What if I write my own virtual computer which reads the program code, the actual machine instructions, and executes them entirely in software? I can pass whatever I want back from the TPM instructions, I can fake any memory contents I want, I can fake any I/O inputs I want.
Given how fast computers are now, I suspect I could write a virtual computer which, when run on the fastest machine, looked about as fast as the slowest machine. By "fast" and "slow", I mean reasonable commercial home machines, ranging from cheap notebook to gamer's overclocked screamer. I would not be surprised if such a program could fake the entire boot process at a slow but reasonable speed, and I only have to do that to extract interesting data from the software being run.
NASA has said that as soon as the space station is complete, they will mothball it. Not only does the proposed Moon and Mars program cost so much taht they can't afford it, they intend to stop using the shuttle because it is so dangerous.
Seems to me that the difference is who decides where the money is spent. If one person decides where to spend $100 million, maybe he will buy a yacht, fancy cars, fine art, expensive condos... the yacht and cars generate jobs, but the condos and fine art simply go into some other rich person's investment accounts. No one directly benefits. Plus there's not much variety there.
Whereas if 100 people spend $1 million apiece, there's more variety, more spent on manufactured goods which generate jobs, less spent on trading museum pieces around the shuffle board.
And in one million people spend $100 apiece, most of it is spent on food, booze, ciggies. Certainly generates jobs, but not good jobs, and no real opportunity to trigger investments.
The idea that a fired CEO deserves a $240 million golden parachute is just ludicrous.
I know he's more interested in a legacy than passing on his dictatorship to any heirs, but he's still a dictator, and free information is not reknowned for its compatibility with dictators:-) That's what is interesting.
The same OLPC mesh that spreads rumours of fraudulent vaccines also allows access to the truth. Sure some will believe the lies, but now the thoughtful will have a way to counter it. Rumors have a shorter lifespan where listeners can ask others, in other villages, who have already had the vaccine, what it was like. When village after village reports on how nice it is to not suffer from malaria or HIV or whatever disease the vaccine counters, that's hard territory for a mere rumor to take hold in. When villagers have something to ddo other than go to religious school and more points of view than the local fanatic whose school they are forced to attend, his garbage has a lot less fertile ground to take root in, and his lies are easier to see.
It won't stop all rumors and liars, and it won't stop all villages from falling for rumors and liars. But it will make it less likely.
Information is wonderful. That's why so many governments try to stop it.
I am personally amazed at some of the countries signing up. Libya? Pakistan? I suspect they are too fanatically blinded and technologically ignorant to foresee the trouble they will have in a generation. A wonderful present to the rest of the world!
The OLPC can be justified on simple economic grounds.
An OLPC comes with ebook textbooks. The cost of the OLPC is at worst the same as paper textbooks. The OLPC textbooks can be updated as often as necessary instead of being obsolete castoffs, and they are in the native language instead of a foreign language. The child can carry all of them around without weight penalty.
They also provide light from the screen if necessary, and they provide communication with the other OLPCs and with the big wide world. Parents can get medical advice. They can find the best market for their farm goods instead of having to walk ten miles with thir goods and hope they get the best price possible.
The idea that kids can learn about computers is NOT the main goal of OLPC.
You certainly haven't absorbed much of what you have supposedly heard about this project. The economics of it come into play by paying for this instead of buying obsolete textbooks in foreign languages. Now they will be able to have up to date textbooks, in their own language, and carry ALL of them around with them.
The secondary goal is learning about the big wide world around them. Communication, it's called. Now the kids will be able to meet people who might not live within an hour's walk away.
All this applies to the kids' families too. The parents and older siblings and neighbors and friends will all get similar benefits. Parents can get medical information, advice about better farming, learn what the regional markets want to buy so they can make better decisions about what to make or grow... the possibilities are endless.
To think of the OLPC as a mere computer is hopelessly incredibly narrow minded.
I went thru Watergate and wanted the book thrown at Nixon. All that guff about pardoning him so the nation's long nightmare could be put beind us -- what a load of self-serving rot! Yes, let's pardon every criminal before trial so the victims can put their long nightmare behind them -- NOT! Every murder suspect, every rape suspect, burglary, you name it -- find a suspect and pardon them before they even get indicted.
There was so much about Nixon that is probably buried forever because Ford pardoned him before the indictment (impeachment) even got halfway done. The nation deserved a full trial, just as every ordinary citizen deserves a trial when susspects are found.
I will never forgive that son of a bitc Ford. May he rot in hell.
Broadband will get faster and cheaper. It's pretty crappy in the US right now, and it will take a while for it to get faster, but it's already fast enough in, I believe, South Korea and Japan and parts of Europe that downloading is no big deal. Suppose you can download a movie in an hour. That to me is better than driving by a store on the way home only to find they are out of anything you want. If one DVD is 4.7G, that's only (/= 3600 seconds) 1+ MBps, call it 10Mbps. And better compression can reduce that considerably.
