Correlation may not imply causation, but it can durned well suggest it strongly. In areas of the US where citizens have recently been granted the right to carry concealed weapons, crime is down...in areas that haven't, it's either up or not down as much as in the CHL states.
As to whether defending oneself with a firearm is "stupid"...I offer two points. One is, that a recent FBI study showed that crime victims who defend themselves with a firearm are injured/killed far far less frequently than victims who defend themselves without one, or cooperate with the criminals....so, I ask you, who's "stupid"?
As well, a survey of convicted criminals showed that they very much want to avoid armed citizens, and have no interest in pitched gun battles to accomplish their crimes. The weapons race and ensuing carnage between victims and criminals is a favorite fantasy of the gun banning folk, but one with no basis in reality.
If you believe that firearms have no use as defense against crime, I invite you to put a sign on your door that says "There are no firearms in this house" as a statement of your conviction...I'd ask you to wear a shirt that says "I am unarmed", but, your government has already pretty much done that to all of you for me...
Lots of places are getting into VMware so that they can do more than one thing on a single server...if Windows had decent memory management and a decent scheduler, you wouldn't have to virtualize an entire other instance of the OS in order to do more than one thing...you could just run some other tasks on the OS...
The typical apologia of the C fan...it's not the language, just the bad bad programmers...there's just no excuse for a language that allows (nay, encourages) buffer overrun problems the way C does. It's like a pistol that always stays cocked, with no trigger guard...it won't go off unintentionally, unless the bad bad owner accidentally touches the trigger, and then it's the owner's fault...
Yah...whenever I see an Old Navy commercial, I think "man, if those beautiful/handsome models look that bad in those clothes, imagine how bad a normal person would look wearing 'em..."
No hip hop? No rap? Well then, this service can't be all bad. I find it incredibly ironic that, due to advances in electronics technology, really great sounding audio gear can be had for practically nothing these days, compared to the fortunes HiFi gear cost in the 60s...and the young folks today use it to listen to hip hop and rap, where audio fidelity is very much not an issue...
The responsibilities of the Pilot-in-Command are weighty, but their power is great...if a PIC declares an emergency, they get an incredible amount of latitiude to do whatever they think necessary to ensure safety of plane & passengers (a bit of an exaggeration, but not much of one).
Heh? Flying pointless LEO manned missions to the pointless space station does nothing to advance space exploration...having the shuttle fleet grounded has had no "devastating" effect on space exploration...
Yah, George O. Smith was a great hard science fiction writer...he wrote an incredible collection of stories based on the physics of vacuum tubes....sometimes gigantic vacuum tubes, using pounds of electrons and millions of volts. His characters were great fun too, hardware hackers supreme. Anyone who hasn't read 'em already, should seek out the "Venus Equilateral" stories.
It's unfortunate that a company that wants to do no evil is investing in activity that will earn it the emnity of most every amateur radio operator in the country...
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To really see how much better it is, you'll need to use it to get a feeling for what it can do. For one thing, there's the seamless integration with everything...if I wanted to copy a file in a DECnet network, I don't start a program like FTP, I just put a node spec in front of the filename, and use the normal COPY command like I do for local files. Similarly, while programming, if I want to open a file on another machine, I don't have to be running NFS or any program of its ilk...I just had the node spec to the filename in the OPEN statement.
Re:But what did the PDP 11 really DO?
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For one thing, the 11 line was never pitched as a mainframe - it was a line of minicomputers (not that the bigger ones didn't succeed in giving IBM more than a few black eyes, back in the day). In spite of being "mini"computers, many a company ran all of their computing of the day on an 11/70 or two, from accounting, to word processing to engineering & process control.
If you had been accustomed to standing in line to get to a card punch and then waiting for your printouts the next day from the company IBM mainframe, a VT100 connected to a PDP-11 felt like heaven. DEC also had a line of mainframe class machines (the 10 family - don't know much about 'em, but they were bigger than 11s), and of course, the VAX...
Your would be clever comments would be a lot funnier, if, unlike like the things you mentioned, DECnet was not much more flexible and capable (not to mention easier to use and configure) than TCP/IP.
When Earth takes the next dinosaur killer on the chin and everything more complicated than a paramecium gets destroyed, it would be nice to have some folks on Luna, Mars, maybe Ceres and Vesta as well, still alive to listen to that good old rock and roll music...that's why we need manned space flight, to colonize against the time that this greasy old blue marble won't support human life.
Even before 9/11 and the Patriot Act, this would get you a trip to the pokey, since using a "hoax bomb" is a felony in most states. Now, I'm sure the federales would be all over you as well. It's an amusing fantasy (best if it stays that way).
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Check out http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/physics_museum/pitchd rop.shtml for a demo of a high viscosity liquid.
