In fact, it's delayed because of the Russian modules.
A lot of people who don't solely listen to NASA think there's plenty of blame to spread around. A lot of the US pieces have been late too, and the truth is not out there. Everybody has been playing "schedule chicken" and the blame game -- you know the "if you take 5 weeks to do X we'll need to slip 5 months" crap, not to mention "Look! They're having problems with XYZZY it's not ready! (and don't look at our plugh too much).
The objective people (say Henry Spencer) on sci.space.history have been seeing this for years now.
Much like the way the USA and Japan both use the less efficient 110v system for their power transportation, while most of the rest of the world uses 220v.
Most transmission is not anywhere near 120v (the actual nominal voltage in most of the US). Transmission is done at much higher voltages, and there are relatively local transformers to step down to household voltages. It is not clear that, having properly sized wiring, the voltage drop on the 400 feet from transformer to house is all that significant, compared to all the other transmission losses. Some of the 120v loss might also be made up in transformer efficiency, which is better at 60hz than 50hz. (That's why military avionics often ran 400hz).
The main argument for 120v is that it is somewhat less fatal to touch accidentally than 220. The major downside is that it obliges larger wiring to avoid voltage drop/transmission loss. This has material/energy costs of its own.
safety rather than MAKING MONEY FAST, they'd have it beep annoyingly and display, "you are speeding, slow down. This is the Nth time you've been speeding since your ented this car" on the display. That they don't to that says it is a revenue only move, and the protestations about safety are a sham.
The US has very mixed feelings about speed limits. The level of enforcement is very low compared to the number of infractions. Massive enforcment is likely to result in serious political pressure. There are tradeoffs between speed and safety made by individuals and society. A vehicle that doesn't move is nearly perfectly safe, but useless. As it is now, you don't generally get punished for speeding unless there is a secondary effect -- like an accident. Sometimes the punishment is darwinian, sometimes just another charge on the ticket. In the tragic cases, it is more often intoxication than speed as the most complicating factor.
Yeah, we all hate M$, and yeah, the innovate stuff is horsepucky; but the complaint about government sponsoring GPL stuff is not totally without merit. We should recall that the BSD stuff from whence all the commercial UNIX in the world has taken advantage of was sponsored, and released on the BSD terms, which do not present "Ballmer Cancer" problems for industry. The idea that sponsored work is properly released under GPL instead of BSD style license is a legitamate policy question. I would not be surprised for there to be a move toward some rules mandating use of BSD-like license for all funded/sponsored work. This wouldn't be unlike the "don't talk about abortion if you get US governement funds" sort of restrictions. I'd bet that is one of the things M$ is angling towards in this PR push.
GPL -is- an invasive biotech weapon, on purpose; that's the point. It's fair for the government to consciously decide whether to play that game rather than letting it be a willy-nilly decision by individual projects.
he's a good tell-tale for the zeitgeist of the IT industry. He's been consistently rallying for the current buzz trends (with a book!) at exactly a little while after it really happens. Anyone here old enough to remember program repositories? Rember the CASE boom? Remember automatic programming? Martin thought they were all pretty much the cat's meow (PMTCM).
That is, what he says accurately predicts the boom products of the next 18 months; a fraction of those will turn out to be useful as he describes them.
"Theoretically, 5000 horsepower in terms of solar heat fall on an acre of the earth's surface every day."
Aside from the fact that he's confusing power and energy, just how many of the coal-burning steam locomotives of his day would be required to match that power output? Do you really think they'd take up anywhere near an acre?
Actually he's spot on. It's quite correct to use HP as a term for power in a popular article. It's a straight forward converstion from HP to watts: 1 HP = ~745 watts.
He's even reasonably close to the amount. Doing the math, 5000 hp/acre = 3725 kw/acre =.92 kw/square meter/day. In my California location,
retscreen gives me 2.5 kw/day in January and 7.24 kw/day per square meter. I presume if I lived someplace like Seattle or Syracuse I'd be nearer.5 all the time. His figure of around 1.0 kw/sq/meter a day is a reasonable prediction for a 1950 article.
10 acres of solar panels in Arizona get about 40 Mw/day, if I'm doing the math right; solar panel conversion of 60% = 24Mw over about 10 hours = 2.4Mw available on average. You'd still need a bunch of this to put a dent in the West Coast power shortfall, which is maybe 10,000 Mw capacity
right now. The good news is that it is available when needed, during peak cooling needs; the bad news, as he pointed out, is that it takes a lot of space; also that it is not cost effective using historical wholesale electric rates. At the current spot rates, solar should be close to competitive right now. But who is going to build 5000 acres of solar power plant at ~$300/sq meter? That's like 6 billion dollars Wait a second -- that's about what California has had to overpay the producers for power for the last year.
If we assume you haven't illegally probed the servers of the site, then you don't really know if they have the vulnerabilities you suspect. You have only got suspicions at this point.
There is probably no way of getting into the management of that site and having them listen to you; this is the "sour grapes" problem. You will be better off, IMO, to contact a "neutral" third party and have them inform the company of the exposures that are maybe being run. If that third party company pitches a security solution, it's not your sour grapes.
