...but it's weird, because in patent law, this very thing can happen.
I patent an idea, and it comes to my attention my idea can be used for other things, so I revise my original patent application and extend it for all possible implementations, whether they have been expressed at the time of my patent revision or not...
So, people start leaving a read-only share or few open on their computers when they're hooked to the net. That's peer-to-peer, too. Is that going to be illegal as well?
commercially raised pigs in the US and Canada are not fed "slop" in the US any more, but grain-based feeds. Any animal-based protein in it has probably been "hydrolized" (steamed), because it's animal byproduct. Also, because their food tends to be so concentrated, their poop is also more concentrated (smells like shit and is pretty acidic. Yes, there is "good" shit, too, but it's all relative. If you live in dairy country, where the cows get to spend a lot of time in pastures, not California feed lots, their manure is less hostile to the nose. It's still shit, but I'd take living near a dairy farm than a hog or chicken farm. Oh, wait. I already have done that).
Can't say about your typical small pig operation, though.
...then if it was a fact, then it has been observed.
If it hasn't been observed, it cannot be a fact, per your logic.
If the fossil record can be "misinterpreted" (or, interpreted differently at a later time), then why can't the Bible (or Koran, Torah, et al? Oh, wait. We already have arguments going on that such works are also misinterpreted by others...)?
Are you saying that the Bible's interpretation by humans has remained constant over time? The fact that there are several versions of Bibles in use today should reflect that the "Bible" isn't really a good axiomatic text to view the world.
Maybe we look at P2P networks much more like the local car transportation network. The roads are p2p in as much as I'm the data packet in my car going from one server (home) to another (work), with limited rerouting capabilities and problem avoidance. Since highway traffic flows are non-linear w.r.t. traffic density, and do have definite tipping points, then someone trying to populate the p2p network with "bad" data packets (i.e., substituting Celine Dion or Billy Ray Cyrus songs instead of the latest InSink song)seems analogous to playing a god game like Populous, SimCity or Black&White and invoking the "Car Crash at 5:15pm disaster". Eventually, the system recovers, yes, but if traffic is screwed up enough, people start clammoring for a new system.
At least in the Networld, people can still create new highway networks, as it were (until the legal environment perhaps changes to make this more difficult).
The physical world lead times on new highway projects are getting unworkable without a dictatorship in place to enact them. Plus it takes 3-5 years of real development work to actually build it, once everything is in place.
...but parents do expect the school to raise their child and to "teach" them, i.e., make them learn.
How many parents of marginal students get mad at the teacher because their child isn't getting A's, rather than saying, "does my kid have a problem, is there something we might be able to do?"
Or, if Johnny gets in a fight and suspended, it's the school's fault, not Johnny's dad who beats the shit out of Johnny's mom and Johnny regularly, and the kid is just acting out.
A syndrome is seen as a collection of symptoms that occur together, but there isn't an identifiable cause. Think (or read up on): Fibromyalgia.
A disease usually has one or a few symptoms that can clearly be traced to one causitive entity. The disease that HIV causes could be called immune system destruction. Since the person doesn't die directly from this, but usually from the other opportunistic diseases that typically arise from advanced HIV infection, as well as the image stamp ("first meme") problem, then AIDS is probably what the terminal symptomology will still be called.
Syndromes often become diseases, but not the other way around.
The virus that causes small pox was named after the disease already had a name, small pox.
Actually, Small Pox did a good number on American Indians and other native inhabitants as western europeans explored "the new world" and spread the good news.
With small pox, you get these wart-like (nevus-like) bumps all over your body, and a real good fever. I think it is the fever that does the most damage. IIRC, it was Pasteur that discovered that milk maids didn't get small pox (it was big in Europe at the time), because they usually got the much milder cow pox (aka "milk maid's fever"), and the resultant immune response from that viral infection also worked good enough against the small pox virus. He then isolated the cow pox virus and started immunizing people with that.
