Just Kidding:). Allthings aside, if they could not be snooped (Van Eck Phreaking a body is about the worst way you could violate a person, IMO), and could not be EMFed easily (and I mean that these things should stand so much gauss that my blood would disassemble first), I might just get some bionic eyes too.
And, for the inner pervert in us, if these things could see IR well enough.. Well, just think about the Sony Handycam. Cheers!
That's a problem that is easy (and cheaply) enough to solve. I have a gallon of gasoline and a book of matches that would be more than happy to accomidate any SUV driver's wishes to have flames on their vehicle. As a bonus, mine are even animated! How much better can it get, I ask!
Look at it this way: Patents are to protect the inventor (so that he may market his unique idea, and hopefully profit off it in some way.) Inventing something is an investment in time (except for some of the hair-brained the patent office seems to grant every so often) and it seems only fair that the inventor could hope to reap benefits from that investment.
If anyone could freely replicate this idea, then sell it, his market would be diminished. If Joe OSS programmer replicated and gave this idea away for free, the origional inventor's market would be nonexistant.
Ok, so I'm not a patent attourney (nor do I ever wish to be), but that's how I see the spirit behind the idea of patents. Now, being a hobbyist, there is no reason that you couldn't replicate some invention, and keep that information to yourself. If you go and give that information away for free, you are influencing the economy and market for that product, and are violationg a patent, as well as being immoral (depending on you subscription to life here, I guess), and just being a creep. IANL, YMMV, etc. etc. Just my $0.02.
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The moon does have weather. Ok, sure, it's not the smae kind we have here, and for obvoius reason: the atmosphere. It protects us from a helluva lot of stuff, including meteors (and smaller space borne dust particles), solar wind, and the nice EM fields the sun likes to shoot at us every so often.
Solar panels require maintaince here, and they will on the moon also. To be anywhere sort of close to their maximium efficency, they need to be clean. The moon is a dusty place, no? If the moon is covered so that 1% of that energy is stored, that means alot of surface area of solar panels; that means that there is much greater probability that meteors are going to destroy solar panels. The only reason satellites have it as easy as they do is that they are relatively small.
And, let's not even mention the next time a solar flare blacks out most of Canada, and our orbital power at the same time. Then there's the issue of glare off the solar panels. Potentially, if large enough area of the moon were covered, it could be damn bight at night during a full moon. It could throw nocternal creatures off their cycles, and suddenly we have a huge ecological problem here on earth--people and animals stressed out over too much light. Ok, well maybe not, but you never know!
The idea is nice, but it's full of holes (not that in itself is a bad thing, there are things to be learned from this, no doubt). I only hope that fusion makes it big before this does.
Wow. It's a real treat to see something that amusing (something far too uncommon, I say). I think it would be really great, but they need top be able to turn one side or the next on/off, it would really suck to be a innocent bystander and get your eyebrows singed. Other than that, I say go for it.
Oranges because unix heads are generally bitter-that their infinitely superior operating system is often looked over as antiquated and requires "eXPensive eXPerts", and being hard to use, among other things.
Apples because the serpent (oops, I really meant salesperson--not) pitching Windows makes users expect to have a sweet eXPerience, flying over luscious green meadows, but in all reality do little that's actually useful.
In case you missed my point: Servers (oh the shiny pretty oranges) are not meant to be home or office computers (apples being too sweet to actually be good for you, damn those serpents.)
When you want do get work done, choose the right tool. Sometimes it's Windows, sometimes it's a Mac, and sometimes it's a 64 processor Sun, or IBM, or SGI, or what have you.
I'm not totally sure on this, as I have never even felt the need to touch IIS, let alone windows (except helping someone with simple stuff) in the last 4 years, but I believe the limitations on IIS's connections are little more than a few registery HKEYs. I'm positive this applies to win2k (the difference between workstation and server are memory allocation, some process stuff and IIS configuration).
But as a whole, I think you have described the entire line of windows OSs quite well, and more especially the latest incarnations.
I feel the same way you do, but the reality of the situation is this: most "normal" (read: not internet or computer savvy [or hell even intelligent enough] enough to understand what's at stake) people will never even hear about this RIAA foolishness.
And of those that do hear of RIAA's exploits, 5% of them will think it's great business, another 5% will think they aren't being capitolistic enough, and 85% won't really give a damn, and the last 5% will give "Duh", or "Is you my cousin? 'Cause you's got's the same fore head as meeh. Wanna' shack up?" as an answer.
Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic, but that's reality from my corner. Would you like another helping of Apathy?
Or maybe they couldn't figure out how to get Apache to report other headers, and have IIS (on some badly secured Windows machine) operating as a HTTP proxy to the FreeBSD server.
Hell, I'm not even sure if IIS can do that, but that's my badly formed thoery for everyone.
Heh, yeah thanks for the memory jogger, or not. Iv'e wasted far too many hours of my life trying to land on those freaking carriers. *groan* It's a far easier thing to do in most naval air-simulations. *boggles*
Gah! And the damn music! It's stuck in my head now! THANKS!:P
I don't think the game was that bad myself. It was very difficult (IKARI Warriors level here), and took an insane ammount of time to finish (which I never did). I got stuck about 1/2 way through the game, having to collect some item that I could not get to. This was one of two games I have never beaten for NES (this troubles me to no end, really.)
I'm glad someone managed to do it though. I may have to plug my NES up again and see if I can finally beat that damn game. I hope the battery backup has still saved my game for me after all these years! Maybe then I can move on to the space game (forget the name) that I haven't done either. Arr!
The only reason it was on TV is because the anti-WTO organizers are...well "very enthusiastic". By enthusiastic, I mean they have a knack for attracting police attention. And by that I mean they the media can sensationalize the WTO 'riots' until they pass out, or we die of exhaustion.
Maybe if 20K geeks showed up and became violent, maybe that would become newsworthy; and that's a very thin maybe. Even then, getting that large of a group of geeks together for something other than a massive lan party (or caffiene convention) is next to impossible.
Yah, and the parent of the thread called Mac OS X "The Best UNIX". It's not UNIX by the standard definition, except they have a compatibility layer. Really, they may as well have left out the UNIX stuff, if most of their regular clientele were concerned.
The fact is, OS X and it's UNIX stuffs is a marketing ploy, like all of Apple's wares. And, recently, with the exception of the Cube, Apple is batting 100. You know what? I think that's a great thing (insofar that success dosen't go to their head, of course.) They recognized that unix/Linux/Open Source was gaining a large audience, and they have capitolized on it very well. Good for them. Good for their investors.
The thing that I don't like is this: the dilution of the meaning of UNIX. At the rate the market is going, some computer illeterate is going to brag to me that he "knows" unix, when the fact is he clicks on shiny blinking buttons with his one-buttoned mouse (followed by copious salivation). Yeah, maybe hee's using a system that is fundamentally unix, good for him, I guess. Does he even use, let alone know anything about unix? Heh, well, that's arguable, isn't it? Yep, the same thing can be said of someone who never ventures outside of X11 and the warmth of KDE or Gnome. My point is, if you don't know what a CLI is, you don't really deserve to say you know unix (and there are plenty of people who the converse applies to, don't get me wrong here.). Nothing more, nothing less.
And, as far as I'm concerned, the use of similie or comparison of Apple products to luxury cars is... Very Cliché at most.
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That's the problem. When does UNIX bocome something other than UNIX? Just because it has a POSIX compliant (mostly) kernel, and tools dosen't mean unix. People who use only the Mac part of OS X don't really directly benefit form the unixy goodness that lies beneath. They might as well be using an NT system if they want better memory management, process sharing, and just about everyhting else, than OS9.
If Apple didn't openly promote their OS as UNIX, would you even know? Unless you had access to the DTK, would it even matter? If someone decided to build a unix like environment with a kernel other than those typical to unix environemnts (like the NT) kernel, would that OS still be unix? No. Would it be compatible? Sure. Probably.
To me, UNIX is a philosophy. A little googling digs up alot of other people who feel the same way. From The UNIX Philosophy:
1. small is beautiful
2. make each program do one thing well
3. build a prototype as soon as possible
4. choose portability over efficiency
5. store numerical data in flat files
6. use software leverage to your advantage
7. use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability
8. avoid captive user interfaces
9. make every program a filter
As I said, I like Mac OS X in general. I can still illustrate many of these things that violate the UNIX tennants in OS X (even though some of them just aren't applicable to the situation).
#1. Well, there are certianly some things about OS X that just aren't small. Finder for example. #2. Make each program do one thing well. Well, Finder (you get that I don't dig it alot right?) can be concidered to do one thing: Provide a user interface. Does it do it well? Hrm, that's arguable, but I'll give it credit. #8 Yeah, that's the whole point of a Macintosh, isn't it? I'll give it credit anyway.
