if you plan to pirate anything on this system remember that all you need to do is to overwrite the "intellectual property" with the following string:
09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
Labview -- Instrumentation control been around since the '80's, started out as an IEEE-488 instrument controller software and data collector. Only reason I know about it is that National Instruments was one of the few companies in those days that sold '488 interfaces for IBM PCs...
Igor -- Technical graphing for Mac & Win -- So why not GNU Plot?
Inventor -- Autodesk prototyping - Didn't SGI originally create this?
Eagle -- CAD Software?
Yup all of the above are "specialty" apps... maybe the original poster needs to spend some time digging over a sourceforge to see what is available...
Add Neal Stephenson's third novel, Snow Crash to the list of books to be banned and author's to be arrested... for his nefarious abuse of Y.T.
The question seems to be is not 'if' we're going to have Morals Proctors but 'when'... and why is this so?
Because this kind of crime is an easy target... but when you look at the actual stats these laws have not seriously made any difference in the crime rates for these kinds of offenses-- other than to spend more money with little result while making politicians "look good".
1: Cancel all H1/L1 programs indefinitely, but with a condition that they return at some point in a more regulated form.
2: Reclassify transplant manufacturers as import manufacturers of that particular nation and tax accordingly.
3: Zero taxes on businesses that would comply with a strengthened "Patriot Business" standard. That is, loopholes would be removed.
4: Domestic preference for education and funding thereof at all levels.
5: Put a moratorium on new fuel taxes or changes that effect an increase of any kind.
6: Revert all of the environmental standards for vehicles to 1980's standards.
Item 1... why not just change these programs into "sponsored citizenship programs"? The idea being if you want to work here you become a citizen.
Item 2: Ditto on corporations that "outsource" their labor overseas. Remove "offshore" corporate taxbreaks.
Item 3: So the average Joe has to pay the taxes for all of the their profits? Only if the stockholders pay the taxes instead.
Item 5 & 6 on your list do nothing to help anything at all except line the pockets of foreign governments and very large corporations...That's not a step forward.
The gas tax has not changed for a long time... but a $2.50 a gallon tax for drivers of SUV and Trucks used for non-business purposes (vehicles required to perform work exempted but not those used to get to work) might spur some folks to try and find a cheaper more efficient means of transportation.
As for rolling back the standards... I guess you've never lived in L.A.
You use google don't you?
Since we're all hard working googlers and generate all those profits using google services like doubleclick and google analyitics, gmail, the Google search engine, and all of their other ad supported content... the question we need to ask is when can we expect our G-phones?
1) Your post has been modded up to 4. This indicates your post is part of the agenda you seem to be complaining about or that those that modded you up have voted you into their conspiracy.
2) Claiming to be cynical about "geekdom" indicates you were never a geek in your life and only hang out in places like/. to make you feel like you "get" technology and that "science like stuff." Apparently you don't.
3) The open season on "facts" is proportional to your actually understanding the hard data and not what someone telling you the hard data means. So far all I've heard is a lot of yammering of "this side says this" or "that side says that". Seeing media conspiracies or business conspiracies is not science it is politics.
As far as the issue at hand I'd say that Clarke's first and fourth laws apply:
1)When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
4)"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."
This is the way *real* science is done. Just remember that if the global warming folks are wrong, there is no real harm done... but if they are right you and all of your decendants (if any) are screwed. Think about that. What kind of world do you want to give to your children? The same kind os !@#$ kind of world your parents gave you?
Gee that's like saying because I provided a comment that you chose to respond to that I have the right to filter your comment.
Somehow I don't think you'd want that.
Essentially you're saying that governments should have the right to turn children into "dronelettes" that are only allowed to see and hear what the government wants them to see... or that government should not be providing an opportunity to see "the whole wide world, warts and all"...
Maybe you're right. Maybe the government should shut down WoW now.
Schools should not be playing the role that should only be filled by a parent. A parent should have a better understanding of what their child's needs are than a governmental organization that may (or may not) have a specific political agenda.
Who's to say at some point in the future that the web sites of selected political parties, news sources, belief systems, or technologies will be blocked?
