I sit on boards. Have been on large ones (people, money, scope) and small ones. There are certainly some matters that require confidentiality. And mostly, there are not.
Requires confidentiality: certain financial matters and legal obligations (including personnel issues, litigation, and other conversations that require legal protection as liability counterweights the need for openness).
Most of the rest should be open, even painfully so. The best governance I've participated in were of the painfully open variety, so that the representative constituencies could all be heard if they wanted to be heard at all. No, deliberation into the weeds is unnecessary (for the most part, erring to the side of caution).
The ARRL, however, is not the SCOTUS and IMHO, doesn't need to be anything close. Minority opinions and especially votes need to be heard and expostulated, but barring governance rules to the contrary, a majority rules, and this consensus needs to guide the organization. Mature people whose votes are in the majority do not have to utter lip flatulence like a small child, but they can and should present their reasoned arguments in an adult manner, without the inflammatory. The inflammatory is what renders the "we're never going to be defeated because we will carry this to our graves and our children's graves" bullshit. Today, we fight wars that sometimes go back 1000+ years because of this insanity, and the inability to concede gracefully.
As it pertains to the ARRL, I don't like sneaky boneheads in closed meetings fooling with my radio destiny, and that's the attitude pervaded today.
I'm with Bruce. An open attitude is ultimately the best. It is this perception of NOT open that sways me deeply.
Software CAN INDEED handle that. You need to know it's working the software (defined radio) that you use, because the airwaves allocated to amateur radio are shared assets. One bozo screws up big wads of spectrum.
It has to be done cleanly, lest TV, AM/FM radio, even your smartphone, gets screwed. It's done with great care because we as radio operators have a responsibility to each other.
I use SDRs. They're fabulous. Want to learn about great applications for FPGAs and a Raspberry Pi3? Check it out. Not hard. If you can code in Py, C, PHP, Perl, Java/etc., you have sufficient brain power to learn how to talk directly around the planet where there's never a wire in the circuit between you and another operator. There are millions of us, some smarter than others, but all charged with learning a bit so we don't screw it up for others. And it works.
It has to do more with being closed, rather than being open. Not unlike closed-source/open-source with analogous reasons and reasoning.
The CoC issues really don't revolve around control of behavior; it has to do with respect. Minimal respect. Nothing more. There are some who completely eschew rules. We call them: uncivil. This is about minimum standards of civility, both the captioned issue, and CoC.
Join a younger club if you want, although there's a lot of dozy people at any age. I was licensed at 12. EVERYONE was older. Now, most are younger. Still have had a ball.
I used it last night to make a contact in Poland, known in ham language as a QSO. A week ago, it was Hawaii. Morse is plainly stupid, and it also plainly cuts through the RFI/EMI/Nutzo blabbing done in other modes.
And I'm a no-code Extra Class. Is there other fun in amateur radio? Yep.
The EAS, sometimes known as the Emergency Alert System, has been around since the 1950s, when it was CONELRAD, then the Emergency Broadcast System. It interrupts with a test broadcast randomly, at least once a month. All AM/FM stations in the USA are required to have a working and tested EAS. Now there's IPAWS and WEA.
Alert messaging in broadcasting is probably older than you are. The more unified alerts are recent. I never said they were efficient, but there is long precedent for them. Why people get gnarled over them escapes me. It's much akin to having to listen to a car horn, and sometimes, as meaningful/less.
If you're that touchy, try quitting coffee. Something's inherently wrong here. Your phone buzzed once. Did you get your pistol? Throw something? See a professional.
I don't trust the current guy, but this is just a tiny dick move among dick moves that are clearly gargantuan. It's a matter of penises. He wants to have a big one, and now, he thinks he does, especially when people complain loudly and severely.
Although I truly and sincerely desire you to have control over your devices and your privacy, you and I do not.
Could the alerts be tighter? Sure. I get Amber alerts from 200mi away. I shrug. You should, too.
You are mightily deceived if you don't understand privacy, LBS tracking, and the sins of the telcos. This is truly chump change compared to the flapping pile of data dirt already stored on you, and I. Living in a crazy world is a grey scale of death by a thousand cuts. This is just one cut. Save the cries for the really deep ones.
It's sad that people even give a flying fuck about this message. Oh, test message. Not an Amber Alert, no hurricane or earthquake.
The EAS has messages at least once a week on your favorite radio station. No one gets outraged. Same principal.
The electronic trespass rubric seems like a sham to me. If there were a tornado coming through, you'd want to know. A national emergency like some fool N Korean lobbing stuff at the USA, yeah, a real one (not the stupid fake one of recent memory) is important.
