His Energy Czar was escorted from the building 20 minutes or so after the last gas-lineup ended. (/sarcasm)He actually cut back a number of research projects, including fusion research.
Carter cut funding for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project in Oak Ridge. Funding for fusion research (PDF) grew during his term. Between 1972 and 1979, the fusion budget increased nearly 10 fold. Typical gov't program. My father was in the fusion business and each year he would bring home a new HP calculator that the lab had bought him just to spend all of their budget before the end of the fiscal year. This would be like buying a shiney new PC today for each physicist every year when they do 99% of their work on the supercomputer down the hall. In the 1980s, Congress reduced funding in constant dollars. Probably not an unreasonable thing to do since fusion is a long term research program and won't be economically feasible for a while.
I have 25 +/- O'Reilly books on my shelves. They are usually quite good, but I've had a few disapointments lately. Practical PostgreSQL does not cover embedded SQL in C/C++ and has a terrible index (only 6 pgs long).
They chose to waste nearly 50 pgs of material on some unknown commercial add-on pkg that the authors had written. The penultimate book I bought - Java and XSLT - has a good discussion of the basics with examples, but is a terrible reference if you just want to see what the standard XPATH node set functions are (i.e. count() is available in an example, but what else might there be?). Instead they chose to include 40 pgs on java servlet basics that can already be found in 20 other books. For the XPATH stuff, I finally bought their XSLT book just to get the reference text I needed.
I suspect that they are just overwhelmed by the volume of material that needs coverage these days and their editors don't know the material well enough to tell authors what should be included and what should be left out. I hope it isn't because they have fallen for the latest fad delivered at internet speed business model where it is more more important to ship code at all than to pause for a moment and check the code's quality.
They are still up there (along with Prentice-Hall and Addison Wesley) as best of breed in programming books, but I think that I will be a little more careful about comparison shopping first instead of just automatically reaching for the O'Reilly version.
Yes. Copyright protection is there for "promoting science and useful arts". Dead artist can be hardly encouraged by any law. His/her heirs add nothing to progress.
This is a type of age discrimination. The older one gets, the less lifespan left in which to benefit from any work that one produces. Hence copyright will provide little or no incentive for older people to contribute new works. Now should one's great-grandchildren be allowed to retain the copyright? Probably not, but certainly the spouse of the author should. Giving the copyright as the inheritence is the same as giving the stream of royalty payments the author would have received had he lived to receive them himself.
And maybe the spouse did earn them. Who cooked, cleaned, and cared for the kids while the author was hiding in the den writing the Great American Novel?
What if the work is the inheritence? If I were to write a blockbuster novel and die the day before it makes the NYTimes list, I would not want the work to go into the public domain until my spouse and kids have made what I would have made had I lived.
Go read John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces as an example. Toole couldn't find a publisher and committed suicide. His mom enlisted the help of a prof at Loyola who found a publisher. The book was reasonably successful (and BTW, is well worth the read). Should it go into the public domain because the author is dead?
Dilbert: People who don't vote have no right to complain.
Dogbert: Why not?
Dilbert: Because... Because... Because that's the way I was raised.
Dogbert: You were raised by bumber stickers?
Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy.
Manufacturers can make equipment this sturdy today. But are you willing to use an 8088 running at 4.77 Mhz? And if not, how much will you pay to get 30 years of service out of more modern processors and peripherals. Pioneer 10 cost $200 million to build in the 1970s.
Slashdot, please stop posting Real headlines to frontpage. Guy speaks about a major breakthrough on media serving, for us, media workers, damn article is filled with spyware shouters etc.
Releasing the source is a wonderful step on the part of Real. But hassling them over spyware is fair, too. Few companies or people do everything perfectly and both praise and complaint are useful for moving them in a better direction.
Sure, maybe Officer Bustem is getting a little out of hand with looking up data on his patrol car tablet. But I can always discuss the issue with my city council member, or even run for city council myself if I don't like the answers. Or I could reasonably move out of Smallville if the laws are ultimately not to my liking. But I have zero chance of influencing the Atty. General of the United States, and it would be very difficult to pick up and move out of the US of A.
