NASA uses IBM AP-101 chips in the shuttle. See here and here Also most space based applications use 8/16 bit chips because most spaced based applications don't require more than that and the wider the CPU register, the more parity bits are required. Thats why most satellites use 8-16 bit chips.
The concept of free/open source software gives you an opportunity to add this feature to the Kmail project yourself. To quote ESR, it sounds like to me that you need to 'scratch that itch'.
The only solution for idiotic patents, greedy corporations, and lame ass IP laws are to ignore them totally.
What I think is needed is something along the lines of a 'non-extradition' country an Amsterdam, a Vegas, or what have you, where servers can be located (asylum granted).Where no questions are asked, everything anonymous and idiotic laws will not be enforced. Like a swiss bank account.
France wants to censor your site? Fuck you, and you don't know my name.
The puppet US corporate gov't wants to arrest you for breaking shitty encryption? Fuck you, and you don't know my name.
Want to use hyperlinks, one-click shopping, or use a programming technique people have been using for years, but recently awarded a patent? Fuck you, you don't know my name.
Want to share source code that enables you to watch something you purchased legally, but you can't in the US or Europe? Fuck you, and you don't know my name.
Want to host a blog site (term sucks, i know) without being worried that someone will post a comment that offends a corporation, and your getting sued? Fuck you, and you don't know my name.
Point is we need just one *country* (sorry HavenCo doesn't apply IMHO) where they respect citizens rights. The ISPs have sole rights to decide what types of sites they want to host. Lawyers, suits and foreign govt scum are refused entry and information.
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FuckedCompany.com would smell like peas.
Pud was describing a startup that marketed web based smells. (IE a peripheral device that heated small containers of oil) Real useful. Useful as a CueCat.
A browser would see special smell tags and the appropriate oil(s) smells would be released.
When the user hit say Amazon.com, they could smell musty books. Slashdot users could smell unwashed bodies and trolls.:)
Rudy Rucker described a solution similiar to this in his book the Hacker and the Ants.
Users of workstations in his book would sit on a chair, using their feet the turn the chairs circular footrest, with the screen display keeping sync, giving the screen a 'viewport' type of functionality.
A fun book to read, with some cool sounding tech and funny characters IMHO.
Although Linux can be frustrating at times for new users (it was for me years ago), most of my frustration as a developer with MS products have been for the reasons you have stated.
One thing I have noticed about Linux documentation is that it will usually come in one of these forms:
man pages
info pages
how-tos/readme
HTML or postscript file with full documentation in an indexed format.
Also a big help are one gazillion web pages devoted to any Linux specific topic, programming or otherwise.
Microsoft languages and API documentation have been really frustrating for me personally, either because the documentation source example doesnt work as it should, or a kludgey workaround is assumed to be acceptable get everything to work for MS oses 95 through XP. Check out differences in RAS implementation from 95 to XP as an example.
At least in linux IHMO the solution(s) usually isn't limited to purchasing a proprietary 3rd party hack to get an app out in a timely manner.
I bought my civic (97 EX) in 97. Well before the phenomenon of what I refer to "punking" the cars became popular.
Its actually embarrasing to tell people what car I have, simply because of the "guilt-by-association" phenomenon. I am 30 years old, and I have talked to these kids and asked them: "why a civic?".
What I personally fail to understand, is after spending all of this money on modifying a civic, some (seriously) could have bought a real sports car and would have had no need at all to do that.
Of course the movie, "The fast and furious" which reaaaallly sucked IMHO (crappy acting, unbelievable story and plot) added fuel to this subculture. I just wish the kids would try to race lambourginies with another brand of tacky looking modified car. Hondas are reliable, maybe that is a justification.
I guess the next time I need to purchase a car, I will have to pick another fuel-friendly, reliable car brand to get me from point a to point b.
Kroger tries to pilfer enough personal information via their Kroger Kard (tm) as it is.
These cards are used to pilfer personal spending habits. What the consumer (AKA a person) gets in return is a discount on an item that was probably marked up anyway. Randalls has also implemented this scheme. What all of this means is that people willingly whore their privacy for a small discount on overpriced goods.
The whole point of this is that retailers want to be able to amass a large database of consumer spending habits, and sell these to the largest bidder. The days of suckering people into a store with double coupon days are rapidly becoming a relic of the past.
