Hey, it was my guess, based on seeing huge spools on SBC trucks on Market Street a few or more years ago.
Thanks for the correction, but the point still stands: A wireless infrastructure needs to connect to a wired infrastructure at some point if it is to provide access to the internet, and the wired infrastructure is already in place, for the most part. No need to reinvent (or rebuild) the wheel.
Depends on how they cast it. Will Smith as hard working IBM attorney Steve Marriot. John Travolta as archvillian Darl McBride. Mike Meyers as both the judge and the magistrate. Meg Ryan as PJ.
Wait. It would still suck. It might make lots of money, but it would still suck. Now, a TV mini series on the other hand. . .
She also removes posts (or used to) that she perceives to be critical of her in any way. Which is fine, if she doesn't want to see (or let anyone else see) honest criticism, it's her right.
The AC's here who claim that Groklaw isn't a reputable source, though, are astroturfers, plain and simple. Even if they wanted to, the couldn't point to any misrepresentations made on Groklaw that weren't immediately corrected (only one occasion comes to mind, when the SCO site got DoSed). Groklaw reports the facts and legal analysis with editorial commentary mixed in. It's not very difficult to sift out the bias.
I agree completely. I've stopped posting or even reading the comment section at Groklaw because of the censorship and hyperbole, but I still read the articles, which are mostly excellent, despite the overwrought emotional language that PJ to which PJ sometimes descends. I used to find it annoying, but now I find it amusing, though not in the way PJ intends. Still, overall, the presentation of facts (including primary sources!) and the legal analysis are top notch and make up for the shortcomings.
I thought I would miss reading the comment section, but to tell you the truth, the gems there are buried so deeply in the uninformed fanatical crap that it's really not worth the bother.
these people desperately want attention, and they don't care if it's negative.
And if links to their stories are posted, at least remind us that Enderle and O'Gara went to the John Dvorak school of Journalism. where they majored in page hit whoring.
Sure, PJ has a pro linux bias, but she does print the facts, facts that you can check because she also provides links and transcriptions of the sources.
I've often found her editorial commentary overwrought and hyperbolic, but her information is excellent and her legal analysis is spot on.
Bias does not cancel out integrity. Lies and misrepresentation of the facts does cancel it out. Therefore PJ had integrity and Mo O'Gara does not.
About the time I stopped smoking, pot had gotten a lot more powerful, and the kids were calling it "chronic" or "polio". Has it gotten powerful enough to call it "suspended animation"?
I'm guessing that Pacific Bell already owns most of the wired infrastructure, and I'm not that sure it would be cost efficient to build and maintain a second wired infrastructure.
San Francisco's advantage is that it's such a small big city. A population of 776,773 and an area of 47 square miles yields a density of 16,526 persons per square mile. I have no idea how they plan to do this, but if they spent $20,000 per square mile for wireless equipment*, that's less than $1,000,000. Outdoor WAPs can be had for as little as $330 or inexpensive consumer routers can be adapted/ruggedized with tupperware.
So, your point is a good one. The City could build out a wireless infrastructure fairly cheaply, and leave the actual operation to a private contractor.
*The number of $20,000 was conveniently pulled out of my ass, and left no marks fortunately. I don't see how this could go higher than $100,000/sq. mi. if they use off the shelf equipment, though, so that's an infrastructure cost of $5 million. Peanuts! This is the sort of thing that attracts business and tourism, so I have no doubt it could pay for itself.
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then we would have a real human brain of sorts with out al the hormonal control systems
And how exactly am I supposed to overclock my brain computer without hormones? Am I supposed to sprinkle selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors over the petri dish? Great. Chances are, my computer would become suicidal.
Which brings us to the question, would Bush have decided on this elective war if he knew it would result in those sorts of casualties? We already know he thought there would be zero casualties, and we know that, given the current casualty level, he wouldn't do anything different.
I don't think he could have sold the war to the American people if the American people knew in advance there would be a casualty rate in the tens of thousands. The very fact that so many people have turned against him because of a casualty rate of just over a thousand proves this.