I don't think you can get the business; if your concern is for the security of confidential information on the part of those whose data is likely to be leaked, take the high road in all ways: don't touch the site, and don't be involved in contacting them directly.
"I guess our future Chinese surveillance flights won't have hostage situations anymore"
On the other hand, when locals send up a fighter and tip it into the sea, there are no witnesses either. In peacetime situations, sometimes having people on board increases the stakes enough to keep both sides honest. With robot vehicles, the penalty for pushing the line is less severe.
In the event of actual conflict, it is very handy to have robot vehicles. The X43a is a recent example of something that will probably have more unmanned military development than piffle about 40 minute trans-Atlantic passenger flight.
This is probably too late in the discussion for anyone to see this, but an interesting tidbit is that the $1 billion IBM is spending on Informix, they are spending on something.... that was made from the same codebase as Postgres!!!
Computer Associates' Ingres is another Postgres-based commercial database.
Of course, both these databases have many enterprise-level features Informix doesn't...
Almost certainly he meant Postgres for that last Informix!
Most of the Informix code that works in DSS applications is not the Postgres/Illustra stuff, but is derived from either the older Informix, or from the RedBrick system. The transaction system in Informix is almost certainly not the one from Illustra/Postgres.
Both Postgres and RTI->ASK->CA Ingres are ultimately derived from the same UCB Ingres. Probably the only thing they have in common at this point are the tTf trace macros Eric Allman also used in sendmail. In particular, University Ingres did not have transactions at all, was not a server, and didn't do SQL.
I just wonder what IBM is going to name their new Informix database. I suggest DB2. Having different names would be confusing. Maybe they can rename all three of them Bruce?
Some reasons why a hyper cruise missile would be harder to take out. 1. there's going to be more atmospheric scatter to get in the way of a laser blast; 2. The flight path is orders of magnitude less predictable (less ballistics involved), making positioning harder if not impossible, as well as tracking. 3. Hard to distinguish from regular FedEx traffic.
Ultimately, the military aspects of this are very compelling if it can be made to work. A mach 7-10 cruise missile or surveilance platform would be be very hard to intercept at a reasonable cost. This is what the D-21 drone developed for the SR-71 attempted to do, but the technology wasn't there at the time.
Now, imagine if you will this capability in the hands of 'bad guys'. It makes 100 billion dollars worth of 'star wars' NMD systems in Alaska look pretty stupid, doesn't it? Launch from wherever, take a scenic mach 10 cruise over the mid pacific or the carribean, and 'bang', over the continental city of choice in the mainland US.
You need technology for deterrence, but the only real protection is non-proliferation. That means being cooperative and engaged, not being belligerant and isolationist.
In many ways, Burgess was an optimist. Kubrick was not, especially about the human condition. The ambiguity of his clockwork ending ("will alex ever straighten out?") is completely in keeping with his world view.
I still haven't found anything in this thread about a US re-release.
Agreed, this one is a marvel of clarity. You need to have read the piles of briefs in this case to appreciate how clearly and concisely this chops up the many arguments. It's far better than Garber's brief in the original case. The important things here is that it doesn't argue the copying issue, but hammers on the fair use for play point. That is the issue that has been consistently missing in previous rulings, pleadings, and especially the media coverage.
This has been discussed before, in the context of non-compete clauses. Turns out that the best state to live in is California, where such things are explicitly non-enforceable, as written into the California Code. Obtaining one of these "inevitable disclosure" injunctions would be much harder in CA because of this. Note that none of the cases cited in the article was from California. More reasons not to move to Seattle.
"By way of example, if Microsoft had the forsight to copyright their infamous "Halloween Documents", the Justice Department's case against them would have been considerably weaker."
M$ did copyright it; under current law, things are 'born copyrighted'. The only reason to register is to take advantage of statutory damage provisions against infringers. In this case, M$ was smart enough not to try to witch hunt copies, because the cat was out of the bag anyway. Co$ is still trying to keep the lid on. Anytime they get someone to remove something, they consider is a "Big Win", even if more copies spring up in its place.
It doesn't appear that the poster is on the spot to develop this stuff for the employer. He's a sysadmin. If he keeps his mouth shut, there's no problem.
I don't think he should be worried about the customer either -- if the thing is good enough, then there will be more customers later, when the poster has time to develop it further.
If there's one sure thing in this scenario, it's that his project isn't really 40-50 hours from being complete. It's probably closer to 400 hours from being a salable, supportable product.
You fell into the trap-- language bindings are not the protocol. You can complain about the weight of the corba language bindings, but what about its protocol is 'heavy weight' compared to the protocol used by SOAP? There's only a handful of messages in IIOP -- not much different than SOAP.
I still don't get what makes SOAP a "lightweight protocol".
I've wondered for a long time how much active control is needed to keep the GPS constellation on station. Do they need to be tweaked every day? week? once a year? If we lost command control of the GPS sattelites, how long would they remain useful?
"SOAP is a lightweight protocol" defies all sense.
