> Most people misunderstand the main purpose of stealth aircraft. They are not stealthy to prevent them from being hit, but rather to not let the enemy know that they're there in the first place.
Yeah, especially since an F117 was shot down over Bosnia this past spring. They are not invincable folks.
Yes, unfortunately this is an example of the sick, twisted "morality" that infects this nation. People would rather children watch graphic violence than love (or sex). My little brother can sit around and watch COPS or NYPD Blue but if anyone is seen making out his eyes are covered, etc, etc,etc. (Just happened when my parents rented Shakespere in Love, I think they even turned it off after the "Love Scene")
Thank you, that was the point I was trying to make.
Maybe in a more civilized future there would be other ways besides base violence to keep the government in check, or replace it. Whoever can destroy a thing, controlls a thing (Dune). There are, or will be soon, things besides life and death that can be controlled, that would provide leverage. How valuable is information nowadays?
Woah, slow down! Now I would agree that their lawyers are incompetant when it comes to GPL/Free Software law, but this can be fixed. They need new lawyers who will actually read and understand the issues involved and make a more sane license. We can still infuse them with clue, I wouldn't cut my losses quite yet.
Also they are a Canadian company, there may be different laws there that require this kind of verbage in their license. For example, in the US, a minor cannot enter into a contract--maybe in Canada a software license is considered a contract?
In any event, take a chill pill and lets see what is going on. Hey, maybe you can get hired as a consultant for their license, seeing as how you recently helped Novell. Problem turns into opportunity.
>But, a "right" is not something that your massa gives you -- it is something that you are born with! Just because it is illegal, does not mean that it does not exist. Remember the bit about "These truths we hold self-evident, that all men are created equal..."?
That's nice as an empirical truth but how well does it hold up in practice. Ask the slaves, or the Jews about their "Human Rights". All the Rights in the world won't prevent massa from knocking on your door and hanging you from a tree, raping and killing your family. Where are your Rights then?
>BTW, it is illegal to use the Military for domestic law enforcement.
That's nice in theory but does anyone remember the stink when a squad of Marines shot a young Mexican boy at the border. Apparently they had been co-opted by the Border Patrol to help law enforcement watch the border. Highly illegal but they did it anyway. And what of the stories that there were military present and partaking of the Branch Davidian mess. I won't even get into the possibility of any truth in those wacky "black helicopter" stories.
>Doesn't USB require CPU to service the bus? I can imagine that USB Ethernet would be a slooow ordeal.
Ick, I hope not, I would think that it would take no more CPU than any other PCI device (except IDE, it was designed with ISA in mind and has no provision for non-CPU control). I tried to find more information but the closest I got was the USB Developers FAQ, their website seems to be fact unfriendly.
I always had the feeling that the only reason they built the VisWS is because MS ordered them to. All their value was in their MIPS Irix (although not in Irix itself) based machines and software. Building an x86/NT based machine put them in direct competition with Intergraph and others. As several people mentioned, even with their custom bus arch, they really weren't much faster than other x86 Workstations and customers couldn't justify the cost/performance of the machines.
I just checked out the USB FAQ and it stated that USB: 12Mbits/s (1.5MBYTES/s). Surely enough for 10Mbit Ethernet and serial modems. If there are no QoS features that prevent one device from monopolizing the bus that's bad but I don't believe that is true.
"WinTel" is in its twilight. Intel doesn't really have a front runner to replace the "Win" but judging by the way they are throwing money around, to get things running on their arch(s), they are definately shopping around. Right now Linux is a big player but they are putting venture capital in other places as well.
The heck with RS232, get a USB->Serial interface. I've seen them for parallel devices, implementing a serial interface shouldn't be much harder (May need to have a UART in the box). That way you wouldn't need a serial mux for the consoles on your Beowulf, just hook it to one USB chain. I would LOVE to see USB replace serial, parallel, simple ISA cards (modems, gameports, etc), even Ethernet. (Note: not USB audio, it is too bandwidth intensive and requires the CPU to do too much work)
I love the idea of USB networking, it seems like a great idea for home use. Even better would be the ability to see any USB device in the chain, from any host computer! I don't know if it works this way but it would be way cool! Would probably require some other tech, like Jini, to fix device contention problems.