So bottom line, the one positive thing about high casualty rates is that it might deter a democratic nation from engaging in an elective war. We might have done a bit more due diligence and seen that the claims to support the war were weak at best, if not completely false.
Secondarily, if the stakes were that high, we might have had a better plan in place for "winning the peace". "Hope for the Best" is not a plan. You plan for the worst. Unfortunately, planning for the worst is considered pessimistic thinking by the Bush administration, and we can't have pessimistic thinking undermining our efforts.
For creating this confusion. What is missing isn't source to any release version, it's a developmental iteration. IBM has already given SCO all of AIX source. What SCO has been asking for is every little change whether it made it into a release or not. Because, dammit, their code has to be in there somewhere!
With O'Gara, it's hard to tell where the sloppy journalism stops and the pro-SCO bias starts. I used to think she was just a crappy writer, not a SCO shill.
Just trying to be slapstick funny and failing miserably. Sick and feverish tonight. Plenty of rest and liquids, and NOT staying up all night on the computer. Good night.
Hey, thanks anyway to you and the ac. I'm probably not going to get an MFA anyway, it's just an occasional fantasy I have of teaching at the college level.
Absolutely. Bush getting us into this war at all will lead us there- why not go all the way, get there a lot quicker, and finish off the rest of the world while we're at it?
Post Modern has been pretty much rendered meaningless by its overuse by people using it for a decorative rather than semantic function. Originally, it was a term of Art History and Art Criticism, and it had a specific obvious meaning, as well as certain cultural resonances. It's pretty much detached from any substrate of signification it might have had and now floats as a quasi-meanigful or perhaps meaningless signifier.
The definitions you offer I think are better associated with Post Structuralism, but again we an even greater problem of the lay person not knowing what it means, having never heard of Structuralism (de Saussure or Lévi-Strauss. He invented bluejeans, right?)
Anyway, that's my great wisdom. I'm probably full of shit. Anyway, my immediate reaction upon hearing or reading the word Post Modern (or god forbid "Pomo") is that the speaker is an idiot trying to sound intelligent. When I hear someone use the term Post Structuralist, I usually think "psuedo-intellectual who at least tried to read that crap but most likely stopped when it made his or her head hurt." And finally, when I hear the word Culture, I reach for my Browning.
Read it again. I said you can celebrate all the national hollidays which every country has.
Every nation?
So I can take off on Antiguan Independence Day (Nov. 1st), Belarus Remembrance Day (Nov. 2nd), Japan's Culture Day (Nov. 3rd), Northern Mariana Island Day of Citizenship (Nov. 4th), Morocco's Anniversary of Green Day March (November 6th), Micronesian Pohnpei Constitution Day (Nov. 8th), Cambodian Independence Day (Nov. 9th), Veteran's Day (Nov. 11th), Cantebury Day (Nov. 12th), Brazilian Republic Day (Nov. 15th), Bhutan H.M. the King's Birthday (Nov. 16th), Azerbaijani Day of national Revival (Nov. 17th), Uzbekistan Flag Day (Nov. 18th), Belizean Garifuna Day (Nov. 19th), Mexican Revolution Day (November 20th), Swiss Onion Market Day (Nov. 22nd), Japanese Labour Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 23rd), Thanksgiving (Nov.25th), Laotian Water Festival (Nov. 26), French Guiana Kourou Day (Nov. 29th), and Philippines Bonifacio's Day (Nov. 30th)!
I'm starting to like this atheism thing. It's so cosmopolitan!
What, you keep the three ring binder from that seminar by the toilet so you can review every time you take a crap? Good for you! Not many people are even aware of the eighth habit of highly effective people: Keep educational reading material handy by the john. =)
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Hey, it was my guess, based on seeing huge spools on SBC trucks on Market Street a few or more years ago.
Thanks for the correction, but the point still stands: A wireless infrastructure needs to connect to a wired infrastructure at some point if it is to provide access to the internet, and the wired infrastructure is already in place, for the most part. No need to reinvent (or rebuild) the wheel.
Depends on how they cast it. Will Smith as hard working IBM attorney Steve Marriot. John Travolta as archvillian Darl McBride. Mike Meyers as both the judge and the magistrate. Meg Ryan as PJ.