Kroger et al. can stick this fascist crap up their collective corporate asses.
I will shop at HEB instead.
Besides I hope they do try this, I have a feeling even the most clueless drooling consumeroid will have reservations about using this system. Besides, they will probably lose money on this as most places I have heard about using this type of technology always abandon it, as it doesn't work worth a damn, and requires multiple scan attempts to read a fingerprint correctly.
However if I personally chose not to associate with convicted felons there would be alot fewer people I could associate with.
That and the simple fact that life being what it is in West Virginia would also leave me with few family members to associate with, or TX where I live now for that matter...:)
The chart at the end of the Business 2.0 article is a bit misleading. The browser and email options weren't checked for openoffice and staroffice, and since they were associated exclusively with Linux in the article, it would appear to someone who doesn't know better that you wouldn't be able to "surf" or email in Linux.
I use Konqueror/Mozilla and Kmail personally, but nothing was mentioned about these or the other excellent Gnome equivalents.
I actually emailed the author a polite note on this subject.
I lived in the country in the Mid-90s (after Manuel).
And it once again sounds like the corrupt workings of their ruling junta.
Typical situations:
Transito (traffic cops) targetting rich foreigners for some BS violation, so they could receive bribe money. It was so common, that my friends always planned on taking extra cash to pay corrupt traffic cops.
The railroad system turned over by the US (at the time already "turned over" to the Panamanian govt) which in a few years had became totally non-operational due to local inept management.
Many reliable stories of gov't for hire (much like the US) where the politicos where bought off, not by campaign contributions, but people bought by large amounts of cash for personal gain.
All in all the ordinary people of Panama were friendly and had the attitude: oh well it happens, might as well be happy. (Papas e chulatas) Potatoes and bacon. oh well.
Personally I am surprised the Canal still operates. But one thing most Americans don't realize is that a provision in the treaty stipulates the US can reclaim it if it becomes non-operational. That in my opinion, is the reason the canal hasn't followed the fate of everything else "turned over" and ruined by its corrupt govt.
This would (did) work in the early days of computing, when it was virtually unheard of for anyone except for large fortune 500 companies and the US gov't to have access to computing power.
Why would anyone be tempted to return back to this model? How many sub $500 or even sub $200 dollar computers, will it take for IBM to realize computing power isn't rare or expensive?
And if a company or organizaion needs incredibly massive computing power is needed then can turn to companies like this to provide the solution, again using cheap generic pcs.
To some it all up this is stupid, and now Palmisano looks like another idiotic buzzword chanting CEO. This will be yet another blow to IBM, and it will soon (IMHO) join the growing stable of companies (Compaq, HP and the "new" Cisco) that have been screwed by a clueless greedy CEOs. Somebody needs to cancel his subscription to Business 2.0
I have read about your involvement with the EFF and the "Living without Microsoft" blog on silliconvalley.com.
However, as much as I and many others on Slashdot agree with these causes, do you believe that as a journalist your involvement with the EFF etc, has made you biased? And if not why?
I don't pay to receive a call on my cell phone. I pay X$ for X minutes, and it doesn't matter whether its long distance or local.
I am guessing you heard this about >=5 years ago when roaming charges used to be a killer too.
This is my "what is the reason" question:) Why do you have to pay BT for "metered" local calls? (In the US local calls are basically a flat fee for essentially unlimited local service.)
I have followed this guys career, ever since he was interviewed here on Slashdot.
He has a consistent record of supporting electronic freedoms, and I believe he deserves credit.
I think the issue you, me and everyone in general are so jaded by political scandals, backdoor dealings, etc., that when there seems to be a genuinely honest guy in washington, we are by default skeptical.
These are some of the posts about Boucher I found interesting: 1 2 3 4
BTW, I am not Rick Boucher:) , but I wish he would move to my district.
The chips typically allow a game machine to play legally and illegally copied discs, run unauthorized software and play game discs intended for other geographic regions.
He should stick to marketing, which he is very good at, and let the users decide what to do with their own computers.
The reason that the apple was such a huge success in the first place was because of openness. Woz made it a point that the apple manual include a schematic diagram of the early Apple II, because he knew it would encourage third party development.
Jobs also forgets he doesn't have the "mindshare" among commercial software developers and users, M$ does. This means that most commercial developers/software companies will put up with MS because they have too, because their clients for the most part use windows.
