And Clinton's presidency was a godsend to anybody quick enough to move on it when new instrumentation is invented that allowed measurement of parts-per-million to a finer resolution.
The 'chicken little' attitude espoused by many 'toxic environment' alarmists nullifies the credibility of many practical and meaningful measures. The guys in the plant end up pooh-poohing even reasonable precautions because the snively 'safety expert' with his college degree is clearly out of his rocker. Safety suffers as a result.
Actually, in a lot of cases, new and more stringent regulations are the result of a new ability to measure things more accurately, and a lobbying effort by interests who will benefit from greater regulation.
Asbestos is an excellent example. The inert asbestos in many public buildings is more of a hazard when they bring in highly-paid moon suit types who scrap and stir it up into dust, than it is stabilized and in solid form. If there's a case for no longer producing the asbestos-bearing, so be it. The problem of disposing the installed base of asbestos-bearing is a long term one, to be dealt with at end-of-life for facilitys containing it. Not an alarmist get-rich-quick scheme for opportunists.
The people who die from asbestos are people exposed to mega-doses of it in industrial/mining operations.
But asbestos removal was a 'growth industry' in the 90's, an excellent way for people with connections to make a lot of money.
They made the old and nasty mistake of thinking of their jobs before shouting fire.
It goes far, far deeper than that. The communist regime represented an extreme example of central planning run amok. The bureaucrats in charge were certainly willing that a part be sacrificed to keep the central plan in progress. They were even probably, to a degree, sincere enough to sacrifice themselves for said 'plan.'
For the most part, that kind of 'we know it all, now let's implement it' is scary. It's the sickness that all big-government types can ultimately be reduced to.
Don't ask where I got the keyboard that dropped that 'r' but almost certainly at a thrift store or a used equipment auction.
One of the cool things about 'free' software is that people like me almost never, ever, have to buy anything at all new at retail anymore.
The most recent thing I've been scouting out are used SCA drives and a matched set of four Pentium Pro chips with 512K cache. Think I should go ask the 'boys' at BestBuy about that? hehe.
So you're really talking about a weird-special-case instance where there were very few resources at hand to solve the problem. And the few Windows resources on hand were even more meagre than the few MacOS resources. Okay. That clarifys it a bit.
Not trying to 'apologize' for Microsoft, but do you think you fairly represented the systems as a whole in that case history?
My point was that 'average folks' can't use the hardware because support has evaporated. Wether it is open or closed source. The kind of enthusiasts who would be capable of backporting the driver are also the kind of people most likely to invest in the latest hotdog hardware, leaving the old stuff abandoned in the dust.
So it's all the same in the end, and there's no 'great tragedy' in closed source drivers that isn't also about the same with open source drivers.
People spend large amounts of time building up the mystique of people like Alestair Crowley, calling them 'Ceremonial' and all. Then you go pointing out that it's all a bunch of soggy alcoholics and heroin addicts.
Problem is, if and when peace is arrived at, the starving North Koreans will enter that zone and chop all those animals to pieces. Starving people have a habit of doing that.
it is important to remember that uranium can run out just like fossil fuels,
That would be true, so long as we stuck with the old fission methods as first developed and ceased to innovate. If the waste management process can be perfected, breeder reactors mean we would never run out of fuel.
These cards will sometime go End-Of-Live, and the manufacturer won't support them.
Graphics cards that have gone 'end-of-life' in the past have been dropped by the XFree86 team themselves. An example is the S3 Trio chipset cards. Sure, an ambitious hacker could forward-port support themselves. However, this points out that 'free software' people abandon hardware as well, rendering it worthless to anybody but the most diligent.
But couldn't a freenix (i.e. NetBSD) loader of some sort be constructed that pretends to be MacOS?
It's an academic topic anyway, as few people want to run a non-Apple OS on the old machines, but it's interesting to dig into. Since Apple now lets us download MacOS 7.5 for free from their FTP site, there's no 'cost-barrier' to using MacOS as a booter. It would just be 'cleaner' to not have to run any Apple software on the way to your chosen OS.