HIV causes AIDS. There are other immunodeficiency diseases, but they have their own sets of symptoms and resultant opportunistic diseases. There does not seem to be another disease that causes the set of symptoms collectively called "AIDS".
A "syndrome" is typically called a "syndrome" because it is either a collection of symtoms that collectively indicate a problem that is statistically significant, and has no identifiable problem. Just like fibromyalgia is a problem, and there seems to be a good set of diagnostic criteria to distinguish this (finally), there are enough people who see it as a problem for chronic whiners, etc.
When the situation was discovered in the US and Europe, there was a group of people that were coming up with weird things like Karposi sarcoma, massive lung fungal infections, etc., that most people normally just don't get unless something else is wrong, but that something else couldn't be identified.
In the US, many of these people could be lumped together also by lifestyle or activity (thus, GRID).
Then the HIV virus was identified.
Then a few "normal" people got it, from blood transfusions, "straight" sex, etc. Only then did it become really a national issue, because now it wasn't just a disease of a couple select marginal groups of people. GRID was no longer applicable, so AIDS started to work. You acquire HIV. You don't casually get it, like you do the flu every year.
Also, not every virus stays with you forever. Think about the flu virus. If an HIV-pos person started going down hill, don't you think they would be at a higher risk for all those latent flu virii in their body to make them sick again?
...the lockdown is only for computers handling classified information.
There are plenty of PCs used by the Government/DoD that do not handle classified information that are not locked down significantly, no more so than any other corporate desktop PC (they have big green stickers with white letters that say, "UNCLASSIFIED" on them).
So the NSA had a hand in telling installers that DoD systems must not run Win9x/Millenium, that end-users should not be in the [domain/local] Administrators groups, etc.
...but if the changes in SELinux trump some of the functionality and featureset of Palladium, what is MS to do then? How much of Palladium development has been guided by the work of SELinux? (we'll never know)
This could be what the percieved competitive threat to Microsoft is about. Microsoft wants to be the "SELinux" to us. Microsoft wants to control it, for itself and its partners (RIAA/MPAA), not the NSA.
don't forget that it took a major act of Congress to roll back the laws that compelled the states to have 55-MPH highway speed limits or not get any federal highway funding. Once that went away... But I'm pretty sure Congress allowed it to happen originally in the first place, and didn't really want the double-nickel repealed.
...they very well could be using inductance loops in the road. That was the preferred method in Puget Sound and San Diego. Phoenix seemed to use a radar-based system.
It is becoming more and more required, w/o being required. IIRC, California offers some discounts, and certainly varies the rate based on time of day. IL is flat-fee, but recently a proposal to boost the tolls significantly raised the cash price, but did not raise the electronic metered price nearly as much (but that proposal died a flaming death, even with a lame duck governor).
Does anyone remember how Microsoft got slammed by the Mac community when Word 6/Excel 5 came out? They weren't "mac-like", but very much Windows (3.1) like, because I suspect they wrote a library that matched the Win16 UI API calls to a tee, and implemented them as similar as they could on MacOS visually, to minimize the amount of UI programming they had to do, while keeping as much internal code common.
Funny to hear a Windows user say the same thing oh, 8 years or so later.
(why was I doing this?) I remember watching a guy play a pinball machine for about an hour on one quarter. He'd already been playing for some time. He left when he maxed the credit counter.
Maybe because it's powered, but you can buy a Recaro racing bucket seat as a desk chair as well.
Maybe it's because he can (marginally) do it cheaper than $3500.
...but don't all these chips also have that RAM/ROM available on the same chip package? The 6502/6510 is a "general purpose" CPU. All that other stuff that is also included on more modern embedded controllers is gonna have to be an external chip for a 6502/6510. Are they more powerful? It would seem like it. Higher clock speeds, probably for sure.
Plus, they're probably on smaller packages than the 48- (or whatever) pin DIP package that the 6510 in a Commode-64 uses. Lessee, more hardware on smaller package, that definitely uses less power and probably runs faster than 6510. I'll pick the other chip.
