I loved it when Ubuntu was the Desktop king. All I had to do was show my friends Ubuntu and they loved it.
Now... Unity (lol, it sure unites... um... yeah ubuntu haters) and no Synapses (oh sorry Synaptic).
Brainless and unified stupidity.
Color me gone.
E P.S. Mark, I know you read/. You killed the goose. Spend your golden eggs wisely. Say hi to Jim. He's the only one who doesn't think you're a rich jerk making knee jerk micromanagement jerk decisions.
Thanks for the link. Static rollover is fixed with tethers (as I said in my original post). You'll note the rotors are stationary. In the mythical flying magical carpet the OP described, there is thrust... but at some point, that thrust must be extinguished. Much as in the video (ouch)... once the rotors are stopped (or the magical counter-rotating turbines are not counter rotating...)... it's up to the ground crew to tether the aircraft.
I agree that the current systems for pre-landing tether are risky... but remember UNTIL IT IS DOWN it CANNOT USE upward thrust (or negative pitch on the main rotor as another person said). Those can ONLY be used AFTER landing. That's also the point where the aircraft needs to be tethered.
I apologize for not saying so more completely in the first post... really I was just saying this whole thread is about a hoax...
Good point - the Lynx can apply negative pitch but this adds minor weight to cause gravitic pull. It's not like this hoax aircraft generating 1G thrust downward. The video is an excellent link... that pilot has one tough job.
As a pilot and an engineer... the sheer amount of bs in one article stymies the ability to say anything else!
Silent turbines? Do you know how a turbine works? Definitionally it moves amazing amounts of air (and fuel). Air movement = sound. It can't be silent.
It can "hover" into a building? Do you know how the threshold between "Hey we're just outside the window" and "oh now we're 2ft above the 3rd floor" and "yeah now our exhaust has nowhere to go" works?
It can "glue itself down to a deck of a ship"? How many aircraft have been swept off a deck of a carrier after landing? NONE! Gravity keeps them there. Sure, the engines can generate more than 1G of lift... but if you need 2G to stick the aircraft to the ground... get a nice tether because you have one really expensive balloon!
Ridiculous.
Is it April 1?
E Full disclosure: I am a licensed rotorcraft pilot. That means I fly helicopters. They don't have silent counter-rotating turbines (lol) and don't "stick to the deck."
S-110 Bus systems Radio Shack TRS-80. Apple I Commodore-64 Atari-800 TI 99/4
These were all the first personal computers. IBM had nothing to do with any of it.
IBM's only claim to fame is that their hardware specs allowed others to make similar systems.. so the "IBM PC" became manufacturable by many companies... and as a result... it beat out the proprietary hardware guys.
IBM has invented many things, but the personal computer is nothing they invented.
Please mod the parent +1. It is informative. It is substantive, and this entire thread shouldn't exist because/. isn't how companies are supposed to astroturf/advertise their slimy-ass products.
Sometimes I take pride in the/. community. The people who post here show clear and decisive understanding of the issues.
Sometimes I see this thread, which as of 201105290137z shows two sets of comments: 1. A lack of understanding of USPTO patent re-examination process 2. Trolls about groklaw being done
With all due respect, and whether or not groklaw is done (it's not), the USPTO re-examination is the beginning of the end for ex-MS-troll Paul Allen's world domination. Whether you agree with software patents or not (I don't), the patents on the face of it will not survive due mostly to prior art. After prior art there are issues of non-patentable material, and methods, but I doubt it will get that far.
Consider this one man saying "BOO" to those of you who instead of addressing the issue from a seat of knowledge are either taking potshots at groklaw or have no understanding of the USPTO process. If you're from another country... I'm sorry the US system is different than yours.
Every single one... allows someone else to take over your PC, do whatever they want with your hardware, hold your personal data hostage, and sabotage your credit, steal your money, delete your data, or ruin your life.
It's not the "downloads" that are to blame. It's the horrible product Microsoft has never fixed in over two decades of "software design."
