No, but it would increase by over 50%, and more by the time MS got ahold of it... TurboPascal is a nice small compiler, a simple tool for a simple time, I guess in some ways, part of its simple elegance is that it was working in such a Bauhaus environment.
I don't think Anon is short on balls, I think they probably didn't have as many damaging names as they implied, better to turn tail and collect more names rather than shoot off a pop-cap and get a bunch of people killed in return. I mean, if they had real damaging info that could threaten Zeta's future ability to operate, they could out it without taking credit.
I'm thinking TurboPascal probably used most of the OS/BIOS, at least most of the keyboard, screen, disk, filesystem parts, which was pretty much all the BIOS and OS did at the time. I seem to remember the OS using about 16K of RAM and having maybe 48K of ROM at the time (1992ish), but it was so long ago... whatever it was, it was less than 640K for sure.
West Virginia isn't the only place scarred by coal mining, and MegaWatt hours generated vs. Megatons of earth strip-mined, nuclear beats coal. My main reference to France was their breeder reactors which make fuel for the next generation of plants without further mining.
My thought is to go a whole lot of steps past this.
Each and every bill brought up for a vote must be able to be COMPLETELY summarized on a single page, using 12 point type. Anything in the bill that isn't in the summary (snow-pea farmer special incentive) isn't legal.
That would make those omnibus bills impractical if not impossible since there's no way to put all the things they cover on a single page.
Lots more bills? Yep. But very concise ones that are easy to research and see who voted how.
If we can get 5000 signatures, they promise to respond, hell, they'll respond to an e-mail, but with 5000 signatures, they might do more than hit the "autogenerate reply" button.
Oh, coal, definitely, if we're burning it on MARS!
Seriously, look at France's nuclear program, rewind the U.S. and rest of the world back to 1975 and take a different road - following in France's footsteps and building all new generating capacity from nuclear power. One might argue that we'd have had another nuclear disaster or two between then and now if we had built so many more plants, I'd counterpoint that if we had built so many more new tech based updated plants, we could have retired the ones that we're currently limping along at 150%+ of their original design lifetimes, we might have had fewer accidents instead of more.
Now, take a look at West Virginia, and anywhere else we're extracting coal, take a look at the mercury content of our rivers and near-shore waters, how many rivers in the U.S.A. are safe to eat the fish from today? Take a look at the megatons of carbon-dioxide we're releasing while burning coal for electricity. And, Mr. Fusion, where the hell is my Mr. Fusion? You can't rely on knowing where lightning will strike every time you want to go back 30 years now, can you? Oh, I forgot.../seriously
see how your representative and senators voted on that particular item, the item you cared about, and get some sense of whether or not you want to vote for them again.
You're assuming our representatives want to be accountable... All they care about is getting (re)elected and/or ensuring the other party isn't.
No, sadly, I know better. What I am wishing is that our system would let the governed people demand and receive accountability from their representatives. Wish in one hand...
The first problem is that the system requires the Legislators to pass the laws that would regulate themselves... the Founding Fathers were pretty good, but I think this is a big flaw in the system.
I was just thinking about this, and the other thing that's lacking in transparency is granularity of the vote. I think a big step toward reform would be to require bills to address small, identifiable subjects, like a single tax incentive program, or even a single element of a single tax incentive program. Then, when you're doing your TurboTax on April 14th, you can right click on the line item for the snow-pea farmer special incentive 75% deduction for the first $200,000 of income, and see how your representative and senators voted on that particular item, the item you cared about, and get some sense of whether or not you want to vote for them again.
As it is now, it's impossible to decipher what your incumbents have really done, without listening to a bunch of biased analysts who themselves are still mostly clueless.
I've made my own MP3s from my CD collection, over a span of years, most of them are in good shape now, but it was not always so, early software didn't make it easy to do and later it just wasn't worth the effort to go back and fix. I made a pass at it about 2 years ago and I think I got from A to about T before terminal ennui set in.
