But really with all the crap, legacy systems held together presently by silly string...you really almost need to start OVER.
There is a logical approach, one that's worked quite well for the electricity industry in Australia. Take a hundred or so electricity authorities and try to get them to agree on anything is difficult; getting them to agree on a commonly interoperable software plan nigh on impossible.
What they did do was to agree on a standard set of transactions written in XML. If you agree on the transaction format, it doesn't matter much whether you're sending them via Windows, J2EE or some truly wonderful DCL running on an old 8550. If you agree on the transactions and you have an organisation that can own the transaction test suite you can achieve total interoperability without forcing people into a single hardware or software platform. It works, it's not too hard to achieve, and it's a relatively inexpensive process to achieve a result. The transaction set is called aseXML, if you're curious.
In fact, I think we Austinites need to form some angry mobs and picket their offices.
No, what you really need to do is round up a few partners and form an alternative service provider on your own. There's clearly a market in consumers who prefer better service.
Wow -- I bow to you, I was clearly full of shit and didn't realise it. Perhaps I am a product of that very news filtering I condemned, or was simply too far away.
Gorbachov earned it. He was probably the single most influential factor in the soft landing of the USSR and the dismantling of the cold war. But I suspect you folks in the USA don't get a lot of international news coverage (I've lived in the US so I know the difference) so you probably wouldn't have tracked that. And I mean that in the nicest possible way -- I think there was something of a tradition of your media not reporting Russian news for fear of being branded a communist, no offense meant.
It would be nice to give the prize some credibility again.
Pamela Jones preserved FOSS for us. Clearly a shining light in the context of international equality. She didn't make speeches at the UN or feed the poor, but her work in keeping control of vital infrastructure out of the hands of corporate monopolists and retaining those rights for common people puts her just one notch below Mother Theresa in my rankings. So yes, I bloody well would nominate her.
Great idea! Cheap hardware, too - just go to your local junkyard and grab a VAX sold 10 years ago for scrap:P
You can't have it! Mine, or I will help you not.
I love DCL, but you know what I miss the most? That KESU architecture. Kernel, Exec, Super, User. The fact that Dave Cutler (architect of VMS and WNT) didn't have the hardware to back that when he developed NT for the Intel processor is, I believe, the ultimate source of the endless Windows server security grief.
WNT:='F$ROT1("VMS") (yes, I know it's a bogus lexical on your system...=)
You want credibility? I nominate PJ. Groklaw was the finest example of long term pursuit of legal justice I've ever seen. I'd give her the Nobel Peace Prize if I were on the committee.
I'm not entirely sure that Obama's push on IP is driven entirely by Hollywood. Maybe in part it's solidarity with Biden and maybe not, but I've always felt Barack to be the sort to push his own agenda over anyone else's. His big drive is to fix the economy and fix health, which are personal. And a strong IP is the only way an economy that's moved from agrarian to industrial to informational can survive. That is, if you don't have resources, you don't have manufacturing, what are you as a country going to be able to peddle?? I think he sees that. RIAA is a very bad source to pull people from, though. I don't care how good they are, they'll never be able to wash the algae off.
...Therefore I refuse to use VoIP at home (for a variety of reasons), my cordless phone base has it's own UPS...
I once had a contract as an architect on a major Australian telco's efforts to bring VoIP to customers. Late into the project it ran into one really, really difficult snag (obvious only in retrospect, unfortunately) -- I pointed out that our 000 service (much like your 911) depends on the ability to link a telephone with a geographical point, i.e. the physical address where your phone resides. Since the 000 service requirement was enshrined in legislation, it was difficult to get around the need to make that connection.
Now, about that SIP address -- where did you say that domain was located? (LOC records were discussed, but for a number of reasons we couldn't use 'em).
How odd. Here in old Horse Trailer you buy brewing kits at the local Safeway. And there are more small wineries than you could stake a... uh, than you could point to conveniently.
...i'm fairly sure that 'ad hominem' is specific to arguments
Correct. More correctly, it's a violation of the principles of logic, i.e. you can't determine the truth of an argument by referring to the person who proffered it. It's called argumentum ad hominem and it's one of the classic logical fallacies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacies. I read "fallacy" as the ability to fail.
Bin Laden has a beard, so does Richard Stallman. ..zOMG!!!
Well, so do I! Muahahaha! And we, the People of the Secret Society of Bearded Geeks and Sympathizers intend to hold the entire world to ransom for -- (breathy pause) -- One. Million. Dollars!!!