The limitations of a shared medium preclude its being the "core" of any LAN that is actually seeing sustained use.
History (skip if tl;dr) Ethernet, as originaly designed by Digital, Intel, and Xerox (DIX) was a shared medium. Transceivers sat on very think cable with vampire-taps piercing the cable to provide station connections. That is 10Base5. (10Mbps, 500meter max length). An improvement in technology allowed switching to 75ohm coaxial cable with BNC connectors, three-way connectors instead of vampire taps, and allowed four repeaters instead of the previous two. (10Base2 was commonly called Thinnet, as the coax cable was much thinner than its predecessor.)
Both of those are shared-media. That means every station receives every other station's transmissions. It's half-duplex in that only one side can transmit in any one time. The concept of "Collisions" and collision-backoff intervals were employed to minimize multiple stations transmitting at the same time.
With the advents of twisted-wire Ethernet (10Base-T) and having stations "home run" to a master repeater, this didn't change much other than the way in which cable was laid. HOWEVER, it prepared the ground for the existence of "smart repeaters" which would "learn" where each Ethernet MAC address was, and only forward frames to the right ports. This switching capacity led to them being called... switches.
NON-Shared Medium comes into existence: Switches now allow treating the network as a NON-shared medium. For example, Alice's PC can talk to Printer Bob, while Charlies PC talkes to file-server David, and neither's Ethernet frames interfere, hold up, or affect each other. That's what wired Ethernet is like in today's "modern" network.
WiFi however is a shared medium. AT THE VERY BEST it would be like going back to pre-switch days. If Alice's PC is transmitting, neither Printer Bob nor Charlie's PC or file-server David can be transmitting. Everybody queues up, and overall throughput drops by a function of the number of transmitting stations. But wait, WiFi has other issues which means it's not "at its very best." Some of these include hidden-nodes, RFI, limitation on channel-use, and adjacency issues. Additionally, most WiFi devices will transmit at the speed of the slowest station. So if you have a 802.11b node, it will slow down the 802.11g or 802.11n traffic. In other words, a WiFi network is worse than pre-switch wired networks by a significant amount.
CORE vs EDGE: When you design a product (and a LAN is a product... it's used by everyone in the house/office/factory,etc.) a design should be based on accomplishing the goals. With LANs that's usually HIGH throughput, LOW cost, LOW errors. For that to work, the "bottlenecks" should not be in the center of this great star cluster of communication, but at the edge.
That is why the core needs to have the MOST bandwidth. (For some 100Mbps full-duplex wired is sufficient. For some of my clients 10Gbps is not enough.) The edge, where small-bandwidth devices exist (e.g. Android Phone, iPhone, Netbook, laptops) is the ideal deployment of WiFi for three reasons: 1. These devices are mobile. It makes sense they should be able to connect everywhere. 2. These devices use little bandwidth. It is unlikely they would normally saturate the wireless network. 3. These devices typically are complementary... so if a user has BOTH an Android phone AND a laptop... it's unlikely both will be using lots of data at the same time.
Ehud Gavron Tucson AZ
P.S. "Wireless" as used her is "WiFi" which is wireless Ethernet. So it's not really "Wireless vs Ethernet" but rather "Wireless vs Wired".
Governments everywhere are in different countries. They have different laws.
Is it tougher to tap a cellular line than a "land line"? No.
Is it tougher to tap a "land line" than a VoIP line? No.
If the entity wishing to tap your line either has the technical means or gets a court order to make someone else do it, they WILL EASILY be able to do so.
I hope you get lots of dollars, but wardriving is NOT a criminal activity. It's not a misdemeanor either. It's not against the law.
Receiving openly broadcast radio signals is one of our rights in the United States. While driving is a privilege, combining these does not make it a criminal activity.
I'm not trying to "justify" one event (not a crime) by comparing it to pedophiles (or paedophiles if you prefer an archaic and no longer correct spelling). There's no real comparison between NON-unlawful reception of open radio signals and molesting children. (Note: not all pedophiles molest children. I specifically referred to molesters because THAT IS criminal activity.
