might be "Can science (as practiced by Western tradition) be totally unbiased?" (USA specific)
This bias may or may not revolve around questions like "How to make a buck off this *now*", or even "This just doesn't fit into our current schene, and we invested the last 100 yrs/$xxx dollars into our current scheme!!!"
It sucks to say this but IMHO the practice of science in the USA is being seriously fubar'd by the ROI and the political types. Meanwhile, the Japanese and the Euros continue to blow our doors off within pure research, simply because:
They didn't tie their research funding into their political processes, or much else, for that matter. Rather, private citizens in the form of corporations (if necessary) fund such research and development out-of-pocket. More power to them if they can make a buck that way.
Zaurus and Treo come to mind.
CERN comes to mind, even.
So anyway, my opinion as a native US citizen is that the method of funding pure research in this country is seriously fubar'd
why SCO retained David Boies?
Bummer, I used to have respect for Caldera, about 2 years ago. Now, I'm going to burn what's left of that respect, and scatter the ashes in the North Atlantic.
I seriously *hope* that Ransom Love is doing something a bit more productive and public-minded these days.
Seems like they've hoisted everything else, petardedness or not...
(Time to invent new words)
Witness their recent decision to show their source (or portions of it) to various national governments.... never mind that this may be Very Bad for US national security (according to them).
If I was Jim Allchin, I'd bail out right now. Never mind that I've used Linux exclusively since 1997; I actually feel bad for the dude.
Hrmmm... I didn't consider that, it's probably one of the oldest tricks in the bool (re: bad/incomplete code).
I think the point is something else, however: MS just sacrificed Jim Allchin's reputation for a potential sale.
And I *do* wonder which part of their code poses a "security risk". The Palladium stuff comes to mind, but that's just wild speculation on my part. The problem isn't whether the Chinese could simply build their own software; I bet they're smarter than that. The problem is when they want to use their software to interact with the rest of the business world - which uses Windows, BTW.
...about this naming scheme, aka "Rights Management Services".
Regardless of all the digs at Richard M. Stallman, I must ask: since when does another person (or a virtual person in the form of a corporate body) have the right to dictate the framework that my own rights will operate within?
Last time I checked, the only way to abrogate one's rights was to do so voluntarily, and with complete knowledge. Of courrse, this may apply within certain sub-contexts of the overall culture. (ie, work NDA's, etc.)
FWIW, this is not new stuff, it's very reminiscient of the POSIX ACL's and the military's experiments with Multics (also did it in hardware and syscalls) during the '70's. Problem is, at least they started with systems that had some clue to begin with.
speaking of selling... my own *state* (NY) is known to sell various kinds of records. Oddly, their tax rates are still not high enough to cover their annual budget shortfall, regardless of what they may make from the sale of *my* information.
More than a few people here might be surprised to know that there was a *huge* flame-war on the linux kernel mail-list a few weeks ago which dragged on for days, regarding the use of nVidia's closed-source drivers in the kernel, regardless of however open or closed the hooks into their drivers may be. (W/R/T hardware GL rendering) Evidently, it's ok with Linus, and it *is* his project after all, so I can't really complain. Especially not since I use nVidia cards.
Conclusion: It's possible. Nothing new to see here, let's move along...
Thanks for the info, I feel *so* old... I've been bitching for years about my dual Pentium Pro 200 MHz box sucking ~ 40 watts/cpu... tho the deep pipelines and 1 Mb caches compensates for that a bit.
You should see what Linux runs like on it tho, screw the laptops when we have this!
It might not be a matter of outspending. It may simply be a matter of out-influencing by way of both "official" and de-facto standards.It's currently slashdotted (or otherwise not available), but the IEEE basically recommends standards to ANSI, NIST, and the NEC (National Electrical Code), among others. These bodies then (usually) rubber-stamp the item and it eventually winds up somewhere in the Library of Congress as a USA standard.
In case anyone wonders, these standards influence such things as the wiring in your home (NEC), the "official" version of "C" (ANSI), numerous industrial/commercial standards (OSHA, NEC, ANSI), and standard/accepted units of measure for personal and commercial purposes (NIST) i.e. metres, seconds (atomic clocks), pounds/kilograms,etc,etc.....
So, I'd be surprised if a major contributor to the currently accepted and practiced North American US standards doesn't have some weight somewhere.
Of course, I don't actually expect Congress to be aware of any of this. Er, until it's maybe too late...
Great point. It just occurred to me that this also applies to printer ports and cabling (IEEE 1284).... and we all know how much the gov't likes paper documents.
