Yep, best idea ever for the whole Muslim world : it is not the Muslim religion, it is the Muslim clergy which is to blame.
Unfortunately, I fear that it will still take 500 years or so before this is reached, remember these guys still live in the fourteenth century (or fifteenth) century.
I think that the biggest problem currently is that the copyright law has been defined by publishers, not creators.
Artistic protection should start by the premise, that whatever happens, the creator stays the owner, and that publishers only have the right to negotiate with the owner if they want to publish. The owner should even have the right to negotiate with more publishers if there is interest enough. This would create a real market with competition.
The real goal of switching to an open, implementable (which rules out OOXML...) standard is to open up the market for software which can edit/display it.
And generate it too. This is something that is possibly not understood by ordinary users of word processing software, but it is a tremendous advantage to have the possibility to generate real documents from (a) database(s) and other data sources.
Ha, I am 41. I started collecting the X-Man again after I searched in 2006 after the comic heroes that I once had 30 years ago. Once I figured out it where the X-Man, I had to look for what I could get. It took some time before I discovered Marvel Masterworks. A bit pricey, but I can afford it, and like you say, somewhat neater than buying the comics themselves.
However, I like to scrounge around in second-hand book shops and online, and I am collecting the Dutch versions of the X-Man. It takes time and patience, but it is a hobby. However, the original X-Man I like to have completely, which is possible. It is six volumes.
Oh, and about looking on-line, a book is so much more handy.
I have designed a small microprocessor and implemented it with a toolkit I wrote myself in Common Lisp. This toolkit simulates functional elements like registers, latches, an ALU and a microprogrammed controller.
I worked 10 months on it, but much of that was time spent (re)learning to design circuits, documenting, project management, learning the intricacies of Common Lisp, and the SBCL and CLISP implementations. I also searched and bought some old books to get some more background information.
The speed of the processor core, compiled using SBCL, is 125kHz (yes, you read that right) on my 1800 Mhz AMD system.
After a long pause, I started this week again working on the visualisation, which should be a Python GUI application, which runs the real processor core program as a subprocess (not enough portable visualisation tools in Common Lisp).
Several of your ideas above presented are exactly my thoughts also. However, if you go to the utter core, you keep having a reliance on corporate America (even here in Europe).
How far would you go building your own computer, and what software would you run ?
The first step down from building a computer with an existing processor would indeed be to go to SS/MSI functions. However, these are also manufactured by big corporations and are (here in Europe) more difficult to find.
Will you wire wrap or etch boards ? Wire wrap reduces your switching speed, a double-sided etched board can probably get your switching speed to 8 MHz (see this example).
What software will you run ? There are currently two portable compilers, gcc and lcc. Unless you really want to write things yourself, you will need a good software stack. Maybe an old Linux kernel can do. Network hardware ? Other peripherals ?
I have been thinking further. My current test architecture is 12 bits, but my toolkit can be used for simulation of widths between 1 and 32 bits. I have been able to draw a schematic implementation using LSTTL components, with a projected speed of about 6 MHz. There is only one path to a wider and faster architecture, and that is using FPGAs and so forth.
The advantages are that it is easy to add more hardware functionality and have higher speeds.
When you want to implement a processor using MSI/SSI components, you want to add most functionality using the microprogram or ordinary software. If you want to increase speed, you need to add more hardware. Using a modern FPGA, the design can be changed to move software coded functionality into real hardware.
Higher speeds come automatically with using the FPGA, but you still have to take into account the limitations of the printed circuit board, especially in the realm of memory access.
My ultimate, projected goal is be a design that can fit in an FPGA, together with a port of GCC, and an instruction set that is based upon two criteria : the simplicity of the processor design, and the optimized code that can be generated by GCC. Generated code should be both fast and short (to not take up much memory). For this, I need a whole lot of analysis of generated code for a hypothetical processor ISA.
However, I still have to do some more work on the current design, specifically adding an IO structure and interrupt handling. And also find time to publish my work so that interested people can use my code.
This is something that I also have been pondering about. HR should be renamed to Personnel Administration, and that is the only thing they should do : handle personnel administration. Too much HR managers acting like Catbert.
You know, it would have been format Press any key to continue.
That was the cause of the format C:. That is why I insisted on installing DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS, you could not format without entering a letter, and what most people wanted was format A:, of course.
I stopped doing this when I was 21 or 22, because I realised two things : working later than 22h00 never solved my problem, going to sleep at that hour and waking up fresh gave me most of the time new perspectives, which made me solve the problem at hand the moment I woke up.
Why does everybody always think that Heinlein was a fascist ?
I think **whoosh** applies here.
Heinlein was very good at playing devil's advocate, and while some of his stories seem very authoritarian, they always question something basic.
Having read most of his early stories up until his last, you can definitely see a shift in his backgrounds and ideas moving from so-called right to so-called left. But the main thing is that I always have the impression that what he writes, he continually questions (except for Glory Road and The Number of Beast, maybe. Fantastic adventure novels).
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Well, by replacing {} by () and judicious use of eval(), they might yet end up with a version of Common Lisp with a decent GUI environment.
Or sprayed with insecticide (this reference is very obscure, but it is SF).
Yep, best idea ever for the whole Muslim world : it is not the Muslim religion, it is the Muslim clergy which is to blame.
Unfortunately, I fear that it will still take 500 years or so before this is reached, remember these guys still live in the fourteenth century (or fifteenth) century.
Yep, again, see Napoleon and the Spanish war.
You know, this situation does remind me of Napoleon's situation after 1809.
I think that the biggest problem currently is that the copyright law has been defined by publishers, not creators.