It's important to catch guys with laptops in a Mercedes, than gangbangers, murderers, or those guys who drive around in vans offering little girls candy.
Did someone in the Department find a $20 charge on his credit card, or is this just a simple case of "We serve nobody and protect nobody, but if you're using a laptop and an antenna in receipt of lawful radio signals, WE WILL FIND YOU!"?
I have done lots of wardriving. I can't afford a Mercedes tho. Does this put me halfway between the van-driving child-molesters and the war-drivers in the Merc? Should I fear if I ever go to Seattle?
Cupertino(AP) - Apple (AAPL) has filed suit in the Northern District Court of California, seeking an injunction preventing Skynet from becoming self-aware. "This process would include many of our proprietary technologies on which we have acquired a patent portfolio. We have a responsibility to our shareholders to defend these vigorously." Microsoft, Oracle, SCO, and the Devil are planning to offer Amicus Curiae briefs.
While astonished that an Iranian spokesman used the word "Israel" instead of some clever euphemism, I'm even more astonished that they are going to court.
I'm sure Siemens and the United States and Israel will be devastated by this outcome and will rush to settle. Never fight an angry warthog in court.
I hope this gets settled in record time just like SCO v IBM.
The only court I'm aware of where venue and jurisdiction for Iran to "air their innocent grievance" are just and proper is currently the one I'm sitting on.
Iran is welcome to kiss it.
This is a common difference between countries that have equatorial regions and none. The US can launch its spacecraft from Florida (or in the alternative Edwards AFB). This allows them to reach the right inclination with LESS energy (delta-V, fuel, money, take your pic). Good explanation at http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Launch_Azimuth.
This is why the Space Shuttle could not simultaneously reach both the International Space Station AND the Hubble Space Telescope. To put it simply, the two were in such different inclinations (think "how do I tilt an orbit wheel over the earth, right, left, flat...") that the shuttle could only reach one or the other.
SpaceX launching from the US or central America will ALWAYS have to expend significantly less fuel than launches from China.
Domain name zones do not propagate, and there is no "delay" in "publishing" zone information.
Domain name information is provided by domain name servers. As soon as the server can provide the data it is considered "published". When people talk about propagation they are mistakenly referring to cached false-positives or false-negatives.
A cached false-positive is when a previous lookup has returned a result that is no longer accurate, but the cache persists in providing that result. Instead of doing a new lookup and finding the --now changed-- data, the old stale data is returned. This is an indication of failure on the part of the domain administrator to reduce the cache time-to-live (TTL) field on the record or the entire Start of Authority for the zone.
A cached false-negative --typically on Microsoft operating systems-- is when a previous lookup has failed to return a response, the system caches that "there is no response." A subsequent query by an application OUGHT to do a DNS query and resolve properly, but the cache instead returns the --now stale-- "there is no response." This is an indication of failure of the operating system authors to have read the relevant RFCs on DNS (or ICMP or...) and indicates lack of knowledge, a poorly designed product, and years of asshattery.
As soon as the ".XXX" TLD was available on the gTLD servers, it ***was*** live. Here's what affilias has:;; AUTHORITY SECTION: xxx. 300 IN SOA a0.xxx.afilias-nst.info. noc.afilias-nst.info. 70 7200 3600 3600000 300
You'll note that the TTL is 300, the minimum allowable value (300sec=5min). That means they have PROPERLY set a value so that results are refreshed by those who cache them.
Adam Osborne named the company and the computer after himself.
It barely ran, weighed lots, and had no capacity to do anything useful. A TRS-80 Model II was more powerful. Kaypro (mentioned by a previous poster) also was good. Sadly it was a big heavy suitcase that barely fit "under the seat in front of you". Oh, and it sucked.
I'm sorry Adam Osborne had a great idea that was not technologically feasible for another 10 years. In today's era he'd have patented the concept and a NPE would be holding the rights to it and suing the likes of Dell, Acer, and every other dog with a portable. "Method by which the computer can be operated without mains(sic) power." lol. But he didn't. He did nothing fascinating. He is not a fascinating guy. He's a guy who had an idea (that lots of us have) and the tech wasn't there to perform as he expected.