I'm so blindly arguing that Mac OS X is less UNIXy than the average UNIX (especially than those who can actually be called by that title with a straight face), and more Macintoshy than the average UNIX. I'm not saying that it's wrong, it's a design thing. Would I do it the same way? No. I'd break the Mac-y things into smaller peices that could perform their functions better and more usefully than the whole could ever hope to, just like is done in unix (and let's admit, even unix developers get carried away and make things too big and overly complex).
Now, I really like the idea of OS X. It's quite an OS in it's own right. It offers a great user experience, and is very pretty.
However, I think calling it the "Best Unix version for the deesktop" is a bit subjective. Iv'e seen better configured and layed out unix systems in my life. I'd put IRIX on the lead for best unix desktop (emphasis on utility, here.), with solaris second, tied with FreeBSD, and Debian GNU/Linux, only because I REALLY like those projects as well. The only reason the OSS projects don't score quite as highly with me is because they don't offer a consistent interface, in the way that a commercial project can. That said, I love Linux, and the BSDs as well.
And as for baggage on OS X, it'd argue that 'Finder' qualifies. (Have any of you ever tried to connect to a SMB server with it? It's god awefully slow, runs the CPU at 90% [which claims Finder is responsible], and you can't browse. Nice.) I have alot of other Beef with Finder, but the SMB stuff is probably the biggest, other than it's just too big.
I'll wait 'till Apple gets on the ball a bit further down the road, but I'm not going to hold my breath either. Till then I'll enjoy Debian on my icebook, and boot into OSX when I need a taste of Apple.
Gatling guns that are cranked by hand are legal most everywhere in the US (I suspect CA is not kind to them, but that dosen't matter to me.). I know for sure that nearly, if all the midwestern states don't have laws specifically for hand cranked gatling guns.
Gatling guns will become a very illegal thing when you attach some sort of motor to drive it. If you go and make one (I'm planning to do this some day), and want it to be driven by a motor, make the motor modular, and never transport it with the motor to drive it.
Incidentaly, roataing barrel guns have quite a history, and are quite generalized by the name Gatling (inventor and marketeer of the sucessful version of the gun). They come in a very wide variety of sizes, shapes, rate of fire and calibers. To see how bad ass modern guns are, find some videos of the 30mm GAU (one bastard of a cartrige) on the A-10 close support plane.
Google is a great resource for those wishing to learn more about these wonderous machines of massive chaos. The link the parent provided has some neat movies of antique replicas in action, as well as some history.
Just tell everyone that you have a new machine that you modded with a clear case, clear components, and clear peripherals, and only smart people can see them:)
Didn't someone try that idea during the.com boom? I can see it now:
Consultant: I have this great new money saving technology!
Pointy-Haired Boss: *drewl*
Consultant: Its a computer! The mostest revolutionary computer EVER! It needs no power, and communicates via subspace radio!
Pointy-Haired Boss: Where is it?
Consultant: Well, it's right here!
Pointy-Haired Boss: Where!?
Consultant: It's on you desk. You mean you don't see it? It's so advanced, it so happens that only very intelligent people can see it!
Pointy-Haired Boss: Oh! Of course! It's right there!
Consultant: I have ten thousand of them ready to be shipped, for the low low cost of only $2999.95! How many would you like?
Pointy-Haired Boss: *drewl*
One thing is certian: it sure sounds like a more viable business model than some I have heard of.
Actually, the machine in question was saved from the crusher of all things.
Some old guys I know haul all sorts of interestering things from a few research labs, and Lockheed Martin, then basically scrap it. It's a very sad thing, indeed. It's amazing what government contractors will throw away. Iv'e seen many a microVAX go to the scrap yard (everything stripped out of them, so It's very hard to justify keeping any of it).
Iv'e saved an 4U rackmount Indigo2 MAX Impact the same way, with DAT even. I'm currently using this machine as a combo workstation/footwarmer:)
I haven't acutally had the ability to even see if the Crimson will boot. It's stripped of hard drives, sleds and all. I presume it's to keep stuff secret. Luckily enough, they left the system boards, IR system, framebuffers and RAM alone.
