Have you been following Armadillo Aerospace's work? Their stumbling blocks seem to be with big peroxide and bi-prop motors. I think they're resorting to a rocket gyro system for lack of big motors. Your problem seems to be that you cannot control your flight at all. Your path is completely ballistic. John Carmack's crew has control in spades. If you guys get along you might think of forming a technology alliance even if you do not forsake individual efforts for a common project.
There would be a period where extremophiles ruled the earth. Given their vast variety, it would not take long for them to capitalize on areas that were both less extreme and lacking in competition. Look at some of the non-extremophile phyla life forms that nonetheless live in extreme environments. Ice worms live in glaciers and have antifreeze for blood. Blind cave dwelling newts and fish whose ancestors have not seen light for 20,000 years. Rodents who spend their entire lives underground and have an ant like organization and social structure. Arctic wildflowers that have 5 weeks of summer and are absolutely frozen the rest of the year. The ability of life to re-colonize devastated areas even if evolution is required to survive in it's new environment is well documented. Obvious examples are Krakatau but parallels can be found almost everywhere. Antibiotics are the comet to human diseases. Disease adapts to the new hostile environment and moves back in as few as 100 bacterial generations. 100 generations for arctic wildflowers to survive at the equator.
Luther Burbank created the Shasta daisy, yellow center with white petals, around the turn of the century. I have seen them growing in Alaskan tundra. 100 years to go from Sunny California to becoming a dominant arctic wildflower.
Recovery from the extinction event did not take 1.5 million years
Pray for destructive viruses... They are lucrative. Pray that Microsoft and Apple never get their acts together. Their crap software and hardware generates Lots of service. Thank all the major hardware vendors for all their crap hardware too. Never put a crap power supply, motherboard, CPU cooler or generic memory into a machine you build for sale. It will come back-and service will be on your dime. Never flash a bios for a customer unless you have an Identicle motherboard in stock AND you put the system on battery backup. Check out VIA's Eden platform to build an OEM price undercutting system. Never attempt service on a computer older than PII/Win98SE/SDRAM/FlavoredMac. You will break more than you fix by changing anything in their system. Spend 2 hours a day MINIMUM researching hardware and software online. Learn apply a mechanic's lien to a computer when you put $300 labor into a system and the customer won't pay. Get on a first name basis with your sales rep at each of these places. If your shop is really small, use pricewatch and RESELLER RATINGS.
wrong story.. I think you want the worldcom/anderson story. This is about a quick envirimental recovery not a quik economic recovery. That will probably take longer than 1.5 million years
Krakatau volcano blew it's top in 1883. It has a ring of rainforest girdleing it's base despite it's continuing eruptions. Krakatau's explosion is still considered to be the most energetic single event in civilized history. Krakatau is now home to many species of birds, monkeys and smaller cousins of the komodo dragons.
I'd venture that life did not take 1.5 million years to recover from the extinction event. We just have not looked in the right places for the right fossils. I'll bet that someday we will find a meteoric Vesuvius/Pele, and right on top of it we will find the fossils of life that came back immediately after the event.
"Philip Stern calculated that AT&T's $I.4 million in campaign contributions saved it $I2 billion in taxes -a fabulous rate of return."
Interesting that you would mention AT&T... A company that is consistently in the top ten for corporate tax avoidance. My example, Microsoft, Pays absolutely no taxes at all... and graicously waived the 1.2 billion dollar refund "owed" to them by the federal government.
The problem is, they do not pay: Your point is moot.
Remove the BSD TCP/IP stack from Windows. How usable is Windows afterwards? Tell me again how Microsoft receives only 1% benefit from the BSD TCP/IP stack. Without the BSD TCP/IP stack, Windows is no better than a typewriter.
Let's hypothesize further:
The US government develops a new communication protocol stack. This New Protocol (NP) has some great features: Complete point to point encryption. Tight integration of video, voice and data. Cache based compression allowing small key bits to trigger the replay of locally cached data sets. The protocol stack is released under the BSD license.