Gonna be earthquake? Sunspots of biblical magnitude (just before most transistors get clobbered) would be nice. I'd break out the candles.
Of many things to give a crap about, this is not one of them.
But the headline and the content is a puff piece. And you'd get lots of great arguments from other vendors as to why their machines are not only better, but more cost effective and better-designed.
C'mon Slashdot. This isn't the place for vendor hubris.
Until petro-exports started to make money, the USSR was trading potatoes. Reagan, for all of his crap, outspent the USSR and sucked up its resources in military spending.
The uprisings were the result of not being able to feed people, crappy bureaucracy, and horrific infrastructure. There was no money, the common denominator towards the equivalent of a $2.50/hr wage. Great masses of people were just fed up with it.
Party members were elevated to a pseudo-status of wealth. They weren't really rich, but they fared much better than the masses.
This said, I think the Canadians are fooling themselves. Hackers like a challenge. They may be making a big mistake, thinking themselves clever and thumping their chests. It almost sounds like an invitation, to some of the people I know.
The symptoms of the "Spanish" flu in 1918 were rapid onset, and extreme debilitation. Cities were completely overwhelmed by very seriously sick patients, who before, were "perfectly" healthy. Several of my ancestors died of it, small town residents. Children were left without parents.
It took as little as four to five days from onset of symptoms to death-- from the state of being an otherwise "healthy" person. People drowned in their own mucus, or had fevers that put them into in a variety of cardio jeopardy. Dead. Four days. Gone. Four days. Millions in the USA. Hospitals in those days were for the dying, band they were completely overwhelmed. If you thought The Plague was bad, this was just much faster.
A variant of the "swine" flu could move very quickly and plainly overwhelm current medical service capabilities. We're far more mobile than 1918. Would a flu shot stanch the symptoms? It becomes a numbers game. Some will have better immune systems. Some will have a more natural propensity to succumb, randomly. Others will survive and/or be lower infection vectors, randomly. But a large outbreak could be devastating. Stanching infection vectors is the way to administrate an anti-influenza social posture.
Maybe. People lack inertia to learn new things. Unix is a progenitor of most of what we have in computing today, coupled to SmallTalk. Linux removed the non-free aspects of Unix in a way that BSD had stronger DNA. Linux survived. In a decade, something else will be happening. Some of its DNA will remain.
The reason that older versions of operating systems are gone has to do with the end of Moore's Law, new devices, and stuff we can't predict today with certainty. The address space of the 64bit processor is a huge change. But security problems will continue to force changes in how operating systems evolve.
These are random thoughts; IBM is a shadow of itself. The revenue in operating systems is diffuse. At the root of Linux, the business model has evolved but not in predictable ways. A subsequent operating system dynasty will probably have different values. One of them, I hope, is not the constraints of meritocracy.
Indeed civilized society is built on the capacity for empathy. Differing movements you cite have elements of empathy, but to disambiguate them for you is probably a waste of time.
Perhaps he does have a soul. Maybe he does have actual empathy. Maybe the meritrocracy is just another word for brutality in Darwinism.
Lots of haters. Not enough lovers.
Linus may be having his Zen moment.
But the community will survive. Lots of great people in it. The forces of real evil that divide people will benefit from the charades, but it's my belief that the community will continue to mature. It's done more for computing than any other single energy in software.
No, the Intel/AMD/others x86-x64 familes are CISC processors, no matter the handling underneath. It came to pass that the layers underneath were recently shown to have exposed RISC core access, but such access is disabled so far as most all humans are concerned.
The instruction set vs execution over clock cycles that determines the practical difference. ARM is based on the 6502 instruction set, adapted for larger memory models and in some cases, math, depending upon the implementation. I consider the ARM family RISC, but not the Intel/AMD families mentioned.
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Oh yes. Chill Wills yelling, "Wahooooo....." on top of a nuke dropped from a radio-broken B-52. ... There's a hush, all over the world, tonight.....
All twelve will be infected so that I can watch you in 3-2-1....
I sit on boards. Have been on large ones (people, money, scope) and small ones. There are certainly some matters that require confidentiality. And mostly, there are not.
Requires confidentiality: certain financial matters and legal obligations (including personnel issues, litigation, and other conversations that require legal protection as liability counterweights the need for openness).
Most of the rest should be open, even painfully so. The best governance I've participated in were of the painfully open variety, so that the representative constituencies could all be heard if they wanted to be heard at all. No, deliberation into the weeds is unnecessary (for the most part, erring to the side of caution).
