I had a look at your site. And. Maybe it's just me, but I don't see what the relationship between categories of web pages and parts of antarctica (or any continent) are ?
I just found it hard to navigate, it didn't really make any sense to me at all. It's all very well linking what we see on our screen to a real-world concept, but why do it if it doesn't fit ?
Look at it this way... if you want to buy a car, you don't whip out your world atlas and find "Carland", you get out your yellow pages and look for "Bob's Cheap Cars". On the web, substitute yellow pages for Yahoo etc and you have a perfect correlation between doing it in the "real world" and in the "virtual world".
Please feel free to explain your concept further to the/. community.
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C isn't a form of the work, if he had also written or ported it to C then that would be a fair comment, but as he hasn't then it's not a form of the work.
You are of course correct that Energia is one helluva rocket pack, huge, powerful, safer (liquid fueled rather than the solidfuel bombs the US uses), and much more reusable.
However, to be able to efficiently service any propspective space station (which they could use an Energia to lauch in one shot) would require a shuttle to take humans and cargo to and from the station.
Deal is, there are 2 completed shuttles. There were (I think) 8 testers, 7 of them static (non-propelled), 1 of them a flying one with jet engines strapped on the back, it took off and landed under it's own steam like a conventional aircraft for low atmosphere flight testing.
The 1 flying aerodynamic tester is currently on display in Sydney, it is not a space capable shuttle, but is as close as you can get to one.
The 2 completed space capable shuttles are in Kahzakstan at Baikonur, and are infact owned by Kahzakstan.
1 static tester is now a restaurant in Gorky park, Moscow, tiled & repainted to look more like Buran.
This fits with the speculation that the Buran fleet of shuttles (actually only the first of the Russian shuttles is named Buran, but it has become the defacto name for the fleet) will soon be de-mothballed and brought into service (at least numbers 1 and probably 2, the rest are incomplete).
The AN225 is now back flying in active service, this is the largest flying aircraft currently, and was designed specifically for transport of the Buran.
The runway at Baikonur has just been refurbished, this is the runway that was built specifically for the Buran and AN225.
Reportadly Buran is virtually ready to fly with very little work, strap on an Energia and boosters roll her out to the pad and jump on in.
A number of years ago I went to New Caledonia, this would have been, 8 years ago. Anyway, when there we had our standard Bank Of New Zealand Visa card, which we thought would be sweet.
However almost every store we went to they didn't know what to do - the card had no chip in the top right corner like thier french credit cards, so I ended up having to explain, in my significantly less than fluent french that they should put it through the zip-zap machine instead because New Zealand doesn't have chipped cards.
Here in New Zealand (as another poster has pointed out) we have heavily embraced EFTPOS (Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale), almost everybody uses it, basically an ATM card you can also use at the cash register.
Credit cards are also able to be used at the eftpos machines, and are generally linked to our bank accounts so we can charge our cheque/credit or savings account for the purchase.
But still we do not have the little chip like the New Caledonian (and I presume France's banks)cards. I havn't been back there but would like to sometime (if I can ever get some time off, and somebody to go with), when I do I'll certainly be checking with the bank before I go.
I've always admired thr Russian space program, and I think its very sad to see Buran sitting rusting away (like much russian hardware these days).
It might not have been a totally original design, but it would have a greater payload than the American shuttles, probably be cheaper to operate etc.
Somebody above posted a link about how the Buran may soon be resurrected (apparently one is pretty much ready to roll out to the launch platform on short order, more or less just needs to have a motor strapped to it), and extended (stretched lengthways) to a 200tonne payload (10x the shuttle payload) to fly again. I personnally hope it does, it sure would be a sight to see.
Here in New Zealand I am all to aware that the majority of people think SciFi is crap - it's plainly evident just by looking at our tv schedules.
