I'm not sure it's as simple as that. France collapsed so quickly because its society didn't knit together when it came under threat from the Nazis.
That's a serious problem. It's always comforting to believe that war is always wrong and there is no such thing as the national interest. But every now and again you're faced with something - Nazism, Communism, Fundamentalist Islam - which really is a threat to the national interest, in fact to civilisation itself. And French intellectuals have consistently responded in childish, self indulgent way to this. That makes their civilisation at threat from the barbarians. The point of the 'surrender monkeys' jibe is that the only reason they'll still free is that other people rescued them.
You can see the same thing happening now with the inner city riots. The French elite try to pretend that there is no problem, and that 'street culture' is somehow as valid as real culture. This is street culture
Actually it's a glorification/condemnation of street culture by two French yuppies. There's something very French about the idea that's a straightforward condmenation is somehow simplistic. I'm sure French Intellectuals made the same sort of double edged films about the Nazis, until the Germans occupied their country and told them from then on straight glorification would be a better idea.
Theodore Dalrymple put it
http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_the_barbarians.html To assure the immigrants that they and their offspring are potentially or already truly French, the streets are named for French cultural heroes: for painters in Les Tarterets (rue Gustave Courbet, for example) and for composers in Les Musiciens (rue Gabriel Fauré). Indeed, the only time I smiled in one of the cités was when I walked past two concrete bunkers with metal windows, the école maternelle Charles Baudelaire and the école maternelle Arthur Rimbaud. Fine as these two poets are, theirs are not names one would associate with kindergartens, let alone with concrete bunkers.
But the heroic French names point to a deeper official ambivalence. The French state is torn between two approaches: Courbet, Fauré, nos ancêtres, les gaullois, on the one hand, and the shibboleths of multiculturalism on the other. By compulsion of the ministry of education, the historiography that the schools purvey is that of the triumph of the unifying, rational, and benevolent French state through the ages, from Colbert onward, and Muslim girls are not allowed to wear headscarves in schools. After graduation, people who dress in "ethnic" fashion will not find jobs with major employers. But at the same time, official France also pays a cowering lip service to multiculturalismâ"for example, to the "culture" of the cités. Thus, French rap music is the subject of admiring articles in Libération and Le Monde, as well as of pusillanimous expressions of approval from the last two ministers of culture.
One rap group, the Ministre amer (Bitter Ministry), won special official praise. Its best-known lyric: "Another woman takes her beating./ This time she's called Brigitte./ She's the wife of a cop./ The novices of vice piss on the police./ It's not just a firework, scratch the clitoris./ Brigitte the cop's wife likes niggers./ She's hot, hot in her pants." This vile rubbish receives accolades for its supposed authenticity: for in the multiculturalist's mental world, in which the savages are forever noble, there is no criterion by which to distinguish high art from low trash. And if intellectuals, highly trained in the Western tradition, are prepared to praise such degraded and brutal pornography, it is hardly surprising that those who are not so trained come to the conclusion that there cannot be anything of
What surprises me is that the French got labelled as surrender-happy, when Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg all did the same thing, not to mention the Italians which switched sides in both world wars to avoid being the losing side. I think it's because the French, particular the Parisians, are snooty but have a massive inferiority complex and so it's fun to tease them.
Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians and so one don't react in the same way.
It was canned by DEC and Cutler and most of the engineers were hired by Microsoft where they wrote Windows NT.
Interesting Mica was supposesed to have multiple personalities - posix and VMS. Similarly Windows NT had Win32, Win16/Dos, Posix and originally OS/2.
The NT model is to packetize IO as IRPs and pipeline requests across multiple CPUs. E.g. on Windows NT under very heavy load a disk driver can be starting a request on one CPU, in an ISR on another and in an APC on yet another. That makes the rules for writing drivers quite complex of course, but that's a price worth paying. That's an extreme case though, normally DPCs have an affinity for the CPU that generated the interrupt because that CPU is likely to have the driver code in its cache. But the fact it's possible illustrates how far Mica/NT is from the tradional Unix model of treating device drivers as synchronous subroutines that only one kernel thread can be in.