Useful has to be taken in context - even if TP is lame by today's standards, it was state of the art for its time - gave you a competitive edge when you used it.
Was a time when a hand-axe was a prized tool because poorly sized or shaped rocks just couldn't get the job done as quickly.
DOS did more than people realize. I'm not saying Gates was a genius or anything, but there's a reason he got a lock-in, if DOS was truly useless, people would have re-coded their own drivers.
I seem to remember purchasing a third party graphics library in the early '90s, MetaWindows or something like that, it gave me a access to accelerated graphics that DOS wouldn't, without having to re-code for every graphics card on the market. But, DOS still took care of the file system and keyboard (I think MetaWindows handled the mouse...), I suppose that was the genius in DOS, doing just enough to maintain market lock.
Even DOS provided a lot of high level file, screen and keyboard I/O functionality.
Yes, DOS itself wasn't that big, and, hey, I've implemented entire 8-bit systems with significant RS232 based I/O on 16K PROMs with no OS, so, yes, it can be done smaller.
I just get tweaked when somebody calls out "look ma, it's only 4K" and they're sitting on top of some ginormous library that's doing everything for them.
Sure, these programs were small, but try to keep in perspective that they were leveraging the OS to get their compactness. It's kind of like saying a "Hello, World" GUI app is only 3 lines of code.... sure, 3 lines, plus 35 megs of library files running atop 1 gig of OS support. The.exe may only be 2k, but good luck getting that to do anything without serious support.
ZFSforLinux is rapidly maturing and definitely stable enough for a home nas.
ZFS has been maturing rapidly for the last 6 years... Didn't it almost make its way into OS-X at one point? I'm not sure I'd put all of my eggs in that particular basket (or any single system, really).
If it's backup you want, I'd look into a system that copies off of one type of file-system into another. Ever since my QNAP TS-109 took a dump, and with it my data because of their proprietary "Linux" partition formatting, I've stuck to nice simple low performance solutions like 2TB USB drives straight out of the box. They are readable on Win/Lin/OSX as well as being plug-and-play on anything that has called itself a personal computer in the last 10 years. If you need something esoteric like a single 20GB volume, then this isn't the way, but I think the wise course is to find a way to not need something esoteric.
A lot of "Power Users" who got entrenched before Ubuntu are "too cool for Ubuntu," perhaps with good reason, at first.
Now, I'd say most of them are just frozen into their distro of choice because they know all the cool tricks there and they'd feel impotent in Ubuntu.
Did you type that on a Dvorak keyboard? Why or why not?
I made a conscious decision to bypass DVORAK because I hop around from keyboard to keyboard, sometimes 5 different ones in a day, and changing all of their layouts to DVORAK would be a serious pain, far outweighing the typing speed benefits, even if I were "fluently bi-layout". I also find that I spend far more time thinking, reading, and mousing around than I do strictly typing, so even if typing speed improved by 50%, my daily output would only improve by a small fraction of that.
If I were a novelist, or a transcriptionist, I'd consider it, but typing speed just isn't that important to me.
Do threads actually drop off/.? I've never watched one long enough to tell.
If you're interested in rare languages, I'd suggest a visit to the Swiss alps, go see the glacier before it melts, and while you're there visit some of the small ski-hamlets along the Oberalpstrasse from Disentis/Muster through Sedrun. Switzerland actually has four national languages and the fourth one, Romansh, is still spoken there - messed me up for a few hours when I arrived, I was speaking my broken German to them (which they greatly appreciated since their English is a little weak), but they'd be speaking Romansh back at me and I'd be trying to understand it as some kind of Swiss-German, which it is not.
There are probably other places nearby where even more people speak it, but I'm not sure it's as accessible there - I'm pretty sure the old goat herder who popped out of his hut to wish me good day, or curse my intrusion -couldn't really read his expression, was speaking Romansh, but from his general demeanor I doubt English or even German would have gotten anywhere with him, even if he did speak it.
