I took win 98 off my wife's Pentium 2, 186Mb machine and put on danm small linux. It was like a new machine. boots in under 30 seconds and all the programs with their low graphics usage run snappy. The battery doesn't work and the screen is barely back lit but that doens't matter.
try Damn small. It hardly matters if you boot of CD or HD so just try it out.
The manual that then follows is no worse than say Machievelli's "The Prince". or more apropos Sun Tzu "the art of war".
"The Prince" is considered by many to be a handbook for being a successful, evil dictator. I don't recall anything of the sort in "the art of war" which is part philosophy and part tactics.
And some people think the world is on top a stack of turtles. The prince is amoral not immoral. The idea is to separate the how and the why, then learn from the how. If it makes you reflect on the why then that's only good.
I have an aeropress at work. They really are as good as they claim to be.
1) way faster than a french press
2) no need to boil the water. Just use an instant hot water tap on the water cooler. Because it brews so fast, and it's all plastic you don't need to have super hot starting water to end up with a very hot drink
3) No additional stuff to clean
4) it's self cleaning without a sink. press out the syringe and the coffee plug falls into the trash can and it's all clean,dry and ready to go back in your drawer.
5) I usually brew an americano (watery espresso) and I find the low acidity of the reduced temperature brewing means I no longer need cream in my coffee. This too is especially useful in the office environment since I don't need a refrigerator and a stock of fresh milk, or messy yucky white powders.
(by the way who was the genius who labeled sysco's coffee creamer "coffee whitener", as though turning it white was the real objecive. It's like something out of Repo man. Tack one of those in the middle of an 8-foot canvas and call it Andy Warhol pop art).
Who ever said war was a fun thing? amen. The ludicous screed that heads the article might be considered a parody of itself. The manual that then follows is no worse than say Machievelli's "The Prince". or more apropos Sun Tzu "the art of war".
Armies are SUpposed to plan and supposed to control populations effectively, ideally inflicting the the least damage possible. Like Jujitsu, it's about knowing the pressure points to move the whole body.
Fuck, it's their freakin' job.
Folks it's not immoral to plan for war. it may be immoral to go to war, but in the USA that's a civil sector choice not a military choice.
On a similar tack. I't not immoral to equip our soldiers with the best weapons possible. If the Country decides through its political leadership to put soldiers in harms way then they should be equipt to be as effective as they possibly can. The immorailty of war comes when politicians send us to war or waste our treasure on unneccessary weapons.
Yeah I sure would like to be working at Yahoo right now.
Now google is one thing. But the older I get the more I care about working at a place that will change the world.
Ironically, we always exhort the "young people" to forego wealth and do things they are passionate about. Maybe the reason we "elders" give this altuistic advice is that is that it's only later after we have the house, kids, and pool, that we crave some meaning in our work.
By meaning I don't just mean, curing Aids or feeding the poor. I mean bringing changing how people do things or think about things. an iPod is very meaningful. So is something mundane like a voting machine's design. Teaching has its attractions because guiding even three or four brilliant students can multiply ones impact, and that definitely is low pay.
Apple is one such place where ideas can become great products with a lot of impact.. My outsider perception of Apple is that integration of many idea-level contributions is the thing that is sold, and that makes everyones contributions more powerful and more accessible.
Google seems to me to the place where individual simple ideas reach the outside and then are backed by a legion of busy beavers to implement them. Apple I'm sure has many more hunchbacks. I'm just saying that one seems to be about pure concepts that a single PI can think of, and one seems to be about concept fusion--more like building an airplane. So one has to ask onseself, will I be one of the few google technologies that takes off, or would I rather create a novel low power Software controlled radio inside an ipod.
The thing is everyone thinks iphone==Touch screen. This is like saying iPod == simplified MP3 player with round dial.
If you happen to catch the last apple keynote, then you know it's about the integration. some stats:
>80% of iphone uses have used 10 or more applicaiton functions on their phone >95% use the internet and google says most of their mobile queries come from iphones.
Now they are launching a app store for developers which will allow anyone to sell in 70 countries and apple handles all the delivery, installs, micro payments, currency conversio, and store UI languages.
It's first year the ipod sold because it was cool to look at and hold. But it sold the next year because the iTunes and the Itumes Music store were so freakin easy use with it.
Making a touch screen is not making an iphone. These companies have about exactly 1 year to figure this out before the apple app store has a lot of applications on it. After that it's too late.
