Let's put it this way, before or after "Steamboat Willie"? Until SOMETHING happens, "Steamboat Willie" will never fall into the public domain, because there'll be another extension.
It was fascinating to watch the process as DRI was being architected. (GGI too, for that matter) SOME kernel support is needed to touch the hardware. The devil is in the details of minimizing kernel bloat, optimizing performance, staying secure, and keeping crashes in userspace. The same types of discussions come up any time a function is split between kernel and userspace. The current devfs/udev discussion is a more current example.
But I doubt anyone would bother. If you're going to custom-lay fibers around the steel, they could also be layed in both directions, and take care of my anisotropy. Then we'd come up with a steel pillar that would do a *really good* job of showing shadow shapes.
It looked to me like a directory of patches. But some of those patches looked like they're for nForce2 boards, which I happen to own one of. That machine is running RedHat 8, (updated) but I've been thinking in terms of moving it to Gentoo when the 2.6 support was there to let me use ACPI/APIC, etc. If Love-sources really goes into Gentoo, that day may be getting closer, for me.
So you'd only be able to see through the pillar in one direction, and nothing 90 degrees from that. I know you weren't being serious about the parking garage thing, after all there's the steel inside the concrete of the pillar, but there may be some interesting ways to exploit the anisotropy.
An interesting proposal was part of the story, "Mining the Oort" (IIRC, by either Frederick Pohl or Poul Anderson, it's sitting on the shelf at home.)
****SPOILER ALERT******
Eventually they smacked Mars with a series of comets in one locality. The impacts built a long, deep valley. They also released a pile of water vapor. Since the valley was the lowest area of topography around, most of the released vapor settled there. I forget how deep the valleys were, but in the bottoms they were able to achieve some decent partial pressures. Of course it wasn't O2, but water vapor, ammonia, and some other cometary traces. But correcting the gas mix is the 'easy' part of terraforming once you've got the right atoms in the right place.
Going for deep valleys either does away with the dome entirely, or possibly doming over the top of the valley.
Getting inhabitable valleys then looks more like the Mars of C.S. Lewis's "Out of the Silent Planet."
It's a good first line of defense for the home user, especially if you're getting tired of keeping up the necessary due diligence for a good sofware firewall. I went with hardware on my home LAN about a year ago, after running software for several years. In this case, I'd been running RedHat and their release strategy change left me unsure of how I wanted to maintain that system. Getting hardware for my front-line meant that I just had to keep the box running for my internal services, though I did feel it necessary to shut down my external ports.
Obviously security criteria are different between home and business, not in resisting attack, but in the users you must accept and services you must offer.
The ident request is being sent back to you by the UPSTREAM sendmail, and has nothing to do with what MTA you're using. Plus AFAIK sendmail isn't the only MTA that sends back an ident request, though I can't identify any others. I'm under the impression that some ftp servers send back ident requests, and that most IRC does, too.
I don't think so confused as I didn't care to get that far into it, though you are better informed than me. My information on Project Pluto came from an issue of Smithsonian Air and Space about 5-10 years back. (It didn't add that the extra mayhem was a plus factor in leaving the reactor unshielded. My real information on the manned nuclear bomber (pilot qualification) came from the same article, though when much younger, my big brother had a plastic model of the Nuclear Bomber that I thought was pretty neat.
I also knew about Kiwi and Nerva, and have heard of Orion, though not in the same level of detail that you have. I hadn't actually seen non-science-fiction on Orion, so I need to check you links out. I can't check the multimedia stuff until later, but how rough would an Orion ride be? I've heard of bomb-rates in the 60/sec, which clearly doesn't square with the descriptions of intermittent back-slamming in Lucifer's Hammer, but even a good strong 60Hz buzz in the butt would get tiring, fast. (How well can it really be absorbed?)
We can barely get to LEO, and IMHO nuclear propulsion is not a good high-volume way to get there, until the exhaust can get really clean. I'd prefer a Space Elevator, and last I heard the materials side may only be 2 years away.
