oh, and machinery I mentioned not obsolete, they have life in decades, probably some things you've used came from something like that "old" stamping press (large appliance chassis covers, wheels or gear housing, etc.) or maybe chinese copied/improved version of such a press. That big-ass milling machine makes jumbo jet struts.
my point is there are books with such information, sure it's not public library material but big tech colleges and universities have such things. But that's not best situation, I'd agree the internet would be an awesome place for such knowledge, including the 200 year old microfiche. I would advocate the decades of labour to do digitize it, be of lasting benefit to mankind
most of the last five centuries of heavy western civilizations publishings ain't there, nor would it be short of a few decades of very intense labor. Don't like books, fine, show me the plans for a 800 ton double action stamping press from the mid 60s on the internet, or a six axis milling machine with 120 foot bed. That's USEFUL knowledge for keeping our civilization together. but it ain't on the web.
No, you're the one who is wrong in the big picture. Sure, archival grade supplies are available, but 99.9999% of people and corporations don't have them. If we have economic collapse and everyone goes to "hit the print button", almost all of what is barfed out will be quickly useless.
But google doesn't have even the last five centuries of books online, and won't for decades should they try. Terabytes of mostly crap is what they have.
some wee problems with your version, the big outrage is inside Iran and is not fake, nor is it due to U.S.. The economy is in a mess over there, 30% unemployment etc.etc. and the people are pissed at the government and want change.
I'm not convinced a bubblejet or toner laser printer onto paper will produce a product with the robustness of a good printing press, ink, and acid free paper. I can tell you the laser output of a decade and a half ago isn't looking too good now, though impact printer on greenbar is holding up for more than two decades nicely.
Just one example, there are many handbooks for the design, estimating, scheduling, and construction of buildings, roads and bridges that are not to be found on the internet. I have a shelf of those, and a good library will have them too. I have references for other fields for which internet resources are very scant except for popular general overview. Sure, CADD/CAE/CAM software can do some things, but not all. Most of man's knowledge is not on the internet, and it's tragic that young people think that because many popular things of the last ten years are there then most things are there.
How do you know our civilization's ability to produce personal computers isn't going to vanish. At least a book is good for three centuries on proper paper, is our ability to produce hard drives so robust?
You are ignorant and deluded, most of man's written knowledge is NOT on the internet. The contents of most books are not to be found on the internet either. Wikipedia has some good articles, others contain marketing drivel, urban legends, misconceptions and assertions without source.
there are many systems of mathematics, some have rules that exclude others. And we may have to invent new systems to describe the real universe, or we may find ourselves incapable of doing so. We don't know all the particles that might exist, nor do we even know that all forces and actions are caused by particles. So I reject the assertion that "all particle behavior is explainable using mathematics".
but 4.2 still has a long list of problems, it's a second beta release and I'll hold off until 4.3 or later, thanks much. In the meantime, sticking with the GNOME after ditching that 4.1 shit, KDE went from polished to unstable crap
funny, but I've found that people who have hit my resume from search engine have not bothered to look at the rest of my web site, but just contact me. apache web logs are fun, you can even see what the hot buzzwords are in your resume from the search engine query strings.
indeed, that's what has kept me employed for the last seven years. not any job site, not any recruiting firm, but contractor and now full time work from someone at the hiring company using a search engine that returned my resume.
and certainly not sites like linkedin, useless and lame
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both XQuery and XPath 2.0 are used in the "real world". Unidata Query Language is used in many enterprises, I worked at a manufacturing plant where the MRP system used Unidata as back end.
no, I just point out that once again that people who only study theory are horrible at practical application, they dogmatically approach problem solving rather than experiment to find out the practical limitations that constrain an optimal solution. This is why, for example, Richard Stallman has never designed a working application, neither compiler nor operating system, except practical engineering types salvaged his ivory tower bullshit into something useful.
I did not say it was a wonder-cure, it just helps, is all. And history shows that truly significant science will be subject to attempted reproduction, exactly what realm are you working where reproduction is impossible or infeasible?
even though it can generate code that runs faster than compiled C on certain platforms, can it really be used for truly huge projects? is there a modern word processor or DBMS or CADD system written in FORTH?
but this machine is not a turing machine, it doesn't have unbounded storage. It doesn't even have sufficient storage to run Vista by any means. Ivory tower bullshit often gets smacked down by reality.
I see plenty of comments here of folk expecting some scientists will do bad things for gain/fame/award. However, science demands reproducible results and peer review. That's a safety net that catches a lot of bad science.
well, the question was in what way is Linux better than Unix, if you want to consider Windows then let's take the big picture, I would point out my HP9000 B2000 and UltraSparc 170e and eMac don't have their devices supported by Windows very well (not at all), but Linux will run on them.
