Heh, well before I tell you this "recipe" you need to wonder what your risk tolerance is, becuase it is possible to make this stuff so strong that it'll cause "negative physical manifestations", just like drinking 50 or so cups of regular coffee will. No I'm not kidding.
Get regular ground coffee. Good stuff, cheap stuff, whatever. Just get a lot of it, like at a warehouse store or something.
Place coffee in a container, like a pitcher. Fill the container about 3/4 full. Add cold water to ~fill the container. Place container in refridgerator for at least five days, a week would be better. During this step the organic components (incl. the caffeine) are leeched out into the water just like any other organic chem extraction at low temp). The relatively long extraction time causes effective removal of most of the organics. If you wanted to be really maniacal about it you could remove the first concentrate and resoak the grounds for another week, maybe do a double 4 day soak, something like that (sort of the chemEng approach to coffee production).
OK. Now you're set. You can either drink it straight (like REALLY FUCKING STRONG cold espresso), or dilute it to taste with hot water (1conc:1water to 1conc:3water were common).
You can also use the concentrate to etch optical glass. (j/k)
Seriously, depending on how strong you make the concentrate you can start seeing physical manifestations of caffeine overdose like heart beat abnormalities, eyes losing focus, tremors, etc. Watch your intake carefully at first until you have the procedure tuned to your satisfaction. I can imagine you hitting the LD50 with this stuff if you make it too strong and drink a lot of it.
The advantage to this is you can make up gallons and gallons and gallons ahead of time of the concentrate and the stuff goes a LONG way.
If the concentrate just isn't strong enough for you (good lord), you can add a crushed package of NODOZ or the like (over the counter caffeine pills) to the initial grounds before soaking. *If you do this make sure you don't drink the concentrate straight!*
Shit, the last thing we want is for the birds to peck the thing or land on it. Hasn't anyone see Hitchcock's movies?! The last thing we need is a pack of IQ-enhanced birds flying about raising havoc!
;-)
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One thing to keep in mind is that, IIRC, X11's memory usage displayed by top includes the portion of the video card's ram it's using (maybe all of it? Somebody mentioned this to me a while back and I never really dug into it.). So while this is memory the process is using, it isn't coming out of your system RAM.
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This _would_ make a damn cool bootloader
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GTK+ without X!
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...esp. what with fb support getting pretty good in the newest kernel. Not that you really need anything more than LILO-ish text, but there's something cool about "select OS, click "boot" to boot" (image button with a boot on it?;^) ). I am aware that some projects to this effect exist already, but since this is essentially straight GTK+, it makes dev all the easier.
Actually, this would make writing a highly internationalizable boot loader a possibility, wouldn't it? Well, easier than reinventing your own multillingual wheel anyway.
And lets not forget that now a bootloader could have tetris in it, just for kicks.:-) Just think, why bother booting the whole OS when you just need to get your Tetris fix?
Mind you, I'm not really what you would call a win32 developer (I wrote a bug tracking system using IIS/ASP/Jscript once). But from what I looked at COM, and heard through the grapevine at "Company X", was that the coolest thing about it was that it could be used from so many languages (both the component itself and the caller).
C and C++ are probably the most common, but I saw VB (ick) and ASP code calling COM objects very frequently, and that's not the limit. This is pretty neat, like being able to call an.so from _anywhere_, without having to roll your own wrapper (a la SWIG for perl, python, tcl et al).
So anyway, my.02 USD is to at least attempt a design that is flexible enough that C++ isn't the only supported language. I realize you're a game shop and as such don't have oodles of spare time, so it's OK if all it is implemented in at first is C++. As long as some crazed hacker like me can come along at some point and add perl support, no one gets hurt!;-)
Thirdly, come on, you asked for "any ideas" on/.! What were you thinking?! Ha, I bet somebody is going to ask if his pantsObject can call the hotGritsObject using the nataliePortmanIsFine pattern.:-)
FWIW, linux can do this on the ext2fs as well, with chattr +c filename. There are analogs in other unix operating systems and filesystems as well.:-) (man chattr for more info)
goatse.cx is my listed homepage for the same reasons that GC's Seven Deadlies are part of my.sig. I think people are too damn uptight. This is my way of tweaking them. Further, my homepage (the real one) has contact info on it for friends from high school, etc. I got tired of people flaming my personal account during the political stories a month back. (What can I say, I'm a liberal bombthrower...;-) ). I also think that goatse.cx is a humerous subversion of the slashdot scene.
