The space station is pretty much secure right now, partly because of the enourmous sunk costs we've already spent on it. Congress is demonstrating its dissatisfaction with NASA over the station by cutting new programs, such as the unmanned ones, even though they're much less costly and more efficient.
In a way, I'd rather they'd cut station instead of all the science programs. Or maybe cut X-33 instead; it's going massively over budget by about the required amount...
What makes you think Lucas has that great an imagination, either? A lot of his stuff was standard fare for 1940's science fiction onward, from the Lensmen to Dune.
Actually, Apple wouldn't let the cloners build their own motherboards in the first phase of cloning; Apple mandated the fact that they had to license Apple motherboards.
It was when the second phase was to begin, and the companies like Motorola and IBM were going to be making their own motherboards, using the CHRP standard, that Apple ended cloning.
I agree that Mackido is a little biased, they seem to think that Microsoft is wrong all of the time, unlike Slashdot, where we're more fair, and think Microsoft is only wrong 99.999% of the time!
Supposedly after that, Apple and others (such as Sony and TI) were going to set up a pool to make it easier for third parties to license firewire.
While I enjoy disliking Apple as much as any other person, I think we need better bull* filters in general about random news items, especially when they're declaring one standard dead in favor of another that won't be out for over a year.
Stop looking at the $ 300 intel clones and start looking at the camcorders. *Lots* of them have firewire, and I am doubtful that Sony's suddenly going to switch to USB 2.0 instead.
Actually, it's not good business sense, if any of Apple's customers decide they would rather jump ship to another OS rather than put up with such lousy treatment.
Hmmph. You must think it horrible that Apple continues to use PCI, USB, and Firewire instead of going back to NuBus, which should be so much more reliable, being more closed.
One obvious solution would be to put ethernet on these laptops, and use them as X terminals. It should take a lot less processor power than using them as a whole machine.
Probably what that jerk was trying to achieve... there are some less than good reasons to want to ban anonymous cowards; just one example, consider the AC's that posted the eyewitness accounts of BeOS running on Beige G3's.
If you think nothing is keeping private enterprise from launching, look at the DOT's proposed regulations for RLV's. No payload launched via RLV could ever come within 200 km of a manned orbiting spacecraft. Since the station is going in a high-inclination low earth orbit, this is probably basically impossible... UGH. Hopefully someday we'll get a real administration that won't enact stupid laws like that... Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
You forgot to mention Amroc, which back in the 80's spent a lot of money building and testing hybrids for space launch use. Right after one test launch failed, NASA let out a large number of contracts to have hybrid technology studied, which apparently helped dry up AMROC's funding (their investors didn't want to compete with government-funded firms like LockMart).
After Amroc went out of business, NASA lost interest in hybrid technology. Funny, isn't it, how they're suddenly trumpeting all their new technology, after finally being threatened with budget cutbacks?
The only bad part was, the cutbacks were in the wrong part of NASA. NASA does need to be spending more money on research (and not let it end up as proprietary, as the X-33 might yet) that can be used equally by everyone, rather than to give one company an unfair advantage.
If TV is bad for your kids, isn't surfing the net bad for you?
The net is, at least to many of us, different than television. It's more interactive; you're engaged with a give and take with other people, rather than just a passive receptacle for what someone else wants you to think. You also have a lot more choices about what to watch. You can look at spaceflight news web sites daily, for instance. There isn't a spaceflight channel available here. And no, I don't think the NASA channels provide completely unbiased information.
You know, it's funny, Katz wants to talk about the "epidemic of violence" when it comes to rights he disapproves of, but when it comes to rights he approves of, he actually takes the time to notice that crime rates are going down? Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Probably not terribly relevant, but MythII was already available on Macs, which may have sped the porting process (couldn't hurt, anyway).
Actually, I think it would be a lot easier to port something from Linux x86 to Linux PPC than it would be to port from MacOS PPC to Linux PPC. The former would be a recompile, while the latter would require a rewrite. These guys do have the source code to work with!
AOL isn't blocking TOC/TiK clients, they're not actively attempting to create specific interopability problems either. This is a clear sign that they're not out to destroy TOC/TiK, but simply attempting to do damage control as quickly as possible.
Isn't blocking TOC/TiK clients, and creating specific interoperability problems, what they've been doing all along? They seem determined to drive open source people into the arms of microsponge, which is probably quite an accomplishment.
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So free software is antithetical to competition, therefore socialism is great?
I must have missed the part where Gosplan cancelled Gnome in favor of KDE, or ordered the people working on FreeBSD and the Hurd to switch to Linux.
The space station is pretty much secure right now, partly because of the enourmous sunk costs we've already spent on it. Congress is demonstrating its dissatisfaction with NASA over the station by cutting new programs, such as the unmanned ones, even though they're much less costly and more efficient.