Wait. It would still suck. It might make lots of money, but it would still suck. Now, a TV mini series on the other hand. . .
Or simply resigning, and no longer allowing them to trade on your good name.
She also removes posts (or used to) that she perceives to be critical of her in any way. Which is fine, if she doesn't want to see (or let anyone else see) honest criticism, it's her right.
The AC's here who claim that Groklaw isn't a reputable source, though, are astroturfers, plain and simple. Even if they wanted to, the couldn't point to any misrepresentations made on Groklaw that weren't immediately corrected (only one occasion comes to mind, when the SCO site got DoSed). Groklaw reports the facts and legal analysis with editorial commentary mixed in. It's not very difficult to sift out the bias.
I agree completely. I've stopped posting or even reading the comment section at Groklaw because of the censorship and hyperbole, but I still read the articles, which are mostly excellent, despite the overwrought emotional language that PJ to which PJ sometimes descends. I used to find it annoying, but now I find it amusing, though not in the way PJ intends. Still, overall, the presentation of facts (including primary sources!) and the legal analysis are top notch and make up for the shortcomings.
I thought I would miss reading the comment section, but to tell you the truth, the gems there are buried so deeply in the uninformed fanatical crap that it's really not worth the bother.
these people desperately want attention, and they don't care if it's negative.
And if links to their stories are posted, at least remind us that Enderle and O'Gara went to the John Dvorak school of Journalism. where they majored in page hit whoring.
Sure, PJ has a pro linux bias, but she does print the facts, facts that you can check because she also provides links and transcriptions of the sources.
I've often found her editorial commentary overwrought and hyperbolic, but her information is excellent and her legal analysis is spot on.
Bias does not cancel out integrity. Lies and misrepresentation of the facts does cancel it out. Therefore PJ had integrity and Mo O'Gara does not.
First of all, I highly doubt they're going to use "dirt". Hydroponic growth medium of some sort I might imagine.
Second of all, the plants serve a dual purpose: food and oxygen replenishment. Cans don't change carbon dioxide into oxygen. They can't.
Third, space needed depends on the plant. Maybe they'll use algae, which is a plant.
About the time I stopped smoking, pot had gotten a lot more powerful, and the kids were calling it "chronic" or "polio". Has it gotten powerful enough to call it "suspended animation"?
It also makes a great growth medium for nutritious mold!
I'm guessing that Pacific Bell already owns most of the wired infrastructure, and I'm not that sure it would be cost efficient to build and maintain a second wired infrastructure.
San Francisco's advantage is that it's such a small big city. A population of 776,773 and an area of 47 square miles yields a density of 16,526 persons per square mile. I have no idea how they plan to do this, but if they spent $20,000 per square mile for wireless equipment*, that's less than $1,000,000. Outdoor WAPs can be had for as little as $330 or inexpensive consumer routers can be adapted/ruggedized with tupperware.
So, your point is a good one. The City could build out a wireless infrastructure fairly cheaply, and leave the actual operation to a private contractor.
*The number of $20,000 was conveniently pulled out of my ass, and left no marks fortunately. I don't see how this could go higher than $100,000/sq. mi. if they use off the shelf equipment, though, so that's an infrastructure cost of $5 million. Peanuts! This is the sort of thing that attracts business and tourism, so I have no doubt it could pay for itself.
then we would have a real human brain of sorts with out al the hormonal control systems
And how exactly am I supposed to overclock my brain computer without hormones? Am I supposed to sprinkle selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors over the petri dish? Great. Chances are, my computer would become suicidal.
Which brings us to the question, would Bush have decided on this elective war if he knew it would result in those sorts of casualties? We already know he thought there would be zero casualties, and we know that, given the current casualty level, he wouldn't do anything different.
I don't think he could have sold the war to the American people if the American people knew in advance there would be a casualty rate in the tens of thousands. The very fact that so many people have turned against him because of a casualty rate of just over a thousand proves this.
So bottom line, the one positive thing about high casualty rates is that it might deter a democratic nation from engaging in an elective war. We might have done a bit more due diligence and seen that the claims to support the war were weak at best, if not completely false.