Microsoft embraces NP and renames it MSN/NP. Microsoft substitutes a modified version of the encryption and their own proprietary cached data set. Microsoft owns 95% of the desktop space. Microsoft leverages the popularity of MSN/NP content into control of most of the server market. AOL must license the technology or risk loosing all their customers. Macromedia ceases to exist. Apple turns over 90% of their profits to Microsoft just to keep Microsoft from abandoning the Mac platform. etc...
MEANING: The BSD license can be embraced and extended. We receive no benefit for our tax dollars with a BSD license.
The GPL is a poison pill, but only for companies trying to control a monopoly share of a market. The GPL, applied to software produced at taxpayer expense, insures companies can use the software without giving them the ability to exploit the software, as the BSD license allows.
I am not a GPL zealot. I am a taxation zealot. This is MY MONEY we're talking about.
Don't like the GPL's viral nature? Then write your own damn software.
BSD and Proprietary licences ensure works or derivatives BECOME or STAY UNFREE.
Using public money to create works or derivatives that become or stay unfree is ridiculous.
There is no place for BSD or any other Proprietary licencing scheme where MY MONEY is concerned.
It really pisses me off to pay for something twice. Once by taxation for the reasearch to create a resource and again for that same resource at retail.
Fucking corperate welfare. Drugs. Software. Commercial Space Launch. Alternative Energy. Agribusiness. Cheap Oil Royalties. Commercial Use highways.
Microsoft uses the BSD TCP/IP stack for free, then sells it to us. Any Taxpayer sponsored research should NEVER use a BSD style licence. If a corporation benefits from my tax dollars, They should not be able to sell the fruits of that research back to me for profit.
we could have an online convention... and call it "slashdot"
Meeting in person sounds like a high school reunion... brag brag brag blah blah blah and a few lucky winners have sex only to find out that their partners have misrepresented themselves... He is not really a millionair and she is actually the goatsex man.
or a new port instead of AGP, you can have AAP (Accellerated Audio Port) or a sound card that uses the AGP Port for audio while video is relegated to the PCI bus. I think ATI might like this last option since they still make PCI versions of their cards while Nvidia is exclusively AGP.
Speaking of which.. Can the AGP port be used for applications other than video? Could a 10 gigabit NIC use the AGP bus? 16 channel input 144khz audio A/D converter card? What other applications could use a 2034Mb/s 8x AGP bus where 64 bit 66mhz PCI's 533Mb/s and PCI-X's 1024Mb/s fails?
"Remember the 1 GHz G4? That was a marketing push to try to counter AMD's competition, not something the engineers wanted. In many ways, it made the G4 look bad, because the G4 was not designed to run at 1 GHz. People still remember the poor 1 GHz benchmarks; those benchmarks have done lasting damage."
Yes, that works remarkably well...
The G4: So slow, you need two of them just to pretend to be in the game. BTW, this article is about 1066 rdram -vs- DDR 333 not Apple PC133 SDRAM, why are you even participating? Oh, that's right, Apple has a new ugly rackmout out that uses DDR 266, a memory technology that the PC world has had for over a year and a half. Apple has worn out their CPU bandwidth constriction picture.
A little more news: the G5 is an AMD Opteron Sledgehammer!
Have you ever seen Google get slashdotted? if anything, Goggle's cached links get used as a mirror for sites that get slashdotted. Alexa's list is powered by google too.
"We consider product placement very, very important," says Suzanne Forlenza, Apple's senior manager, entertainment placement and marketing. "Our advertising budget pales in comparison to what Microsoft, IBM, Compaq, DEC and NEC all put behind the Windows/IBM compatible systems. So we need to find marketing that can strike a chord, and product placement is a unique way to familiarize people with our brand and product line. In placements, I want a breadth of exposure - I want to be in the hands of the spy, the president, the girlfriend. I don't want just to be in the hands of the high-tech nerd."
"Our arrangement was simply a loaning of equipment in exchange for exposure in the hands of Meg Ryan," said Suzanne Forlenza, manager of product placement for Apple.