I thought that I saw one of their taglines at the end of Epic Pinball. BTW: the MOD music on some of those old Epic titles like Pinball, OMF2097, Jazz Jackrabbit was really something. I still play Epic Pinball and OMF, and consider them the best games in their respective genres that I have seen for the PC.
>How did Mazda kill it? They are/were the only ones using it in a consumer auto.
Exactally! Although IIRC the Wankel was designed by annother company, GM perhaps, who didn't think it was worth much and sold it to Mazda (silly Japanese) dirt cheap. Now Mazda makes the worlds only 3 chamber(?) muscle car. Those cars can be improved to several Hundred horsepower. Vroom, Vroom--Fast!
I don't know about you but I AM planning for the world to end. Right now I am looking at my Y2K compliant can opener and playing with my big Bowie knife (I never did like the neighbors dog anyway). I even took the precaution of Y2K proofing my food, I removed all the lables so they won't expire. I'm spending New Years eve with one hand on my.45, mister and you better stay out!
Uh, ok, so because a few unclued people say that 1999 years equals 2000 than it is so? I don't think so. This is a question of simple mathematics. No reason to be hateful and insulting.
How about this, put the user in a full body suit and suspend them in a gimbal (like Lawnmower Man). The suit is completely covered with tiny cables with little movable wires in them (like a bicycle brake cable). For realistic effect you would need thousands or millions of wires. You could use them not only to supply resistance to movement (walking, grasping, etc) but also for texture and tactile feedback.
It seems to me though, that there is a minimum size where the computer has a reasonable probability of keeping the user in a confined space. Maybe 20M square or so, maybe hanger sized. Remember that the controlling software would have to be written to try very hard to return the user to the center point. You could also recommend to application developers to make environements that don't have large areas where one could run for any distance in a straight line. Something like Quake, with a lot of interior environments could probably be converted without looking too contrived.
I didn't see the video but I had the exact same idea, I wish I would have read further down because I posted said idea right above this thread. Whoops.
Doing the large room concept seems the simplest. I was thinking about the CAVE simulators mentioned here a few weeks ago (Someone was writing a 3D GLX WindowManager for use in the 3D environment). The CAVE pictured was 5 projection screens, for the walls and ceiling, with video projectors outside. You entered the cube and had a 3D VR view, but obviously couldn't walk around.
Now take these projection screens and suspend them from the ceiling in a large room. The screens move with you around the room and change their orientation or the artificial horizion to keep you from walking close to the walls. It could be much smaller than hangar sized and still be believable (as much as possible with visible screens). This wouldn't require the use to wear any bulky HMDs, maybe only a motion tracker (if you didn't want to invest on a visual motion tracking system).
With system you wouldn't be able to climb stairs or anything but hey that could be in the next version! Maybe adding small pin sized rods (like those toys you see in Spencers) that simulate ground texture. That shouldn't be to hard either, you could even color the rods with LCD (a pixel or two on top of each rod).
I use GroupWise from my Linux box at work. GW has a web access module that allows you to do mail and documents, you can also access your mail/address book via IMAP/LDAP. Mostly I use the webaccess module though, LDAP doesn't work consistantly with Netscape. I also want to research the GW client for Win3.1 (v4.x) or Solaris to see if they might run under Linux (WINE or iBCS). Let me know what you find out, and I'll do the same.
PS: On this note has anyone had trouble with the NetWare client for Caldera Linux 2.3? I can see the Tree OK but cannot access any file shares, I get an access denied message on bindary volumes and NDS volumes are linked to/.nwclient/Undefined.
The problem I see with forking is in the *BSDs. They don't directly benefit from each others work the way they could if they were one codebase. If I write some great software for FreeBSD, it doesn't help OpenBSD or NetBSD users, until someone ports it. And if OpenBSD squashes annother security bug it doesn't help FreeBSD or NetBSD any. Why can't I have a fast, secure, kernel that runs on multiple hardware platforms--with the BSDs I can only have 1 at a time.
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> Most people misunderstand the main purpose of stealth aircraft. They are not stealthy to prevent them from being hit, but rather to not let the enemy know that they're there in the first place.
