The alternative to 'this email thing' is not picking up the phone or writing a letter. It's fucking doing stuff in the real world.
Also, only adolescents, and people immersed in the 'permanent adolescence culture' get all worked up about 'becoming like your parents.' It's a thing called growing up.
Remaining an immature twerp for your entire life isn't a viable alternative to growing up. Unless you're Dick Clark, I suppose (and even he got to die, eventually). Don't retard your development into adulthood in the name of a stupid meme pop culture embraces.
Completely disassociated from any technology? The >> means the technology known as the motor rotates to roll the technology known as the tape forward, etc.
Much as it probably is hard for people to acknowledge, Apple doesn't hire the best and brightest. Historically, like Microsoft, they have bought in most of their 'innovation.'
They spent many many millions of dollars trying to produce the 'next generation Mac OS (tagilent, pink, whatever including the one they called sagan until Carl Sagan sued them then they changed it to BHA (buttheaded astronomer..))
Then they gave up because their staff apparently was only producing botique crap and was much more interested in justifying one-button mice than writing good code.
So they bought NeXT and wrote a pretty layer on top of NeXTStep to use as their 'new' OS.
It was never the case if you were one of the white-coat data thugs who ran IT before Microsoft with their 'a PC on every desk' revolution happened.
Yes, other companies made Personal Computers before the IBM PC, and people were already liberated from the Mainframe Thugs to a degree, but the PC-Clones running Microsoft operating systems broke open the data monopoly in ways that made those smug assholes behind the half door who could take their time producing your print-out weep.
If you don't understand any of this, you are too young to understand it. Oh well.
Netscape's intentions were never at all any more sterling than Microsoft's intentions. They were in the process of introducing proprietary tags on their client and server products and were hoping to lock businesses into Netscape Client/Server technology on corporate intranets.
Also, what happened when Microsoft 'killed' Netscape was that the Mozilla code became open and public. I am typing this into Seamonkey, because I don't really like Firefox, but the whole Mozilla project wouldn't have happened if Marc Andreesen had had the chance to grow as powerful as Zuckerberg has. One Zuck is bad enough.
How about exporting your entire Google Mail archive and importing it into Hotmail?
I use a gmail address for my main email these days, but I use the POP server (pop.gmail.com) , and almost never use their web-based client. Sylpheed rocks, and I have never thought there was any reason to use Google's web-based client.
Knowing too much about shit designs like the Commie doesn't qualify anybody as an expert on Disk I/O.
Putting a dedicated Floppy Disc Controller chip, generally an upgrade on Western Digital's 1771 chip, directly onto the Data/Address bus of the main processor will always be superior to using a 'second-CPU in a separate box' kludge to read the data off disk and then hustle it over a serial interface to the main box.
If you don't know what is meant by things like DMA transfer, just keep plugging boxes you bought at K-Mart together. Maybe with enough of them hooked up you'll achieve a super-computer.
Seriously, I thought the stunted subculture of Commie-enthusiasts clamoring 'our stuff is better' died out when the last 2400 baud BBS was taken down. It's okay to be nostalgic, but admit your favored hardware was dated from the start and a dead end.
Powerful central command has a way of imploding on itself when the power reaches a certain point. Plus, all the best people bail out of that scene and go to places in the world where there isn't a huge government bureaucracy commanding them to act in a particular way. In recent history that place has been the U.S. I don't know that the best scientists, engineers, and doctors are striving to emigrate to China. Maybe they are. Who has the evidence to show so.
Granted, the U.S. is at the moment headed by an administration that seems to seek to make things more China-like, but without the central power structure in place it thankfully can't be forced on the people. There aren't too many 'hinterland with large population that can be cooerced' places like 1940's China for zealous parties to take over, so thankfully the political/economic structures of that era are on the way to the dustbins of history.
