Maybe you don't remember clinton shutting down the government because he was unwilling to balance the budget, but being stalemated by the Republican congress?
I'm not going to say Bush is smart, or that his reactions are positive. Reaction is the best word for it. The poster who replied to you is wrong about taxes only hurting the economy, but the only exception is the case of paying off the debt. Of course "government debt" is an arbitrary term, and it could be wiped out the same way Hilter wiped out Germany's war reparation debt, or any of a number of other ways-- decree, bankruptcy, etc.
The "surplus" though was a "projected, future surplus" -- and it didn't have anything to do with social security. At all.
While the government getting out of debt would be good for the government's budget, I'm not the one that got them there, and I'm increasingly disinclined to feel I have any responsibility towards the government, since my ability to participate is so minimal. My share of the debt (per capita) is only around 20,000 anyway, and I've already paid it.
$5,000,000,000,000 ------------------
250,000,000 people
that's rEdiculous. Check out
this site's outrageous prices, in plain view.
Actually, Sun has some fairly decently (?) priced low end systems. 64 bits for a grand -- rack mounted. Only I think they still lock you in with proprientary RAM.
Actually, Sun has some fairly decently (?) priced low end systems. 64 bits for a grand -- rack mounted. Only I think they still lock you in with proprientary RAM.
So, the bigger the fan the less energy it takes to force air through it? It stands to reason if we build a big enough fan, it would consume absolutely no energy.
Two caveats are that power consumption would only ever approach zero at infinite size, and, as you pointed out, that the fan would move increasingly slower as size increased -- but we'd still get a net positive energy (airflow)...
if only it weren't for friction. And inertia. And gravity. And thermodynamics. And so forth.
written by Esther Dyson, an ALSC member and former chairman of ICANN.
"...The ALSC is an independent Committee created by ICANN earlier this year to provide recommendations to ICANN's Board on how to structure the diverse >global Internet community's participation within ICANN..."
on other news, the king abolished voting, appointed a committe (headed by himself) to decide if voting was really necessary, which declared voting rights "an overwhelming success", by which they meant "there will be no more voting", and assured the voters that he was happy to have be re-appointed ruler and would strive to remember those who got him there.
It looks just as much like the Sci-Fi book covers of the 50's & 60's (search for Frank Franzetta) as any anime -- which really was just a rip off of pulp magazine illustrations from the 20's and 30's.
Big breasts and narrow waists and dove eyes are as American as Barbie and Snow White and Betty Boop. There are distinct characteristics of anime, but these aren't it.
France, meaning those in France who are quoted by American media, is such a parrot of certain leftist American policies that it isn't even funny.
Well, it is funny. It's like watching a mobster movie where the boss is trying to come up with an eloquent euphamism for something and the stupid henchman blurts out what the boss is reluctant to say in so many words.
But the funny part is how these French think they are so anti-American and original thinking and defiant, when their opinions are created and branded in the salons of the good ole U. S. of A.
I'm not speaking of this particular notion of the Bush conspiracy -- which was indeed whispered here long before it occurred to anyone in the MidEast (transmitted via satellite as "speculation" of what they were "going to" think) -- but of european and particularly French anti-American policy in general.
Its stupid to bring up the GPL or other open source licenses or argue about whether Microsoft is stealing code. I'm glad they use zlib. I'm glad they used portions of the BSD tcp/ip stack. I'm glad they decided to support (to the best of their ability) standards like C and HTML. I'm glad I don't have to depend on Microsoft anymore. But if they hadn't used open source programs I'd have never been exposed to other options except for the likes of Novell and Sun.
The real issue is that there is now a direct comparison on a shared bug (for which no exploit exists yet, let's not forget -- it's still theoretical) in both the free and proprietary systems.
You can see the cooperation and disclosure *and* resolution on the open source side. Did Microsoft even admit to the vulnerability which they surely (one hopes) knew existed in their own systems? No. That's not the issue either.
