As someone in the Security Industry - I believe that any programmer has the firm responsibilty to themselves and their employers to have Security Clearances of some form or another since a lot of the work we deal with can gain access to extremely sensitive information and/or systems that control that information. We should have recognized Clearances which yes initially start with Fingerprinting as a "Background check" to clear your history then is "flagged" which means if you do commit a crime and are convicted then your Employer or the Clearance holder is notified of that violation. This means that while yes what you do is subject being passed on to your Employer, Coworkers etc it should be your responsibilty to ensure that you don't commit those crimes in the first place. Just "act like you normally would" and don't go out of your way to commit any crime. It's simple. This way both you are trusted and you can trust those you work with to an extent, you know if they get caught for something they won't be around much longer either.
Dictatorships can be created without elections, they must take by force however, or use puppetry. Lets say a Multi-National Corporation buys out the Government of a country, then the Dictatorship isn't by election its by force, the Government would just be a puppet.
Civil upheavel does not necessarily have to be violent, but revolutionary change where large sections of society are violently against to change creates friction (see Civil War). No democracy is stable, that's the point. No government itself is stable for that matter, all governments (like society) are in constant change and evolution. However, if that evolution goes out of step with social values then corruption has taken root, when enough corruption has violated a government it de-stabilizes and brings society down with it. This is inevitable (hence my point earlier), there is no real way to prevent it, Rousseau saw this when he stated that no Gvernment was safe from Corruption or from Civil Upheavel. He stated that Governments MUST upheave periodically or they will fall under the inevitable Government, Dictatorship. The only REAL way to prevent such an event from happening is to have continous voting of all State matters from all members of society all the time, "Leaders" would have no choice but to execute those desicions and thus would exist only in name. Hence Government could never work beyond a few hundred people, however with the Internet there is a way of executing the "Ideal Government" but everyone has to be in on it.
Canada has many issues like Louis Riel (Selkirk Colony, Manitoba) and Quebec in the 50s - 70s, look at Seperatism, Quebec is split on the subject and British Columbia is starting to question it itself. Government has to realize full equality of all members of Confederation and treat them such, nobody should be above anyone else.
Its been said that the Roman Republic originally had Constituition amendments forbidding Professional Politicians, for that exact reason.
It's been said by Jean-Jacque Rousseau in the Social Contract that Democracy stops being Democracy (Democracy in the sense of Voting for Opinion vs the difference between Democracy and Republicanism) when the Government stops being a representative for the people. Once that happens it becomes an oppressive tyranical force something akin to a Dictatorship which is the ultimate end of Democractic rule, hence why its been said that every Democractic society needs to continuously reinvent itself and suffer a civil upheavel or it will become a Dictatorship in rule but a Democracy in name, this is the worst type of Dictatorship since it abuses not only the people it controls but also lies to the truth of its own existance. I would rather live under a Dictatorship which acknowledged it was rather than one who said it wasn't. Hence why I'm glad I live in Canada, although we still face many problems along the same lines but not as bad yet.
If what Intel has been talking about getting rid of NetBurst is true (since in all honsesty that's the problem right?) NetBurst has created more problems for Intel than solved them. So IF Intel gets its act together and works out a viable solution for a sans-NetBurst, 45nm multi-core CPU then they may either meet or beat AMD CPUs - that is a viable possibility. The problem is that Intel has been backward thinking these last few years with NetBurst and may not want such a "drastic jump" in performance gains - but then again maybe the recent drop in the Pentium name is part of an "apology" for lower than expected CPU performance gains? Since really the Pentium 4 has had many many problems with NetBurst and yes with HyperThreading has had its issues.
However, I should also note that Intel CPUs do outperform AMD CPUs in "Real World" environments such as heavily multitasking operations like when I have two compiled environments running in real time on my workstation - I do notice the flexibility rather than an AMD. So enough AMD fanboyness - we all know that AMD smokes Intel at games and with most benchmarks and Intel CPUs consume way too much Power and generate way too much heat - but do AMD CPUs still melt if the fan dies or slips off the case?
HP is the evil of the hardware world, we may like to pretend that Intel is - but HP is the Microsoft of hardware - only their stuff sucks more.
I can honestly say I don't have a problem owning Microsoft products (I know I know) -- but I will NEVER BUY ANY HP products.
They are like those old IBM PCs but on Acid - you know the ones that had 15 plastic and metal plates that had to be removed just to get to the mainboard?
