isn't this guy a sci-fi author? When did he become a computer consultant? Does his writing of sci-fi give him the insight of large-scale computing operations?
Let's try to put real news on/. from now on.. please.
"The other alternative is to being exploiting resources from off-planet. Mine the moon. Mine the asteroids. Collect hydrocarbons from the atmosphere of Jupiter. And, absoutely, collect energy from the Sun directly in space."
While your ideas are fantastic and entertaining, the fact is they are currently, and in the near future (e.g. 50-100 years) unrealizable.
We have a major problem of getting off this rock called Earth. Chemical rockets aren't scaling. We can't make them cheap and reliable and big enough. The space elevator is just as entertaining as mining hydocarbons off Jupiter.
I certainly wish I was wrong, but tell us HOW you would do these things, not just that we can do them with today's technology!
Dr. Cerf: I think it can be argued that there might not be as much of an IPv4 address space 'crunch' today if it weren't for large allocations and wastefull allocations (US Govt, etc. plus the/8's). How do you feel about the large multicast allocation (224.0.0.0/4) and no 'killer' multicast apps, plus with the DotCom fallout? Thanks!
Move the Napster DB Servers out of the US....
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Wouldn't this make Napster more difficult for RIAA to shutdown? Find some off shore, non-international-law observing country, and dump the Napster database(s) there. Hasn't anyone read _Cryptomonicon_?;-)
Is BSDi's stack just more optimized for SMP? I thought FreeBSD had a pretty good SMP stack... with zero copy sockets FreeBSD can almost push a Gigabit...
> btw, didn't Nasa recently (last 5 years) upgrade > the Space Shuttle Main engine controllers with > an embedded 68000 series chip? Maybe, but they put a 486 onboard of Hubble just a few months ago!
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isn't this guy a sci-fi author? When did he become a computer consultant? Does his writing of sci-fi give him the insight of large-scale computing operations?
Let's try to put real news on /. from now on.. please.
"The other alternative is to being exploiting resources from off-planet. Mine the moon. Mine the asteroids. Collect hydrocarbons from the atmosphere of Jupiter. And, absoutely, collect energy from the Sun directly in space."
While your ideas are fantastic and entertaining, the fact is they are currently, and in the near future (e.g. 50-100 years) unrealizable.
We have a major problem of getting off this rock called Earth. Chemical rockets aren't scaling. We can't make them cheap and reliable and big enough. The space elevator is just as entertaining as mining hydocarbons off Jupiter.
I certainly wish I was wrong, but tell us HOW you would do these things, not just that we can do them with today's technology!
Or do I need a GPU to calculate that?
Dr. Cerf: I think it can be argued that there might not be as much of an IPv4 address space 'crunch' today if it weren't for large allocations and wastefull allocations (US Govt, etc. plus the /8's). How do you feel about the large multicast allocation (224.0.0.0/4) and no 'killer' multicast apps, plus with the DotCom fallout? Thanks!
Wouldn't this make Napster more difficult for RIAA to shutdown? Find some off shore, non-international-law observing country, and dump the Napster database(s) there. Hasn't anyone read _Cryptomonicon_? ;-)
Is BSDi's stack just more optimized for SMP? I thought FreeBSD had a pretty good SMP stack... with zero copy sockets FreeBSD can almost push a Gigabit...
> btw, didn't Nasa recently (last 5 years) upgrade > the Space Shuttle Main engine controllers with > an embedded 68000 series chip? Maybe, but they put a 486 onboard of Hubble just a few months ago!