You know, things like khttpd and that sort of thing (I'm sorry, but a Web server is no more an integral part of the OS than a Web browser).
Well, only because somebody hasn't thought of a good reason to have a web server in the kernel.
(Reaching WAY up into my rear end here) Suppose the Linux-on-a-chip people get really motivated and make a controller for devices in the home. With IPv6, every light switch and thermostat has this LinuxChip in it with khttpd. A central control (with more juice than the slave devices) pulls data from each device through a bastard child of wget, and you (at work) can browse to myhouse.com (or whatever) and see what the setting are, and change them if desired.
Taken to the next level, (taking into account here that I know next to nothing about CORBA), these chips also have the korbit compiled in as well. Now devices from different vendor can pass objects back and forth, with the master controller using that information to whatever end.
I dunno -- I hesitate to write it off as crackpot until I see what it can do. khttpd and korbit are pretty cool hacks, and now that they're "in the wild", we might be surprised at what comes of it. Maybe nothing, maybe the Next Big Thing.
(Regardless, looks like I need to look into this whole CORBA thing -- I thought it was a flash-in-the-pan, but apparantly a lot of people are taking it pretty damn seriously)
The Happy Hacker keyboard is also available for your PDA, if you don't mind the extra size. For serious keyboard jockeys (or, if you use your Palm to telnet into a server and use Emacs), it might be another option.
Matrox had a major nightmare with a set of their digital video cards (Matrox Studio) they released some time ago (believe it required NT 3.51 to run, so pretty old).
They did not appear to care then about releasing beta drivers and crap software onto an unwitting public.
Of course, I suppose the argument could be made that Matrox learned from that experience...
True, they did do usability testing, and they did find that a single menu bar was better. IIRC, they did have a menu per window at one point in the design (see "Insanely Great" by Steven Levy).
However, I believe that the size of the screen negated any other decision they may have wanted to go with (menu bar in each window, floating menu bar, whatever). Well, I guess, a combination of design decision and hardware limitations. A context-sensitive menu (a la Xerox PARC STAR) would require multiple buttons on the mouse (anathema to "easy to use" in Apple's mind), so a menu bar is required. The small screen negated the option of multiple menu bars (in a usability sense of having as many pixels available for documents as possible).
But, I still find that an old Mac SE/30 with System 7 is one of the great computers. I absolutely dote on mine. It's still a major axe in my arsenal. I even seem to be more creative at it.
(tho web browsing is pretty painful, plain old text editing is just fine)
Perhaps one of the most recognizable skyscrapers in the NY skyline, the Citibank building, has just such a flaw in it. The way it was originally designed, if it had encountered winds over 78mph it was at serious risk of collapes (due to poor design of the steel framework, IIRC).
Sort of -- it wasn't a design flaw, but a contractor error. Rivets were specified, but bolts were used instead. The bolts would shear, rivets wouldn't.
The wind problem wasn't just winds over 78mph, but winds at a 45 degree angle (corner winds). NYC code didn't specify for these winds, which normally wouldn't matter. The problem arose because the land owners (Catholic church) specified that the church on the corner couldn't be torn down. So, the main structural supports were in the middle of the sides instead of the corners. That's why corner winds were a problem.
The really COOL part of the building's design was a "dampener" on the top floor. It was a several ton block of concrete that moved opposite to the buildings sway, thus dampening the sway of the building.
The repairs were made in secret, but as the hurricane approached, the public was alerted to the problem. Luckily, repairs were finished, and the hurricane wandered off into the Atlantic.
(Girlfriend's an architect -- we watch a LOT of TLC/Discover/et.al.)
The most violent anime, twisted porn, and violent
video games. Yet a low crime rate. Similar comparisons made with gun ownership, citing England as an anti-gun nation with low crime, and other
European countries as pro-gun nations with low crime on the flip side of the argument.
I've read (somewhere) that part of the reason these heavily violent things can exist in Japan (and England and other European countries) is the homogeneous nature of these societies.