Basically in this country our only scifi fix currently is coming on a Saturday night from TV4 (free to air channel that is a little off-beat, alternative, cool:-)) , consisting of Quantum Leap (airing this from episode one (although I thought that first episode was a 2hr pilot when it was first released), DS9 - which I don't watch, OSI and if we are lucky a movie after that.
On a sunday afternoon TV4 shows reruns of Voyager (mmmm 7of9) and DS9. Occasionally the other channels show the odd movie of interest (last Saturday we were treated to "Contact" again). TV2 started playing a series of (mmm Gillian Anderson) XFiles (which, I hve to disagree with people and say that the first series with Robert Patrick is quite good) and then pulled it midstream for no reason. We got one season of EFC from 4 (not bad...). TV3 played Dark Angel , but while they own the rights to (mmmm Gigi Edgly) Farscape (of which we have seen 1 season, several years ago) they refuse to play it. TV4 were playing Perversions of Science, which I liked.
TV2 is probably the worts...not only did they pull XF, but they played Brimstone and Strange World in absurdly graveyard times - great shows and they just killed any future they would have had here. I'm guessing they own series of SG1, but we havn't seen it for ages.
TV3 is JUST getting into series 3 of Charmed (mmmm Holly Marie Coombs), that's more fantasy though (good but(ts:-))).
Damn, we need a SciFi channel here, I need an intavenous SciFi infusion stat.
Only a few decades ago, having that much memory would take the size of small room, and the money of a small country, in just a couple of years (2005) these guys are going to have it at molecular size (admittadly, still with the money of a small country no doubt) !
I just can't wait for usefull nanobots to become a reality.
And then we just get into the whole arms race again !
We imagine they have weapons, so build bigger weapons, they image we build bigger weapons, so build even bigger weapons, round and round in circles we go, where we stops, nobody knows.
The only solution is to take a proactive stance, reduce arms ! Now ! Oh and get rid of that George Dubya while you're at it.
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I'm sure that a year or more ago I read an article in our local newspaper (in Christchurch, New Zealand) about a company that had just installed a book making machine like this, it took the book in digital form in one end and spat out a nice paper form of the book at the other.
I think that following the MAC desktop theme, dragging anything to the trash (including disks) should delete/erase. I don't like the trash to eject thing.
They should also put a "Hand" on the desk, dragging anything to the hand would put something physical `in your hand'. If it's a disk, it would eject, if it's a document it would print, if it's a program it would say 'insert disk to put this file onto' and eject the disk when done.
Oh and apple, if you take my idea on board, I'll have a piece of that pie thanks:-)
I saw a documentary about a year ago, one part of a series on mysterious animals, that may or may not (still) exist.
The conclusion of this episode was that there are significant enough portions of Tazmania that are dense and remote enough for a small population of tazmanian tigers to exist.
Also that it is possible that an equally small population could exist on the (Australian) mainland (there have been sightings, some recent on the mainland as well as on Tazmania).
The series (I think it was called X-Creatures or something like that) was pretty good and provided well rounded views on the possibility of the existance of the various animals. It took into account things like food source, habitat extent, the size of population the area could support, wether the population would be big enough to continue for long enough.... If you get a chance watch it.
Err, stopping using DNS is exactly the same as throwing our your phone books and telephone directory services. Do you know the phone number of every person/company you are every going to want to ring ?!
They must already have a transmitter and reciever though ?
I'm thinking the lights on the keyboard here, NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock. On "real" keyboards these can be turned on/off by the computer not just the keyboard.
Ok, traditional store-and-forward protocols will translate well to interplanetary network applications. So email takes several minutes to mars, big whoop. Streaming applications, and downloading files will work fine to, so it takes 5 mins to get going, again, big whoop, once it is it can be fast as it is now.
But, the web, and anything that requires such interactivity (instant messaging, IRC,...) is a big problem. I don't think the instant messaging problem could be solved.
But for the web all we need is a bigger, more powerful google on each planet/moon which uses it's cache as default (it would also cache images) location for the page, and does link translation in the document again into it's cache.
