But of course I shouldn't expect to reason you out of a position you never reasoned yourself into in the first place.
while DARPA misused an old packet switching protocol from POTS
Saying that shows that you fundamentally misunderstand the difference between POTS, by which you presumably mean circuit switching, and packet switching. It wasn't even derivative, much less "misuse" of circuit switching.
The earliest work on packet switching was done by Paul Baran at the RAND Corp, a US defense contractor.
How much innovation is stifled by government intervention into the economy, by mis-allocation of resources, and what would we have today if there was no government intervention and mis-allocation?
You write that as if the same can't be said of private corps. The world is far less black and white than you desire it to be.
No, I don't consider my original comment ironic at all, I consider yours misguided.
Written by someone who still doesn't understand the POSIX standard; if a system is POSIX compliant, then you know all of the possible behaviors, because they are listed in the POSIX standard. That's the point.
Just what do you mean by "all of the possible behaviours?"
Try this on solaris and then try it on hp-ux:
shm_open("/shm-test", O_RDWR, 0600);
It will work on solaris and fail on hp-ux because the underlying mechanism for tracking the shm namespace is undefined by posix, so different vendors have implemented it in "innovative" ways. Posix is riddled with shit like that.
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Government. Is there anything it can do that does not hurt the economy? If it can, I haven't found one example yet so far.
The hoops you have to jump through are many. The larger contract houses have staff devoted to NOTHING but writing proposals. The small guy, cannot compete with this.
It is very hard to admit your own mistakes when you've been making them for so long that they've almost come to define you.
Which is, sadly, why we often have to wait an entire generation for real change to come about. Sometimes the only way things change is for the entrenched to die off and be replaced by new blood.
Which suggests that if modern medicine ever gets to the point of seriously increases the lifespan of the rich, most progress in society will come to a grinding halt.
Some people don't care about privacy until it affects them.
I think it's safe to say that most people don't give a damn about anything until it affects them personally. The ability to see beyond the end of one's own nose is amazingly rare.
In reality, no one looks at the names - no one checks up on people.
Except for, at a minimum, all of the companies like Acxiom who handle the outsourced surveillance from DHS/FBI/CIA/ETC that would probably be illegal if it were done by the government directly.
Don't mistake your particular niche in the personal information ecosystem for the only niche.
That's bullshit. You have to funds in hand in order to qualify for the visa, if the only way to get those funds is for you to sell your house then your advice leads to a catch-22.
Your problem is accepting that a visa can be denied for arbitrary reasons. That's not the way it is supposed to work, the list of disqualifiers, like having a criminal record or some infectious disease is standardised. Technical errors in the lottery process aren't on that list and even if they were, it would still be bullshit because a slavish devotion to rules plus a completely open-ended rule is no rule at all.
The nature of standardization is to recognize what is standard; of course POSIX tried to allow every vendor to keep doing their own thing as much as possible. What you're thinking of is innovation.
Written by someone who has never tried to deploy POSIX standard code on multiple vendor systems.
but i'd imagine for example if they license a story from reuters or whatever, they're only licensing it for their own use and not for re-licensing - which would be needed to auto syndicate it to google news site.
Google never has "auto-syndicated" anything from the news websites it aggregates on google news. At most it thumbnails images, pulls headlines and lead sentences. Every full-content article you find hosted on news.google.com itself was licensed from the newswires by google themselves.
Didn't Linux invent the NIH syndrome or are they just pretending there too?
No, that happened long ago, back when it was SysV vs BSD. Even "standards" like POSIX and Unix95 are jokes because they tried to allow every vendor to keep doing their own thing as much as possible.
For people of meager means it's more complicated than that,
Indeed. it's easy to be all Ayn Rand when you've got the luxury of money in the bank. Not everyone is so fortunate.
if you have a job but no car, then you can choose to either be unemployed with no income or employed with some of your income going towards interest on a car loan.
A lot of vegans won't drink beer, as it is sometimes clarified with egg protein
Further clarifying everything we need to know about their cognitive difficulties.
No, clarifying agents leave trace amounts behind, vegans, by definition, are scrupulous in avoiding animal products. Hope that clarifies your understanding.
Reversing the lottery was unfair to the tiny fraction who were selected. Not reversing it would have been unfair to the huge majority (as TFA says, the bug was that only the first 2 of 30 days worth submissions were considered). So, statistically this was by far the better solution to be *fair* to the most people.