Thx for the info, the Thinkpad makes sense. It's a lot lighter than the Kaypro, (I have a Kaypro myself) and he's not getting any younger.... neither am I. 3001 is actually news to me; I lost track completely after 2010, so I guess that now I will have to find a copy.
I must agree and second this comment. Hrrmmm, and I just also happen to have an ISO image of Win98 on this linux box, with od, as, and a few other tools available as well....
Taco, you just made my day! I remember when 2001 first came out as a book, then a movie. It blows my mind just as hard now as it did back then (tho it may help to read the book first...)
Anyway, I just checked out the website for the mavie; it has to be one of the classier designs I've seen, no doubt. Bummer I'll have to wait another year for the movie.
Strangely enough, I was downloading a copy of Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" while you were in the middle of posting this story.
BTW, does anyone here know if Mr. Clarke is alive or dead? Last I heard, he said he was alive and well in Sri Lanka, writing 2010 on a Kaypro 2 running CP/M 80.
I've actually done this a few times with GNUchess. Results are usually a draw. The gameplay is interesting though; approximately 95% of the moves take seconds, if that. The time required to complete any one game seems to increase exponentially, depending on the initial play level and how far along the game has progressed already. Actually reaching a draw can take hours, even with 2 GHz SMP boxes and large RAM.
I would say that a tax equal to 1x the retail value of all currently published forms of the work(s) in question would be fair, assuming a 28-year period of 14 years + 1 extension. I could go on quite a bit, but this isn't the forum for it.... Please cc this to Larry Lessig?
for VHS and BetaMax technologies: data backups. I don't have links at hand, but is's similar to using a modem to pipe your backup onto tape. It's fairly easy for the electronically clueful to figure out; the main question is to get your analog output (from the modem) "into band" for the video inputs of the VCR (so you can use *all* of the helical-scanned tracks...) or else you lose a bunch of the formats' native capacity.
On the basis of price alone, I imagine it's fairly competitive with CD-R and DVD.
Slashdot Mirror
mainly, where is the Open Group in the midst of all this?
might be "Can science (as practiced by Western tradition) be totally unbiased?" (USA specific)
This bias may or may not revolve around questions like "How to make a buck off this *now*", or even "This just doesn't fit into our current schene, and we invested the last 100 yrs/$xxx dollars into our current scheme!!!"
It sucks to say this but IMHO the practice of science in the USA is being seriously fubar'd by the ROI and the political types. Meanwhile, the Japanese and the Euros continue to blow our doors off within pure research, simply because:
They didn't tie their research funding into their political processes, or much else, for that matter. Rather, private citizens in the form of corporations (if necessary) fund such research and development out-of-pocket. More power to them if they can make a buck that way.
Zaurus and Treo come to mind.
CERN comes to mind, even.
So anyway, my opinion as a native US citizen is that the method of funding pure research in this country is seriously fubar'd
why SCO retained David Boies? Bummer, I used to have respect for Caldera, about 2 years ago. Now, I'm going to burn what's left of that respect, and scatter the ashes in the North Atlantic. I seriously *hope* that Ransom Love is doing something a bit more productive and public-minded these days.
Seems like they've hoisted everything else, petardedness or not...
(Time to invent new words)
Witness their recent decision to show their source (or portions of it) to various national governments.... never mind that this may be Very Bad for US national security (according to them).
If I was Jim Allchin, I'd bail out right now. Never mind that I've used Linux exclusively since 1997; I actually feel bad for the dude.
$ man snafu _
Hrmmm... I didn't consider that, it's probably one of the oldest tricks in the bool (re: bad/incomplete code).
I think the point is something else, however: MS just sacrificed Jim Allchin's reputation for a potential sale.
And I *do* wonder which part of their code poses a "security risk". The Palladium stuff comes to mind, but that's just wild speculation on my part. The problem isn't whether the Chinese could simply build their own software; I bet they're smarter than that. The problem is when they want to use their software to interact with the rest of the business world - which uses Windows, BTW.
...about this naming scheme, aka "Rights Management Services".
Regardless of all the digs at Richard M. Stallman, I must ask: since when does another person (or a virtual person in the form of a corporate body) have the right to dictate the framework that my own rights will operate within?
Last time I checked, the only way to abrogate one's rights was to do so voluntarily, and with complete knowledge. Of courrse, this may apply within certain sub-contexts of the overall culture. (ie, work NDA's, etc.)
FWIW, this is not new stuff, it's very reminiscient of the POSIX ACL's and the military's experiments with Multics (also did it in hardware and syscalls) during the '70's. Problem is, at least they started with systems that had some clue to begin with.
many years ago, I mixed "Planet Rock" (Afrikaa Bambaata & the Soul Sonic Force) with the first movement of Beethoven's 3rd Symphony.