"are you sure the hyperdrive [-- hardware --] has been deactivated in millenium falcon [-- general public --]"
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As someone in the Security Industry - I believe that any programmer has the firm responsibilty to themselves and their employers to have Security Clearances of some form or another since a lot of the work we deal with can gain access to extremely sensitive information and/or systems that control that information. We should have recognized Clearances which yes initially start with Fingerprinting as a "Background check" to clear your history then is "flagged" which means if you do commit a crime and are convicted then your Employer or the Clearance holder is notified of that violation. This means that while yes what you do is subject being passed on to your Employer, Coworkers etc it should be your responsibilty to ensure that you don't commit those crimes in the first place. Just "act like you normally would" and don't go out of your way to commit any crime. It's simple. This way both you are trusted and you can trust those you work with to an extent, you know if they get caught for something they won't be around much longer either.
Dictatorships can be created without elections, they must take by force however, or use puppetry. Lets say a Multi-National Corporation buys out the Government of a country, then the Dictatorship isn't by election its by force, the Government would just be a puppet.
Civil upheavel does not necessarily have to be violent, but revolutionary change where large sections of society are violently against to change creates friction (see Civil War). No democracy is stable, that's the point. No government itself is stable for that matter, all governments (like society) are in constant change and evolution. However, if that evolution goes out of step with social values then corruption has taken root, when enough corruption has violated a government it de-stabilizes and brings society down with it. This is inevitable (hence my point earlier), there is no real way to prevent it, Rousseau saw this when he stated that no Gvernment was safe from Corruption or from Civil Upheavel. He stated that Governments MUST upheave periodically or they will fall under the inevitable Government, Dictatorship. The only REAL way to prevent such an event from happening is to have continous voting of all State matters from all members of society all the time, "Leaders" would have no choice but to execute those desicions and thus would exist only in name. Hence Government could never work beyond a few hundred people, however with the Internet there is a way of executing the "Ideal Government" but everyone has to be in on it. Canada has many issues like Louis Riel (Selkirk Colony, Manitoba) and Quebec in the 50s - 70s, look at Seperatism, Quebec is split on the subject and British Columbia is starting to question it itself. Government has to realize full equality of all members of Confederation and treat them such, nobody should be above anyone else. Its been said that the Roman Republic originally had Constituition amendments forbidding Professional Politicians, for that exact reason.
It's been said by Jean-Jacque Rousseau in the Social Contract that Democracy stops being Democracy (Democracy in the sense of Voting for Opinion vs the difference between Democracy and Republicanism) when the Government stops being a representative for the people. Once that happens it becomes an oppressive tyranical force something akin to a Dictatorship which is the ultimate end of Democractic rule, hence why its been said that every Democractic society needs to continuously reinvent itself and suffer a civil upheavel or it will become a Dictatorship in rule but a Democracy in name, this is the worst type of Dictatorship since it abuses not only the people it controls but also lies to the truth of its own existance. I would rather live under a Dictatorship which acknowledged it was rather than one who said it wasn't. Hence why I'm glad I live in Canada, although we still face many problems along the same lines but not as bad yet.
If what Intel has been talking about getting rid of NetBurst is true (since in all honsesty that's the problem right?) NetBurst has created more problems for Intel than solved them. So IF Intel gets its act together and works out a viable solution for a sans-NetBurst, 45nm multi-core CPU then they may either meet or beat AMD CPUs - that is a viable possibility. The problem is that Intel has been backward thinking these last few years with NetBurst and may not want such a "drastic jump" in performance gains - but then again maybe the recent drop in the Pentium name is part of an "apology" for lower than expected CPU performance gains? Since really the Pentium 4 has had many many problems with NetBurst and yes with HyperThreading has had its issues. However, I should also note that Intel CPUs do outperform AMD CPUs in "Real World" environments such as heavily multitasking operations like when I have two compiled environments running in real time on my workstation - I do notice the flexibility rather than an AMD. So enough AMD fanboyness - we all know that AMD smokes Intel at games and with most benchmarks and Intel CPUs consume way too much Power and generate way too much heat - but do AMD CPUs still melt if the fan dies or slips off the case?
was this a late posting for April Fools Day?
wow.. $20/hr.. you are pretty cheap ;)
next poll....
how much money would it take for you to work at SCO...
HP is the evil of the hardware world, we may like to pretend that Intel is - but HP is the Microsoft of hardware - only their stuff sucks more. I can honestly say I don't have a problem owning Microsoft products (I know I know) -- but I will NEVER BUY ANY HP products. They are like those old IBM PCs but on Acid - you know the ones that had 15 plastic and metal plates that had to be removed just to get to the mainboard? "are you sure the hyperdrive [-- hardware --] has been deactivated in millenium falcon [-- general public --]"