One thing I wonder about, though, is books. What if a novel equivalent of napster appeared (please excuse the pun:-)? How would authors make money then? Through publicly reading their works? I don't think so. I can't think of a mechanism whereby authors could continue to make cash, which is why I would be much more scared of the internet if I were a novelist rather than a musician.
errr... reading books on a CRT? yuk! I don't see this sort of problem happening until we get a *good* and *cheap* replacement for paper books (i.e. flat-flexible electronic paper)...yes, books are expensive too (AUD $16.00+ for a standard paper-back? come-on!) but who would go to all the trouble to "rip" a book? It's easy to do with CD's now, because it's digital, but books are to analog to make this easy.
Mr Richens revealed that the lifts were a bit dangerous because "if you get in while it's upstairs, it comes down and hits you on the head, and you die."
I hope that they get these bugs sorted out before they finish the meatspace version!
Back in the seventies Nasa made beautiful, functional and sturdy spacecraft which would work for many years without fail. These days we get probes that are so blind that they crash into planets.
Stop looking through your rose-coloured glasses!
How much money was bugeted to NASA in the 70s compared to now? I'm sure it was a much higher percentage of the budget (or GDP or whatever). Of course if you've got money to burn you can build fantastic machines, but NASA is on a shoe string budget now (shame on you goverment!!) so of course the engineering will not be as "good".
And don't say that these things worked perfectly, they had problems too. Not every thing on Pioneer(s) worked and they had to use backups.
Probably the reason that it "lived" for so long is that they built in insane amounts of redundency in those things. They can no longer do that because of the costs involved, and besides, why spend $500m on one probe, when you can get two for $250 each?
I seem to be seeing lots of questions about the FCC, but in.au it's the SMA (spectrum managment athourity) that handles this (same thing, just different letters). I have no idea on broadcast rules in.au, maybe there are some amatuer radio people here that can explain it better?
...Considering it's been hanging there for 14 years, I'd say it's in pretty damn GOOD shape.
I agree!
The russians have done amazing things considering the lack of funding (and technology) that some projects have gotten. And considering that it mir is the only long term space research lab at the moment (The shuttle can only go up for 14 days iirc) I say that trying to keep it going until the ISS comes fully online is a good thing (tm)
I also would have loved to see skylab put to better use. As far as I know, there was nothing wrong with it when they dumped it into the atmosphere. But I guess back in the '80s the economy was compleatly different (cold war etc.)
Well, I don't agree with everything you said (of course, you are sig11:) but this is why I like a real book *ignoring* thier content:
Boot time: zero seconds
User interface: Pages, Words. 'nuf said:)
User friendyness: high, very intuitive
Learning curve: very flat once you can read the language of the book
Compatability: All you need is English 101, and a compatable visual light to brain wave interface (eyes) or sound to brain waves (ears) for audible books
etc. etc.
But with LMTs, the day of individual astronomers owning their own telescopes may have dawned.
Come-on! How many amatuer astromoners own their own telescopes. [answer: most of them] I can spend $5,000 and get something that can do some interesting reserch, as long as I have the motorvation. Near earth asteroids, comets, (and with luck) nova, supernovas etc.etc. I hardly think that just because you need big $$$ that you can't contribute.
(blatant ploy to moderators) It's just like open source, you don't need a multi gigaflop machine to write code, just the motorvation.
Speaking of unauthorized use of these things and the phrase "IANAL", I just realized that two of 'em, glued together (flat end to flat end), and with any sharp flashing edges on the plastic properly-smoothed, would serve as a pretty useful dildo. Or better yet, a buttplug.
Are you talking about cuecats here or lawyers? I've gotten a bit confused, I'm afraid. *g*
yep:) It took getting used to, but I find it wonderfully convenient. I can type things in another window while leaving what I'm interested in up front, and I can click widgets in other windows like you mention. However, I *don't* like the settings that cause windows to come to the front as the mouse crosses; that just drives me nuts . . .
I agree! One thing I hate also is when a new window gets keyboard focus in MS windows(internet explorer, dum dialog boxes). I'm like typing away, something pops up *bing* just before I smack the enter key. shit what was that? NOOOOOO!!!! stop stop stop stop stop....err... too late:(
If X was on OS-X all of the programs written for X-Windows could run on OS-X
Yeah, It would be great to run X programs on the Mac, but I meant inside the (Mac) GUI. That's what I meant when I said this: "I can understand trying to get X apps on top of the Mac GUI, but if you need all of X..."