Revisionism is cute... but deifying someone who accomplished nothing extraordinary and somehow making it like there's some "fascination" with the guy... that's going a bit far.
I find shiny object and helicopters fascinating. I don't expect a tell-all book anytime soon.
LOL no, you're not. Instead of being a mac guy you're a pussy-guy. That means when your wife said "I want Windows" you went windows-shopping.
Now let's look at your real question. What about this poor lack of choice?
Well first, we can agree Microsoft doesn't make hardware. It's interesting, really, because IF THEY DID we know they'd sell it with Windows. Yet, they don't. It's almost like they CAN'T make hardware. There's the Zune. Oh, sorry, that's cancelled. There's the Kinect. Oh, sorry, they actually bought the company that makes that. There's the... well never mind about hardware.
We can agree Microsoft doesn't make software. After all, they got DOS from Digital Research, took over the support contracts from IBM, and went from the largest distributer of (chuckle loudly) BASIC for PCs to the guys with DOS. Then they saw how cool the Mac and the Amiga were, and put some rudimentary fatures into DOS, and voila... Windows. They "redesigned" it for w95. They "redesigned" it for w98. they "redesigned" it for ME. They "redesigned" it for 2K. They "redesigned" it for XP. They "redesigned" it for Vista. They "redesigned" it for 7. DESPITE ALL THOSE SUPPOSED REDESIGNS there are still zero-day attacks that work well on everything from Windows 3.1 on DOS to Windows 7. The only thing they redesigned was next year's budget. Never mind about software.
Microsoft Office? Sorry, that's just a name for a collection of software programs they bought. Never mind about software. Really.
What does that really leave... ah yes, lawsuits. Microsoft is the largest patent troll in existence. They sue everybody they can as often as possible. They don't actually "make" anything. They just allow other people to "license" their "intellectual property" which for all purposes they purchased and didn't invent, create, originate, nor envision.
Step 2: Embrace the devil. Maybe he will be your friend.
In short Microsoft is the largest patent and copyright and trademark troll in existence. But it's ok to whine that when your boyfriend said "Wah" you said "How high should I jump?" and are now whining about the lack of choice in the market.
Lack of choice? I wonder why that would be. Could it be that competition is so fierce that all competitors agree on the same outcome? Could it be that those with novel ideas get spanked and sent back home to sit in the corner by the IP lawyers. Could it be that instead of suggesting to your boyfriend that he/she/whatever use Chrome/MacOS/Linux you just wet your pants and hoped it wouldn't matter.
Step 3: Whine whine whine
It doesn't matter. One more pussy supporting microsoft doesn't make a difference. But to not only support them but WHINE ABOUT IT and BITCH about a lack of freedom of choice, that's a truly unenlightened pussy.
With regards to the mods no links were put in here. Mods too stupid to use google can mod this down.
Sure, Facebook is cited. Did facebook CAUSE the divorce? No. Stupid people who a) are not properly honoring their marriage vows and b) post about it to FB or provider other clues of the infidelity are.
It's time to quit blaming the technology... if you cheat on your spouse... the one to blame is the dummy in the mirror, not the blog you crapped on them with.
Slashdot Mirror
Defaults are for people who expect things to work out of the box.
That's why we have cool expressions like Plug'N'Play, Out Of The Box, and Default.
Having to change things is what we call "a tinkerer's dream" or "Hacker's toolbox."
Sure, you can do it.
But it's a barrier to adoption.
Don't hit "REPLY". That's the newb way. View the source, figure out the link, and go use CURL. That's not the newb way.
E
I loved it when Ubuntu was the Desktop king. All I had to do was show my friends Ubuntu and they loved it.
Now... Unity (lol, it sure unites... um... yeah ubuntu haters) and no Synapses (oh sorry Synaptic).
Brainless and unified stupidity.
Color me gone.