The right solution has nothing to with math and everything to do with keeping our promises.
The right solution would be to honor the results of the first lottery run and then run the lottery again to give everyone else a fair chance. The people who were told they won the lottery didn't do anything wrong - we lied to them. We need to honor our word, not pawn off the responsibility by blaming "computer error."
Many of the people who received notification of winning the lottery made irrevocable changes like selling off property, turning down other opportunityes, even going into debt in order to meet the financial requirements to emigrate to the USA. Leaving them to twist in the wind because of mistake we made is disgraceful.
That ought to be the real story here. If there is one thing nerds and geeks are, it is literalists. We sent those people letters that told them they had qualified for the immigration process, if we said it and then we meant it, end of story.
You cherry pick an example- just because I can't remember the weight of an electron doesn't mean I won't know how to apply it.
But if you run across another calculation that results in a number that is exactly 1000 * the weight of an electron you will totally miss the significance. This is the essence of synthesis.
if they want to use the data in the future they will re-do the search.
I think you are having trouble understanding the concept of synthesis. You can't "want" to use the knowledge if you don't remember it. It won't even occur to you in the first place. Knowing the information exists somewhere, someplace does not enable someone to spontaneously draw a connection between that information and something they are currently reading or thinking about.
For example, if you don't remember Queequeg's name then if you see a reference to it in another book that reference will have no meaning for you.
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So you posted to whine instead?
Way to confirm the worst stereotypes of people like yourself.
Not even remotely related
Failure to include a correctly functioning resonance damper is still negligence.
Korea's got a dramatic history with such things. 500 people died in that one.
Al Gore invented it,
But of course I shouldn't expect to reason you out of a position you never reasoned yourself into in the first place.
while DARPA misused an old packet switching protocol from POTS
Saying that shows that you fundamentally misunderstand the difference between POTS, by which you presumably mean circuit switching, and packet switching. It wasn't even derivative, much less "misuse" of circuit switching.
The earliest work on packet switching was done by Paul Baran at the RAND Corp, a US defense contractor.
How much innovation is stifled by government intervention into the economy, by mis-allocation of resources, and what would we have today if there was no government intervention and mis-allocation?
You write that as if the same can't be said of private corps. The world is far less black and white than you desire it to be.
No, I don't consider my original comment ironic at all, I consider yours misguided.
Ok, not ironic, just militantly ignorant.
Written by someone who still doesn't understand the POSIX standard; if a system is POSIX compliant, then you know all of the possible behaviors, because they are listed in the POSIX standard. That's the point.
Just what do you mean by "all of the possible behaviours?"
Try this on solaris and then try it on hp-ux:
shm_open("/shm-test", O_RDWR, 0600);
It will work on solaris and fail on hp-ux because the underlying mechanism for tracking the shm namespace is undefined by posix, so different vendors have implemented it in "innovative" ways. Posix is riddled with shit like that.
Government. Is there anything it can do that does not hurt the economy? If it can, I haven't found one example yet so far.
+5 ironic for writing that on the internet.
The hoops you have to jump through are many. The larger contract houses have staff devoted to NOTHING but writing proposals. The small guy, cannot compete with this.
Sometimes they can. Maybe it helps to be stoned.
It is very hard to admit your own mistakes when you've been making them for so long that they've almost come to define you.
Which is, sadly, why we often have to wait an entire generation for real change to come about. Sometimes the only way things change is for the entrenched to die off and be replaced by new blood.
Which suggests that if modern medicine ever gets to the point of seriously increases the lifespan of the rich, most progress in society will come to a grinding halt.
This guy was flagged ... it took 10 days to undo and resolve a process that was triggered by his original failure to respond.
That's a pretty amazing bit of transference right there. You couldn't even keep it straight in your own head from one sentence to the next.
Some people don't care about privacy until it affects them.
I think it's safe to say that most people don't give a damn about anything until it affects them personally. The ability to see beyond the end of one's own nose is amazingly rare.
Breathing. Otherwise they wouldn't live long enough to make our lives so difficult.
I dunno about that. All the sabre-rattling about dismantling the EPA suggests they don't consider breathing to be much of a priority.
In reality, no one looks at the names - no one checks up on people.