My original post got to 5 becuase a) I meant what I said, and moderators like honesty, b) people found it funny, which apparently you did not, and c) it was posted in reply to one of the first comments (first non-troll comments anyway; man, -1 is such a zoo these days).
I'm actually pretty annoyed about this post's moderation, becuase while it's gotten 4 positive feedback it's also been hit with Overrated twice (that happens to be my least favorite mod tag, and I refuse to use it when I mod). Somehow, even though I've posted several (I mean like 5 - 10) +5 comments after I hit +50 (the apparent cap), as well as numerous +3s, those 2 negatives in the/. Karma Calculus caused my overall to go to +49. wtf? Not that I inherently care about an abstract measure of communal worth on one website, but I'm quasi-pissed becuase the system isn't behaving the way I think it should/thought it did.
Lastly, as an AC, I think your room to throw stones about trolling is pretty slim.;-)
Well, actually I do. I think that stuff _does not_ need to be handled on the client side. Give them a weak client, or even a web browser, and do it all on the server (one contra-Outlook example would be all of Yahoo!'s stuff, another would be OpenMail from HP, according to the grapevine anyway). Especially collaborative calendaring, that's just nasty conceptually if you have clients handling it. I would elaborate on this more but I'm hungry so the mouth-contentious-blather-on-slashdot part of my brain is losing to the go-hunt-defenseless-nachos part...
So, basically, you and I have the same goals with regards to mail/groupware, we just want to see them implemented in two different ways. As my mamma says: "They ain't nothin' wrong widat.":-)
Yes, your language really makes you sound like a professional software engineer, doesn't it? Admittedly, I have a goatse.cx link for my homepage and GC's Seven Deadlies as my.sig, but that's becuase I'm intentionally trying to get a rise out of uptight people. You just sound like a zealot claiming false credentials. Now maybe instead of cursing you'd like to post a reply consisting of specific, technical criticism of the linux kernel design?
Ive had entirely too many bad experiences with centralized binary files for sysconfig, both with Lose9x and other *nixen than went to the dark side. Plain text is the way to go becuase a) it's hard to fuck it up when you programmatically read from it, unless you are a TOTAL idiot (in which case are you really likely to be a system developer?), and b) your system could be a smoking pile of rubble, and all you need is some way to boot to single user mode and use vi and you're set.
> 1. Photoshop
gimp
> 2. Quark
adobe's thing, framemaker. heard rumors it may be coming back to life on linux. This is probably your strongest point.
> 3. 3DSMax or Maya. Take yer pick.
Blender. Moonlight Atelier. Povray.
> 4. distributed network renderers for the above
ever watched Titanic?
> 5. Non-linear video editing systems (Avid, >Media100)
Broadcast2000
> 6. Digital audio editing packages (ProTools, etc.)
I'm not into digital music so I can't comment. Didn't a book about making music on linux just get published by No Starch Press?
> 7. Excel
Gnumeric. Star Office. Applixware.
>8. Powerpoint
Star Office. Mayber others I don't know about.
> 9. Outlook
yeah, like you need a gui to read email.
mail, mailx, mh, mutt, pine on the CLI off thetop of my head. www-email in any of several browser, and this includes calendar functionality. Oh and of course the 20+ gui email clients (kmail and balsa come to mind)
> 10. $GAME (Everything except Quake3 I guess).
www.loki.com for starters. More are out there.
> Academia? Government? Military?
hah. 70% of the scientific and engineering departments at my university run all-Unix-and-mostly-linux-at-that shops. I don't work for the government or the military, but they're hardly shining examples of wise procurement decisions in most cases.
>From where I sit, installing Linux on a workstation reduces its functionality.
The problem is that you are apparently sitting in
the short bus.:-) --
Dude, fostering consumerism and conformity has been sort of the unstated goal of American society for a loooooong time (e.g. public schools were essentially founded in this country for two reasons: a) to enable Mom and Dad to work in a factory, and b) to turn Son and Daughter into obedient worker/consumers). If anything, you could argue that America of today is less consumerist than it was 50 years ago (and we have "those dirty hippies" and beatniks to thank for that, by and large).
Dude, I'm sure so many people have offered Linus free (money, hardware, software, beer, food, cars, lusty wenches, lusty men, lusty goats, rides in nuclear submarines or fighter planes) he could
take everyone up on their offers and live 'till he was 180 before he got through with them all.:-) Of course, IMHO he deserves all that and a whipped cream sunday besides. Linus, in the unlikely even you read this comment: You rule!. 'Nuff said.