I was thinking of an X emulator. I'm sure that you can get them for windows (maybe they are just remote X terms?) I read the article as replacing the Mac GUI with X, rather that just having it run along side it (okay, walk beside it *g*)
But, I guess that an emulator would be more buggy than just straight out X. It would probably break that many dependancies, that an emulator (that work well) would be as big as a full GUI replacement.
errr... Who knows what I'm talking about any more, I sure don't! Too late, too tired, no caffine!
What on earth for? I can't see any reason to put X on Mac OS. Its' GUI is fantastic, why would you want to replace it (unless you are some wierdo-S&M type hacker (or from attrition:-)))?
I can understand trying to get X apps on top of the Mac GUI, but if you need all of X, why not just install a linux/bsd distro on the Mac?
CueCat Driver 0.1.8 was released on Freshmeat mere hours ago.
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Well, I'm going to have to report all you too, now. Don't bother with water-marking MPAA, you should just slap this licence agreement on the front of your DVD's
From the New EULA: In any event, you will notify Digital:Convergence of any information derived from reverse engineering or such other activities...
Riiightt... so, now not only can't I reverse engineer the software under thier "agreement", I have to dob in anyone I find out that is reverse engineering it?
hmmm, better stop reading slashdot, I guess MS, RIAA and the MPAA were right. You are all the spawn of Satan. Lucky the big companies are here to protect me and my children (please, won't you think of the children?).
Sorry to disapoint you but most of the OSS software the goverment would be using would already be under the GPL or a GPL-based license, so there wouldn't be much of an opportunity for people like you to steal it or convert it to shareware anyway....
Some scientists think that as you approach Absolute Zero, time starts to slow down, just like time slows down as you approach the speed of light.
Well, I guess that time is a measure of distance and (relative?) velocity (i think??). So, if things stop moving (atomic level) like they (are supposed to) do at zero, how can you mesure time? Plus the buttons on the stop watch probably get too cold:)
I believe that their computer had actually jumped forward in time!!!
So that's why the Delorean and the flux capacitor had the fog comming off it! It was LN-cooled and over-clocked!
An analysis of Open Source licensing agreements is needed, with an ultimate goal of agreeing upon a single common licensing agreement for Open Source software development.
Let me guess, the government is going to go with something like the QtPL or the netscape license.
I guess that this is why they didn't talk to RMS, he would push for the GPL (Which they are probably uncomfortable with).
I don't think so, Tim. There's girls in this trailer.
I'd put this under fantasy, how many girls get involved in any LANs that you have been too?
And scantly clad ones at that? I think these people are in a little fantasy world:)
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Hey, If it works for Voltron and Neon Genesis Evangelion... :)
Text version of the word doc
Warning, very quick and dirty :)
errr... reading books on a CRT? yuk! I don't see this sort of problem happening until we get a *good* and *cheap* replacement for paper books (i.e. flat-flexible electronic paper) ...yes, books are expensive too (AUD $16.00+ for a standard paper-back? come-on!) but who would go to all the trouble to "rip" a book? It's easy to do with CD's now, because it's digital, but books are to analog to make this easy.
Anyway, that's just my $0.02 + 10% GST.
What about collins class submarines?
I hope that they get these bugs sorted out before they finish the meatspace version!
An internal exception has occurred
So, you're saying you don't know either?
and then...
1978 - Joe Quimby reluctantly graduates from college, after his father threatens to take away his girlfriend.
I guess that Joe Quimby Sr. was a very influential man.
These days we get probes that are so blind that they crash into planets.
Stop looking through your rose-coloured glasses!
How much money was bugeted to NASA in the 70s compared to now? I'm sure it was a much higher percentage of the budget (or GDP or whatever). Of course if you've got money to burn you can build fantastic machines, but NASA is on a shoe string budget now (shame on you goverment!!) so of course the engineering will not be as "good".
And don't say that these things worked perfectly, they had problems too. Not every thing on Pioneer(s) worked and they had to use backups.
Probably the reason that it "lived" for so long is that they built in insane amounts of redundency in those things. They can no longer do that because of the costs involved, and besides, why spend $500m on one probe, when you can get two for $250 each?