E /. You killed the goose. Spend your golden eggs wisely. Say hi to Jim. He's the only one who doesn't think you're a rich jerk making knee jerk micromanagement jerk decisions.
P.S. Mark, I know you read
ouch.
Thanks for the link. Static rollover is fixed with tethers (as I said in my original post). You'll note the rotors are stationary. In the mythical flying magical carpet the OP described, there is thrust... but at some point, that thrust must be extinguished. Much as in the video (ouch)... once the rotors are stopped (or the magical counter-rotating turbines are not counter rotating...)... it's up to the ground crew to tether the aircraft.
I agree that the current systems for pre-landing tether are risky... but remember UNTIL IT IS DOWN it CANNOT USE upward thrust (or negative pitch on the main rotor as another person said). Those can ONLY be used AFTER landing. That's also the point where the aircraft needs to be tethered.
I apologize for not saying so more completely in the first post... really I was just saying this whole thread is about a hoax...
respectfully... thank you for your service,
E
Good point - the Lynx can apply negative pitch but this adds minor weight to cause gravitic pull. It's not like this hoax aircraft generating 1G thrust downward.
The video is an excellent link... that pilot has one tough job.
Regards,
E
Is it April 1st, or just slashdot mods got bored?
As a pilot and an engineer... the sheer amount of bs in one article stymies the ability to say anything else!
Silent turbines? Do you know how a turbine works? Definitionally it moves amazing amounts of air (and fuel). Air movement = sound. It can't be silent.
It can "hover" into a building? Do you know how the threshold between "Hey we're just outside the window" and "oh now we're 2ft above the 3rd floor" and "yeah now our exhaust has nowhere to go" works?
It can "glue itself down to a deck of a ship"? How many aircraft have been swept off a deck of a carrier after landing? NONE! Gravity keeps them there. Sure, the engines can generate more than 1G of lift ... but if you need 2G to stick the aircraft to the ground... get a nice tether because you have one really expensive balloon!
Ridiculous.
Is it April 1?
E
Full disclosure: I am a licensed rotorcraft pilot. That means I fly helicopters. They don't have silent counter-rotating turbines (lol) and don't "stick to the deck."
It's about time Achmedinejad got his first space flight.
Hasta la vista, baby.
E
S-110 Bus systems
Radio Shack TRS-80.
Apple I
Commodore-64
Atari-800
TI 99/4
These were all the first personal computers. IBM had nothing to do with any of it.
IBM's only claim to fame is that their hardware specs allowed others to make similar systems.. so the "IBM PC" became manufacturable by many companies... and as a result... it beat out the proprietary hardware guys.
IBM has invented many things, but the personal computer is nothing they invented.
E
Please mod the parent +1. It is informative. It is substantive, and this entire thread shouldn't exist because /. isn't how companies are supposed to astroturf/advertise their slimy-ass products.
Sometimes I take pride in the /. community. The people who post here show clear and decisive understanding of the issues.
Sometimes I see this thread, which as of 201105290137z shows two sets of comments:
1. A lack of understanding of USPTO patent re-examination process
2. Trolls about groklaw being done
With all due respect, and whether or not groklaw is done (it's not), the USPTO re-examination is the beginning of the end for ex-MS-troll Paul Allen's world domination. Whether you agree with software patents or not (I don't), the patents on the face of it will not survive due mostly to prior art. After prior art there are issues of non-patentable material, and methods, but I doubt it will get that far.
Consider this one man saying "BOO" to those of you who instead of addressing the issue from a seat of knowledge are either taking potshots at groklaw or have no understanding of the USPTO process. If you're from another country... I'm sorry the US system is different than yours.
E
Tucson AZ US
Win95
WIn98
WinME
Win2000
WinXP
Vista
Win7
Every single one... allows someone else to take over your PC, do whatever they want with your hardware, hold your personal data hostage, and sabotage your credit, steal your money, delete your data, or ruin your life.
It's not the "downloads" that are to blame. It's the horrible product Microsoft has never fixed in over two decades of "software design."