The other repliers are all correct WRT it wasn't linux, it was IRIX, probably running on a Crimson (was the indy available then?). The program was called fsn and you can run it if you have a machine running IRIX 4.0.1 through 5.3.
It's interesting, becuase the childrens' interaction with the computer system got a lot of space in the book (proportionally way more than, what, 30 seconds or so in the movie). They actually had "screenshots" (in a sort of ncurses-ish way) in there to show what the kids were doing. Pretty interesting. (of course as a whole the book was a lot better than the movie but isn't that always the case?)
Hungarian notation is ugly on an aesthetic level. This alone however is not enough to condemn it's usage.
There are however, better ways for a programer to find out the type of a variable or the definition of a function, namely just run ctags on all your code, and then use an editor that supports tag-based navigation (vim and emacs do, off the top of my head). This allows you to effortlessly jump to the thing's original spot o' definition, and back to where you were. I dare say this is easier to use (no decoding xyLDsTRdyQvariable_name anymore)...;-)
OK, say you get a shorter wavelngth laser or something to increase data density. That's great an all, but until other drives (other manufacturers, regular cd-roms, etc) support the new laser/format, the written media is basically only readable by people with that exact drive.
You're smoking crack. Solaris is only free for <= 8 cpu. After that you pay through the nose. Then add the cost of the support contract, which is mandatory.
well I'm sure that sun will open up several to the community for development. The same day porcine beings self-aviate and a certain mythological place experiences a cold snap...;^)
Seriously, this is where the proprietary unix companies make tens or hundreds of thousands on OS licenses for their bigboy hardware. Tell me again why they'd want linux running there for free?
On the face of it, that idea might actually make a good bit of strategic sense for O'Reilly.
Their perl line of books is very strong, and I've heard it's one of their more profitable "properties." Doesn't Larry Wall already work for them as well? If they could assimilate the editorial and production staff whole-cloth, this could work very smoothly (especially if #20 is ready to ship, a nice initial slug of income).
The downside is that periodicals publishing may not mesh real well with their business internally e.g. tax and regulatory stuff may be different in subtle ways from books (like, some states have more lenient tax structures and breaks for periodicals publishers, 3 of my 4 magazine subscriptions come from Colorado for example). I'm not in the publishing biz (my fiancee is, so what info I have is second hand), so take my random thoughts with a grain of NaCl.
Becuase when you do nothing, all you have to do is look at yourself/your life. Most people find this unappetizing and as such find other things, however meaningless, to occupy their time. If Buddha were alive today in America he'd be a gas
station attendant (just a really, really enlightened one;-) ). I think Mohammed and Christ would be video store clerks.
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Sorry, acronym came out before I could stop it. That means High Explosive Dual Purpose for those unfamiliar with the term. HEDP is designed to be effective against both soft (leg infantry) and hard (mech infantry, armor) targets. It also does a pretty good job of fscking up anything else in the target area like civilians or non-military property...
Not likely. Now if the weapon was deployed to supress a target group in or near a city it may be a different story. But then again, considering that really the only way to make a large EMP previous to this was a nuclear package, which would you prefer going off in your backyard?
WRT weapons manufacturers and caring about loss of life: of course not. It wouldn't make business sense (many are working on non-or-low-lethality systems but this is only to satisfy demands by governments that wish to appear enlightened to their governed; I can guarantee you that the same company that would market this would just as cheerfully market HEDP to people like the Taliban).
Naturally the effects on the target will vary depending on the overall technical level of the army (e.g. a T-55 probably has less onboard electronics than an M1A1). Still, even relatively low-tech armies will more than likely depend on radios for C-cubed-I (command, control, coordination, and intelligence), at the platoon level and above, and you can bet said second and third world (mostly the latter) armies are using radios old enough and/or cheap enough that EMP sheilding isn't in them. On an operational level this yields them just as inactive with functioning unit-level equipment as a more modern grouping with nonfunctioning unit-level equipment.
Collateral damage from the device could be extreme (Manhattan) to practically non-existent (rural Africa). Of course, if you wear in-the-ear hearing aids like I do, it might not be fun to be around in any locale...;-) (*bzzt* ow ow ow ow...)
