Look at it this way. There's a group which tends to have large families and indoctrinates people to believe in a highly illiberal ideology. Let's forget the religion and skin colour. Imagine if it was purely a political movement that threatens to kill critics even outside the group and interprets criticism in an incredibly wide way. E.g. by telling people to kill authors and cartoonists in far away secular countries even though what they wrote or drew seems innocuous to outsiders. And it targets homosexuals and any women that want to marry outside the group. Men are free to screw unbelieving women. At this point large numbers of its adherents arrive, legally and illegally, in liberal societies with low birth rates. Most of them end up poor and very much under its control. It tells them they are poor because society is too liberal. Potentially it could start to field political candidates in areas where its members are in a majority, and since it tends to deal violently dissenters and brainwash members to be obedient it could tell those members to vote for them at meetings and they probably would.
Doesn't that strike you as a threat to those liberal societies in the long run?
A - didn't Ebay buy Skype at one point? They tried to. They wire transferred $50 million to some dude with good seller reviews but all they got was a box of bricks sent receiver-pays.
Everyone at work used to rave about GAIM. I installed and it seemed to corrupt itself in some wierd way and started crashing on startup. So I uninstalled and reinstalled. Same happened a bit later. Eventually I went back to installing whatever closed source IM client the person I needed to chat used and fiddling around so it didn't launch when I logged on, which is usually the default. The people who raved out about it didn't seem at all surprised that just installing the latest Windows binaries only worked for a week or so, even though the corporate choice of IM seems to work fine. I don't get it really. GAIM had some extra features that no one uses and supports every protocol in one app, but the stability issues and obfuscated UI make it not worth the effort.
I'm amazed you got moderated up for that. You realise pimps are slavemasters, right? And that Nazis had style too, so style isn't indicative of your worth as an individual. In fact from my experience it's inversely proportional.
It's sickening how quick people are willing to consider slavemasters 'the epitome of cool' just because they have a brown skin and an ostentatious suit.
That's like saying a software company like Microsoft just a copyright license for what developers produce, bundles together their work and sells licenses to that bundle to customers. It's true, but it misses the fact that that company is actually providing a service to both the software engineers and the customers who buy software.
Actually most of the electronics is designed in Taiwan but manufactured in China. Hell even the ones designed in China are designed by private companies, not state owned ones since state owned ones don't exactly concentrate on consumer electronics. So I'd guess most of the money from iPhone clones goes to private enterprise.
Yeah, but the thing is I'm English and live in Taiwan. A world dominated by the US is fine by me. China being able to challenge the US even regionally is not, because the place I live would get levelled in a war.
It's not the same thing. One is private enterprise trying to make money and the other is an evil totalitarian state trying to reach technical parity with the US military so it can invade tiny, democratic Taiwan and deter the US from intervening.
The problem with them being involved in Galileo was that it showed them how to build their own GPS satellite system. Which if China ever fights the US will give them technological parity in a very important area. Ever wonder how all those smart bombs navigate? The US DoD didn't built the GPS system so civillians can navigate - the civillian version can be turned off in regions where the US is at war with a technologically sophisticated opponent and the military version left on so only US forces have access to precision location information. This is why China wants it's own GPS system, in case of a major war with the US.
Actually I found an interesting article on this. The French invented a trick to make sure that the US would be unable to jam Galileo in a warzone. US allies like the UK and the Eastern Europeans forced them to not do this and so the Chinese decided to make their own fork.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/643/1
According to an article in last week's Space News, the Europeans and the US are disturbed by China's planned Compass military satellite navigation system. The Chinese are going to try to do to both America's GPS 3 and Europe's Galileo systems what the Europeans, under French leadership, tried to do to the US. Europe originally planned to neutralize the military advantage of the US system by putting their signal on a frequency so close to the US M-code one that any attempt to jam their signal would interfere with the US system's operation: a neat trick that was aimed at giving France a de facto veto over all US military operations. The rest of Europe didn't care to follow France into a conflict of this kind with the US so they forced France to swallow an agreement on this (See "Whatâ(TM)s the frequency, Jacques?", The Space Review, March 1, 2004)
China's existing Beidou navigation network is a clumsy system based on three satellites, (two operational and one reserve) in geosynchronous orbit, launched between 2000 and 2003. Its military uses have been limited, but it is suspected that they include providing guidance for the ICBMs China has aimed at US targets. Above all, this system has given China hands-on operational experience with satellite navigation hardware. Combined with the sophisticated science and engineering data they have been able to obtain from Europe, they are now in a position to begin work on their own military satellite navigation system. Australia, the US, Japan, and India can thank the good folks at ESA and the EU for the subsequent increased instabilityâ"or worseâ"in the region. Kind of scary isn't it that China is spending billions building something which is only useful if they fight a major war with the US.