And it seems pretty obvious to me that Mica/NT works like this because they were designed from the start to run on a lot of small Risc processors wired up as an SMP machine. Unix wasn't - back when Unix was designed the dominant paradigm was one big CISC CPU. In that world, drivers as a synchronous library is actually better since you don't have the overhead of building packets.
Not quite. At the moment
Each machine currently costs $188 ($198 with Windows XP). So you can get the vegan tofu cheap or tasty but unhealthy meat for $10 extra ($3 license fee, $7 for a 2GB SD card).
Is this British or Australian slang for "dick?" Or am I just brain dead from being at work all day?
Can you give me enlightenment? Or even a hint? lrn2classics
Bill and Ted's bogus journey, Act IV, scene 5.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101452/quotes Evil Ted: I got a full-on robot chubby.
But it can't be as bad as some auto names. As Danny Krell, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran once pointed out to me, I woudn't want to drive a KIA (Killed In Action).
They can't sell a Chevy Nova in Spanish-speaking countries. "No va" is Sopanish for "it won't go". Of course, that goes well with their commercials, "Chevy - Like a rock!" http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
And I'm sure there are enough corporate customers rejecting Vista that it will be keep being sold on other machines too, at least until the next Windows release.
It's no biggie really, they just need to keep providing security updates. And they're committed to that anyway until 2014. I guess adding a few years to that doesn't cost much.
Actually I wish they just commit to selling XP and providing security patches for 20 years or something. It wouldn't cost them much and it runs a hell of lot better than Vista on low end hardware. In fact for most machines, it's pretty much the best OS ever.
I Can't believe people, even inside Microsoft, can see this as a good thing. This is like McDonalds bullying and lobbying to make the BigMac the preferred choice for UN's world food programme, and succeeding. And having people like Negroponte not mad about it just makes me think there's little to no hope. No it's not. It's more the UN Food program offering the third world a choice between (popular) meat and (unpopular) vegan tofu, rather than just vegan tofu which rich vegans in the first world whink would be 'better for them'.
In an NT based OS there is a rule that you can't touch paged memory at a raised IRQL. This is because is you're running at a raised IRQL you must have acquired a spinlock and there is a risk of a deadlock if the kernel tries to page with spinlocks already held.
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL means that a driver has tried to touch code it marked as paged at a raised IRQL. The less (than) or equal level is PASSIVE_LEVEL.
It means that the guy that wrote the driver didn't know what he was doing and didn't run driver verifier which has some code to make sure that paged code is never present at a raised IRQL. Or maybe you POS homebuilt machine can't fetch instructions from memory properly.
Install WinDBG and open the.dmp file. Type analyze -v and look at the stack trace. If there is always the same non Microsoft driver in the trace update it or disable the device and see if the problem goes away. If you get this and other errors randomly with no obvious guilty driver I'd try to swap the Ram (or stop overclocking).
And actually if you're not lazy, BSODs and WinDBG are good learning tools.
Besides, British WWII idea of anchored balloons keeping vertical nets in place could be used. No, these things are not V1s. They'd be remotely piloted or able to fly themselves. Or even some combination of the two, like swarms that follow a remore piloted vehicle and target things that the human remote pilot wanted destroyed. Unlike V1s you'd keep track of what happened to them. If someone anchored a net between balloons you'd destroy it first. If infantry managed to shoot them you'd bomb them with antipersonnel weapons.
It'd be like a video game - skilled pilots would learn how to get the swarms through ever improving enemy counter measures and tell their colleagues
Actually there was a game where you lead swarms of creatures called Overlord.
What I have is that there'd be a human piloted swarm leader and a lot of drones that are quite autonomous - enough to fly over to a target, kill it and fly back to the swarm. Or even fly back to an aircraft carrier or unmanned arsenal ship, land on it and pick up the right weapons for the mission. But this sort of thing wouldn't replace F22s and Tomahawks, they'd be part of a wider swarm intelligence that encompassed all the humans and machines in the carrier battlegroup. The point about this is that you can have lots of these swarm UCVs for the cost of an F22 and it really doesn't matter how many get destroyed.