For other space purposes, your nuclear reaction would be good for manned missions, but for unmanned I suspect nuclear/ion would be more efficient with the reaction mass.
Back in the 50's and 60's they were looking at nuclear propulsion, both space and atmospheric. They got so far on the latter as to begin looking for pilots 'past reproductive age.' Eventually they dropped the manned ideas, and focused on a thing called, 'Project Pluto,' a kind of Mach-3 cruise missile that dropped bombs as it flew. Before the project was killed, they decided it didn't even need to drop bombs. The low-altitude supersonic overflight and radioactive exhaust were 'sufficiently destructive.' Part of the reason it was killed was that they couldn't figure out how to handle the test flights.
Earlier this year we had yet another close call from an asteroid. Yet again, the close call turned out not to be a big issue. Most likely, we won't get a significant hit in my lifetime, or my childrens', or even theirs. But it's also just as likely to happen this month as it is 5000 years from now.
At this point, we've learned enough to know that it's stupid to completely ignore the possiblity of an asteroid strike, SOMEDAY. By probabilities, we also know that it's stupid to invest major cash NOW in an asteroid-stopping venture.
Enter multi-use technology. The technology for a moon base is pretty indistinguishable from the technology used to deflect asteroids. In fact, they may be the same, because one approach might be to launch (many) rocks from an EM cannon on the moon to 'transfer momentum' to an asteroid and change its orbit. Another obvious approach is to put a mass-driver on the asteroid, throwing chunks of its own mass. The practical aspects of this path also look a bit like contstructing a moon base. You probably don't land an object on the asteroid, either manned or unmanned, and then leave. It's really a mining operation.
Then there's the question of whether we could establish anything on Moon, Mars, or orbit that could survive massive political/environmental upheaval on Earth. That's more orders of magnitude away.
I just wish they'd get a Space Elevator built before I'm too old/frail/poor to ride it.
Due to the orbit the ISS is in, it's useful primarily as a political compromise project between the US and Russia.
IMHO, even though budget cuts have made the ISS virtually useless for science research, it continues to be incredibly valuable for *engineering* research. This ISS is the biggest/most complex orbital assembly ever attempted. Mir was assembled in orbit, but essentially by docking intact pieces from earth. The ISS is truly being constructed in orbit.
ISS construction is perhaps around an order of magnitude beyond Mir. But it's still one or two orders of magnitude shy of the wheel in 2001: ASO.
There are many who point to the lack of science and push to abandon the ISS. I look at it and say, "We've got to solve these engineering problems," before we ever get anything better than the ISS.
Thanks for the link. At first blush, it doesn't look like anything I'd want for myself. But it might be good for my wife and mother. This box is running RH8, and so is my Mom's. We'll be visiting her in another month or so, so I should get it installed and checked out here, first.
Though it does look a little stale in terms of the Linux versions it supports. The page had a recent date, though. At the moment, Penzilla appears/.ed.
Problem is, much as we might like 32-bit Athlons, AMD hasn't been doing well at them, financially. AMD is in this to make money, not to make hobbyists happy. In the past they have been able to do both, and when they haven't, they've still been pleasing the gearheads. Maybe they'll be able to again in the future. But for the moment, AMD is attempting to climb upstream into the highly profitable small-to-mid server space with Opteron, and that's where their focus is. I suspect that Athlon-64 will get more attention in due time, and you'll be happy, again. At the moment, we're in the gap.
This story reminds me of an article I read (dead-tree) a while back on preventing terrorism.
The article was critical about all of the techno-solutions for preventing terrorism, and very much in favor of the simple solution: Make sure you have good people in the right places keeping an eye on things.
In a nutshell, Avi Rubin's article comes down to the very same thing. He had tremendous respect for and confidence in the people working at the election. He (still) had little respect for the techno-solution.
Yesterday I voted using an optical scanner, which I never truly appreciated until reading all of the e-Voting flap. I've always appreciated the fact that I've always known at least one of the poll workers, and they knew me. After reading this article, I appreciate that fact even more.