I'm not fucking British Yes you are. The Declaration of Independence was legally invalid due to poor spelling and grammar, not to mention Lèse majesté.
I take it back, it's not just marketing you don't understand, it's the whole idea of running a business to make money.
Why should Linksys keep selling Linux routers when they need more flash memory and thus cost more to produce when most people don't care if the router runs Linux or vxWorks?
In fact I'd suspect that a vxWorks based router would outperform Linux because the code is smaller and therefore has a better cache hit rate. So for most people the vxWorks design might have been an improvement. And for the ones it wasn't there was an option to buy the old design.
And calling me an arsehole (note spelling) won't help you. Pony up the extra $20 for the Linux based router if you want it so bad. Or if you know so much about how routers should work and how to market them, design one and find an OEM and then try and sell it. I bet you'll find that getting sentimental about technology choices like Linux vs vxWorks is harder to justify once you're running a real business though. You'll end up picking the most profitable one just like Linksys did.
No animal larger than a few kilograms and incapable of long sheltered hibernation could survive the Endorian calamity. The air might even have been poisoned and deoxygenated for a few years until simple plant life could return to growth. If so then it is possible that all animal life perished. In any case any ewok on the surface who was not equipped with impressive high-technology survival gear and a nuclear shelter must have died.
For those unfortunate beings not painlessly obliterated by the impact concussions, the initial night of celebration would linger on and on with days of darkness. A chill would fall, the waters would turn to ice and the vegetation would wilt into death or dormancy, depending on species. Provided that radioactivity was insignificant and the air remained modestly breathable (a very generous assumption) the doomed ewoks might survive for days or weeks huddling around bonfires, until they starved.
You don't understand marketing. The vast majority of people that buy routers want something cheap and don't care what OS it runs. They worked a way to make the WRT54G cheaper by switching from Linux to VxWorks. vxWorks has a license fee but that was offset by using a smaller flash chip. Actually later on they seemed to change to a cheaper chipset too, but that doesn't matter for people that don't want to run third party code on it. Essentially it's a disposable product and that must have reduced the build price.
A small minority want a customisable Linux based router. So they reintroduced the old design with the larger flash chip and charged an extra $20 for it for them. So the majority get a cheap router, Linksys probably charges a higher margin and the hackers get a product which supports them. Everyone's happy.
Absolutely! The Art of Electronics is the only electronics book you need. It doesn't have all the details and it is somewhat outdated, but you can get those from Google. In terms of getting an overview of electronics, especially from a software background it is ideal.
The only thing I can think of wrong with it is that the digital electronics is moving to be about FPGAs. I've worked on projects that put a 8051, a couple of peripherals and ram and rom into a FPGA, all synthesized from VHDL. This is a long way from the Lego approach in the Art Of Electronics where you got a bunch of standard chips and built a board with them on.
Now if anyone can direct me to a book that is written in style of the AoE and covers this sort of thing I'd be interested.
It makes you wonder if ARM will do something that lets you run x86 applications. Either a new instruction set like Jazelle or Thumb or a JIT compiler from x86 to ARM. Or some sort of hybrid solution that mixes the two, like their latest Java solutions.
Then again ARM implementations tend to be underpowered compared x86 since they aim at the embedded market not the desktop/server one. E.g. I wouldn't be surprised if ARM's fastest chip, the Cortex A9 will have significantly less MIPS than the Intel's slowest chip the Atom. Of course it is smaller and uses less power too.
I think nukes did. Otherwise my parents' generation would have ended up fighting the Communists just like my grandparents' generation fought the Fascists.
