Excellent section on sorting. I sped up a sort program 100x using that, after much study and fine tuning. This was back in the late 70s on an 8 bit machine with 8k of RAM to play with. Several years later, we switched hardware and interviewed some clown, who, when asked what he would do, said he would allocate a 1MB array and use bubble sort. Ouch!
I might agree with parts of Hamilton pushing for more centralized power than was good, and Lincoln hammering it home to save the Union, but not mercantilism. You may believe that is what we have, but it's not what I complain about.
What I complain about is that we still have an almost feudal manner of justice, run on the principle that big money is better overall for the long term survival of a nation, and thus big money gets deference in the courts and the entire regulatory process. This principle may well have been useful two hundred years ago, maybe even one hundred years ago, but people are too well educated and the economy is no longer dependent on a few captains of industry, and they no longer need protection from the rabble.
This system of deference to the fat cats is NOT mercantilism. It is merely the natural result of centralizing power in the hands of those who already have it. I personally think that mass communications, starting with printed books, thru the telegraph, and continuing today with the internet and cell phones, is a countering decentralizing force which is slowing down the old feudal centralization. Whether decentralization will win, I do not know.
That has nothing to do with your bugbear, mercantilism, being entirely different from my concerns.
We don't have a free market in the US. We have a market dominated by huge bureaucracies who have the wherewithal to buy influence.
A true free market would not have huge corporations running rough over small companies. It would be a truly level playing field.
I have no objection to mergers and big companies AS LONG AS they play fair. But the crony system we have is biased towards the big corps who buy influence. Even if they don't directly or even indirectly buy politicians, they have enough money to drown any legal action against them.
I don't know what the solution is. Loser pays in legal actions would help. Getting the government and its one-size-fits-all policies out of the way would help. When there is only one central planning office, people spend their time trying to win control of it rather than planning for themselves. It's not that they want to tell everyone else how to run their lives (altho some do), but that if they don't capture that central office, someone else will. Whereas if there were no central planning office backed by the threat of jail and fines, there would be a lot less urge to tell other prople how to run their lives,, and the small companies would have a fighting chance.
Geez you are a smug prig. These guys are spending such an incredibly small percentage of the earth's resources that trying to control it would waste more in resources and time than the hobby itself.
Besides hating libertarians so much that you don't know what they are, what makes you think you or anyone else is qualified to make such decisions for other people? How many hobbies do you have that waste resources? I bet you've got more clothes than you need, eat out at restaurants, stay in hotels. You don't need any of that. How fancy is your car, or bicycle, or any other possession? No doubt you've got something better than you need. Resource Pig! Who decided you could buy such extravagant wasteful things? Libertarian for daring to think for yourself!
The British battle cruiser HMS Hood burned 7 tons per hour at 15 knots, 70 tons per hour at 32 knots. British engines of that era were notoriously inefficient compared to US engines, I think about one half.
(back of the envelope slackness in operation)
One ton is 2000 pounds, 7 tons is 14000 pounds. One hour is 3600 seconds, which goes into 14000 four times, 4 pounds a second. One gallon is six pounds, so 2/3 gallon. One knot is 2 feet per second. So 30 feet for 2/3 gallon or 45 feet per gallon. Double the efficiency is 90 feet per gallon. 45K tons battle cruiser vs 80K ton aircraft carrier with even better engines and hull form is probably a wash (power required is not linear with displacement).
Naw, way off, 960 inches per gallon, two orders of magnitude.
Of course I probably screwed this up. But what the heck. Post corrections here!
AIUI, Google's complaint is that Microsoft shows search results which could not have been obtained by actually spidering the sites in question, because such sites do not exist. The only reference to them was in the search strings. It's not quite the same as Rand McNally adding bogus towns or roads to their maps and finding those on competitors maps, because that is directly copying something which has been copyrighted. I doubt it's illegal, but it smells.
Another way to phrase it is that Google's complaint is that Bing is only repackaging Google's search results. It is as if Bing simply passed the search term to Google and replayed the results, albeit not in real time and on a very small scale. In other words, Bing is not a real search engine, it is a front end to Google, and while it may not be illegal per se, it certainly is unwholesome.
