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The Pankian Metaphor 3085
You apparently haven't understood what I wrote. I never claimed that there shouldn't be a healthy trucking opeation...
The Pankian Metaphor 3086
ref: the previous posting makes reference to standard road design being predicated on the number of heavy truck axle-loads. There is a...
The Pankian Metaphor 3087
the other way of looking at it is that the "market" derives its efficiency from...
The Pankian Metaphor 3088
the issue is that if an infrastructure has enormously hidden subsidies ... consumers might not make...
The Pankian Metaphor 3089
I think I understand what you're talking about but I'll forget it; my brains are oozing to the floor already. This question comes from reading this report I'm mentioned... It is...
The Pankian Metaphor 3090
I'm saying that if that the design and overall wear&tear of some infrastructure is primarily based on certain subset of activity ... then the fully loaded costs of...
The Pankian Metaphor 3091
I have no problem with this. Agreed. Right. I want momentarily drift the thread. There is a word or phrase for what I'm trying to talk about (which your premise seems to ignore); I want...
The Pankian Metaphor 3092
it turns out that the bias of doing a terminal i-o was suppose to be for helping...
The Pankian Metaphor 3093
Did your biz treat batch control files as TTY input? Ours did and the device was called PTY (pseudo TTY...
The Pankian Metaphor 3094
page-in, But that's all you're going to swap out. I'm not aware of one, but there might have been one circumstance when all of memory had to be...
The Pankian Metaphor 3095
No. And you can't today. The whole point of virtual memory was to allow programs to have address...
The Pankian Metaphor 3096
fOn Wed, 17 May 06 10:27:58 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Let me rephrase the question. Could you not...
The Pankian Metaphor 3097
No. Gagzooks! No wonder computing service delivery is slow. But there wasn't ever that much disk space and there never will be. Let me ask you this question: What do you think...
The Pankian Metaphor 3098
Demand-paging when done properly, is one way of conserving RAM and reducing startup overhead. It means that only the megabyte of code actually being used by the 34-megabyte executable...
The Pankian Metaphor 3099
ref: the other part of the os real memory heritage was that applications and program data was buttumed to be loading at any arbitrary adddress in real memory along with the fact that code generation...
The Pankian Metaphor 3100
tss-360 enable 32-bit virtual addressing. part of the issue in virtual machine operation ... was doing i-o. all the 360 i-o operations...
The Pankian Metaphor 3101
Well you've routinely called our invasion and occupation of Iraq "mess prevention", presumably its the Hussein Iraqi gov't you were opposed to since Al Queda wasn't there when we invaded. Does this mean you have...
The Pankian Metaphor 3102
It is. Let me try one more time. Isalmic culture has folklore in self-government and a form of democratic choice of...
The Pankian Metaphor 3103
If you're so worked up about Islam, then why didn't we invade Saudi Arabia? Iraq was relatively secular under Hussein, now its headed for the same...
The Pankian Metaphor 3104
Because that would immediately set all of Islam against Western civilization. The goal is to get them to...
The Pankian Metaphor 3105
For a while, that is exactly what had to be buttumed until we got more data. I just don't get it. From these discussions, the prevailing atbreastude of those who disagree with me is that...
The Pankian Metaphor 3106
Yes. Smarter leaders don't arrange matters that give their opposition no choice but to attack when their opposition is more powerful and and is able to...
The Pankian Metaphor 3107
BAH, we already had loads of data- so much we couldn't analyze it to pick up on the various clues for Sept 11. You're wrong BAH. No-one here is...
The Pankian Metaphor 3108
That was for a specific action. If the US government had not done a fell swoop of foreigners like...
The Pankian Metaphor 3109
John Ahlstrom Perhaps in theory, but perhaps not in practice. Some people in this group are even expressing views...
The Pankian Metaphor 3110
This is purely a concept of Western civilization. It does not exist in the ideology of our enemies. In fact, it is the goal to remove this concept from all of humanity. I don't understand...
The Pankian Metaphor 3111
The US requirement for machine readable pbuttports originally came into effect on 1 October 2003, but was postponed for some countries. It...
The Bush Baby was: The Pankian Metaphor
snip ... We are not trying to undermine him, we are trying to prevent further damage to the country, the world, and the reputation of the USA. His foolishness stands for itself...