Yeah, especially since an F117 was shot down over Bosnia this past spring. They are not invincable folks.
Yes, unfortunately this is an example of the sick, twisted "morality" that infects this nation. People would rather children watch graphic violence than love (or sex). My little brother can sit around and watch COPS or NYPD Blue but if anyone is seen making out his eyes are covered, etc, etc ,etc. (Just happened when my parents rented Shakespere in Love, I think they even turned it off after the "Love Scene")
Thank you, that was the point I was trying to make.
Maybe in a more civilized future there would be other ways besides base violence to keep the government in check, or replace it. Whoever can destroy a thing, controlls a thing (Dune). There are, or will be soon, things besides life and death that can be controlled, that would provide leverage. How valuable is information nowadays?
Just a thought.
Woah, slow down! Now I would agree that their lawyers are incompetant when it comes to GPL/Free Software law, but this can be fixed. They need new lawyers who will actually read and understand the issues involved and make a more sane license. We can still infuse them with clue, I wouldn't cut my losses quite yet.
Also they are a Canadian company, there may be different laws there that require this kind of verbage in their license. For example, in the US, a minor cannot enter into a contract--maybe in Canada a software license is considered a contract?
In any event, take a chill pill and lets see what is going on. Hey, maybe you can get hired as a consultant for their license, seeing as how you recently helped Novell. Problem turns into opportunity.
>But, a "right" is not something that your massa gives you -- it is something that you are born with! Just because it is illegal, does not mean that it does not exist. Remember the bit about "These truths we hold self-evident, that all men are created equal..."?
That's nice as an empirical truth but how well does it hold up in practice. Ask the slaves, or the Jews about their "Human Rights". All the Rights in the world won't prevent massa from knocking on your door and hanging you from a tree, raping and killing your family. Where are your Rights then?
>BTW, it is illegal to use the Military for domestic law enforcement.
That's nice in theory but does anyone remember the stink when a squad of Marines shot a young Mexican boy at the border. Apparently they had been co-opted by the Border Patrol to help law enforcement watch the border. Highly illegal but they did it anyway. And what of the stories that there were military present and partaking of the Branch Davidian mess. I won't even get into the possibility of any truth in those wacky "black helicopter" stories.
>Doesn't USB require CPU to service the bus? I can imagine that USB Ethernet would be a slooow ordeal.
Ick, I hope not, I would think that it would take no more CPU than any other PCI device (except IDE, it was designed with ISA in mind and has no provision for non-CPU control). I tried to find more information but the closest I got was the USB Developers FAQ, their website seems to be fact unfriendly.
I always had the feeling that the only reason they built the VisWS is because MS ordered them to. All their value was in their MIPS Irix (although not in Irix itself) based machines and software. Building an x86/NT based machine put them in direct competition with Intergraph and others. As several people mentioned, even with their custom bus arch, they really weren't much faster than other x86 Workstations and customers couldn't justify the cost/performance of the machines.
I just checked out the USB FAQ and it stated that USB: 12Mbits/s (1.5MBYTES/s). Surely enough for 10Mbit Ethernet and serial modems. If there are no QoS features that prevent one device from monopolizing the bus that's bad but I don't believe that is true.
Thank you for pointing this out, I stand corrected.
"WinTel" is in its twilight. Intel doesn't really have a front runner to replace the "Win" but judging by the way they are throwing money around, to get things running on their arch(s), they are definately shopping around. Right now Linux is a big player but they are putting venture capital in other places as well.
The heck with RS232, get a USB->Serial interface. I've seen them for parallel devices, implementing a serial interface shouldn't be much harder (May need to have a UART in the box). That way you wouldn't need a serial mux for the consoles on your Beowulf, just hook it to one USB chain. I would LOVE to see USB replace serial, parallel, simple ISA cards (modems, gameports, etc), even Ethernet. (Note: not USB audio, it is too bandwidth intensive and requires the CPU to do too much work)
I love the idea of USB networking, it seems like a great idea for home use. Even better would be the ability to see any USB device in the chain, from any host computer! I don't know if it works this way but it would be way cool! Would probably require some other tech, like Jini, to fix device contention problems.