The ARRL, however, is not the SCOTUS and IMHO, doesn't need to be anything close. Minority opinions and especially votes need to be heard and expostulated, but barring governance rules to the contrary, a majority rules, and this consensus needs to guide the organization. Mature people whose votes are in the majority do not have to utter lip flatulence like a small child, but they can and should present their reasoned arguments in an adult manner, without the inflammatory. The inflammatory is what renders the "we're never going to be defeated because we will carry this to our graves and our children's graves" bullshit. Today, we fight wars that sometimes go back 1000+ years because of this insanity, and the inability to concede gracefully.
As it pertains to the ARRL, I don't like sneaky boneheads in closed meetings fooling with my radio destiny, and that's the attitude pervaded today.
I'm with Bruce. An open attitude is ultimately the best. It is this perception of NOT open that sways me deeply.
Software CAN INDEED handle that. You need to know it's working the software (defined radio) that you use, because the airwaves allocated to amateur radio are shared assets. One bozo screws up big wads of spectrum.
It has to be done cleanly, lest TV, AM/FM radio, even your smartphone, gets screwed. It's done with great care because we as radio operators have a responsibility to each other.
I use SDRs. They're fabulous. Want to learn about great applications for FPGAs and a Raspberry Pi3? Check it out. Not hard. If you can code in Py, C, PHP, Perl, Java/etc., you have sufficient brain power to learn how to talk directly around the planet where there's never a wire in the circuit between you and another operator. There are millions of us, some smarter than others, but all charged with learning a bit so we don't screw it up for others. And it works.
Nope, not at all.
It has to do more with being closed, rather than being open. Not unlike closed-source/open-source with analogous reasons and reasoning.
The CoC issues really don't revolve around control of behavior; it has to do with respect. Minimal respect. Nothing more. There are some who completely eschew rules. We call them: uncivil. This is about minimum standards of civility, both the captioned issue, and CoC.
Join a younger club if you want, although there's a lot of dozy people at any age. I was licensed at 12. EVERYONE was older. Now, most are younger. Still have had a ball.
I used it last night to make a contact in Poland, known in ham language as a QSO. A week ago, it was Hawaii. Morse is plainly stupid, and it also plainly cuts through the RFI/EMI/Nutzo blabbing done in other modes.
And I'm a no-code Extra Class. Is there other fun in amateur radio? Yep.
No, we use microwaves to cook pigeons in flight. Enjoy that melted plastic drone of yours.
100% of the hams I know are well under 65, most under 30. And they are plentiful.
No "get of my lawn" shit here. Learn how to have fun without your cellphone. Or use APRSDroid with your cellphone to amuse yourself and friends.
Or not.
I feel your pain. But it's a small pain.
Of many things, this is one of the ones not to worry about, IMHO.
I was going to replace my Galaxy Note, but oh well. No rest for the wicked.
Such lip flatulence. Good thing there's not a flame nearby.
No one is forced to have a phone.
The EAS, sometimes known as the Emergency Alert System, has been around since the 1950s, when it was CONELRAD, then the Emergency Broadcast System. It interrupts with a test broadcast randomly, at least once a month. All AM/FM stations in the USA are required to have a working and tested EAS. Now there's IPAWS and WEA.
Alert messaging in broadcasting is probably older than you are. The more unified alerts are recent. I never said they were efficient, but there is long precedent for them. Why people get gnarled over them escapes me. It's much akin to having to listen to a car horn, and sometimes, as meaningful/less.
Then you need anger management lessons.
If you're that touchy, try quitting coffee. Something's inherently wrong here. Your phone buzzed once. Did you get your pistol? Throw something? See a professional.
I don't trust the current guy, but this is just a tiny dick move among dick moves that are clearly gargantuan. It's a matter of penises. He wants to have a big one, and now, he thinks he does, especially when people complain loudly and severely.
Although I truly and sincerely desire you to have control over your devices and your privacy, you and I do not.
Could the alerts be tighter? Sure. I get Amber alerts from 200mi away. I shrug. You should, too.
You are mightily deceived if you don't understand privacy, LBS tracking, and the sins of the telcos. This is truly chump change compared to the flapping pile of data dirt already stored on you, and I. Living in a crazy world is a grey scale of death by a thousand cuts. This is just one cut. Save the cries for the really deep ones.
Exactly.
These days, half the people are raging that it's sun-up, while the others wondered why couldn't night time be longer.
If there was a concerted effort to make everyone touchy MFers, it worked.
