It's not sufficient to say "country x is sucessful",
when you're trying to prove a policy used by x is good.
First you need to prove that the country will be
sucessful if and only if the policy is good.
Technically this is a strong form of the
"missing midle term" error in logic (;-))
Alternatively, since Ontario isn't leading the
world in economic success, and did use that policy,
it's necessarily true that the policy doesn't
gurantee economic success (;-))
Both Germany and Japan have tried this same approach,
in grade school,
expecting the children ot their parents to be able
to predict the future some twent to thirty years on.
The net result is a lot of frustrated kids, learning
less, pigenholed into incredibly inappropriate programems
and expecting a hell-ride when they start
Both Germany and Japan have tried this same approach,
in grade school,
expecting the children or their parents to be able
to predict the future some twenty to thirty years on.
The net result is a lot of frustrated kids, learning
less, pigeonholed into incredibly inappropriate programmes
and expecting a hell-ride when they start
trying to work in an industry they already detest.
The Ontario high-school system used to try to do
the same thing, and placed me in "terminal technical"
(3 years and then out to work for McDonalds), when
I applied for the academic (pre-university) stream.
Fortunately my Father was able to produce an IQ
score which proved I had been misplaced, apparently
by being mistaken for a different David Brown.
--dave
trying to work in an industry they already detest.
The Ontario high-school system used to try to do
the same thing, and placed me in "terminal technical"
(3 years and then out to work for McDonalds), when
I applid for teh academic (pre-university) stream.
Fortunately my Father was able to produce an IQ
score which proved I had been misplaced, apaprently
by being mistaken for a different David Brown.
One should do one's literature survey
before making decisions which can do harm.
In Canada, you would be the victim of an assault and arguably therefor an attempted illegal search, and would be free to arrest the culprit, using the minmum force you reasonably found necessary to immoblize him while waiting for the police.
If you really want to understand the subject, take
overlapping courses from both specialties. You'll
need to know how both communities think to do well
in either.
I had to do this in math: to understand
calculus, you needed both the practical eamples, taught
only in the engineering course, and know how
the theroms worked, taught only in the "pure"
maths courses. So I took one and audited the other,
and and aced them both after getting an F in
the previous term (;-))
This worked for computer science and software
engineering too, and in my current job consulting
in IT, I use a lot of science...
I believe it's making a false representation, both to the
reader and to the newspaper, magazine or web hosting
company.
If it's an attempt to obtain money by a false and fraudulent representation, though,
then things get stickier: that's a criminal offence in Canada, and I
suspect in Australia too.
American Heritage Dictionary: fraud (frôd) n.
1. A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.
He said we should wait until our mental acuity started
going down, then take up smoking. We'd get all the
advantages of the nicotine, but we'd die of old age
before we got the cancer.
We fought a lot with this at Siemens (Sietec) about fifteen years ago,
when trying to decide what format to use on stackers full of 12" WORM disks,
which were just nicely becoming useful for large-scale archival storage in
those days. We needed format that would outlast the disks, which probably
meant 50-100 years assuming normal replacement/turnover.
We ended up with the bottom level being a WORM standard, which
was served out to users via the NFS standard, which was reasonably
close to a Unix filesystem, and was usable by Windows clients, and
finally we stored the data in quit simple random files with
tables of contents, so we could handle multi-page documents.
In practice we found the data we were storing was almost
always images, as that what businesses wanted to store: scanned
images of legal, business and medical documents. As the parent
suggested, we used as simple a format as possible, but no simpler (;-))
For text documents, I recollect we did support some commercial formats, but
only ones for which we knew the full specification and had a
translator in source form. Our own data was mostly LaTeX,
the typesetting language, expressed as ascii characters, and
occasionally postscript or pdf, ditto.
TheRaven64 said:SPARC is doing very well for certain categories of workload, although mainly web-app types at the moment.