Yeah, but those are unguided ones that can't penetrate armour and are not militarily effective. Every so often they get lucky and destroy someone's house. But they are as unviable as a weapons systems as they are immoral.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qassam_rocket_attacks From 2001 until May 2008, there have been over 3,050 Qassam rockets fired at Israeli targets,[1] mainly against Sderot and the Western Negev. Twenty-two Israeli's have been killed[verification needed] and over 433 injured, along with significant property damage.
So apart from killing 22 civillians they haven't achieved anything. 3000 weapons of the sort of got in mind would pack a lot more punch than this.
Incidentally is it any wonder Israel holds onto occupied land when most attacks against their civillians are launched from Gaza, which they pulled out of?
I'm thinking of guided weapons that kill tanks and destroy bunkers - hardened military targets. They'll be cheaper than Tomahawks but they'll be hundred or a thousand times as expensive as Qassams, but a) America can afford it and b) American public opinion is more sensitive to enemy collateral damage than Palestinian public opinion.
They'd be quite stealthy due to their size and low altitude, but they don't need to be. Sheer numbers would overwhelm enemy air defenses. Hey, I've just realised that this strategy would be the US Zerg Rushing China or North Korea. Oh the irony.
A cruise missile costs $1m. JDAMs cost $40000. I don't know what SDBs cost, but it should be less than a JDAM.
The plane to drop them costs much more ($137m for an F-22) and if it gets shot down the pilot can be effectively held hostage to try to influence public opinion back in the US. Seems like a light weight, semi disposable way to drop bombs on people would be cheap and would avoid hostage situations with POWs.
In fact you could could lose a whole squadron for less than a cost of one F-22. They'd be quite stealthy due to their size and low altitude, but they don't need to be. Sheer numbers would overwhelm enemy air defenses.
I work for the Department of Disinformation and Psychological Warfare at Microsoft. Sounded cool when I applied but I just spend all my time trolling slashdot and submitting bits of Windows source code to ReactOS.
Funnily enough I remember hearing the same thing from the boss of some tech company just after graduation. Cobol is an interesting case actually. Even though it's probably a dead language for new systems, there are lots of old ones that need maintainance. I'm sort of hoping assembler and C will be the same - even if new systems are programmed in something else and new CS students ignore C/asm there will still be enough legacy systems to keep me busy.
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I'm not sure it's as simple as that. France collapsed so quickly because its society didn't knit together when it came under threat from the Nazis.
That's a serious problem. It's always comforting to believe that war is always wrong and there is no such thing as the national interest. But every now and again you're faced with something - Nazism, Communism, Fundamentalist Islam - which really is a threat to the national interest, in fact to civilisation itself. And French intellectuals have consistently responded in childish, self indulgent way to this. That makes their civilisation at threat from the barbarians. The point of the 'surrender monkeys' jibe is that the only reason they'll still free is that other people rescued them.
You can see the same thing happening now with the inner city riots. The French elite try to pretend that there is no problem, and that 'street culture' is somehow as valid as real culture. This is street culture
http://www.strictlysocial.com/journal/2008/05/01/justice-stress-video/
Actually it's a glorification/condemnation of street culture by two French yuppies. There's something very French about the idea that's a straightforward condmenation is somehow simplistic. I'm sure French Intellectuals made the same sort of double edged films about the Nazis, until the Germans occupied their country and told them from then on straight glorification would be a better idea.
Theodore Dalrymple put it
http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_the_barbarians.html
To assure the immigrants that they and their offspring are potentially or already truly French, the streets are named for French cultural heroes: for painters in Les Tarterets (rue Gustave Courbet, for example) and for composers in Les Musiciens (rue Gabriel Fauré). Indeed, the only time I smiled in one of the cités was when I walked past two concrete bunkers with metal windows, the école maternelle Charles Baudelaire and the école maternelle Arthur Rimbaud. Fine as these two poets are, theirs are not names one would associate with kindergartens, let alone with concrete bunkers.
But the heroic French names point to a deeper official ambivalence. The French state is torn between two approaches: Courbet, Fauré, nos ancêtres, les gaullois, on the one hand, and the shibboleths of multiculturalism on the other. By compulsion of the ministry of education, the historiography that the schools purvey is that of the triumph of the unifying, rational, and benevolent French state through the ages, from Colbert onward, and Muslim girls are not allowed to wear headscarves in schools. After graduation, people who dress in "ethnic" fashion will not find jobs with major employers. But at the same time, official France also pays a cowering lip service to multiculturalismâ"for example, to the "culture" of the cités. Thus, French rap music is the subject of admiring articles in Libération and Le Monde, as well as of pusillanimous expressions of approval from the last two ministers of culture.