If user wants to get the latest version of the file they enter thier email address (james@martians.mars) and google.co.mars will notify them with a link when the page comes in off the wire, err, make that laser beam.
Of course dynamic page content is a different story (can you imagine requesting a page on earth from mars that calls a page on venus to do something, submit, 2 hours come back).
I rigged an old Panasonic 2x cdrom into our car (just a couple o' regulators, a few conditioning caps and a cigarette lighter plug, all running through an old `ghetto blaster' that I sat in the back seat, powered in the same way). Anyway it ran perfectly even over bumps etc.
Probably though your fancy schmancy 50x CD drive isn't going to fare so well with the bumps in the road.
I'm a kiwi web programmer/database guy, and have thought at the odd time of working in a different country for higher wages. Most likely Europe as my dad is british and thus I could get a british passport without much trouble.
But it generally comes down to, well, would I really want to live anywhere other than New Zealand ?
And I think that once the increased cost of living would probably outweigh the increased earnings, so that when I came back I'd probably be no better off.
Of course, yes, there are things that cost a shitload more than in the states, and importing stuff with the NZ Dollar the way it is (about 42 US cents) currently is expensive. But on the whole the benefits outweight the costs.
So. Yes. Come to New Zealand it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, great people, pretty well technologically connected, and tech jobs a plenty.
Just because they use GPL for some things, doesn't mean that they must use GPL for everything.
If GPL suits the model for some of thier software (only Caldera can say what that is), or if they use GPL stuff as part of that software, then they will release software as GPL.
If a BSD style license works for a different software, they are perfectly entitled and sensible to use it.
Whether Caldera capitalises on GPL software is beside the point. He is saying that, quite rightly, distributing thier own software as GPL is not good business sense. Of course its not, you don't have to be a genius to see that.
However, give Caldera credit, they are not saying that Open Source is bad and they won't do open source stuff because they won't make as much money etc etc.
What they _are_ saying is that the GPL isn't right for them, but they still like the idea of open source, just under a more restrictive license.
Let me emphasize this. Microsoft says Open Source is bad full stop. Caldera says Open Source is good, but the GPL probably isn't good for commercially released Open Source.
No she wasn't an 'ordinary person' she was a person selected to go on the mission.
If Joe Bloggs went down to NASA and said `can you take me to space please' what do you think _his_ chances are. However if Joe Bloggs (all be it with a large sum of money) went over to Russia his chances are pretty good.
I used to run a BBS called "Project Amiga" in Christchurch New Zealand. IIRC I was fido node 3:770/350, I was also an Amiganet node (but the node number escapes me now), and nodes of couple of local New Zealand networks (including my own network with some other BBS in Christchurch (AJNet, for Andrew-James Net:-) originally).
I closed the BBS when my old A3000 died miserably about, err, umm, 4 1/2 maybe 5 years ago. I intended the shutdown to be only a few days, it ended up being forever.
I also had it setup for telnet access during the night (when usage was low, not that it was very high ever, but hey..) and had a few users from around the place. I remember beginning to setup a gateway over the net to another DLGPro BBS (the name I forget) to provide a quicker FIDO path to the net for my users.
On the bright side, I'm in the process of rebuilding my A3000 and I think I saved everything important (the DlgPro setup I was using, scripts, user lists, and the all important "Trapdoor" FTN mailer setup:-)) onto an old 250Mg SCSI drive so I might have to dig that out and see what I can get off of it:-)
Ahh, memories, almost makes me want to get Project Amiga back online, almost.
I had one of these. It worked exactly the same way as this. You aim the camera, trun the filter to the right colour, grab, turn to next colour, grab, turn to last colour, grab, and DigiView composited the three images into one.
Of course your subject had to be still for the entire grabbing process (and this was sloooooow) which limited it's usefulness.
You could also get a device (I think it was called a roboview) that would turn the filter for you.