"Freedom of access" is the heart of the internet. It is not a right I would give up for my child. Your "free laptop" (like software) is not free when you impose these "arbitrary, but politically expedient" restrictions.
I'd like to a acouple of things to your list--
Judaism #2: You are commanded to do THIS shit but not THAT shit.
Commericalism #2: We only sell the best shit.
Universalism: Shit is Everywhere.
Pantheism: Everything is Shit
and then add a list for you physicists:
Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit always happens in the middle of the Bell Curve.
The Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit does not happen until you observe it. If you don't see Shit, you can't talk about shit.
Participatory Anthropic Principle of Quantum Excrement: Shit does not happen until someone consciously observes it. If I don't see shit then it is not really shit.
Consistent histories of Quantum Excrement: Shit happens over the sum of all of the possible histories. The Shittiest outcome is history.
Objective collapse theories of Quantum Excrement: Shit happens and I might observe it or maybe not.
Many worlds Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: As Shit happens it fills all possible worlds.
Stochastic mechanics Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit Happens in a Classic manner.
The decoherence approach Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: The Tidal Wave of Shit never collapes. We just see the passing of its wake.
Many minds Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Different Shit for different minds.
Quantum logic Interpretation of Excrement: Shit has its own logic.
The Bohm Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: All our Shit is One.
Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Future Shit makes shit happen now.
Relational quantum mechanics Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit is relative to where and when you see it happening.
Realist Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: This shit is real.
Local Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit only happens here.
Non-local Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit that happens here can make shit happen some where else.
Determinist Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit must Happen.
Murphy's Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit always happens the wrong way.
The String Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: You only see this shit because of the shit that happens in other dimensions.
This just in to the./ news wire:
A message from aliens has been discovered and decrypted using 157 Channels of vacuous cable TV.
The message reads:
"Wer in ur pr0n and pwn ur ipod."
So tell the AAAS that... http://www.sciencemag.org/about/authors/prep/docx.dtl
"Because of changes Microsoft has made in its recent Word release that are incompatible with our internal workflow, which was built around previous versions of the software, Science cannot at present accept any files in the new.docx format produced through Microsoft Word 2007, either for initial submission or for revision. Users of this release of Word should convert these files to a format compatible with Word 2003 or Word for Macintosh 2004 (or, for initial submission, to a PDF file) before submitting to Science.
Users of Word 2007 should also be aware that equations created with the default equation editor included in Microsoft Word 2007 will be unacceptable in revision, even if the file is converted to a format compatible with earlier versions of Word; this is because conversion will render equations as graphics and prevent electronic printing of equations. Regrettably, we will be forced to return any revised manuscript created with the Word 2007 default equation editor to authors for re-editing. To get around this, please use the MathType equation editor or the legacy equation editor included in previous versions of Microsoft Word, which can be accessed from "Insert Object" from the "Insert" ribbon in Word 2007."
Um... I don't think Word is an answer
Elegance is simplicity of form and function.
Coding remarks are good. Simple code is better.
There was a time when "systems analysis" was used to get the "lay of the land" to find what the business objectives were, then start coding, then document the code (for future programmers) and the associated processes (for end users and management).
Back in the day I wrote a data translation program that was "in service" for nine years. It never had or needed any revisions because it did what it was intended to do.
To address the "general question" posed:
Elegance of form and function in most things (not just software) is something that can be usefully investigated when looking at the subject from the view point of "Systems Theory"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
The "European Powers" didn't "create Israel"... The only European power of that era that might have had any say was England and they would have been quite happy with a Jordanian / Syrian / Lebanese / Egyptian Palestine... But it seems the Jewish People had made other plans and decided that after all of the things that they had suffered that it was time for creating a place to call their own.
The reality is that there is a lot of "stupid stuff" done by many "major powers" over the years... mostly done at the behest of people [or corporations] who would make a lot of money from wars, police actions, genocide, loose environmental laws etc.. Wars are an extension of Economics. They are usually fought to redistribute wealth.. It can be argued that even the rise of Islamic Theocracies are another just holier than thou 'kill you and take your stuff' economics.
But that my friends is what "free market capitalism" is all about: protecting corporate profits with the blood of the citizens.