I'm pretty sure that's not Mr. Fusion unless that's the alter-ego of Jason Voorhees. In which case you might not wish for you Mr Fusion right now after all. It's more like Mr. Fission I'd say. Well I guess at least they got the date of publication right.
I'm pretty sure that's not Mr. Fusion unless that's the alter-ego of Jason Voorhees. In which case you might not wish for you Mr Fusion right now after all. It's more like Mr. Fission I'd say. Well I guess at least they got the date of publication right.
I'm looking at the Runner up entries in the the 2007 contest. In these they use an "Xor" Swap trick, which is a way of swapping two bytes in place without having to create a temporary storage element:
#define SWAP(x,y) do { x^=y; y^=x; x^=y; } while (0)
The terse explnantion says this some how poisons the RC4 encryption.
I don't get it. Is the Swap doing something else besides swapping? when does it fail? I'm not getting it
Jobs announces he's going to enormously simplify the morass of parallel programming and then also take GPU programming languages far beyond NVIDIA. And he's going to make this all in the core of the OS so it will be ubiquitous.
Oh and one more thing, we've already done it and it's going to be in our next release
Then I read posts about "well what about NTFS or Power PC".
Jebezus! get a sense of proportion here. Yeah NTFS might sell a few enterprise computers. So maybe that matter financially. But apple's doing fine with it's cash flow and we won't be talking about NTFS 5 years from now.
We will be talking about the future of computing which is how to tame and unify alternative and multicore architectures in a way the programmer does not need to worry about.
That's earthshaking if it could be done next year! Now a lot of people have blunted there spears chargin at this one so one needs a healthy dose of skepticism that it could be accomplished in a decade let alone in a few months. On the other hand the one person we know not to scoff at when he says he's going to make something complex really simple, retain 99% of it's power, and deliver it ubiquitously and accessibly is Jobs/Apple.
So doubt and wonder. Pour awe and skepticism. But fuck, don't ask about NTFS when this kind of thing is being annouced. You might as well ask about Zune support in Itunes.
What scares me more is that the ruling was 5-4 instead of unanimous. I too am puzzled by the logic of the Minority opinion given how the issue is described by the NY times. The issue is actually quite a narrow one. 1) Earier Supremes say it's okay for Bush to deny Habeous in US criminal courts so long as an alternative is provided that is substanially simmiar to the habeous right to contest incarceration. 2) congress provides an alternative tribunal system that fulfills this requirement
3) Said new tribunal turns around and refuses to hear any Habeous claims because it decrees the prisoners have no Habeous rights. (WILD!)
4) Today's court ruling reverses that saying they do have habeous rights.
The question then is Does it go back to the Kangaroo court or to a real crimminal court for hearing of habeous claims. I think this is the point of contention.
Also here's a link to a longer slashdot post that talks about this:
"in time of war" Which goes into the secret history of Hitler's deployment of Terrorists in the US by submarine, at a time when we were not at war with germany.
Several highly simmilar cases have come before the supreme court and all were very difficult decisions. The two most important ones were President Lincoln indefinitely detaining without trial citizens and press who spoke in favor of the confederacy. Unlike to day, where there is no declaration of war, Lincoln thought the consitution gave him the right to suspend Habeous. But the supreme court said it only applied in zones of conflict not the rear. And even under times of duress the constitution could not be switched off. Today's supreme court said almost exactly the same thing in the summary.
Then FDR also created the concept of "enemy combatants" for handling people who were spies captured inside the US boarders. While he should have treated them as Spies under war common law, instead he wanted their trials publicly suppressed and created a special tribunal outside the jurisdictions of any state but on US soil. The supremes had to argue about it. The argument was that clearly the US legal system can try people crimes so why not let it. And it would set a bad precedent for removing habeous for people captured outside war zones.
The book "In time of War" covers this an it's a great well written read. I recommend it highly.
I thought the following quote captured one aspect of the issue:
"But the real problem is the interminable detention period, which has no reasonable judicial excuse. The dissenters are quite right that America has offered a quite generous set of procedural protections for enemy combatants. But these are mocked when a detainee is an indefinite prisoner with indefinitely incomprehensible status. The problem is not the legal process but what happens when the federal government holds that process, at its whim, in open-ended abeyance. The federal government still gets a lot of leeway, and the benefit of the doubt, from the Court, especially in wartime. But ours is so nonobviously wartime, and the Bush administration has been so lax, opaque, and seemingly quite pointless in its interminable detention of a wide range of variably important prisoners, that todayÂs ruling seems to me to confirm the wisdom of both the majority and the dissent. I suspect the ruling will, if anything, cause most of these detainees to actually be tried, which would be nice, but not released, which would not be. And that strikes me as not only nice but just."