Except for, at a minimum, all of the companies like Acxiom who handle the outsourced surveillance from DHS/FBI/CIA/ETC that would probably be illegal if it were done by the government directly.
Don't mistake your particular niche in the personal information ecosystem for the only niche.
That's bullshit. You have to funds in hand in order to qualify for the visa, if the only way to get those funds is for you to sell your house then your advice leads to a catch-22.
Your problem is accepting that a visa can be denied for arbitrary reasons. That's not the way it is supposed to work, the list of disqualifiers, like having a criminal record or some infectious disease is standardised. Technical errors in the lottery process aren't on that list and even if they were, it would still be bullshit because a slavish devotion to rules plus a completely open-ended rule is no rule at all.
The nature of standardization is to recognize what is standard; of course POSIX tried to allow every vendor to keep doing their own thing as much as possible. What you're thinking of is innovation.
Written by someone who has never tried to deploy POSIX standard code on multiple vendor systems.
Steam's amazing sales go beyond the need to buy used. Nowhere else can you get a used copy of BFBC2 for console for $5.
What do you think will happen if steam should become some dominate that there is no longer a functioning used market?
but i'd imagine for example if they license a story from reuters or whatever, they're only licensing it for their own use and not for re-licensing - which would be needed to auto syndicate it to google news site.
Google never has "auto-syndicated" anything from the news websites it aggregates on google news. At most it thumbnails images, pulls headlines and lead sentences. Every full-content article you find hosted on news.google.com itself was licensed from the newswires by google themselves.
Didn't Linux invent the NIH syndrome or are they just pretending there too?
No, that happened long ago, back when it was SysV vs BSD. Even "standards" like POSIX and Unix95 are jokes because they tried to allow every vendor to keep doing their own thing as much as possible.
For people of meager means it's more complicated than that,
Indeed. it's easy to be all Ayn Rand when you've got the luxury of money in the bank. Not everyone is so fortunate.
if you have a job but no car, then you can choose to either be unemployed with no income or employed with some of your income going towards interest on a car loan.
A lot of vegans won't drink beer, as it is sometimes clarified with egg protein
Further clarifying everything we need to know about their cognitive difficulties.
No, clarifying agents leave trace amounts behind, vegans, by definition, are scrupulous in avoiding animal products. Hope that clarifies your understanding.
Reversing the lottery was unfair to the tiny fraction who were selected. Not reversing it would have been unfair to the huge majority (as TFA says, the bug was that only the first 2 of 30 days worth submissions were considered). So, statistically this was by far the better solution to be *fair* to the most people.
The right solution has nothing to with math and everything to do with keeping our promises.
The right solution would be to honor the results of the first lottery run and then run the lottery again to give everyone else a fair chance. The people who were told they won the lottery didn't do anything wrong - we lied to them. We need to honor our word, not pawn off the responsibility by blaming "computer error."
Many of the people who received notification of winning the lottery made irrevocable changes like selling off property, turning down other opportunityes, even going into debt in order to meet the financial requirements to emigrate to the USA. Leaving them to twist in the wind because of mistake we made is disgraceful.
That ought to be the real story here. If there is one thing nerds and geeks are, it is literalists. We sent those people letters that told them they had qualified for the immigration process, if we said it and then we meant it, end of story.
People generally get their ideas about race from personal experience, and personal experience is often skewed.
Innumeracy is the root of bigotry.
Just like even having possession of a box that can change a red stoplight to be green is illegal.
The article you linked to does not support your assertion.
It says selling and using are illegal but makes no mention of possession.
Another attempt to kill the secondary market.
I'd say I'd stop buying Ubisoft games, but I have mostly stopped buying games except thru Steam anyway.
Isn't steam the wet dream of those trying to kill the secondary market?
You cherry pick an example- just because I can't remember the weight of an electron doesn't mean I won't know how to apply it.
But if you run across another calculation that results in a number that is exactly 1000 * the weight of an electron you will totally miss the significance. This is the essence of synthesis.
if they want to use the data in the future they will re-do the search.
I think you are having trouble understanding the concept of synthesis. You can't "want" to use the knowledge if you don't remember it. It won't even occur to you in the first place. Knowing the information exists somewhere, someplace does not enable someone to spontaneously draw a connection between that information and something they are currently reading or thinking about.
For example, if you don't remember Queequeg's name then if you see a reference to it in another book that reference will have no meaning for you.