So all of this essentially means that he is pissing off the few(er) remaining MAC OS developers left, and not to troll (I have a MAC), and they are becoming rarer and rarer.
Around the same time, Linux surfaced. Based on the Minix kernel written by computer science professor Andrew Tannenbaum, and unencumbered by the spectre of a lawsuit, Linux began to gain momentum and became the best known freely redistributable UNIX-like operating system.
The kernel architecture of Minux and Linux are totally different.Minux like NT is based on a microkernel. Linux definetly isn't. Tanenbaum himself stated this during his famous Linux is obsolete rant.
In my experience, the reason for multiple versions of a program is usually the result of marketing/manager ignorance.
Managers/suits, are notorious for wanting something for nothing. I have been in businesses that use peer-to-peer networking, call one box a "server", (basically a file share that everyone saves files on) and the manager can claim "costs were saved", because we didn't spend X number of dollars for a good server, switches (cheapy no-name hub) etc. They usually don't even have a backup solution either
You can recommend to the client to buy the good stuff, but you will be wasting your time. Costs are important to the suit, so buying the lightweight, cheapy version of a hardware/software provides this warm accounting fuzzy.
On the software side, I've seen businesses use Access databases on the "server" with Access frontends on the client boxs all using linked tables. Since Access "backends" can't use stored procedures/triggers etc, the savings cost in productivity alone will be eaten up by waiting for all records in a table to load on the client box to run a query. Access "backends" are also notoriously prone to corruption as well (simply due to them being a huge BLOB object). Try to explain why this is bad, and they just don't get it, or more commonly dont want to. Again its the immediate bottom line (I want to look good for "saving" costs), forget total cost of ownership.
In todays world, I think a prerequisite for an MBA degree should include at least some technical type of courses.
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They change all the time anyway!
You dont know what you are talking about.
NASA uses IBM AP-101 chips in the shuttle. See here and here
Also most space based applications use 8/16 bit chips because most spaced based applications don't require more than that and the wider the CPU register, the more parity bits are required. Thats why most satellites use 8-16 bit chips.
The robot used on mars was an 8 bit 8085.
Please get your facts straight before posting.
The concept of free/open source software gives you an opportunity to add this feature to the Kmail project yourself.
To quote ESR, it sounds like to me that you need to 'scratch that itch'.
The only solution for idiotic patents, greedy corporations, and lame ass IP laws are to ignore them totally.
What I think is needed is something along the lines of a 'non-extradition' country an Amsterdam, a Vegas, or what have you, where servers can be located (asylum granted).Where no questions are asked, everything anonymous and idiotic laws will not be enforced. Like a swiss bank account.
France wants to censor your site?
Fuck you, and you don't know my name.
The puppet US corporate gov't wants to arrest you for breaking shitty encryption?
Fuck you, and you don't know my name.
Want to use hyperlinks, one-click shopping, or use a programming technique people have been using for years, but recently awarded a patent?
Fuck you, you don't know my name.
Want to share source code that enables you to watch something you purchased legally, but you can't in the US or Europe?
Fuck you, and you don't know my name.
Want to host a blog site (term sucks, i know) without being worried that someone will post a comment that offends a corporation, and your getting sued?
Fuck you, and you don't know my name.
Point is we need just one *country* (sorry HavenCo doesn't apply IMHO) where they respect citizens rights. The ISPs have sole rights to decide what types of sites they want to host. Lawyers, suits and foreign govt scum are refused entry and information.
FuckedCompany.com would smell like peas.
:)
Pud was describing a startup that marketed web based smells. (IE a peripheral device that heated small containers of oil) Real useful. Useful as a CueCat.
A browser would see special smell tags and the appropriate oil(s) smells would be released.
When the user hit say Amazon.com, they could smell musty books. Slashdot users could smell unwashed bodies and trolls.
Rudy Rucker described a solution similiar to this in his book the Hacker and the Ants.
Users of workstations in his book would sit on a chair, using their feet the turn the chairs circular footrest, with the screen display keeping sync, giving the screen a 'viewport' type of functionality.
A fun book to read, with some cool sounding tech and funny characters IMHO.
One thing I have noticed about Linux documentation is that it will usually come in one of these forms:
- man pages
- info pages
- how-tos/readme
- HTML or postscript file with full documentation in an indexed format.