I'll have to find a copy of 6.2 (I only have 6.3, 6.5), and take it to the shop to get at some 220. I doubt very much that it will interfere with some welders and machine tools, though I suspect the converse would probably be true:)
Hey, thanks for pointing that out. I was looking for that on SGIs site (a long time ago), but I guess I must have not looked hard enough. That's what a short attention span will do for you. Methinks its time to dust off the 'ol crimson.
Still, if one's system can handle it, IRIX 6.5.x is the way to go. Too bad my poor crimson can't:(
But come on, with the free development files from SGI, you can compile anything you want with gcc. It IS unix after all.
The problem is, the headers and libraries weren't included in IRIX until 6.5. You basically had to get the CPro compilers and ARB from SGI to do anything. With 6.5 you can go download the GCC package from freeware, or get it off of the freeware CD. Then, almost everything works beautifully, except GCC for MIPS dosen't do 64bit yet, and only O32 binaries at that (AFAIK GCC 3.x may solve this problem).
So, if you can get a box up to 6.5 (they auction CD sets off all the time on ebay) you probably are set (in thoery, anyway).
It is a shame to see someone hack apart a classic like an indigo, then defile it with x86 voodoo. It's blasphemy, I say.
Give an indigo the honorable death. Burn it, and salute it. Or turn it into a mini fridge.
Could you point out the source of information on the optical storage array?
Assuming you are talking CD storage (it's not like we can holographically store data in sugar cubes yet), the number of CDs to store that much is just innane.
Assuming 700MB CDRs (which didn't even exist 10 years ago), you would need about 4.7x10^12 CDs to store all that. Stacked on top of eachother (lets say CDs are about 1mm thick), that's 4.7x10^9 meters of CDs, or 4.7x10^6 KM.
Now, the moon's apogee is about 0.40x10^6 KM.
Realistically, I don't think it's feasible. The numbers just don't jive.
Yeah, well... many legislators are or at one point were lawyers. I might even venture to say that most of them are/were, but then I don't have any evidence to back that up either.
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:). Allthings aside, if they could not be snooped (Van Eck Phreaking a body is about the worst way you could violate a person, IMO), and could not be EMFed easily (and I mean that these things should stand so much gauss that my blood would disassemble first), I might just get some bionic eyes too.
Just Kidding
And, for the inner pervert in us, if these things could see IR well enough.. Well, just think about the Sony Handycam. Cheers!
...EVERYONE can have flames on their SUV
That's a problem that is easy (and cheaply) enough to solve. I have a gallon of gasoline and a book of matches that would be more than happy to accomidate any SUV driver's wishes to have flames on their vehicle. As a bonus, mine are even animated! How much better can it get, I ask!
Look at it this way: Patents are to protect the inventor (so that he may market his unique idea, and hopefully profit off it in some way.) Inventing something is an investment in time (except for some of the hair-brained the patent office seems to grant every so often) and it seems only fair that the inventor could hope to reap benefits from that investment.
If anyone could freely replicate this idea, then sell it, his market would be diminished. If Joe OSS programmer replicated and gave this idea away for free, the origional inventor's market would be nonexistant.
Ok, so I'm not a patent attourney (nor do I ever wish to be), but that's how I see the spirit behind the idea of patents. Now, being a hobbyist, there is no reason that you couldn't replicate some invention, and keep that information to yourself. If you go and give that information away for free, you are influencing the economy and market for that product, and are violationg a patent, as well as being immoral (depending on you subscription to life here, I guess), and just being a creep. IANL, YMMV, etc. etc. Just my $0.02.
The moon does have weather. Ok, sure, it's not the smae kind we have here, and for obvoius reason: the atmosphere. It protects us from a helluva lot of stuff, including meteors (and smaller space borne dust particles), solar wind, and the nice EM fields the sun likes to shoot at us every so often.
Solar panels require maintaince here, and they will on the moon also. To be anywhere sort of close to their maximium efficency, they need to be clean. The moon is a dusty place, no? If the moon is covered so that 1% of that energy is stored, that means alot of surface area of solar panels; that means that there is much greater probability that meteors are going to destroy solar panels. The only reason satellites have it as easy as they do is that they are relatively small.
And, let's not even mention the next time a solar flare blacks out most of Canada, and our orbital power at the same time. Then there's the issue of glare off the solar panels. Potentially, if large enough area of the moon were covered, it could be damn bight at night during a full moon. It could throw nocternal creatures off their cycles, and suddenly we have a huge ecological problem here on earth--people and animals stressed out over too much light. Ok, well maybe not, but you never know!