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I had a look at your site. And. Maybe it's just me, but I don't see what the relationship between categories of web pages and parts of antarctica (or any continent) are ?
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I just found it hard to navigate, it didn't really make any sense to me at all. It's all very well linking what we see on our screen to a real-world concept, but why do it if it doesn't fit ?
Look at it this way... if you want to buy a car, you don't whip out your world atlas and find "Carland", you get out your yellow pages and look for "Bob's Cheap Cars". On the web, substitute yellow pages for Yahoo etc and you have a perfect correlation between doing it in the "real world" and in the "virtual world".
Please feel free to explain your concept further to the
form of the work
C isn't a form of the work, if he had also written or ported it to C then that would be a fair comment, but as he hasn't then it's not a form of the work.
You are of course correct that Energia is one helluva rocket pack, huge, powerful, safer (liquid fueled rather than the solidfuel bombs the US uses), and much more reusable.
However, to be able to efficiently service any propspective space station (which they could use an Energia to lauch in one shot) would require a shuttle to take humans and cargo to and from the station.
Deal is, there are 2 completed shuttles. There were (I think) 8 testers, 7 of them static (non-propelled), 1 of them a flying one with jet engines strapped on the back, it took off and landed under it's own steam like a conventional aircraft for low atmosphere flight testing.
The 1 flying aerodynamic tester is currently on display in Sydney, it is not a space capable shuttle, but is as close as you can get to one.
The 2 completed space capable shuttles are in Kahzakstan at Baikonur, and are infact owned by Kahzakstan.
1 static tester is now a restaurant in Gorky park, Moscow, tiled & repainted to look more like Buran.
The runway at Baikonur has just been refurbished, this is the runway that was built specifically for the Buran and AN225.
Reportadly Buran is virtually ready to fly with very little work, strap on an Energia and boosters roll her out to the pad and jump on in.
A number of years ago I went to New Caledonia, this would have been, 8 years ago. Anyway, when there we had our standard Bank Of New Zealand Visa card, which we thought would be sweet.
However almost every store we went to they didn't know what to do - the card had no chip in the top right corner like thier french credit cards, so I ended up having to explain, in my significantly less than fluent french that they should put it through the zip-zap machine instead because New Zealand doesn't have chipped cards.
Here in New Zealand (as another poster has pointed out) we have heavily embraced EFTPOS (Electronic Funds Transfer at Point Of Sale), almost everybody uses it, basically an ATM card you can also use at the cash register.
Credit cards are also able to be used at the eftpos machines, and are generally linked to our bank accounts so we can charge our cheque/credit or savings account for the purchase.
But still we do not have the little chip like the New Caledonian (and I presume France's banks)cards. I havn't been back there but would like to sometime (if I can ever get some time off, and somebody to go with), when I do I'll certainly be checking with the bank before I go.
I've always admired thr Russian space program, and I think its very sad to see Buran sitting rusting away (like much russian hardware these days).
It might not have been a totally original design, but it would have a greater payload than the American shuttles, probably be cheaper to operate etc.
Somebody above posted a link about how the Buran may soon be resurrected (apparently one is pretty much ready to roll out to the launch platform on short order, more or less just needs to have a motor strapped to it), and extended (stretched lengthways) to a 200tonne payload (10x the shuttle payload) to fly again. I personnally hope it does, it sure would be a sight to see.
Here in New Zealand I am all to aware that the majority of people think SciFi is crap - it's plainly evident just by looking at our tv schedules.
:-)) , consisting of Quantum Leap (airing this from episode one (although I thought that first episode was a 2hr pilot when it was first released), DS9 - which I don't watch, OSI and if we are lucky a movie after that.
:-))).