What all the above has to do with the 'last' flight containing a high volume of scrap detris from the Shuttle Program ? Well, the huge massive NASA program of the past was a relic of the Cold War. And not just in a keeping-up-with-the-jonses sense. 'Big projects at NASA' funding slowly faded away with a whimper when the Cold War ended. The Government no longer needed to find 'nice appearing' ways to fund research into better ways to deliver Warheads (oops, I meant 'cargo bay shipments' and 'scientific satellites'... sorry) to places where the Military thought they were needed.
But the Shuttle was just a space-Winnebago for taking little trips into upper orbit in a metal can. It's sort of lame to think of it as 'space' travel, mostly because the earth equivalent is someone with a Winnebago that circles around, never leaving, a huge WalMart parking lot.
Everybody got owned by the hypemeisters. The money spent on NASA was just a way of funding warhead delivery technology while seeming to be scientists. Essentially a scaled up version of the North Korean 'satellite launch' deal they tried to do last week.
NAT keeps my ISP from knowing how many and what sort of devices I have connected downstream from the demarcation point where their wire enters my house. And they have no fucking need to know. IPV6 may allow the ISPs to charge per device connected. They will doubtless do so for commercial reasons, not to invade privacy. Or they'll do it to make sure only Their Brand of hardware is attached.
One form of privacy that NAT offers is that it masks Internet Service Providers from knowing exactly how many devices you have attached to the modem/router they provide. When IPV6 is rolled out, it will allow ISPs to enumerate, and bill, for everything you have connected.
That sounds like a shocking rollback in privacy to me.
Well, that theory isn't a lot farther off from the theory that 'everything in the earth's crust is worth about whatever politicians feel like printing the money for it to be worth.' Anchoring value in the world marketplace on the scarcity of a static symbolic material that is not consumed in particularly huge quantities is better than anchoring it on the trust of the politicians to not go nuts printing yet more paper money.
Recessions lasted longer? Really? This one is going to last another four years if we don't get our priorities right and drum the current clods out of power in Washington. That means Obama AND his cabal of cronies and czars.
A bad job would be 'budget considerations should focus on reimbursement of the teachers first, then second on the quality of the education the students get.' You know, the kind of thing the NEA advocates.
The C64 was faster at some activities. But completely and pitifully slow at important stuff like disk i/o. To add a floppy drive to a commie, you had to buy a separate unit that had it's own 6502 processor in it, that communicated with the main CPU over a pokey serial interface. It was multiprocessing, but amounted to having two pokey machines tied together on a 1200 baud link than anything real. The IBM-PC had a floppy disk controller on the I/O channel, right on the CPU's data buss, and could also use DMA to quickly grab data off disk storage and throw it into memory.
And, uh, the IBM-PC had an open architecture for I/O expansion. Very quickly a large number of third party vendors came online to sell cards to plug into your box. The commie was still the same sealed unit. The schematic diagram for the C64 was published in the manual that shipped with every unit, but you could buy the Technical Reference Manual for the IBM-PC (granted, said manual cost about the same amount as a whole C64.)
The IBM TechRefs which gave you not only the complete schematics, but the commented Assembly language source code for the BIOS, and for the BIOS extensions in most of the IBM-produced expansion cards (for example, the BIOS extension on the EGA card.) The IBM TechRefs were fabulous. I have almost all of them. One set even has the schematics for the hard drives. Where else do you get a schematic diagram for a hard drive without signing away your life and five or six figures to a HDD vendor?
No the point about NPR is that they get a significant amount of funding from people and organisations who would otherwise have to give that money to the government in the form of taxes. What you rattle on about the standard deduction is just blurring. Your standard deduction is not at all optional in the way a gift to NPR is.
When you consider that pretty much all the additional funding comes from tax exempt contributions, though, it becomes pretty obvious that the government indirectly 'owns' NPR.
If NPR wanted to be independent of Govt all they would have to do is stop being a tax exempt operation.
The 6502 was not just old, it was also the most cheap 8 bit part of its time. And the most inferior. Motorola and Intel both made better parts in the 6800 and the 8080. And by the time of the C64 boom period Zilog's Z80 ruled over everything else. The 6502 was the lesser choice for it's entire history. But MOS would sample to anybody and Motorola wouldn't. So it got put into the hobbyist's designs, most significantly the Apple II. And the C64 was the poor man's Apple II clone. The kids all had their plastic cased commies. The serious folks ran CP/M on a Z80.