Secondarily, if the stakes were that high, we might have had a better plan in place for "winning the peace". "Hope for the Best" is not a plan. You plan for the worst. Unfortunately, planning for the worst is considered pessimistic thinking by the Bush administration, and we can't have pessimistic thinking undermining our efforts.
Are you sure you're not thinking of ~/Library/StartupItems?
Good catch.
Well, the article itself is probably bought and paid for, so no worries.
For creating this confusion. What is missing isn't source to any release version, it's a developmental iteration. IBM has already given SCO all of AIX source. What SCO has been asking for is every little change whether it made it into a release or not. Because, dammit, their code has to be in there somewhere!
With O'Gara, it's hard to tell where the sloppy journalism stops and the pro-SCO bias starts. I used to think she was just a crappy writer, not a SCO shill.
I have two things to say.
1) Linuxworld (snicker)
2) Maureen O'Gara (guffaw)
The pinnacle of journalistic integrity. (cough)
Just trying to be slapstick funny and failing miserably. Sick and feverish tonight. Plenty of rest and liquids, and NOT staying up all night on the computer. Good night.
Hey, thanks anyway to you and the ac. I'm probably not going to get an MFA anyway, it's just an occasional fantasy I have of teaching at the college level.
That sounds like a cool class, on something I know nothing about (beyond John Cage and maybe Phillip Glass.) Oh, and then there's punk. . .
Hey, there's an obvious riff:
Punk = Post Structuralist
New Wave = Post Modern
Trite and not accurate, but good enough for a 30 second explanation.
Absolutely. Bush getting us into this war at all will lead us there- why not go all the way, get there a lot quicker, and finish off the rest of the world while we're at it?
Aren't you forgetting about the mine shaft gap?
Post Modern has been pretty much rendered meaningless by its overuse by people using it for a decorative rather than semantic function. Originally, it was a term of Art History and Art Criticism, and it had a specific obvious meaning, as well as certain cultural resonances. It's pretty much detached from any substrate of signification it might have had and now floats as a quasi-meanigful or perhaps meaningless signifier.
The definitions you offer I think are better associated with Post Structuralism, but again we an even greater problem of the lay person not knowing what it means, having never heard of Structuralism (de Saussure or Lévi-Strauss. He invented bluejeans, right?)
Anyway, that's my great wisdom. I'm probably full of shit. Anyway, my immediate reaction upon hearing or reading the word Post Modern (or god forbid "Pomo") is that the speaker is an idiot trying to sound intelligent. When I hear someone use the term Post Structuralist, I usually think "psuedo-intellectual who at least tried to read that crap but most likely stopped when it made his or her head hurt." And finally, when I hear the word Culture, I reach for my Browning.
Read it again.
I said you can celebrate all the national hollidays which every country has.
Every nation?
So I can take off on Antiguan Independence Day (Nov. 1st), Belarus Remembrance Day (Nov. 2nd), Japan's Culture Day (Nov. 3rd), Northern Mariana Island Day of Citizenship (Nov. 4th), Morocco's Anniversary of Green Day March (November 6th), Micronesian Pohnpei Constitution Day
(Nov. 8th), Cambodian Independence Day (Nov. 9th), Veteran's Day (Nov. 11th), Cantebury Day (Nov. 12th), Brazilian Republic Day (Nov. 15th), Bhutan H.M. the King's Birthday (Nov. 16th), Azerbaijani Day of national Revival (Nov. 17th), Uzbekistan Flag Day (Nov. 18th), Belizean Garifuna Day (Nov. 19th), Mexican Revolution Day (November 20th), Swiss Onion Market Day (Nov. 22nd), Japanese Labour Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 23rd), Thanksgiving (Nov.25th), Laotian Water Festival (Nov. 26), French Guiana Kourou Day (Nov. 29th), and Philippines Bonifacio's Day (Nov. 30th)!
I'm starting to like this atheism thing. It's so cosmopolitan!
What, you keep the three ring binder from that seminar by the toilet so you can review every time you take a crap? Good for you! Not many people are even aware of the eighth habit of highly effective people: Keep educational reading material handy by the john. =)