I'm waiting for my brother to finish copying his files from his ibook to his new mac. Once he's finished, I'm putting Slackintosh on in it. I like things a bit more nimble than what OS X gives me, especially with a G3.
As for Gentoo, the flakiness of Gentoo ebuilds makes me treat my Gentoo machine like a Slackware box. I figure I might as well go with the real deal.
Marx was perfectly aware that commodities needed to be exchanged in order for their value to be realised. I think if you crack open the Grundrisse or Capital and start reading at any random page you'll find him making some sort of reference to that fact. All that stuff about MCM and CMC in the first chapter of Capital is a good example.
Ricardo refined Smith's LTV. There were also other folks, critics of Smith and Ricardo whom you probably haven't heard of who subscribed to some sort of LTV. Samuel Bailey comes to mind. Also, some of the utopian socialists argued for something like an LTV some of the time, but not consistently.
I think it was Joni Mitchell at the '71 Isle of Wight festival who asked gate crashers why they expected her and others to perform for free. It's a nice utopian thought that cultural creators would share everything with everyone, but most creators have to worry about paying the rent. Now Joni Mitchell probably didn't have too much to worry about in that regard, but I think her point is still valid. Getting rid of copyright won't help people pay the rent. If you want to propose a system of generously distributed grants and stipends to cultural creators, an anarchistic or communist reorganisation of society, or even something like the WPA projects for writers and artists that's fine -- and much more realistic than saying culture ought to be free. Culture is not going to be free until people are free to make it. Tinkering around with the length of the copyrights isn't going to change the situation, either.
I fully realise that in the end most creators end up working for nothing or taking a loss and that copyright doesn't do anything for them -- but neither will "free culture" or shorter copyrights. People make culture, but people have bills to pay and kids to feed. I'd work for free too if I didn't have to worry about groceries, rent, day care, saving for retirement...
I know you were speaking figuratively, but near Detroit, it's more of an East-West move. Detroit is actually NW of Windsor and going straight North puts you in Lake Huron. You want to go Southeast through the tunnel or over the bridge to Windsor.
The Soviet Union had a good way to celebrate the opening of a new bridge: The engineer/s who designed it stood under the bridge when the first train went over. Not a bad idea in my opinion.
If you're generating dvi with TeX or LaTeX with a recent texlive or tetex distribution, your files get generated with pdftex/pdflatex and then get converted to dvi. So I've heard anyway -- I haven't used plain old latex in a while. I've been using pdflatex for a while now because some of the packages I use require it and because it makes the use of others easier and more convenient. As far as the TeX/LaTeX world goes, pdf is the more up to date format.
I think there really isn't much diffference at all, especially between Sephardic Jews and Moslems. Of course, the food is certified by different religious bureaucracies, and I doubt that people recognise the legitimacy of the Other Folk's certifiers.
I see your point, and you're absolutely right about the Bay Area now.
However, the Bay Area has rather good transportation compared to many areas of the world. It's more connected to the world than say, Asuncion in Paraguay or Ithaca N.Y., which as the joke goes, is "centrally isolated". Traffic may move slowly, but at least it goes. Secondly, traffic was not quite as bad back when Silicon Valley became Silicon Valley.
However you want to define it, "Silicon Valley" is a product of history. That being the case there are a lot of things that went into producing what we now know as "Silicon Valley". In no particular order:
The Cold War. (the impetus for much basic computer research)
Massive investments in education from both the State of California and the US federales. (Nerds are made, not born)
Relatively cheap land (obviously not anymore.)
The youth rebellion of the '60s. (contributed in no small part to the popularity of mini/personal computers, *nix, free software, WozJobsMacintosh etc.)
Communications and transportation infrastructure. (Some degree of connectivity was important, but too much makes centralisation unnecessary.)
As a general principle, what was a possibility for previous generations is a possibility for us, too. Whether it's likely or not is another question.
I think the article overemphasises economic factors at the expense of the cultural and historical. Silicon Valley is history, and history is a lot more complicated than that.
This is an arty but parodic take on the question of "what would it take to convince someone to choose a chimp?" Answer: one alienated Parisian woman in a bad marriage, one male chimp, and last but not least, an avant-gardish Japanese filmmaker (Oshima). Yes, it's the same guy who made "In the realm of the senses".
It's not always possible to use nvidia's drivers. At the moment, I'm using a ppc laptop. Guess what? There are no nvidia drivers for ppc. I'd be equally screwed were I to run a bsd on an x86 laptop with nvidia graphics. This is why binary nvidia drivers don't really turn my crank.
I remember trying a T23 keyboard and not being that impressed with it. Also, there were many complaints about the keyboards on models like the T30. On my own machines, the X30's keyboard was not as firm as the one on my 560z or the 600s.
I didn't like Apple portable keyboards, either, but the one on the 12" G4 pb is quite nice. It has no mush whatsoever. The keyboards on the larger PBs had more sag. I think the compact form of the 12" PB made the kbd more solid.
The upside to Intel graphics is that they have had much better support in free operating systems. Nvidia and ATI might have the better hardware, but the reverse engineered Linux drivers leave a lot to be desired, especially the nv driver. I'd rather be able to suspend my laptop than play some shoot-em-up game on a small screen with my touchpad.