My recollection is that back in the early '90s all of the fees that the FCC collected for things like compliance testing [Part 68, Part 15, etc] were the only funds used to keep that part of the FCC running... I would not at all be surprised that that is what will happen to these fees: Keep the FCC running.
Uh... not quite...
All of the MS Office installers [Office 95 through Office 2003 at least... I can't speak about Office 2007 as we do not have it installed]leave "traces" in HKEY : LOCALMACHINE : SOFTWARE: Microsoft : Office.
I recently had recourse to uninstall Office 2002 and Visio 2003 from a workstation due to issues with patching Office [using PatchLink]... the result of the uninstall was numerous sub-keys still extant in the registry. So, no, MS's uninstaller does not remove Office completely from the registry. We deleted the remnant keys and reinstalled Office and the patches proceeded...
Some of you may even recall that MS issued a "post-uninstall" registry cleaner for the Office '97 that cleaned up left over keys and registry associations after an uninstall... if you did not use the utility, a re-install of the application would fail.
This is "quality Software"? If MS has a problem with FUD it is of their own making...
OTOH, I've installed OpenOffice at home and so far I can't say the quality is any worse the MS... I've even opened a PPT 2003 presentation with OpenOffice on a 128 MB P3 laptop... I doubt PowerPoint 2003 could do that.
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if you plan to pirate anything on this system remember that all you need to do is to overwrite the "intellectual property" with the following string: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0
A quick google:
Labview -- Instrumentation control been around since the '80's, started out as an IEEE-488 instrument controller software and data collector. Only reason I know about it is that National Instruments was one of the few companies in those days that sold '488 interfaces for IBM PCs...
Igor -- Technical graphing for Mac & Win -- So why not GNU Plot?
Inventor -- Autodesk prototyping - Didn't SGI originally create this?
Eagle -- CAD Software? Yup all of the above are "specialty" apps... maybe the original poster needs to spend some time digging over a sourceforge to see what is available...
So add a little Liquid Smoke...
But are they Kosher? Dairy, Pareve, or Meat?
If it's classified as meat or traif, there'll be no Pupaeroni and Cheese or Pupaeroni Pizza for observant Jews.
You can bet someonelse's S they don't...
Not necessarily.
They created R because they did not want to kiss proprietary S.
Add Neal Stephenson's third novel, Snow Crash to the list of books to be banned and author's to be arrested... for his nefarious abuse of Y.T.
The question seems to be is not 'if' we're going to have Morals Proctors but 'when'... and why is this so?
Because this kind of crime is an easy target... but when you look at the actual stats these laws have not seriously made any difference in the crime rates for these kinds of offenses-- other than to spend more money with little result while making politicians "look good".
I don't believe you understand the way our legislative system works.
1) Lawmakers pass law.
2) Executive branch turns that into "rule makings" and publish it in the Federal Register. Sometimes they enforce it. Sometimes they don't.
3) ????
4) Profit!!!
1: Cancel all H1/L1 programs indefinitely, but with a condition that they return at some point in a more regulated form. 2: Reclassify transplant manufacturers as import manufacturers of that particular nation and tax accordingly. 3: Zero taxes on businesses that would comply with a strengthened "Patriot Business" standard. That is, loopholes would be removed. 4: Domestic preference for education and funding thereof at all levels. 5: Put a moratorium on new fuel taxes or changes that effect an increase of any kind. 6: Revert all of the environmental standards for vehicles to 1980's standards.
Item 1... why not just change these programs into "sponsored citizenship programs"? The idea being if you want to work here you become a citizen.
Item 2: Ditto on corporations that "outsource" their labor overseas. Remove "offshore" corporate taxbreaks.
Item 3: So the average Joe has to pay the taxes for all of the their profits? Only if the stockholders pay the taxes instead.
Item 5 & 6 on your list do nothing to help anything at all except line the pockets of foreign governments and very large corporations...That's not a step forward.
The gas tax has not changed for a long time... but a $2.50 a gallon tax for drivers of SUV and Trucks used for non-business purposes (vehicles required to perform work exempted but not those used to get to work) might spur some folks to try and find a cheaper more efficient means of transportation.