E
The UK Government and it's insipid reports hinders WiFi.
E
The limitations of a shared medium preclude its being the "core" of any LAN that is actually seeing sustained use.
History (skip if tl;dr)
Ethernet, as originaly designed by Digital, Intel, and Xerox (DIX) was a shared medium. Transceivers sat on very think cable with vampire-taps piercing the cable to provide station connections. That is 10Base5. (10Mbps, 500meter max length). An improvement in technology allowed switching to 75ohm coaxial cable with BNC connectors, three-way connectors instead of vampire taps, and allowed four repeaters instead of the previous two. (10Base2 was commonly called Thinnet, as the coax cable was much thinner than its predecessor.)
Both of those are shared-media. That means every station receives every other station's transmissions. It's half-duplex in that only one side can transmit in any one time. The concept of "Collisions" and collision-backoff intervals were employed to minimize multiple stations transmitting at the same time.
With the advents of twisted-wire Ethernet (10Base-T) and having stations "home run" to a master repeater, this didn't change much other than the way in which cable was laid. HOWEVER, it prepared the ground for the existence of "smart repeaters" which would "learn" where each Ethernet MAC address was, and only forward frames to the right ports. This switching capacity led to them being called ... switches.
NON-Shared Medium comes into existence:
Switches now allow treating the network as a NON-shared medium. For example, Alice's PC can talk to Printer Bob, while Charlies PC talkes to file-server David, and neither's Ethernet frames interfere, hold up, or affect each other. That's what wired Ethernet is like in today's "modern" network.
WiFi however is a shared medium. AT THE VERY BEST it would be like going back to pre-switch days. If Alice's PC is transmitting, neither Printer Bob nor Charlie's PC or file-server David can be transmitting. Everybody queues up, and overall throughput drops by a function of the number of transmitting stations. But wait, WiFi has other issues which means it's not "at its very best." Some of these include hidden-nodes, RFI, limitation on channel-use, and adjacency issues. Additionally, most WiFi devices will transmit at the speed of the slowest station. So if you have a 802.11b node, it will slow down the 802.11g or 802.11n traffic. In other words, a WiFi network is worse than pre-switch wired networks by a significant amount.
CORE vs EDGE:
When you design a product (and a LAN is a product... it's used by everyone in the house/office/factory,etc.) a design should be based on accomplishing the goals. With LANs that's usually HIGH throughput, LOW cost, LOW errors. For that to work, the "bottlenecks" should not be in the center of this great star cluster of communication, but at the edge.
That is why the core needs to have the MOST bandwidth. (For some 100Mbps full-duplex wired is sufficient. For some of my clients 10Gbps is not enough.) The edge, where small-bandwidth devices exist (e.g. Android Phone, iPhone, Netbook, laptops) is the ideal deployment of WiFi for three reasons:
1. These devices are mobile. It makes sense they should be able to connect everywhere.
2. These devices use little bandwidth. It is unlikely they would normally saturate the wireless network.
3. These devices typically are complementary... so if a user has BOTH an Android phone AND a laptop... it's unlikely both will be using lots of data at the same time.
Ehud Gavron
Tucson AZ
P.S. "Wireless" as used her is "WiFi" which is wireless Ethernet. So it's not really "Wireless vs Ethernet" but rather "Wireless vs Wired".
Governments everywhere are in different countries. They have different laws.
Is it tougher to tap a cellular line than a "land line"? No.
Is it tougher to tap a "land line" than a VoIP line? No.
If the entity wishing to tap your line either has the technical means or gets a court order to make someone else do it, they WILL EASILY be able to do so.
E
I hope you get lots of dollars, but wardriving is NOT a criminal activity. It's not a misdemeanor either. It's not against the law.
Receiving openly broadcast radio signals is one of our rights in the United States. While driving is a privilege, combining these does not make it a criminal activity.