Basically in this country our only scifi fix currently is coming on a Saturday night from TV4 (free to air channel that is a little off-beat, alternative, cool
On a sunday afternoon TV4 shows reruns of Voyager (mmmm 7of9) and DS9. Occasionally the other channels show the odd movie of interest (last Saturday we were treated to "Contact" again). TV2 started playing a series of (mmm Gillian Anderson) XFiles (which, I hve to disagree with people and say that the first series with Robert Patrick is quite good) and then pulled it midstream for no reason. We got one season of EFC from 4 (not bad...). TV3 played Dark Angel , but while they own the rights to (mmmm Gigi Edgly) Farscape (of which we have seen 1 season, several years ago) they refuse to play it. TV4 were playing Perversions of Science, which I liked.
TV2 is probably the worts...not only did they pull XF, but they played Brimstone and Strange World in absurdly graveyard times - great shows and they just killed any future they would have had here. I'm guessing they own series of SG1, but we havn't seen it for ages.
TV3 is JUST getting into series 3 of Charmed (mmmm Holly Marie Coombs), that's more fantasy though (good but(ts
Damn, we need a SciFi channel here, I need an intavenous SciFi infusion stat.
Only a few decades ago, having that much memory would take the size of small room, and the money of a small country, in just a couple of years (2005) these guys are going to have it at molecular size (admittadly, still with the money of a small country no doubt) !
I just can't wait for usefull nanobots to become a reality.
And then we just get into the whole arms race again !
We imagine they have weapons, so build bigger weapons, they image we build bigger weapons, so build even bigger weapons, round and round in circles we go, where we stops, nobody knows.
The only solution is to take a proactive stance, reduce arms ! Now ! Oh and get rid of that George Dubya while you're at it.
I'm sure that a year or more ago I read an article in our local newspaper (in Christchurch, New Zealand) about a company that had just installed a book making machine like this, it took the book in digital form in one end and spat out a nice paper form of the book at the other.
The episodes that I have seen with Doggett in them (TV here in NZ has pulled it mid series...grr), are actually much much better IMHO.
I think that following the MAC desktop theme, dragging anything to the trash (including disks) should delete/erase. I don't like the trash to eject thing.
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They should also put a "Hand" on the desk, dragging anything to the hand would put something physical `in your hand'. If it's a disk, it would eject, if it's a document it would print, if it's a program it would say 'insert disk to put this file onto' and eject the disk when done.
Oh and apple, if you take my idea on board, I'll have a piece of that pie thanks
I saw a documentary about a year ago, one part of a series on mysterious animals, that may or may not (still) exist.
The conclusion of this episode was that there are significant enough portions of Tazmania that are dense and remote enough for a small population of tazmanian tigers to exist.
Also that it is possible that an equally small population could exist on the (Australian) mainland (there have been sightings, some recent on the mainland as well as on Tazmania).
The series (I think it was called X-Creatures or something like that) was pretty good and provided well rounded views on the possibility of the existance of the various animals. It took into account things like food source, habitat extent, the size of population the area could support, wether the population would be big enough to continue for long enough.... If you get a chance watch it.
Err, stopping using DNS is exactly the same as throwing our your phone books and telephone directory services. Do you know the phone number of every person/company you are every going to want to ring ?!
They must already have a transmitter and reciever though ?
I'm thinking the lights on the keyboard here, NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock. On "real" keyboards these can be turned on/off by the computer not just the keyboard.
Can these wireless keyboards not do that ?
Ok, traditional store-and-forward protocols will translate well to interplanetary network applications. So email takes several minutes to mars, big whoop. Streaming applications, and downloading files will work fine to, so it takes 5 mins to get going, again, big whoop, once it is it can be fast as it is now.
...) is a big problem. I don't think the instant messaging problem could be solved.
But, the web, and anything that requires such interactivity (instant messaging, IRC,
But for the web all we need is a bigger, more powerful google on each planet/moon which uses it's cache as default (it would also cache images) location for the page, and does link translation in the document again into it's cache.
If user wants to get the latest version of the file they enter thier email address (james@martians.mars) and google.co.mars will notify them with a link when the page comes in off the wire, err, make that laser beam.