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Look at it this way. There's a group which tends to have large families and indoctrinates people to believe in a highly illiberal ideology. Let's forget the religion and skin colour. Imagine if it was purely a political movement that threatens to kill critics even outside the group and interprets criticism in an incredibly wide way. E.g. by telling people to kill authors and cartoonists in far away secular countries even though what they wrote or drew seems innocuous to outsiders. And it targets homosexuals and any women that want to marry outside the group. Men are free to screw unbelieving women. At this point large numbers of its adherents arrive, legally and illegally, in liberal societies with low birth rates. Most of them end up poor and very much under its control. It tells them they are poor because society is too liberal. Potentially it could start to field political candidates in areas where its members are in a majority, and since it tends to deal violently dissenters and brainwash members to be obedient it could tell those members to vote for them at meetings and they probably would.
Doesn't that strike you as a threat to those liberal societies in the long run?
Umm, I don't mean to worry you but slashdot is a botnet. It's just the bots are carbon based rather than silicon based.
The state that invented the phrase 'shotgun Dad' in supported low regulation and combined with heavily armed, psychotic parenting.
Everyone at work used to rave about GAIM. I installed and it seemed to corrupt itself in some wierd way and started crashing on startup. So I uninstalled and reinstalled. Same happened a bit later. Eventually I went back to installing whatever closed source IM client the person I needed to chat used and fiddling around so it didn't launch when I logged on, which is usually the default. The people who raved out about it didn't seem at all surprised that just installing the latest Windows binaries only worked for a week or so, even though the corporate choice of IM seems to work fine. I don't get it really. GAIM had some extra features that no one uses and supports every protocol in one app, but the stability issues and obfuscated UI make it not worth the effort.
In Soviet Vietnam trojans wear you!
I'm amazed you got moderated up for that. You realise pimps are slavemasters, right? And that Nazis had style too, so style isn't indicative of your worth as an individual. In fact from my experience it's inversely proportional.
It's sickening how quick people are willing to consider slavemasters 'the epitome of cool' just because they have a brown skin and an ostentatious suit.
Hey, I own that idea!
That's like saying a software company like Microsoft just a copyright license for what developers produce, bundles together their work and sells licenses to that bundle to customers. It's true, but it misses the fact that that company is actually providing a service to both the software engineers and the customers who buy software.
Actually most of the electronics is designed in Taiwan but manufactured in China. Hell even the ones designed in China are designed by private companies, not state owned ones since state owned ones don't exactly concentrate on consumer electronics. So I'd guess most of the money from iPhone clones goes to private enterprise.
Yeah, but the thing is I'm English and live in Taiwan. A world dominated by the US is fine by me. China being able to challenge the US even regionally is not, because the place I live would get levelled in a war.
If the Pentagon had PayPal, I'd make a donation.
It's not the same thing. One is private enterprise trying to make money and the other is an evil totalitarian state trying to reach technical parity with the US military so it can invade tiny, democratic Taiwan and deter the US from intervening.
Actually I found an interesting article on this. The French invented a trick to make sure that the US would be unable to jam Galileo in a warzone. US allies like the UK and the Eastern Europeans forced them to not do this and so the Chinese decided to make their own fork.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/643/1 According to an article in last week's Space News, the Europeans and the US are disturbed by China's planned Compass military satellite navigation system. The Chinese are going to try to do to both America's GPS 3 and Europe's Galileo systems what the Europeans, under French leadership, tried to do to the US. Europe originally planned to neutralize the military advantage of the US system by putting their signal on a frequency so close to the US M-code one that any attempt to jam their signal would interfere with the US system's operation: a neat trick that was aimed at giving France a de facto veto over all US military operations. The rest of Europe didn't care to follow France into a conflict of this kind with the US so they forced France to swallow an agreement on this (See "Whatâ(TM)s the frequency, Jacques?", The Space Review, March 1, 2004)
China's existing Beidou navigation network is a clumsy system based on three satellites, (two operational and one reserve) in geosynchronous orbit, launched between 2000 and 2003. Its military uses have been limited, but it is suspected that they include providing guidance for the ICBMs China has aimed at US targets. Above all, this system has given China hands-on operational experience with satellite navigation hardware. Combined with the sophisticated science and engineering data they have been able to obtain from Europe, they are now in a position to begin work on their own military satellite navigation system. Australia, the US, Japan, and India can thank the good folks at ESA and the EU for the subsequent increased instabilityâ"or worseâ"in the region. Kind of scary isn't it that China is spending billions building something which is only useful if they fight a major war with the US.