I dunno -- could be, I guess. It seemed kinda KKK-ish to me when I read it, but there may be a point there. I notice there aren't a lot of homicides in Episcopalian neighborhoods (at least, not on the news).
If you hang around people like yourself, you may be safer, but you're also pretty damn bored (it seems to me)...
I just haven't seen anything that beats the PalmOS yet in terms of ease of use, ease of programming, and breadth of applications.
No, the Palm doesn't do MP3s -- so? I've got a Rio for that. No it won't play movies -- so? You're going to watch movies on a handheld? Why? What kind of batteries do you have in there?
The vision of PalmOS devices is that it isn't neccessarily a platform that stands alone -- it's a mediation between a desktop and a completely mobile device.
Actually, the PalmOS is probably the living incarnation of Allan Kay's Dynabook -- it's cheap, so it's not super painful if you lose one a year. It's complete, in that you can use it as a serial terminal, a web browser (tho iSilo is better than online-browsing), a note pad, a sketch pad, address book... and all this is pretty well integrated.
Other than the nerd factor of running X or Qt on a handheld, what do you hope to gain from these other platforms?
That's a design difference between Macs and Windows/X -- one menu bar is easier to mouse to and understand than 3 or more on separate windows.
For a new user, if you tell them to go to the menu bar, they don't have to ask "which one?", if there's only one.
The funny thing is, I think Apple just stumbled into this one -- the UI was designed for the original toaster Macs (128K, 512K, SE, SE/30, Classic, etc), which only had 512x324 pixels. A menu on each window would eat up a LOT of screen real estate.
Oh my god. How can you be so stupid ? This is marvelous. But I wonder, isn't it sometimes a handicap beeing so dumb ?
Um... what part is dumb? The whole thing? What makes it dumb? Fred the Anonymous Coward saying so makes it dumb?
Puh-leeze... Go back to school and learn something about the art of debate. Or, simply, remove your head from your ass. I'd be happy to argue with you, but not if you have nothing of substance to say.
No, it's not a handicap "beeing [sic]" dumb. Is it a handicap to be a blithering idiot with no point?
In your eagerness to find the figures an attack on Gore, you miss my point. I'm not accusing the Dems of fraud. I state it could be a possibility, not a certainty.
Okay, numbers, then (some uncertainty to these numbers, of course, but numbers were pulled from CNN.com, msnbc.com, and census data):
Total votes: 5,816,627
Votes for Gore: 2,907,451
% of FL population who are white: 83%
% of FL population who are black: 15%
% of FL population who are hispanic: 14%
% of white Floridians who voted for Gore: 40%
% of white Floridians who voted for Bush: 57%
% of black Floridians who voted for Gore: 93%
% of black Floridians who voted for Bush: 7%
% of hispanic Floridians who voted for Gore: 48%
% of hispanic Floridians who voted for Bush: 49%
With the black vote counting for 16% of the Gore votes (as reported) and take these numbers into account. It's not an indictment, and I don't intend to make it such. It's just very, very interesting.
Possibly. I tend to agree with James Baker on this. "Once you go down that road, there is no end" (paraphrased)
If you get into hand-recounts of machine ballots, there is massive opportunity for vote fraud, plus the exciting opportunity to argue over "that's a dimple!" "No it's not!" "Yes it is!"
"Counting Everybody's Vote!" is a nice phrase to toss around, but doesn't really mean anything. Gore doesn't want every vote counted (vis a vis the overseas ballots) and Bush doesn't want every voted counted (vis a vis the "undercounts").
I hope you're kidding. This Guardian article is based on the plaintiff's claims. Basically, the NAACP issued a press release, and the Guardian printed it as fact. Pretty sloppy journalism. My high school journalism teacher would've failed me for doing this.
The Florida black population came out in DROVES this election year. The Democrats did a great job in getting blacks to the polls (some say too great -- apparantly a few severely retarded blacks and black criminals voted as well) -- 14% of the FL population is black. 16% of Gore's support were "black votes" (as if votes from blacks are bound up and delivered to Jesse Jackson to distribute or something).