As for rolling back the standards... I guess you've never lived in L.A.
So Mathematicians design castles in the air, and Engineers attempt to build them.
You use google don't you? Since we're all hard working googlers and generate all those profits using google services like doubleclick and google analyitics, gmail, the Google search engine, and all of their other ad supported content... the question we need to ask is when can we expect our G-phones?
So all we need to do to save Greenland is to... Nuke Greenland?
Three Items to note as I write this:
/. to make you feel like you "get" technology and that "science like stuff." Apparently you don't.
1) Your post has been modded up to 4. This indicates your post is part of the agenda you seem to be complaining about or that those that modded you up have voted you into their conspiracy.
2) Claiming to be cynical about "geekdom" indicates you were never a geek in your life and only hang out in places like
3) The open season on "facts" is proportional to your actually understanding the hard data and not what someone telling you the hard data means. So far all I've heard is a lot of yammering of "this side says this" or "that side says that". Seeing media conspiracies or business conspiracies is not science it is politics. As far as the issue at hand I'd say that Clarke's first and fourth laws apply:
1)When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
4)"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."
This is the way *real* science is done. Just remember that if the global warming folks are wrong, there is no real harm done... but if they are right you and all of your decendants (if any) are screwed. Think about that. What kind of world do you want to give to your children? The same kind os !@#$ kind of world your parents gave you?
Gee that's like saying because I provided a comment that you chose to respond to that I have the right to filter your comment.
Somehow I don't think you'd want that.
Essentially you're saying that governments should have the right to turn children into "dronelettes" that are only allowed to see and hear what the government wants them to see... or that government should not be providing an opportunity to see "the whole wide world, warts and all"...
Maybe you're right. Maybe the government should shut down WoW now.
I have to agree with the parent post.
Schools should not be playing the role that should only be filled by a parent. A parent should have a better understanding of what their child's needs are than a governmental organization that may (or may not) have a specific political agenda.
Who's to say at some point in the future that the web sites of selected political parties, news sources, belief systems, or technologies will be blocked?
"Freedom of access" is the heart of the internet. It is not a right I would give up for my child. Your "free laptop" (like software) is not free when you impose these "arbitrary, but politically expedient" restrictions.
Schools and government should not dictate access.
I'd like to a acouple of things to your list-- Judaism #2: You are commanded to do THIS shit but not THAT shit.
Commericalism #2: We only sell the best shit.
Universalism: Shit is Everywhere.
Pantheism: Everything is Shit
and then add a list for you physicists:
Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit always happens in the middle of the Bell Curve.
The Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit does not happen until you observe it. If you don't see Shit, you can't talk about shit.
Participatory Anthropic Principle of Quantum Excrement: Shit does not happen until someone consciously observes it. If I don't see shit then it is not really shit.
Consistent histories of Quantum Excrement: Shit happens over the sum of all of the possible histories. The Shittiest outcome is history.
Objective collapse theories of Quantum Excrement: Shit happens and I might observe it or maybe not. Many worlds Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: As Shit happens it fills all possible worlds.
Stochastic mechanics Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit Happens in a Classic manner.
The decoherence approach Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: The Tidal Wave of Shit never collapes. We just see the passing of its wake.
Many minds Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Different Shit for different minds.
Quantum logic Interpretation of Excrement: Shit has its own logic.
The Bohm Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: All our Shit is One.
Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Future Shit makes shit happen now.
Relational quantum mechanics Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit is relative to where and when you see it happening.
Realist Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: This shit is real.
Local Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit only happens here.
Non-local Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit that happens here can make shit happen some where else.
Determinist Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit must Happen.
Murphy's Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: Shit always happens the wrong way.
The String Interpretation of Quantum Excrement: You only see this shit because of the shit that happens in other dimensions.
Yes, it's true.. if we'd had the Vista release of "Bush with User Account Control" (BushWUAC) we would not be where we are...
Imagine the pop-ups:
"I'm sorry I can't let you invade another country for profit by telling lies about WMDs".
"I'm sorry I can't repeal that regulation to make your friends and donors rich".
"I'm sorry but you can't let play you all of your downloaded news clips of 'Mission Accomplished' because you stole them from the media companies"
Where was UAC when and where we really needed it?