The AttyGen may be more of a friend than you realize. Any idea of how many times the AttyGen
has taken a local police force into court for civil rights violations where the local politicians turn a blind eye to problems? Here in Ohio, both Cincinnati and Columbus have had recent run-ins with the DOJ over police abuses. The New Jersey State Police, Buffalo, LA, Pittsburg, and DC police are all currently being monitored by the DOJ.
Here, Here! I've had horrible experiences with Rose. It has always amused me that a company that
creates tools to support modern software design and build methods and which is backed by some of the top names in the field of software design methodology could write such buggy code. It makes me wonder if the design methodology itself is to blame. If you don't create a superior product when you are the experts at a supposedly superior methodology, something is seriously wrong with the methodology.
That's only half the analysis. With only two goods (Farscape and well-fed children) they must be substitutes, so we need at least three goods
(Farscape, well-fed children, and a composite everything else). Now add a budget constraint and you may find that optimal purchases of either well-fed children or Farscape are zero while the other is positive. Otherwise you would observe every consumer buying some miniscule amount of every good produced.
This is similar to the complaints made during the early industrial revolution about how hard and terrible factory work was. But the choice then was factory work or farm work. And I'll bet for most people who didn't own their own farm (and likely many who did) factory work won hands down.
OTOH, factory work is tough and in the early days
abusive employers could get away with lots of nasty things we consider illegal and/or immoral today. It took a combination of public outrage, progressive politicians, and organized labor to fix many of the worst ills associated with factory labor conditions.
Just because code serfdom is a better choice than factory work does not mean that all is well or that conditions cannot or should not be improved.
I don't like to feed trolls, but it should be pointed out that PostgreSQL is not even mentioned at all in the URL you provided. Also, the Aberdeen report upon which the URL is based has been pretty thoroughly debunked because the data source upon which it was based (CERT Advisories) are a very poor measure of how secure one OS is relative to another.
It isn't just America. Nobel Prize winning novelist Anatole France once wrote about French justice that The Law in all its majesty forbids equally the rich and the poor from sleeping under a bridge. The quote is applicable to most countries.
The one problem you might have is if you die and
your SO needs to get at the backups for some reason. Many (most) states require that the box be sealed on the death of one of the owners until
the probate stuff is straightened out. This is the reason why you should not keep your will in your safety deposit box. Let the attorney keep it for you.
Of course, having said all that, I'll admit that I back up my data to CDR and put the CD in the safety deposit box at the bank. The one thing those backups contain that might cause a problem for my wife is the MS Money backup.
IIRC from my undergrad days in econ, technically MS would not be covered by US anti-dumping laws, but by the anti-trust laws under a doctrine known as deep pockets. The idea is that you have enough cash stashed away that you can afford to drop your prices for a sufficiently long time to drive less well endowed competitors out of business and then raise prices to the monopoly level. Here is an example from the US airlines industry. Anti-dumping is a similar idea but under US law applies to foreign companies selling for less than production costs.
There are a couple of problems with both the deep pockets notion and anti-dumping laws. First, a large competitor may well have a lower cost of production than a smaller competitor and costs can be notoriously hard to measure. This can lead to charges that what is really happening is that the DOJ is bringing the case for political reasons, i.e. the protection of small business (the A&P grocery case is the classic example). The second problem is that cutting the price imposes a cost on the big competitor as well (e.g. $177 million quarterly loss for the MS game console) and so it isn't entirely clear that this is a rational strategy. Remember that both the large and small guys do best where their marginal revenue = their marginal cost (i.e. profit maximization) and this is not necessarily the same as maximizing market share as many Korean and Japanese firms have discovered in the past decade or so.
And for the parent who wrote:
The US puts taxes at will on any kind of product if they think their own industrie soffers from forreign laws... However: what is legal and what not, all over the world, is final descided by a US court.
The EU and the Japanese are at least as guilty of protection as the US (try selling Guatemalan bananas in the EU). Most of these disputes are now settled under GATT treaties by the WTO, not US courts. In fact, the US 1916 anti-dumping law has been held to violate the WTO and GATT treaty by the WTO. Under the rules, the US is required to bring its domestic laws into conformity with WTO and GATT rules as are all of the other signatories.