I'm sure there were instances of questionable behavior in FL on both sides, Dems and Reps. It's only because the election is so close is this news. If somebody comes up with a story in National Review that claims that Democrats were tossing Republican votes in the crapper, will you trumpet this as a sign that Al Gore and Joe Lieberman are undermining democracy? No? Then shut up.
1. Imagine that we read of an election occuring anywhere in the third world in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former prime
minister and that former prime minister was himself the former head of that nation's secret police (cia).
Oh yeah, the CIA did such a great job in Afghanistan and for the Iraqi Kurds. They're a great Big Brother-ish organization. Pshaw.
5. Imagine that that members of that nation's most despised caste, fearing for their lives/livelihoods, turned out in record numbers to vote in
near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's candidacy.
Okay, first, what kind of jerk are you? Are you saying that Republicans want to kill blacks? (I assume you mean blacks by "most dispised caste" -- I suppose you could mean Jews or rednecks or hillbillies) First off, screw you, Republicans don't want to kill blacks, and you're a facist demagouge to imply so.
Second, blacks represented 14% of the Floridian population, but represented 16% of the counted votes for Gore. You can take that two ways:
The Democrats really got out the black vote (and good for them)!
The Democrats manufactured quite a bit of those black votes through fraud
What you CAN'T do is say that the "most dispised caste" was marginalized.
8. Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party opposed a more careful by-hand inspection and re-counting of the ballots in the
disputed province or in its most hotly disputed district.
Okay, this is an out and out lie. The hand-recount counties -- Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade -- were not "hotly contested" or anything like it. They were very comfortably in the Gore column by a significant margin. There were pretty massive "undercounts" in those counties (ballots that did not get counted due to machine error, ballot error, or similar), but there were worse undercounts in other counties -- counties that went Bush and had Republican Canvas Boards. Gore wanted more votes (I don't blame him -- you know good and well that Bush would have done the same), so he focused his staff and media attention on those three Democrat counties.
Here's the thing -- I agree with this Zimbabwe ministers opinion. We're forever poking our noses into other countries elections (Danny Ortega? Anyone remember him?), and our noses DON'T BELONG THERE! We wouldn't put up with Saudi Arabian princes coming over here exclaiming, "By Allah, you are not allowing each man's seven wives vote!" -- and they shouldn't put up with American busybodies getting all hot and bothered about their elections.
Here's the trick to avoid American interventionism in your country's elections -- Don't accept our money. Those IMF and World Bank and UN loans are (by and large) funded from American dollars. Our government gives your government sometimes millions, sometimes billions of dollars (OUR dollars). If you take our money, expect our pointy American noses and large American asses getting in your shit -- we think that we've bought the right to do so.
(Proud Harry Browne supporter and voter -- "See, We Told You So!")
As a wise AC posted below, let's say I have a product in mind that uses OBSD as a base. However, in order to make the product more powerful, I needed the OBSD kernel to move from user-space threads to kernel threads.
If I offered the OBSD team $50K to move the kernel to that model, would they do it?
A more egregious example: in order to make my Whizzo Superdevice sell, I need OBSD to integrate a proprietary security algorithm within the kernel structure (for God-knows what reason -- it's an hypothetical, worst-case example). The kernel needs to support it, but the algorithm can't be distributed with the normal distribution. Would the OBSD team merge it into CVS (assuming I'm just a guy with a great idea but no coding "skillz")?
It would be a tough call for me, I know. I'm not terribly idealistic, and the $$$s might sway me -- I was wondering if Theo is immune or not.
Thanks for your work, Theo. I use OBSD every day as a workstation and as a firewall, and the Cop-chasing-script-kiddie t-shirt is the best.
If you could time warp back to the beginning of OpenBSD's development (ignoring the scism that brought you to that point), what would you do differently? Would you have chosen a more commercial focus? Pushed SMP development earlier? Run around in circles waving your hands in the air?
On another note, what's your feeling about commercial use of OpenBSD? i.e., do you support it, tolerate it, or what? (better example, I make a set-top box running OpenBSD, and I need the OS to do "X". If I called you and said, "Theo, I need OpenBSD to support 'X'", would I be told to piss up a rope, write it myself, or would the OpenBSD team do it for a price?)
