See, that's where the computer pioneers went wrong. RAM (random access memory) and ROM (Read-only memory)... It should have been called RUM (Randomly Updatable Memory)...
CompUSA sales weasel: May I help you? Me: Yes, can I have 2 1 gb DDR sticks of RUM please?
I have to admit you have a point there. Their hardware is nowhere near as impressive as their software is. I think what Apple fears from the clone market is that if they stop making hardware, then they *ARE* toast if everyone stops making Macs.
Or they could just do what Intel does and get into the system OEM business, and stop selling "Apple" branded Mac's.
You have entirely too many good points. What no one at NASA wants is to put our manned spaceflight into the hands of the Europeans or Russian's for the 5-8 years it's going to require to properly build a new STS, because we're going to have to shut down the shuttle program. But you can't do that because you got guys in space and you can't shut down the ISS unilaterally without pissing off all our partners. And I personally don't want to see the ISS get killed. I want it bigger and better. I want them working full time on on-orbit manufacturing techniques. on-orbit metallurgy, that sort of stuff.
Either way, to get the OSV and a shuttle-comparable heavy lift capability, you'll have to end the shuttle program. Not in 2010, but now. Or be faced with having to purchase launch services on Chinese or Indian rockets in 2012.
Nothing against Chinese or Indian people, but the U.S. government wants assured access to space, and you can't get that from the Chinese while Taiwan is still an issue.
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Yes, but this isn't throwing anything away. It's just using the "files-as-directories" paradigm to add new stuff.
Hence the whole point of implementing this. It will work with everything that uses the OLD style of doing things, while giving us room to grow and expand and enhance.
More important, it extends the "everything-as-a-file" paradigm to meta-data, something that we have never had before. What with procfd and devfs and the like, this is only a good thing.
Ideally, this would be implemented above the filesystems themselves, in the VFS layer, such that *ALL* filesystems could take advantage of the features, and the feature could be controlled via a mount option. Unfortunately, the performance penalty might be too high since the meta-data is so small, and will need to be platform/filesystem agnostic.
I can conceive of a few ways to make it this work, although I'm pretty sure most (if not all) of them will not be high-performance.
Actually, the Unabombers BROTHER turned him in after reading his manifesto in the N.Y. Times. Just goes to show you have to keep your pyschoses to yourself.:-)
But his statement did not necessarily exclude the possibility indeed probability that trial judges indeed have said information. What good is the system if the Appellate has information that it is witholding from trial judges, thereby making more work for themselves?
If you pause for a moment, you will remember that SCOTUS, in December of 2000, gave Florida a very explicit set of rules about how to conduct said recount and a deadline by which to complete it.
Florida (and the Gore contingent) refused and SCOTUS washed it's hands and let the electoral college do it's thing.
If you don't like it, there's always the fourth bit, Jury Nullification. You too can set murderers and polluters free!!
I don't know what school you went to, but all six I went to taught reasoning in every class, along with rote memorization.
Perhaps if individuals would start being a bit less lazy, and questioned the veracity of the information they receive, we'd be good, but to presume that America can't reason her way out of a paper bag is fallacious.
No military commander worth his salt would rely on mines to provide a "closed front". He'd back it up with shitloads of artillery (crusader anyone?) and air cav.
But your point is still valid. No sense having a disarm code in the mine. But it does make sense to have them self-terminate after a certain period of time.
Tis better they get 1000 emails/letters now, and have a chance at mending their ways, than falling into the abyss, and not being able to save themselves. Not that either situation is likely to happen, but cause and effect are often times very hard to see in real time, and associate with the right cause and effect.
As if they're going to actually SHIP boxes to the U.S. Military. Most likely they'll get 100-250 installation CD's and a copy of the release notes wrapped in the EULA. Hence the 80% profit margins.:-) Long live Microsoft...
I find your argument compelling. Simply because it begs the question:
I am the military. I want a computer system my recruits can use. Linux is okay, but not quite there. So we'll buy windows instead. But wait, that $471 MILLION dollars could by a lot of pizza and Mountain Dew for the KDE/Gnome and OpenOffice guys...
And yes, the government would forever have an OS and app suite that it could use, and the KDE/Gnome/OO guys would be financially motivated to make it hum... ARGH!
Now what I want to know is do they let you get all cocked and fucked up on alcohol on a submarine? If not, why should they allow one addiction to flourish, and not another. All that smoke CAN'T be good for the filters... At least you know the alcohol is helping clean out the waste disposal system...
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See, that's where the computer pioneers went wrong. RAM (random access memory) and ROM (Read-only memory)... It should have been called RUM (Randomly Updatable Memory)...
CompUSA sales weasel: May I help you?
Me: Yes, can I have 2 1 gb DDR sticks of RUM please?
I have to admit you have a point there. Their hardware is nowhere near as impressive as their software is. I think what Apple fears from the clone market is that if they stop making hardware, then they *ARE* toast if everyone stops making Macs.
Or they could just do what Intel does and get into the system OEM business, and stop selling "Apple" branded Mac's.
Nah, never happen.
Really? Care to provide an example to a simple minded unedumacated half-wit like myself?
:-) ]
-Chris
[truly, I'm being serious...
Were you even alive during the Apollo era? Were you working?
;-)
If not how could they spend your tax dollars?
-Chris
~1976 - I never knew Live Apollo.
