Not just fabric. I've seen a screwdrive poke through naked carbon-fiber meshes. You actually need to bond several layers together at differenent angles for it to be effective. Unfortunately it has a tendency to delaminate (peel apart) as it fatigues.
A random noodle arrangement like you see in fiberglass might work, but you loose a lot of your flexibility.
Unfortunately it's only strong in tension. If you have ever worked with carbon fiber, it's REALLY easy to cut, sideways. Think of it like a really strong, really thin nylon string.
I do hear you in that. You see it all the time in chemistry. Acetylsalicylic acid, with the proper labeling, is Aspirin. Aspartame is a nameless chemical without the cute little swirl of the Nutra-Sweet logo. Once the patents expire, anyone is free to make something the looks and tastes the same, they just can't use the brand name.
We really do need to seperate our work from the companies that package it. Partly for their protection, but mostly for ours. There is no telling when some company is going to do something majorly bone-headed a decade down the road that disparages a name.
As is stands, I think that BSD and GNU/*Linux(R) stand on their own. Any references to *nix are strictly historical. Indeed the reference cause more issues than it opens doors. Most of my clients are content to know their software runs under Linux. They don't know of care what *Unix(R) is or was.
* Unix is a Registered Trademark of the Open Group
* Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linux Torvalds
Apple has a rock solid case, the Opengroup can go Unix themselves
No no, your phrasing is off. I believe you meant that you hope that the OpenGroup can go become Unix themselves. And, really, I think SCO should too.
I'm not so unix about that. The orignal unix was in the present unix tense. To conjucate:
I unix, you unix, he/she/it unix, I am unixing, he/she/it are unixing, they unixed, hey baby lets unix, and unix off. Somewhere in RFC23452 though, a subclause says to throw all unix to the wind, and simply conjugate it anyway that seems esthetic. There is a unix as to whether that was negated by a later RFC or not, but google hasn't indexed the site since the unix webmaster put that section in the robots.txt file.
Wait! They didn't say if Bill is actually Linus' long lost twin brother from when Ken and Ma Bell got it on after falling under the spell of an evil wizard during Richard Stallman's flashback sequence!
Frankly a zealot is a zealot, regardless of the cause. You have people who kill abortion doctors (um, er, isn't that tecnically an abortion in the 120th trimester?). You have the folks who are trying to hijack Islam with their Jihads. Hell, even with political parties, you have folks advocating violence against the other side.
I don't think Linux has any more or less zealots per capita than any other organization. But remember, we are talking about millions of people in hundreds of countries. Your probability of running into at least a few crackpots approaches 1.
Personally, I love Linux, and I live the methodologies of Open Source in my own career. I do not insist that the entire world use Linux, nor do I feel threatened by any of this legal crap. Even if they find some snibble patent and confiscate the entire source tree (that will never happen by the way) Alan, Linus, and company would simply start over and program Linux2. And I'd be first in line to help.
I've been useing a simple Razor to scan email: if it's executable it's returned to sender. All HTML code is obfuscated with Mime-Defang.
I'm going to start cracking down on MS attachments, and insist people transmit stuff over the network in PDF form. This, of course, does not work for a document in revision.
So does this mean that you're standing down from your goal of "Secure Computing" to something more akin to "Kinda Almost OurFingersAreCrossed WeKnowMoreThanTheHackers WeAllCarryRabbitsFeet Computing"?
And to think I once believed in you guys.
Hey, Palladium is a reference to an image made by Athena of her playmate "Pallus". It was supposed to protect Troy from invasion, but was stolen.
Oh, and look at the new OS names coming down the pike: Longhorn, Blackcomb... They are all breeds of Cattle.
I think someone is having too much fun with names.
I believe Microsoft will follow RAV's cross platform tradition. The products will be available on all major platforms including Windows 9X, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows CE.
Bungie developed one of the first Doom-A-Like's for the Macintosh, Marathon. It had a really cool network multiplayer mode, back before this stuff was cool.
They eventually spread into the Windows and Linux world's. They had been working on a game "Halo" that looked like it was going to be really neat, and run on several platforms.
Microsoft bought them, and made Halo and X-Box only title.
What is worse is Microsoft's habit of stabbing in the back anyone who actually WAS working for them. AutoDesk is still pissed they hobbled Java, they had written an entire high-end CAD package around it.
It's not the "Add random letters for no reason" rule. It the "I want to sound like I know latin" rule.
