From the wired article: "By the time we've burned all our fossil fuels and the atmospheric CO2 levels have reached 1,000 ppm, we might find ourselves in a wonderful, plant-loving greenhouse. Or we might be trapped in a steamy hell, with waves drowning the coastlines and killer hurricanes pinballing around the Caribbean so frequently that the Weather Service runs out of names." (Emphasis added)
I work for EMC. If anyone needs a petabyte of storage and is willing to buy it all at once, I can get you under the price mentioned above. It will be our largest, slowest drives with minimal host connnectivity, but it does include 7+1 RAID protection. If you are serious, drop me a line. Yes, a saleman will call.
How do you get to Google *with* DNS? You look up its domain name with a DNS server. Well, gues what, you don't use DNS to find that server, you use IP addresses. A DNS replacement would work the same way, with a seed file that has some hard-coded addresses of root servers, like Google.
There was a company called Real Names that tried to be an alternative to DNS; for a while it was included with IE. You could type "Ford" into your browser's address bar and it would deliver you to Ford Motor Company. Unfortuantely, the idea didn't fly at the time (although the company is still around: http://www.realnames.com/), but the infrastructure was there and could be built again.
True, Judaism places a high value on reason and study, but it has just as many dishonest people as any other group. People in the US have long used crappy devices that will never work in the real world to separate venture capitalists from their money, now there are people in Isreal who are doing the same.
Which sounds to me like it would cover transferring XML with a schema embedded within the document, or transferring both the document and linked schema at the same time. Other uses of XML would still be allowed.
The schema is encoded in the same format as the data.
Place a marble which is polished clear white, 1 inch in diameter, and 2 feet behind a brown marble 1.1 inches in diameter, and just stand 30 ft across a dark room and shine a light at it. Tell me which one reflects more light back.
The amount of light reflected is proportional to the product of the diameter of the marble and its reflectivity, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the light source. The amount of light received by the observer is proportional to the amount of light reflected and inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the observer.
Looking across the room, we note how much light we observe and multiply that by the square of the distance between us and the marbles. That gives us the amount of light being reflected. Then we multiply that number by the square of the distance between the marbles and the light source. That gives us the product of the diameter of the marble and its reflectivity. Reflectivity is always between 0 and 1, giving us a minimum diameter for the marble.
This leaves the question of how we can figure out those distances. For the marbles, it's easy. For objects in the solar system, you have to observe them for a while and calculate their orbits. Once Kepler figured out his laws of planetary motion (around 1600), it took very little time for him to figure out the relative locations of every object in the solar system; the only thing that he lacked was a scale. He didn't know, for example, if the moon was small and nearby or large and distant, and so everything was expressed in relation to Earth's distance from the Sun. However, if you can make three observations of an object orbiting a known object (like the Sun) then you can calculate its orbit and thus its distance (in A.U.) at any given time. Then in 1672, Cassini used a technique called parallax to measure the distance to Mars and all of the other numbers fell into place, without the need for space probes or really big tape measures.
This was done is several areas along the Mississippi River following the floods of 1993. The government bought out a lot of flooded land and turned it into parks and such. Hopefully, something similar will be done in N'Orleans.
I don't think I'll be switching anytime soon. I'm using Firefox 1.0.6 under Windows XP Home SP2. When I click on a link, a window pops up with a totally transparent background. See http://photos21.flickr.com/30875170_a9c36ddac3_o.j pg for the end result. Also, I played around with the '+' and '-' buttons, and now seem to have four copies of the Boing Boing feed and two copies of the BBC's. Engadget and Reuters are OK.
I did the same thing for a while in college. I had a job working late shift on week-ends, and so a couple of weeks into the semester, I sat down and devised a week consisting of 6 days averaging 28-hours each. Keeping to the schedule was a bit tougher than I imagined, though, because my body didn't always want to sleep as long as the schedule demanded and I'd sometimes need a mid-day siesta which would throw off my biological clock.
My employer just rolled out Connected DataProtector to everyone (http://www.connected.com/). They are a subsidiary of Iron Mountain, and apparently use something like rsync to backup up my laptop over a 56KB dial-up connection over my lunch hour. Note that I did perform an initial sync at work over a much faster link which still took a while. I'm still doing a bit of fine tuning, like telling it to not backup directories names 'cache'. I don't know what they charge my company, but the base rate seems to be $17.95 per month for 4GB and 1GB of bandwidth, or roughly 1-1/2 cents per meg per day.