I can't think of a single use of XML for anything that can be called "lightweight" compared to almost anything else. I even support SOAP for many things, but calling it "lightweight" is a Big Lie technique that doesn't address its real strengths (or failures).
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The objective people (say Henry Spencer) on sci.space.history have been seeing this for years now.
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The main argument for 120v is that it is somewhat less fatal to touch accidentally than 220. The major downside is that it obliges larger wiring to avoid voltage drop/transmission loss. This has material/energy costs of its own.
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The US has very mixed feelings about speed limits. The level of enforcement is very low compared to the number of infractions. Massive enforcment is likely to result in serious political pressure. There are tradeoffs between speed and safety made by individuals and society. A vehicle that doesn't move is nearly perfectly safe, but useless. As it is now, you don't generally get punished for speeding unless there is a secondary effect -- like an accident. Sometimes the punishment is darwinian, sometimes just another charge on the ticket. In the tragic cases, it is more often intoxication than speed as the most complicating factor.
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GPL -is- an invasive biotech weapon, on purpose; that's the point. It's fair for the government to consciously decide whether to play that game rather than letting it be a willy-nilly decision by individual projects.
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That is, what he says accurately predicts the boom products of the next 18 months; a fraction of those will turn out to be useful as he describes them.
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10 acres of solar panels in Arizona get about 40 Mw/day, if I'm doing the math right; solar panel conversion of 60% = 24Mw over about 10 hours = 2.4Mw available on average. You'd still need a bunch of this to put a dent in the West Coast power shortfall, which is maybe 10,000 Mw capacity right now. The good news is that it is available when needed, during peak cooling needs; the bad news, as he pointed out, is that it takes a lot of space; also that it is not cost effective using historical wholesale electric rates. At the current spot rates, solar should be close to competitive right now. But who is going to build 5000 acres of solar power plant at ~$300/sq meter? That's like 6 billion dollars Wait a second -- that's about what California has had to overpay the producers for power for the last year.
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There is probably no way of getting into the management of that site and having them listen to you; this is the "sour grapes" problem. You will be better off, IMO, to contact a "neutral" third party and have them inform the company of the exposures that are maybe being run. If that third party company pitches a security solution, it's not your sour grapes.
I don't think you can get the business; if your concern is for the security of confidential information on the part of those whose data is likely to be leaked, take the high road in all ways: don't touch the site, and don't be involved in contacting them directly.
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On the other hand, when locals send up a fighter and tip it into the sea, there are no witnesses either. In peacetime situations, sometimes having people on board increases the stakes enough to keep both sides honest. With robot vehicles, the penalty for pushing the line is less severe.
In the event of actual conflict, it is very handy to have robot vehicles. The X43a is a recent example of something that will probably have more unmanned military development than piffle about 40 minute trans-Atlantic passenger flight.
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Computer Associates' Ingres is another Postgres-based commercial database.
Of course, both these databases have many enterprise-level features Informix doesn't...
Almost certainly he meant Postgres for that last Informix!
Most of the Informix code that works in DSS applications is not the Postgres/Illustra stuff, but is derived from either the older Informix, or from the RedBrick system. The transaction system in Informix is almost certainly not the one from Illustra/Postgres.
Both Postgres and RTI->ASK->CA Ingres are ultimately derived from the same UCB Ingres. Probably the only thing they have in common at this point are the tTf trace macros Eric Allman also used in sendmail. In particular, University Ingres did not have transactions at all, was not a server, and didn't do SQL.
I just wonder what IBM is going to name their new Informix database. I suggest DB2. Having different names would be confusing. Maybe they can rename all three of them Bruce?
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Now, imagine if you will this capability in the hands of 'bad guys'. It makes 100 billion dollars worth of 'star wars' NMD systems in Alaska look pretty stupid, doesn't it? Launch from wherever, take a scenic mach 10 cruise over the mid pacific or the carribean, and 'bang', over the continental city of choice in the mainland US.
You need technology for deterrence, but the only real protection is non-proliferation. That means being cooperative and engaged, not being belligerant and isolationist.
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I still haven't found anything in this thread about a US re-release.
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M$ did copyright it; under current law, things are 'born copyrighted'. The only reason to register is to take advantage of statutory damage provisions against infringers. In this case, M$ was smart enough not to try to witch hunt copies, because the cat was out of the bag anyway. Co$ is still trying to keep the lid on. Anytime they get someone to remove something, they consider is a "Big Win", even if more copies spring up in its place.
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I don't think he should be worried about the customer either -- if the thing is good enough, then there will be more customers later, when the poster has time to develop it further.
If there's one sure thing in this scenario, it's that his project isn't really 40-50 hours from being complete. It's probably closer to 400 hours from being a salable, supportable product.
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I still don't get what makes SOAP a "lightweight protocol".
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I can't think of a single use of XML for anything that can be called "lightweight" compared to almost anything else. I even support SOAP for many things, but calling it "lightweight" is a Big Lie technique that doesn't address its real strengths (or failures).
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I changed from twm to vtwm about 5 years ago because I thought I'd like virtual screens, but I never use 'em on purpose.
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