BTW, How much are 6510s in bulk these days? Do they still make them?
I remember WAYYY back when (80's) seeing a farm irrigation system controlled by a 6502-based (chip was made by Rockwell, I think) controller box at a vendor exhibit at a county fair, and thinking, "gee, that's the same chip I have in my commodore 64!". Of course, I don't remember pricing, and didn't know much then (do I now? not really) but...
The 1541 floppy drive used a 6510 as a controller as well... in fact, you could use its whopping 8K RAM for extra programming space or do funky disk control things on the drive...
So...embedded hardware developers use old junk hardware then. OK.
Z80's, 80xx, MC68K, MC6809-series etc. could all be described as "obsolete junk hardware", yet they still can show up in "modern" embedded controllers, albeit in much newer packaging.
What is one of the major uses for PPC chips? CPUs in ford engine control modules, if I remember correctly...
At least they aren't invalidating your certification.
What they have done is not much different really than other net trolls who do nothing but suck email addresses from websites and Usenet posts.
How many junk mail adverts have you gotten that try to look like:
a federal government check (i.e., tax refund)
certified US mail (credit card adverts)
etc.?
...because they use the same basic compiler for Object Pascal and C++.
If they added Object Pascal support for GCC, they'd have to redistribute that openly, no?
...a switch to Windows XP often necessitates a new computer purchase as well.
I have a 5-yr old IBM Aptiva gathering dust (P200MMX, 64MB RAM). Do you think I should try to install Windows XP on that? No? OK, if that was my only computer and I wanted to "upgrade" to Windows XP, then I need to buy a new computer.
If this were the case today, I'd probably buy a Mac. My next computer (~1 yr) will probably be a Mac.
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...but it's weird, because in patent law, this very thing can happen.
I patent an idea, and it comes to my attention my idea can be used for other things, so I revise my original patent application and extend it for all possible implementations, whether they have been expressed at the time of my patent revision or not...
So, people start leaving a read-only share or few open on their computers when they're hooked to the net. That's peer-to-peer, too. Is that going to be illegal as well?
commercially raised pigs in the US and Canada are not fed "slop" in the US any more, but grain-based feeds. Any animal-based protein in it has probably been "hydrolized" (steamed), because it's animal byproduct. Also, because their food tends to be so concentrated, their poop is also more concentrated (smells like shit and is pretty acidic. Yes, there is "good" shit, too, but it's all relative. If you live in dairy country, where the cows get to spend a lot of time in pastures, not California feed lots, their manure is less hostile to the nose. It's still shit, but I'd take living near a dairy farm than a hog or chicken farm. Oh, wait. I already have done that).
Can't say about your typical small pig operation, though.
...then if it was a fact, then it has been observed.
If it hasn't been observed, it cannot be a fact, per your logic.
If the fossil record can be "misinterpreted" (or, interpreted differently at a later time), then why can't the Bible (or Koran, Torah, et al? Oh, wait. We already have arguments going on that such works are also misinterpreted by others...)?
Are you saying that the Bible's interpretation by humans has remained constant over time? The fact that there are several versions of Bibles in use today should reflect that the "Bible" isn't really a good axiomatic text to view the world.
...what would I buy?
I'd buy a couple of extra hours for my two kids to sleep in on saturday morning, instead of getting up at 7:30am, pretty much like clockwork.
But I know that in a few years, I'm going to be pouring cold water on them to get them out of bed at 2pm. So I better enjoy it now, right?
