Excellent point. While I certainly did not mean to imply the degradation would be linear, your point is well taken. A hash would not degrade dramatically, since it does not seek but is simply point-and-retrieve.
[Correct me if I am wrong here]
In my experience, this always happens with all types of caches since as the cache gets larger, the seek time for any item in the cache increases since it has to seek through a larger pile. The hit rate will go up as the cache expands, but the seek time will also go up. In short, they slow down. Nothing Mozilla can do except further optimize their cache structure and search methods.
The legislation may be silly, and your first point is valid. However, it is not censorship, and thus the rest of your post is irrelevant. I think few here would disagree with these ideas, which are hardly "unpopular." It is disingeuous to submit them, however, as some sort of rebuttal to this issue. The legislation seeks to increase voices, right?
I can't decide if this is a satire or what. If it isn't:
No one is "forcing people to listen to others," but being required to print responses. No one has to read it. Your rant is all about this supposed movement to "force listening." I don't know what you are talking about.
I agree. The libertarians here seem to prefer ideological battles to policy analysis.
I am not sure how I feel about this law, but the basic principle of making sure there can be competition is sound. The idea that open, common standards foster this is also sound. Penalizing monopolists who try to undermine these standards, and thus eliminate the possibility of compitition, is also sound.
I am just not sure that this will achieve that.
As was pointed out, the South African government is not likely to be overthrown anytime soon, just because they are "African." And I do not know where you get the idea that they need a strong police force. They do have a major AIDS problem, and the foolish government is stopping access to drugs, but that does not mean they don't need software. It is a very strange argument, and you clearly know very little about the place.
You could be right! There is certainly a danger there, and if everything went south it could be used by huge corporations to make dissenters work overtime printing their crap responses. But still, its better than the US libel system, which is much much more crushing at its worst (and favors those with big resources) , and this system has the benefit of forces open corp news channels to responses.
Still, there is a valid fear there. I just fear the alternative much more (since we live in it).
We were both wrong, as our mutual googling shows. Holmes it is. I assure you I have read plenty of Locke and Jefferson, and your web selection of Jefferson is hardly relevant. We are not talking about censorship, but about access to speech. I believe this law would allow more access to speech, as I fear that freedom of the press is limited by those who own one. This would extend an existing law concerning print media to online media. It is not about your blog.
This is about an accused rapist (to use our example) being able to respond to accusations not only in news media (currently), but in online publications as well. Again, it is not about your blog.
Your concern that the courts are not the place to decide what is a professional media outlet is strange. The law covering print media exists, and has precedents. Surely these would cover this. If you do want like the rule of law, I am not sure what mechanism you would choose. It is not impossible to make this distinction (it is being made already) and again i do not think your blog is in danger.
As for discounting Marx and Engels, I always think it best to read things first. I am sure you agree.
1) An accused rapist should be able to refute public accusations. Does accusation immediately condemn them? I thought we used courts for that.
2) This does not address statements of fact. If the rapist is convicted, stating so would not be arguable.
3) Your private website is not covered by this law, only professional on-line media.
4) This sounds very much like the marketplace of ideas to me (which, by the way, is a phrase from Karl Marx, not Locke). It allows those with fewer resources to respond to those who own (and market) the presses. Far from chilling, this opens up free speech to those with fewer means.
Sorry to be the labor historian, but this is called the "work-to-rule," where you follow the rules and contracts to the very letter. It leads to a practical slowdown without creating cause for layoffs. It is a lovely thing, since you get unemployment if they fire you, and less rancor.
These are called "yellow-dog contracts." They used to be illegal, but who knows whats going on these days. Thousands fought to earn these labor rights of ours, which we are letting slide away...
This would be the classic "go-slow," where everyone drags and holds up production without walking out. The only difficulty is that they can fire you for cause (no unemployment after all), and you give them a little time to find replacements if they are going to be hard-nosed. It is, however, a beautiful thing to watch.
I think he meant the native Aqua gtk. I am pretty sure nothing gnome is compiling with this yet. Also, it is only gtk 1.2.x, so no tabbed gnome terminal.
I've been coding my pages in xhtml and css, so the layout is separated from the content. When making JSPs for such pages, BBEdit has been wonderful, and Dreamweaver is useless. Dreamweaver is great for some kinds of pages, but is incredibly slow and buggy on the Mac. I mean, terrible. BBEdit just does what it claims, and I have used it since its inception.
Does the study factor in other issues? I would assume that the profile of Buddhists in America is strikingly different from the average. They would be mostly immigrants (who are a more educated class, by and large), and citizen converts would likely be more educated as well. How does this factor in? I am always peeved by these kinds of studies, which end up telling us nothing, and the media's love for them.
Developers don't have beepers going off when the server goes down. All the sysadmins I have known basically live with a server lo-jack on their hip, unable to go outside a certain radius from the server (or a terminal).
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Excellent point. While I certainly did not mean to imply the degradation would be linear, your point is well taken. A hash would not degrade dramatically, since it does not seek but is simply point-and-retrieve.
[Correct me if I am wrong here]
In my experience, this always happens with all types of caches since as the cache gets larger, the seek time for any item in the cache increases since it has to seek through a larger pile. The hit rate will go up as the cache expands, but the seek time will also go up. In short, they slow down. Nothing Mozilla can do except further optimize their cache structure and search methods.