If these phase change chips are non-volatile and cheap, they can replace the DVD/CD just as easily as they replace the hard disk. The only purpose of anything DVD-like would be for mass distribution of software and content, and if I could eliminate that mechanical drive in favor of simple internet downloads to a phase change stick like current flash sticks but faster and cheaper, I'd be happy.
I haven't used pine in so long that I've forgotten it. I only used it for a short while, then used other programs for a long time, and now have used mutt for several years. Have you tried mutt? How would you compare them?
the judge, bless his computer ignorance, will probably agree with you and allow you to continue to release & profit from Linux.
I don't believe they will have any more success than SCO has had. Microsoft's biggest mistake is not understanding how well the GPL resonates with developers and how poorly DRM resonates with users. They are stuck with a DOS mindset.
Their second biggest mistakes was proxying SCO to do their dirty work. The SCO case has shown how poorly this infringement idea flies, and it is going to make it incredibly hard for Microsoft to get any traction with the general public and with Wall Street when they take their turn. The legal traction won't be there either, but they can afford far more lawyering than SCO and will manage to drag out Son of SCO for a long time. But the end result will be even better for Linux.
Yes, what I meant was, not all of the energy will be reabsorbed by the base station, it would have to be 100% efficient, eh? The lawyers will argue about that and how much the body absorbs and what clinical trials were done and how well.
Cookies have nothing to do with your complaint. You are upset, as I am, about companies trading my personal info, such as what I bought, how much I owe, what kind of car I drive... but cookies are an entirely different kettle of fish.
Cookies track web sessions. you can disable them entirely at your own control. The only control companies have over yoru cookies is to refuse to do web business with you unless they can set a cookie, and if you only allow session cookies, they have nothing to tie one session to another.
You can disrupt cookies. There is nothing useful the govt can do or need to do.
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There are waveforms of third party performers.
Maybe they needed the money for her medical bills. Altho this is NHS Britain, ne? Maybe they wanted extra treatments not covered by the NHS.
What if I write my own virtual computer which reads the program code, the actual machine instructions, and executes them entirely in software? I can pass whatever I want back from the TPM instructions, I can fake any memory contents I want, I can fake any I/O inputs I want.
Given how fast computers are now, I suspect I could write a virtual computer which, when run on the fastest machine, looked about as fast as the slowest machine. By "fast" and "slow", I mean reasonable commercial home machines, ranging from cheap notebook to gamer's overclocked screamer. I would not be surprised if such a program could fake the entire boot process at a slow but reasonable speed, and I only have to do that to extract interesting data from the software being run.
NASA has said that as soon as the space station is complete, they will mothball it. Not only does the proposed Moon and Mars program cost so much taht they can't afford it, they intend to stop using the shuttle because it is so dangerous.
Isn't that spiffy!
Are the suicidal robots being misinformed about 72 virgin robots awaiting them?
Seems to me that the difference is who decides where the money is spent. If one person decides where to spend $100 million, maybe he will buy a yacht, fancy cars, fine art, expensive condos ... the yacht and cars generate jobs, but the condos and fine art simply go into some other rich person's investment accounts. No one directly benefits. Plus there's not much variety there.
Whereas if 100 people spend $1 million apiece, there's more variety, more spent on manufactured goods which generate jobs, less spent on trading museum pieces around the shuffle board.
And in one million people spend $100 apiece, most of it is spent on food, booze, ciggies. Certainly generates jobs, but not good jobs, and no real opportunity to trigger investments.
The idea that a fired CEO deserves a $240 million golden parachute is just ludicrous.
I know he's more interested in a legacy than passing on his dictatorship to any heirs, but he's still a dictator, and free information is not reknowned for its compatibility with dictators :-) That's what is interesting.
The same OLPC mesh that spreads rumours of fraudulent vaccines also allows access to the truth. Sure some will believe the lies, but now the thoughtful will have a way to counter it. Rumors have a shorter lifespan where listeners can ask others, in other villages, who have already had the vaccine, what it was like. When village after village reports on how nice it is to not suffer from malaria or HIV or whatever disease the vaccine counters, that's hard territory for a mere rumor to take hold in. When villagers have something to ddo other than go to religious school and more points of view than the local fanatic whose school they are forced to attend, his garbage has a lot less fertile ground to take root in, and his lies are easier to see.
It won't stop all rumors and liars, and it won't stop all villages from falling for rumors and liars. But it will make it less likely.
Information is wonderful. That's why so many governments try to stop it.
I am personally amazed at some of the countries signing up. Libya? Pakistan? I suspect they are too fanatically blinded and technologically ignorant to foresee the trouble they will have in a generation. A wonderful present to the rest of the world!