The great benefit that comes to open source from this is that now you can observe the different security and development models in action from a purely objective point of view.
Fortunately, for Microsoft and their customers at least, this is not so serious a flaw that it will likely be exploited before they can get fixes out -- if they really want to. Even more fortunately for Microsoft, there are already enough vulnerabilities with easy and existing exploits, that the zlib vulnerabilities will probably be a non-issue. Hackers will tend to follow the path of least resistance.
You are probably right in you facts, but the gist of the parent is still correct. For 20 years Bruce Sterling has been rehashing half-understood ideas in clever meaningless ways -- which isn't to say I'm not a fan.
If he's is so far forward on the cluetrain he mentions in every other sentence anymore, then why does he think those banal web logs are still the shit, years after even he discovered them. He's just now stumbling on Linux, and hasn't actually met GNU yet.
The myth that there are only 43 decent musicians in the world, and that the record companies have signed all but three of them has got to stop. There are more musicians out there than contracts. And there is less music being recorded than ever these days. If there are fewer decent musicians, it is because the musical outlets have been restricted, not the desire or ability to create it.
You're right about the death of a monopoly, but an industry has been built up around it, and if it disappears others will suffer, the same way a small town suffers when a military base closes.
Of course the answer isn't necessarily to keep the base open (or monopoloy in place.)
But, every Napster user pays to use Napster. They pay for their computer. They pay for their internet connection. They pay for the MP3 players, CD burners, stereo speakers, and other devices they use to listen to the music they steal.
So musicians will still get paid. They used to get paid by the guys who press the records -- who used to be the guys who built the record players. Now they get paid by the people who sell Pepsi. The inequality here is that not just anybody can sell Pepsi. You have to have a government granted monopoly to broadcast radio frequencies.
If you couldn't sell Pepsi anymore, Viacomm & Disney might stop paying musicians, but do you think Sony would? I think there's enough profit margin on a walkman to encourage someone to make something to play in it.
If I owned a radio station, I'd rather pay musicians to come in and play original stuff than to be forced to play what the RIAA tells me to. I'd probably sell more Pepsi that way too.
I think it was Alan Cox who commented that a microkernel design loses much of its advantages in "customizability" when your monolithic kernel is open source and free to modify. Choose which services you want to run and conpile them together for both speed and customizability!
You can look at the different filesystems and memory managers in use in Linux to see this in action.
The People's Republic of China (you did know that Hong Kong is no longer a British colony?) didn't learn anything from the USA's abuse of the Social Security number?
You're right. Most of the script kiddies target Microsoft, since most of them, until a couple years ago, didn't know of any other platform. But the real clever hackers target unix and other complex systems. Why don't the smart guys spend their time on MS? Because you don't have to be smart to do it. Even if you were a super hacker, why would go to all the extra effort of being devious when all you really need to do is pick an input and type a bunch of aaaaaaaaaaaa's
The solution is to open up the channels of speech. I'm not suggesting everyone has a right to be heard, but there are fewer than a dozen media distribution outlets in America. You can start up your own press, or make an audio or video recording, but you can't get it out to people without going door to door (illegal in many areas). You have no place to sell a book or cd or movie (most chain businesses have exclusive contracts with the major media producers -- Sam Goody or Barnes and Noble could've sell your stuff if they wanted to). You sure as hell better not try to broadcast it over the public airwaves (those are exclusively reserved for the same handful of companies that control retail distibution and content generation -- recording and publishing)
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Maybe you don't remember clinton shutting down the government because he was unwilling to balance the budget, but being stalemated by the Republican congress?
I'm not going to say Bush is smart, or that his reactions are positive. Reaction is the best word for it. The poster who replied to you is wrong about taxes only hurting the economy, but the only exception is the case of paying off the debt. Of course "government debt" is an arbitrary term, and it could be wiped out the same way Hilter wiped out Germany's war reparation debt, or any of a number of other ways-- decree, bankruptcy, etc.
