Since when has it been OK to presume a Turing Machine models the Universe in any way at all? You seem to believe disproving "UTM == Universe" would be shocking. Have I misparsed you?
I appreciate and respect the lack of Left/Right polarization in your opinions. However, Iraq did not have WMDs. At one point, proving their existance became more politically paramount than capturing Bin Laden. We stopped looking because they were never there. Iraqi defectors were as credible as Chalabi, related to him (surprise), and obviously incompetent at best since they led Blix, our Military, and Duelfer to absolutely nothing. Even though we were able to find an intelligent mobile animal -- cunning enough to brutalize 25 million people -- buried in a "spider hole", we haven't been able to find a single canister of Sarin that didn't expire back in '91. The nuclear program that was alleged by 1/27th of our intellegence analysts hasn't yielded a single jaybird even though we know all about Iran, North Korea, Israel, and A. Q. Khan. These supposed neighboring terrorists that bought Iraqs stockpiles (how can you claim to know this?) must have some conspiracy to withhold usage of said weapons since they haven't hit a single American soldier in the past four years -- let alone an Israeli -- despite Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran. You have no reason to suppose they were there when everyone sent to find them has come back empty handed. If you want to belittle their non-existance as a fantasy of the "protesting populace" then in all fairness you should claim that the people who protested for a war with Iraq are obligated to produce them and place them in safe hands.
The economist's article was culled in part from another article written by someone else who was reflecting on a political matter with military implications.
That's because noone believes Iraq war supporters would listen to such an argument. In fact, suggesting that as a matter of consideration would only weaken every other argument that doesn't involve reckoning with blood. It's like trying to win the girl by telling her that you "like her". As soon as the words hit her ears she'll think you're a fag.
With Democracies, you end up with the tyranny of the majority, regardless of whether the minority opinion is the correct one. Under a Republic form, a large enough minority can plug up the works and force negotiation with the majority before a final solution is agreed upon.
How does a Representative Republic deal with the tyranny of the large enough minority? At some point won't the marginalized 25% who force negotiation with the 65% prevent the marginalized 10% from plugging up the works to force negotiation with the tyrannous 90%?
"Given Microsoft's position in the video sharing market (dead last), I expected a more aggressive product."
Given their their dominant role in the consumer and business operating systems market I would expect them to not give a shit about (relative) chicken scratch. What, are they bored?
I too have found debian to be a bit smoother with release upgrades. I must say though, it was pretty cool to see that dapper upgraded dotfiles in my home directory! Slick.
Look into `apt-cache dotty|xvcg' if you're thinking about dependancies and such. You can generate huge diagrams of the whole repository if you want. Otherwise, the Trove catagories used by freshmeat/sourceforge seem pretty canonical -- though I wish there were some explicit documentation of their whole "taxonomy" and how it came about.
"Debian is not for specialization. It's for everybody to make what they want."
This touches the keystone of Debian's virtue. There's a kind of rock solid inevitability about it. I've been running Ubuntu for some time now but plan on switching back to Debian precicely because it is "plain and broad" as you say.
"A PCIe soundcard will have such substantial bandwidth requirements that it does a BUTTLOAD more than $150 worth of stuff."
Aye, there's the rub. Creative claims there is no PCIe X-Fi soundcard because the bus itself is "bad for audio". Indeed, they say PCIe was "designed for graphics". Yet this is the age of motherboards with winmodem-like integrated audio. So is Creative struggling to overcome the technical limitations of the inferior PCIe bus, or did they misdesign their uber-soundchip? Maybe they just want to trim their drivers down to 20 megs or so first...
That's why I can't figure out what's worse -- that a patent this obvious has been enforced, or that Creative just got some more capital to design $150 sound cards that don't even work on PCIe.
Naw, everyone clamoring for a 64-bit Flash plugin knows 32-bit code is executable. It's just so wastefull to keep a 32-bit duplicate of a 64-bit distro installed. If Nvidia can release 64-bit graphics drivers I don't see why Adobe can't do the same for Flash. Then again, those of us bitching should step up with a wrapper. If mplayer can tap windows codecs written for a different platform...
Surely a 64-bit Flash plugin is overdue. Until then I think there are better workarounds than installing a massive i386 chroot just to accommodate a browser plugin. Isn't it possible to code a kind of transparent proxy plugin that wraps 32-bit code? I'd wager that such a project would get a lot of attention on sourceforge...
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Since when has it been OK to presume a Turing Machine models the Universe in any way at all? You seem to believe disproving "UTM == Universe" would be shocking. Have I misparsed you?
Check out those power consumption stats. Ouch.