Just for grins. All windows on your desktop become browser windows, including the xterms. Even put a blinker up on the title bar, and have it spin while the command prompt is away executing. Or better yet, hook some sort of title bar display into process stats, like any number of separate monitors do, today. The problem would be minimizing update rate of not-so-active windows to allow the thing to scale. Straight browser windows can navigate the filesystem, with plugins defined to display individual files, including vi/emacs.
I began this in jest, and I think I'm still joking, but I'm not entirely certain, any more.
When you talk about health, I presume we're not including 'McDonalds' and 'identical product' in the same sentence.
Curiously, you bring up the 20% number. That's in the vicinity of what I'm willing to pay extra for the money to remain in the local economy. I figure I'm better off than many around here, and I'll pay a little more if my money stays in the area. Buying at WalMart pays low wages to area people and sends the profits to Texas. The local economy suffers, and in the long run, I suffer as a result.
But I can't prop up the local economy by myself, so I have an approximate limit for what I'll spend extra to buy local.
At the very least, getting a copyright on ANY form of code should involve placing the source, in a form capable of reproducing the copyrighted entity, into escrow for release upon expiration.
Copyright source code, and it's copyrighted. Copyright object code, and you've got to escrow a build system capable of building the object from the escrowed source.
The US has had 200+ years of incredible growth and opportunity as it grew to its potential. Not that our potential is filled, but for the most part our boarders are. The easy part of growth is over.
We are at the decision point.
We can either go on with 'mature growth', or we can turn aside, with things like protectionism. At the same time, we need to understand what Free Trade really means, because fairness must be part of it. IMHO, the precedent to watch is/was the Muslim world around the time of the Renaissance. Up until then, the Muslim world had been the shining light of the planet. After that, they turned their backs on all of the things that made them great. (like science and math)
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If she's naked, she has no pants to pour the grits down the front of. ...you get a silly answer
When was Tarzan written?
Let's put it this way, before or after "Steamboat Willie"? Until SOMETHING happens, "Steamboat Willie" will never fall into the public domain, because there'll be another extension.
It was fascinating to watch the process as DRI was being architected. (GGI too, for that matter) SOME kernel support is needed to touch the hardware. The devil is in the details of minimizing kernel bloat, optimizing performance, staying secure, and keeping crashes in userspace. The same types of discussions come up any time a function is split between kernel and userspace. The current devfs/udev discussion is a more current example.
But I doubt anyone would bother. If you're going to custom-lay fibers around the steel, they could also be layed in both directions, and take care of my anisotropy. Then we'd come up with a steel pillar that would do a *really good* job of showing shadow shapes.
It looked to me like a directory of patches. But some of those patches looked like they're for nForce2 boards, which I happen to own one of. That machine is running RedHat 8, (updated) but I've been thinking in terms of moving it to Gentoo when the 2.6 support was there to let me use ACPI/APIC, etc. If Love-sources really goes into Gentoo, that day may be getting closer, for me.
So you'd only be able to see through the pillar in one direction, and nothing 90 degrees from that. I know you weren't being serious about the parking garage thing, after all there's the steel inside the concrete of the pillar, but there may be some interesting ways to exploit the anisotropy.
An interesting proposal was part of the story, "Mining the Oort" (IIRC, by either Frederick Pohl or Poul Anderson, it's sitting on the shelf at home.)
****SPOILER ALERT******
Eventually they smacked Mars with a series of comets in one locality. The impacts built a long, deep valley. They also released a pile of water vapor. Since the valley was the lowest area of topography around, most of the released vapor settled there. I forget how deep the valleys were, but in the bottoms they were able to achieve some decent partial pressures. Of course it wasn't O2, but water vapor, ammonia, and some other cometary traces. But correcting the gas mix is the 'easy' part of terraforming once you've got the right atoms in the right place.
Going for deep valleys either does away with the dome entirely, or possibly doming over the top of the valley.
Getting inhabitable valleys then looks more like the Mars of C.S. Lewis's "Out of the Silent Planet."