Also a big help are one gazillion web pages devoted to any Linux specific topic, programming or otherwise.Microsoft languages and API documentation have been really frustrating for me personally, either because the documentation source example doesnt work as it should, or a kludgey workaround is assumed to be acceptable get everything to work for MS oses 95 through XP. Check out differences in RAS implementation from 95 to XP as an example.
At least in linux IHMO the solution(s) usually isn't limited to purchasing a proprietary 3rd party hack to get an app out in a timely manner.
Madam Tetrachromat
:)
Faster loading link of article in text format.
All mutant tetrachromats are female, so keep your eye on em!
I bought my civic (97 EX) in 97. Well before the phenomenon of what I refer to "punking" the cars became popular.
Its actually embarrasing to tell people what car I have, simply because of the "guilt-by-association" phenomenon. I am 30 years old, and I have talked to these kids and asked them: "why a civic?".
What I personally fail to understand, is after spending all of this money on modifying a civic, some (seriously) could have bought a real sports car and would have had no need at all to do that.
Of course the movie, "The fast and furious" which reaaaallly sucked IMHO (crappy acting, unbelievable story and plot) added fuel to this subculture. I just wish the kids would try to race lambourginies with another brand of tacky looking modified car. Hondas are reliable, maybe that is a justification.
I guess the next time I need to purchase a car, I will have to pick another fuel-friendly, reliable car brand to get me from point a to point b.
Examples that spring to my mind:
Crystals storing healing "energy".Quartz is piezoelectric, 'nuff said.
Homeopathic cures. Anyone heard of Avogadro's number?
"Natural" cures being better than pharmacuticals. Lead and Radon exist in nature, should we take those too?
"Faith" healing. Confirmation bias anyone?
Aromatic healing. No comment needed.
Kroger tries to pilfer enough personal information via their Kroger Kard (tm) as it is.
These cards are used to pilfer personal spending habits. What the consumer (AKA a person) gets in return is a discount on an item that was probably marked up anyway. Randalls has also implemented this scheme. What all of this means is that people willingly whore their privacy for a small discount on overpriced goods.
The whole point of this is that retailers want to be able to amass a large database of consumer spending habits, and sell these to the largest bidder. The days of suckering people into a store with double coupon days are rapidly becoming a relic of the past.
Kroger et al. can stick this fascist crap up their collective corporate asses.
I will shop at HEB instead.
Besides I hope they do try this, I have a feeling even the most clueless drooling consumeroid will have reservations about using this system. Besides, they will probably lose money on this as most places I have heard about using this type of technology always abandon it, as it doesn't work worth a damn, and requires multiple scan attempts to read a fingerprint correctly.
Strictly speaking Bill Gates IS a convicted felon.
:)
However if I personally chose not to associate with convicted felons there would be alot fewer people I could associate with.
That and the simple fact that life being what it is in West Virginia would also leave me with few family members to associate with, or TX where I live now for that matter...
And they still havent made any money
Just hope there is no need for the lameness filter.
Only in Indiana
The chart at the end of the Business 2.0 article is a bit misleading. The browser and email options weren't checked for openoffice and staroffice, and since they were associated exclusively with Linux in the article, it would appear to someone who doesn't know better that you wouldn't be able to "surf" or email in Linux.
I use Konqueror/Mozilla and Kmail personally, but nothing was mentioned about these or the other excellent Gnome equivalents.
I actually emailed the author a polite note on this subject.
I lived in the country in the Mid-90s (after Manuel).
And it once again sounds like the corrupt workings of their ruling junta.
Typical situations:
Transito (traffic cops) targetting rich foreigners for some BS violation, so they could receive bribe money. It was so common, that my friends always planned on taking extra cash to pay corrupt traffic cops.
The railroad system turned over by the US (at the time already "turned over" to the Panamanian govt) which in a few years had became totally non-operational due to local inept management.
Many reliable stories of gov't for hire (much like the US) where the politicos where bought off, not by campaign contributions, but people bought by large amounts of cash for personal gain.
All in all the ordinary people of Panama were friendly and had the attitude: oh well it happens, might as well be happy. (Papas e chulatas) Potatoes and bacon. oh well.
