Damn. I get two PBS channels on my antenna, and both run Create (the home/life), one (near Fort Hood) runs Pentagon Channel, and the other (in Austin) runs their own extra channel (which usually has good stuff). At least neither runs PBS Kids; I'd probably remove that one from my channel list.
I remember when cable TV was actually worth paying money for, Then over 10 years ago I gave up the $35+/month habit. Now the only reason I can see for paying money for cable TV is if you're a sports fan, as we've gradually let sports move onto cable TV. (Substitute "satellite TV" for "cable TV" as you wish, it's almost the same.)
I also remember back in the '80s when cable TV got you better picture quality on local channels. (and when MTV actually had music videos)
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
The best part of that for me was that I laughed when Dangerfield opened the door. Then the rest of the audience laughed when they were told who that guy with the frizzy hair was.
The restrictions go farther than to just "boot valid signatures". The kernel and all modules that it uses need to be signed as well. Say goodbye to compiling your own kernel or custom drivers if you don't disable Secure Boot in the BIOS.
Oh, sure, you can disable the UEFI Secure Boot crap. But when I read the initial article a few days ago, the point I got was that Fedora's goal was to not require users to have to go to the trouble of manually disabling it. Win8 is going to require SB enabled in order to get the W8 sticker (I was unclear if W8 itself required SB, but if it did, it wouldn't work as an upgrade). So in order to install Linux, everyone must manually disable SB first unless the distro gets signed. And they can't just stop with signing the first stage boot loader, they pretty much have to have the kernel signed and have it check for signed drivers, otherwise there would be a hole that some eeeeeeevil malware could get through, which would be grounds for revoking the key.
Then there is also some kind of problem with driver modules (like in the ROM on PCI cards) also having to be signed, but apparently it has to match the OS key, and there's no room for more than one signature. So of course they'll get signed for Microsoft's key. This is bad, but it really doesn't have much to do with the particular problem at hand.
The problem I see is that the master key is revokable if a particular OS boot loader is determined to be insufficiently secure. No, your BIOS isn't going to get on the internet and update itself every time you boot (but let's not give Microsoft any ideas) and one day refuse to work; the problem is that six months from now, the BIOS in all the new motherboards on the market would say "hey this Fedora key, someone told me it's no good!" And people installing Linux for the first time would again have to manually disable SB until a new key and bootloader are produced. Since Fedora's goal was a no-fuss install, this is a failure.
And then there's the looming issue of what happens if Microsoft decides to require that SB not be disabled, as they have done on ARM. Sure, there are already a lot of ARM tablets that will never run W8, but if you get a good deal on a used or clearance W8 tablet, it's useless for anything but W8. But what happens if Microsoft decides that a manufacturer can't get a W9 sticker if you can disable SB?
It's adorasturbing. I think it's important to know that the cat died a natural death and that the decision was made afterward. Now the cat can continue to chase birds after death. And the determined look on its face is rather awesome.
Silhouetted. In front of glowing giant maps of the world. Clearly they are evil overlords.
So anyhow, two layers of cardboard stuck together, and little bits of plastic windows with tab edges stuck between. I've seen that a couple of times. Definitely worse for tidy returns than just cutting off the edges of clamshell plastic with scissors and taping it closed again.
But many of those who do pay the $60 do so with the knowledge that they will be able to sell it back to Game Stop (or a pawn shop, etc.) and get some of that money back to buy other games. If that part of the "food chain" is interrupted, then the $60 business model could be in for trouble.
It'll be a real bitch when MS "accidentally" revokes your key. Oops! Sorry about that!
The best part is that the revocation will probably only happen to newly manufactured motherboards, so you might not even know about it until one random day you start hearing about people unable to install your OS in their new PC.
...except on ARM, where they require that there be no way to disable secure boot.
Want to run Linux on that shiny ARM Win 8 tablet? Tough luck.
Also, what's to stop them from changing their minds a few years later require the same for PC hardware when Win 9 comes around?
I have more of a problem with MS being in charge of all this, than with the basic idea by itself. It's very much a case of the fox guarding the henhouse.
Specifically, THIS Falcon 9 was disposable. At some future time, the first stage, and I think the second stage too, will land vertically after a powered descent, and will even have fold-out legs to land on. Only the "trunk" section behind the capsule and the solar panels attached to it are specifically not going to be reusable, because they reach orbit without a heat shield.
There are also plans for the crew capsule to do a powered ground landing, but that will make use of the enhanced maneuvering rockets that will be designed to work as a (non-disposable) launch abort system.
and it was saved, ironically enough, by a big packet-flood and by keeping copies, two at a time, of every message type. the messages were saved for a series of consecutive days and then finally released when it was safe again.
tl;dr: NASA is paying for the ride, not the rocket.
I hadn't heard that the COTS program requires a new vehicle for each flight, but that just means that SpaceX is going to have a lot of spares for non-COTS missions.
If Henry Ford listened to his customers he'd be selling faster horses.
This is more like Henry Ford deciding that the successor to the Model T will be a horse, and you will like it because you can get it in any color you want.
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Damn. I get two PBS channels on my antenna, and both run Create (the home/life), one (near Fort Hood) runs Pentagon Channel, and the other (in Austin) runs their own extra channel (which usually has good stuff). At least neither runs PBS Kids; I'd probably remove that one from my channel list.
I remember when cable TV was actually worth paying money for, Then over 10 years ago I gave up the $35+/month habit. Now the only reason I can see for paying money for cable TV is if you're a sports fan, as we've gradually let sports move onto cable TV. (Substitute "satellite TV" for "cable TV" as you wish, it's almost the same.)