For a laugh, check out Andrew Jardines' stat page: htt p:/ /nl.viewstat.nedstatbasic.net/cgi-bin/viewstat?nam e=count_andrews_page (esp page views per day)
I seem to be seeing lots of questions about the FCC, but in .au it's the SMA (spectrum managment athourity) that handles this (same thing, just different letters). I have no idea on broadcast rules in .au, maybe there are some amatuer radio people here that can explain it better?
I agree!
The russians have done amazing things considering the lack of funding (and technology) that some projects have gotten. And considering that it mir is the only long term space research lab at the moment (The shuttle can only go up for 14 days iirc) I say that trying to keep it going until the ISS comes fully online is a good thing (tm)
I also would have loved to see skylab put to better use. As far as I know, there was nothing wrong with it when they dumped it into the atmosphere. But I guess back in the '80s the economy was compleatly different (cold war etc.)
User interface: Pages, Words. 'nuf said
User friendyness: high, very intuitive
Learning curve: very flat once you can read the language of the book
Compatability: All you need is English 101, and a compatable visual light to brain wave interface (eyes) or sound to brain waves (ears) for audible books
etc. etc.
Yes, this make no sense, but I'm tired! ZZZzzz...
Come-on! How many amatuer astromoners own their own telescopes. [answer: most of them] I can spend $5,000 and get something that can do some interesting reserch, as long as I have the motorvation. Near earth asteroids, comets, (and with luck) nova, supernovas etc.etc. I hardly think that just because you need big $$$ that you can't contribute.
(blatant ploy to moderators) It's just like open source, you don't need a multi gigaflop machine to write code, just the motorvation.
Are you talking about cuecats here or lawyers? I've gotten a bit confused, I'm afraid. *g*
Don't quote me on this, but I had heard rumours about HP-UX being able to recompile it's kernal on the fly (taking it down to single user mode)
Not real sure on any of the details, probably just vapour-ware I guess
I agree! One thing I hate also is when a new window gets keyboard focus in MS windows(internet explorer, dum dialog boxes). I'm like typing away, something pops up *bing* just before I smack the enter key. shit what was that? NOOOOOO!!!! stop stop stop stop stop....err... too late :(
Yeah, It would be great to run X programs on the Mac, but I meant inside the (Mac) GUI. That's what I meant when I said this: "I can understand trying to get X apps on top of the Mac GUI, but if you need all of X..."
I was thinking of an X emulator. I'm sure that you can get them for windows (maybe they are just remote X terms?) I read the article as replacing the Mac GUI with X, rather that just having it run along side it (okay, walk beside it *g*)
But, I guess that an emulator would be more buggy than just straight out X. It would probably break that many dependancies, that an emulator (that work well) would be as big as a full GUI replacement.
errr... Who knows what I'm talking about any more, I sure don't! Too late, too tired, no caffine!
What on earth for? I can't see any reason to put X on Mac OS. Its' GUI is fantastic, why would you want to replace it (unless you are some wierdo-S&M type hacker (or from attrition :-)))?
I can understand trying to get X apps on top of the Mac GUI, but if you need all of X, why not just install a linux/bsd distro on the Mac?
Does anyone see any reasons for doing this?
[In any event, you will notify Digital:Convergence of any information derived from reverse engineering or such other activities]
Well, I'm going to have to report all you too, now.
Don't bother with water-marking MPAA, you should just slap this licence agreement on the front of your DVD's
Riiightt... so, now not only can't I reverse engineer the software under thier "agreement", I have to dob in anyone I find out that is reverse engineering it?
hmmm, better stop reading slashdot, I guess MS, RIAA and the MPAA were right. You are all the spawn of Satan. Lucky the big companies are here to protect me and my children (please, won't you think of the children?).
hehe, Trying to troll me hey? :)
Well, I guess that time is a measure of distance and (relative?) velocity (i think??). So, if things stop moving (atomic level) like they (are supposed to) do at zero, how can you mesure time? Plus the buttons on the stop watch probably get too cold :)
I believe that their computer had actually jumped forward in time!!!
So that's why the Delorean and the flux capacitor had the fog comming off it! It was LN-cooled and over-clocked!
Let me guess, the government is going to go with something like the QtPL or the netscape license.
I guess that this is why they didn't talk to RMS, he would push for the GPL (Which they are probably uncomfortable with).
You should have painted fake eyes on the outside :)
I'd put this under fantasy, how many girls get involved in any LANs that you have been too? And scantly clad ones at that? I think these people are in a little fantasy world :)