"Mimi wears a lot of blue eyeshadow so at the outset of the season we approached the producers and said the iMac's quite a colorful product, it would be perfect on Mimi's desk," said Suzanne Forlenza, senior manager for product placement and entertainment promotions at Apple. "We aggressively place our products on TV and film as a complement to our other marketing efforts."......... "
Every placement bought and paid for by Apple. Hardly inside knowlege. He just put it straight. On tv, the FCC regs prevent money from changeing hands, but if your job reqires you to use a computer, and Apple offers you a bunch of dual G4s and an ibook for each member of the crew, in exchange for an imac prop that you need anyway, you take the bribe and run...
"Apple Computer outspends all other PC companies in product placement and is perhaps more active in the area than any other technology company outside of Microsoft,"
Hmmm, for $4K I can buy 5 dual processor AMD Servers and fit them in the same 5 Us of rack space. That's 10 CPUs (With 50% more power per CPU, 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 5 unit redundancy, 10 GBs of RAM and space for 2.4 TBs of HD...
In other words, about 8 times the power for the same price. Do not use price/performance logic when talking about any apple. You will always loose. Focus on how pretty they are or how slick OS X is.
Why is NASA looking for 8086 chips? Because of proven reliability. Apple is the very new kid on this block. Sun is the proven reliable and accountable adult on this block. Show respect to your betters. If you are looking for price/performance only go with AMD. If image is everything, and reliability, accountability, price and performance is nothing, go with shiny apple.
Tell the military they can weaponize this. See how long it takes them to allocate the funds to restart the superconducting supercollider. Just fire a negatively charged strangelet at the chinese and watch the entire country dissapear... sure, the entire planet would be destroyed too, but that was the case with nuclear weapons, and it never stopped their deployment.
Great, a new source of energy. How do we tap it? An electricly conductive line hanging from space? A heat pump that works on the temperature differential between the hot zone and orbital shaded vacume?
Sounds like a threat to any potential space elevator too. Or perhaps a space elevator could be used to tap the energy.
Install the extention but rename it with a space in the beginning so it executes first thing on boot.
Wait, do you mean money after bad hardware or after bad grandmas?
Once I realized I would not be able to pry my granma's Mac out of her cold dead fingers, upgrade was the only option.
her first quote "This computer is good enough for me"
Her second quote "my computer is broken, it takes to long to show pictures"
Implied quote "You might make 80k as a net admin but I will see to it that you spend at least 2 days a month over here fixing my computer if you do not make it fast and reliable.."
Slashdot Mirror
Show me a price/performace comparison please.
And make shure to include some "crappy" Dual Intel and AMD machines!
So you spend 200 bucks on an MPX motherboard and 150 each for a pair of 1800mp CPUs. (2*1533mhz)
Or spend 100 bucks on a Dual Pentium III motherboard and 150 each for a pair of tulatin Pentium IIIs that are not performance comparative. (2*1133mhz)
The first Dual Pentium 4 motherboard starts at $400 and $200 each for the processors... at the same performance level that AMD provides for $500
$400 for the crappy intel.
$500 for the AMD
$800 for the good intel, that performs no better than the AMD, so you just want to pay $300 for the name.
Their absolute top end systems perform comparatively MP 2100+ vs. Intel Xeon 2.4GHz
$1400 for the Xeon, $700 for the AMD MP.
Don't forget the Rambus Tax that doubles the price of any memory you purchase for the Intel system. No, there are no DDR solutions for the Xeon yet.
Have you been following Armadillo Aerospace's work? Their stumbling blocks seem to be with big peroxide and bi-prop motors. I think they're resorting to a rocket gyro system for lack of big motors. Your problem seems to be that you cannot control your flight at all. Your path is completely ballistic. John Carmack's crew has control in spades. If you guys get along you might think of forming a technology alliance even if you do not forsake individual efforts for a common project.