I think that has something to do with the British weltanshuung -- soggy sandwiches, bland food, and lack of ice suppresses the soul, so you aren't given over to excesses of emotion. Which may have something to do with the lack of a truly great British porn star.
(I'm kidding! Just trying to stir you Brits up a bit... of course, my ancestors came over during the potato famine, so on second thought, screw you.)
Hmm, any idea what is the history of those particular frequencies, by the way?
Not a clue -- checking my Rectal Database, I figure that somebody built one first (50 or 60hz, whichever), and somebody else built another slightly differently. From that, we now have PAL/SECAM/NTSC, 110/220/240 volts, bizarro mains plugs, and other pretty silly differences.
Maybe a patent fight, or maybe because of the distances involved in transporting power in the US means 60hz is better.
It's easier in Europe, as we have several countries instead of only one so we can pick on each other.. not necessary to go over the oceans or to Asia. Swedish are common victim for us Finnish people.
Similarly, we poke fun at Canadians. We can't poke fun at Mexicans (as it's politically incorrect), so instead we make vicious racist slurs and stereotypical judgements. I just love human nature...
I suppose -- I guess it depends on what you need in PCMCIA support. It works fine for me. If you've got a PCMCIA CDROM or something that doesn't work, it may suck for you.
Here's an obvious solution: build them on the barrier islands.
Not easy to do. The barrier islands are a significant distance out (10 miles? 15? I forget).
One is a tourista spot (has a fort on it with day trips to spend on the beach) and one is a wildlife preserve. Tough to build on those. Even tougher than stringing a wire back to shore (or laying one on the ocean floor -- you'd have to lay it in the channel, as the water isn't very deep until you get out beyond the islands, plus all the commercial shrimping going on).
Crazy Europeans, eh? (Well, we may be crazy, but you Americans are just plain stupid).
Sorry -- just a bit of Euro-baiting. If Europeans didn't have Americans and Americans didn't have Europeans, we'd have to make fun of the Koreans or something (of course, now I'm picking on the Koreans...)
Actually, I meant to say that the native output would be AC, not DC, but I got turned around. And didn't catch it on the preview. It was a stupid American mistake, no doubt. That's why I suggest transforming it up to high voltage/low amps to haul long distance from the generator.
Of course, you crazy Europeans use a 50hz wave instead of a 60hz, the way God intended... (there I go again, Euro-baiting...)
Somebody better tell my laptop, then. The IBM 760ED with a Megahertz PCMCIA Ethernet card in it, the one I'm using right now to post this. My main axe.
PCMCIA support in FBSD and OBSD are just fine. FBSD had USB support before Linux did, IIRC. Hell, FBSD and OBSD just rock. I like Linux, mind, but I prefer xBSD. YMMV
The PR said 500KW generated power. It doesn't say whether the whole shebang is set up for DC or AC power (I would assume DC, but those crazy Europeans...), so transform it up to 115,000VAC and you can wire it a goodly distance. Not to Nebraska or anything, but each coastal state could be served, I think.
The bigger danger is not uneven distribution of cheap wave electricity -- it's whether or not the enviros get their panties in a wad over it.
If you tried to build Hoover Dam today, you could just hang it up. No way would environmental activists allow it to be built. Granted, this isn't Hoover Dam, but enviro-activists can be pretty touchy.
Another side yet to be seen is how it looks -- if it's a Big Ugly Chunk O' Concrete, people with $20,000/acre oceanfront property won't stand for them to be built anywhere near them, which will either decrease the number of installed units or increase the cost/per (the cost of hiding those sumbitches will likely be exhorbitant). Plus, power companies buying already inflated real estate to locate these generators will increase the cost. It's possible that this "cheap" electricity won't affect power prices at all.