Two years ago, I made a couple of trips to Russia. I brought along an old Garmin GPS that ran on four AA batteries. Before the trip, I installed a fresh set of lithium batteries, and everytime I was someplace interesting, I'd power it up and note the coordinates. The past few days, I've been transfering that data into Google Earth and discovering all sorts of interesting things about where I was. The resolution isn't as good as in the more populated parts of the US, but there are large swatching of our country where that is also true. (Compare http://maps.google.com/maps?q=kemerovo,+russia&spn =0.290932,0.476189&t=k&hl=en and http://maps.google.com/maps?q=tiptonville,+tn&spn= 0.145466,0.238094&t=k&hl=en and see how far you can zoom in.)
Regarding some of the other threads, I don't know what Russia's post-Soviet policies are about people mapping the countryside. I didn't volunteer to anyone that I had a GPS, and no one ever approached me about it. I think that it cost $115 new, and that was back in the '90s, so I wouldn't have cried too much if it had been stolen or confiscated.
There already IS a dating sytem in RSS, see the optional channel elements "pubDate" and "lastBuildDate" in the RSS 2.0 Spec at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
It's very disappointing that CNCZone won't allow unregistered guests to view the photos. I hate registering at sites that I'll probably only visit once. Perhaps you could use Flickr or something.
Also, the "older photos" link at SourceForge is pointing to a 'file:' URL. Makes it hard to view them.
Yes, the big companies are using open-source programmers as sub=contractors, but they are also paying them. And I don't mean the ones that get put on payroll, I mean each and every one. However, they aren't all made in money, some are paid in "intellectual property". (Yes, I hate the IP arguments as much as any of you, but I'm looking at this from the viewpoint of the big companies.)
If I hire you as a sub-contractor, what you write isn't your property, it's mine. If, OTOH, you are an open-source programer, then what you write is shared by you and me. And if, as is normally the case, the code is made publicly available, it could be considered a charitable contribution, just as if you requested that some or all of your paychecks be sent to UNICEF or something.
Admittedly, current accounting practices aren't set up to handle these types of values transfers, but that doesn't mean that they aren't occurring.
So I say again, where is this mystery project of yours?
Actually... don't tell me, I would never buy anything from you, not with your attitude. Never mind.
Did someone wake up on the wrong side of bed today? First, as ArmpitMan astutely pointed out, I am not telbij, so at least a portion of your ire is misdirected. telbij has just posted his project for all to see, so go take a look.
I know that making something available doesn't make it free, and vice versa. I told you that my software isn't available except to my customers. You seem to have gotten your nose in a wringer over that. You do realize that the "open" in open software doesn't mean "available to all", don't you? Let's go look that the definition at http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php, OK?
Free Redistribution
Check. My customers are told that they can treat the software as though they own it. This includes selling it or giving it away, but so far as I know, no one has ever done this.
Source Code
Check.
Derived Works
Check.
Integrity of The Author's Source Code
Check. (As an aside, I make no such restrictions.)
No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
Check.
No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
Check.
Distribution of License
Check.
License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
Check.
License Must Not Restrict Other Software
Check.
License Must Be Technology-Neutral
Check.
Note that many of the paragraphs say "must allow", not "must force". My code, like BSD, also allows clients to take it private.
In conclusion, I'm sorry to have lost you as a potential customer... wait a minute, on second thought I guess I'm not sorry. I already have more clients than I know what to do with, so there's no need to deal with trolls.
.."but it makes more economic sense to open-source it, build a small community around it to see where it can go, then it becomes a very powerful selling point to my consultant business."
Ok I'll bite... where is this mystery project of yours?
As a consultant, every pice of code that I write is licenced under a license very similar to the GPL, except that I don't call it "the GPL". This is because there are still a lot of people who unfortunately view the GPL as a bad thing.
Everything that I write is under a licence that allowed both the customer and myself to do anything that either of us wanted without interference from the other. This gave me the freedom to re-use components for my next customer, while the current client had permission to create a fork and take the code anywhere. Since these components are a big part of my business, I have no incentive to put them where anyone can use them. The client could, if they wished, put everything on sourceforge, but they too view the components as providing a business advantage, so they don't, either.
Go re-read the GPL. It only says that if I sell you software, I have to give you the source, not that I have to make it available to the general public. So, that's where *my* mystery projects are, in the hands of my customers.
Which "claims" do you take issue with? Has the Soyuz been in production for less than thirty years? Have less than 220 have been built? (I concede that Wikipedia lists "only" 100 manned Souyz flights. OTOH, the same design has been used for the Chinese manned space program.)