I had a brief fantasy about staying there and not returning to the States while I was there, and the only thing I could come up with as a skill to offer the town was setting up web-pages for the hotels... it was about 1997 or 8, and they still had some need of that then.
I guess, in the case of the Cornish and similar, if a culture is strong enough to stand up for itself in the face of "Western temptation," then it has a good chance of survival, and better with tools like the Pi. Most places I have visited (including the Hawaiian Islands) are losing their youth to the West, losing them through the television, cell-phone, and the glitter of the shopping mall. Growing up in Florida, I was very impressed by the Seminole villages, with their chickee huts made from posts and palm fronds, dirt floors, with carpet laid on the dirt, a LazyBoy and TV on the carpet, antenna poking through the thatched roof, and blue tarps hanging up to keep out the rain. Sad doesn't even start, rates of alcoholism are off the charts on the reservations.
Not much point here, other than what little I have seen of Africa and (to a lesser extent) the Amazon through documentaries, strongly resembles the Seminole story in many ways, lots of "modern junk" strewn around in a pastiche that smothers the existing culture with the appearance of a western slum. A Pi might help them, but it doesn't _feel_ like a real answer to me, it feels like another band-aid.
If I'm ever popped by this system, that piece of video will be my defense.
Good luck with that. $200 for a ticket, or weeks of your life working out the legal framework to get a proper hearing where they will admit your evidence and actually consider it... Last traffic court I attended the judge actually snored on the bench, bailiff woke him twice within an hour.
Germany had a campaign for a while (in the late 80s / early 90s) to actually drive 30kph in the cities, just to point out how insane it was. Not sure if that effected any real change or not.
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No, but it would increase by over 50%, and more by the time MS got ahold of it... TurboPascal is a nice small compiler, a simple tool for a simple time, I guess in some ways, part of its simple elegance is that it was working in such a Bauhaus environment.
This is NASA, doing it with light, instead of Hollywood doing it with (insert witty insulting implication here _____ )
I don't think Anon is short on balls, I think they probably didn't have as many damaging names as they implied, better to turn tail and collect more names rather than shoot off a pop-cap and get a bunch of people killed in return. I mean, if they had real damaging info that could threaten Zeta's future ability to operate, they could out it without taking credit.
Movie suggestion for you: Crossing Over - Harrison Ford and boobies, how could you resist?
I'm thinking TurboPascal probably used most of the OS/BIOS, at least most of the keyboard, screen, disk, filesystem parts, which was pretty much all the BIOS and OS did at the time. I seem to remember the OS using about 16K of RAM and having maybe 48K of ROM at the time (1992ish), but it was so long ago... whatever it was, it was less than 640K for sure.
West Virginia isn't the only place scarred by coal mining, and MegaWatt hours generated vs. Megatons of earth strip-mined, nuclear beats coal. My main reference to France was their breeder reactors which make fuel for the next generation of plants without further mining.
My thought is to go a whole lot of steps past this.
Each and every bill brought up for a vote must be able to be COMPLETELY summarized on a single page, using 12 point type. Anything in the bill that isn't in the summary (snow-pea farmer special incentive) isn't legal.
That would make those omnibus bills impractical if not impossible since there's no way to put all the things they cover on a single page.
Lots more bills? Yep. But very concise ones that are easy to research and see who voted how.
If we can get 5000 signatures, they promise to respond, hell, they'll respond to an e-mail, but with 5000 signatures, they might do more than hit the "autogenerate reply" button.
Oh, coal, definitely, if we're burning it on MARS!
Seriously, look at France's nuclear program, rewind the U.S. and rest of the world back to 1975 and take a different road - following in France's footsteps and building all new generating capacity from nuclear power. One might argue that we'd have had another nuclear disaster or two between then and now if we had built so many more plants, I'd counterpoint that if we had built so many more new tech based updated plants, we could have retired the ones that we're currently limping along at 150%+ of their original design lifetimes, we might have had fewer accidents instead of more.