In a way, I'd rather they'd cut station instead of all the science programs. Or maybe cut X-33 instead; it's going massively over budget by about the required amount...
I don't mean to be a pedant, but I think you mean Eloi and Morlocks. Elohim is an old Hebrew word with an imprecise translation.
What makes you think Lucas has that great an imagination, either? A lot of his stuff was standard fare for 1940's science fiction onward, from the Lensmen to Dune.
Actually, Apple wouldn't let the cloners build their own motherboards in the first phase of cloning; Apple mandated the fact that they had to license Apple motherboards.
It was when the second phase was to begin, and the companies like Motorola and IBM were going to be making their own motherboards, using the CHRP standard, that Apple ended cloning.
You left out scheme. I think it's the beginner's language at MIT and Rice.
I agree that Mackido is a little biased, they seem to think that Microsoft is wrong all of the time, unlike Slashdot, where we're more fair, and think Microsoft is only wrong 99.999% of the time!
Actually, the AC's have provided several links. Here is one repeated at a starting score of 1 (although that might change).
http://www.1394ta.org/Press/1999.05/12.h tm.
Why should it suprise you that they dropped the price months ago? It doesn't seem to suprise you that everyone else lowers their prices.
I know about that. It was all secondhand.
Supposedly after that, Apple and others (such as Sony and TI) were going to set up a pool to make it easier for third parties to license firewire.
While I enjoy disliking Apple as much as any other person, I think we need better bull* filters in general about random news items, especially when they're declaring one standard dead in favor of another that won't be out for over a year.
I wouldn't believe everything I hear about that... especially with a FUDmaster like Intel around.
Stop looking at the $ 300 intel clones and start looking at the camcorders. *Lots* of them have firewire, and I am doubtful that Sony's suddenly going to switch to USB 2.0 instead.
Actually, it's not good business sense, if any of Apple's customers decide they would rather jump ship to another OS rather than put up with such lousy treatment.
Pay no attention to the BSD behind the curtain!
Hmmph. You must think it horrible that Apple continues to use PCI, USB, and Firewire instead of going back to NuBus, which should be so much more reliable, being more closed.
Do you think that non-x86 versions of Linux will forever remain on the periphery, or will Linux actually become a force for platform independence?
One obvious solution would be to put ethernet on these laptops, and use them as X terminals. It should take a lot less processor power than using them as a whole machine.
Probably what that jerk was trying to achieve... there are some less than good reasons to want to ban anonymous cowards; just one example, consider the AC's that posted the eyewitness accounts of BeOS running on Beige G3's.
And one of the chief engineers at AMROC is now one of the principals at Rotary Rocket.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
"...has overcome the flow stability problems of aerospikes?"
Well, it helps a lot if one of the fuels being injected into the combustion chamber is in gaseous form. The RL-10 would make a good starting point...
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
If you think nothing is keeping private enterprise from launching, look at the DOT's proposed regulations for RLV's. No payload launched via RLV could ever come within 200 km of a manned orbiting spacecraft. Since the station is going in a high-inclination low earth orbit, this is probably basically impossible... UGH. Hopefully someday we'll get a real administration that won't enact stupid laws like that...
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
You forgot to mention Amroc, which back in the 80's spent a lot of money building and testing hybrids for space launch use. Right after one test launch failed, NASA let out a large number of contracts to have hybrid technology studied, which apparently helped dry up AMROC's funding (their investors didn't want to compete with government-funded firms like LockMart).
After Amroc went out of business, NASA lost interest in hybrid technology. Funny, isn't it, how they're suddenly trumpeting all their new technology, after finally being threatened with budget cutbacks?
The only bad part was, the cutbacks were in the wrong part of NASA. NASA does need to be spending more money on research (and not let it end up as proprietary, as the X-33 might yet) that can be used equally by everyone, rather than to give one company an unfair advantage.
Hmm, open source rocketry, anyone?
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
The net is, at least to many of us, different than television. It's more interactive; you're engaged with a give and take with other people, rather than just a passive receptacle for what someone else wants you to think. You also have a lot more choices about what to watch. You can look at spaceflight news web sites daily, for instance. There isn't a spaceflight channel available here. And no, I don't think the NASA channels provide completely unbiased information.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
You know, it's funny, Katz wants to talk about the "epidemic of violence" when it comes to rights he disapproves of, but when it comes to rights he approves of, he actually takes the time to notice that crime rates are going down?
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Actually, I think it would be a lot easier to port something from Linux x86 to Linux PPC than it would be to port from MacOS PPC to Linux PPC. The former would be a recompile, while the latter would require a rewrite. These guys do have the source code to work with!
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita
Isn't blocking TOC/TiK clients, and creating specific interoperability problems, what they've been doing all along? They seem determined to drive open source people into the arms of microsponge, which is probably quite an accomplishment.
Phil Fraering "Humans. Go Fig." - Rita