The Pankian Metaphor 3113
snip snip Yes, I suppose I did (avoid asking and answering the question), because I wanted to make a different...
The Pankian Metaphor 3114
It isn't a flaw; it is an aspect. I don't think it's software. I've been studying this for at least five years now. I started out with the premise...
The Pankian Metaphor 3115
snip I don't understand what you're saying here. Data supporting what? That people quote Bush out of context? Yes, they...
The Pankian Metaphor 3116
Demo'ed and rebuilt a new wall in the kitchen to increase the width by 2' making a new layout possible...
The Pankian Metaphor 3117
They provide a service. Actually, more than one. They clean up maple seed and other nuts. During the winter...
The Pankian Metaphor 3118
I think you don't understand the trades. Not that I presume to either- but having been under the foot of my...
The Pankian Metaphor 3119
So? It takes about a second to transmit. Compare that to some 18k signatures (mostly nonsensical disclaimers) and similar abuses. Are you applying for troll of the week or are...
The Pankian Metaphor 3120
Screen real estate is not much of a concern because it's not something that has a direct cost - no-one's paying extra to scroll, and certainly...
The Pankian Metaphor 3121
On Sun, 7 May 2006 22:51:11 +0200, Morten Reistad I remember that Kurds were suspected, the advantage there being, I suppose, that it would take the problem away from Sweden itself. "Arrect the usual suspects...
The Pankian Metaphor 3122
Al Queda fully expected a reaction to the WTC attack. That is why it was carried...
The Pankian Metaphor 3123
They are just as dangerous and I want them dead. Rumor will take care of the ones that would have followed them into joining the...
The Pankian Metaphor 3124
typical interactive paradigm had buttumptions about interacting with a human ... anomolies either were reflected to human or dumped into...
The Pankian Metaphor 3125
This was always an incorrect buttumption. We considered operators to be human. There was support put into our GALAXY...
The Pankian Metaphor 3126
operators were humans that did a certain set of operations with respect to application end .... but it was very structured subset ... since...
The Pankian Metaphor 3127
This not familiar is what I find impossible. I suppose this is evidence of the philosophical...
The Pankian Metaphor 3128
re: lots of hard work and experience. one of the things done was detailed vulernability analysis of tcp-ip ... looking both at standards documents (RFCs) and code examination. for...
The Pankian Metaphor 3129
for a little drift, sometime after we took the early out in 92, one of the major...
The Pankian Metaphor 3130
On Sun, 14 May 2006 12:17:16 -0600 in alt.folklore.computers, Anne & I've noticed that American companies seem to like semi-manual computer based...
The Pankian Metaphor 3131
trivial preprocessor would open some number of default files with some amount of default allocation ... and then hope that most applications would never exceed the default ... somewhat like a lot of...
The Pankian Metaphor 3132
re: sort of the evoluation was that computer systems were built to just run. as things got more complex ... especially with various kinds...
The Pankian Metaphor 3133
re: sort of the evoluation was that computer systems were built to just run. as things got more complex ... especially with various kinds of multiprogramming ... there was a realization that varous kinds of...
The Pankian Metaphor 3134
part of the issue was that many of the participants involved in dropping much of the dynamic adaptive capability in the cp67 to vm370 morph ... went on to become part...
The Pankian Metaphor 3135
ref: and the comptroller general's talk there is this folklore that in the wake of Chuck Spinney's (one of Boyd's compatriots) congressional testimony in the early 80s (regarding...
The Pankian Metaphor 3136
the referenced documents for design and building road basically say that the driving factor is...
The Pankian Metaphor 3137
the other scenario is Consumer Debt and lightweight vehicle traffic is cut in half ... potentially cutting overall fuel tax...
The Pankian Metaphor 3138
the comment is not to eliminate payments (in the form of fees and taxes) for roads ... it is just a statement about correctly apportioning the taxes and fees based...
The Pankian Metaphor 3139
But you are buttuming that today's methods aren't sufficient for maintenance. I think this is a bad buttumption because no one knows the actual costs because the disbursements out of...
The Pankian Metaphor 3140
so that goes back to the comment in comptroller general talk regarding projection, instrumentation, metrics, audit, validation, etc regarding spending programs...
The Pankian Metaphor 3141
another one of my favorites is SSL we were asked to consult with this small client-server startup that wanted to do payments on their server they had this...
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