Read his blog. Specifically, the second article on the linked-to page. Its more of an anti-Islamic viewpoint, but the connotation of Western superiority is all over the place. He seems to be so afraid of terrorism that he's compromised his own beliefs about anarchy.
I like Perens myself. I disagree with ESR harshly on several points. I like guns myself, and am rather anti-government, but don't share ESR's intense disrespect for non-Western cultures.
You know the sad thing about all this? I can't tell the difference between the auto-generator or your average Slashdotter. Does this mean that the auto-generator passes the Turing Test, or that the average Slashdotter doesn't?
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You only need to reboot XP twice a day? Lucky! XP only lasts about 10 minutes before I reboot it! Yeah, that's about as long as I can stand to use it before I reboot back into Linux:)
PS> Although, the latest Battlefield 1942 Expansion really rocks. I'm spending more than an hour at a time in XP these days:)
Actually, the iPod is still smaller. Both in actual volume, and feel. The Rio is a good bit thicker than the iPod, which contributes significantly to how big it feels in your pocket. However, the new Toshiba Gigabeat, I think, might be smaller. It is slimmer, but taller. Anyway, the iPod has been largely unchanged (the 3nd gen revision was largely cosmetic and incremental) for 2 years now. If it was just released today, yeah, the iPod wouldn't be revoluationary. But it was released two years ago and it is only now that the competition is catching up to it. That's revolutionary by any measure!
I think Google is a great example of capitalism at work. It succeeds based entirely on the quality of their product. Their competition is just a click away, but people use their product because its good. People geniunely like to company because their product is so good. I say, hats off to Google!
There is no need for me to contrast this situation to Microsoft...
It could have been, but the article was written before she really hit big. She wasn't any more sexual than any normal teenage girl. Now, she is overly sexual. I know normal college girls (she's 22, I think) and she is most definately *not* normal.
t's not a question of time, it's a question of priority. Everybody has time during the day for something of high priority, no matter what it is or how busy they are. >>>>>>>>>>>> Following the news should be a priority. I find it absolutely impossible to believe that somebody who follows the major news events regularly could possible miss hearing something about one of the presidential candidates. Also, its critical to take a look at this candidates in these early stages of the process, before the media saturation and mud slinging have obscured any kernel of truth that may be in their campaigns.
Your rosy populist view of the masses ignores a very real problem. People are making *bad* decisions. They are not reacting to things that they should be reacting to. Most young people have almost zero political involvement. There is no denying that there is a very real problem here. If you think that its natural for people to be apolitical, take a look at the situation in other countries. In my native Bangladesh, you have 12 year olds arguing with each other about their favorite party (they both suck, but that's a seperate matter) and old men arguing politics in cafes. The situation is similar in several other European and Asian countries, Now, I don't advocate going to such an extreme (especially in the Asian countries, people are political by necessity more than anything else) but clearly the US is not in the right place on the spectrum.
Interestingly, you mention citizenships for naturalized citizens, but ignore the fact that most natives would fail those tests. I would be perfectly happy if native Americans had to take the exact same tests as naturalized ones to retain their voting rights.
Or maybe I work 12 hours a day to support a family and I don't have time to read the paper or watch the local news or subscribe to cable to watch CNN. >>>>>>>>> Jesus. If you read the first couple of pages of a major national paper (10-15 minutes, tops!) you'd know the names of the candidates. They're in there every fscking day! Short of not caring (your bit about the 2004 election being a year away) or not being capable of understanding, there is no way in hell that you could manage to miss the names of the candidates. People take time every day to read the fscking sports page, or catch the fscking scores on fscking ESPN, so don't tell me that they don't have time to read the front page! Interestingly 85,000,000 American homes have cable. The "I don't have cable" argument applies to an exceedingly small percentage of the population.
To an extent, its anti-democratic, but I'm not under the delusion that more democracy is always a good thing. In particular, the "more power to the masses" mantra of populism has always struck me as a little simplistic and naive. Its not so much that I don't trust people, but that I'm intensely afraid that people have become terribly apolitical, and thus are not good voters. There must be a mechanism to ensure a minimal amount of voter responsibility, just as there are mechanisms to ensure government responsibility. There is a fine balance to be struck, to be sure, but I believe such a balance can be achieved.