Maybe we look at P2P networks much more like the local car transportation network. The roads are p2p in as much as I'm the data packet in my car going from one server (home) to another (work), with limited rerouting capabilities and problem avoidance. Since highway traffic flows are non-linear w.r.t. traffic density, and do have definite tipping points, then someone trying to populate the p2p network with "bad" data packets (i.e., substituting Celine Dion or Billy Ray Cyrus songs instead of the latest InSink song)seems analogous to playing a god game like Populous, SimCity or Black&White and invoking the "Car Crash at 5:15pm disaster". Eventually, the system recovers, yes, but if traffic is screwed up enough, people start clammoring for a new system. At least in the Networld, people can still create new highway networks, as it were (until the legal environment perhaps changes to make this more difficult). The physical world lead times on new highway projects are getting unworkable without a dictatorship in place to enact them. Plus it takes 3-5 years of real development work to actually build it, once everything is in place.
...but parents do expect the school to raise their child and to "teach" them, i.e., make them learn.
How many parents of marginal students get mad at the teacher because their child isn't getting A's, rather than saying, "does my kid have a problem, is there something we might be able to do?"
Or, if Johnny gets in a fight and suspended, it's the school's fault, not Johnny's dad who beats the shit out of Johnny's mom and Johnny regularly, and the kid is just acting out.
A syndrome is seen as a collection of symptoms that occur together, but there isn't an identifiable cause. Think (or read up on): Fibromyalgia.
A disease usually has one or a few symptoms that can clearly be traced to one causitive entity. The disease that HIV causes could be called immune system destruction. Since the person doesn't die directly from this, but usually from the other opportunistic diseases that typically arise from advanced HIV infection, as well as the image stamp ("first meme") problem, then AIDS is probably what the terminal symptomology will still be called.
Syndromes often become diseases, but not the other way around.
The virus that causes small pox was named after the disease already had a name, small pox. Actually, Small Pox did a good number on American Indians and other native inhabitants as western europeans explored "the new world" and spread the good news. With small pox, you get these wart-like (nevus-like) bumps all over your body, and a real good fever. I think it is the fever that does the most damage. IIRC, it was Pasteur that discovered that milk maids didn't get small pox (it was big in Europe at the time), because they usually got the much milder cow pox (aka "milk maid's fever"), and the resultant immune response from that viral infection also worked good enough against the small pox virus. He then isolated the cow pox virus and started immunizing people with that. HIV causes AIDS. There are other immunodeficiency diseases, but they have their own sets of symptoms and resultant opportunistic diseases. There does not seem to be another disease that causes the set of symptoms collectively called "AIDS". A "syndrome" is typically called a "syndrome" because it is either a collection of symtoms that collectively indicate a problem that is statistically significant, and has no identifiable problem. Just like fibromyalgia is a problem, and there seems to be a good set of diagnostic criteria to distinguish this (finally), there are enough people who see it as a problem for chronic whiners, etc. When the situation was discovered in the US and Europe, there was a group of people that were coming up with weird things like Karposi sarcoma, massive lung fungal infections, etc., that most people normally just don't get unless something else is wrong, but that something else couldn't be identified. In the US, many of these people could be lumped together also by lifestyle or activity (thus, GRID). Then the HIV virus was identified. Then a few "normal" people got it, from blood transfusions, "straight" sex, etc. Only then did it become really a national issue, because now it wasn't just a disease of a couple select marginal groups of people. GRID was no longer applicable, so AIDS started to work. You acquire HIV. You don't casually get it, like you do the flu every year. Also, not every virus stays with you forever. Think about the flu virus. If an HIV-pos person started going down hill, don't you think they would be at a higher risk for all those latent flu virii in their body to make them sick again?
...the lockdown is only for computers handling classified information. There are plenty of PCs used by the Government/DoD that do not handle classified information that are not locked down significantly, no more so than any other corporate desktop PC (they have big green stickers with white letters that say, "UNCLASSIFIED" on them). So the NSA had a hand in telling installers that DoD systems must not run Win9x/Millenium, that end-users should not be in the [domain/local] Administrators groups, etc.
...but if the changes in SELinux trump some of the functionality and featureset of Palladium, what is MS to do then? How much of Palladium development has been guided by the work of SELinux? (we'll never know)
This could be what the percieved competitive threat to Microsoft is about. Microsoft wants to be the "SELinux" to us. Microsoft wants to control it, for itself and its partners (RIAA/MPAA), not the NSA.