No, that's the point, thousands of tapes with no known method of reading them.
Of course, some responses have been that tape is tape, and since other mag tape formats are still viable, therefore the tool hasn't disappeared. But that's wrong. The tech remains, but the specific tool has disappeared.
If NASA says it can't read the old tapes, it's well and fine that you have faith in museum units being able to cough up working units someday, but they haven't, so I think [citation needed].
We should not have let that first boatload of you even set foot on our land.
According to a book (Guns, Germs, Steel?), the only reason the Pilgrims could land at Plymouth in 1620 was because the tribes living there along the coast had been wiped out by disease (smallpox etc) brought in by earlier visitors, mostly fishing boats needing fresh water, who were routinely driven away by the natives as soon as they were found. One of these earlier expeditions had kidnapped "Squanto" and taken him back to England, where he learned English well enough to convince later expeditions (the Mayflower, I presume) to take him with them as an interpreter.
So, tell your friend that his ancestors did keep the first boatloads from landing, at least in New England, but a few illegals still managed to get ashore long enough to leave disease behind.
How many times have we read about NASA tapes and such from early missions where the hardware to read them has long since disappeared, and no one is even sure what format the tapes are in?
You can't do squat with MONEY except spend it, unless it's gold, in which case you can fill cavities.
The point of getting MONEY from overseas is to buy what they sell. If you keep the MONEY inside the US, you end up with piles of paper, useful for not much more than toilet paper at that point.
If you use the MONEY as it's intended, you get stuff from overseas in exchange for it. This is known as TRADE. Perhaps you've heard of it, even without resorting to google.
$10 spent is $10 spent. If you buy cell minutes, sure the marginal cost for YOUR minutes is close to zero, but all those cell towers, energy, base stations, computers, support staff, and on and on, all those cost money, which is what your $10 supports. The marginal cost for manufacturing a widget which retails for $10 is not as close to zero, but it too is pretty small. It's the factory, the workers, shipping, retail stores and clerks, all that is what comes up to $10.
$10 is $10. If most of the cell minutes $10 was pure profit, Adam Smith would bring it down in a hurry, even in our fatcat psuedo-free market economy.
Now maybe you, on your little machine with just a few customers, consider each additional $10 as pure profit, but that's got nothing to do with the real world, any more than some guy making wooden Xmas doodads in his garage considers his hobby tools as overhead when selling a few extra to friends and neighbors.
Let's try other examples of "buy local". Why make cars only in Detroit? Why not every state make its own cars? Hawaii, Rhode Island. Do it to countries too -- Luxembourg can make its own cars, Monaco, the Vatican. Yeh, that'll work.
Look, dickwad, the way the world works is that as new jobs are created, old jobs have to be removed to make room for them. As manufacturing took off in the 1800s, farm jobs disappeared. As windshield wiper jobs were created, buggy whip jobs disappeared.
And as economies of scale took off, jobs concentrated. Car jobs moved to Detroit, airplane jobs to California and Seattle. The same thing applies on a global scale. As IT jobs expanded in the US, something had to give, and labor intensive jobs moved elswhere.
Dickwad luddites like you would have everybody self-sufficient, everybody stuck in little villages with the local blacksmith about as high tech as it gets, and he'dprobably only exist if there were iron deposits within a day's walk. You suck as bad as your grip on reality.
Service jobs aren't just for outsiders. The clerks at the hardware or department store are service jobs, or retail, or whatever you want to call non-manufacturing jobs.
You sure can't support an economy entirely on manufacturing jobs. Besides, any decent economy of scale means any factory will manufacture for more than needed locally; that means you have to trade them for goods manufactured elsewhere to have any reasonable balance of trade. You can't just ship goods out without also shipping goods in.