In other news, a fireman rescued me after a computing device exploded, and said that BeOS was probably the culprit. He advised me to stick to Windows or MacOS and stay away from those "commie" operating systems.
Finally, an idea that makes sense. The shuttle has failed because it serves too many masters. The Soviets had big budget constraints (at least compared to NASA), so they designed their spacecraft sensibly. Allow me to quote from http://www.astronautix.com/articles/wastolen.htm:
The Russian Soyuz spacecraft has been the longest-lived, most adaptable, and most successful manned spacecraft design. In production for over thirty years, more than 220 have been built and flown on a wide range of missions. The design will remain in use with the international space station well into the next century.
So, how should a man-rated system be designed? Let's see:
Put all systems and space not necessary for re-entry and recovery outside of the re-entry vehicle, into a separate jettisonable 'mission module', joined to the re-entry vehicle by a hatch. Every gram saved in this way saves two or more grams in overall spacecraft mass - for it does not need to be protected by heat shields, supported by parachutes, or braked on landing.
Obviously, using seperate man-rated and non-man-rated launchers for the service and mission modules can save even more money. But what should the spacecraft look like:
Use a re-entry vehicle of the highest possible volumetric efficiency (internal volume divided by hull area). Theoretically this would be a sphere. But re-entry from lunar distances required that the capsule be able to bank a little, to generate lift and 'fly' a bit. This was needed to reduce the G forces on the crew to tolerable levels. Such a manoeuvre is impossible with a spherical capsule. After considerable study, the optimum shape was found to be the Soyuz 'headlight' shape - a hemispherical forward area joined by a barely angled cone (7 degrees) to a classic spherical section heat shield.
OK, so the Soyuz was designed for use with lunar missions. But is the overall design usable for other missions?
By changing the fuel load in the service module, and the type of equipment in the mission module, a wide variety of missions could be performed. The superiority of this approach is clear to see: the Soyuz remains in use 30 years later, while the Apollo was quickly abandoned.
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From the wired article: "By the time we've burned all our fossil fuels and the atmospheric CO2 levels have reached 1,000 ppm, we might find ourselves in a wonderful, plant-loving greenhouse. Or we might be trapped in a steamy hell, with waves drowning the coastlines and killer hurricanes pinballing around the Caribbean so frequently that the Weather Service runs out of names." (Emphasis added)
\me shakes his head and walks away.
I work for EMC. If anyone needs a petabyte of storage and is willing to buy it all at once, I can get you under the price mentioned above. It will be our largest, slowest drives with minimal host connnectivity, but it does include 7+1 RAID protection. If you are serious, drop me a line. Yes, a saleman will call.
There was a company called Real Names that tried to be an alternative to DNS; for a while it was included with IE. You could type "Ford" into your browser's address bar and it would deliver you to Ford Motor Company. Unfortuantely, the idea didn't fly at the time (although the company is still around: http://www.realnames.com/), but the infrastructure was there and could be built again.
True, Judaism places a high value on reason and study, but it has just as many dishonest people as any other group. People in the US have long used crappy devices that will never work in the real world to separate venture capitalists from their money, now there are people in Isreal who are doing the same.
Part 'c' is essentially described on page 14 of RFC 1014 (External Data Representation), June 1987. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1014.txt
Why couldn't this have been done eight months ago? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/27/214022 3&tid=214
Looking across the room, we note how much light we observe and multiply that by the square of the distance between us and the marbles. That gives us the amount of light being reflected. Then we multiply that number by the square of the distance between the marbles and the light source. That gives us the product of the diameter of the marble and its reflectivity. Reflectivity is always between 0 and 1, giving us a minimum diameter for the marble.
This leaves the question of how we can figure out those distances. For the marbles, it's easy. For objects in the solar system, you have to observe them for a while and calculate their orbits. Once Kepler figured out his laws of planetary motion (around 1600), it took very little time for him to figure out the relative locations of every object in the solar system; the only thing that he lacked was a scale. He didn't know, for example, if the moon was small and nearby or large and distant, and so everything was expressed in relation to Earth's distance from the Sun. However, if you can make three observations of an object orbiting a known object (like the Sun) then you can calculate its orbit and thus its distance (in A.U.) at any given time. Then in 1672, Cassini used a technique called parallax to measure the distance to Mars and all of the other numbers fell into place, without the need for space probes or really big tape measures.
See http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/phonedrmarc/200 2_november.shtml for more details.