I read the 9-page brief, then I went to www.fsf.org (after adding the third "w" - more evidence the RIAA fails simple maths) and read their front page. Nowhere does it advocate infringing copyright. Nothing can be construed as a recommendation to violate the law or infringe on other people's rights. Nothing. I see the liberal use of terms such as "free" and "open" and other keywords of the dream of American democracy. I may see a little bit of throwback to Tom Paine and Ben Franklin, ancient and pernicious bomb-throwing anarchists that they were, but I see nothing that advocates moving to the dark side of the law.
I don't support RIAA music for the same reason I won't watch The Sopranos. Mafiosi scare me.
I've noticed that people resort to ad hominem when they haven't a better arguement to use.
The 9-page brief looks like a very nicely structured ad hominem attack, but that's all it is.
Or, to paraphrase, "Don't listen to him, he's just a lawyer! Whereas I am the True Friend of the Court, he's your enemy! Actually, he's mine, but I'd prefer you thought of him as yours".
I think it has something to do with statistics. Sort of like, with 1/2 square mile in land area, the Vatican has an average of two popes per square mile. This is more papal density than it ever had, even during the Borgia regime.
I believe in Thrall. No matter how many times you kill that big orc, he keeps coming back. There's an argument for serial reincarnation if there ever was one.
Once you get to a certain point (one I suspect I'll never reach) then you must know you can only drive one Ferrari at a time, and money becomes essentially irrelevant. The medium of exchange then changes from money to power, because the economy will always drive in the direction of least annoyance. The richer you are, the more refined your annoyances. On that measure, "influence", Disney is arguably richer.
Or to quote Homer Simpson, "First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women."
Slashdot Mirror
"More proof that Jimmy Page was a satanist!"
Or that Keith Richards can scare the hell out of anything....
I grew up in an era when the Rolling Stones were considered evil by most parents, rather than something you hear in elevators and shopping malls.
I knew all along that he was King of the Pirates, and felt strangely vindicated when I saw him in that role.
Beware, Richard Stallman, Beware. Your glorious ninjitsu skills are nothing compared to the power of an ancient, rusted Rickenbacker 6.
But really with all the crap, legacy systems held together presently by silly string...you really almost need to start OVER.
There is a logical approach, one that's worked quite well for the electricity industry in Australia. Take a hundred or so electricity authorities and try to get them to agree on anything is difficult; getting them to agree on a commonly interoperable software plan nigh on impossible.
What they did do was to agree on a standard set of transactions written in XML. If you agree on the transaction format, it doesn't matter much whether you're sending them via Windows, J2EE or some truly wonderful DCL running on an old 8550. If you agree on the transactions and you have an organisation that can own the transaction test suite you can achieve total interoperability without forcing people into a single hardware or software platform. It works, it's not too hard to achieve, and it's a relatively inexpensive process to achieve a result. The transaction set is called aseXML, if you're curious.
Yes, I was involved in this.
In fact, I think we Austinites need to form some angry mobs and picket their offices.
No, what you really need to do is round up a few partners and form an alternative service provider on your own. There's clearly a market in consumers who prefer better service.
if you owe mr. soprano some money, and the riaa forces you into bankruptcy, what do you do ?
You grind both the red and blue pills together and end up back in your cubicle, but with everybody wearing rabbit ears.
My apologies.
You forgot Gorbachev.
Gorbachov earned it. He was probably the single most influential factor in the soft landing of the USSR and the dismantling of the cold war. But I suspect you folks in the USA don't get a lot of international news coverage (I've lived in the US so I know the difference) so you probably wouldn't have tracked that. And I mean that in the nicest possible way -- I think there was something of a tradition of your media not reporting Russian news for fear of being branded a communist, no offense meant.
Would you really want her to be in that line-up?
It would be nice to give the prize some credibility again.
Pamela Jones preserved FOSS for us. Clearly a shining light in the context of international equality. She didn't make speeches at the UN or feed the poor, but her work in keeping control of vital infrastructure out of the hands of corporate monopolists and retaining those rights for common people puts her just one notch below Mother Theresa in my rankings. So yes, I bloody well would nominate her.
Great idea! Cheap hardware, too - just go to your local junkyard and grab a VAX sold 10 years ago for scrap :P
You can't have it! Mine, or I will help you not.
I love DCL, but you know what I miss the most? That KESU architecture. Kernel, Exec, Super, User. The fact that Dave Cutler (architect of VMS and WNT) didn't have the hardware to back that when he developed NT for the Intel processor is, I believe, the ultimate source of the endless Windows server security grief.
WNT:='F$ROT1("VMS") (yes, I know it's a bogus lexical on your system...=)
The only thing that matters to them is money, not right and wrong, but M-O-N-E-Y.