Well, most SPARC boxes are running databases and big non-parallellizable
computations, but they indeed have got back into a good price/performance
space for integer-intensive web apps with the Niagara chips.
I did too, and found that Canon deservedly has the best
reputation of all the inkjet vendors for having
refillable/individual cartriges.
I'll likely buy another...
--dave
One tables reports before the summer break so the
people adversely affected will forget about them
by fall.
A common trick by weak or minority governments
to try to defuse controversies that would threaten
them in the very next question period (;-))
--dave
This is roughly equivalent to "B" in the well-known
U.S. "Orange Book" security standard. Previously
all commercial off-the-shelf OSs were rated C or below, and
had trouble even getting that (NT 4 got C only if
the network was physically removed).
The letters correspond with school grades: A is
excellent, B is ok, and C is barely adequate.
I think you're partly right: for small machines, I've found Linux perfomance
excellent, and they do have a whole bunch of good ideas. Building an
ltrace (shared-library call-tracer) that can jump in and trace a running process was cool, and clearly
better than Solaris apptrace (of which I was one of the three authors).
I mostly work with large data centres, and personally run SPARC Solaris
except on one machine, and that one's Linux.
I find them very interoperable, and I enjoy watching both Linus and the Solarii
compete with each other for quality, elegance and speed (:-))
The "assignment of rights" aproach has been controversial: both Sun and the FSF have been
flamed at various times for proposing it. Nevertheless, it's not a bad idea,
especially if the rightholder is soemthing like a foundation.
Oh, I do think Linus wants to help people, it's just that he's a very
practical kind of person, and isn't motivated by the same things as
either the FSF or a company. And perhaps isn't all that impressed by
either (;-))
I suspect he's going to be impressed if and only if FSF release a clean GPLv3
and Sun releases an GPL'd Solaris. Those would make it far more practical
for he and the Solarii to compete in the area which I consider
most important: code quality.
Many moons ago, I was at Sun Opcom when they were trying to release
Solaris 8 source to anyone who would sign a non-disclosure, and it
was insanely hard to find the rightful
owners and get permission to do so much as publish the code.
If my leaky memory is correct, a number of files
had to be rewritten from scratch, just to be able to release them to
an audince of friendly customers.
You can imagine how hard it is to hunt down and relicense everything
as GPLv3, for either Linux or Solaris! Kudos to Scott and Jonathan
for their perseverance.
Actually she won't: the great majority of copies are
made using professional scanners/duplicators, from
"screener" DVDs and distributed films. Only a small number
are done by amateurs, ofen in the third world where
bribes are cheap but scanners are expensive
The bill, at
Bill C-59
says that it's only a crime if the theatre manager says so.
This allows the manager to set his own camera up in the
projection room, which is conveient, but not as convenient
as running the film through a scanner or the DVD through a duplicator.
Perhaps the drafters think that theatre managers can't be bribed?
feepness wrote:...it seems to me that you have two types of farmers:
1. The individual "Mom and Pop" who aren't going to touch this stuff...
They already do the kind of cost-benefit analysis you
spoke of, typically by using the research done at (e.g.) the
Ridgetown Agricultural College, and buy whatever gives them the
best bottom line.
Farmers are underpaid, not stupid (although staying
in farming may be dumb (;-))
That puts a lot of pressure on the farmer, who has
pretty horrid margins, to reject a seed/weed-spray
combintion that is together cheaper than normal
seed, spraying and hoeing.
Of course, once one is locked in to a monopolist,
prices will rise...
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I agree with your logic, but my experience with a tiered system suggests it is a disservice to the student.
That's a compulsory tiering, of course: letting people select degrees of depth is fine, as long as they get to change them if they're wrong (;-))
--dave
It's not sufficient to say "country x is sucessful", when you're trying to prove a policy used by x is good. First you need to prove that the country will be sucessful if and only if the policy is good.