Next you will be telling me that tech columnists actually have a clue on how to pronounce Linux. Every one of them has a different way of saying it, every one of them insists they have the correct one, and none of them sound like Linus' definative LEE-NOOCKS
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A random noodle arrangement like you see in fiberglass might work, but you loose a lot of your flexibility.
Not really. It's only strong in one direction, and even then, only in tension. It would make a great cable though.
Unfortunately it's only strong in tension. If you have ever worked with carbon fiber, it's REALLY easy to cut, sideways. Think of it like a really strong, really thin nylon string.
And if you think Mr. Willy is going to be sore, just imagine what the Mrs.'s naughty bits are going to be subjected to.
We really do need to seperate our work from the companies that package it. Partly for their protection, but mostly for ours. There is no telling when some company is going to do something majorly bone-headed a decade down the road that disparages a name.
As is stands, I think that BSD and GNU/*Linux(R) stand on their own. Any references to *nix are strictly historical. Indeed the reference cause more issues than it opens doors. Most of my clients are content to know their software runs under Linux. They don't know of care what *Unix(R) is or was.
* Unix is a Registered Trademark of the Open Group
* Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linux Torvalds
No no, your phrasing is off. I believe you meant that you hope that the OpenGroup can go become Unix themselves. And, really, I think SCO should too.
I'm not so unix about that. The orignal unix was in the present unix tense. To conjucate:
I unix, you unix, he/she/it unix, I am unixing, he/she/it are unixing, they unixed, hey baby lets unix, and unix off. Somewhere in RFC23452 though, a subclause says to throw all unix to the wind, and simply conjugate it anyway that seems esthetic. There is a unix as to whether that was negated by a later RFC or not, but google hasn't indexed the site since the unix webmaster put that section in the robots.txt file.
You see a lot of Bhuddist monks in orange robes. But that would be comparing apples to oranges, wouldn't it?
And if they sued us on sound, we'd call is Castrotti. After what could be construed as a sexist remark, I'd rather leave this thread on a high note.
I hearby announce the creation of the Foo group. If you have to ask what we do, you will never understand. That and we will sneer at you.
We would say Eunichs of course. Though, we would have a hell of a time explaining how we get such high performance out of a machine with no balls.
I'll have you know that even a wall of solid lead is mostly made of empty, er open space.
Wait! They didn't say if Bill is actually Linus' long lost twin brother from when Ken and Ma Bell got it on after falling under the spell of an evil wizard during Richard Stallman's flashback sequence!
I don't think Linux has any more or less zealots per capita than any other organization. But remember, we are talking about millions of people in hundreds of countries. Your probability of running into at least a few crackpots approaches 1.
Personally, I love Linux, and I live the methodologies of Open Source in my own career. I do not insist that the entire world use Linux, nor do I feel threatened by any of this legal crap. Even if they find some snibble patent and confiscate the entire source tree (that will never happen by the way) Alan, Linus, and company would simply start over and program Linux2. And I'd be first in line to help.
Why do I have this nagging feeling that Palladium really should have been called the "Anti-Trusted Computing Initiative."
How can you tell me,
over and over again,
you don't believe,
we are on the eve of destruction?
I'm going to start cracking down on MS attachments, and insist people transmit stuff over the network in PDF form. This, of course, does not work for a document in revision.
How good a job does it do with Macro viruses?
LOL
And to think I once believed in you guys.
Hey, Palladium is a reference to an image made by Athena of her playmate "Pallus". It was supposed to protect Troy from invasion, but was stolen.
Oh, and look at the new OS names coming down the pike: Longhorn, Blackcomb... They are all breeds of Cattle.
I think someone is having too much fun with names.
No wait, short of someone else girl, they can buy whatever it is. Must not come up very often.
What about Bob?
No, Anti-Slashdot posts are "credibility" builders. Anonymous Posts are reserved for character attacks or snide comments of a personal nature.
That's like a character saying "It can't get any worse than this, can..." followed by an explosion, a plot complication, or the onset of a typhoon.
They eventually spread into the Windows and Linux world's. They had been working on a game "Halo" that looked like it was going to be really neat, and run on several platforms.
Microsoft bought them, and made Halo and X-Box only title.
What is worse is Microsoft's habit of stabbing in the back anyone who actually WAS working for them. AutoDesk is still pissed they hobbled Java, they had written an entire high-end CAD package around it.
Next you will be telling me that tech columnists actually have a clue on how to pronounce Linux. Every one of them has a different way of saying it, every one of them insists they have the correct one, and none of them sound like Linus' definative LEE-NOOCKS