As opposed to our lovely record?
The legislation may be silly, and your first point is valid. However, it is not censorship, and thus the rest of your post is irrelevant. I think few here would disagree with these ideas, which are hardly "unpopular." It is disingeuous to submit them, however, as some sort of rebuttal to this issue. The legislation seeks to increase voices, right?
I can't decide if this is a satire or what. If it isn't:
No one is "forcing people to listen to others," but being required to print responses. No one has to read it. Your rant is all about this supposed movement to "force listening." I don't know what you are talking about.
BBC article from last year about crime. Lookes pretty bad. i was wrong.
I agree. The libertarians here seem to prefer ideological battles to policy analysis.
I am not sure how I feel about this law, but the basic principle of making sure there can be competition is sound. The idea that open, common standards foster this is also sound. Penalizing monopolists who try to undermine these standards, and thus eliminate the possibility of compitition, is also sound.
I am just not sure that this will achieve that.
As was pointed out, the South African government is not likely to be overthrown anytime soon, just because they are "African." And I do not know where you get the idea that they need a strong police force. They do have a major AIDS problem, and the foolish government is stopping access to drugs, but that does not mean they don't need software. It is a very strange argument, and you clearly know very little about the place.
I agree. It is a La-Z-Boy on wheels. The height of suburban culture. Geez, they even SUV'ed roller skates...
You could be right! There is certainly a danger there, and if everything went south it could be used by huge corporations to make dissenters work overtime printing their crap responses. But still, its better than the US libel system, which is much much more crushing at its worst (and favors those with big resources) , and this system has the benefit of forces open corp news channels to responses.
Still, there is a valid fear there. I just fear the alternative much more (since we live in it).
We were both wrong, as our mutual googling shows. Holmes it is. I assure you I have read plenty of Locke and Jefferson, and your web selection of Jefferson is hardly relevant. We are not talking about censorship, but about access to speech. I believe this law would allow more access to speech, as I fear that freedom of the press is limited by those who own one. This would extend an existing law concerning print media to online media. It is not about your blog.
This is about an accused rapist (to use our example) being able to respond to accusations not only in news media (currently), but in online publications as well. Again, it is not about your blog.
Your concern that the courts are not the place to decide what is a professional media outlet is strange. The law covering print media exists, and has precedents. Surely these would cover this. If you do want like the rule of law, I am not sure what mechanism you would choose. It is not impossible to make this distinction (it is being made already) and again i do not think your blog is in danger.
As for discounting Marx and Engels, I always think it best to read things first. I am sure you agree.
1) An accused rapist should be able to refute public accusations. Does accusation immediately condemn them? I thought we used courts for that.
2) This does not address statements of fact. If the rapist is convicted, stating so would not be arguable.
3) Your private website is not covered by this law, only professional on-line media.
4) This sounds very much like the marketplace of ideas to me (which, by the way, is a phrase from Karl Marx, not Locke). It allows those with fewer resources to respond to those who own (and market) the presses. Far from chilling, this opens up free speech to those with fewer means.
www.theserverside.com is pretty good.
Sorry to be the labor historian, but this is called the "work-to-rule," where you follow the rules and contracts to the very letter. It leads to a practical slowdown without creating cause for layoffs. It is a lovely thing, since you get unemployment if they fire you, and less rancor.
These are called "yellow-dog contracts." They used to be illegal, but who knows whats going on these days. Thousands fought to earn these labor rights of ours, which we are letting slide away...
This would be the classic "go-slow," where everyone drags and holds up production without walking out. The only difficulty is that they can fire you for cause (no unemployment after all), and you give them a little time to find replacements if they are going to be hard-nosed. It is, however, a beautiful thing to watch.
IMNAL, but I don't think so. Workers are still allowed to act freely and collectively in this country. (Sherman or Stimson anti-trust law, I think)
I think he meant the native Aqua gtk. I am pretty sure nothing gnome is compiling with this yet. Also, it is only gtk 1.2.x, so no tabbed gnome terminal.
I've been coding my pages in xhtml and css, so the layout is separated from the content. When making JSPs for such pages, BBEdit has been wonderful, and Dreamweaver is useless. Dreamweaver is great for some kinds of pages, but is incredibly slow and buggy on the Mac. I mean, terrible. BBEdit just does what it claims, and I have used it since its inception.
Does the study factor in other issues? I would assume that the profile of Buddhists in America is strikingly different from the average. They would be mostly immigrants (who are a more educated class, by and large), and citizen converts would likely be more educated as well. How does this factor in? I am always peeved by these kinds of studies, which end up telling us nothing, and the media's love for them.
Developers don't have beepers going off when the server goes down. All the sysadmins I have known basically live with a server lo-jack on their hip, unable to go outside a certain radius from the server (or a terminal).
Good point: I hadn't realized they had changed the default. No OS is safe from users running attachments.
Pervasive VB scripting, particularly in Outlook. By default, someone can send you an email and run almost arbitrary code on your computer.
No more pringles cans.
I don't see how the Internet doesn't already provide this "interconnectedness" you say is so progressive.