Personally I am surprised the Canal still operates. But one thing most Americans don't realize is that a provision in the treaty stipulates the US can reclaim it if it becomes non-operational. That in my opinion, is the reason the canal hasn't followed the fate of everything else "turned over" and ruined by its corrupt govt.
This would (did) work in the early days of computing, when it was virtually unheard of for anyone except for large fortune 500 companies and the US gov't to have access to computing power.
Why would anyone be tempted to return back to this model? How many sub $500 or even sub $200 dollar computers, will it take for IBM to realize computing power isn't rare or expensive?
And if a company or organizaion needs incredibly massive computing power is needed then can turn to companies like this to provide the solution, again using cheap generic pcs.
To some it all up this is stupid, and now Palmisano looks like another idiotic buzzword chanting CEO. This will be yet another blow to IBM, and it will soon (IMHO) join the growing stable of companies (Compaq, HP and the "new" Cisco) that have been screwed by a clueless greedy CEOs. Somebody needs to cancel his subscription to Business 2.0
I have read about your involvement with the EFF and the "Living without Microsoft" blog on silliconvalley.com.
However, as much as I and many others on Slashdot agree with these causes, do you believe that as a journalist your involvement with the EFF etc, has made you biased? And if not why?
Thanks,
Primenumber
I don't pay to receive a call on my cell phone. I pay X$ for X minutes, and it doesn't matter whether its long distance or local.
:) Why do you have to pay BT for "metered" local calls? (In the US local calls are basically a flat fee for essentially unlimited local service.)
I am guessing you heard this about >=5 years ago when roaming charges used to be a killer too.
This is my "what is the reason" question
I have followed this guys career, ever since he was interviewed here on Slashdot.
:) , but I wish he would move to my district.
He has a consistent record of supporting electronic freedoms, and I believe he deserves credit.
I think the issue you, me and everyone in general are so jaded by political scandals, backdoor dealings, etc., that when there seems to be a genuinely honest guy in washington, we are by default skeptical.
These are some of the posts about Boucher I found interesting:
1
2
3
4
BTW, I am not Rick Boucher
The chips typically allow a game machine to play legally and illegally copied discs, run unauthorized software and play game discs intended for other geographic regions.
Unauthorized by who?
He should stick to marketing, which he is very good at, and let the users decide what to do with their own computers.
The reason that the apple was such a huge success in the first place was because of openness. Woz made it a point that the apple manual include a schematic diagram of the early Apple II, because he knew it would encourage third party development.
Jobs also forgets he doesn't have the "mindshare" among commercial software developers and users, M$ does. This means that most commercial developers/software companies will put up with MS because they have too, because their clients for the most part use windows.
So all of this essentially means that he is pissing off the few(er) remaining MAC OS developers left, and not to troll (I have a MAC), and they are becoming rarer and rarer.
Around the same time, Linux surfaced. Based on the Minix kernel written by computer science professor Andrew Tannenbaum, and unencumbered by the spectre of a lawsuit, Linux began to gain momentum and became the best known freely redistributable UNIX-like operating system.
The kernel architecture of Minux and Linux are totally different.Minux like NT is based on a microkernel. Linux definetly isn't. Tanenbaum himself stated this during his famous Linux is obsolete rant.
In my experience, the reason for multiple versions of a program is usually the result of marketing/manager ignorance.
Managers/suits, are notorious for wanting something for nothing. I have been in businesses that use peer-to-peer networking, call one box a "server", (basically a file share that everyone saves files on) and the manager can claim "costs were saved", because we didn't spend X number of dollars for a good server, switches (cheapy no-name hub) etc. They usually don't even have a backup solution either
You can recommend to the client to buy the good stuff, but you will be wasting your time. Costs are important to the suit, so buying the lightweight, cheapy version of a hardware/software provides this warm accounting fuzzy.
On the software side, I've seen businesses use Access databases on the "server" with Access frontends on the client boxs all using linked tables. Since Access "backends" can't use stored procedures/triggers etc, the savings cost in productivity alone will be eaten up by waiting for all records in a table to load on the client box to run a query. Access "backends" are also notoriously prone to corruption as well (simply due to them being a huge BLOB object). Try to explain why this is bad, and they just don't get it, or more commonly dont want to. Again its the immediate bottom line (I want to look good for "saving" costs), forget total cost of ownership.
In todays world, I think a prerequisite for an MBA degree should include at least some technical type of courses.