase the number of drives supported on a motherboard. I use one as a boot disk for a FreeNAS box. The drive is basically read-only, so I don't expect write cache issues. ATA drives are very slow and noisy, and the reason that technology is obsolete.
none of the people who were involved were ever charged with anything,
This is not true, they prosecuted and convicted Scooter Libby over the Valerie Plame outing, and he lost his job. I am pretty certain he was pardoned, though not exonerated. It looks like he took the fall for the Cheney office.
The worst part is Cheney wasn't even after Plame, he was after Plame's husband for reporting that Saddam Hussein was _not_ shopping for yellowcake uranium ore in Africa. For interfering with the Iraqi WMD lie, the White House outed the wife of the messenger (former diplomat). Cheney and Bush thought they were playing war with their toy soldiers-- war is so often a perversion old men engage in using young men as their living toy soldiers.
Her name was Valerie Plame and Scooter Libby took the fall for outing her. (I scrolled down, but didn't see anyone respond).
Evacuating large groups of people for months at a time, and killing and burying their livestock "WAY deep" constitutes a magnitude of liability no private company is prepared to take on. Your comment suggests you are in favor of large, coercive groups of quasi-governmental officials with the power to evacuate or temporarily relocate populations, organized and financed by the government, and all for the sake of continued profits for the power companies. Seriously.
OMG, it's headed right toward Larry Ellison's island!
The problems with the plant were not caused by the earthquake or the tsunami, they were caused by the electricity going out. It was not the freak failure of some madly over-spec'ed equipment, it was the simple failure to anticipate a lack of electrical service to power the pumps that were supposed to cool the plant. Once cooling failed, the accidents just happened randomly -- the roofs blowing off two reactors from hydrogen build-up, and various cracks and leaks caused, or highlighted, by pumping sea water through the plants for emergency cooling. Basically, once the power went off, none of their emergency response protocols were relevant.
This confirms (for me, at least) Amory Lovins' assertion that the US will never build another nuclear plant because there's no way it will ever be cost effective, even when most of the liability risk is assumed by the government. This WSJ article is snake oil being sold by some would-be investors (or sellers of investments).
The Daily show has more viewers then the whole Fox news channel.
And a better class of viewers too, I might add.
This is the most insightful post I've read so far in this thread. Assange is not traitorous, because Assange is not a US citizen! And he's a journalist, no matter what others may feel about his stories. Exposing this kind of crap is his job.
Reading your comment between the lines reveals you believe the following three things:
1. The website with the highest number of "units" wins, and no website with a lower number is legitimate.
2. Any single example of a "unit" is the same as any other, hence generic. The only important comparison value is quantity vs. price.
3. Despite this flattening of value, expensive somehow trumps free, and newer is better than older.
These ideas are quite current, and popular, but I think they're rarely examined. And I disagree.
But where is the ... Profit?
Your thesis intrigues me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
There's no rule that says all problems must be solved with one piece of software.
There is such a rule. It's called monopoly capitalism.
It's an excellent book-- short, concise, clear and nicely explained. Delivered by Amazon today. Thanks for the information.
This is the most realistic post here. Mortgages last 30 years. Tech lasts 10 years. And predicting the next generation of tech is an inexact science. Lots of people (myself included) will install older, cheaper recycled tech, making the half-life even less. I have friends who own a 60's-70's era home built with "revolutionary" electrical conveniences so that all the wiring passes through a central part of the house through proprietary and hopelessly obsolete electrical equipment, and electricians won't work on it. They've rewired around most of it, but it still causes problems.
Also think about how much energy you'll expend trying to maintain in working order some old WindowsXP laptop and wifi link required to activate the generator circuit in the back of the house in case the power goes out. Tech is great today, but can have a bumpy life cycle, and its replacement is almost guaranteed to be laughably incompatible. Just keeping batteries charged is a PITA.
I completely agree with you. I don't know whether you got a flamebait because of the sarcasm, the gratuitous Apple dig, or because you're AC, but your comment perfectly decodes today's advertising and media message, promoted and motivated by inconsistent banking regulations and unbalanced tax code. "Stuff" means debt, and people trading debt for stuff means the wheels of capitalism keep turning. Much of pop culture is solely of use in establishing the value of "stuff" so that people will want it, and go into debt for it. And debt pays for consumer purchasing growth.
It's not that difficult to manage one's personal debt. It's much harder to tune out the din of advertising that attempts to lure us into debt. Skepticism, even of the sneering and sarcastic variety, can be very valuable.
1. Write a load balancer
...
2. Sell it to customers until it breaks
3. Patent software anomaly
Profit!
To take in a billion dollars, the gov would have to sell roughly 110,000 free pass tickets every day for a year. I don't believe that's likely to happen.
I'd look for direct quotations from the poor misguided politician from elsewhere-- I wouldn't believe that particular news site if they said it was Sunday. If it turns out to be true (that the candidate thinks the state should sell free passes), it's another indication of the growing belief it should be possible to purchase one's way around our laws and regulations.
And where did he get the "billion dollars" estimate of what this measure would bring in? I know where it came from. Don't look there.
The government doesn't have to "comprehensively monitor" Wikileaks... Wikileaks publishes the stuff openly. That's why the government is so irritated by it.