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oh, and machinery I mentioned not obsolete, they have life in decades, probably some things you've used came from something like that "old" stamping press (large appliance chassis covers, wheels or gear housing, etc.) or maybe chinese copied/improved version of such a press. That big-ass milling machine makes jumbo jet struts.
my point is there are books with such information, sure it's not public library material but big tech colleges and universities have such things. But that's not best situation, I'd agree the internet would be an awesome place for such knowledge, including the 200 year old microfiche. I would advocate the decades of labour to do digitize it, be of lasting benefit to mankind
most of the last five centuries of heavy western civilizations publishings ain't there, nor would it be short of a few decades of very intense labor. Don't like books, fine, show me the plans for a 800 ton double action stamping press from the mid 60s on the internet, or a six axis milling machine with 120 foot bed. That's USEFUL knowledge for keeping our civilization together. but it ain't on the web.
No, you're the one who is wrong in the big picture. Sure, archival grade supplies are available, but 99.9999% of people and corporations don't have them. If we have economic collapse and everyone goes to "hit the print button", almost all of what is barfed out will be quickly useless.
But google doesn't have even the last five centuries of books online, and won't for decades should they try. Terabytes of mostly crap is what they have.
some wee problems with your version, the big outrage is inside Iran and is not fake, nor is it due to U.S.. The economy is in a mess over there, 30% unemployment etc.etc. and the people are pissed at the government and want change.
I'm not convinced a bubblejet or toner laser printer onto paper will produce a product with the robustness of a good printing press, ink, and acid free paper. I can tell you the laser output of a decade and a half ago isn't looking too good now, though impact printer on greenbar is holding up for more than two decades nicely.
Just one example, there are many handbooks for the design, estimating, scheduling, and construction of buildings, roads and bridges that are not to be found on the internet. I have a shelf of those, and a good library will have them too. I have references for other fields for which internet resources are very scant except for popular general overview. Sure, CADD/CAE/CAM software can do some things, but not all. Most of man's knowledge is not on the internet, and it's tragic that young people think that because many popular things of the last ten years are there then most things are there.
How do you know our civilization's ability to produce personal computers isn't going to vanish. At least a book is good for three centuries on proper paper, is our ability to produce hard drives so robust?
You are ignorant and deluded, most of man's written knowledge is NOT on the internet. The contents of most books are not to be found on the internet either. Wikipedia has some good articles, others contain marketing drivel, urban legends, misconceptions and assertions without source.
there are many systems of mathematics, some have rules that exclude others. And we may have to invent new systems to describe the real universe, or we may find ourselves incapable of doing so. We don't know all the particles that might exist, nor do we even know that all forces and actions are caused by particles. So I reject the assertion that "all particle behavior is explainable using mathematics".
but 4.2 still has a long list of problems, it's a second beta release and I'll hold off until 4.3 or later, thanks much. In the meantime, sticking with the GNOME after ditching that 4.1 shit, KDE went from polished to unstable crap
funny, but I've found that people who have hit my resume from search engine have not bothered to look at the rest of my web site, but just contact me. apache web logs are fun, you can even see what the hot buzzwords are in your resume from the search engine query strings.
indeed, that's what has kept me employed for the last seven years. not any job site, not any recruiting firm, but contractor and now full time work from someone at the hiring company using a search engine that returned my resume.
and certainly not sites like linkedin, useless and lame
both XQuery and XPath 2.0 are used in the "real world". Unidata Query Language is used in many enterprises, I worked at a manufacturing plant where the MRP system used Unidata as back end.
so quit yer bellyachin'
the machine has an addressing limitation, your turing tape is too short 8D
no, I just point out that once again that people who only study theory are horrible at practical application, they dogmatically approach problem solving rather than experiment to find out the practical limitations that constrain an optimal solution. This is why, for example, Richard Stallman has never designed a working application, neither compiler nor operating system, except practical engineering types salvaged his ivory tower bullshit into something useful.
I did not say it was a wonder-cure, it just helps, is all. And history shows that truly significant science will be subject to attempted reproduction, exactly what realm are you working where reproduction is impossible or infeasible?
yes, and I'm quite good at it. the "-" operator is your friend, as are domain-specific searches.
even though it can generate code that runs faster than compiled C on certain platforms, can it really be used for truly huge projects? is there a modern word processor or DBMS or CADD system written in FORTH?
but this machine is not a turing machine, it doesn't have unbounded storage. It doesn't even have sufficient storage to run Vista by any means. Ivory tower bullshit often gets smacked down by reality.
I see plenty of comments here of folk expecting some scientists will do bad things for gain/fame/award. However, science demands reproducible results and peer review. That's a safety net that catches a lot of bad science.
well, the question was in what way is Linux better than Unix, if you want to consider Windows then let's take the big picture, I would point out my HP9000 B2000 and UltraSparc 170e and eMac don't have their devices supported by Windows very well (not at all), but Linux will run on them.
I'm having a hard time following that, is that like a game of musical chairs, in a car?
device support? at least the free Unix (known as the BSD) are really catching up well to Linux with that.