Its sort of a cabal arrangement. The big established device manufacturers collude with the regulatory bureaucrats. They do so to insure there is always a substantial barrier to entry to protect themselves from those meddlesome low budget startups with their market-disturbing innovations.
Big companies have whole departments dedicated to "handling" the compliance/regulatory stuff. Its just good (borderline monopolistic) practice to operate that way, and defend the regulatory requirements in a bellicose tone any time the requirements are questioned.
I worked for years in the medical device field. The big companies know very well how to design and package a device with no more complexity than a simple AM/FM Radio into a product Insurance companies can be billed $800-1000 for.
The issue is with the distributors, not the RaspPi people.
Farnell and RS got nervous when they realized how many of the boards they would be shipping. There is not the same requirement for low volume eval boards they sell as engineering prototypes.
The Foundation always planned on obtaining the CE mark for the Raspberry Pi boards during the main launch, which will come in the future when schools have their curricula worked out and huge numbers of the finished devices (in enclosures mostly) will be going out to schoolchildren. Right now the boards are seen as a preliminary release. The Foundation had CE certification on the schedule. Just not this soon.
I have always felt that in the interests of fairness and equal opportunity toward all phenomena of physics, that every facility that has antistatic workstations should also have prostatic workstations. Such a workstation could consist of a bench with the work surface covered with cat's fur and with a full set of hand tools made of glass.
Science is not just a bunch of old guys with wild hair who sit around, pulling shit out of their ass, and saying, "Hey, this sounds good. Let's go with this wild guess. The public will eat it up, and we'll get more grant money!"
You're correct. What you describe is the mainstream tenured academic world, not capital-s Science. There are always some scientists out there working in the corner somewhere, unnoticed.
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The alternative to 'this email thing' is not picking up the phone or writing a letter. It's fucking doing stuff in the real world.
Also, only adolescents, and people immersed in the 'permanent adolescence culture' get all worked up about 'becoming like your parents.' It's a thing called growing up.
Remaining an immature twerp for your entire life isn't a viable alternative to growing up. Unless you're Dick Clark, I suppose (and even he got to die, eventually). Don't retard your development into adulthood in the name of a stupid meme pop culture embraces.
What the heck is 'immersive amount of good'? Have you been hanging around people who use 'friend' as a verb too much lately?
Completely disassociated from any technology? The >> means the technology known as the motor rotates to roll the technology known as the tape forward, etc.
Much as it probably is hard for people to acknowledge, Apple doesn't hire the best and brightest. Historically, like Microsoft, they have bought in most of their 'innovation.'
They spent many many millions of dollars trying to produce the 'next generation Mac OS (tagilent, pink, whatever including the one they called sagan until Carl Sagan sued them then they changed it to BHA (buttheaded astronomer..))
Then they gave up because their staff apparently was only producing botique crap and was much more interested in justifying one-button mice than writing good code.
So they bought NeXT and wrote a pretty layer on top of NeXTStep to use as their 'new' OS.
That was never the case, ever.
It was never the case if you were one of the white-coat data thugs who ran IT before Microsoft with their 'a PC on every desk' revolution happened.
Yes, other companies made Personal Computers before the IBM PC, and people were already liberated from the Mainframe Thugs to a degree, but the PC-Clones running Microsoft operating systems broke open the data monopoly in ways that made those smug assholes behind the half door who could take their time producing your print-out weep.
If you don't understand any of this, you are too young to understand it. Oh well.
They did manage to crush Netscape
Netscape's intentions were never at all any more sterling than Microsoft's intentions. They were in the process of introducing proprietary tags on their client and server products and were hoping to lock businesses into Netscape Client/Server technology on corporate intranets.
Also, what happened when Microsoft 'killed' Netscape was that the Mozilla code became open and public. I am typing this into Seamonkey, because I don't really like Firefox, but the whole Mozilla project wouldn't have happened if Marc Andreesen had had the chance to grow as powerful as Zuckerberg has. One Zuck is bad enough.