Technically this is a strong form of the "missing midle term" error in logic (;-))
Alternatively, since Ontario isn't leading the world in economic success, and did use that policy, it's necessarily true that the policy doesn't gurantee economic success (;-))
--dave
Both Germany and Japan have tried this same approach, in grade school, expecting the children ot their parents to be able to predict the future some twent to thirty years on.
The net result is a lot of frustrated kids, learning less, pigenholed into incredibly inappropriate programems and expecting a hell-ride when they start
Both Germany and Japan have tried this same approach, in grade school, expecting the children or their parents to be able to predict the future some twenty to thirty years on.
The net result is a lot of frustrated kids, learning less, pigeonholed into incredibly inappropriate programmes and expecting a hell-ride when they start trying to work in an industry they already detest.
The Ontario high-school system used to try to do the same thing, and placed me in "terminal technical" (3 years and then out to work for McDonalds), when I applied for the academic (pre-university) stream. Fortunately my Father was able to produce an IQ score which proved I had been misplaced, apparently by being mistaken for a different David Brown.
--dave trying to work in an industry they already detest.
The Ontario high-school system used to try to do the same thing, and placed me in "terminal technical" (3 years and then out to work for McDonalds), when I applid for teh academic (pre-university) stream. Fortunately my Father was able to produce an IQ score which proved I had been misplaced, apaprently by being mistaken for a different David Brown.
One should do one's literature survey before making decisions which can do harm.
--dave
In Canada, you would be the victim of an assault and
arguably therefor an attempted illegal search, and
would be free to arrest the culprit, using the minmum
force you reasonably found necessary to immoblize him
while waiting for the police.
If you really want to understand the subject, take overlapping courses from both specialties. You'll need to know how both communities think to do well in either.
I had to do this in math: to understand calculus, you needed both the practical eamples, taught only in the engineering course, and know how the theroms worked, taught only in the "pure" maths courses. So I took one and audited the other, and and aced them both after getting an F in the previous term (;-))
This worked for computer science and software engineering too, and in my current job consulting in IT, I use a lot of science...
And, as usual, Linus is reasoning his way to a decision using facts and logic,and Information Week is trolling for page hits.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a good, reasoned discussion with RMS over this, but it's more likely nothing will come of it, because nothing should.
--dave
Any serious enterprise will have a patch policy and process, if only a spinal reflex to "patchadd /tmp/jre-6ui-something" from their sysadmin (;-))
Mere humans can click the big "Free Java Download" button at java.com.
Some, but not all, telephone users will get a free call to the update center.
--dave
I believe it's making a false representation, both to the reader and to the newspaper, magazine or web hosting company.
If it's an attempt to obtain money by a false and fraudulent representation, though, then things get stickier: that's a criminal offence in Canada, and I suspect in Australia too.
American Heritage Dictionary: fraud (frôd) n.
1. A deception deliberately practiced in order to secure unfair or unlawful gain.
--dave
He said we should wait until our mental acuity started going down, then take up smoking. We'd get all the advantages of the nicotine, but we'd die of old age before we got the cancer.
--dave
We fought a lot with this at Siemens (Sietec) about fifteen years ago, when trying to decide what format to use on stackers full of 12" WORM disks, which were just nicely becoming useful for large-scale archival storage in those days. We needed format that would outlast the disks, which probably meant 50-100 years assuming normal replacement/turnover.
We ended up with the bottom level being a WORM standard, which was served out to users via the NFS standard, which was reasonably close to a Unix filesystem, and was usable by Windows clients, and finally we stored the data in quit simple random files with tables of contents, so we could handle multi-page documents.
In practice we found the data we were storing was almost always images, as that what businesses wanted to store: scanned images of legal, business and medical documents. As the parent suggested, we used as simple a format as possible, but no simpler (;-))
For text documents, I recollect we did support some commercial formats, but only ones for which we knew the full specification and had a translator in source form. Our own data was mostly LaTeX, the typesetting language, expressed as ascii characters, and occasionally postscript or pdf, ditto.