(I don't have any numbers, but in general the biggest expense in a distribution industry -- the industry power companies are in, not generation -- is the distribution, ironically enough. They can cut the marginal cost of creating electricty to nothing, but it still costs you.002/kwh because of the cost of distributing that power to you, maintaining the distribution channels, paying off legislators to keep their fingers out of the pie, etc.)
And we rednecks in Mississippi are screwed, too. The MS coast is protected by barrier islands, so our waves are in the 1-2ft range (most of the time, 30ft storm surge from Camille notwithstanding).
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Well, only because somebody hasn't thought of a good reason to have a web server in the kernel.
(Reaching WAY up into my rear end here) Suppose the Linux-on-a-chip people get really motivated and make a controller for devices in the home. With IPv6, every light switch and thermostat has this LinuxChip in it with khttpd. A central control (with more juice than the slave devices) pulls data from each device through a bastard child of wget, and you (at work) can browse to myhouse.com (or whatever) and see what the setting are, and change them if desired.
Taken to the next level, (taking into account here that I know next to nothing about CORBA), these chips also have the korbit compiled in as well. Now devices from different vendor can pass objects back and forth, with the master controller using that information to whatever end.
I dunno -- I hesitate to write it off as crackpot until I see what it can do. khttpd and korbit are pretty cool hacks, and now that they're "in the wild", we might be surprised at what comes of it. Maybe nothing, maybe the Next Big Thing.
(Regardless, looks like I need to look into this whole CORBA thing -- I thought it was a flash-in-the-pan, but apparantly a lot of people are taking it pretty damn seriously)
I did a search for "dog food" and it came up with Great Subs and More!. This is the funniest thing I've seen!
I tried "danni ashe" as well, and it came up with Boob-Ville! (regrettably, nothing behind that URL). Heh, "No Porn" indeed!
(Suddenly, I'm struck with a thought... what if this search engine isn't supposed to be funny? What if this is deadly serious?)
The Happy Hacker keyboard is also available for your PDA, if you don't mind the extra size. For serious keyboard jockeys (or, if you use your Palm to telnet into a server and use Emacs), it might be another option.
Matrox had a major nightmare with a set of their digital video cards (Matrox Studio) they released some time ago (believe it required NT 3.51 to run, so pretty old).
They did not appear to care then about releasing beta drivers and crap software onto an unwitting public.
Of course, I suppose the argument could be made that Matrox learned from that experience...
True, they did do usability testing, and they did find that a single menu bar was better. IIRC, they did have a menu per window at one point in the design (see "Insanely Great" by Steven Levy).
However, I believe that the size of the screen negated any other decision they may have wanted to go with (menu bar in each window, floating menu bar, whatever). Well, I guess, a combination of design decision and hardware limitations. A context-sensitive menu (a la Xerox PARC STAR) would require multiple buttons on the mouse (anathema to "easy to use" in Apple's mind), so a menu bar is required. The small screen negated the option of multiple menu bars (in a usability sense of having as many pixels available for documents as possible).
But, I still find that an old Mac SE/30 with System 7 is one of the great computers. I absolutely dote on mine. It's still a major axe in my arsenal. I even seem to be more creative at it.
(tho web browsing is pretty painful, plain old text editing is just fine)
Sort of -- it wasn't a design flaw, but a contractor error. Rivets were specified, but bolts were used instead. The bolts would shear, rivets wouldn't.
The wind problem wasn't just winds over 78mph, but winds at a 45 degree angle (corner winds). NYC code didn't specify for these winds, which normally wouldn't matter. The problem arose because the land owners (Catholic church) specified that the church on the corner couldn't be torn down. So, the main structural supports were in the middle of the sides instead of the corners. That's why corner winds were a problem.
The really COOL part of the building's design was a "dampener" on the top floor. It was a several ton block of concrete that moved opposite to the buildings sway, thus dampening the sway of the building.
The repairs were made in secret, but as the hurricane approached, the public was alerted to the problem. Luckily, repairs were finished, and the hurricane wandered off into the Atlantic.
(Girlfriend's an architect -- we watch a LOT of TLC/Discover/et.al.)
