can anybody explain to me why it takes 300 employees to do this
I don't know. As I recall, Zimmerman wrote the original package all by his lonesome and then made it freeware so Agent Smith and company wouldn't show up and erase it...and him.
Reminicent of the old LED watches that couldn't spare the power for a constant display either, It led (pun intentional) to a Saturday Night Live parody commmercial of a functionally-overloaded watch; a voiceover enuumerated all the modes the watch had while we see the watch on a wrist and a hand comes in to start working buttons...then another hand enters, then a third, a fourth, all furiously working buttons on the single watch. The commercial wraps with the slogan something like: "Robowatch: it's like asking a stranger for the time"
So open-source stuff is "potentally viral software"? That's the most insanely comical thing I've heard out of Redmond since the bullet point in the Hailstorm hype that claimed it "put the user in control".:-)
...and the telemetry is running again. Before people ask, the main controller is a radiation-hardened RCA COSMAC 1802 running IPS, which is fundamentally a multitasking threaded interpreter similar to FORTH. There is also a StrongARM on board as a demonstration project, but it is not tasked with anything mission-critical.
Those of us in the amateur radio satellite community have gone for a hell of a ride over the last few weeks, and it's good to see things looking up a little. (Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk)
After we get done giving the RF spectrum back to people who aren't radio operators, let's give the airspace back to people who aren't pilots and the roads back to people who aren't drivers.:-)
Getting a geosynchronous OSCAR is often talked about, but very difficult to do--it takes international cooperation to scrape together the resources to build and launch one, and it's very hard to get someone to support a sat that will never be in their sky.
AO-40 is a very good compromise: it will have a *long* (ten hours?) hang-time over Europe, North America, and Asia during local evenings (when hams mostly operate).
The "grumpy old men" factor has indeed been a real problem. Fortunately a lot of them have allowed their licences to expire out of sheer disinterest.:-)
Most of them would actually have to go to the trouble of studying-up on a little almost-current technology to re-licence today, and the likelyhood of that is slim-to-none.
There *are* some problems with the exams, still. Too many people simply memorize answers, and squeak though. The same this is true of the written tests for pilots from the FAA, too. I don't know what the answer is to that.
But if we had to re-take current exams every so often, we could probably flush out a lot of pimpled behinds.:-)
oooo perhaps we can scan our girlfriends and map out the path to the infamous `G-Spot`?
I bow to no one in my own level of geekitude, and now that there's a hardware hack that turns off the encryption I'll probably go get one of the misbegotten things.
So even such a geek as I can appreciate the inherent 'leetness of using the "Red-nosed pussy" (as they call it over at haveblue's site) to find your lady's sweet spot.
But I have to ask: did it occur to you to *ask* her where it is? I bet you could even get her to "talk you in".:-)
There are no geek houses that want chicks in them. I speak from experience.
Ours does.:-) We have two already and would consider a well-qualified third. Being bi is a big plus though; we may have some guys around here at some point in the future. We also give bonus points for aviators and radio amateurs.
Oh...re: the booze thread? We don't drink much here, but think highly of 25-yo Glenmorangie when we do.
The developers in question do come across as "just a couple of guys", and I hope they do manage to feed their dogs. But, having been to their website and read the industrial-srength legal fine print on *everything* there, the suits behind this thing smell like the very scariest sort, and I'd say the chances that they will be able to build a good relationship with the open source community are slim and none...and as we speak Slim is surfing at Travelocity.:-)
All this whining about "intellectual property" convinces me that the folks behind CueCat have a only the foggiest notion of what intellectual property is, and I think that the "crime" that the folks that made a kernel driver for the CueCat really comitted--what really freaked out the CueCat suits out-- was that they pried loose control of the valuable marketing information that CueCat is capturing and sending back to the CueCat servers. I think we should be watching very carefully to see what kind of things start showing up in that data stream...especially since I bet the "official" client software is quite capable of silently updating itself to do whatever the suits want it to.
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Oh, yeah...this topic is about programming, isn't it? If young master AC upthread wants eyecandy he's on the wrong site. I'd recommend spankoff.com
Where's *your* picture? :-)
This is obvious fiction. Nobody ever had that much fun with VB.