Now, take a look at West Virginia, and anywhere else we're extracting coal, take a look at the mercury content of our rivers and near-shore waters, how many rivers in the U.S.A. are safe to eat the fish from today? Take a look at the megatons of carbon-dioxide we're releasing while burning coal for electricity. And, Mr. Fusion, where the hell is my Mr. Fusion? You can't rely on knowing where lightning will strike every time you want to go back 30 years now, can you? Oh, I forgot... /seriously
You're assuming our representatives want to be accountable... All they care about is getting (re)elected and/or ensuring the other party isn't.
No, sadly, I know better. What I am wishing is that our system would let the governed people demand and receive accountability from their representatives. Wish in one hand...
The first problem is that the system requires the Legislators to pass the laws that would regulate themselves... the Founding Fathers were pretty good, but I think this is a big flaw in the system.
I was just thinking about this, and the other thing that's lacking in transparency is granularity of the vote. I think a big step toward reform would be to require bills to address small, identifiable subjects, like a single tax incentive program, or even a single element of a single tax incentive program. Then, when you're doing your TurboTax on April 14th, you can right click on the line item for the snow-pea farmer special incentive 75% deduction for the first $200,000 of income, and see how your representative and senators voted on that particular item, the item you cared about, and get some sense of whether or not you want to vote for them again.
As it is now, it's impossible to decipher what your incumbents have really done, without listening to a bunch of biased analysts who themselves are still mostly clueless.
I've made my own MP3s from my CD collection, over a span of years, most of them are in good shape now, but it was not always so, early software didn't make it easy to do and later it just wasn't worth the effort to go back and fix. I made a pass at it about 2 years ago and I think I got from A to about T before terminal ennui set in.
Useful has to be taken in context - even if TP is lame by today's standards, it was state of the art for its time - gave you a competitive edge when you used it.
Was a time when a hand-axe was a prized tool because poorly sized or shaped rocks just couldn't get the job done as quickly.
DOS did more than people realize. I'm not saying Gates was a genius or anything, but there's a reason he got a lock-in, if DOS was truly useless, people would have re-coded their own drivers.
I seem to remember purchasing a third party graphics library in the early '90s, MetaWindows or something like that, it gave me a access to accelerated graphics that DOS wouldn't, without having to re-code for every graphics card on the market. But, DOS still took care of the file system and keyboard (I think MetaWindows handled the mouse...), I suppose that was the genius in DOS, doing just enough to maintain market lock.
Even DOS provided a lot of high level file, screen and keyboard I/O functionality.
Yes, DOS itself wasn't that big, and, hey, I've implemented entire 8-bit systems with significant RS232 based I/O on 16K PROMs with no OS, so, yes, it can be done smaller.
I just get tweaked when somebody calls out "look ma, it's only 4K" and they're sitting on top of some ginormous library that's doing everything for them.
Sure, these programs were small, but try to keep in perspective that they were leveraging the OS to get their compactness. It's kind of like saying a "Hello, World" GUI app is only 3 lines of code.... sure, 3 lines, plus 35 megs of library files running atop 1 gig of OS support. The .exe may only be 2k, but good luck getting that to do anything without serious support.
We’ll end up with 10 different standards, and no one will bother keeping metadata accurate on all their files.
Concur, look at ID3 tags on audio files... any reason to believe that human behavior will improve in other areas?
ZFSforLinux is rapidly maturing and definitely stable enough for a home nas.
ZFS has been maturing rapidly for the last 6 years... Didn't it almost make its way into OS-X at one point? I'm not sure I'd put all of my eggs in that particular basket (or any single system, really).
If it's backup you want, I'd look into a system that copies off of one type of file-system into another. Ever since my QNAP TS-109 took a dump, and with it my data because of their proprietary "Linux" partition formatting, I've stuck to nice simple low performance solutions like 2TB USB drives straight out of the box. They are readable on Win/Lin/OSX as well as being plug-and-play on anything that has called itself a personal computer in the last 10 years. If you need something esoteric like a single 20GB volume, then this isn't the way, but I think the wise course is to find a way to not need something esoteric.