The OLPC can be justified on simple economic grounds.
An OLPC comes with ebook textbooks. The cost of the OLPC is at worst the same as paper textbooks. The OLPC textbooks can be updated as often as necessary instead of being obsolete castoffs, and they are in the native language instead of a foreign language. The child can carry all of them around without weight penalty.
They also provide light from the screen if necessary, and they provide communication with the other OLPCs and with the big wide world. Parents can get medical advice. They can find the best market for their farm goods instead of having to walk ten miles with thir goods and hope they get the best price possible.
The idea that kids can learn about computers is NOT the main goal of OLPC.
These are TOOLS.
You certainly haven't absorbed much of what you have supposedly heard about this project. The economics of it come into play by paying for this instead of buying obsolete textbooks in foreign languages. Now they will be able to have up to date textbooks, in their own language, and carry ALL of them around with them.
... the possibilities are endless.
The secondary goal is learning about the big wide world around them. Communication, it's called. Now the kids will be able to meet people who might not live within an hour's walk away.
All this applies to the kids' families too. The parents and older siblings and neighbors and friends will all get similar benefits. Parents can get medical information, advice about better farming, learn what the regional markets want to buy so they can make better decisions about what to make or grow
To think of the OLPC as a mere computer is hopelessly incredibly narrow minded.
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I went thru Watergate and wanted the book thrown at Nixon. All that guff about pardoning him so the nation's long nightmare could be put beind us -- what a load of self-serving rot! Yes, let's pardon every criminal before trial so the victims can put their long nightmare behind them -- NOT! Every murder suspect, every rape suspect, burglary, you name it -- find a suspect and pardon them before they even get indicted.
There was so much about Nixon that is probably buried forever because Ford pardoned him before the indictment (impeachment) even got halfway done. The nation deserved a full trial, just as every ordinary citizen deserves a trial when susspects are found.
I will never forgive that son of a bitc Ford. May he rot in hell.
The squirrel requirement eliminates the nuts.
When did this happen?
Why?
Broadband will get faster and cheaper. It's pretty crappy in the US right now, and it will take a while for it to get faster, but it's already fast enough in, I believe, South Korea and Japan and parts of Europe that downloading is no big deal. Suppose you can download a movie in an hour. That to me is better than driving by a store on the way home only to find they are out of anything you want. If one DVD is 4.7G, that's only (/= 3600 seconds) 1+ MBps, call it 10Mbps. And better compression can reduce that considerably.
If these phase change chips are non-volatile and cheap, they can replace the DVD/CD just as easily as they replace the hard disk. The only purpose of anything DVD-like would be for mass distribution of software and content, and if I could eliminate that mechanical drive in favor of simple internet downloads to a phase change stick like current flash sticks but faster and cheaper, I'd be happy.
Some moderator in a hurry saw this and thought it said First Post. It doesn't. It may just be a joke, but it is relevant.
It's Niagara
Maybe he meant Viagra.
I wonder if I could work Sun into this someow, something about putting it where the Sun don't shine....
Theory is his dog, and it often pisses on his shoe and humps the fireplug down the street. Theory is old.
I haven't used pine in so long that I've forgotten it. I only used it for a short while, then used other programs for a long time, and now have used mutt for several years. Have you tried mutt? How would you compare them?
the judge, bless his computer ignorance, will probably agree with you and allow you to continue to release & profit from Linux.
I don't believe they will have any more success than SCO has had. Microsoft's biggest mistake is not understanding how well the GPL resonates with developers and how poorly DRM resonates with users. They are stuck with a DOS mindset.
Their second biggest mistakes was proxying SCO to do their dirty work. The SCO case has shown how poorly this infringement idea flies, and it is going to make it incredibly hard for Microsoft to get any traction with the general public and with Wall Street when they take their turn. The legal traction won't be there either, but they can afford far more lawyering than SCO and will manage to drag out Son of SCO for a long time. But the end result will be even better for Linux.
If you want a job done right, do it yourself, eh Balmer? SCO just wasn't up to the task.
Nice concept :-)
Yes, what I meant was, not all of the energy will be reabsorbed by the base station, it would have to be 100% efficient, eh? The lawyers will argue about that and how much the body absorbs and what clinical trials were done and how well.
Cookies have nothing to do with your complaint. You are upset, as I am, about companies trading my personal info, such as what I bought, how much I owe, what kind of car I drive ... but cookies are an entirely different kettle of fish.
Cookies track web sessions. you can disable them entirely at your own control. The only control companies have over yoru cookies is to refuse to do web business with you unless they can set a cookie, and if you only allow session cookies, they have nothing to tie one session to another.
You can disrupt cookies. There is nothing useful the govt can do or need to do.