Office 2000 Premium comes on 4 CDs...
don't forget that it took a major act of Congress to roll back the laws that compelled the states to have 55-MPH highway speed limits or not get any federal highway funding. Once that went away... But I'm pretty sure Congress allowed it to happen originally in the first place, and didn't really want the double-nickel repealed.
my last trip through northern CA I remember seeing "speed monitored by aircraft" signs on I-5, up in the Siskiyous.
...they very well could be using inductance loops in the road. That was the preferred method in Puget Sound and San Diego. Phoenix seemed to use a radar-based system.
It is becoming more and more required, w/o being required. IIRC, California offers some discounts, and certainly varies the rate based on time of day. IL is flat-fee, but recently a proposal to boost the tolls significantly raised the cash price, but did not raise the electronic metered price nearly as much (but that proposal died a flaming death, even with a lame duck governor).
Does anyone remember how Microsoft got slammed by the Mac community when Word 6/Excel 5 came out? They weren't "mac-like", but very much Windows (3.1) like, because I suspect they wrote a library that matched the Win16 UI API calls to a tee, and implemented them as similar as they could on MacOS visually, to minimize the amount of UI programming they had to do, while keeping as much internal code common. Funny to hear a Windows user say the same thing oh, 8 years or so later.
(why was I doing this?) I remember watching a guy play a pinball machine for about an hour on one quarter. He'd already been playing for some time. He left when he maxed the credit counter.
Maybe because it's powered, but you can buy a Recaro racing bucket seat as a desk chair as well. Maybe it's because he can (marginally) do it cheaper than $3500.
...but don't all these chips also have that RAM/ROM available on the same chip package? The 6502/6510 is a "general purpose" CPU. All that other stuff that is also included on more modern embedded controllers is gonna have to be an external chip for a 6502/6510. Are they more powerful? It would seem like it. Higher clock speeds, probably for sure.
Plus, they're probably on smaller packages than the 48- (or whatever) pin DIP package that the 6510 in a Commode-64 uses. Lessee, more hardware on smaller package, that definitely uses less power and probably runs faster than 6510. I'll pick the other chip.
BTW, How much are 6510s in bulk these days? Do they still make them?
I remember WAYYY back when (80's) seeing a farm irrigation system controlled by a 6502-based (chip was made by Rockwell, I think) controller box at a vendor exhibit at a county fair, and thinking, "gee, that's the same chip I have in my commodore 64!". Of course, I don't remember pricing, and didn't know much then (do I now? not really) but...
The 1541 floppy drive used a 6510 as a controller as well... in fact, you could use its whopping 8K RAM for extra programming space or do funky disk control things on the drive...
So...embedded hardware developers use old junk hardware then. OK. Z80's, 80xx, MC68K, MC6809-series etc. could all be described as "obsolete junk hardware", yet they still can show up in "modern" embedded controllers, albeit in much newer packaging. What is one of the major uses for PPC chips? CPUs in ford engine control modules, if I remember correctly...
At least they aren't invalidating your certification. What they have done is not much different really than other net trolls who do nothing but suck email addresses from websites and Usenet posts. How many junk mail adverts have you gotten that try to look like: a federal government check (i.e., tax refund) certified US mail (credit card adverts) etc.?
...because they use the same basic compiler for Object Pascal and C++. If they added Object Pascal support for GCC, they'd have to redistribute that openly, no?
...a switch to Windows XP often necessitates a new computer purchase as well. I have a 5-yr old IBM Aptiva gathering dust (P200MMX, 64MB RAM). Do you think I should try to install Windows XP on that? No? OK, if that was my only computer and I wanted to "upgrade" to Windows XP, then I need to buy a new computer. If this were the case today, I'd probably buy a Mac. My next computer (~1 yr) will probably be a Mac.
... and an Iranian clothes-washing detergent called Barf.