A lot of "Power Users" who got entrenched before Ubuntu are "too cool for Ubuntu," perhaps with good reason, at first.
Now, I'd say most of them are just frozen into their distro of choice because they know all the cool tricks there and they'd feel impotent in Ubuntu.
Did you type that on a Dvorak keyboard? Why or why not?
I made a conscious decision to bypass DVORAK because I hop around from keyboard to keyboard, sometimes 5 different ones in a day, and changing all of their layouts to DVORAK would be a serious pain, far outweighing the typing speed benefits, even if I were "fluently bi-layout". I also find that I spend far more time thinking, reading, and mousing around than I do strictly typing, so even if typing speed improved by 50%, my daily output would only improve by a small fraction of that.
If I were a novelist, or a transcriptionist, I'd consider it, but typing speed just isn't that important to me.
A lot of "Power Users" who got entrenched before Ubuntu are "too cool for Ubuntu," perhaps with good reason, at first.
Now, I'd say most of them are just frozen into their distro of choice because they know all the cool tricks there and they'd feel impotent in Ubuntu.
Do threads actually drop off /.? I've never watched one long enough to tell.
If you're interested in rare languages, I'd suggest a visit to the Swiss alps, go see the glacier before it melts, and while you're there visit some of the small ski-hamlets along the Oberalpstrasse from Disentis/Muster through Sedrun. Switzerland actually has four national languages and the fourth one, Romansh, is still spoken there - messed me up for a few hours when I arrived, I was speaking my broken German to them (which they greatly appreciated since their English is a little weak), but they'd be speaking Romansh back at me and I'd be trying to understand it as some kind of Swiss-German, which it is not.
There are probably other places nearby where even more people speak it, but I'm not sure it's as accessible there - I'm pretty sure the old goat herder who popped out of his hut to wish me good day, or curse my intrusion -couldn't really read his expression, was speaking Romansh, but from his general demeanor I doubt English or even German would have gotten anywhere with him, even if he did speak it.
I had a brief fantasy about staying there and not returning to the States while I was there, and the only thing I could come up with as a skill to offer the town was setting up web-pages for the hotels... it was about 1997 or 8, and they still had some need of that then.
I guess, in the case of the Cornish and similar, if a culture is strong enough to stand up for itself in the face of "Western temptation," then it has a good chance of survival, and better with tools like the Pi. Most places I have visited (including the Hawaiian Islands) are losing their youth to the West, losing them through the television, cell-phone, and the glitter of the shopping mall. Growing up in Florida, I was very impressed by the Seminole villages, with their chickee huts made from posts and palm fronds, dirt floors, with carpet laid on the dirt, a LazyBoy and TV on the carpet, antenna poking through the thatched roof, and blue tarps hanging up to keep out the rain. Sad doesn't even start, rates of alcoholism are off the charts on the reservations.
Not much point here, other than what little I have seen of Africa and (to a lesser extent) the Amazon through documentaries, strongly resembles the Seminole story in many ways, lots of "modern junk" strewn around in a pastiche that smothers the existing culture with the appearance of a western slum. A Pi might help them, but it doesn't _feel_ like a real answer to me, it feels like another band-aid.
If I'm ever popped by this system, that piece of video will be my defense.
Good luck with that. $200 for a ticket, or weeks of your life working out the legal framework to get a proper hearing where they will admit your evidence and actually consider it... Last traffic court I attended the judge actually snored on the bench, bailiff woke him twice within an hour.
Then WHEN this has been implemented for a while... and tickets go up.... and there is no difference at all in accidents or deaths....
can we THEN admit that we have hit the point of diminishing returns wrt enforcement vs actual safety?
Who will be in control of the data and decide where and how it is released? (Answer: the people who get the revenue from the system)
What are the odds that they will admit anything that might politically challenge their source of revenue?
Germany had a campaign for a while (in the late 80s / early 90s) to actually drive 30kph in the cities, just to point out how insane it was. Not sure if that effected any real change or not.