You have entirely too many good points. What no one at NASA wants is to put our manned spaceflight into the hands of the Europeans or Russian's for the 5-8 years it's going to require to properly build a new STS, because we're going to have to shut down the shuttle program. But you can't do that because you got guys in space and you can't shut down the ISS unilaterally without pissing off all our partners. And I personally don't want to see the ISS get killed. I want it bigger and better. I want them working full time on on-orbit manufacturing techniques. on-orbit metallurgy, that sort of stuff.
Either way, to get the OSV and a shuttle-comparable heavy lift capability, you'll have to end the shuttle program. Not in 2010, but now. Or be faced with having to purchase launch services on Chinese or Indian rockets in 2012.
Nothing against Chinese or Indian people, but the U.S. government wants assured access to space, and you can't get that from the Chinese while Taiwan is still an issue.
I'm sorry, I had to do a double-take there.
Last I checked, 1 billion is 1e9, right? So a billion is a billion everywhere, and a billion will always be 1000 times more than a million.
Now, a $1,000,000,000 is not the same a 1 billion yen, which I think is the point you are trying to make.
Regards, sir.
-Chris
Metric fuckloads...
How many Library of Congress' is that?
Yes, but this isn't throwing anything away. It's just using the "files-as-directories" paradigm to add new stuff.
Hence the whole point of implementing this. It will work with everything that uses the OLD style of doing things, while giving us room to grow and expand and enhance.
More important, it extends the "everything-as-a-file" paradigm to meta-data, something that we have never had before. What with procfd and devfs and the like, this is only a good thing.
Ideally, this would be implemented above the filesystems themselves, in the VFS layer, such that *ALL* filesystems could take advantage of the features, and the feature could be controlled via a mount option. Unfortunately, the performance penalty might be too high since the meta-data is so small, and will need to be platform/filesystem agnostic.
I can conceive of a few ways to make it this work, although I'm pretty sure most (if not all) of them will not be high-performance.
Actually, the Unabombers BROTHER turned him in after reading his manifesto in the N.Y. Times. Just goes to show you have to keep your pyschoses to yourself. :-)
But his statement did not necessarily exclude the possibility indeed probability that trial judges indeed have said information. What good is the system if the Appellate has information that it is witholding from trial judges, thereby making more work for themselves?
If you pause for a moment, you will remember that SCOTUS, in December of 2000, gave Florida a very explicit set of rules about how to conduct said recount and a deadline by which to complete it.
Florida (and the Gore contingent) refused and SCOTUS washed it's hands and let the electoral college do it's thing.
If you don't like it, there's always the fourth bit, Jury Nullification. You too can set murderers and polluters free!!
I don't know what school you went to, but all six I went to taught reasoning in every class, along with rote memorization.
Perhaps if individuals would start being a bit less lazy, and questioned the veracity of the information they receive, we'd be good, but to presume that America can't reason her way out of a paper bag is fallacious.
Do you have one of those T-shirts with:
:-)
I am a bomb technician. If you see me running, try to keep up!
written on the back? I mean, the Russian bomb technicians have them. Morgan Freeman in the Sum of All Evil told me so...
Safe disposing to you!
How about we let the minesweeping ROBOT go pick them up. :-)
No military commander worth his salt would rely on mines to provide a "closed front". He'd back it up with shitloads of artillery (crusader anyone?) and air cav.
But your point is still valid. No sense having a disarm code in the mine. But it does make sense to have them self-terminate after a certain period of time.
And then all those idiots who begged and screamed and bitched and moaned for those features, don't even USE them.
$50,000 for a giant spinning, whirring space heater for my datacenter... Joy!
Tis better they get 1000 emails/letters now, and have a chance at mending their ways, than falling into the abyss, and not being able to save themselves. Not that either situation is likely to happen, but cause and effect are often times very hard to see in real time, and associate with the right cause and effect.
Who wants a world with only Nvidia's???
<shudder>
Tell that to all the people still getting Netware 3.11 jobs. :-)
Yup, they're still out there. Contract mostly, but still out there...
SiS 730 chipset.
HP 4470C scanner.
And that's just stuff I bought a year and a half ago.
-Chris
As if they're going to actually SHIP boxes to the U.S. Military. Most likely they'll get 100-250 installation CD's and a copy of the release notes wrapped in the EULA. Hence the 80% profit margins. :-) Long live Microsoft...
I find your argument compelling. Simply because it begs the question:
I am the military. I want a computer system my recruits can use. Linux is okay, but not quite there. So we'll buy windows instead. But wait, that $471 MILLION dollars could by a lot of pizza and Mountain Dew for the KDE/Gnome and OpenOffice guys...
And yes, the government would forever have an OS and app suite that it could use, and the KDE/Gnome/OO guys would be financially motivated to make it hum... ARGH!
Now what I want to know is do they let you get all cocked and fucked up on alcohol on a submarine? If not, why should they allow one addiction to flourish, and not another. All that smoke CAN'T be good for the filters... At least you know the alcohol is helping clean out the waste disposal system...
Doesn't the truism Wife == Work apply here?
The same way every one else does. Get a real job.
Or go on unemployment. Same deal.
-Chris
OS/2 was barely NERD-proof, nevermind Dad proof. I found myself shooting my own foot off more than once in that failed experiment...
.ini death and took my BBS with it. <sigh>
And yes, I LOVED my beloved OS/2 box... until it died from