It has to lok like its doing this, but doesn't have to do this:) A P4 has about 128 internal registers, and uses renaming hardware to present 8 to a given task. A given task may use more than 8 registers, where the CPU figures out ways to avoid spilling a register and doing a rename instead. Now, during a context switch, the CPU doesn't actually have to dump the full context of the processor out to memory. Most of the state gets buffered, either in the internal register file, or in one of the write queues. Also, I doubt modern processors flush the i-cache. The i-cache on the P4 is actually the trace cache, and flushing it would involve dumping about 8kb of traces that took a lot of work to make. In reality, its probably lazily replaced with new traces as the new process executes.
FYI> The big win with the AMD64 is not that the processor has more physical registers (it probably doesn't) but that its larger window of 16 GPRs enables the compiler's optimizer to do a much better job with register allocation.
Not really. From benchmarks, a 2.2 GHz Pentium M is still a good bit slower than a 3 GHz P4. And the P4 is primed for a big speed boost soon (4GHz+) and its questionable if the Pentium M will scale that far.
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Seriously, 500k is rather huge. For GCC, the total overhead for the full C++ language runtime (exception handling, RTTI, etc) is a little over 60kb on x86. If you don't want full C++, you can go quite a bit smaller.
I always thought that the US music industry has a weird thing with sex and young girls. There was an interview with a 15-year old Britney Spears in the Washington Post magazine a while back. She was all cute and wholesome and nice. Then, after the music industry got done prostituting her, we have her sucking face with Madonna on MTV...
Too bad that C++ templates have nothing to do with OOP, but rather procedural programming. And while they have lots of problems (like code bloat) they are also phenomenally powerful for certain things (generic data structures). Even if you write nothing about procedural code, you could benifet from templates.
kid1: "You there cooking?" kid2: "Yeah dude." kid1: "Ewww, Ahhhh." kid2: "BAAAABAAABAAABAAABAAA, BAABAABAABBAABA!" dude: "Pork chop sandwiches.
Ohhh, shit. Get the fuck out! What are
you doing, go get the fuck out of here
you stupid idiot! Fuck we're all dead.
Get the fuck out!" dude: "My god did that smell good!" kid2: "Detect it, did you no going in you tell
me do things I done runnin."
If you can, then you know the comedy of this bit. For those of you who don't know this, then solve this code and you shall find the answer:
HJ KPF
Note: this is a simple code, just rotate the
alphabet.
You're missing my point. I don't care if people can't answer those questions, because most of those aren't major news items (except th eone about the prime minister of Palestine, which is on the news now because the conflict between him and Arafat). However, if you can't name a single democratic presidential candidate, you haven't watched the news in the last month. An while its not written anywhere in the Constitution that people have to be up-to-date on current events, its part of the ideology of Democracy that an informed public is crucial to the success of the system.
I don't expect everyone to be totally up to date on every aspect of current events. I make my little brother watch Newsweek every Monday, and make him watch CNN every night. I don't expect that most people will do that. But if you haven't seen 10 minutes of the news in the last month, then something is seriously wrong.
The stuff that's going on with the presidential candidates is all over the news. If you watched CNN for 10 minutes in the last month you would have heard the name of at least one. Hell, if you read a popular news magazine (Newsweek, US News) in the last month, you would have heard of one of them. If you can't even spend a little bit of time every day keep up with current events, I'm sorry, but you don't deserve to vote. Read the paper on the shitter if you have to, but by god do *something*!
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Read his blog.
Specifically, the second article on the linked-to page. Its more of an anti-Islamic viewpoint, but the connotation of Western superiority is all over the place. He seems to be so afraid of terrorism that he's compromised his own beliefs about anarchy.
I like Perens myself. I disagree with ESR harshly on several points. I like guns myself, and am rather anti-government, but don't share ESR's intense disrespect for non-Western cultures.
Jesus. This dude takes himself far too seriously. He copied the style of the Microsoft code, and is now trying to copy the style of their lawyers...