I also remember back in the '80s when cable TV got you better picture quality on local channels. (and when MTV actually had music videos)
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Note way!
Although I'm not quite sure how they were able to make ultrafast cars when nobody had two neurons to knock together anymore as TV rotted their brains.
I'm sure all they had to do was drink more Brawndo.
The best part of that for me was that I laughed when Dangerfield opened the door. Then the rest of the audience laughed when they were told who that guy with the frizzy hair was.
The restrictions go farther than to just "boot valid signatures". The kernel and all modules that it uses need to be signed as well. Say goodbye to compiling your own kernel or custom drivers if you don't disable Secure Boot in the BIOS.
Oh, sure, you can disable the UEFI Secure Boot crap. But when I read the initial article a few days ago, the point I got was that Fedora's goal was to not require users to have to go to the trouble of manually disabling it. Win8 is going to require SB enabled in order to get the W8 sticker (I was unclear if W8 itself required SB, but if it did, it wouldn't work as an upgrade). So in order to install Linux, everyone must manually disable SB first unless the distro gets signed. And they can't just stop with signing the first stage boot loader, they pretty much have to have the kernel signed and have it check for signed drivers, otherwise there would be a hole that some eeeeeeevil malware could get through, which would be grounds for revoking the key.
Then there is also some kind of problem with driver modules (like in the ROM on PCI cards) also having to be signed, but apparently it has to match the OS key, and there's no room for more than one signature. So of course they'll get signed for Microsoft's key. This is bad, but it really doesn't have much to do with the particular problem at hand.
The problem I see is that the master key is revokable if a particular OS boot loader is determined to be insufficiently secure. No, your BIOS isn't going to get on the internet and update itself every time you boot (but let's not give Microsoft any ideas) and one day refuse to work; the problem is that six months from now, the BIOS in all the new motherboards on the market would say "hey this Fedora key, someone told me it's no good!" And people installing Linux for the first time would again have to manually disable SB until a new key and bootloader are produced. Since Fedora's goal was a no-fuss install, this is a failure.
And then there's the looming issue of what happens if Microsoft decides to require that SB not be disabled, as they have done on ARM. Sure, there are already a lot of ARM tablets that will never run W8, but if you get a good deal on a used or clearance W8 tablet, it's useless for anything but W8. But what happens if Microsoft decides that a manufacturer can't get a W9 sticker if you can disable SB?
It's adorasturbing. I think it's important to know that the cat died a natural death and that the decision was made afterward. Now the cat can continue to chase birds after death. And the determined look on its face is rather awesome.
What about Japanese? A very common verb conjugation is "-shite", if you use the most common (for westerners) romaji transliteration.
My favorite still has to be the newspaper story about the Enola Homosexual that dropped an atom bomb on Tokyo.
Silhouetted. In front of glowing giant maps of the world. Clearly they are evil overlords.
So anyhow, two layers of cardboard stuck together, and little bits of plastic windows with tab edges stuck between. I've seen that a couple of times. Definitely worse for tidy returns than just cutting off the edges of clamshell plastic with scissors and taping it closed again.
You may want them to have better reliability, but do the manufacturers? Easily scratched discs are good for a planned obsolescence business model.
But many of those who do pay the $60 do so with the knowledge that they will be able to sell it back to Game Stop (or a pawn shop, etc.) and get some of that money back to buy other games. If that part of the "food chain" is interrupted, then the $60 business model could be in for trouble.
It'll be a real bitch when MS "accidentally" revokes your key. Oops! Sorry about that!
The best part is that the revocation will probably only happen to newly manufactured motherboards, so you might not even know about it until one random day you start hearing about people unable to install your OS in their new PC.
...except on ARM, where they require that there be no way to disable secure boot.
Want to run Linux on that shiny ARM Win 8 tablet? Tough luck.
Also, what's to stop them from changing their minds a few years later require the same for PC hardware when Win 9 comes around?
I have more of a problem with MS being in charge of all this, than with the basic idea by itself. It's very much a case of the fox guarding the henhouse.
Arthur Dent? Arthur Philip Dent?
You're a jerk. A complete kneebiter.
...also, your lip movements must not match your speaking.
It wasn't always such a wimp, but then it got caught doing steroids, so it had to have an asterisk after its name.
Specifically, THIS Falcon 9 was disposable. At some future time, the first stage, and I think the second stage too, will land vertically after a powered descent, and will even have fold-out legs to land on. Only the "trunk" section behind the capsule and the solar panels attached to it are specifically not going to be reusable, because they reach orbit without a heat shield.
There are also plans for the crew capsule to do a powered ground landing, but that will make use of the enhanced maneuvering rockets that will be designed to work as a (non-disposable) launch abort system.
and it was saved, ironically enough, by a big packet-flood and by keeping copies, two at a time, of every message type. the messages were saved for a series of consecutive days and then finally released when it was safe again.
"Every repost is a repost of a repost!"
Well, at least that explains 4chan.
tl;dr: NASA is paying for the ride, not the rocket.
I hadn't heard that the COTS program requires a new vehicle for each flight, but that just means that SpaceX is going to have a lot of spares for non-COTS missions.
If Henry Ford listened to his customers he'd be selling faster horses.
This is more like Henry Ford deciding that the successor to the Model T will be a horse, and you will like it because you can get it in any color you want.
Here's an example of the kind of graffiti you could expect. (scroll down to pictures 4-6)
This is Slashdot. They still haven't got Unicode in comments working yet.