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Heh, well before I tell you this "recipe" you need to wonder what your risk tolerance is, becuase it is possible to make this stuff so strong that it'll cause "negative physical manifestations", just like drinking 50 or so cups of regular coffee will. No I'm not kidding.
Get regular ground coffee. Good stuff, cheap stuff, whatever. Just get a lot of it, like at a warehouse store or something.
Place coffee in a container, like a pitcher. Fill the container about 3/4 full. Add cold water to ~fill the container. Place container in refridgerator for at least five days, a week would be better. During this step the organic components (incl. the caffeine) are leeched out into the water just like any other organic chem extraction at low temp). The relatively long extraction time causes effective removal of most of the organics. If you wanted to be really maniacal about it you could remove the first concentrate and resoak the grounds for another week, maybe do a double 4 day soak, something like that (sort of the chemEng approach to coffee production).
OK. Now you're set. You can either drink it straight (like REALLY FUCKING STRONG cold espresso), or dilute it to taste with hot water (1conc:1water to 1conc:3water were common). You can also use the concentrate to etch optical glass. (j/k)
Seriously, depending on how strong you make the concentrate you can start seeing physical manifestations of caffeine overdose like heart beat abnormalities, eyes losing focus, tremors, etc. Watch your intake carefully at first until you have the procedure tuned to your satisfaction. I can imagine you hitting the LD50 with this stuff if you make it too strong and drink a lot of it.
The advantage to this is you can make up gallons and gallons and gallons ahead of time of the concentrate and the stuff goes a LONG way.
If the concentrate just isn't strong enough for you (good lord), you can add a crushed package of NODOZ or the like (over the counter caffeine pills) to the initial grounds before soaking. *If you do this make sure you don't drink the concentrate straight!*
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Shit, the last thing we want is for the birds to peck the thing or land on it. Hasn't anyone see Hitchcock's movies?! The last thing we need is a pack of IQ-enhanced birds flying about raising havoc!
;-)
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One thing to keep in mind is that, IIRC, X11's memory usage displayed by top includes the portion of the video card's ram it's using (maybe all of it? Somebody mentioned this to me a while back and I never really dug into it.). So while this is memory the process is using, it isn't coming out of your system RAM.
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...esp. what with fb support getting pretty good in the newest kernel. Not that you really need anything more than LILO-ish text, but there's something cool about "select OS, click "boot" to boot" (image button with a boot on it? ;^) ). I am aware that some projects to this effect exist already, but since this is essentially straight GTK+, it makes dev all the easier.
Actually, this would make writing a highly internationalizable boot loader a possibility, wouldn't it? Well, easier than reinventing your own multillingual wheel anyway.
And lets not forget that now a bootloader could have tetris in it, just for kicks. :-) Just think, why bother booting the whole OS when you just need to get your Tetris fix?
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Mind you, I'm not really what you would call a win32 developer (I wrote a bug tracking system using IIS/ASP/Jscript once). But from what I looked at COM, and heard through the grapevine at "Company X", was that the coolest thing about it was that it could be used from so many languages (both the component itself and the caller).
C and C++ are probably the most common, but I saw VB (ick) and ASP code calling COM objects very frequently, and that's not the limit. This is pretty neat, like being able to call an .so from _anywhere_, without having to roll your own wrapper (a la SWIG for perl, python, tcl et al).
So anyway, my .02 USD is to at least attempt a design that is flexible enough that C++ isn't the only supported language. I realize you're a game shop and as such don't have oodles of spare time, so it's OK if all it is implemented in at first is C++. As long as some crazed hacker like me can come along at some point and add perl support, no one gets hurt! ;-)
Thirdly, come on, you asked for "any ideas" on /.! What were you thinking?! Ha, I bet somebody is going to ask if his pantsObject can call the hotGritsObject using the nataliePortmanIsFine pattern. :-)
Anyway, good luck, it looks like a cool project.
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FWIW, linux can do this on the ext2fs as well, with chattr +c filename. There are analogs in other unix operating systems and filesystems as well. :-) (man chattr for more info)
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goatse.cx is my listed homepage for the same reasons that GC's Seven Deadlies are part of my .sig. I think people are too damn uptight. This is my way of tweaking them. Further, my homepage (the real one) has contact info on it for friends from high school, etc. I got tired of people flaming my personal account during the political stories a month back. (What can I say, I'm a liberal bombthrower... ;-) ). I also think that goatse.cx is a humerous subversion of the slashdot scene.