I've read (somewhere) that part of the reason these heavily violent things can exist in Japan (and England and other European countries) is the homogeneous nature of these societies.
I dunno -- could be, I guess. It seemed kinda KKK-ish to me when I read it, but there may be a point there. I notice there aren't a lot of homicides in Episcopalian neighborhoods (at least, not on the news).
If you hang around people like yourself, you may be safer, but you're also pretty damn bored (it seems to me)...
I just haven't seen anything that beats the PalmOS yet in terms of ease of use, ease of programming, and breadth of applications.
No, the Palm doesn't do MP3s -- so? I've got a Rio for that. No it won't play movies -- so? You're going to watch movies on a handheld? Why? What kind of batteries do you have in there?
The vision of PalmOS devices is that it isn't neccessarily a platform that stands alone -- it's a mediation between a desktop and a completely mobile device.
Actually, the PalmOS is probably the living incarnation of Allan Kay's Dynabook -- it's cheap, so it's not super painful if you lose one a year. It's complete, in that you can use it as a serial terminal, a web browser (tho iSilo is better than online-browsing), a note pad, a sketch pad, address book... and all this is pretty well integrated.
Other than the nerd factor of running X or Qt on a handheld, what do you hope to gain from these other platforms?
That's a design difference between Macs and Windows/X -- one menu bar is easier to mouse to and understand than 3 or more on separate windows.
For a new user, if you tell them to go to the menu bar, they don't have to ask "which one?", if there's only one.
The funny thing is, I think Apple just stumbled into this one -- the UI was designed for the original toaster Macs (128K, 512K, SE, SE/30, Classic, etc), which only had 512x324 pixels. A menu on each window would eat up a LOT of screen real estate.
Um... what part is dumb? The whole thing? What makes it dumb? Fred the Anonymous Coward saying so makes it dumb?
Puh-leeze... Go back to school and learn something about the art of debate. Or, simply, remove your head from your ass. I'd be happy to argue with you, but not if you have nothing of substance to say.
No, it's not a handicap "beeing [sic]" dumb. Is it a handicap to be a blithering idiot with no point?
In your eagerness to find the figures an attack on Gore, you miss my point. I'm not accusing the Dems of fraud. I state it could be a possibility, not a certainty.
Okay, numbers, then (some uncertainty to these numbers, of course, but numbers were pulled from CNN.com, msnbc.com, and census data):
Total votes: 5,816,627Votes for Gore: 2,907,451
% of FL population who are white: 83%
% of FL population who are black: 15%
% of FL population who are hispanic: 14%
% of white Floridians who voted for Gore: 40%
% of white Floridians who voted for Bush: 57%
% of black Floridians who voted for Gore: 93%
% of black Floridians who voted for Bush: 7%
% of hispanic Floridians who voted for Gore: 48%
% of hispanic Floridians who voted for Bush: 49%
With the black vote counting for 16% of the Gore votes (as reported) and take these numbers into account. It's not an indictment, and I don't intend to make it such. It's just very, very interesting.
Possibly. I tend to agree with James Baker on this. "Once you go down that road, there is no end" (paraphrased)
If you get into hand-recounts of machine ballots, there is massive opportunity for vote fraud, plus the exciting opportunity to argue over "that's a dimple!" "No it's not!" "Yes it is!"
"Counting Everybody's Vote!" is a nice phrase to toss around, but doesn't really mean anything. Gore doesn't want every vote counted (vis a vis the overseas ballots) and Bush doesn't want every voted counted (vis a vis the "undercounts").
I hope you're kidding. This Guardian article is based on the plaintiff's claims. Basically, the NAACP issued a press release, and the Guardian printed it as fact. Pretty sloppy journalism. My high school journalism teacher would've failed me for doing this.
The Florida black population came out in DROVES this election year. The Democrats did a great job in getting blacks to the polls (some say too great -- apparantly a few severely retarded blacks and black criminals voted as well) -- 14% of the FL population is black. 16% of Gore's support were "black votes" (as if votes from blacks are bound up and delivered to Jesse Jackson to distribute or something).