How about exporting your entire Google Mail archive and importing it into Hotmail?
I use a gmail address for my main email these days, but I use the POP server (pop.gmail.com) , and almost never use their web-based client. Sylpheed rocks, and I have never thought there was any reason to use Google's web-based client.
Knowing too much about shit designs like the Commie doesn't qualify anybody as an expert on Disk I/O.
Putting a dedicated Floppy Disc Controller chip, generally an upgrade on Western Digital's 1771 chip, directly onto the Data/Address bus of the main processor will always be superior to using a 'second-CPU in a separate box' kludge to read the data off disk and then hustle it over a serial interface to the main box.
If you don't know what is meant by things like DMA transfer, just keep plugging boxes you bought at K-Mart together. Maybe with enough of them hooked up you'll achieve a super-computer.
Seriously, I thought the stunted subculture of Commie-enthusiasts clamoring 'our stuff is better' died out when the last 2400 baud BBS was taken down. It's okay to be nostalgic, but admit your favored hardware was dated from the start and a dead end.
Powerful central command has a way of imploding on itself when the power reaches a certain point. Plus, all the best people bail out of that scene and go to places in the world where there isn't a huge government bureaucracy commanding them to act in a particular way. In recent history that place has been the U.S. I don't know that the best scientists, engineers, and doctors are striving to emigrate to China. Maybe they are. Who has the evidence to show so.
Granted, the U.S. is at the moment headed by an administration that seems to seek to make things more China-like, but without the central power structure in place it thankfully can't be forced on the people. There aren't too many 'hinterland with large population that can be cooerced' places like 1940's China for zealous parties to take over, so thankfully the political/economic structures of that era are on the way to the dustbins of history.
What all the above has to do with the 'last' flight containing a high volume of scrap detris from the Shuttle Program ? Well, the huge massive NASA program of the past was a relic of the Cold War. And not just in a keeping-up-with-the-jonses sense. 'Big projects at NASA' funding slowly faded away with a whimper when the Cold War ended. The Government no longer needed to find 'nice appearing' ways to fund research into better ways to deliver Warheads (oops, I meant 'cargo bay shipments' and 'scientific satellites'... sorry) to places where the Military thought they were needed.
But the Shuttle was just a space-Winnebago for taking little trips into upper orbit in a metal can. It's sort of lame to think of it as 'space' travel, mostly because the earth equivalent is someone with a Winnebago that circles around, never leaving, a huge WalMart parking lot.
Everybody got owned by the hypemeisters. The money spent on NASA was just a way of funding warhead delivery technology while seeming to be scientists. Essentially a scaled up version of the North Korean 'satellite launch' deal they tried to do last week.
NAT keeps my ISP from knowing how many and what sort of devices I have connected downstream from the demarcation point where their wire enters my house. And they have no fucking need to know. IPV6 may allow the ISPs to charge per device connected. They will doubtless do so for commercial reasons, not to invade privacy. Or they'll do it to make sure only Their Brand of hardware is attached.
Lots of possibilities.
One form of privacy that NAT offers is that it masks Internet Service Providers from knowing exactly how many devices you have attached to the modem/router they provide. When IPV6 is rolled out, it will allow ISPs to enumerate, and bill, for everything you have connected.
That sounds like a shocking rollback in privacy to me.
Well, that theory isn't a lot farther off from the theory that 'everything in the earth's crust is worth about whatever politicians feel like printing the money for it to be worth.' Anchoring value in the world marketplace on the scarcity of a static symbolic material that is not consumed in particularly huge quantities is better than anchoring it on the trust of the politicians to not go nuts printing yet more paper money.
Recessions lasted longer? Really? This one is going to last another four years if we don't get our priorities right and drum the current clods out of power in Washington. That means Obama AND his cabal of cronies and czars.
A bad job would be 'budget considerations should focus on reimbursement of the teachers first, then second on the quality of the education the students get.' You know, the kind of thing the NEA advocates.