Of course dynamic page content is a different story (can you imagine requesting a page on earth from mars that calls a page on venus to do something, submit, 2 hours come back).
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I rigged an old Panasonic 2x cdrom into our car (just a couple o' regulators, a few conditioning caps and a cigarette lighter plug, all running through an old `ghetto blaster' that I sat in the back seat, powered in the same way). Anyway it ran perfectly even over bumps etc.
Probably though your fancy schmancy 50x CD drive isn't going to fare so well with the bumps in the road.
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I'm a kiwi web programmer/database guy, and have thought at the odd time of working in a different country for higher wages. Most likely Europe as my dad is british and thus I could get a british passport without much trouble.
But it generally comes down to, well, would I really want to live anywhere other than New Zealand ?
And I think that once the increased cost of living would probably outweigh the increased earnings, so that when I came back I'd probably be no better off.
Of course, yes, there are things that cost a shitload more than in the states, and importing stuff with the NZ Dollar the way it is (about 42 US cents) currently is expensive. But on the whole the benefits outweight the costs.
So. Yes. Come to New Zealand it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, great people, pretty well technologically connected, and tech jobs a plenty.
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Don't see why you were modded down there. But...
Just because they use GPL for some things, doesn't mean that they must use GPL for everything.
If GPL suits the model for some of thier software (only Caldera can say what that is), or if they use GPL stuff as part of that software, then they will release software as GPL.
If a BSD style license works for a different software, they are perfectly entitled and sensible to use it.
Turning a profit is not bad, quite the oppposite.
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Whether Caldera capitalises on GPL software is beside the point. He is saying that, quite rightly, distributing thier own software as GPL is not good business sense. Of course its not, you don't have to be a genius to see that.
However, give Caldera credit, they are not saying that Open Source is bad and they won't do open source stuff because they won't make as much money etc etc.
What they _are_ saying is that the GPL isn't right for them, but they still like the idea of open source, just under a more restrictive license.
Let me emphasize this. Microsoft says Open Source is bad full stop. Caldera says Open Source is good, but the GPL probably isn't good for commercially released Open Source.
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No she wasn't an 'ordinary person' she was a person selected to go on the mission.
If Joe Bloggs went down to NASA and said `can you take me to space please' what do you think _his_ chances are. However if Joe Bloggs (all be it with a large sum of money) went over to Russia his chances are pretty good.
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I used to run a BBS called "Project Amiga" in Christchurch New Zealand. IIRC I was fido node 3:770/350, I was also an Amiganet node (but the node number escapes me now), and nodes of couple of local New Zealand networks (including my own network with some other BBS in Christchurch (AJNet, for Andrew-James Net :-) originally).
:-)) onto an old 250Mg SCSI drive so I might have to dig that out and see what I can get off of it :-)
I closed the BBS when my old A3000 died miserably about, err, umm, 4 1/2 maybe 5 years ago. I intended the shutdown to be only a few days, it ended up being forever.
I also had it setup for telnet access during the night (when usage was low, not that it was very high ever, but hey..) and had a few users from around the place. I remember beginning to setup a gateway over the net to another DLGPro BBS (the name I forget) to provide a quicker FIDO path to the net for my users.
On the bright side, I'm in the process of rebuilding my A3000 and I think I saved everything important (the DlgPro setup I was using, scripts, user lists, and the all important "Trapdoor" FTN mailer setup
Ahh, memories, almost makes me want to get Project Amiga back online, almost.
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I had one of these. It worked exactly the same way as this. You aim the camera, trun the filter to the right colour, grab, turn to next colour, grab, turn to last colour, grab, and DigiView composited the three images into one.
Of course your subject had to be still for the entire grabbing process (and this was sloooooow) which limited it's usefulness.
You could also get a device (I think it was called a roboview) that would turn the filter for you.
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I think you might mean when they contacted Pioneer 6 (IIRC it was 6) in December last year. This is a different probe.
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