A good question is where does McCain stand on obeying the Constituional restrictions faithfully. Here's two articles from Reason Magazine (libertarian bent):
exhaust pipes! And what will plug and exhaust pipe non-lethally? Potatoes! ergo we need to genetically engineer jet-engine size potatoes and precision potato canons.
Day and night is caused by the rotation of the Earth.
rotation, shmotation. As anyone who's ever looked at the sun knows. the sun is roughly the size of a 50 cent piece and at night it comes to rest somewhere out west, probably arizona. Or so Calvin's dad told me
That's the problem with companies today. They "lease" you the equipment, with hidden terms and rules, and bullshit marketing that omits important facts that relate directly to your decision to purchase (lease) their product. Cell phone companies are one of the worst for this. Whooo boy. you must be still wet behind the ears. You see sonny a long long time ago, there were these things we now call land lines and POTS. And back then no one owned their own telephone. Indeed almost all telephones looked alike because there was only one place to get them. Lease them from the telephone company to put onto their network.
It was not until deregulation (carter era?? I cant quite recall when it happened now) that you could buy any old phone and attach it. It may also surprise you to learn there was only one phone company too.
At the time it made a lot of sense. The networks made a lot of assumptions about what was connected to them. They trusted the hardware. they trusted signals coming in from other nexuses. trust trust trust.
but just like trusting client side authentication leads to grief, the rise of phone phreaks injecting their own signals into a trusted network led to free phone calls.
I can still see why the cell phone company has reasons that they don't just want to permit any possible activity on their network. They are all about quality of service for as many possible people not an all-you-can buffet where a few people can pig out.
But I digress. Leasing telephone equipment has been the norm since alexander graham bell. this little experiement where you "purchase" a phone then lease the line has been pretty short lived so far. So get over it.
According to TippyCanoe at MacTipsToo, a third party has integrated game buttons into one of those rubberized protective holster for the iphone. Speculation is these communicate via a blue tooth interface or maybe the camera. So if that's actually true then problem solved. The neat thing would be if that make different kinds of button interfaces for different kinds of games(flight simmulators, etc.).
Slashdot Mirror
I took win 98 off my wife's Pentium 2, 186Mb machine and put on danm small linux. It was like a new machine. boots in under 30 seconds and all the programs with their low graphics usage run snappy. The battery doesn't work and the screen is barely back lit but that doens't matter.
try Damn small. It hardly matters if you boot of CD or HD so just try it out.
Here's a non-destructive way to neutralize it.
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/
cd
sudo tar -czf ARDAgent.app.gz ARDAgent.app
sudo chmod 600 ARDAgent.app.gz
This simply hides it in an unreadable tarball.
"The Prince" is considered by many to be a handbook for being a successful, evil dictator. I don't recall anything of the sort in "the art of war" which is part philosophy and part tactics.
And some people think the world is on top a stack of turtles.The prince is amoral not immoral. The idea is to separate the how and the why, then learn from the how. If it makes you reflect on the why then that's only good.
It's $10.20 (paper back) on Amazon.
or you can get it on line from the us army at Us.army.mil.
see FMI 3-07.22
The FAS has the 2004-2006 version posted here
No story. move along.
I have an aeropress at work. They really are as good as they claim to be.
1) way faster than a french press
2) no need to boil the water. Just use an instant hot water tap on the water cooler. Because it brews so fast, and it's all plastic you don't need to have super hot starting water to end up with a very hot drink
3) No additional stuff to clean
4) it's self cleaning without a sink. press out the syringe and the coffee plug falls into the trash can and it's all clean,dry and ready to go back in your drawer.
5) I usually brew an americano (watery espresso) and I find the low acidity of the reduced temperature brewing means I no longer need cream in my coffee. This too is especially useful in the office environment since I don't need a refrigerator and a stock of fresh milk, or messy yucky white powders.
(by the way who was the genius who labeled sysco's coffee creamer "coffee whitener", as though turning it white was the real objecive. It's like something out of Repo man. Tack one of those in the middle of an 8-foot canvas and call it Andy Warhol pop art).
Where's Goatse?
The ludicous screed that heads the article might be considered a parody of itself. The manual that then follows is no worse than say Machievelli's "The Prince". or more apropos Sun Tzu "the art of war".