Nonsense. Service jobs, like hotel staff or restaurants or travel, leave more money in the local economy. IT staff leave more money in the local economy. Manufacturing almost by definition sends build goods out of the area (requiring transportation, and the retailers are out of area) and sucks in resources from out of area (raw materials, subcomponents). You'll have to think of better excuses.
But the US is not a free market. It's a big corporation market. It's more Adam Smith than the old Soviet Union, but only barely. I dare say that in many ways, Red China is more Adam Smith than the US, but only because they are growing so fast they don't have time to implement the bureaucracies necessary to slow it down.
Or rather, manufacturing doesn't fuel jobs any more than any other job fuels jobs. What idiots usually mean when they say this is that manufacturing makes things people can hold, actual physical products, but that has nothing to with anything. People buy what they want. Whether they spend $10 on a movie ticket or a toaster or cell phone minutes, they still spend $10. Someone else gets that $10, spends it on resources used to sell the service or product that was bought.
Until your NIC dies and you replace it. But life is full of annoyances.
However, I don't see the need for this scheme. Calling them ethN where N is an index into a MAC cache is perfectly fine. if the NIC dies and you replace it, just edit the cache. No biggie. This Fedora15 scheme just adds complexity for little reason.
I have had a domain name since uunet! days. There are only a very few valid account names on it, but starting maybe ten years ago, it started getting email for nonexistent accounts like bill123@. About 5 years ago, it reached 40K messages a day, only 200 or so being legit (from mailing lists) and kept on growing, with a peak sometime last year of typically 600K messages a day, sometimes hitting 1M for a day or two. It's been dropping all last year, and now averages around 50K messages a day. Still only 200 or so legit a day. It dropped down to 20-30K a day during the holidays, which I attribute to so many computers shut down.
It's not the oil refiners, it's the oil producers. You know, those people whom George Bush rescued from Saddam in 1991, and who now want to be rescued from the infidels in Teheran.
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One for their supporters.
One for their opponents.
One for their family and friends.
Remember, all fake, interchangeable, for show.
Someone's got to make one.
Please?
Excellent section on sorting. I sped up a sort program 100x using that, after much study and fine tuning. This was back in the late 70s on an 8 bit machine with 8k of RAM to play with. Several years later, we switched hardware and interviewed some clown, who, when asked what he would do, said he would allocate a 1MB array and use bubble sort. Ouch!
I might agree with parts of Hamilton pushing for more centralized power than was good, and Lincoln hammering it home to save the Union, but not mercantilism. You may believe that is what we have, but it's not what I complain about.
What I complain about is that we still have an almost feudal manner of justice, run on the principle that big money is better overall for the long term survival of a nation, and thus big money gets deference in the courts and the entire regulatory process. This principle may well have been useful two hundred years ago, maybe even one hundred years ago, but people are too well educated and the economy is no longer dependent on a few captains of industry, and they no longer need protection from the rabble.
This system of deference to the fat cats is NOT mercantilism. It is merely the natural result of centralizing power in the hands of those who already have it. I personally think that mass communications, starting with printed books, thru the telegraph, and continuing today with the internet and cell phones, is a countering decentralizing force which is slowing down the old feudal centralization. Whether decentralization will win, I do not know.
That has nothing to do with your bugbear, mercantilism, being entirely different from my concerns.
We don't have a free market in the US. We have a market dominated by huge bureaucracies who have the wherewithal to buy influence.
A true free market would not have huge corporations running rough over small companies. It would be a truly level playing field.
I have no objection to mergers and big companies AS LONG AS they play fair. But the crony system we have is biased towards the big corps who buy influence. Even if they don't directly or even indirectly buy politicians, they have enough money to drown any legal action against them.
I don't know what the solution is. Loser pays in legal actions would help. Getting the government and its one-size-fits-all policies out of the way would help. When there is only one central planning office, people spend their time trying to win control of it rather than planning for themselves. It's not that they want to tell everyone else how to run their lives (altho some do), but that if they don't capture that central office, someone else will. Whereas if there were no central planning office backed by the threat of jail and fines, there would be a lot less urge to tell other prople how to run their lives,, and the small companies would have a fighting chance.