This just in to the ./ news wire:
A message from aliens has been discovered and decrypted using 157 Channels of vacuous cable TV.
The message reads:
"Wer in ur pr0n and pwn ur ipod."
So tell the AAAS that... http://www.sciencemag.org/about/authors/prep/docx.dtl "Because of changes Microsoft has made in its recent Word release that are incompatible with our internal workflow, which was built around previous versions of the software, Science cannot at present accept any files in the new .docx format produced through Microsoft Word 2007, either for initial submission or for revision. Users of this release of Word should convert these files to a format compatible with Word 2003 or Word for Macintosh 2004 (or, for initial submission, to a PDF file) before submitting to Science.
Users of Word 2007 should also be aware that equations created with the default equation editor included in Microsoft Word 2007 will be unacceptable in revision, even if the file is converted to a format compatible with earlier versions of Word; this is because conversion will render equations as graphics and prevent electronic printing of equations. Regrettably, we will be forced to return any revised manuscript created with the Word 2007 default equation editor to authors for re-editing. To get around this, please use the MathType equation editor or the legacy equation editor included in previous versions of Microsoft Word, which can be accessed from "Insert Object" from the "Insert" ribbon in Word 2007."
Um... I don't think Word is an answer
Elegance is simplicity of form and function. Coding remarks are good. Simple code is better. There was a time when "systems analysis" was used to get the "lay of the land" to find what the business objectives were, then start coding, then document the code (for future programmers) and the associated processes (for end users and management). Back in the day I wrote a data translation program that was "in service" for nine years. It never had or needed any revisions because it did what it was intended to do. To address the "general question" posed: Elegance of form and function in most things (not just software) is something that can be usefully investigated when looking at the subject from the view point of "Systems Theory" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
Hold on... the makers are also releasing the Really-BIG-EMP-in-a-CAN [tm] as Tempest test solution.
Espresso, Cappuccino, Chai, or JOLT?
The "European Powers" didn't "create Israel"... The only European power of that era that might have had any say was England and they would have been quite happy with a Jordanian / Syrian / Lebanese / Egyptian Palestine... But it seems the Jewish People had made other plans and decided that after all of the things that they had suffered that it was time for creating a place to call their own. The reality is that there is a lot of "stupid stuff" done by many "major powers" over the years... mostly done at the behest of people [or corporations] who would make a lot of money from wars, police actions, genocide, loose environmental laws etc.. Wars are an extension of Economics. They are usually fought to redistribute wealth.. It can be argued that even the rise of Islamic Theocracies are another just holier than thou 'kill you and take your stuff' economics. But that my friends is what "free market capitalism" is all about: protecting corporate profits with the blood of the citizens.
My recollection is that back in the early '90s all of the fees that the FCC collected for things like compliance testing [Part 68, Part 15, etc] were the only funds used to keep that part of the FCC running... I would not at all be surprised that that is what will happen to these fees: Keep the FCC running.
Uh... not quite... All of the MS Office installers [Office 95 through Office 2003 at least... I can't speak about Office 2007 as we do not have it installed]leave "traces" in HKEY : LOCALMACHINE : SOFTWARE: Microsoft : Office. I recently had recourse to uninstall Office 2002 and Visio 2003 from a workstation due to issues with patching Office [using PatchLink] ... the result of the uninstall was numerous sub-keys still extant in the registry. So, no, MS's uninstaller does not remove Office completely from the registry. We deleted the remnant keys and reinstalled Office and the patches proceeded...
Some of you may even recall that MS issued a "post-uninstall" registry cleaner for the Office '97 that cleaned up left over keys and registry associations after an uninstall... if you did not use the utility, a re-install of the application would fail.
This is "quality Software"? If MS has a problem with FUD it is of their own making...
OTOH, I've installed OpenOffice at home and so far I can't say the quality is any worse the MS... I've even opened a PPT 2003 presentation with OpenOffice on a 128 MB P3 laptop... I doubt PowerPoint 2003 could do that.
You mean this *isn't* Backslashdot??? Oh sorry... wrong universe.