One rap group, the Ministre amer (Bitter Ministry), won special official praise. Its best-known lyric: "Another woman takes her beating./ This time she's called Brigitte./ She's the wife of a cop./ The novices of vice piss on the police./ It's not just a firework, scratch the clitoris./ Brigitte the cop's wife likes niggers./ She's hot, hot in her pants." This vile rubbish receives accolades for its supposed authenticity: for in the multiculturalist's mental world, in which the savages are forever noble, there is no criterion by which to distinguish high art from low trash. And if intellectuals, highly trained in the Western tradition, are prepared to praise such degraded and brutal pornography, it is hardly surprising that those who are not so trained come to the conclusion that there cannot be anything of
They also managed to spirit all the Norwegian Jews to Sweden.
Norwegians, Dutch, Belgians and so one don't react in the same way.
2) English are pompous
I believe you mean imperious, you colonial peon.
Yup and Mica designed in the late 80's as a Microkernel replacement for VMS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_PRISM
It was canned by DEC and Cutler and most of the engineers were hired by Microsoft where they wrote Windows NT.
Interesting Mica was supposesed to have multiple personalities - posix and VMS. Similarly Windows NT had Win32, Win16/Dos, Posix and originally OS/2.
The NT model is to packetize IO as IRPs and pipeline requests across multiple CPUs. E.g. on Windows NT under very heavy load a disk driver can be starting a request on one CPU, in an ISR on another and in an APC on yet another. That makes the rules for writing drivers quite complex of course, but that's a price worth paying. That's an extreme case though, normally DPCs have an affinity for the CPU that generated the interrupt because that CPU is likely to have the driver code in its cache. But the fact it's possible illustrates how far Mica/NT is from the tradional Unix model of treating device drivers as synchronous subroutines that only one kernel thread can be in.
And it seems pretty obvious to me that Mica/NT works like this because they were designed from the start to run on a lot of small Risc processors wired up as an SMP machine. Unix wasn't - back when Unix was designed the dominant paradigm was one big CISC CPU. In that world, drivers as a synchronous library is actually better since you don't have the overhead of building packets.
Windows NT was around before 1992 and it doesn't have a big kernel lock - individual resources are protected with spinlocks.
But that's because it was designed from the ground up to be SMP friendly, as opposed to being a clone of a 1970's operating system.
Umm, mods. What's more likely
1) People working on the OLPC use a racist slur to refer to Negroponte.
2) You just modded a GNAA troll as +1 Interesting.
In this thread links to goatse will get modded up as informative. Sweet!
Can you give me enlightenment? Or even a hint? lrn2classics
Bill and Ted's bogus journey, Act IV, scene 5.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101452/quotes
Evil Ted: I got a full-on robot chubby. But it can't be as bad as some auto names. As Danny Krell, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran once pointed out to me, I woudn't want to drive a KIA (Killed In Action).
They can't sell a Chevy Nova in Spanish-speaking countries. "No va" is Sopanish for "it won't go". Of course, that goes well with their commercials, "Chevy - Like a rock!" http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
Actually MS has already agreed to do that. XP will be kept alive for ultraportables.
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4345
And I'm sure there are enough corporate customers rejecting Vista that it will be keep being sold on other machines too, at least until the next Windows release.
It's no biggie really, they just need to keep providing security updates. And they're committed to that anyway until 2014. I guess adding a few years to that doesn't cost much.
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&p1=3223&x=14&y=9#
Actually I wish they just commit to selling XP and providing security patches for 20 years or something. It wouldn't cost them much and it runs a hell of lot better than Vista on low end hardware. In fact for most machines, it's pretty much the best OS ever.
Funny how your favourite OS, o3zone uses the same VMS inspired IRQL idea too.
In an NT based OS there is a rule that you can't touch paged memory at a raised IRQL. This is because is you're running at a raised IRQL you must have acquired a spinlock and there is a risk of a deadlock if the kernel tries to page with spinlocks already held.