I'm not trying to "justify" one event (not a crime) by comparing it to pedophiles (or paedophiles if you prefer an archaic and no longer correct spelling). There's no real comparison between NON-unlawful reception of open radio signals and molesting children. (Note: not all pedophiles molest children. I specifically referred to molesters because THAT IS criminal activity.
Best regards to you,
E
It's important to catch guys with laptops in a Mercedes, than gangbangers, murderers, or those guys who drive around in vans offering little girls candy.
Did someone in the Department find a $20 charge on his credit card, or is this just a simple case of "We serve nobody and protect nobody, but if you're using a laptop and an antenna in receipt of lawful radio signals, WE WILL FIND YOU!"?
I have done lots of wardriving. I can't afford a Mercedes tho. Does this put me halfway between the van-driving child-molesters and the war-drivers in the Merc? Should I fear if I ever go to Seattle?
E
Cupertino(AP) - Apple (AAPL) has filed suit in the Northern District Court of California, seeking an injunction preventing Skynet from becoming self-aware. "This process would include many of our proprietary technologies on which we have acquired a patent portfolio. We have a responsibility to our shareholders to defend these vigorously." Microsoft, Oracle, SCO, and the Devil are planning to offer Amicus Curiae briefs.
I'm sure Siemens and the United States and Israel will be devastated by this outcome and will rush to settle. Never fight an angry warthog in court.
Truly this is horrible. This will definitely sour the relations between the parties. What with the whole hostage thingie, the desire to wipe Israel off the face of the map, nuclear weaponry ambition. Lawyers everywhere, SUIT UP! Iran is going to court.
I hope this gets settled in record time just like SCO v IBM.
The only court I'm aware of where venue and jurisdiction for Iran to "air their innocent grievance" are just and proper is currently the one I'm sitting on.
Iran is welcome to kiss it.
E
This is a common difference between countries that have equatorial regions and none. The US can launch its spacecraft from Florida (or in the alternative Edwards AFB). This allows them to reach the right inclination with LESS energy (delta-V, fuel, money, take your pic). Good explanation at http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Launch_Azimuth.
This is why the Space Shuttle could not simultaneously reach both the International Space Station AND the Hubble Space Telescope. To put it simply, the two were in such different inclinations (think "how do I tilt an orbit wheel over the earth, right, left, flat...") that the shuttle could only reach one or the other.
SpaceX launching from the US or central America will ALWAYS have to expend significantly less fuel than launches from China.
Inclination. It's a big word, but it means $$$.
Ehud
Tucson AZ
> the zone is currently propagating
Domain name zones do not propagate, and there is no "delay" in "publishing" zone information.
Domain name information is provided by domain name servers. As soon as the server can provide the data it is considered "published". When people talk about propagation they are mistakenly referring to cached false-positives or false-negatives.
A cached false-positive is when a previous lookup has returned a result that is no longer accurate, but the cache persists in providing that result. Instead of doing a new lookup and finding the --now changed-- data, the old stale data is returned. This is an indication of failure on the part of the domain administrator to reduce the cache time-to-live (TTL) field on the record or the entire Start of Authority for the zone.
A cached false-negative --typically on Microsoft operating systems-- is when a previous lookup has failed to return a response, the system caches that "there is no response." A subsequent query by an application OUGHT to do a DNS query and resolve properly, but the cache instead returns the --now stale-- "there is no response." This is an indication of failure of the operating system authors to have read the relevant RFCs on DNS (or ICMP or ...) and indicates lack of knowledge, a poorly designed product, and years of asshattery.
As soon as the ".XXX" TLD was available on the gTLD servers, it ***was*** live. Here's what affilias has: ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
xxx. 300 IN SOA a0.xxx.afilias-nst.info. noc.afilias-nst.info. 70 7200 3600 3600000 300
You'll note that the TTL is 300, the minimum allowable value (300sec=5min). That means they have PROPERLY set a value so that results are refreshed by those who cache them.
Best regards,
Ehud Gavron
Tucson AZ
Look it's great to be nostalgic.
Adam Osborne named the company and the computer after himself.