Correlation may not imply causation, but it can durned well suggest it strongly. In areas of the US where citizens have recently been granted the right to carry concealed weapons, crime is down...in areas that haven't, it's either up or not down as much as in the CHL states. As to whether defending oneself with a firearm is "stupid"...I offer two points. One is, that a recent FBI study showed that crime victims who defend themselves with a firearm are injured/killed far far less frequently than victims who defend themselves without one, or cooperate with the criminals....so, I ask you, who's "stupid"? As well, a survey of convicted criminals showed that they very much want to avoid armed citizens, and have no interest in pitched gun battles to accomplish their crimes. The weapons race and ensuing carnage between victims and criminals is a favorite fantasy of the gun banning folk, but one with no basis in reality. If you believe that firearms have no use as defense against crime, I invite you to put a sign on your door that says "There are no firearms in this house" as a statement of your conviction...I'd ask you to wear a shirt that says "I am unarmed", but, your government has already pretty much done that to all of you for me...
Enjoying the rise in the violent crime rate since the handguns were outlawed, are you?
Yah...remember, the Bill of Rights may not be perfect, but it's a lot better than what we have now...
Rocket car, hell, I'd settle for the mid-engine Corvette that's been coming out next year...since 1969...
Lots of places are getting into VMware so that they can do more than one thing on a single server...if Windows had decent memory management and a decent scheduler, you wouldn't have to virtualize an entire other instance of the OS in order to do more than one thing...you could just run some other tasks on the OS...
They don't float around, because they wear heavy boots!
The typical apologia of the C fan...it's not the language, just the bad bad programmers...there's just no excuse for a language that allows (nay, encourages) buffer overrun problems the way C does. It's like a pistol that always stays cocked, with no trigger guard...it won't go off unintentionally, unless the bad bad owner accidentally touches the trigger, and then it's the owner's fault...
Write the BIOS in C...perfect, then we can have buffer overflow exploits in the BIOS...
Yah...whenever I see an Old Navy commercial, I think "man, if those beautiful/handsome models look that bad in those clothes, imagine how bad a normal person would look wearing 'em..."
In the case of hip hop and rap, the key word in the above reply being "awful"...
No hip hop? No rap? Well then, this service can't be all bad. I find it incredibly ironic that, due to advances in electronics technology, really great sounding audio gear can be had for practically nothing these days, compared to the fortunes HiFi gear cost in the 60s...and the young folks today use it to listen to hip hop and rap, where audio fidelity is very much not an issue...
The lack of capitalization in your post makes me suspect you saw e. e. cummings do something you thought was cool...
The responsibilities of the Pilot-in-Command are weighty, but their power is great...if a PIC declares an emergency, they get an incredible amount of latitiude to do whatever they think necessary to ensure safety of plane & passengers (a bit of an exaggeration, but not much of one).
Heh? Flying pointless LEO manned missions to the pointless space station does nothing to advance space exploration...having the shuttle fleet grounded has had no "devastating" effect on space exploration...
Yah, George O. Smith was a great hard science fiction writer...he wrote an incredible collection of stories based on the physics of vacuum tubes....sometimes gigantic vacuum tubes, using pounds of electrons and millions of volts. His characters were great fun too, hardware hackers supreme. Anyone who hasn't read 'em already, should seek out the "Venus Equilateral" stories.
It's unfortunate that a company that wants to do no evil is investing in activity that will earn it the emnity of most every amateur radio operator in the country...
To really see how much better it is, you'll need to use it to get a feeling for what it can do. For one thing, there's the seamless integration with everything...if I wanted to copy a file in a DECnet network, I don't start a program like FTP, I just put a node spec in front of the filename, and use the normal COPY command like I do for local files. Similarly, while programming, if I want to open a file on another machine, I don't have to be running NFS or any program of its ilk...I just had the node spec to the filename in the OPEN statement.
For one thing, the 11 line was never pitched as a mainframe - it was a line of minicomputers (not that the bigger ones didn't succeed in giving IBM more than a few black eyes, back in the day). In spite of being "mini"computers, many a company ran all of their computing of the day on an 11/70 or two, from accounting, to word processing to engineering & process control. If you had been accustomed to standing in line to get to a card punch and then waiting for your printouts the next day from the company IBM mainframe, a VT100 connected to a PDP-11 felt like heaven. DEC also had a line of mainframe class machines (the 10 family - don't know much about 'em, but they were bigger than 11s), and of course, the VAX...
Your would be clever comments would be a lot funnier, if, unlike like the things you mentioned, DECnet was not much more flexible and capable (not to mention easier to use and configure) than TCP/IP.
Well, she was much taller...
You can't stop the signal.
Are in the movie "Battle in Outer Space", 1961. Great movie.
When Earth takes the next dinosaur killer on the chin and everything more complicated than a paramecium gets destroyed, it would be nice to have some folks on Luna, Mars, maybe Ceres and Vesta as well, still alive to listen to that good old rock and roll music...that's why we need manned space flight, to colonize against the time that this greasy old blue marble won't support human life.
Even before 9/11 and the Patriot Act, this would get you a trip to the pokey, since using a "hoax bomb" is a felony in most states. Now, I'm sure the federales would be all over you as well. It's an amusing fantasy (best if it stays that way).