It's sad that people even give a flying fuck about this message. Oh, test message. Not an Amber Alert, no hurricane or earthquake.
The EAS has messages at least once a week on your favorite radio station. No one gets outraged. Same principal.
The electronic trespass rubric seems like a sham to me. If there were a tornado coming through, you'd want to know. A national emergency like some fool N Korean lobbing stuff at the USA, yeah, a real one (not the stupid fake one of recent memory) is important.
Gonna be earthquake? Sunspots of biblical magnitude (just before most transistors get clobbered) would be nice. I'd break out the candles.
Of many things to give a crap about, this is not one of them.
They have some sales, better than I'd imagined.
But the headline and the content is a puff piece. And you'd get lots of great arguments from other vendors as to why their machines are not only better, but more cost effective and better-designed.
C'mon Slashdot. This isn't the place for vendor hubris.
Until petro-exports started to make money, the USSR was trading potatoes. Reagan, for all of his crap, outspent the USSR and sucked up its resources in military spending.
The uprisings were the result of not being able to feed people, crappy bureaucracy, and horrific infrastructure. There was no money, the common denominator towards the equivalent of a $2.50/hr wage. Great masses of people were just fed up with it.
Party members were elevated to a pseudo-status of wealth. They weren't really rich, but they fared much better than the masses.
This said, I think the Canadians are fooling themselves. Hackers like a challenge. They may be making a big mistake, thinking themselves clever and thumping their chests. It almost sounds like an invitation, to some of the people I know.
The symptoms of the "Spanish" flu in 1918 were rapid onset, and extreme debilitation. Cities were completely overwhelmed by very seriously sick patients, who before, were "perfectly" healthy. Several of my ancestors died of it, small town residents. Children were left without parents.
It took as little as four to five days from onset of symptoms to death-- from the state of being an otherwise "healthy" person. People drowned in their own mucus, or had fevers that put them into in a variety of cardio jeopardy. Dead. Four days. Gone. Four days. Millions in the USA. Hospitals in those days were for the dying, band they were completely overwhelmed. If you thought The Plague was bad, this was just much faster.
A variant of the "swine" flu could move very quickly and plainly overwhelm current medical service capabilities. We're far more mobile than 1918. Would a flu shot stanch the symptoms? It becomes a numbers game. Some will have better immune systems. Some will have a more natural propensity to succumb, randomly. Others will survive and/or be lower infection vectors, randomly. But a large outbreak could be devastating. Stanching infection vectors is the way to administrate an anti-influenza social posture.
Will Linux be a shadow of itself in a decade?
Maybe. People lack inertia to learn new things. Unix is a progenitor of most of what we have in computing today, coupled to SmallTalk. Linux removed the non-free aspects of Unix in a way that BSD had stronger DNA. Linux survived. In a decade, something else will be happening. Some of its DNA will remain.
The reason that older versions of operating systems are gone has to do with the end of Moore's Law, new devices, and stuff we can't predict today with certainty. The address space of the 64bit processor is a huge change. But security problems will continue to force changes in how operating systems evolve.
These are random thoughts; IBM is a shadow of itself. The revenue in operating systems is diffuse. At the root of Linux, the business model has evolved but not in predictable ways. A subsequent operating system dynasty will probably have different values. One of them, I hope, is not the constraints of meritocracy.
All of your statements are provably wrong.
Indeed civilized society is built on the capacity for empathy. Differing movements you cite have elements of empathy, but to disambiguate them for you is probably a waste of time.
Bigotry is fear. As in: bigotry==fear.
Perhaps he does have a soul. Maybe he does have actual empathy. Maybe the meritrocracy is just another word for brutality in Darwinism.
Lots of haters. Not enough lovers.
Linus may be having his Zen moment.
But the community will survive. Lots of great people in it. The forces of real evil that divide people will benefit from the charades, but it's my belief that the community will continue to mature. It's done more for computing than any other single energy in software.
Long day.
Read about it here: https://www.engineersgarage.co...
Ok, not really the 6502 instruction set per se, but rather, similar to the 6502 in that it didn't use DMA.
No, the Intel/AMD/others x86-x64 familes are CISC processors, no matter the handling underneath. It came to pass that the layers underneath were recently shown to have exposed RISC core access, but such access is disabled so far as most all humans are concerned.
The instruction set vs execution over clock cycles that determines the practical difference. ARM is based on the 6502 instruction set, adapted for larger memory models and in some cases, math, depending upon the implementation. I consider the ARM family RISC, but not the Intel/AMD families mentioned.