Well, I can't speak for any of the people who modded you down, back then, but pretty much every person I've talked to, who doesn't believe in climate change, has an ulterior motive. It's always an excuse like "OH NOES, I CAN'T DRIVE MY FORD EXPEDITION 100 MILES TO WORK EACH WAY!!" or "OH NOES, I CAN'T HAVE EVERY LIGHT IN MY HOUSE ON 24 HOURS A DAY!!" or "OH NOES, I MIGHT HAVE TO BUY SMALL CAR!!" Sorry, but when you're talking about a global problem that could potentially cause a death toll in the billions (assuming the scientists are correct), and that might be preventable, those are not valid excuses. When that's all you hear from the global warming deniers, instead of counter-arguments to actual evidence, it tends to get frustrating.
people have been told that the cure happens to be a reording of global affairs in a way that happens to line up with their politics. Typically, taxing productivity, redistribution of earnings, centralized control of all economic activity, etc. In other words, I see a strong correlation between the All-AGW-All-The-Time crowd, and the Nanny-State/Statist demographic.
I suppose there is a strong correlation between those two demographics, but I have to ask: what do wind turbines, solar power, and higher gas prices have to do with taxing productivity, redistribution of earnings, centralized control of all economic activity?
Crap. I forgot to keep up on this. On the off chance that you'll see this message, I'll post a reply, anyway.
Since NUL is an unprintable character with no meaning, there's no reason to do that.
That may be true in the context of C, but it isn't in the real world. When you're dealing with serial communication, for instance, NUL is hardly meaningless. Being forced to use special code to deal with NULs makes some stuff more difficult than it needs to be.
They're going to have to do something about the terrible ping times.
I'm guessing IP is out, since the latency will be horrendous. They'll probably have to bring back a mechanism like UUCP, where your files get dropped off in a temporary storage server. There, they'll be placed in a queue to be transmitted to another planet, and you'll be emailed, once transmission is complete.
Don't get me wrong: I'm a big RS-232 guy. It did a good job on what it was designed for, but I'd like to see it get replaced with something more modern - maybe even Ethernet-based.
What makes RS-232 popular (especially for embedded stuff) is the programming simplicity. You stuff a byte into a memory location (or I/O port) and it gets sent to the display. How hard would it be to make a chip that has a UART programming interface, with Ethernet hardware, underneath. When you write that byte to the memory location, it gets broadcast to the network. Of course, it would have to be a private network for security reasons, but there are so many old 10Mb switches lying around, not being used, it shouldn't be a problem.
how do I know it's a misinterpretation? He's a journalist (and/or blogger) writing about science. QED
Come on, seriously? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=internet+porn+rape The Salon article just happened to be the first Google link. There are plenty of others - most by actual scientists - that came to the same conclusion. Steven Landsburg was just reporting on the studies.
First, when you open the doors to allow government to silence speech, you're not guaranteed they won't go after something you believe in. In your earlier post you said that we shouldn't conflate this kind of violence with pornography, but there are quite a few people out there who would tell you that pornography is much, much worse than pixelated violence. You don't agree with them, I don't agree with them, but they're out there lobbying for legislation. If we open the gates for the type of legislation that would prohibit violent games, we're opening the gates for everyone who disagrees with any other form of speech.
That's the whole point, though, isn't it? If you can strike down California's anti-violent-game bill because of the First Amendment, all anti-pornography laws should be struck down on the same basis.
as long as the production doesn't involve breaking any laws (e.g. like a snuff-film or bestiality porn) I have no reason to want "entertainment" such as this banned or censored in any way.
But *that* violates the first amendment, too. I understand why snuff films are illegal (they violate another person's right to life), but why aren't all anti-bestiality-porn laws struck down on the same basis as California's violent game law?
The only long term solution is to infect the infected...
I dunno... I'm inclined to believe it would be best to just fine people, every time their computer is found participating in a botnet. Start with $10, then double it every time, until you get to a maximum of $250, or even $500.
A computer is not an appliance, like a refrigerator or a toaster. It's more like a car, where you need a minimum level of knowledge to keep yourself and others safe. The sooner people learn that, the better.