I'm sure there were instances of questionable behavior in FL on both sides, Dems and Reps. It's only because the election is so close is this news. If somebody comes up with a story in National Review that claims that Democrats were tossing Republican votes in the crapper, will you trumpet this as a sign that Al Gore and Joe Lieberman are undermining democracy? No? Then shut up.
Oh yeah, the CIA did such a great job in Afghanistan and for the Iraqi Kurds. They're a great Big Brother-ish organization. Pshaw.
Okay, first, what kind of jerk are you? Are you saying that Republicans want to kill blacks? (I assume you mean blacks by "most dispised caste" -- I suppose you could mean Jews or rednecks or hillbillies) First off, screw you, Republicans don't want to kill blacks, and you're a facist demagouge to imply so.
Second, blacks represented 14% of the Floridian population, but represented 16% of the counted votes for Gore. You can take that two ways:
What you CAN'T do is say that the "most dispised caste" was marginalized.
Okay, this is an out and out lie. The hand-recount counties -- Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade -- were not "hotly contested" or anything like it. They were very comfortably in the Gore column by a significant margin. There were pretty massive "undercounts" in those counties (ballots that did not get counted due to machine error, ballot error, or similar), but there were worse undercounts in other counties -- counties that went Bush and had Republican Canvas Boards. Gore wanted more votes (I don't blame him -- you know good and well that Bush would have done the same), so he focused his staff and media attention on those three Democrat counties.
Here's the thing -- I agree with this Zimbabwe ministers opinion. We're forever poking our noses into other countries elections (Danny Ortega? Anyone remember him?), and our noses DON'T BELONG THERE! We wouldn't put up with Saudi Arabian princes coming over here exclaiming, "By Allah, you are not allowing each man's seven wives vote!" -- and they shouldn't put up with American busybodies getting all hot and bothered about their elections.
Here's the trick to avoid American interventionism in your country's elections -- Don't accept our money. Those IMF and World Bank and UN loans are (by and large) funded from American dollars. Our government gives your government sometimes millions, sometimes billions of dollars (OUR dollars). If you take our money, expect our pointy American noses and large American asses getting in your shit -- we think that we've bought the right to do so.
(Proud Harry Browne supporter and voter -- "See, We Told You So!")
Man Foo is derived from the more common "man chu", but with an emphasis on bar weapons.
You can see examples of the style in a couple of movies, "Legend of Accounting Master" (Hong Kong) and "Masturbatory Fists of Fury".
I guess I could be more specific
As a wise AC posted below, let's say I have a product in mind that uses OBSD as a base. However, in order to make the product more powerful, I needed the OBSD kernel to move from user-space threads to kernel threads.
If I offered the OBSD team $50K to move the kernel to that model, would they do it?
A more egregious example: in order to make my Whizzo Superdevice sell, I need OBSD to integrate a proprietary security algorithm within the kernel structure (for God-knows what reason -- it's an hypothetical, worst-case example). The kernel needs to support it, but the algorithm can't be distributed with the normal distribution. Would the OBSD team merge it into CVS (assuming I'm just a guy with a great idea but no coding "skillz")?
It would be a tough call for me, I know. I'm not terribly idealistic, and the $$$s might sway me -- I was wondering if Theo is immune or not.
Heh!
You're absolutely right, though. I completely forgot. Guess I need to brush up and do a "man foo".
Thanks for your work, Theo. I use OBSD every day as a workstation and as a firewall, and the Cop-chasing-script-kiddie t-shirt is the best.
If you could time warp back to the beginning of OpenBSD's development (ignoring the scism that brought you to that point), what would you do differently? Would you have chosen a more commercial focus? Pushed SMP development earlier? Run around in circles waving your hands in the air?
On another note, what's your feeling about commercial use of OpenBSD? i.e., do you support it, tolerate it, or what? (better example, I make a set-top box running OpenBSD, and I need the OS to do "X". If I called you and said, "Theo, I need OpenBSD to support 'X'", would I be told to piss up a rope, write it myself, or would the OpenBSD team do it for a price?)