Quite true, but until then we'll have some great (and not so great) places to eat:
http://stlplaces.com/stleats/chesterfield_valley/
;-)
This was done is several areas along the Mississippi River following the floods of 1993. The government bought out a lot of flooded land and turned it into parks and such. Hopefully, something similar will be done in N'Orleans.
Gee, I don't have any trouble dragging Google's various sections around. If it matters, I'm currently using Firefox 1.0.6 under Windows XP Home SP 2.
I don't think I'll be switching anytime soon. I'm using Firefox 1.0.6 under Windows XP Home SP2. When I click on a link, a window pops up with a totally transparent background. See http://photos21.flickr.com/30875170_a9c36ddac3_o.j pg for the end result. Also, I played around with the '+' and '-' buttons, and now seem to have four copies of the Boing Boing feed and two copies of the BBC's. Engadget and Reuters are OK.
I did the same thing for a while in college. I had a job working late shift on week-ends, and so a couple of weeks into the semester, I sat down and devised a week consisting of 6 days averaging 28-hours each. Keeping to the schedule was a bit tougher than I imagined, though, because my body didn't always want to sleep as long as the schedule demanded and I'd sometimes need a mid-day siesta which would throw off my biological clock.
My employer just rolled out Connected DataProtector to everyone (http://www.connected.com/). They are a subsidiary of Iron Mountain, and apparently use something like rsync to backup up my laptop over a 56KB dial-up connection over my lunch hour. Note that I did perform an initial sync at work over a much faster link which still took a while. I'm still doing a bit of fine tuning, like telling it to not backup directories names 'cache'. I don't know what they charge my company, but the base rate seems to be $17.95 per month for 4GB and 1GB of bandwidth, or roughly 1-1/2 cents per meg per day.
Oops, I just checked and Tiptonville is suddenly a lot more detailed. Imboden, however, still lacks detailed coverage: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=imboden,+ar&t=k&hl=e n
Regarding some of the other threads, I don't know what Russia's post-Soviet policies are about people mapping the countryside. I didn't volunteer to anyone that I had a GPS, and no one ever approached me about it. I think that it cost $115 new, and that was back in the '90s, so I wouldn't have cried too much if it had been stolen or confiscated.
Sorry, the only RSS dating system that *I'm* looking for is a feed for http://www.single-russian-woman.com/.
Also, the "older photos" link at SourceForge is pointing to a 'file:' URL. Makes it hard to view them.
If I hire you as a sub-contractor, what you write isn't your property, it's mine. If, OTOH, you are an open-source programer, then what you write is shared by you and me. And if, as is normally the case, the code is made publicly available, it could be considered a charitable contribution, just as if you requested that some or all of your paychecks be sent to UNICEF or something.
Admittedly, current accounting practices aren't set up to handle these types of values transfers, but that doesn't mean that they aren't occurring.
I know that making something available doesn't make it free, and vice versa. I told you that my software isn't available except to my customers. You seem to have gotten your nose in a wringer over that. You do realize that the "open" in open software doesn't mean "available to all", don't you? Let's go look that the definition at http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php, OK?
Free Redistribution Check. My customers are told that they can treat the software as though they own it. This includes selling it or giving it away, but so far as I know, no one has ever done this. Source Code Check. Derived Works Check. Integrity of The Author's Source Code Check. (As an aside, I make no such restrictions.) No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups Check. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor Check. Distribution of License Check. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product Check. License Must Not Restrict Other Software Check. License Must Be Technology-Neutral Check. Note that many of the paragraphs say "must allow", not "must force". My code, like BSD, also allows clients to take it private.In conclusion, I'm sorry to have lost you as a potential customer... wait a minute, on second thought I guess I'm not sorry. I already have more clients than I know what to do with, so there's no need to deal with trolls.
Everything that I write is under a licence that allowed both the customer and myself to do anything that either of us wanted without interference from the other. This gave me the freedom to re-use components for my next customer, while the current client had permission to create a fork and take the code anywhere. Since these components are a big part of my business, I have no incentive to put them where anyone can use them. The client could, if they wished, put everything on sourceforge, but they too view the components as providing a business advantage, so they don't, either.
Go re-read the GPL. It only says that if I sell you software, I have to give you the source, not that I have to make it available to the general public. So, that's where *my* mystery projects are, in the hands of my customers.
In other news, a fireman rescued me after a computing device exploded, and said that BeOS was probably the culprit. He advised me to stick to Windows or MacOS and stay away from those "commie" operating systems.