You obviously don't pay attention. How could an AC have a UID? harryfeet at least uses his eyes.
Geez you are a smug prig. These guys are spending such an incredibly small percentage of the earth's resources that trying to control it would waste more in resources and time than the hobby itself.
Besides hating libertarians so much that you don't know what they are, what makes you think you or anyone else is qualified to make such decisions for other people? How many hobbies do you have that waste resources? I bet you've got more clothes than you need, eat out at restaurants, stay in hotels. You don't need any of that. How fancy is your car, or bicycle, or any other possession? No doubt you've got something better than you need. Resource Pig! Who decided you could buy such extravagant wasteful things? Libertarian for daring to think for yourself!
It's their money, their hobby, their time. It's nobody else's business.
The British battle cruiser HMS Hood burned 7 tons per hour at 15 knots, 70 tons per hour at 32 knots. British engines of that era were notoriously inefficient compared to US engines, I think about one half.
(back of the envelope slackness in operation)
One ton is 2000 pounds, 7 tons is 14000 pounds. One hour is 3600 seconds, which goes into 14000 four times, 4 pounds a second. One gallon is six pounds, so 2/3 gallon. One knot is 2 feet per second. So 30 feet for 2/3 gallon or 45 feet per gallon. Double the efficiency is 90 feet per gallon. 45K tons battle cruiser vs 80K ton aircraft carrier with even better engines and hull form is probably a wash (power required is not linear with displacement).
Naw, way off, 960 inches per gallon, two orders of magnitude.
Of course I probably screwed this up. But what the heck. Post corrections here!
AIUI, Google's complaint is that Microsoft shows search results which could not have been obtained by actually spidering the sites in question, because such sites do not exist. The only reference to them was in the search strings. It's not quite the same as Rand McNally adding bogus towns or roads to their maps and finding those on competitors maps, because that is directly copying something which has been copyrighted. I doubt it's illegal, but it smells.
Another way to phrase it is that Google's complaint is that Bing is only repackaging Google's search results. It is as if Bing simply passed the search term to Google and replayed the results, albeit not in real time and on a very small scale. In other words, Bing is not a real search engine, it is a front end to Google, and while it may not be illegal per se, it certainly is unwholesome.
No, that's the point, thousands of tapes with no known method of reading them.
Of course, some responses have been that tape is tape, and since other mag tape formats are still viable, therefore the tool hasn't disappeared. But that's wrong. The tech remains, but the specific tool has disappeared.
If NASA says it can't read the old tapes, it's well and fine that you have faith in museum units being able to cough up working units someday, but they haven't, so I think [citation needed].
We should not have let that first boatload of you even set foot on our land.
According to a book (Guns, Germs, Steel?), the only reason the Pilgrims could land at Plymouth in 1620 was because the tribes living there along the coast had been wiped out by disease (smallpox etc) brought in by earlier visitors, mostly fishing boats needing fresh water, who were routinely driven away by the natives as soon as they were found. One of these earlier expeditions had kidnapped "Squanto" and taken him back to England, where he learned English well enough to convince later expeditions (the Mayflower, I presume) to take him with them as an interpreter.
So, tell your friend that his ancestors did keep the first boatloads from landing, at least in New England, but a few illegals still managed to get ashore long enough to leave disease behind.
How many times have we read about NASA tapes and such from early missions where the hardware to read them has long since disappeared, and no one is even sure what format the tapes are in?
It says three hours.
Is it a flip- or slide-open cell phone? No? Then it must be a candy bar cell phone.
You can't do squat with MONEY except spend it, unless it's gold, in which case you can fill cavities.
The point of getting MONEY from overseas is to buy what they sell. If you keep the MONEY inside the US, you end up with piles of paper, useful for not much more than toilet paper at that point.
If you use the MONEY as it's intended, you get stuff from overseas in exchange for it. This is known as TRADE. Perhaps you've heard of it, even without resorting to google.