The NSA explicitly told Qwest that they didn't have warrants. Qwest figured the whole scheme was illegal and said no. From the original USA Today article:
"Among the big telecommunications companies, only Qwest has refused to help the NSA, the sources said. According to multiple sources, Qwest declined to participate because it was uneasy about the legal implications of handing over customer information to the government without warrants."
There are a lot of people running linux on these platforms, especially Apple laptops, and the intel/amd binary drivers do nothing for them. It's not just about graphics, either. You can't properly suspend a laptop if the driver deoesn't support the card's secret power management functions.
Judges can be impeached, so it is indeed possible to replace them. I imagine it's not that easy to impeach a federal judge, but it has happened before.
The London tube network could use some work, but it's generally OK. The London bus network works decently, at least for the parts of the city that I travelled between. However, the rail networks above ground is in terrible shape. There are frequent delays and worse, fatal accidents aren't that rare. Privatisation has been a disaster. No one wants to spend money on maintenance and infrastructure improvements.
The American rail network suffers from much the same problem. The track is ancient and no one wants to invest in maintenance -- not when truck transport is subsidised to the level that it is with all that investment in maintaining and developing the road system. The decrepit track and railbed limits the speed trains can travel. That's not so critical for freight, perhaps, but it makes passenger travel betweeen many places unattractive. For example, it takes 9hrs to get from Montreal to New York via Amtrak. It takes 7hrs by bus despite the border crossing being much more crowded, and probably 6hrs by private car. This is a distance that would take a couple hours at TGV or Shinkansen speeds. (The Paris-Lyon TGV run, only about 60km shorter, takes 1hr 50min!)
It's possible to have an efficient rail network: look at Japan. You can set your watch by the train departures, and the trains generally go where and when you need to go. True, the privatised Japan National Railways offshoots are massively in debt, but the system is running fairly well and is well-maintained. Thanks to a separate high-speed rail network, train travel is a strong competitor in long-distance travel.
Mklinux, one of the first versions of linux-for-ppc, had a microkernel architecture. So it's been done, at least for ppc. Mklinux will run on a 10yr old mac. I don't know about newer ppc machines.
In general, no one cares if something with very little use value is numerically scarce. Very few people will want it, and the price will reflect that. Unless these things are fetish objects (aka "collectibles"), they are junk.
What good does knowing that do me? I already knew that I liked working with abstract ideas and thinking hard about things, and by and large, that's the kind of work I've done. For INTP type jobs the amount of knowledge required just to be qualified weeds out those who don't have the taste for the intellectual life.
Testing is a racket. Those guys must have a good marketing/sales department.
Really? Why is it that manual transmissions are legal then? I did my road test with a manual transmission and still passed. If it were truly necessary to keep both hands on the wheel at all times, I don't think I would have passed.
It may not be on the state level, but there are many cities which have banned mobile phone use while driving, e.g., Chicago.
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As for Gentoo, the flakiness of Gentoo ebuilds makes me treat my Gentoo machine like a Slackware box. I figure I might as well go with the real deal.
Marx was perfectly aware that commodities needed to be exchanged in order for their value to be realised. I think if you crack open the Grundrisse or Capital and start reading at any random page you'll find him making some sort of reference to that fact. All that stuff about MCM and CMC in the first chapter of Capital is a good example.
Ricardo refined Smith's LTV. There were also other folks, critics of Smith and Ricardo whom you probably haven't heard of who subscribed to some sort of LTV. Samuel Bailey comes to mind. Also, some of the utopian socialists argued for something like an LTV some of the time, but not consistently.
I think it was Joni Mitchell at the '71 Isle of Wight festival who asked gate crashers why they expected her and others to perform for free. It's a nice utopian thought that cultural creators would share everything with everyone, but most creators have to worry about paying the rent. Now Joni Mitchell probably didn't have too much to worry about in that regard, but I think her point is still valid. Getting rid of copyright won't help people pay the rent. If you want to propose a system of generously distributed grants and stipends to cultural creators, an anarchistic or communist reorganisation of society, or even something like the WPA projects for writers and artists that's fine -- and much more realistic than saying culture ought to be free. Culture is not going to be free until people are free to make it. Tinkering around with the length of the copyrights isn't going to change the situation, either.
I fully realise that in the end most creators end up working for nothing or taking a loss and that copyright doesn't do anything for them -- but neither will "free culture" or shorter copyrights. People make culture, but people have bills to pay and kids to feed. I'd work for free too if I didn't have to worry about groceries, rent, day care, saving for retirement...
I know you were speaking figuratively, but near Detroit, it's more of an East-West move. Detroit is actually NW of Windsor and going straight North puts you in Lake Huron. You want to go Southeast through the tunnel or over the bridge to Windsor.
The Soviet Union had a good way to celebrate the opening of a new bridge: The engineer/s who designed it stood under the bridge when the first train went over. Not a bad idea in my opinion.
"Chinatown" was inspired by Mulholland.