I think that has something to do with the British weltanshuung -- soggy sandwiches, bland food, and lack of ice suppresses the soul, so you aren't given over to excesses of emotion. Which may have something to do with the lack of a truly great British porn star.
(I'm kidding! Just trying to stir you Brits up a bit... of course, my ancestors came over during the potato famine, so on second thought, screw you.)
(That's another joke, BTW. Jeez, lighten up...)
Not a clue -- checking my Rectal Database, I figure that somebody built one first (50 or 60hz, whichever), and somebody else built another slightly differently. From that, we now have PAL/SECAM/NTSC, 110/220/240 volts, bizarro mains plugs, and other pretty silly differences.
Maybe a patent fight, or maybe because of the distances involved in transporting power in the US means 60hz is better.
Similarly, we poke fun at Canadians. We can't poke fun at Mexicans (as it's politically incorrect), so instead we make vicious racist slurs and stereotypical judgements. I just love human nature...
I suppose -- I guess it depends on what you need in PCMCIA support. It works fine for me. If you've got a PCMCIA CDROM or something that doesn't work, it may suck for you.
Just wanted to hold up my end on my fave OS :)
Not easy to do. The barrier islands are a significant distance out (10 miles? 15? I forget).
One is a tourista spot (has a fort on it with day trips to spend on the beach) and one is a wildlife preserve. Tough to build on those. Even tougher than stringing a wire back to shore (or laying one on the ocean floor -- you'd have to lay it in the channel, as the water isn't very deep until you get out beyond the islands, plus all the commercial shrimping going on).
Nothings ever simple...
Sorry -- just a bit of Euro-baiting. If Europeans didn't have Americans and Americans didn't have Europeans, we'd have to make fun of the Koreans or something (of course, now I'm picking on the Koreans...)
Actually, I meant to say that the native output would be AC, not DC, but I got turned around. And didn't catch it on the preview. It was a stupid American mistake, no doubt. That's why I suggest transforming it up to high voltage/low amps to haul long distance from the generator.
Of course, you crazy Europeans use a 50hz wave instead of a 60hz, the way God intended... (there I go again, Euro-baiting...)
Somebody better tell my laptop, then. The IBM 760ED with a Megahertz PCMCIA Ethernet card in it, the one I'm using right now to post this. My main axe.
PCMCIA support in FBSD and OBSD are just fine. FBSD had USB support before Linux did, IIRC. Hell, FBSD and OBSD just rock. I like Linux, mind, but I prefer xBSD. YMMV
The PR said 500KW generated power. It doesn't say whether the whole shebang is set up for DC or AC power (I would assume DC, but those crazy Europeans...), so transform it up to 115,000VAC and you can wire it a goodly distance. Not to Nebraska or anything, but each coastal state could be served, I think.
The bigger danger is not uneven distribution of cheap wave electricity -- it's whether or not the enviros get their panties in a wad over it.
If you tried to build Hoover Dam today, you could just hang it up. No way would environmental activists allow it to be built. Granted, this isn't Hoover Dam, but enviro-activists can be pretty touchy.
Another side yet to be seen is how it looks -- if it's a Big Ugly Chunk O' Concrete, people with $20,000/acre oceanfront property won't stand for them to be built anywhere near them, which will either decrease the number of installed units or increase the cost/per (the cost of hiding those sumbitches will likely be exhorbitant). Plus, power companies buying already inflated real estate to locate these generators will increase the cost. It's possible that this "cheap" electricity won't affect power prices at all.
(I don't have any numbers, but in general the biggest expense in a distribution industry -- the industry power companies are in, not generation -- is the distribution, ironically enough. They can cut the marginal cost of creating electricty to nothing, but it still costs you .002/kwh because of the cost of distributing that power to you, maintaining the distribution channels, paying off legislators to keep their fingers out of the pie, etc.)
And we rednecks in Mississippi are screwed, too. The MS coast is protected by barrier islands, so our waves are in the 1-2ft range (most of the time, 30ft storm surge from Camille notwithstanding).