Those are the kinds of highrise housing complexes that Urban Planners in the United States, I mean the kind that carry on about 'urban sprawl', have in mind for us. A typical example is the 'Hiawatha Corridor' project in Minneapolis. High density housing along a light rail corridor.
Needless to say, the American 'idealists' in favor of such projects probably envy the control the government in the USSR had over their people.
1. If you have an accident there, it's likely nobody will find you for quite awhile. Will an ambulance crew go in there after somebody?
2. The roads are probably poorly maintained. Do they send in a road crew to repair those roads? So it's probably a gradually more hazardous place to ride a motorcycle.
Regardless, a well administered mid-90's Mac was still arguably more stable than the average Windows 95 machine, 'pseudo protected memory' be damned...
Yes, but that's like saying a well-maintained Ford is arguably more stable than the average (not so well maintained) Chevy.
That kind of stuff is important to do. I imagine Microsoft prompted a little more tap-dancing out of Intel when NT came out for multiple architectures than they would have gotten at that time if it had been Intel-only.
No, what Apple did was 'throw a bone' to the Mac community by developing a version of 'Linux' to run in a sandbox setup they arranged.
Near as I can tell, the main reason was to discourage hackers from reverse engineering the Apple hardware/firmware. Give them a toy to play with and distract them.
For that reason, there still is no low-level bootloader if you want to run NetBSD or any other freenix on classic Mac hardware. The NetBSD on my SE/30 boots out of a little vestigal MacOS app, which auto-runs after MacOS loads.
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You know, I certainly can't get interested in supporting a cause where a third of its text on its site is in upper case, in bold or is a link.
That's mighty principled of you. And it's impressive that you're proud enough of it to boast about it openly on Slashdot.
You are an ignorant boob if you think Mr. Ellison hasn't written anything worth buying in 40 years.
Perhaps not worth your money, in which case you shouldn't buy it. That's your choice, after all.
Also you'd better avoid watching TOS Star Trek episodes, as he wrote some of the best episodes.
Probably tons of them. There are lots of porn-dog shareware utilities like NewsBin out there that make it trivial to harvest USENET binaries.
And Clinton's presidency was a godsend to anybody quick enough to move on it when new instrumentation is invented that allowed measurement of parts-per-million to a finer resolution.
The 'chicken little' attitude espoused by many 'toxic environment' alarmists nullifies the credibility of many practical and meaningful measures. The guys in the plant end up pooh-poohing even reasonable precautions because the snively 'safety expert' with his college degree is clearly out of his rocker. Safety suffers as a result.
Actually, in a lot of cases, new and more stringent regulations are the result of a new ability to measure things more accurately, and a lobbying effort by interests who will benefit from greater regulation.
Asbestos is an excellent example. The inert asbestos in many public buildings is more of a hazard when they bring in highly-paid moon suit types who scrap and stir it up into dust, than it is stabilized and in solid form. If there's a case for no longer producing the asbestos-bearing, so be it. The problem of disposing the installed base of asbestos-bearing is a long term one, to be dealt with at end-of-life for facilitys containing it. Not an alarmist get-rich-quick scheme for opportunists.
The people who die from asbestos are people exposed to mega-doses of it in industrial/mining operations.
But asbestos removal was a 'growth industry' in the 90's, an excellent way for people with connections to make a lot of money.
Well, they need to have those fillings out. The scare industry executives have boat payments to make, you know...
Brush your teeth with plutonium and you will die.
Is anybody here advocating that?
They made the old and nasty mistake of thinking of their jobs before shouting fire.
It goes far, far deeper than that. The communist regime represented an extreme example of central planning run amok. The bureaucrats in charge were certainly willing that a part be sacrificed to keep the central plan in progress. They were even probably, to a degree, sincere enough to sacrifice themselves for said 'plan.'
For the most part, that kind of 'we know it all, now let's implement it' is scary. It's the sickness that all big-government types can ultimately be reduced to.
The people you refer to are those who bought into the old system. The collaborators and in some cases the perpetrators.
Don't ask where I got the keyboard that dropped that 'r' but almost certainly at a thrift store or a used equipment auction.
