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decimation: and
the "business model" of "we own
the IP" is all any company in
the US has left
decimation: Well, part of
the reason is
that it has become absurdly expensive
to fab a chip
decimation: everyone's
too busy
to worry about
that ascii
decimation: What amazes me is
the charmed path
that Linux itself has
taken
decimation: reminds me of
the quote from Lawrence of Arabia about hubris: Prince Feisal:
There's nothing further here for a warrior. We drive bargains. Old men's work. Young men make wars, and
the virtues of war are
the virtues of young men. Courage and hope for
the future.
Then old men make
the peace. And
the vices of peace are
the vices of old men. Mistrust and caution. It must be so.
decimation: several years ago
the python "devs" decided
to break
the language "because it makes it better"
decimation: I find
the python3 vs python2 "war" amusing
decimation: the whole USG has become a vehicle
to distribute
the annual seigniorage
mircea_popescu: so in
the end,
this great experiment where congress is in
the business of pork,
the administration is into masturbation and
the country is run by laws not men
mircea_popescu: no i mean, yes, but
that was way back when it still worked sort-of
decimation: congress was all about it, because
they could hang all kinds of other "social good" on
the procurement process
decimation: well, I
think
the best explanation is
that
the defense companies realized
they could
tell gov't employees what
to do (via congress) rather
than otherwise
mircea_popescu: <decimation> what's interesting is
that
the DoD wanted
to push
the industry
to open cooperation in
the 80's. <<
this is very
true. perhaps
the last govt push for sanity in any field.
decimation: ?This will make it easier for all of us
to consume a wide range of content on our mobile devices, most notably high definition video without frustrating lags or delays,? Cisco Director of Government Affairs Mary Brown wrote.
ozbot: FCC votes
to boost Wi-Fi |
TheHill
decimation: but
that would require immense engineering
time
decimation: you could in
theory lockdown
the stuff
that needs
to be locked down in pure hardware
decimation: in
the future apple will sell
the iGenuflect - you kneel prostrate in front of your laptop in memory of Steve, and it will grant you 1 hour of programming
time
decimation: heh yeah
that's a good point, can't violate USG regs
decimation: every point release of OSX: less support for people who want
to do something (apple is forever killing hypercard)
decimation: ugg and in Mavericks
they ditched X11 - you have
to download some open source "Xquartz" project
to make it work
decimation: if you can sell for less
than a macbook I
think
there is a market
there
decimation: there's a business opportunity for some up-and-coming Chinese vendor
to make inroads in
the US market: make a repairable Unix "workstation" laptop
decimation: yeah
that's
true, I have a couple 08-09 laptops. I find
they eat spinning platter hard drives for some reason
decimation: God forbid you want
to open it up
to do anything
decimation: no headache. just keep paying $2k per year for
the latest widget and you are supported
decimation: yeah
this is pretty much
the case. From what I can
tell, most real engineering work is either done on old windows boxes (for engineering crapware) and Macbooks
decimation: these days you get
the feeling
that
there's nobody home at
the levels of gov't
that could "do something" about
the complete
transfer of
the electronics industry
to china et. al.
decimation: what's interesting is
that
the DoD wanted
to push
the industry
to open cooperation in
the 80's.
They saw
the writing on
the wall w.r.t. Asian manufacturing, and pushed for
things like VHDL and whatnot
to
try
to keep industry here, which succeeded
to some degree
decimation: it wasn't
that
they were against doing so, it was just
that
they had 30 years of legal baggage and copyright
to worry about
decimation: Sun dipped its
toe in
that water for awhile, but it was a day late and a dollar short
decimation: Of course,
the custom unix makers were also "unable
to compete" with Intel cpus, due
to
the fact
that
they were fat and bloated from dumb money from gov't and big business
decimation: Computing was
taken from
the hands of
the engineers who actually computed with computers, and suddenly became
the realm of MS crapware.
The whining of
the enigneers was ignored, generally.
decimation: I heard a
theory about
this once. In
the 90's, most business middle-managment went from being innocent of computers
to suddenly owning a winblows box
decimation: asciilifeform: [apple] also profited from
the demise of sun, sgi, etc. - being
the only remaining vendor of what amounts
to '90-style 'unix workstation <<
this is very
true
nubbins`: sorry for
the FB album, but it is what it is
nubbins`: so here's what we've been working on
the past couple weeks
assbot: Voice for omantianefultans extended
to 30 minutes.
BingoBoingo: ^ Candidate for a place
to open a reading retreat
BingoBoingo: Damn.
That actually sounds like a good idea for retreat.
mircea_popescu: dude, book me already. i have > 500 books i never had
the
time
to read.
mircea_popescu: "Turning over a new leaf: Italian prisoners will get
their sentences reduced by
three days for every book
they read while in jail"
TheNewDeal: tim-tams i
told you I would sponsor 5$ worth for a middle finger dedicated
to
the COO of butterfly labs
jurov: i'm just venting
that balances on mpex can change at any
time without any record shown in STAT
jurov: question for me?
that's not related
to artifexd
jurov: for example on mpex, such
thing is much harder
to notice
that because it's beyond mircea
to mention in STAT or else
that "deposit of X was credited"
jurov: that's why it is good
to show full records..
artifexd: jurov: You are a scholar and a gentleman.
Thank you.
jurov: artifexd:
the rest credited
mike_c: jurov is accurate
to 18 decimal places :)
artifexd: It isn't enough for me
to be upset about. But I was curious.
artifexd: The bitcoin
tx id is 955cb8cf9b4e936a9d79b49331aa29c8fb135d639649438211c3de5fcd88145b
jurov: no
that must have been a mistake
artifexd: So, is
there a policy about rounding deposits?
artifexd: But
the management fee came out 3 days later.
artifexd: The amount I deposited doesn't match
the amount I was credited. I originally
thought
the missing amount was
the monthly fee because it was on 1 May.
bounce: "SIGHUP [...]
terminal line hangup"
davout: pankkake: "killall -HUP isn't a real kill, just a signal" <<<
the HUP signal, so?