I seem to recall that REBOL fame didn't even last for 15 minutes the last time around. I guess it still has time on the clock.
"Special" is one of those marvelous adjectives used in weasel-mode, when you don't want to actually say what you mean:
Special Projects
Special Education
Special Forces
Special Prosecuter
Special Interests
Special Olympics
Special Effects
Special Weapons and Tactics
It's not *always* perjorative...that depends mostly on how you felt about the ordinary, "unspecial" stuff.
"Isn't *that* special!" --The Church Lady
Because to get the Holy Scripture wrong makes one a heathen.
I don't know. As I recall, Zimmerman wrote the original package all by his lonesome and then made it freeware so Agent Smith and company wouldn't show up and erase it...and him.
Reminicent of the old LED watches that couldn't spare the power for a constant display either, It led (pun intentional) to a Saturday Night Live parody commmercial of a functionally-overloaded watch; a voiceover enuumerated all the modes the watch had while we see the watch on a wrist and a hand comes in to start working buttons...then another hand enters, then a third, a fourth, all furiously working buttons on the single watch. The commercial wraps with the slogan something like: "Robowatch: it's like asking a stranger for the time"
...that there's a Flash plugin for Mozilla on Linux already.
Verily, the pot calleth the kettle black.
1200 baud AFSK..I've managed to bounce a few packets up there myself. 73 de Maggie K3XS
CobolScript
Nice site. When you mouse over a nav link it disappears. And the date is displayed as
Friday, April 6, 101
I guess it *is* Joe COBOL programming it.
Pains me to see stuff like that; I work at The Company Formerly Known As MicroFocus. :-)
I'm certain that LDS folks would not approve of how I live my life, and I'm not confident of their ability to keep their noses out of it.
Those of us in the amateur radio satellite community have gone for a hell of a ride over the last few weeks, and it's good to see things looking up a little. (Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk)
73 de Maggie KB3DXS, ARRL 39280, AMSAT 32844
One take on it is The Wayback Machine .
After we get done giving the RF spectrum back to people who aren't radio operators, let's give the airspace back to people who aren't pilots and the roads back to people who aren't drivers. :-)
AO-40 is a very good compromise: it will have a *long* (ten hours?) hang-time over Europe, North America, and Asia during local evenings (when hams mostly operate).
Most of them would actually have to go to the trouble of studying-up on a little almost-current technology to re-licence today, and the likelyhood of that is slim-to-none.
There *are* some problems with the exams, still. Too many people simply memorize answers, and squeak though. The same this is true of the written tests for pilots from the FAA, too. I don't know what the answer is to that. But if we had to re-take current exams every so often, we could probably flush out a lot of pimpled behinds. :-)
actually the Cubesat guys presented at the AMSAT conference in Portland ME last month; their paper is in the proceedings.
Must be the quality of the writing. :-)
Uh...happens I do run Linux in my station. :-)
Nice homepage, by the way.
Almost. AO-40 does have a laser on it already. It's infrared, though.
I bow to no one in my own level of geekitude, and now that there's a hardware hack that turns off the encryption I'll probably go get one of the misbegotten things.
So even such a geek as I can appreciate the inherent 'leetness of using the "Red-nosed pussy" (as they call it over at haveblue's site) to find your lady's sweet spot.
But I have to ask: did it occur to you to *ask* her where it is? I bet you could even get her to "talk you in". :-)
There are no geek houses that want chicks in them. I speak from experience.
:-)
Ours does.
We have two already and would consider a well-qualified third. Being bi is a big plus though; we may have some guys around here at some point in the future. We also give bonus points for aviators and radio amateurs.
Oh...re: the booze thread? We don't drink much here, but think highly of 25-yo Glenmorangie when we do.
All this whining about "intellectual property" convinces me that the folks behind CueCat have a only the foggiest notion of what intellectual property is, and I think that the "crime" that the folks that made a kernel driver for the CueCat really comitted--what really freaked out the CueCat suits out-- was that they pried loose control of the valuable marketing information that CueCat is capturing and sending back to the CueCat servers. I think we should be watching very carefully to see what kind of things start showing up in that data stream...especially since I bet the "official" client software is quite capable of silently updating itself to do whatever the suits want it to.