There would be a period where extremophiles ruled the earth. Given their vast variety, it would not take long for them to capitalize on areas that were both less extreme and lacking in competition. Look at some of the non-extremophile phyla life forms that nonetheless live in extreme environments. Ice worms live in glaciers and have antifreeze for blood. Blind cave dwelling newts and fish whose ancestors have not seen light for 20,000 years. Rodents who spend their entire lives underground and have an ant like organization and social structure. Arctic wildflowers that have 5 weeks of summer and are absolutely frozen the rest of the year. The ability of life to re-colonize devastated areas even if evolution is required to survive in it's new environment is well documented. Obvious examples are Krakatau but parallels can be found almost everywhere. Antibiotics are the comet to human diseases. Disease adapts to the new hostile environment and moves back in as few as 100 bacterial generations. 100 generations for arctic wildflowers to survive at the equator.
Luther Burbank created the Shasta daisy, yellow center with white petals, around the turn of the century. I have seen them growing in Alaskan tundra. 100 years to go from Sunny California to becoming a dominant arctic wildflower.
Recovery from the extinction event did not take 1.5 million years
Service, Service, Service.
Pray for destructive viruses... They are lucrative. Pray that Microsoft and Apple never get their acts together. Their crap software and hardware generates Lots of service. Thank all the major hardware vendors for all their crap hardware too. Never put a crap power supply, motherboard, CPU cooler or generic memory into a machine you build for sale. It will come back-and service will be on your dime. Never flash a bios for a customer unless you have an Identicle motherboard in stock AND you put the system on battery backup. Check out VIA's Eden platform to build an OEM price undercutting system. Never attempt service on a computer older than PII/Win98SE/SDRAM/FlavoredMac. You will break more than you fix by changing anything in their system. Spend 2 hours a day MINIMUM researching hardware and software online. Learn apply a mechanic's lien to a computer when you put $300 labor into a system and the customer won't pay. Get on a first name basis with your sales rep at each of these places. If your shop is really small, use pricewatch and RESELLER RATINGS.
wrong story.. I think you want the worldcom/anderson story. This is about a quick envirimental recovery not a quik economic recovery. That will probably take longer than 1.5 million years
Krakatau volcano blew it's top in 1883. It has a ring of rainforest girdleing it's base despite it's continuing eruptions. Krakatau's explosion is still considered to be the most energetic single event in civilized history. Krakatau is now home to many species of birds, monkeys and smaller cousins of the komodo dragons.
I'd venture that life did not take 1.5 million years to recover from the extinction event. We just have not looked in the right places for the right fossils. I'll bet that someday we will find a meteoric Vesuvius/Pele, and right on top of it we will find the fossils of life that came back immediately after the event.
Let's say someone steals my Palladium laptop. They are now me.
I am not me anymore... So I call in to 'cancel' my laptop like I would a credit card?
So I can call in and cancel YOUR laptop?
"Yes, my name is Craig Barrett, and I'd like to cancel my laptop. No, I don't have any of my codes. They were all stolen too."
Microsoft says the GPL is viral communism that will destroy the fabric of our capitalist society.
Linux zealots say that Microsoft abuses their Monopoly power.
The difference between their Fud and Ours?
Microsoft has been convicted in a court of law for abuse of monopoly power.
The framers of GPL have not been convicted of being communists, which in any case is not a crime.
Don't like the "viral" nature of the GPL? Write your own damn code!
"Philip Stern calculated that AT&T's $I.4 million in campaign contributions saved it $I2 billion in taxes -a fabulous rate of return."
Interesting that you would mention AT&T... A company that is consistently in the top ten for corporate tax avoidance. My example, Microsoft, Pays absolutely no taxes at all... and graicously waived the 1.2 billion dollar refund "owed" to them by the federal government.
The problem is, they do not pay: Your point is moot.
Remove the BSD TCP/IP stack from Windows. How usable is Windows afterwards? Tell me again how Microsoft receives only 1% benefit from the BSD TCP/IP stack. Without the BSD TCP/IP stack, Windows is no better than a typewriter.
Let's hypothesize further:
The US government develops a new communication protocol stack. This New Protocol (NP) has some great features: Complete point to point encryption. Tight integration of video, voice and data. Cache based compression allowing small key bits to trigger the replay of locally cached data sets. The protocol stack is released under the BSD license.