The C64 was faster at some activities. But completely and pitifully slow at important stuff like disk i/o. To add a floppy drive to a commie, you had to buy a separate unit that had it's own 6502 processor in it, that communicated with the main CPU over a pokey serial interface. It was multiprocessing, but amounted to having two pokey machines tied together on a 1200 baud link than anything real. The IBM-PC had a floppy disk controller on the I/O channel, right on the CPU's data buss, and could also use DMA to quickly grab data off disk storage and throw it into memory.
And, uh, the IBM-PC had an open architecture for I/O expansion. Very quickly a large number of third party vendors came online to sell cards to plug into your box. The commie was still the same sealed unit. The schematic diagram for the C64 was published in the manual that shipped with every unit, but you could buy the Technical Reference Manual for the IBM-PC (granted, said manual cost about the same amount as a whole C64.)
The IBM TechRefs which gave you not only the complete schematics, but the commented Assembly language source code for the BIOS, and for the BIOS extensions in most of the IBM-produced expansion cards (for example, the BIOS extension on the EGA card.) The IBM TechRefs were fabulous. I have almost all of them. One set even has the schematics for the hard drives. Where else do you get a schematic diagram for a hard drive without signing away your life and five or six figures to a HDD vendor?
As the media has started defining things (the whole 'white hispanic' deal) Obama sholu be described as a white black.
In the old days he would be considered a mullato, though he actually has zero 'freed slave' American-black ancestery.
No the point about NPR is that they get a significant amount of funding from people and organisations who would otherwise have to give that money to the government in the form of taxes. What you rattle on about the standard deduction is just blurring. Your standard deduction is not at all optional in the way a gift to NPR is.
When you consider that pretty much all the additional funding comes from tax exempt contributions, though, it becomes pretty obvious that the government indirectly 'owns' NPR.
If NPR wanted to be independent of Govt all they would have to do is stop being a tax exempt operation.
The 6502 was not just old, it was also the most cheap 8 bit part of its time. And the most inferior. Motorola and Intel both made better parts in the 6800 and the 8080. And by the time of the C64 boom period Zilog's Z80 ruled over everything else. The 6502 was the lesser choice for it's entire history. But MOS would sample to anybody and Motorola wouldn't. So it got put into the hobbyist's designs, most significantly the Apple II. And the C64 was the poor man's Apple II clone. The kids all had their plastic cased commies. The serious folks ran CP/M on a Z80.
Its sort of a cabal arrangement. The big established device manufacturers collude with the regulatory bureaucrats. They do so to insure there is always a substantial barrier to entry to protect themselves from those meddlesome low budget startups with their market-disturbing innovations.
Big companies have whole departments dedicated to "handling" the compliance/regulatory stuff. Its just good (borderline monopolistic) practice to operate that way, and defend the regulatory requirements in a bellicose tone any time the requirements are questioned.
I worked for years in the medical device field. The big companies know very well how to design and package a device with no more complexity than a simple AM/FM Radio into a product Insurance companies can be billed $800-1000 for.
The issue is with the distributors, not the RaspPi people.
Farnell and RS got nervous when they realized how many of the boards they would be shipping. There is not the same requirement for low volume eval boards they sell as engineering prototypes.
The Foundation always planned on obtaining the CE mark for the Raspberry Pi boards during the main launch, which will come in the future when schools have their curricula worked out and huge numbers of the finished devices (in enclosures mostly) will be going out to schoolchildren. Right now the boards are seen as a preliminary release. The Foundation had CE certification on the schedule. Just not this soon.
This slashdot posting is part of the 'Raspberry Pi Trainwreck-Launch' series. Collect 'em all!
I have always felt that in the interests of fairness and equal opportunity toward all phenomena of physics, that every facility that has antistatic workstations should also have prostatic workstations. Such a workstation could consist of a bench with the work surface covered with cat's fur and with a full set of hand tools made of glass.
You're correct. What you describe is the mainstream tenured academic world, not capital-s Science. There are always some scientists out there working in the corner somewhere, unnoticed.
He shouldn't have worded it that way.
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