See, this makes me wonder if it would be worthwhile to use HSR for long-distance travel, in conjunction with cars for local travel.
If you wanted to travel across the country, you could load your car onto a special train (with lots of other peoples cars), and you can travel with it (or maybe even in it) to your destination. Of course, that would only work if the train stopped every 100 or 200 miles and you were able to get off and back on at any stop you wanted - with your car. You'd have all the convenience of driving across the country, with none of the tedium of actually driving.
Given our rail system is already optimized for freight, it doesn't seem like it would be too hard.
I'm new to HTML, so I'd like to ask an honest question, even if it's a little off-topic: if you're writing your pages in straight HTML, how do you separate your style from your content? If, for example, I wanted to add a menu to the left-hand side of all my pages, the only way I know to do it now is to to re-edit every single one of those 100,000+ pages.
Yeah, my sentiments, exactly. Even if they were planning to get rid of it a couple of weeks ago, they certainly would have changed their minds, by now, after all the developer outrage.
Agreed. Just recently, I managed to get a bunch of games designed for old versions of Windows (Myst III and Civ 2, among others) on my Fedora 14 laptop. It required a little futzing, but they work fine.
What I don't understand is why we're not allowed (at least in the US) to carry guns on planes, especially now that pilots are locked behind a strong door. I'm pretty sure potential terrorists would have a hard time hijacking a plane, if half the people on it had guns. We wouldn't even need security checkpoints.
Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but since you mentioned him, I have to ask: does anyone remember that show with him and Tom Davis, called "Trailer Park"? Davis would show trailers from various science fiction movies and talk about them, afterwards. At the end of the show, Meyer would always do a deep, philosophical commentary about one of the films.
FCoE appeared to be a last ditch effort to plug the steady trickle of customers from the highly expensive FC over to the much cheaper to deploy iSCSI
Seriously? We've experimented with iSCSI here and, in our experience, the performance leaves a lot to be desired. I have to assume that's because of the IP overhead, and I'd expect something like HyperSCSI or AoE to perform significantly better. (Why people would rather use iSCSI than something like those is beyond me.)
We're heading in the SAS direction, instead. It's not as flexible as FC or iSCSI, but it's much cheaper than FC and faster than iSCSI.
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Well, I can't speak for any of the people who modded you down, back then, but pretty much every person I've talked to, who doesn't believe in climate change, has an ulterior motive. It's always an excuse like "OH NOES, I CAN'T DRIVE MY FORD EXPEDITION 100 MILES TO WORK EACH WAY!!" or "OH NOES, I CAN'T HAVE EVERY LIGHT IN MY HOUSE ON 24 HOURS A DAY!!" or "OH NOES, I MIGHT HAVE TO BUY SMALL CAR!!" Sorry, but when you're talking about a global problem that could potentially cause a death toll in the billions (assuming the scientists are correct), and that might be preventable, those are not valid excuses. When that's all you hear from the global warming deniers, instead of counter-arguments to actual evidence, it tends to get frustrating.
I suppose there is a strong correlation between those two demographics, but I have to ask: what do wind turbines, solar power, and higher gas prices have to do with taxing productivity, redistribution of earnings, centralized control of all economic activity?
So I can use functions like strcpy and strcmp on character arrays?
Crap. I forgot to keep up on this. On the off chance that you'll see this message, I'll post a reply, anyway.
That may be true in the context of C, but it isn't in the real world. When you're dealing with serial communication, for instance, NUL is hardly meaningless. Being forced to use special code to deal with NULs makes some stuff more difficult than it needs to be.
I guess my question would be: what if I want a string that contains NULs? (Yes, I've had this situation, before.)
I'm guessing IP is out, since the latency will be horrendous. They'll probably have to bring back a mechanism like UUCP, where your files get dropped off in a temporary storage server. There, they'll be placed in a queue to be transmitted to another planet, and you'll be emailed, once transmission is complete.
No, just use raw Ethernet packets. They don't need to be routable.