You know the sad thing about all this? I can't tell the difference between the auto-generator or your average Slashdotter. Does this mean that the auto-generator passes the Turing Test, or that the average Slashdotter doesn't?
You only need to reboot XP twice a day? Lucky! XP only lasts about 10 minutes before I reboot it! Yeah, that's about as long as I can stand to use it before I reboot back into Linux :)
:)
PS> Although, the latest Battlefield 1942 Expansion really rocks. I'm spending more than an hour at a time in XP these days
Because we all know the Christian Orthodox Church is polytheistic?
What the fuck is up with Slashdot these days?
billion fanatical Moslems that
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;
I'm pretty sure I was meant to be offended by that. Okay, you've got me, now I'm offended. Happy?
As someone with 10GB of MP3s and a 15GB iPod, I say I'll trade in my iPod when we get 20GB Flash-based players :)
Actually, the iPod is still smaller. Both in actual volume, and feel. The Rio is a good bit thicker than the iPod, which contributes significantly to how big it feels in your pocket. However, the new Toshiba Gigabeat, I think, might be smaller. It is slimmer, but taller. Anyway, the iPod has been largely unchanged (the 3nd gen revision was largely cosmetic and incremental) for 2 years now. If it was just released today, yeah, the iPod wouldn't be revoluationary. But it was released two years ago and it is only now that the competition is catching up to it. That's revolutionary by any measure!
I think Google is a great example of capitalism at work. It succeeds based entirely on the quality of their product. Their competition is just a click away, but people use their product because its good. People geniunely like to company because their product is so good. I say, hats off to Google!
There is no need for me to contrast this situation to Microsoft...
It could have been, but the article was written before she really hit big. She wasn't any more sexual than any normal teenage girl. Now, she is overly sexual. I know normal college girls (she's 22, I think) and she is most definately *not* normal.
And of course, the size of your computer says something about the size of other important bits and pieces :)
:: runs away crying ::
Me? Uh, I've got a dual opteron with GeForce Fx 5600. Um, the original *loud* one. Yeah...
Okay, fine, I've got a laptop...
t's not a question of time, it's a question of priority. Everybody has time during the day for something of high priority, no matter what it is or how busy they are.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
Following the news should be a priority. I find it absolutely impossible to believe that somebody who follows the major news events regularly could possible miss hearing something about one of the presidential candidates. Also, its critical to take a look at this candidates in these early stages of the process, before the media saturation and mud slinging have obscured any kernel of truth that may be in their campaigns.
Your rosy populist view of the masses ignores a very real problem. People are making *bad* decisions. They are not reacting to things that they should be reacting to. Most young people have almost zero political involvement. There is no denying that there is a very real problem here. If you think that its natural for people to be apolitical, take a look at the situation in other countries. In my native Bangladesh, you have 12 year olds arguing with each other about their favorite party (they both suck, but that's a seperate matter) and old men arguing politics in cafes. The situation is similar in several other European and Asian countries, Now, I don't advocate going to such an extreme (especially in the Asian countries, people are political by necessity more than anything else) but clearly the US is not in the right place on the spectrum.
Interestingly, you mention citizenships for naturalized citizens, but ignore the fact that most natives would fail those tests. I would be perfectly happy if native Americans had to take the exact same tests as naturalized ones to retain their voting rights.
Open SCOurce
>>>>>>>>>>
That would be something like MS's"shared source."
Or maybe I work 12 hours a day to support a family and I don't have time to read the paper or watch the local news or subscribe to cable to watch CNN.
>>>>>>>>>
Jesus. If you read the first couple of pages of a major national paper (10-15 minutes, tops!) you'd know the names of the candidates. They're in there every fscking day! Short of not caring (your bit about the 2004 election being a year away) or not being capable of understanding, there is no way in hell that you could manage to miss the names of the candidates. People take time every day to read the fscking sports page, or catch the fscking scores on fscking ESPN, so don't tell me that they don't have time to read the front page! Interestingly 85,000,000 American homes have cable. The "I don't have cable" argument applies to an exceedingly small percentage of the population.