.dmp file. Type analyze -v and look at the stack trace. If there is always the same non Microsoft driver in the trace update it or disable the device and see if the problem goes away. If you get this and other errors randomly with no obvious guilty driver I'd try to swap the Ram (or stop overclocking).
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL means that a driver has tried to touch code it marked as paged at a raised IRQL. The less (than) or equal level is PASSIVE_LEVEL.
It means that the guy that wrote the driver didn't know what he was doing and didn't run driver verifier which has some code to make sure that paged code is never present at a raised IRQL. Or maybe you POS homebuilt machine can't fetch instructions from memory properly.
http://www.osronline.com/showthread.cfm?link=130328
Install WinDBG and open the
And actually if you're not lazy, BSODs and WinDBG are good learning tools.
I say we put Bonzi buddy on the OLPCs going to Nigeria and have the gorilla thing mess up their email settings.
No Sarbanes Oxley only applies to Apple
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/21/the-20-ipod-touch-upgrade-really-for-legal-reasons-or-not/
It'd be like a video game - skilled pilots would learn how to get the swarms through ever improving enemy counter measures and tell their colleagues
Actually there was a game where you lead swarms of creatures called Overlord.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlord_(2007_video_game)
What I have is that there'd be a human piloted swarm leader and a lot of drones that are quite autonomous - enough to fly over to a target, kill it and fly back to the swarm. Or even fly back to an aircraft carrier or unmanned arsenal ship, land on it and pick up the right weapons for the mission. But this sort of thing wouldn't replace F22s and Tomahawks, they'd be part of a wider swarm intelligence that encompassed all the humans and machines in the carrier battlegroup. The point about this is that you can have lots of these swarm UCVs for the cost of an F22 and it really doesn't matter how many get destroyed.
Yeah, but those are unguided ones that can't penetrate armour and are not militarily effective. Every so often they get lucky and destroy someone's house. But they are as unviable as a weapons systems as they are immoral.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Qassam_rocket_attacks
From 2001 until May 2008, there have been over 3,050 Qassam rockets fired at Israeli targets,[1] mainly against Sderot and the Western Negev. Twenty-two Israeli's have been killed[verification needed] and over 433 injured, along with significant property damage.
So apart from killing 22 civillians they haven't achieved anything. 3000 weapons of the sort of got in mind would pack a lot more punch than this.
Incidentally is it any wonder Israel holds onto occupied land when most attacks against their civillians are launched from Gaza, which they pulled out of?
I'm thinking of guided weapons that kill tanks and destroy bunkers - hardened military targets. They'll be cheaper than Tomahawks but they'll be hundred or a thousand times as expensive as Qassams, but a) America can afford it and b) American public opinion is more sensitive to enemy collateral damage than Palestinian public opinion.
A cruise missile costs $1m. JDAMs cost $40000. I don't know what SDBs cost, but it should be less than a JDAM.
The plane to drop them costs much more ($137m for an F-22) and if it gets shot down the pilot can be effectively held hostage to try to influence public opinion back in the US. Seems like a light weight, semi disposable way to drop bombs on people would be cheap and would avoid hostage situations with POWs.
In fact you could could lose a whole squadron for less than a cost of one F-22. They'd be quite stealthy due to their size and low altitude, but they don't need to be. Sheer numbers would overwhelm enemy air defenses.
I work for the Department of Disinformation and Psychological Warfare at Microsoft. Sounded cool when I applied but I just spend all my time trolling slashdot and submitting bits of Windows source code to ReactOS.
I have a Asus G1S Vista laptop with an 8600M GT and it's rock solid. Try the "Bioshock edition" drivers. That seems to be a good vintage.
Don't you have to escape the ^s?
i.e.
s/\^W/\^H/g
Funnily enough I remember hearing the same thing from the boss of some tech company just after graduation. Cobol is an interesting case actually. Even though it's probably a dead language for new systems, there are lots of old ones that need maintainance. I'm sort of hoping assembler and C will be the same - even if new systems are programmed in something else and new CS students ignore C/asm there will still be enough legacy systems to keep me busy.
Yeah, I was hoping my great-great-great-great grandchildren would be Morlocks.