The idea is nice, but it's full of holes (not that in itself is a bad thing, there are things to be learned from this, no doubt). I only hope that fusion makes it big before this does.
Wow. It's a real treat to see something that amusing (something far too uncommon, I say). I think it would be really great, but they need top be able to turn one side or the next on/off, it would really suck to be a innocent bystander and get your eyebrows singed. Other than that, I say go for it.
Oranges, Apples.
Oranges because unix heads are generally bitter-that their infinitely superior operating system is often looked over as antiquated and requires "eXPensive eXPerts", and being hard to use, among other things.
Apples because the serpent (oops, I really meant salesperson--not) pitching Windows makes users expect to have a sweet eXPerience, flying over luscious green meadows, but in all reality do little that's actually useful.
In case you missed my point: Servers (oh the shiny pretty oranges) are not meant to be home or office computers (apples being too sweet to actually be good for you, damn those serpents.)
When you want do get work done, choose the right tool. Sometimes it's Windows, sometimes it's a Mac, and sometimes it's a 64 processor Sun, or IBM, or SGI, or what have you.
IMHO, Oranges are better tasting anyway.
I'm not totally sure on this, as I have never even felt the need to touch IIS, let alone windows (except helping someone with simple stuff) in the last 4 years, but I believe the limitations on IIS's connections are little more than a few registery HKEYs. I'm positive this applies to win2k (the difference between workstation and server are memory allocation, some process stuff and IIS configuration).
But as a whole, I think you have described the entire line of windows OSs quite well, and more especially the latest incarnations.
I feel the same way you do, but the reality of the situation is this: most "normal" (read: not internet or computer savvy [or hell even intelligent enough] enough to understand what's at stake) people will never even hear about this RIAA foolishness.
And of those that do hear of RIAA's exploits, 5% of them will think it's great business, another 5% will think they aren't being capitolistic enough, and 85% won't really give a damn, and the last 5% will give "Duh", or "Is you my cousin? 'Cause you's got's the same fore head as meeh. Wanna' shack up?" as an answer.
Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic, but that's reality from my corner. Would you like another helping of Apathy?
Or maybe they couldn't figure out how to get Apache to report other headers, and have IIS (on some badly secured Windows machine) operating as a HTTP proxy to the FreeBSD server.
Hell, I'm not even sure if IIS can do that, but that's my badly formed thoery for everyone.
Heh, yeah thanks for the memory jogger, or not. Iv'e wasted far too many hours of my life trying to land on those freaking carriers. *groan* It's a far easier thing to do in most naval air-simulations. *boggles*
:P
Gah! And the damn music! It's stuck in my head now! THANKS!
I don't think the game was that bad myself. It was very difficult (IKARI Warriors level here), and took an insane ammount of time to finish (which I never did). I got stuck about 1/2 way through the game, having to collect some item that I could not get to. This was one of two games I have never beaten for NES (this troubles me to no end, really.)
I'm glad someone managed to do it though. I may have to plug my NES up again and see if I can finally beat that damn game. I hope the battery backup has still saved my game for me after all these years! Maybe then I can move on to the space game (forget the name) that I haven't done either. Arr!
The only reason it was on TV is because the anti-WTO organizers are...well "very enthusiastic". By enthusiastic, I mean they have a knack for attracting police attention. And by that I mean they the media can sensationalize the WTO 'riots' until they pass out, or we die of exhaustion.
Maybe if 20K geeks showed up and became violent, maybe that would become newsworthy; and that's a very thin maybe. Even then, getting that large of a group of geeks together for something other than a massive lan party (or caffiene convention) is next to impossible.
The fact is, OS X and it's UNIX stuffs is a marketing ploy, like all of Apple's wares. And, recently, with the exception of the Cube, Apple is batting 100. You know what? I think that's a great thing (insofar that success dosen't go to their head, of course.) They recognized that unix/Linux/Open Source was gaining a large audience, and they have capitolized on it very well. Good for them. Good for their investors.