If you're generating dvi with TeX or LaTeX with a recent texlive or tetex distribution, your files get generated with pdftex/pdflatex and then get converted to dvi. So I've heard anyway -- I haven't used plain old latex in a while. I've been using pdflatex for a while now because some of the packages I use require it and because it makes the use of others easier and more convenient. As far as the TeX/LaTeX world goes, pdf is the more up to date format.
Just for the record, I thought that this was an interesting story. Is there any way to undo moderation other than by posting?
I think there really isn't much diffference at all, especially between Sephardic Jews and Moslems. Of course, the food is certified by different religious bureaucracies, and I doubt that people recognise the legitimacy of the Other Folk's certifiers.
I see your point, and you're absolutely right about the Bay Area now. However, the Bay Area has rather good transportation compared to many areas of the world. It's more connected to the world than say, Asuncion in Paraguay or Ithaca N.Y., which as the joke goes, is "centrally isolated". Traffic may move slowly, but at least it goes. Secondly, traffic was not quite as bad back when Silicon Valley became Silicon Valley.
As a general principle, what was a possibility for previous generations is a possibility for us, too. Whether it's likely or not is another question.
I think the article overemphasises economic factors at the expense of the cultural and historical. Silicon Valley is history, and history is a lot more complicated than that.
This is an arty but parodic take on the question of "what would it take to convince someone to choose a chimp?" Answer: one alienated Parisian woman in a bad marriage, one male chimp, and last but not least, an avant-gardish Japanese filmmaker (Oshima). Yes, it's the same guy who made "In the realm of the senses".
It's not always possible to use nvidia's drivers. At the moment, I'm using a ppc laptop. Guess what? There are no nvidia drivers for ppc. I'd be equally screwed were I to run a bsd on an x86 laptop with nvidia graphics. This is why binary nvidia drivers don't really turn my crank.
I remember trying a T23 keyboard and not being that impressed with it. Also, there were many complaints about the keyboards on models like the T30. On my own machines, the X30's keyboard was not as firm as the one on my 560z or the 600s.
I didn't like Apple portable keyboards, either, but the one on the 12" G4 pb is quite nice. It has no mush whatsoever. The keyboards on the larger PBs had more sag. I think the compact form of the 12" PB made the kbd more solid.
The upside to Intel graphics is that they have had much better support in free operating systems. Nvidia and ATI might have the better hardware, but the reverse engineered Linux drivers leave a lot to be desired, especially the nv driver. I'd rather be able to suspend my laptop than play some shoot-em-up game on a small screen with my touchpad.
The NSA explicitly told Qwest that they didn't have warrants. Qwest figured the whole scheme was illegal and said no. From the original USA Today article:
There are a lot of people running linux on these platforms, especially Apple laptops, and the intel/amd binary drivers do nothing for them. It's not just about graphics, either. You can't properly suspend a laptop if the driver deoesn't support the card's secret power management functions.
Judges can be impeached, so it is indeed possible to replace them. I imagine it's not that easy to impeach a federal judge, but it has happened before.
The London tube network could use some work, but it's generally OK. The London bus network works decently, at least for the parts of the city that I travelled between. However, the rail networks above ground is in terrible shape. There are frequent delays and worse, fatal accidents aren't that rare. Privatisation has been a disaster. No one wants to spend money on maintenance and infrastructure improvements.
The American rail network suffers from much the same problem. The track is ancient and no one wants to invest in maintenance -- not when truck transport is subsidised to the level that it is with all that investment in maintaining and developing the road system. The decrepit track and railbed limits the speed trains can travel. That's not so critical for freight, perhaps, but it makes passenger travel betweeen many places unattractive. For example, it takes 9hrs to get from Montreal to New York via Amtrak. It takes 7hrs by bus despite the border crossing being much more crowded, and probably 6hrs by private car. This is a distance that would take a couple hours at TGV or Shinkansen speeds. (The Paris-Lyon TGV run, only about 60km shorter, takes 1hr 50min!)
It's possible to have an efficient rail network: look at Japan. You can set your watch by the train departures, and the trains generally go where and when you need to go. True, the privatised Japan National Railways offshoots are massively in debt, but the system is running fairly well and is well-maintained. Thanks to a separate high-speed rail network, train travel is a strong competitor in long-distance travel.
Mklinux, one of the first versions of linux-for-ppc, had a microkernel architecture. So it's been done, at least for ppc. Mklinux will run on a 10yr old mac. I don't know about newer ppc machines.
In general, no one cares if something with very little use value is numerically scarce. Very few people will want it, and the price will reflect that. Unless these things are fetish objects (aka "collectibles"), they are junk.
The pb12 has a decent keyboard, but you can't say that about the ibook. Worth the price difference? Probably not, but...
I'm another INTP, but so what?
What good does knowing that do me? I already knew that I liked working with abstract ideas and thinking hard about things, and by and large, that's the kind of work I've done. For INTP type jobs the amount of knowledge required just to be qualified weeds out those who don't have the taste for the intellectual life.
Testing is a racket. Those guys must have a good marketing/sales department.
It may not be on the state level, but there are many cities which have banned mobile phone use while driving, e.g., Chicago.