You should look this up, it WAS actually done!
I thought that I saw one of their taglines at the end of Epic Pinball. BTW: the MOD music on some of those old Epic titles like Pinball, OMF2097, Jazz Jackrabbit was really something. I still play Epic Pinball and OMF, and consider them the best games in their respective genres that I have seen for the PC.
Exactally! Although IIRC the Wankel was designed by annother company, GM perhaps, who didn't think it was worth much and sold it to Mazda (silly Japanese) dirt cheap. Now Mazda makes the worlds only 3 chamber(?) muscle car. Those cars can be improved to several Hundred horsepower. Vroom, Vroom--Fast!
I don't know about you but I AM planning for the world to end. Right now I am looking at my Y2K compliant can opener and playing with my big Bowie knife (I never did like the neighbors dog anyway). I even took the precaution of Y2K proofing my food, I removed all the lables so they won't expire. I'm spending New Years eve with one hand on my .45, mister and you better stay out!
Dude, rule #1) Never admit to sleeping with your monitor in a public forum.
Uh, ok, so because a few unclued people say that 1999 years equals 2000 than it is so? I don't think so. This is a question of simple mathematics. No reason to be hateful and insulting.
Wow, far out man! It's not Miller Time, its Star Trek Time!
How about this, put the user in a full body suit and suspend them in a gimbal (like Lawnmower Man). The suit is completely covered with tiny cables with little movable wires in them (like a bicycle brake cable). For realistic effect you would need thousands or millions of wires. You could use them not only to supply resistance to movement (walking, grasping, etc) but also for texture and tactile feedback.
It seems to me though, that there is a minimum size where the computer has a reasonable probability of keeping the user in a confined space. Maybe 20M square or so, maybe hanger sized. Remember that the controlling software would have to be written to try very hard to return the user to the center point. You could also recommend to application developers to make environements that don't have large areas where one could run for any distance in a straight line. Something like Quake, with a lot of interior environments could probably be converted without looking too contrived.
I didn't see the video but I had the exact same idea, I wish I would have read further down because I posted said idea right above this thread. Whoops.
Doing the large room concept seems the simplest. I was thinking about the CAVE simulators mentioned here a few weeks ago (Someone was writing a 3D GLX WindowManager for use in the 3D environment). The CAVE pictured was 5 projection screens, for the walls and ceiling, with video projectors outside. You entered the cube and had a 3D VR view, but obviously couldn't walk around.
Now take these projection screens and suspend them from the ceiling in a large room. The screens move with you around the room and change their orientation or the artificial horizion to keep you from walking close to the walls. It could be much smaller than hangar sized and still be believable (as much as possible with visible screens). This wouldn't require the use to wear any bulky HMDs, maybe only a motion tracker (if you didn't want to invest on a visual motion tracking system).
With system you wouldn't be able to climb stairs or anything but hey that could be in the next version! Maybe adding small pin sized rods (like those toys you see in Spencers) that simulate ground texture. That shouldn't be to hard either, you could even color the rods with LCD (a pixel or two on top of each rod).
I use GroupWise from my Linux box at work. GW has a web access module that allows you to do mail and documents, you can also access your mail/address book via IMAP/LDAP. Mostly I use the webaccess module though, LDAP doesn't work consistantly with Netscape. I also want to research the GW client for Win3.1 (v4.x) or Solaris to see if they might run under Linux (WINE or iBCS). Let me know what you find out, and I'll do the same.
/.nwclient/Undefined.
PS: On this note has anyone had trouble with the NetWare client for Caldera Linux 2.3? I can see the Tree OK but cannot access any file shares, I get an access denied message on bindary volumes and NDS volumes are linked to
The problem I see with forking is in the *BSDs. They don't directly benefit from each others work the way they could if they were one codebase. If I write some great software for FreeBSD, it doesn't help OpenBSD or NetBSD users, until someone ports it. And if OpenBSD squashes annother security bug it doesn't help FreeBSD or NetBSD any. Why can't I have a fast, secure, kernel that runs on multiple hardware platforms--with the BSDs I can only have 1 at a time.
With Linux porting is only a recompile away.