My original post got to 5 becuase a) I meant what I said, and moderators like honesty, b) people found it funny, which apparently you did not, and c) it was posted in reply to one of the first comments (first non-troll comments anyway; man, -1 is such a zoo these days).
I'm actually pretty annoyed about this post's moderation, becuase while it's gotten 4 positive feedback it's also been hit with Overrated twice (that happens to be my least favorite mod tag, and I refuse to use it when I mod). Somehow, even though I've posted several (I mean like 5 - 10) +5 comments after I hit +50 (the apparent cap), as well as numerous +3s, those 2 negatives in the /. Karma Calculus caused my overall to go to +49. wtf? Not that I inherently care about an abstract measure of communal worth on one website, but I'm quasi-pissed becuase the system isn't behaving the way I think it should/thought it did.
Lastly, as an AC, I think your room to throw stones about trolling is pretty slim. ;-)
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Well, actually I do. I think that stuff _does not_ need to be handled on the client side. Give them a weak client, or even a web browser, and do it all on the server (one contra-Outlook example would be all of Yahoo!'s stuff, another would be OpenMail from HP, according to the grapevine anyway). Especially collaborative calendaring, that's just nasty conceptually if you have clients handling it. I would elaborate on this more but I'm hungry so the mouth-contentious-blather-on-slashdot part of my brain is losing to the go-hunt-defenseless-nachos part...
So, basically, you and I have the same goals with regards to mail/groupware, we just want to see them implemented in two different ways. As my mamma says: "They ain't nothin' wrong widat." :-)
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Yes, your language really makes you sound like a professional software engineer, doesn't it? Admittedly, I have a goatse.cx link for my homepage and GC's Seven Deadlies as my .sig, but that's becuase I'm intentionally trying to get a rise out of uptight people. You just sound like a zealot claiming false credentials. Now maybe instead of cursing you'd like to post a reply consisting of specific, technical criticism of the linux kernel design?
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Ive had entirely too many bad experiences with centralized binary files for sysconfig, both with Lose9x and other *nixen than went to the dark side. Plain text is the way to go becuase a) it's hard to fuck it up when you programmatically read from it, unless you are a TOTAL idiot (in which case are you really likely to be a system developer?), and b) your system could be a smoking pile of rubble, and all you need is some way to boot to single user mode and use vi and you're set.
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> 1. Photoshop
:-)
gimp
> 2. Quark
adobe's thing, framemaker. heard rumors it may be coming back to life on linux. This is probably your strongest point.
> 3. 3DSMax or Maya. Take yer pick.
Blender. Moonlight Atelier. Povray.
> 4. distributed network renderers for the above
ever watched Titanic?
> 5. Non-linear video editing systems (Avid, >Media100)
Broadcast2000
> 6. Digital audio editing packages (ProTools, etc.)
I'm not into digital music so I can't comment. Didn't a book about making music on linux just get published by No Starch Press?
> 7. Excel
Gnumeric. Star Office. Applixware.
>8. Powerpoint
Star Office. Mayber others I don't know about.
> 9. Outlook
yeah, like you need a gui to read email.
mail, mailx, mh, mutt, pine on the CLI off thetop of my head. www-email in any of several browser, and this includes calendar functionality. Oh and of course the 20+ gui email clients (kmail and balsa come to mind)
> 10. $GAME (Everything except Quake3 I guess).
www.loki.com for starters. More are out there.
> Academia? Government? Military?
hah. 70% of the scientific and engineering departments at my university run all-Unix-and-mostly-linux-at-that shops. I don't work for the government or the military, but they're hardly shining examples of wise procurement decisions in most cases.
>From where I sit, installing Linux on a workstation reduces its functionality.
The problem is that you are apparently sitting in
the short bus.
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Dude, fostering consumerism and conformity has been sort of the unstated goal of American society for a loooooong time (e.g. public schools were essentially founded in this country for two reasons: a) to enable Mom and Dad to work in a factory, and b) to turn Son and Daughter into obedient worker/consumers). If anything, you could argue that America of today is less consumerist than it was 50 years ago (and we have "those dirty hippies" and beatniks to thank for that, by and large).
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Dude, I'm sure so many people have offered Linus free (money, hardware, software, beer, food, cars, lusty wenches, lusty men, lusty goats, rides in nuclear submarines or fighter planes) he could take everyone up on their offers and live 'till he was 180 before he got through with them all. :-) Of course, IMHO he deserves all that and a whipped cream sunday besides. Linus, in the unlikely even you read this comment: You rule!. 'Nuff said.