The very scary part of this is that in order to get the money, they're going after the control. C-O-N-T-R-O-L.
I'm afraid they've gotten to like it.
You want credibility? I nominate PJ. Groklaw was the finest example of long term pursuit of legal justice I've ever seen. I'd give her the Nobel Peace Prize if I were on the committee.
I'm not entirely sure that Obama's push on IP is driven entirely by Hollywood. Maybe in part it's solidarity with Biden and maybe not, but I've always felt Barack to be the sort to push his own agenda over anyone else's. His big drive is to fix the economy and fix health, which are personal. And a strong IP is the only way an economy that's moved from agrarian to industrial to informational can survive. That is, if you don't have resources, you don't have manufacturing, what are you as a country going to be able to peddle?? I think he sees that. RIAA is a very bad source to pull people from, though. I don't care how good they are, they'll never be able to wash the algae off.
...Therefore I refuse to use VoIP at home (for a variety of reasons), my cordless phone base has it's own UPS...
I once had a contract as an architect on a major Australian telco's efforts to bring VoIP to customers. Late into the project it ran into one really, really difficult snag (obvious only in retrospect, unfortunately) -- I pointed out that our 000 service (much like your 911) depends on the ability to link a telephone with a geographical point, i.e. the physical address where your phone resides. Since the 000 service requirement was enshrined in legislation, it was difficult to get around the need to make that connection.
Now, about that SIP address -- where did you say that domain was located? (LOC records were discussed, but for a number of reasons we couldn't use 'em).
it is only an acronym if it is pronounced like a work (ie RADAR, LASER). LCLS is just an abbreviation.
I can haz LOLCLASS?
How odd. Here in old Horse Trailer you buy brewing kits at the local Safeway. And there are more small wineries than you could stake a ... uh, than you could point to conveniently.
...i'm fairly sure that 'ad hominem' is specific to arguments
Correct. More correctly, it's a violation of the principles of logic, i.e. you can't determine the truth of an argument by referring to the person who proffered it. It's called argumentum ad hominem and it's one of the classic logical fallacies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacies. I read "fallacy" as the ability to fail.
Could we ask them to develop a pig with an uncloven hoof? It would be interesting to see kosher bacon on the shelf.
I tend toward wireless for the home network. If I need to replace the air, I open a window.
The music industry is dying, and this is their last stand.
You are correct. The existing music industry infrastructure is dying. Music won't.
Bin Laden has a beard, so does Richard Stallman. . .zOMG!!!
Well, so do I! Muahahaha! And we, the People of the Secret Society of Bearded Geeks and Sympathizers intend to hold the entire world to ransom for -- (breathy pause) -- One. Million. Dollars!!!
I read the 9-page brief, then I went to www.fsf.org (after adding the third "w" - more evidence the RIAA fails simple maths) and read their front page. Nowhere does it advocate infringing copyright. Nothing can be construed as a recommendation to violate the law or infringe on other people's rights. Nothing. I see the liberal use of terms such as "free" and "open" and other keywords of the dream of American democracy. I may see a little bit of throwback to Tom Paine and Ben Franklin, ancient and pernicious bomb-throwing anarchists that they were, but I see nothing that advocates moving to the dark side of the law.
I don't support RIAA music for the same reason I won't watch The Sopranos. Mafiosi scare me.
I've noticed that people resort to ad hominem when they haven't a better arguement to use.
The 9-page brief looks like a very nicely structured ad hominem attack, but that's all it is.
Or, to paraphrase, "Don't listen to him, he's just a lawyer! Whereas I am the True Friend of the Court, he's your enemy! Actually, he's mine, but I'd prefer you thought of him as yours".
Better not be in Vatican then
First you get down on your code
Optimise that solar node
Point it where the sun don't go and
write a hack write a hack write a hack!
I think it has something to do with statistics. Sort of like, with 1/2 square mile in land area, the Vatican has an average of two popes per square mile. This is more papal density than it ever had, even during the Borgia regime.
Dr.Hawking can use my jumper cables any time.
Damn I'm going to miss those insights.
Once you get to a certain point (one I suspect I'll never reach) then you must know you can only drive one Ferrari at a time, and money becomes essentially irrelevant. The medium of exchange then changes from money to power, because the economy will always drive in the direction of least annoyance. The richer you are, the more refined your annoyances. On that measure, "influence", Disney is arguably richer.
Or to quote Homer Simpson, "First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women."
I think that's relevant, anyway. Otherwise...
Mmmm... donuts.