Armies are SUpposed to plan and supposed to control populations effectively, ideally inflicting the the least damage possible. Like Jujitsu, it's about knowing the pressure points to move the whole body.
Fuck, it's their freakin' job.
Folks it's not immoral to plan for war. it may be immoral to go to war, but in the USA that's a civil sector choice not a military choice.
On a similar tack. I't not immoral to equip our soldiers with the best weapons possible. If the Country decides through its political leadership to put soldiers in harms way then they should be equipt to be as effective as they possibly can. The immorailty of war comes when politicians send us to war or waste our treasure on unneccessary weapons.
Yeah I sure would like to be working at Yahoo right now.
Now google is one thing. But the older I get the more I care about working at a place that will change the world.
Ironically, we always exhort the "young people" to forego wealth and do things they are passionate about. Maybe the reason we "elders" give this altuistic advice is that is that it's only later after we have the house, kids, and pool, that we crave some meaning in our work.
By meaning I don't just mean, curing Aids or feeding the poor. I mean bringing changing how people do things or think about things. an iPod is very meaningful. So is something mundane like a voting machine's design. Teaching has its attractions because guiding even three or four brilliant students can multiply ones impact, and that definitely is low pay.
Apple is one such place where ideas can become great products with a lot of impact.. My outsider perception of Apple is that integration of many idea-level contributions is the thing that is sold, and that makes everyones contributions more powerful and more accessible.
Google seems to me to the place where individual simple ideas reach the outside and then are backed by a legion of busy beavers to implement them. Apple I'm sure has many more hunchbacks. I'm just saying that one seems to be about pure concepts that a single PI can think of, and one seems to be about concept fusion--more like building an airplane. So one has to ask onseself, will I be one of the few google technologies that takes off, or would I rather create a novel low power Software controlled radio inside an ipod.
The thing is everyone thinks iphone==Touch screen. This is like saying iPod == simplified MP3 player with round dial.
If you happen to catch the last apple keynote, then you know it's about the integration. some stats:
>80% of iphone uses have used 10 or more applicaiton functions on their phone
>95% use the internet and google says most of their mobile queries come from iphones.
Now they are launching a app store for developers which will allow anyone to sell in 70 countries and apple handles all the delivery, installs, micro payments, currency conversio, and store UI languages.
It's first year the ipod sold because it was cool to look at and hold. But it sold the next year because the iTunes and the Itumes Music store were so freakin easy use with it.
Making a touch screen is not making an iphone. These companies have about exactly 1 year to figure this out before the apple app store has a lot of applications on it. After that it's too late.
YOu are genius. How compact but drawing in so much context. I salute you.
Photo of the water car.
I'm pretty sure that's not Mr. Fusion unless that's the alter-ego of Jason Voorhees. In which case you might not wish for you Mr Fusion right now after all. It's more like Mr. Fission I'd say. Well I guess at least they got the date of publication right.
Photo of the water car.
I'm pretty sure that's not Mr. Fusion unless that's the alter-ego of Jason Voorhees. In which case you might not wish for you Mr Fusion right now after all. It's more like Mr. Fission I'd say. Well I guess at least they got the date of publication right.
I'm looking at the Runner up entries in the the 2007 contest. In these they use an "Xor" Swap trick, which is a way of swapping two bytes in place without having to create a temporary storage element:
#define SWAP(x,y) do { x^=y; y^=x; x^=y; } while (0)
The terse explnantion says this some how poisons the RC4 encryption.
I don't get it. Is the Swap doing something else besides swapping? when does it fail? I'm not getting it
Jobs announces he's going to enormously simplify the morass of parallel programming and then also take GPU programming languages far beyond NVIDIA. And he's going to make this all in the core of the OS so it will be ubiquitous.
Oh and one more thing, we've already done it and it's going to be in our next release
Then I read posts about "well what about NTFS or Power PC".
Jebezus! get a sense of proportion here. Yeah NTFS might sell a few enterprise computers. So maybe that matter financially. But apple's doing fine with it's cash flow and we won't be talking about NTFS 5 years from now.
We will be talking about the future of computing which is how to tame and unify alternative and multicore architectures in a way the programmer does not need to worry about.
That's earthshaking if it could be done next year! Now a lot of people have blunted there spears chargin at this one so one needs a healthy dose of skepticism that it could be accomplished in a decade let alone in a few months. On the other hand the one person we know not to scoff at when he says he's going to make something complex really simple, retain 99% of it's power, and deliver it ubiquitously and accessibly is Jobs/Apple.