The "surplus" though was a "projected, future surplus" -- and it didn't have anything to do with social security. At all.
While the government getting out of debt would be good for the government's budget, I'm not the one that got them there, and I'm increasingly disinclined to feel I have any responsibility towards the government, since my ability to participate is so minimal. My share of the debt (per capita) is only around 20,000 anyway, and I've already paid it.
$5,000,000,000,000
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250,000,000 people
try to stick a non-magnetized piece of metal on the case next to the magnet and see if it sticks. If not, your hard drive is probly fine.
you saved me a serious response. Now I can spend my time making fun.
Actually, Sun has some fairly decently (?) priced low end systems. 64 bits for a grand -- rack mounted. Only I think they still lock you in with proprientary RAM.
Actually, Sun has some fairly decently (?) priced low end systems. 64 bits for a grand -- rack mounted. Only I think they still lock you in with proprientary RAM.
So, the bigger the fan the less energy it takes to force air through it? It stands to reason if we build a big enough fan, it would consume absolutely no energy.
Two caveats are that power consumption would only ever approach zero at infinite size, and, as you pointed out, that the fan would move increasingly slower as size increased -- but we'd still get a net positive energy (airflow)...
if only it weren't for friction. And inertia. And gravity. And thermodynamics. And so forth.
Sorry for the sarcasm. It just seemed funny.
written by Esther Dyson, an ALSC member and former chairman of ICANN.
"...The ALSC is an independent Committee created by ICANN earlier this year to provide recommendations to ICANN's Board on how to structure the diverse
>global Internet community's participation within ICANN..."
on other news, the king abolished voting, appointed a committe (headed by himself) to decide if voting was really necessary, which declared voting rights "an overwhelming success", by which they meant "there will be no more voting", and assured the voters that he was happy to have be re-appointed ruler and would strive to remember those who got him there.
You anime people need to get out more.
It looks just as much like the Sci-Fi book covers of the 50's & 60's (search for Frank Franzetta) as any anime -- which really was just a rip off of pulp magazine illustrations from the 20's and 30's.
Big breasts and narrow waists and dove eyes are as American as Barbie and Snow White and Betty Boop. There are distinct characteristics of anime, but these aren't it.
France, meaning those in France who are quoted by American media, is such a parrot of certain leftist American policies that it isn't even funny.
Well, it is funny. It's like watching a mobster movie where the boss is trying to come up with an eloquent euphamism for something and the stupid henchman blurts out what the boss is reluctant to say in so many words.
But the funny part is how these French think they are so anti-American and original thinking and defiant, when their opinions are created and branded in the salons of the good ole U. S. of A.
I'm not speaking of this particular notion of the Bush conspiracy -- which was indeed whispered here long before it occurred to anyone in the MidEast (transmitted via satellite as "speculation" of what they were "going to" think) -- but of european and particularly French anti-American policy in general.
Its stupid to bring up the GPL or other open source licenses or argue about whether Microsoft is stealing code. I'm glad they use zlib. I'm glad they used portions of the BSD tcp/ip stack. I'm glad they decided to support (to the best of their ability) standards like C and HTML. I'm glad I don't have to depend on Microsoft anymore. But if they hadn't used open source programs I'd have never been exposed to other options except for the likes of Novell and Sun.
The real issue is that there is now a direct comparison on a shared bug (for which no exploit exists yet, let's not forget -- it's still theoretical) in both the free and proprietary systems.
You can see the cooperation and disclosure *and* resolution on the open source side. Did Microsoft even admit to the vulnerability which they surely (one hopes) knew existed in their own systems? No. That's not the issue either.
The great benefit that comes to open source from this is that now you can observe the different security and development models in action from a purely objective point of view.