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The other repliers are all correct WRT it wasn't linux, it was IRIX, probably running on a Crimson (was the indy available then?). The program was called fsn and you can run it if you have a machine running IRIX 4.0.1 through 5.3.
It's interesting, becuase the childrens' interaction with the computer system got a lot of space in the book (proportionally way more than, what, 30 seconds or so in the movie). They actually had "screenshots" (in a sort of ncurses-ish way) in there to show what the kids were doing. Pretty interesting. (of course as a whole the book was a lot better than the movie but isn't that always the case?)
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Hungarian notation is ugly on an aesthetic level. This alone however is not enough to condemn it's usage.
There are however, better ways for a programer to find out the type of a variable or the definition of a function, namely just run ctags on all your code, and then use an editor that supports tag-based navigation (vim and emacs do, off the top of my head). This allows you to effortlessly jump to the thing's original spot o' definition, and back to where you were. I dare say this is easier to use (no decoding xyLDsTRdyQvariable_name anymore)... ;-)
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well, there is ISO 9660 which defines the regular cdrom file format. I don't know if that specifies down to the physical layer though.
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OK, say you get a shorter wavelngth laser or something to increase data density. That's great an all, but until other drives (other manufacturers, regular cd-roms, etc) support the new laser/format, the written media is basically only readable by people with that exact drive.
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You're smoking crack. Solaris is only free for <= 8 cpu. After that you pay through the nose. Then add the cost of the support contract, which is mandatory.
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well I'm sure that sun will open up several to the community for development. The same day porcine beings self-aviate and a certain mythological place experiences a cold snap... ;^)
Seriously, this is where the proprietary unix companies make tens or hundreds of thousands on OS licenses for their bigboy hardware. Tell me again why they'd want linux running there for free?
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On the face of it, that idea might actually make a good bit of strategic sense for O'Reilly. Their perl line of books is very strong, and I've heard it's one of their more profitable "properties." Doesn't Larry Wall already work for them as well? If they could assimilate the editorial and production staff whole-cloth, this could work very smoothly (especially if #20 is ready to ship, a nice initial slug of income).
The downside is that periodicals publishing may not mesh real well with their business internally e.g. tax and regulatory stuff may be different in subtle ways from books (like, some states have more lenient tax structures and breaks for periodicals publishers, 3 of my 4 magazine subscriptions come from Colorado for example). I'm not in the publishing biz (my fiancee is, so what info I have is second hand), so take my random thoughts with a grain of NaCl.
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He just went to the Alan Greenspan School Of Public Communications. ;^)
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Becuase when you do nothing, all you have to do is look at yourself/your life. Most people find this unappetizing and as such find other things, however meaningless, to occupy their time. If Buddha were alive today in America he'd be a gas station attendant (just a really, really enlightened one ;-) ). I think Mohammed and Christ would be video store clerks.
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Sorry, acronym came out before I could stop it. That means High Explosive Dual Purpose for those unfamiliar with the term. HEDP is designed to be effective against both soft (leg infantry) and hard (mech infantry, armor) targets. It also does a pretty good job of fscking up anything else in the target area like civilians or non-military property...
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Not likely. Now if the weapon was deployed to supress a target group in or near a city it may be a different story. But then again, considering that really the only way to make a large EMP previous to this was a nuclear package, which would you prefer going off in your backyard?
WRT weapons manufacturers and caring about loss of life: of course not. It wouldn't make business sense (many are working on non-or-low-lethality systems but this is only to satisfy demands by governments that wish to appear enlightened to their governed; I can guarantee you that the same company that would market this would just as cheerfully market HEDP to people like the Taliban).
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Naturally the effects on the target will vary depending on the overall technical level of the army (e.g. a T-55 probably has less onboard electronics than an M1A1). Still, even relatively low-tech armies will more than likely depend on radios for C-cubed-I (command, control, coordination, and intelligence), at the platoon level and above, and you can bet said second and third world (mostly the latter) armies are using radios old enough and/or cheap enough that EMP sheilding isn't in them. On an operational level this yields them just as inactive with functioning unit-level equipment as a more modern grouping with nonfunctioning unit-level equipment.
Collateral damage from the device could be extreme (Manhattan) to practically non-existent (rural Africa). Of course, if you wear in-the-ear hearing aids like I do, it might not be fun to be around in any locale... ;-) (*bzzt* ow ow ow ow...)
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