De-orbit is just a euphemism for 'crash and burn, Baby!' They send the command to belly-flop, and that's what they do.
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Commercialism pays the bills. Whether it's free beer OR free speech, someone has to pick up the tab. If this means advertising, or corporate sponsorship, or even, shudder selling software, money must move from place to place. Someone has to pay for the wires, servers and electricity.
ObTopic: This is an excellent looking site. It's well organized and clean. I appreciate the wide variety of content exports supported. I haven't had a chance to delve deeply, but I will bookmark it, and check back to see how it holds up.
Never heard of it. Don't have a CD. Not sure which distro to choose. Don't feel like d/l a copy. Not sure if they have supported hardware. This is the biggest PITA, even for us experienced old-timers. Not sure what it can do for them. Afraid of the learning curve. Don't want to spend $$$ on an unknown OS.
No, the open-source model is about distributing the workload across volunteers and shipping a product when it is ready, not when marketing wants it shipped. No one is going to be able to force a group of volunteers into an artificial time line. The model will break down.
The author is just another one of those closed-sourcers that think that open-source is just a fad and that in order to be accepted, we will have to do what they did. Wrong. That's not how anyone has ever succeeded. You succeed by doing things the way no one else has done it.
Correction: He DOES get it. The points about project management are entirely valid.
esr and his premise, that the bazzar produces better product than the cathedral falls down when you approach very large scale projects, and mission-critical applications. Look at the cathedral for a moment. How many medieval markets are still in existence, as they were when first built, and that still perform their intended purpose? Cathedrals 1100 years old still serve their original purposes. This is true in the IT world as well. COBOL engines crunching financial, manufacturing, and distribution data are still at the core of our industry. These systems were built with project management, not collaboration.
I am not saying there are no successful large open source projects. Obviously, there are. But the biggest success stories, so far have had one or a handful of champions, working very closely, and driving the project with a personal fire. Perl has Larry Wall. Linux (kernel) has Linus Torvalds. In the early days, anyway, gcc and emacs had Stallman. Who is really championing Mozilla?
Without a personality with a vested interest in a project, projects don't get done. Most open source contributors work on the stuff that personally appeals, and that has sex appeal. Witness the sad state of most Open Source documentation. Perl stands out as an exception. TomC, among others has taken that task personally.
I generally don't read AC posts on Slashdot, but you calling FoxNews "the authorities" is the functional equivalent of me calling a F1rst p0ster a Slashdot editor. (Too bad you can't set comment thresholds when you watch TV!)
How do you know they/. editors Aren't 'Fist Prost'ers?:-0
Can you say, Ender's Game? The children 'training' were killing without knowing it.
Let's face it, the purpose of an army is to kill people and break things, in pursuit of national interests. When the interests of my nation intersect with those of your nation, we have a problem.
Diplomacy, first, second, third. But when diplomacy fails, I want my countries armed forces to be the best-trained, best-equipped, and most ready force in the world.
The internet will always save your best work and discard the junk.
This ass_u_mes that the internetKNOWS the difference between best and junk. Present day archeaologists gain tremendous insights from ancient garbage dumps.
The best solution for existing digital data is to continually copy forward, and document in parallel what you did. This way, the future will know what something is, and what we thought about it.
There is an example of Prior Art here. The Irish monks maintained a great deal of learning through the European Dark Ages, material that was not retained in the Moorish libraries.
The stuff in real-space, that is another matter. Curators and Librarians have spent centuries working on those problems.
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Iridium are not in Geo-Synchronous orbit. They are only a few hundred miles up. Geo orbits are around 22,000 miles.
De-orbit is just a euphemism for 'crash and burn, Baby!'
They send the command to belly-flop, and that's what they do.
Commercialism pays the bills. Whether it's free beer OR free speech, someone has to pick up the tab. If this means advertising, or corporate sponsorship, or even, shudder selling software, money must move from place to place. Someone has to pay for the wires, servers and electricity.
ObTopic: This is an excellent looking site. It's well organized and clean. I appreciate the wide variety of content exports supported. I haven't had a chance to delve deeply, but I will bookmark it, and check back to see how it holds up.
A priest, an evangelist, and a rabbi walk into a bar...
The bartender says, 'What is this, some kind of joke?'
sorry.
I rather enjoyed the VB I had in Copenhagen.
(How are things, Jon and Colin?)
Never heard of it. Don't have a CD. Not sure which distro to choose. Don't feel like d/l a copy. Not sure if they have supported hardware.
This is the biggest PITA, even for us experienced old-timers. Not sure what it can do for them. Afraid of the learning curve. Don't want to spend $$$ on an unknown OS.
All this does is increase the number names companies will HAVE to buy, to protect their trademarks.
No, they bought that, too.
And the blood will spray out, SPEEEEWWWWWW
Legs off, Fins on, little tube through the back of it's neck, so 'e can breathe, Make Good.
ROFLMAO :-)
I already have it...
MacPerl
Correction: He DOES get it. The points about project management are entirely valid.
esr and his premise, that the bazzar produces better product than the cathedral falls down when you approach very large scale projects, and mission-critical applications. Look at the cathedral for a moment. How many medieval markets are still in existence, as they were when first built, and that still perform their intended purpose? Cathedrals 1100 years old still serve their original purposes. This is true in the IT world as well. COBOL engines crunching financial, manufacturing, and distribution data are still at the core of our industry. These systems were built with project management, not collaboration.
I am not saying there are no successful large open source projects. Obviously, there are. But the biggest success stories, so far have had one or a handful of champions, working very closely, and driving the project with a personal fire. Perl has Larry Wall. Linux (kernel) has Linus Torvalds. In the early days, anyway, gcc and emacs had Stallman. Who is really championing Mozilla?
Without a personality with a vested interest in a project, projects don't get done. Most open source contributors work on the stuff that personally appeals, and that has sex appeal. Witness the sad state of most Open Source documentation. Perl stands out as an exception. TomC, among others has taken that task personally.
How do you know they /. editors Aren't 'Fist Prost'ers? :-0
Let's face it, the purpose of an army is to kill people and break things, in pursuit of national interests. When the interests of my nation intersect with those of your nation, we have a problem.
Diplomacy, first, second, third. But when diplomacy fails, I want my countries armed forces to be the best-trained, best-equipped, and most ready force in the world.
The booby trap shot and wounded a burglar. The law-abiding citizen is now serving nearly as much time as the scum-bucket he nailed.
(sorry, no links, heard this on the radio.)
This ass_u_mes that the internet KNOWS the difference between best and junk. Present day archeaologists gain tremendous insights from ancient garbage dumps.
The best solution for existing digital data is to continually copy forward, and document in parallel what you did. This way, the future will know what something is, and what we thought about it.
There is an example of Prior Art here. The Irish monks maintained a great deal of learning through the European Dark Ages, material that was not retained in the Moorish libraries.
The stuff in real-space, that is another matter. Curators and Librarians have spent centuries working on those problems.