$10 spent is $10 spent. If you buy cell minutes, sure the marginal cost for YOUR minutes is close to zero, but all those cell towers, energy, base stations, computers, support staff, and on and on, all those cost money, which is what your $10 supports. The marginal cost for manufacturing a widget which retails for $10 is not as close to zero, but it too is pretty small. It's the factory, the workers, shipping, retail stores and clerks, all that is what comes up to $10.
$10 is $10. If most of the cell minutes $10 was pure profit, Adam Smith would bring it down in a hurry, even in our fatcat psuedo-free market economy.
Now maybe you, on your little machine with just a few customers, consider each additional $10 as pure profit, but that's got nothing to do with the real world, any more than some guy making wooden Xmas doodads in his garage considers his hobby tools as overhead when selling a few extra to friends and neighbors.
You don't have a fucking clue, period.
Let's try other examples of "buy local". Why make cars only in Detroit? Why not every state make its own cars? Hawaii, Rhode Island. Do it to countries too -- Luxembourg can make its own cars, Monaco, the Vatican. Yeh, that'll work.
Look, dickwad, the way the world works is that as new jobs are created, old jobs have to be removed to make room for them. As manufacturing took off in the 1800s, farm jobs disappeared. As windshield wiper jobs were created, buggy whip jobs disappeared.
And as economies of scale took off, jobs concentrated. Car jobs moved to Detroit, airplane jobs to California and Seattle. The same thing applies on a global scale. As IT jobs expanded in the US, something had to give, and labor intensive jobs moved elswhere.
Dickwad luddites like you would have everybody self-sufficient, everybody stuck in little villages with the local blacksmith about as high tech as it gets, and he'dprobably only exist if there were iron deposits within a day's walk. You suck as bad as your grip on reality.
Service jobs aren't just for outsiders. The clerks at the hardware or department store are service jobs, or retail, or whatever you want to call non-manufacturing jobs.
You sure can't support an economy entirely on manufacturing jobs. Besides, any decent economy of scale means any factory will manufacture for more than needed locally; that means you have to trade them for goods manufactured elsewhere to have any reasonable balance of trade. You can't just ship goods out without also shipping goods in.
Nonsense. Service jobs, like hotel staff or restaurants or travel, leave more money in the local economy. IT staff leave more money in the local economy. Manufacturing almost by definition sends build goods out of the area (requiring transportation, and the retailers are out of area) and sucks in resources from out of area (raw materials, subcomponents). You'll have to think of better excuses.
But the US is not a free market. It's a big corporation market. It's more Adam Smith than the old Soviet Union, but only barely. I dare say that in many ways, Red China is more Adam Smith than the US, but only because they are growing so fast they don't have time to implement the bureaucracies necessary to slow it down.
Or rather, manufacturing doesn't fuel jobs any more than any other job fuels jobs. What idiots usually mean when they say this is that manufacturing makes things people can hold, actual physical products, but that has nothing to with anything. People buy what they want. Whether they spend $10 on a movie ticket or a toaster or cell phone minutes, they still spend $10. Someone else gets that $10, spends it on resources used to sell the service or product that was bought.
I am soooo tired of this malarkey.
Until your NIC dies and you replace it. But life is full of annoyances.
However, I don't see the need for this scheme. Calling them ethN where N is an index into a MAC cache is perfectly fine. if the NIC dies and you replace it, just edit the cache. No biggie. This Fedora15 scheme just adds complexity for little reason.
I have had a domain name since uunet! days. There are only a very few valid account names on it, but starting maybe ten years ago, it started getting email for nonexistent accounts like bill123@. About 5 years ago, it reached 40K messages a day, only 200 or so being legit (from mailing lists) and kept on growing, with a peak sometime last year of typically 600K messages a day, sometimes hitting 1M for a day or two. It's been dropping all last year, and now averages around 50K messages a day. Still only 200 or so legit a day. It dropped down to 20-30K a day during the holidays, which I attribute to so many computers shut down.
It's not the oil refiners, it's the oil producers. You know, those people whom George Bush rescued from Saddam in 1991, and who now want to be rescued from the infidels in Teheran.