The musical Wyman wants the columnist wyman to put a discalimer on everything he writes that he is in fact NOT the musical Wyman!
Sounds reasonable... Provided, of course, that every time Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones plays, he should be required to add a disclaimer that he is not Bill Wyman the journalist.
I downloaded and installed libpcap and tcpdump on Nov 1. The versions I have came from tcpdump.org.
md5sum shows that they have the correct checksum and not the trojaned checksum as reported on the Houston LUG page. A grep of the sources for the port number and ip found in the trojan reports null. It looks like the trojan files were placed on tcpdump.org after Nov 1, 2002.
Mouse did a lot of work for the Grateful Dead back in the day. The Europe '72 cover art was his. He also won a Grammy for the cover art for one of Steve Miller's albums. Mouse's original work goes for a pretty penny these days and I doubt he is hurting for cash. He may well believe he has a legit complaint. Bio...
As to the ambulatory eyeball, variations of that (usually a flying eyeball) were a common theme in hippie art of the '60s. The motif goes back to Ancient Egypt and are a hot rod staple. Maybe if you combine the eyeball with a Monsters, Inc motif, Mouse would have something, but the monster eyeball alone isn't enough.
How about these? Here is the current advice on the subject of whether a reporter should offer confidentiality to a source. The US Supremes ruled in 1999 that there is no 1st Amendment guarantee to reporters offering confidentiality and tossed it to each state to decide on their own. A reporter should consult with her local publisher for their policy before guaranteeing confidentiality.
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His Energy Czar was escorted from the building 20 minutes or so after the last gas-lineup ended. (/sarcasm)He actually cut back a number of research projects, including fusion research.
Carter cut funding for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project in Oak Ridge. Funding for fusion research (PDF) grew during his term. Between 1972 and 1979, the fusion budget increased nearly 10 fold. Typical gov't program. My father was in the fusion business and each year he would bring home a new HP calculator that the lab had bought him just to spend all of their budget before the end of the fiscal year. This would be like buying a shiney new PC today for each physicist every year when they do 99% of their work on the supercomputer down the hall. In the 1980s, Congress reduced funding in constant dollars. Probably not an unreasonable thing to do since fusion is a long term research program and won't be economically feasible for a while.
It even comes with references to papers (not that I've read them, but y'know).
But you'll cite them anyway when you write your paper.
I have 25 +/- O'Reilly books on my shelves. They are usually quite good, but I've had a few disapointments lately. Practical PostgreSQL does not cover embedded SQL in C/C++ and has a terrible index (only 6 pgs long). They chose to waste nearly 50 pgs of material on some unknown commercial add-on pkg that the authors had written. The penultimate book I bought - Java and XSLT - has a good discussion of the basics with examples, but is a terrible reference if you just want to see what the standard XPATH node set functions are (i.e. count() is available in an example, but what else might there be?). Instead they chose to include 40 pgs on java servlet basics that can already be found in 20 other books. For the XPATH stuff, I finally bought their XSLT book just to get the reference text I needed.
I suspect that they are just overwhelmed by the volume of material that needs coverage these days and their editors don't know the material well enough to tell authors what should be included and what should be left out. I hope it isn't because they have fallen for the latest fad delivered at internet speed business model where it is more more important to ship code at all than to pause for a moment and check the code's quality.
They are still up there (along with Prentice-Hall and Addison Wesley) as best of breed in programming books, but I think that I will be a little more careful about comparison shopping first instead of just automatically reaching for the O'Reilly version.
'It is a pity that our friends lie in between,' said Gimli. 'If no land divided BSA and RIAA, then they could fight while we watched and waited.'
'The victor would emerge stronger than either, and free from doubt,' said Gandalf.
Yes. Copyright protection is there for "promoting science and useful arts". Dead artist can be hardly encouraged by any law. His/her heirs add nothing to progress.