One of the cool things about 'free' software is that people like me almost never, ever, have to buy anything at all new at retail anymore.
The most recent thing I've been scouting out are used SCA drives and a matched set of four Pentium Pro chips with 512K cache. Think I should go ask the 'boys' at BestBuy about that? hehe.
So you're really talking about a weird-special-case instance where there were very few resources at hand to solve the problem. And the few Windows resources on hand were even more meagre than the few MacOS resources. Okay. That clarifys it a bit.
Not trying to 'apologize' for Microsoft, but do you think you fairly represented the systems as a whole in that case history?
My point was that 'average folks' can't use the hardware because support has evaporated. Wether it is open or closed source. The kind of enthusiasts who would be capable of backporting the driver are also the kind of people most likely to invest in the latest hotdog hardware, leaving the old stuff abandoned in the dust.
So it's all the same in the end, and there's no 'great tragedy' in closed source drivers that isn't also about the same with open source drivers.
Now, you stop that!
People spend large amounts of time building up the mystique of people like Alestair Crowley, calling them 'Ceremonial' and all. Then you go pointing out that it's all a bunch of soggy alcoholics and heroin addicts.
I'm pretty sure The Beatles intended to be ironic.
Problem is, if and when peace is arrived at, the starving North Koreans will enter that zone and chop all those animals to pieces. Starving people have a habit of doing that.
We're talking about Communism.
it is important to remember that uranium can run out just like fossil fuels,
That would be true, so long as we stuck with the old fission methods as first developed and ceased to innovate. If the waste management process can be perfected, breeder reactors mean we would never run out of fuel.
These cards will sometime go End-Of-Live, and the manufacturer won't support them.
Graphics cards that have gone 'end-of-life' in the past have been dropped by the XFree86 team themselves. An example is the S3 Trio chipset cards. Sure, an ambitious hacker could forward-port support themselves. However, this points out that 'free software' people abandon hardware as well, rendering it worthless to anybody but the most diligent.
But couldn't a freenix (i.e. NetBSD) loader of some sort be constructed that pretends to be MacOS?
It's an academic topic anyway, as few people want to run a non-Apple OS on the old machines, but it's interesting to dig into. Since Apple now lets us download MacOS 7.5 for free from their FTP site, there's no 'cost-barrier' to using MacOS as a booter. It would just be 'cleaner' to not have to run any Apple software on the way to your chosen OS.
Those are the kinds of highrise housing complexes that Urban Planners in the United States, I mean the kind that carry on about 'urban sprawl', have in mind for us. A typical example is the 'Hiawatha Corridor' project in Minneapolis. High density housing along a light rail corridor.
Needless to say, the American 'idealists' in favor of such projects probably envy the control the government in the USSR had over their people.
From a practical point of view:
1. If you have an accident there, it's likely nobody will find you for quite awhile. Will an ambulance crew go in there after somebody?
2. The roads are probably poorly maintained. Do they send in a road crew to repair those roads? So it's probably a gradually more hazardous place to ride a motorcycle.
Regardless, a well administered mid-90's Mac was still arguably more stable than the average Windows 95 machine, 'pseudo protected memory' be damned...
Yes, but that's like saying a well-maintained Ford is arguably more stable than the average (not so well maintained) Chevy.
That kind of stuff is important to do. I imagine Microsoft prompted a little more tap-dancing out of Intel when NT came out for multiple architectures than they would have gotten at that time if it had been Intel-only.
When I tried the same thing three years ago with an old win98 box (not enough cpu muscle for Win2k, and no budget, nada, zero)
For heaven's sakes. Why didn't you install Linux on it??
He also at that point killed Newton.
A darn shame, too.
No, what Apple did was 'throw a bone' to the Mac community by developing a version of 'Linux' to run in a sandbox setup they arranged.
Near as I can tell, the main reason was to discourage hackers from reverse engineering the Apple hardware/firmware. Give them a toy to play with and distract them.
For that reason, there still is no low-level bootloader if you want to run NetBSD or any other freenix on classic Mac hardware. The NetBSD on my SE/30 boots out of a little vestigal MacOS app, which auto-runs after MacOS loads.