I appreciate and respect the lack of Left/Right polarization in your opinions. However, Iraq did not have WMDs. At one point, proving their existance became more politically paramount than capturing Bin Laden. We stopped looking because they were never there. Iraqi defectors were as credible as Chalabi, related to him (surprise), and obviously incompetent at best since they led Blix, our Military, and Duelfer to absolutely nothing. Even though we were able to find an intelligent mobile animal -- cunning enough to brutalize 25 million people -- buried in a "spider hole", we haven't been able to find a single canister of Sarin that didn't expire back in '91. The nuclear program that was alleged by 1/27th of our intellegence analysts hasn't yielded a single jaybird even though we know all about Iran, North Korea, Israel, and A. Q. Khan. These supposed neighboring terrorists that bought Iraqs stockpiles (how can you claim to know this?) must have some conspiracy to withhold usage of said weapons since they haven't hit a single American soldier in the past four years -- let alone an Israeli -- despite Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran. You have no reason to suppose they were there when everyone sent to find them has come back empty handed. If you want to belittle their non-existance as a fantasy of the "protesting populace" then in all fairness you should claim that the people who protested for a war with Iraq are obligated to produce them and place them in safe hands.
The economist's article was culled in part from another article written by someone else who was reflecting on a political matter with military implications.
Huh? The Salon article was about a snapshot of the CPA's mindset. You're talking about something else.
That's because noone believes Iraq war supporters would listen to such an argument. In fact, suggesting that as a matter of consideration would only weaken every other argument that doesn't involve reckoning with blood. It's like trying to win the girl by telling her that you "like her". As soon as the words hit her ears she'll think you're a fag.
If they believe Powell was fired then you're merely arguing that a stopped clock is right twice a day.
I suspect the mozilla codebase was an attempt to turn the browser into a platform.
How does a Representative Republic deal with the tyranny of the large enough minority? At some point won't the marginalized 25% who force negotiation with the 65% prevent the marginalized 10% from plugging up the works to force negotiation with the tyrannous 90%?
Thanks for the feedback jackass.
"Given Microsoft's position in the video sharing market (dead last), I expected a more aggressive product."
Given their their dominant role in the consumer and business operating systems market I would expect them to not give a shit about (relative) chicken scratch. What, are they bored?
"Say it's a boring day. You're hanging out with your friends, and none of you can seem to make a conversation interesting enough to stay talking. Do what I do! Drop into pirate-speak!"
Apparently the desire to "talk like a pirate" is a natural human urge even stronger than the desire to "walk like an Egyptian".
I like those old iMac keyboards too. I've got two of them and don't even own a Mac.
A freshmeat.net account makes the site more usefull. Debian's synaptic is handy too.
I too have found debian to be a bit smoother with release upgrades. I must say though, it was pretty cool to see that dapper upgraded dotfiles in my home directory! Slick.
Look into `apt-cache dotty|xvcg' if you're thinking about dependancies and such. You can generate huge diagrams of the whole repository if you want. Otherwise, the Trove catagories used by freshmeat/sourceforge seem pretty canonical -- though I wish there were some explicit documentation of their whole "taxonomy" and how it came about.
This touches the keystone of Debian's virtue. There's a kind of rock solid inevitability about it. I've been running Ubuntu for some time now but plan on switching back to Debian precicely because it is "plain and broad" as you say.
The articles that aren't poorly written have a surprisingly consistent style.
Aye, there's the rub. Creative claims there is no PCIe X-Fi soundcard because the bus itself is "bad for audio". Indeed, they say PCIe was "designed for graphics". Yet this is the age of motherboards with winmodem-like integrated audio. So is Creative struggling to overcome the technical limitations of the inferior PCIe bus, or did they misdesign their uber-soundchip? Maybe they just want to trim their drivers down to 20 megs or so first...
That had already been done in UNIX.
That's why I can't figure out what's worse -- that a patent this obvious has been enforced, or that Creative just got some more capital to design $150 sound cards that don't even work on PCIe.
Naw, everyone clamoring for a 64-bit Flash plugin knows 32-bit code is executable. It's just so wastefull to keep a 32-bit duplicate of a 64-bit distro installed. If Nvidia can release 64-bit graphics drivers I don't see why Adobe can't do the same for Flash. Then again, those of us bitching should step up with a wrapper. If mplayer can tap windows codecs written for a different platform...
Surely a 64-bit Flash plugin is overdue. Until then I think there are better workarounds than installing a massive i386 chroot just to accommodate a browser plugin. Isn't it possible to code a kind of transparent proxy plugin that wraps 32-bit code? I'd wager that such a project would get a lot of attention on sourceforge...
Including America? :)
Very cool post.