This is a type of age discrimination. The older one gets, the less lifespan left in which to benefit from any work that one produces. Hence copyright will provide little or no incentive for older people to contribute new works. Now should one's great-grandchildren be allowed to retain the copyright? Probably not, but certainly the spouse of the author should. Giving the copyright as the inheritence is the same as giving the stream of royalty payments the author would have received had he lived to receive them himself.
And maybe the spouse did earn them. Who cooked, cleaned, and cared for the kids while the author was hiding in the den writing the Great American Novel?
What if the work is the inheritence? If I were to write a blockbuster novel and die the day before it makes the NYTimes list, I would not want the work to go into the public domain until my spouse and kids have made what I would have made had I lived.
Go read John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces as an example. Toole couldn't find a publisher and committed suicide. His mom enlisted the help of a prof at Loyola who found a publisher. The book was reasonably successful (and BTW, is well worth the read). Should it go into the public domain because the author is dead?
From an old Dilbert:
... Because ... Because that's the way I was raised.
Dilbert: People who don't vote have no right to complain.
Dogbert: Why not?
Dilbert: Because
Dogbert: You were raised by bumber stickers?
Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy.
Manufacturers can make equipment this sturdy today. But are you willing to use an 8088 running at 4.77 Mhz? And if not, how much will you pay to get 30 years of service out of more modern processors and peripherals. Pioneer 10 cost $200 million to build in the 1970s.
Slashdot, please stop posting Real headlines to frontpage. Guy speaks about a major breakthrough on media serving, for us, media workers, damn article is filled with spyware shouters etc.
Releasing the source is a wonderful step on the part of Real. But hassling them over spyware is fair, too. Few companies or people do everything perfectly and both praise and complaint are useful for moving them in a better direction.
Sure, maybe Officer Bustem is getting a little out of hand with looking up data on his patrol car tablet. But I can always discuss the issue with my city council member, or even run for city council myself if I don't like the answers. Or I could reasonably move out of Smallville if the laws are ultimately not to my liking. But I have zero chance of influencing the Atty. General of the United States, and it would be very difficult to pick up and move out of the US of A.
The AttyGen may be more of a friend than you realize. Any idea of how many times the AttyGen has taken a local police force into court for civil rights violations where the local politicians turn a blind eye to problems? Here in Ohio, both Cincinnati and Columbus have had recent run-ins with the DOJ over police abuses. The New Jersey State Police, Buffalo, LA, Pittsburg, and DC police are all currently being monitored by the DOJ.
Here, Here! I've had horrible experiences with Rose. It has always amused me that a company that creates tools to support modern software design and build methods and which is backed by some of the top names in the field of software design methodology could write such buggy code. It makes me wonder if the design methodology itself is to blame. If you don't create a superior product when you are the experts at a supposedly superior methodology, something is seriously wrong with the methodology.
Sigh, once more someone cries "CONSPIRACY" based on anecdotal data from a single slashdotter.
Be careful of Occam's Razor. It is quite sharp and I'd hate to see your throat get cut when it is wielded by the invisible hand of Adam Smith.
Yes. Read Advanced XFwm configuration.
Hear! Hear! Xfce does a great job. It is unobtrusive, fast, and easy to customize.
That's only half the analysis. With only two goods (Farscape and well-fed children) they must be substitutes, so we need at least three goods (Farscape, well-fed children, and a composite everything else). Now add a budget constraint and you may find that optimal purchases of either well-fed children or Farscape are zero while the other is positive. Otherwise you would observe every consumer buying some miniscule amount of every good produced.
This is similar to the complaints made during the early industrial revolution about how hard and terrible factory work was. But the choice then was factory work or farm work. And I'll bet for most people who didn't own their own farm (and likely many who did) factory work won hands down.
OTOH, factory work is tough and in the early days abusive employers could get away with lots of nasty things we consider illegal and/or immoral today. It took a combination of public outrage, progressive politicians, and organized labor to fix many of the worst ills associated with factory labor conditions.
Just because code serfdom is a better choice than factory work does not mean that all is well or that conditions cannot or should not be improved.
I don't like to feed trolls, but it should be pointed out that PostgreSQL is not even mentioned at all in the URL you provided. Also, the Aberdeen report upon which the URL is based has been pretty thoroughly debunked because the data source upon which it was based (CERT Advisories) are a very poor measure of how secure one OS is relative to another.