To an extent, its anti-democratic, but I'm not under the delusion that more democracy is always a good thing. In particular, the "more power to the masses" mantra of populism has always struck me as a little simplistic and naive. Its not so much that I don't trust people, but that I'm intensely afraid that people have become terribly apolitical, and thus are not good voters. There must be a mechanism to ensure a minimal amount of voter responsibility, just as there are mechanisms to ensure government responsibility. There is a fine balance to be struck, to be sure, but I believe such a balance can be achieved.
It has to lok like its doing this, but doesn't have to do this :) A P4 has about 128 internal registers, and uses renaming hardware to present 8 to a given task. A given task may use more than 8 registers, where the CPU figures out ways to avoid spilling a register and doing a rename instead. Now, during a context switch, the CPU doesn't actually have to dump the full context of the processor out to memory. Most of the state gets buffered, either in the internal register file, or in one of the write queues. Also, I doubt modern processors flush the i-cache. The i-cache on the P4 is actually the trace cache, and flushing it would involve dumping about 8kb of traces that took a lot of work to make. In reality, its probably lazily replaced with new traces as the new process executes.
FYI> The big win with the AMD64 is not that the processor has more physical registers (it probably doesn't) but that its larger window of 16 GPRs enables the compiler's optimizer to do a much better job with register allocation.
Not really. From benchmarks, a 2.2 GHz Pentium M is still a good bit slower than a 3 GHz P4. And the P4 is primed for a big speed boost soon (4GHz+) and its questionable if the Pentium M will scale that far.
Seriously, 500k is rather huge. For GCC, the total overhead for the full C++ language runtime (exception handling, RTTI, etc) is a little over 60kb on x86. If you don't want full C++, you can go quite a bit smaller.
I always thought that the US music industry has a weird thing with sex and young girls. There was an interview with a 15-year old Britney Spears in the Washington Post magazine a while back. She was all cute and wholesome and nice. Then, after the music industry got done prostituting her, we have her sucking face with Madonna on MTV...
Um, Apple has sold a *ton* of iPods. For expensive little buggers, they make up about 1/3 of the MP3 player market.
Of course, that second "procedural" should be "generic" :)
Too bad that C++ templates have nothing to do with OOP, but rather procedural programming. And while they have lots of problems (like code bloat) they are also phenomenally powerful for certain things (generic data structures). Even if you write nothing about procedural code, you could benifet from templates.
Can anyone tell me what this dialouge is from?
kid1: "You there cooking?"
kid2: "Yeah dude."
kid1: "Ewww, Ahhhh."
kid2: "BAAAABAAABAAABAAABAAA, BAABAABAABBAABA!"
dude: "Pork chop sandwiches.
Ohhh, shit. Get the fuck out! What are
you doing, go get the fuck out of here
you stupid idiot! Fuck we're all dead.
Get the fuck out!"
dude: "My god did that smell good!"
kid2: "Detect it, did you no going in you tell
me do things I done runnin."
If you can, then you know the comedy of this bit. For those of you who don't know this, then solve this code and you shall find the answer:
HJ KPF
Note: this is a simple code, just rotate the
alphabet.
Hint: Military cartoon.
You're missing my point. I don't care if people can't answer those questions, because most of those aren't major news items (except th eone about the prime minister of Palestine, which is on the news now because the conflict between him and Arafat). However, if you can't name a single democratic presidential candidate, you haven't watched the news in the last month. An while its not written anywhere in the Constitution that people have to be up-to-date on current events, its part of the ideology of Democracy that an informed public is crucial to the success of the system.
I don't expect everyone to be totally up to date on every aspect of current events. I make my little brother watch Newsweek every Monday, and make him watch CNN every night. I don't expect that most people will do that. But if you haven't seen 10 minutes of the news in the last month, then something is seriously wrong.
The stuff that's going on with the presidential candidates is all over the news. If you watched CNN for 10 minutes in the last month you would have heard the name of at least one. Hell, if you read a popular news magazine (Newsweek, US News) in the last month, you would have heard of one of them. If you can't even spend a little bit of time every day keep up with current events, I'm sorry, but you don't deserve to vote. Read the paper on the shitter if you have to, but by god do *something*!