It's a good first line of defense for the home user, especially if you're getting tired of keeping up the necessary due diligence for a good sofware firewall. I went with hardware on my home LAN about a year ago, after running software for several years. In this case, I'd been running RedHat and their release strategy change left me unsure of how I wanted to maintain that system. Getting hardware for my front-line meant that I just had to keep the box running for my internal services, though I did feel it necessary to shut down my external ports.
Obviously security criteria are different between home and business, not in resisting attack, but in the users you must accept and services you must offer.
The ident request is being sent back to you by the UPSTREAM sendmail, and has nothing to do with what MTA you're using. Plus AFAIK sendmail isn't the only MTA that sends back an ident request, though I can't identify any others. I'm under the impression that some ftp servers send back ident requests, and that most IRC does, too.
They ARE looking at the 2nd smartest species, presuming the smartest species knows enough to swim, eat, and play.
So your obvious reaction to ATI staying closed-source is to ?buy nVidia??
IMHO, this is where we need some Open Source Hardware. (I just tried to find "freehardware.org," it didn't exist. I forget the name, now.)
I don't think so confused as I didn't care to get that far into it, though you are better informed than me. My information on Project Pluto came from an issue of Smithsonian Air and Space about 5-10 years back. (It didn't add that the extra mayhem was a plus factor in leaving the reactor unshielded. My real information on the manned nuclear bomber (pilot qualification) came from the same article, though when much younger, my big brother had a plastic model of the Nuclear Bomber that I thought was pretty neat.
I also knew about Kiwi and Nerva, and have heard of Orion, though not in the same level of detail that you have. I hadn't actually seen non-science-fiction on Orion, so I need to check you links out. I can't check the multimedia stuff until later, but how rough would an Orion ride be? I've heard of bomb-rates in the 60/sec, which clearly doesn't square with the descriptions of intermittent back-slamming in Lucifer's Hammer, but even a good strong 60Hz buzz in the butt would get tiring, fast. (How well can it really be absorbed?)
We can barely get to LEO, and IMHO nuclear propulsion is not a good high-volume way to get there, until the exhaust can get really clean. I'd prefer a Space Elevator, and last I heard the materials side may only be 2 years away.
For other space purposes, your nuclear reaction would be good for manned missions, but for unmanned I suspect nuclear/ion would be more efficient with the reaction mass.
Back in the 50's and 60's they were looking at nuclear propulsion, both space and atmospheric. They got so far on the latter as to begin looking for pilots 'past reproductive age.' Eventually they dropped the manned ideas, and focused on a thing called, 'Project Pluto,' a kind of Mach-3 cruise missile that dropped bombs as it flew. Before the project was killed, they decided it didn't even need to drop bombs. The low-altitude supersonic overflight and radioactive exhaust were 'sufficiently destructive.' Part of the reason it was killed was that they couldn't figure out how to handle the test flights.
Earlier this year we had yet another close call from an asteroid. Yet again, the close call turned out not to be a big issue. Most likely, we won't get a significant hit in my lifetime, or my childrens', or even theirs. But it's also just as likely to happen this month as it is 5000 years from now.
At this point, we've learned enough to know that it's stupid to completely ignore the possiblity of an asteroid strike, SOMEDAY. By probabilities, we also know that it's stupid to invest major cash NOW in an asteroid-stopping venture.
Enter multi-use technology. The technology for a moon base is pretty indistinguishable from the technology used to deflect asteroids. In fact, they may be the same, because one approach might be to launch (many) rocks from an EM cannon on the moon to 'transfer momentum' to an asteroid and change its orbit. Another obvious approach is to put a mass-driver on the asteroid, throwing chunks of its own mass. The practical aspects of this path also look a bit like contstructing a moon base. You probably don't land an object on the asteroid, either manned or unmanned, and then leave. It's really a mining operation.
Then there's the question of whether we could establish anything on Moon, Mars, or orbit that could survive massive political/environmental upheaval on Earth. That's more orders of magnitude away.
I just wish they'd get a Space Elevator built before I'm too old/frail/poor to ride it.
Due to the orbit the ISS is in, it's useful primarily as a political compromise project between the US and Russia.