It isn't just America. Nobel Prize winning novelist Anatole France once wrote about French justice that The Law in all its majesty forbids equally the rich and the poor from sleeping under a bridge. The quote is applicable to most countries.
Fraud. My bank requires a signature and a date/time be written on a form each time that the box is opened.
OTOH, my wife would probably have little to lose by committing a little fraud after my murder.
The one problem you might have is if you die and your SO needs to get at the backups for some reason. Many (most) states require that the box be sealed on the death of one of the owners until the probate stuff is straightened out. This is the reason why you should not keep your will in your safety deposit box. Let the attorney keep it for you.
Of course, having said all that, I'll admit that I back up my data to CDR and put the CD in the safety deposit box at the bank. The one thing those backups contain that might cause a problem for my wife is the MS Money backup.
IIRC from my undergrad days in econ, technically MS would not be covered by US anti-dumping laws, but by the anti-trust laws under a doctrine known as deep pockets. The idea is that you have enough cash stashed away that you can afford to drop your prices for a sufficiently long time to drive less well endowed competitors out of business and then raise prices to the monopoly level. Here is an example from the US airlines industry. Anti-dumping is a similar idea but under US law applies to foreign companies selling for less than production costs.
There are a couple of problems with both the deep pockets notion and anti-dumping laws. First, a large competitor may well have a lower cost of production than a smaller competitor and costs can be notoriously hard to measure. This can lead to charges that what is really happening is that the DOJ is bringing the case for political reasons, i.e. the protection of small business (the A&P grocery case is the classic example). The second problem is that cutting the price imposes a cost on the big competitor as well (e.g. $177 million quarterly loss for the MS game console) and so it isn't entirely clear that this is a rational strategy. Remember that both the large and small guys do best where their marginal revenue = their marginal cost (i.e. profit maximization) and this is not necessarily the same as maximizing market share as many Korean and Japanese firms have discovered in the past decade or so.
And for the parent who wrote:
The US puts taxes at will on any kind of product if they think their own industrie soffers from forreign laws... However: what is legal and what not, all over the world, is final descided by a US court.
The EU and the Japanese are at least as guilty of protection as the US (try selling Guatemalan bananas in the EU). Most of these disputes are now settled under GATT treaties by the WTO, not US courts. In fact, the US 1916 anti-dumping law has been held to violate the WTO and GATT treaty by the WTO. Under the rules, the US is required to bring its domestic laws into conformity with WTO and GATT rules as are all of the other signatories.
The musical Wyman wants the columnist wyman to put a discalimer on everything he writes that he is in fact NOT the musical Wyman!
Sounds reasonable... Provided, of course, that every time Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones plays, he should be required to add a disclaimer that he is not Bill Wyman the journalist.
I downloaded and installed libpcap and tcpdump on Nov 1. The versions I have came from tcpdump.org. md5sum shows that they have the correct checksum and not the trojaned checksum as reported on the Houston LUG page. A grep of the sources for the port number and ip found in the trojan reports null. It looks like the trojan files were placed on tcpdump.org after Nov 1, 2002.
Mouse did a lot of work for the Grateful Dead back in the day. The Europe '72 cover art was his. He also won a Grammy for the cover art for one of Steve Miller's albums. Mouse's original work goes for a pretty penny these days and I doubt he is hurting for cash. He may well believe he has a legit complaint. Bio...
As to the ambulatory eyeball, variations of that (usually a flying eyeball) were a common theme in hippie art of the '60s. The motif goes back to Ancient Egypt and are a hot rod staple. Maybe if you combine the eyeball with a Monsters, Inc motif, Mouse would have something, but the monster eyeball alone isn't enough.
Many?
How about these? Here is the current advice on the subject of whether a reporter should offer confidentiality to a source. The US Supremes ruled in 1999 that there is no 1st Amendment guarantee to reporters offering confidentiality and tossed it to each state to decide on their own. A reporter should consult with her local publisher for their policy before guaranteeing confidentiality.