It actually worked pretty good, go figure.
their VM runs other OS's, as long as it won't run their viruses?
Imagine the mess a "virtual" Sapphire/Slammer worm would make.
speaking of selling... my own *state* (NY) is known to sell various kinds of records. Oddly, their tax rates are still not high enough to cover their annual budget shortfall, regardless of what they may make from the sale of *my* information.
I smell a few possibilities here...
More than a few people here might be surprised to know that there was a *huge* flame-war on the linux kernel mail-list a few weeks ago which dragged on for days, regarding the use of nVidia's closed-source drivers in the kernel, regardless of however open or closed the hooks into their drivers may be. (W/R/T hardware GL rendering) Evidently, it's ok with Linus, and it *is* his project after all, so I can't really complain. Especially not since I use nVidia cards.
Conclusion: It's possible. Nothing new to see here, let's move along...
Thanks, but I already knew that (the hard way). Must be something to do with enlarged things....
Thanks for the info, I feel *so* old... I've been bitching for years about my dual Pentium Pro 200 MHz box sucking ~ 40 watts/cpu... tho the deep pipelines and 1 Mb caches compensates for that a bit.
You should see what Linux runs like on it tho, screw the laptops when we have this!
"How can I help it that Power likes to walk on crooked legs?"
-- Frederich Nietzsche, "Also Sprach Zarathustra"
It might not be a matter of outspending. It may simply be a matter of out-influencing by way of both "official" and de-facto standards.It's currently slashdotted (or otherwise not available), but the IEEE basically recommends standards to ANSI, NIST, and the NEC (National Electrical Code), among others. These bodies then (usually) rubber-stamp the item and it eventually winds up somewhere in the Library of Congress as a USA standard.
In case anyone wonders, these standards influence such things as the wiring in your home (NEC), the "official" version of "C" (ANSI), numerous industrial/commercial standards (OSHA, NEC, ANSI),
and standard/accepted units of measure for personal and commercial purposes (NIST) i.e. metres, seconds (atomic clocks), pounds/kilograms,etc,etc.....
So, I'd be surprised if a major contributor to the currently accepted and practiced North American US standards doesn't have some weight somewhere.
Of course, I don't actually expect Congress to be aware of any of this. Er, until it's maybe too late...
Great point. It just occurred to me that this also applies to printer ports and cabling (IEEE 1284).... and we all know how much the gov't likes paper documents.
Thx for the info, the Thinkpad makes sense. It's a lot lighter than the Kaypro, (I have a Kaypro myself) and he's not getting any younger.... neither am I. 3001 is actually news to me; I lost track completely after 2010, so I guess that now I will have to find a copy.
Er... for those of us who are not businesspeople or even pro developers, could you please:
$man "level 5 leader"
Thanks, I think I have some research to do.
I must agree and second this comment. Hrrmmm, and I just also happen to have an ISO image of Win98 on this linux box, with od, as, and a few other tools available as well....
Taco, you just made my day! I remember when 2001 first came out as a book, then a movie. It blows my mind just as hard now as it did back then (tho it may help to read the book first...)
Anyway, I just checked out the website for the mavie; it has to be one of the classier designs I've seen, no doubt. Bummer I'll have to wait another year for the movie.
Strangely enough, I was downloading a copy of Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" while you were in the middle of posting this story.
BTW, does anyone here know if Mr. Clarke is alive or dead? Last I heard, he said he was alive and well in Sri Lanka, writing 2010 on a Kaypro 2 running CP/M 80.
does the priest get moderated as "realistic" for this?
isn't this old news? I could swear I read about something like this in their "Under the Brim" newsletter at least a month ago.... oh, well. (shrugs)
I've actually done this a few times with GNUchess. Results are usually a draw. The gameplay is interesting though; approximately 95% of the moves take seconds, if that. The time required to complete any one game seems to increase exponentially, depending on the initial play level and how far along the game has progressed already. Actually reaching a draw can take hours, even with 2 GHz SMP boxes and large RAM.
I would say that a tax equal to 1x the retail value of all currently published forms of the work(s) in question would be fair, assuming a 28-year period of 14 years + 1 extension. I could go on quite a bit, but this isn't the forum for it.... Please cc this to Larry Lessig?
for VHS and BetaMax technologies: data backups. I don't have links at hand, but is's similar to using a modem to pipe your backup onto tape. It's fairly easy for the electronically clueful to figure out; the main question is to get your analog output (from the modem) "into band" for the video inputs of the VCR (so you can use *all* of the helical-scanned tracks...) or else you lose a bunch of the formats' native capacity. On the basis of price alone, I imagine it's fairly competitive with CD-R and DVD.