The thing that I don't like is this: the dilution of the meaning of UNIX. At the rate the market is going, some computer illeterate is going to brag to me that he "knows" unix, when the fact is he clicks on shiny blinking buttons with his one-buttoned mouse (followed by copious salivation). Yeah, maybe hee's using a system that is fundamentally unix, good for him, I guess. Does he even use, let alone know anything about unix? Heh, well, that's arguable, isn't it? Yep, the same thing can be said of someone who never ventures outside of X11 and the warmth of KDE or Gnome. My point is, if you don't know what a CLI is, you don't really deserve to say you know unix (and there are plenty of people who the converse applies to, don't get me wrong here.). Nothing more, nothing less.
And, as far as I'm concerned, the use of similie or comparison of Apple products to luxury cars is... Very Cliché at most. Is really a useful feature of HTML, so that one may stop all that italic madness; use it.
That's the problem. When does UNIX bocome something other than UNIX? Just because it has a POSIX compliant (mostly) kernel, and tools dosen't mean unix. People who use only the Mac part of OS X don't really directly benefit form the unixy goodness that lies beneath. They might as well be using an NT system if they want better memory management, process sharing, and just about everyhting else, than OS9.
If Apple didn't openly promote their OS as UNIX, would you even know? Unless you had access to the DTK, would it even matter? If someone decided to build a unix like environment with a kernel other than those typical to unix environemnts (like the NT) kernel, would that OS still be unix? No. Would it be compatible? Sure. Probably.
To me, UNIX is a philosophy.
A little googling digs up alot of other people who feel the same way. From The UNIX Philosophy:
1. small is beautiful
2. make each program do one thing well
3. build a prototype as soon as possible
4. choose portability over efficiency
5. store numerical data in flat files
6. use software leverage to your advantage
7. use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability
8. avoid captive user interfaces
9. make every program a filter
As I said, I like Mac OS X in general. I can still illustrate many of these things that violate the UNIX tennants in OS X (even though some of them just aren't applicable to the situation).
#1. Well, there are certianly some things about OS X that just aren't small. Finder for example.
#2. Make each program do one thing well. Well, Finder (you get that I don't dig it alot right?) can be concidered to do one thing: Provide a user interface. Does it do it well? Hrm, that's arguable, but I'll give it credit.
#8 Yeah, that's the whole point of a Macintosh, isn't it? I'll give it credit anyway.
I'm so blindly arguing that Mac OS X is less UNIXy than the average UNIX (especially than those who can actually be called by that title with a straight face), and more Macintoshy than the average UNIX. I'm not saying that it's wrong, it's a design thing. Would I do it the same way? No. I'd break the Mac-y things into smaller peices that could perform their functions better and more usefully than the whole could ever hope to, just like is done in unix (and let's admit, even unix developers get carried away and make things too big and overly complex).
Wow. That's really great news! Thanks for the heads-up. Any idea on an ETA?
Now, I really like the idea of OS X. It's quite an OS in it's own right. It offers a great user experience, and is very pretty.
However, I think calling it the "Best Unix version for the deesktop" is a bit subjective. Iv'e seen better configured and layed out unix systems in my life. I'd put IRIX on the lead for best unix desktop (emphasis on utility, here.), with solaris second, tied with FreeBSD, and Debian GNU/Linux, only because I REALLY like those projects as well. The only reason the OSS projects don't score quite as highly with me is because they don't offer a consistent interface, in the way that a commercial project can. That said, I love Linux, and the BSDs as well.
And as for baggage on OS X, it'd argue that 'Finder' qualifies. (Have any of you ever tried to connect to a SMB server with it? It's god awefully slow, runs the CPU at 90% [which claims Finder is responsible], and you can't browse. Nice.) I have alot of other Beef with Finder, but the SMB stuff is probably the biggest, other than it's just too big.
I'll wait 'till Apple gets on the ball a bit further down the road, but I'm not going to hold my breath either. Till then I'll enjoy Debian on my icebook, and boot into OSX when I need a taste of Apple.
Gatling guns that are cranked by hand are legal most everywhere in the US (I suspect CA is not kind to them, but that dosen't matter to me.). I know for sure that nearly, if all the midwestern states don't have laws specifically for hand cranked gatling guns.
Gatling guns will become a very illegal thing when you attach some sort of motor to drive it. If you go and make one (I'm planning to do this some day), and want it to be driven by a motor, make the motor modular, and never transport it with the motor to drive it.
Incidentaly, roataing barrel guns have quite a history, and are quite generalized by the name Gatling (inventor and marketeer of the sucessful version of the gun). They come in a very wide variety of sizes, shapes, rate of fire and calibers. To see how bad ass modern guns are, find some videos of the 30mm GAU (one bastard of a cartrige) on the A-10 close support plane.