Artistic protection should start by the premise, that whatever happens, the creator stays the owner, and that publishers only have the right to negotiate with the owner if they want to publish. The owner should even have the right to negotiate with more publishers if there is interest enough. This would create a real market with competition.
The real goal of switching to an open, implementable (which rules out OOXML...) standard is to open up the market for software which can edit/display it.
And generate it too. This is something that is possibly not understood by ordinary users of word processing software, but it is a tremendous advantage to have the possibility to generate real documents from (a) database(s) and other data sources.
Ha, I am 41. I started collecting the X-Man again after I searched in 2006 after the comic heroes that I once had 30 years ago. Once I figured out it where the X-Man, I had to look for what I could get. It took some time before I discovered Marvel Masterworks. A bit pricey, but I can afford it, and like you say, somewhat neater than buying the comics themselves.
However, I like to scrounge around in second-hand book shops and online, and I am collecting the Dutch versions of the X-Man. It takes time and patience, but it is a hobby. However, the original X-Man I like to have completely, which is possible. It is six volumes.
Oh, and about looking on-line, a book is so much more handy.
When I was looking for software for a ZX Spectrum emulator, I found SimCity for it. 42 K usable RAM.
I think that insulating coils was done after winding them, by impregnating the coil in a resin bath.
How much do you need to know about metallurgy, physics and chemistry to produce pure silicon, or even germanium ?
I have designed a small microprocessor and implemented it with a toolkit I wrote myself in Common Lisp. This toolkit simulates functional elements like registers, latches, an ALU and a microprogrammed controller.
I worked 10 months on it, but much of that was time spent (re)learning to design circuits, documenting, project management, learning the intricacies of Common Lisp, and the SBCL and CLISP implementations. I also searched and bought some old books to get some more background information.
The speed of the processor core, compiled using SBCL, is 125kHz (yes, you read that right) on my 1800 Mhz AMD system.
After a long pause, I started this week again working on the visualisation, which should be a Python GUI application, which runs the real processor core program as a subprocess (not enough portable visualisation tools in Common Lisp).
Several of your ideas above presented are exactly my thoughts also. However, if you go to the utter core, you keep having a reliance on corporate America (even here in Europe).
How far would you go building your own computer, and what software would you run ?
The first step down from building a computer with an existing processor would indeed be to go to SS/MSI functions. However, these are also manufactured by big corporations and are (here in Europe) more difficult to find.
Will you wire wrap or etch boards ? Wire wrap reduces your switching speed, a double-sided etched board can probably get your switching speed to 8 MHz (see this example).
What software will you run ? There are currently two portable compilers, gcc and lcc. Unless you really want to write things yourself, you will need a good software stack. Maybe an old Linux kernel can do. Network hardware ? Other peripherals ?
I have been thinking further. My current test architecture is 12 bits, but my toolkit can be used for simulation of widths between 1 and 32 bits. I have been able to draw a schematic implementation using LSTTL components, with a projected speed of about 6 MHz. There is only one path to a wider and faster architecture, and that is using FPGAs and so forth.
The advantages are that it is easy to add more hardware functionality and have higher speeds.
When you want to implement a processor using MSI/SSI components, you want to add most functionality using the microprogram or ordinary software. If you want to increase speed, you need to add more hardware. Using a modern FPGA, the design can be changed to move software coded functionality into real hardware.
Higher speeds come automatically with using the FPGA, but you still have to take into account the limitations of the printed circuit board, especially in the realm of memory access.
My ultimate, projected goal is be a design that can fit in an FPGA, together with a port of GCC, and an instruction set that is based upon two criteria : the simplicity of the processor design, and the optimized code that can be generated by GCC. Generated code should be both fast and short (to not take up much memory). For this, I need a whole lot of analysis of generated code for a hypothetical processor ISA.
However, I still have to do some more work on the current design, specifically adding an IO structure and interrupt handling. And also find time to publish my work so that interested people can use my code.
Isn't that what the NSA and the CIA are for ?
What everybody forgets is that Asimov undercut his own psycho history by introducing a random event, the Mule.
Wouldn't it be : In Soviet Russia, you eat black holes ?
Suggesting Perl to people who come from Basic is going a little too far. Why not Python or Ruby ?
B.t.w. while I have been programming in Perl seven years now, I still hate the syntax.
Can someone moderate this funny ?
(Cannot resist) and abusive ?
Do they have a development process ?
Probably CMM level 1...
This is something that I also have been pondering about. HR should be renamed to Personnel Administration, and that is the only thing they should do : handle personnel administration. Too much HR managers acting like Catbert.
You know, it would have been format Press any key to continue.
That was the cause of the format C:. That is why I insisted on installing DR-DOS instead of MS-DOS, you could not format without entering a letter, and what most people wanted was format A:, of course.
I have always the impression that it is gay men which are the fashionistas, those who design women's clothing.
I stopped doing this when I was 21 or 22, because I realised two things : working later than 22h00 never solved my problem, going to sleep at that hour and waking up fresh gave me most of the time new perspectives, which made me solve the problem at hand the moment I woke up.
You can organise a shift system, and a waiting system, an remunerate people for doing that.
Why does everybody always think that Heinlein was a fascist ?
I think **whoosh** applies here.
Heinlein was very good at playing devil's advocate, and while some of his stories seem very authoritarian, they always question something basic.
Having read most of his early stories up until his last, you can definitely see a shift in his backgrounds and ideas moving from so-called right to so-called left. But the main thing is that I always have the impression that what he writes, he continually questions (except for Glory Road and The Number of Beast, maybe. Fantastic adventure novels).