I take it back, it's not just marketing you don't understand, it's the whole idea of running a business to make money.
Why should Linksys keep selling Linux routers when they need more flash memory and thus cost more to produce when most people don't care if the router runs Linux or vxWorks?
In fact I'd suspect that a vxWorks based router would outperform Linux because the code is smaller and therefore has a better cache hit rate. So for most people the vxWorks design might have been an improvement. And for the ones it wasn't there was an option to buy the old design.
And calling me an arsehole (note spelling) won't help you. Pony up the extra $20 for the Linux based router if you want it so bad. Or if you know so much about how routers should work and how to market them, design one and find an OEM and then try and sell it. I bet you'll find that getting sentimental about technology choices like Linux vs vxWorks is harder to justify once you're running a real business though. You'll end up picking the most profitable one just like Linksys did.
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/holocaust.html Fate of the Ewoks
No animal larger than a few kilograms and incapable of long sheltered hibernation could survive the Endorian calamity. The air might even have been poisoned and deoxygenated for a few years until simple plant life could return to growth. If so then it is possible that all animal life perished. In any case any ewok on the surface who was not equipped with impressive high-technology survival gear and a nuclear shelter must have died.
For those unfortunate beings not painlessly obliterated by the impact concussions, the initial night of celebration would linger on and on with days of darkness. A chill would fall, the waters would turn to ice and the vegetation would wilt into death or dormancy, depending on species. Provided that radioactivity was insignificant and the air remained modestly breathable (a very generous assumption) the doomed ewoks might survive for days or weeks huddling around bonfires, until they starved.
In Star Wars when Luke looks up at the sky and sees several moons I always wondered.
But this is scientific proof that the Gospels according to George Lucas are the truth.
You don't understand marketing. The vast majority of people that buy routers want something cheap and don't care what OS it runs. They worked a way to make the WRT54G cheaper by switching from Linux to VxWorks. vxWorks has a license fee but that was offset by using a smaller flash chip. Actually later on they seemed to change to a cheaper chipset too, but that doesn't matter for people that don't want to run third party code on it. Essentially it's a disposable product and that must have reduced the build price.
A small minority want a customisable Linux based router. So they reintroduced the old design with the larger flash chip and charged an extra $20 for it for them. So the majority get a cheap router, Linksys probably charges a higher margin and the hackers get a product which supports them. Everyone's happy.
Absolutely! The Art of Electronics is the only electronics book you need. It doesn't have all the details and it is somewhat outdated, but you can get those from Google. In terms of getting an overview of electronics, especially from a software background it is ideal.
The only thing I can think of wrong with it is that the digital electronics is moving to be about FPGAs. I've worked on projects that put a 8051, a couple of peripherals and ram and rom into a FPGA, all synthesized from VHDL. This is a long way from the Lego approach in the Art Of Electronics where you got a bunch of standard chips and built a board with them on.
Now if anyone can direct me to a book that is written in style of the AoE and covers this sort of thing I'd be interested.
You will never get laid and this is a feature in Natural Selection, not a bug.
Fools! I will destroy you all with my Beamed Power Ray!!!
{Manic laughter}
You should get one with Microsoft Quirrell. Sorry, I mean Microsoft Sideshow
It makes you wonder if ARM will do something that lets you run x86 applications. Either a new instruction set like Jazelle or Thumb or a JIT compiler from x86 to ARM. Or some sort of hybrid solution that mixes the two, like their latest Java solutions.
Then again ARM implementations tend to be underpowered compared x86 since they aim at the embedded market not the desktop/server one. E.g. I wouldn't be surprised if ARM's fastest chip, the Cortex A9 will have significantly less MIPS than the Intel's slowest chip the Atom. Of course it is smaller and uses less power too.
May I ask -- what is the threat you are preparing against to? China. Not fighting China, just deterring it.
I think nukes did. Otherwise my parents' generation would have ended up fighting the Communists just like my grandparents' generation fought the Fascists.