It barely ran, weighed lots, and had no capacity to do anything useful. A TRS-80 Model II was more powerful. Kaypro (mentioned by a previous poster) also was good. Sadly it was a big heavy suitcase that barely fit "under the seat in front of you". Oh, and it sucked.
I'm sorry Adam Osborne had a great idea that was not technologically feasible for another 10 years. In today's era he'd have patented the concept and a NPE would be holding the rights to it and suing the likes of Dell, Acer, and every other dog with a portable. "Method by which the computer can be operated without mains(sic) power." lol. But he didn't. He did nothing fascinating. He is not a fascinating guy. He's a guy who had an idea (that lots of us have) and the tech wasn't there to perform as he expected.
Revisionism is cute... but deifying someone who accomplished nothing extraordinary and somehow making it like there's some "fascination" with the guy... that's going a bit far.
I find shiny object and helicopters fascinating. I don't expect a tell-all book anytime soon.
Mods, mod something else.
E
> I'm a mac guy.
Step 1: claim to be something you're not
LOL no, you're not. Instead of being a mac guy you're a pussy-guy. That means when your wife said "I want Windows" you went windows-shopping.
Now let's look at your real question. What about this poor lack of choice?
Well first, we can agree Microsoft doesn't make hardware. It's interesting, really, because IF THEY DID we know they'd sell it with Windows. Yet, they don't. It's almost like they CAN'T make hardware. There's the Zune. Oh, sorry, that's cancelled. There's the Kinect. Oh, sorry, they actually bought the company that makes that. There's the... well never mind about hardware.
We can agree Microsoft doesn't make software. After all, they got DOS from Digital Research, took over the support contracts from IBM, and went from the largest distributer of (chuckle loudly) BASIC for PCs to the guys with DOS. Then they saw how cool the Mac and the Amiga were, and put some rudimentary fatures into DOS, and voila... Windows. They "redesigned" it for w95. They "redesigned" it for w98. they "redesigned" it for ME. They "redesigned" it for 2K. They "redesigned" it for XP. They "redesigned" it for Vista. They "redesigned" it for 7. DESPITE ALL THOSE SUPPOSED REDESIGNS there are still zero-day attacks that work well on everything from Windows 3.1 on DOS to Windows 7. The only thing they redesigned was next year's budget. Never mind about software.
Microsoft Office? Sorry, that's just a name for a collection of software programs they bought. Never mind about software. Really.
What does that really leave... ah yes, lawsuits. Microsoft is the largest patent troll in existence. They sue everybody they can as often as possible. They don't actually "make" anything. They just allow other people to "license" their "intellectual property" which for all purposes they purchased and didn't invent, create, originate, nor envision.
Step 2: Embrace the devil. Maybe he will be your friend.
In short Microsoft is the largest patent and copyright and trademark troll in existence. But it's ok to whine that when your boyfriend said "Wah" you said "How high should I jump?" and are now whining about the lack of choice in the market.
Lack of choice? I wonder why that would be. Could it be that competition is so fierce that all competitors agree on the same outcome? Could it be that those with novel ideas get spanked and sent back home to sit in the corner by the IP lawyers. Could it be that instead of suggesting to your boyfriend that he/she/whatever use Chrome/MacOS/Linux you just wet your pants and hoped it wouldn't matter.
Step 3: Whine whine whine
It doesn't matter. One more pussy supporting microsoft doesn't make a difference. But to not only support them but WHINE ABOUT IT and BITCH about a lack of freedom of choice, that's a truly unenlightened pussy.
With regards to the mods no links were put in here. Mods too stupid to use google can mod this down.
Cheers,
E
It's time to quit blaming the technology... if you cheat on your spouse... the one to blame is the dummy in the mirror, not the blog you crapped on them with.
E
I wrote many in-memory running-kernel patches for it.
Why do you ask?
Ehud
Then take the pirate patch off your eye.
> You insensitive clod!
You're suggesting I'm a patch of dirt? You can't even see right...
LOL
Let the resume' building commence.
You so smart.
No, really.
Here's a pixel for your effort: .