--dave
TheRaven64 said:SPARC is doing very well for certain categories of workload, although mainly web-app types at the moment.
Well, most SPARC boxes are running databases and big non-parallellizable computations, but they indeed have got back into a good price/performance space for integer-intensive web apps with the Niagara chips.
--dave
I did too, and found that Canon deservedly has the best reputation of all the inkjet vendors for having refillable/individual cartriges. I'll likely buy another... --dave
One tables reports before the summer break so the people adversely affected will forget about them by fall. A common trick by weak or minority governments to try to defuse controversies that would threaten them in the very next question period (;-)) --dave
Stock Unixes with the networking in place passed Orange Book "C" easily, specifically including Solaris 1, which **was** BSD.
The process was and is expensive, so only ritch folks certify their OS security, which explains why we haven't seen it for Linux before...
--dave (assuming, of course, that I'm not replying to a troll) c-b
--dave
This is roughly equivalent to "B" in the well-known U.S. "Orange Book" security standard. Previously all commercial off-the-shelf OSs were rated C or below, and had trouble even getting that (NT 4 got C only if the network was physically removed).
The letters correspond with school grades: A is excellent, B is ok, and C is barely adequate.
--dave
I think you're partly right: for small machines, I've found Linux perfomance excellent, and they do have a whole bunch of good ideas. Building an ltrace (shared-library call-tracer) that can jump in and trace a running process was cool, and clearly better than Solaris apptrace (of which I was one of the three authors).
I mostly work with large data centres, and personally run SPARC Solaris except on one machine, and that one's Linux. I find them very interoperable, and I enjoy watching both Linus and the Solarii compete with each other for quality, elegance and speed (:-))
--dave
The "assignment of rights" aproach has been controversial: both Sun and the FSF have been flamed at various times for proposing it. Nevertheless, it's not a bad idea, especially if the rightholder is soemthing like a foundation.
Oh, I do think Linus wants to help people, it's just that he's a very practical kind of person, and isn't motivated by the same things as either the FSF or a company. And perhaps isn't all that impressed by either (;-))
I suspect he's going to be impressed if and only if FSF release a clean GPLv3 and Sun releases an GPL'd Solaris. Those would make it far more practical for he and the Solarii to compete in the area which I consider most important: code quality.
--dave
Many moons ago, I was at Sun Opcom when they were trying to release Solaris 8 source to anyone who would sign a non-disclosure, and it was insanely hard to find the rightful owners and get permission to do so much as publish the code.
If my leaky memory is correct, a number of files had to be rewritten from scratch, just to be able to release them to an audince of friendly customers.
You can imagine how hard it is to hunt down and relicense everything as GPLv3, for either Linux or Solaris! Kudos to Scott and Jonathan for their perseverance.
--dave
Actually she won't: the great majority of copies are made using professional scanners/duplicators, from "screener" DVDs and distributed films. Only a small number are done by amateurs, ofen in the third world where bribes are cheap but scanners are expensive
--dave
Wouldn't it be something a trade union would object to, as only a manager can brak the law with impunity (;-))
--dave
The bill, at Bill C-59 says that it's only a crime if the theatre manager says so.
This allows the manager to set his own camera up in the projection room, which is conveient, but not as convenient as running the film through a scanner or the DVD through a duplicator.
Perhaps the drafters think that theatre managers can't be bribed?
--dave
feepness wrote:...it seems to me that you have two types of farmers: 1. The individual "Mom and Pop" who aren't going to touch this stuff...
They already do the kind of cost-benefit analysis you spoke of, typically by using the research done at (e.g.) the Ridgetown Agricultural College, and buy whatever gives them the best bottom line.
Farmers are underpaid, not stupid (although staying in farming may be dumb (;-))
--dave
That puts a lot of pressure on the farmer, who has pretty horrid margins, to reject a seed/weed-spray combintion that is together cheaper than normal seed, spraying and hoeing.
Of course, once one is locked in to a monopolist, prices will rise...
--dave