Fortunately, for Microsoft and their customers at least, this is not so serious a flaw that it will likely be exploited before they can get fixes out -- if they really want to. Even more fortunately for Microsoft, there are already enough vulnerabilities with easy and existing exploits, that the zlib vulnerabilities will probably be a non-issue. Hackers will tend to follow the path of least resistance.
You are probably right in you facts, but the gist of the parent is still correct. For 20 years Bruce Sterling has been rehashing half-understood ideas in clever meaningless ways -- which isn't to say I'm not a fan.
If he's is so far forward on the cluetrain he mentions in every other sentence anymore, then why does he think those banal web logs are still the shit, years after even he discovered them. He's just now stumbling on Linux, and hasn't actually met GNU yet.
ps.
The myth that there are only 43 decent musicians in the world, and that the record companies have signed all but three of them has got to stop. There are more musicians out there than contracts. And there is less music being recorded than ever these days. If there are fewer decent musicians, it is because the musical outlets have been restricted, not the desire or ability to create it.
I'd choose the free song.
You're right about the death of a monopoly, but an industry has been built up around it, and if it disappears others will suffer, the same way a small town suffers when a military base closes.
Of course the answer isn't necessarily to keep the base open (or monopoloy in place.)
But, every Napster user pays to use Napster. They pay for their computer. They pay for their internet connection. They pay for the MP3 players, CD burners, stereo speakers, and other devices they use to listen to the music they steal.
So musicians will still get paid. They used to get paid by the guys who press the records -- who used to be the guys who built the record players. Now they get paid by the people who sell Pepsi. The inequality here is that not just anybody can sell Pepsi. You have to have a government granted monopoly to broadcast radio frequencies.
If you couldn't sell Pepsi anymore, Viacomm & Disney might stop paying musicians, but do you think Sony would? I think there's enough profit margin on a walkman to encourage someone to make something to play in it.
If I owned a radio station, I'd rather pay musicians to come in and play original stuff than to be forced to play what the RIAA tells me to. I'd probably sell more Pepsi that way too.
you really should try xclock -- it helps me get to bed in time for work.
mod parent up
I think it was Alan Cox who commented that a microkernel design loses much of its advantages in "customizability" when your monolithic kernel is open source and free to modify. Choose which services you want to run and conpile them together for both speed and customizability!
You can look at the different filesystems and memory managers in use in Linux to see this in action.
No government budget has ever been cut by the government willingly. Ever. Anywhere.
"...being able to easily access all your information isn't a bad thing..."
you don't get to know your own information. The proposal is more correctly phrased:
"a select few being able to easily access all of everyone else's information"
what are you, some kind of mac user? Least Significant Bit goes first!
you should htons(date) if you don't like it
The People's Republic of China (you did know that Hong Kong is no longer a British colony?) didn't learn anything from the USA's abuse of the Social Security number?
You're kidding, I hope.
You're right. Most of the script kiddies target Microsoft, since most of them, until a couple years ago, didn't know of any other platform. But the real clever hackers target unix and other complex systems. Why don't the smart guys spend their time on MS? Because you don't have to be smart to do it. Even if you were a super hacker, why would go to all the extra effort of being devious when all you really need to do is pick an input and type a bunch of aaaaaaaaaaaa's
Seattle may have low pollution (they ship it out to Tacoma and Everett) and low crime, but has failed to deliver on all the rest.
#define NULL 5
while(1)
{
if (x=*NULL)
break;
}
"Captain -- the minesweeper program's crashed again!"
The solution is to open up the channels of speech. I'm not suggesting everyone has a right to be heard, but there are fewer than a dozen media distribution outlets in America. You can start up your own press, or make an audio or video recording, but you can't get it out to people without going door to door (illegal in many areas). You have no place to sell a book or cd or movie (most chain businesses have exclusive contracts with the major media producers -- Sam Goody or Barnes and Noble could've sell your stuff if they wanted to). You sure as hell better not try to broadcast it over the public airwaves (those are exclusively reserved for the same handful of companies that control retail distibution and content generation -- recording and publishing)