Don't get me wrong: I'm a big RS-232 guy. It did a good job on what it was designed for, but I'd like to see it get replaced with something more modern - maybe even Ethernet-based.
What makes RS-232 popular (especially for embedded stuff) is the programming simplicity. You stuff a byte into a memory location (or I/O port) and it gets sent to the display. How hard would it be to make a chip that has a UART programming interface, with Ethernet hardware, underneath. When you write that byte to the memory location, it gets broadcast to the network. Of course, it would have to be a private network for security reasons, but there are so many old 10Mb switches lying around, not being used, it shouldn't be a problem.
Umm... Hate to tell you this, but Ethernet was old, by the time those technologies came out.
I wonder if this would make laser-ignited fusion possible...
Okay, I guess I can understand that. So how about a hard core porno then? Why are they allowed to make laws prohibiting children from buying those?
Come on, seriously? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=internet+porn+rape The Salon article just happened to be the first Google link. There are plenty of others - most by actual scientists - that came to the same conclusion. Steven Landsburg was just reporting on the studies.
So if they showed a married couple having sex on television, in prime time, you'd be okay with that?
That would be wrong: http://www.slate.com/id/2152487/
That's the whole point, though, isn't it? If you can strike down California's anti-violent-game bill because of the First Amendment, all anti-pornography laws should be struck down on the same basis.
But *that* violates the first amendment, too. I understand why snuff films are illegal (they violate another person's right to life), but why aren't all anti-bestiality-porn laws struck down on the same basis as California's violent game law?
I dunno... I'm inclined to believe it would be best to just fine people, every time their computer is found participating in a botnet. Start with $10, then double it every time, until you get to a maximum of $250, or even $500.
A computer is not an appliance, like a refrigerator or a toaster. It's more like a car, where you need a minimum level of knowledge to keep yourself and others safe. The sooner people learn that, the better.
See, this makes me wonder if it would be worthwhile to use HSR for long-distance travel, in conjunction with cars for local travel.
If you wanted to travel across the country, you could load your car onto a special train (with lots of other peoples cars), and you can travel with it (or maybe even in it) to your destination. Of course, that would only work if the train stopped every 100 or 200 miles and you were able to get off and back on at any stop you wanted - with your car. You'd have all the convenience of driving across the country, with none of the tedium of actually driving.
Given our rail system is already optimized for freight, it doesn't seem like it would be too hard.
Sorry to respond to my own post, but I have to say, wow, thanks to everyone who responded!
I'm new to HTML, so I'd like to ask an honest question, even if it's a little off-topic: if you're writing your pages in straight HTML, how do you separate your style from your content? If, for example, I wanted to add a menu to the left-hand side of all my pages, the only way I know to do it now is to to re-edit every single one of those 100,000+ pages.
Yeah, my sentiments, exactly. Even if they were planning to get rid of it a couple of weeks ago, they certainly would have changed their minds, by now, after all the developer outrage.
Agreed. Just recently, I managed to get a bunch of games designed for old versions of Windows (Myst III and Civ 2, among others) on my Fedora 14 laptop. It required a little futzing, but they work fine.
What I don't understand is why we're not allowed (at least in the US) to carry guns on planes, especially now that pilots are locked behind a strong door. I'm pretty sure potential terrorists would have a hard time hijacking a plane, if half the people on it had guns. We wouldn't even need security checkpoints.
Anyone know?
Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but since you mentioned him, I have to ask: does anyone remember that show with him and Tom Davis, called "Trailer Park"? Davis would show trailers from various science fiction movies and talk about them, afterwards. At the end of the show, Meyer would always do a deep, philosophical commentary about one of the films.
The show didn't last long, but I still miss it.
Seriously? We've experimented with iSCSI here and, in our experience, the performance leaves a lot to be desired. I have to assume that's because of the IP overhead, and I'd expect something like HyperSCSI or AoE to perform significantly better. (Why people would rather use iSCSI than something like those is beyond me.)
We're heading in the SAS direction, instead. It's not as flexible as FC or iSCSI, but it's much cheaper than FC and faster than iSCSI.