IMHO, even though budget cuts have made the ISS virtually useless for science research, it continues to be incredibly valuable for *engineering* research. This ISS is the biggest/most complex orbital assembly ever attempted. Mir was assembled in orbit, but essentially by docking intact pieces from earth. The ISS is truly being constructed in orbit.
ISS construction is perhaps around an order of magnitude beyond Mir. But it's still one or two orders of magnitude shy of the wheel in 2001: ASO.
There are many who point to the lack of science and push to abandon the ISS. I look at it and say, "We've got to solve these engineering problems," before we ever get anything better than the ISS.
Thanks for the link. At first blush, it doesn't look like anything I'd want for myself. But it might be good for my wife and mother. This box is running RH8, and so is my Mom's. We'll be visiting her in another month or so, so I should get it installed and checked out here, first.
/.ed.
Though it does look a little stale in terms of the Linux versions it supports. The page had a recent date, though. At the moment, Penzilla appears
the NEC Space Elevator?
Problem is, much as we might like 32-bit Athlons, AMD hasn't been doing well at them, financially. AMD is in this to make money, not to make hobbyists happy. In the past they have been able to do both, and when they haven't, they've still been pleasing the gearheads. Maybe they'll be able to again in the future. But for the moment, AMD is attempting to climb upstream into the highly profitable small-to-mid server space with Opteron, and that's where their focus is. I suspect that Athlon-64 will get more attention in due time, and you'll be happy, again. At the moment, we're in the gap.
This story reminds me of an article I read (dead-tree) a while back on preventing terrorism.
The article was critical about all of the techno-solutions for preventing terrorism, and very much in favor of the simple solution: Make sure you have good people in the right places keeping an eye on things.
In a nutshell, Avi Rubin's article comes down to the very same thing. He had tremendous respect for and confidence in the people working at the election. He (still) had little respect for the techno-solution.
Yesterday I voted using an optical scanner, which I never truly appreciated until reading all of the e-Voting flap. I've always appreciated the fact that I've always known at least one of the poll workers, and they knew me. After reading this article, I appreciate that fact even more.
Oh, so you have "SCO derivitave works" that were illegally used on Linux, too?
Just for grins. All windows on your desktop become browser windows, including the xterms. Even put a blinker up on the title bar, and have it spin while the command prompt is away executing. Or better yet, hook some sort of title bar display into process stats, like any number of separate monitors do, today. The problem would be minimizing update rate of not-so-active windows to allow the thing to scale. Straight browser windows can navigate the filesystem, with plugins defined to display individual files, including vi/emacs.
I began this in jest, and I think I'm still joking, but I'm not entirely certain, any more.
When you talk about health, I presume we're not including 'McDonalds' and 'identical product' in the same sentence.
Curiously, you bring up the 20% number. That's in the vicinity of what I'm willing to pay extra for the money to remain in the local economy. I figure I'm better off than many around here, and I'll pay a little more if my money stays in the area. Buying at WalMart pays low wages to area people and sends the profits to Texas. The local economy suffers, and in the long run, I suffer as a result.
But I can't prop up the local economy by myself, so I have an approximate limit for what I'll spend extra to buy local.
Good point.
At the very least, getting a copyright on ANY form of code should involve placing the source, in a form capable of reproducing the copyrighted entity, into escrow for release upon expiration.
Copyright source code, and it's copyrighted.
Copyright object code, and you've got to escrow a build system capable of building the object from the escrowed source.
There's more to life than rock-bottom prices.
Like health, for one, as you say.
The US has had 200+ years of incredible growth and opportunity as it grew to its potential. Not that our potential is filled, but for the most part our boarders are. The easy part of growth is over.
We are at the decision point.
We can either go on with 'mature growth', or we can turn aside, with things like protectionism. At the same time, we need to understand what Free Trade really means, because fairness must be part of it. IMHO, the precedent to watch is/was the Muslim world around the time of the Renaissance. Up until then, the Muslim world had been the shining light of the planet. After that, they turned their backs on all of the things that made them great. (like science and math)
Creation Science alongside Protectionism, anyone?