So doubt and wonder. Pour awe and skepticism. But fuck, don't ask about NTFS when this kind of thing is being annouced. You might as well ask about Zune support in Itunes.
1) Earier Supremes say it's okay for Bush to deny Habeous in US criminal courts so long as an alternative is provided that is substanially simmiar to the habeous right to contest incarceration.
2) congress provides an alternative tribunal system that fulfills this requirement
3) Said new tribunal turns around and refuses to hear any Habeous claims because it decrees the prisoners have no Habeous rights. (WILD!)
4) Today's court ruling reverses that saying they do have habeous rights.
The question then is Does it go back to the Kangaroo court or to a real crimminal court for hearing of habeous claims. I think this is the point of contention.
Also here's a link to a longer slashdot post that talks about this:
"in time of war" Which goes into the secret history of Hitler's deployment of Terrorists in the US by submarine, at a time when we were not at war with germany.
Several highly simmilar cases have come before the supreme court and all were very difficult decisions. The two most important ones were President Lincoln indefinitely detaining without trial citizens and press who spoke in favor of the confederacy. Unlike to day, where there is no declaration of war, Lincoln thought the consitution gave him the right to suspend Habeous. But the supreme court said it only applied in zones of conflict not the rear. And even under times of duress the constitution could not be switched off. Today's supreme court said almost exactly the same thing in the summary.
Then FDR also created the concept of "enemy combatants" for handling people who were spies captured inside the US boarders. While he should have treated them as Spies under war common law, instead he wanted their trials publicly suppressed and created a special tribunal outside the jurisdictions of any state but on US soil. The supremes had to argue about it. The argument was that clearly the US legal system can try people crimes so why not let it. And it would set a bad precedent for removing habeous for people captured outside war zones.
The book "In time of War" covers this an it's a great well written read. I recommend it highly.
I thought the following quote captured one aspect of the issue:
"But the real problem is the interminable detention period, which has no reasonable judicial excuse. The dissenters are quite right that America has offered a quite generous set of procedural protections for enemy combatants. But these are mocked when a detainee is an indefinite prisoner with indefinitely incomprehensible status. The problem is not the legal process but what happens when the federal government holds that process, at its whim, in open-ended abeyance. The federal government still gets a lot of leeway, and the benefit of the doubt, from the Court, especially in wartime. But ours is so nonobviously wartime, and the Bush administration has been so lax, opaque, and seemingly quite pointless in its interminable detention of a wide range of variably important prisoners, that todayÂs ruling seems to me to confirm the wisdom of both the majority and the dissent. I suspect the ruling will, if anything, cause most of these detainees to actually be tried, which would be nice, but not released, which would not be. And that strikes me as not only nice but just."
link
A good question is where does McCain stand on obeying the Constituional restrictions faithfully. Here's two articles from Reason Magazine (libertarian bent):
Longer and Shorter
exhaust pipes!
And what will plug and exhaust pipe non-lethally?
Potatoes!
ergo we need to genetically engineer jet-engine size potatoes and precision potato canons.
Profit!
Day and night is caused by the rotation of the Earth.
rotation, shmotation. As anyone who's ever looked at the sun knows. the sun is roughly the size of a 50 cent piece and at night it comes to rest somewhere out west, probably arizona. Or so Calvin's dad told meNASA knows the probe will burn up in the sun, so that's why they plan to land it at night.
mod grand parent down as wrong
It was not until deregulation (carter era?? I cant quite recall when it happened now) that you could buy any old phone and attach it. It may also surprise you to learn there was only one phone company too.
At the time it made a lot of sense. The networks made a lot of assumptions about what was connected to them. They trusted the hardware. they trusted signals coming in from other nexuses. trust trust trust.
but just like trusting client side authentication leads to grief, the rise of phone phreaks injecting their own signals into a trusted network led to free phone calls.
I can still see why the cell phone company has reasons that they don't just want to permit any possible activity on their network. They are all about quality of service for as many possible people not an all-you-can buffet where a few people can pig out.
But I digress. Leasing telephone equipment has been the norm since alexander graham bell. this little experiement where you "purchase" a phone then lease the line has been pretty short lived so far. So get over it.
You become what you hate
Though I am laughing pretty hard.
According to TippyCanoe at MacTipsToo, a third party has integrated game buttons into one of those rubberized protective holster for the iphone. Speculation is these communicate via a blue tooth interface or maybe the camera. So if that's actually true then problem solved. The neat thing would be if that make different kinds of button interfaces for different kinds of games(flight simmulators, etc.).