Google is a great resource for those wishing to learn more about these wonderous machines of massive chaos. The link the parent provided has some neat movies of antique replicas in action, as well as some history.
Just tell everyone that you have a new machine that you modded with a clear case, clear components, and clear peripherals, and only smart people can see them :)
.com boom?
Didn't someone try that idea during the
I can see it now:
Consultant: I have this great new money saving technology!
Pointy-Haired Boss: *drewl*
Consultant: Its a computer! The mostest revolutionary computer EVER! It needs no power, and communicates via subspace radio!
Pointy-Haired Boss: Where is it?
Consultant: Well, it's right here!
Pointy-Haired Boss: Where!?
Consultant: It's on you desk. You mean you don't see it? It's so advanced, it so happens that only very intelligent people can see it!
Pointy-Haired Boss: Oh! Of course! It's right there!
Consultant: I have ten thousand of them ready to be shipped, for the low low cost of only $2999.95! How many would you like?
Pointy-Haired Boss: *drewl*
One thing is certian: it sure sounds like a more viable business model than some I have heard of.
I like this idea alot. In fact, I like it so much I have even decided to make it better:
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Spend $500 on burning ISOs of the latest Linux or BSD releases, and pocket the rest.
Immoral? Yes.
Evil? Maybe.
Entreprenuerial? Most definitely.
Actually, the machine in question was saved from the crusher of all things.
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Some old guys I know haul all sorts of interestering things from a few research labs, and Lockheed Martin, then basically scrap it.
It's a very sad thing, indeed. It's amazing what government contractors will throw away. Iv'e seen many a microVAX go to the scrap yard (everything stripped out of them, so It's very hard to justify keeping any of it).
Iv'e saved an 4U rackmount Indigo2 MAX Impact the same way, with DAT even. I'm currently using this machine as a combo workstation/footwarmer
I haven't acutally had the ability to even see if the Crimson will boot. It's stripped of hard drives, sleds and all. I presume it's to keep stuff secret. Luckily enough, they left the system boards, IR system, framebuffers and RAM alone.
I'll have to find a copy of 6.2 (I only have 6.3, 6.5), and take it to the shop to get at some 220. I doubt very much that it will interfere with some welders and machine tools, though I suspect the converse would probably be true
Doh!
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Hey, thanks for pointing that out. I was looking for that on SGIs site (a long time ago), but I guess I must have not looked hard enough. That's what a short attention span will do for you. Methinks its time to dust off the 'ol crimson.
Still, if one's system can handle it, IRIX 6.5.x is the way to go. Too bad my poor crimson can't
But come on, with the free development files from SGI, you can compile anything you want with gcc. It IS unix after all.
The problem is, the headers and libraries weren't included in IRIX until 6.5. You basically had to get the CPro compilers and ARB from SGI to do anything. With 6.5 you can go download the GCC package from freeware, or get it off of the freeware CD. Then, almost everything works beautifully, except GCC for MIPS dosen't do 64bit yet, and only O32 binaries at that (AFAIK GCC 3.x may solve this problem).
So, if you can get a box up to 6.5 (they auction CD sets off all the time on ebay) you probably are set (in thoery, anyway).
It is a shame to see someone hack apart a classic like an indigo, then defile it with x86 voodoo. It's blasphemy, I say.
Give an indigo the honorable death.
Burn it, and salute it.
Or turn it into a mini fridge.
Could you point out the source of information on the optical storage array?
Assuming you are talking CD storage (it's not like we can holographically store data in sugar cubes yet), the number of CDs to store that much is just innane.
Assuming 700MB CDRs (which didn't even exist 10 years ago), you would need about 4.7x10^12 CDs to store all that. Stacked on top of eachother (lets say CDs are about 1mm thick), that's 4.7x10^9 meters of CDs, or 4.7x10^6 KM.
Now, the moon's apogee is about 0.40x10^6 KM.
Realistically, I don't think it's feasible.
The numbers just don't jive.
Yeah, well... many legislators are or at one point were lawyers. I might even venture to say that most of them are/were, but then I don't have any evidence to back that up either.
And, yes, I'm too lazy to look it up.
I think a better analogy to this situation would be:
The highway system is responsible for enabling people to traffic illegal substances/goods. Therefore it's violating laws too.
What a lawyer won't do eh?