Microsoft embraces NP and renames it MSN/NP. Microsoft substitutes a modified version of the encryption and their own proprietary cached data set. Microsoft owns 95% of the desktop space. Microsoft leverages the popularity of MSN/NP content into control of most of the server market. AOL must license the technology or risk loosing all their customers. Macromedia ceases to exist. Apple turns over 90% of their profits to Microsoft just to keep Microsoft from abandoning the Mac platform. etc...
MEANING: The BSD license can be embraced and extended. We receive no benefit for our tax dollars with a BSD license.
The GPL is a poison pill, but only for companies trying to control a monopoly share of a market. The GPL, applied to software produced at taxpayer expense, insures companies can use the software without giving them the ability to exploit the software, as the BSD license allows.
I am not a GPL zealot. I am a taxation zealot. This is MY MONEY we're talking about.
Don't like the GPL's viral nature? Then write your own damn software.
The GPL ensures works or derivitaves STAY FREE.
BSD and Proprietary licences ensure works or derivatives BECOME or STAY UNFREE.
Using public money to create works or derivatives that become or stay unfree is ridiculous.
There is no place for BSD or any other Proprietary licencing scheme where MY MONEY is concerned.
It really pisses me off to pay for something twice. Once by taxation for the reasearch to create a resource and again for that same resource at retail.
Fucking corperate welfare. Drugs. Software. Commercial Space Launch. Alternative Energy. Agribusiness. Cheap Oil Royalties. Commercial Use highways.
Microsoft uses the BSD TCP/IP stack for free, then sells it to us. Any Taxpayer sponsored research should NEVER use a BSD style licence. If a corporation benefits from my tax dollars, They should not be able to sell the fruits of that research back to me for profit.
we could have an online convention... and call it "slashdot"
Meeting in person sounds like a high school reunion... brag brag brag blah blah blah and a few lucky winners have sex only to find out that their partners have misrepresented themselves... He is not really a millionair and she is actually the goatsex man.
I can see it now:
Soundblaster Fried! X-audiophile
or a new port instead of AGP, you can have AAP (Accellerated Audio Port) or a sound card that uses the AGP Port for audio while video is relegated to the PCI bus. I think ATI might like this last option since they still make PCI versions of their cards while Nvidia is exclusively AGP.
Speaking of which.. Can the AGP port be used for applications other than video? Could a 10 gigabit NIC use the AGP bus? 16 channel input 144khz audio A/D converter card? What other applications could use a 2034Mb/s 8x AGP bus where 64 bit 66mhz PCI's 533Mb/s and PCI-X's 1024Mb/s fails?
I think he meant Apple:
"Remember the 1 GHz G4? That was a marketing push to try to counter AMD's competition, not something the engineers wanted. In many ways, it made the G4 look bad, because the G4 was not designed to run at 1 GHz. People still remember the poor 1 GHz benchmarks; those benchmarks have done lasting damage."
Yes, that works remarkably well...
The G4: So slow, you need two of them just to pretend to be in the game. BTW, this article is about 1066 rdram -vs- DDR 333 not Apple PC133 SDRAM, why are you even participating? Oh, that's right, Apple has a new ugly rackmout out that uses DDR 266, a memory technology that the PC world has had for over a year and a half. Apple has worn out their CPU bandwidth constriction picture.
A little more news: the G5 is an AMD Opteron Sledgehammer!
inevitable slashdotting?
Have you ever seen Google get slashdotted? if anything, Goggle's cached links get used as a mirror for sites that get slashdotted. Alexa's list is powered by google too.
Slashdotted a search engine... heh.
Here you are, Mr Head...
"We consider product placement very, very important," says Suzanne Forlenza, Apple's senior manager, entertainment placement and marketing. "Our advertising budget pales in comparison to what Microsoft, IBM, Compaq, DEC and NEC all put behind the Windows/IBM compatible systems. So we need to find marketing that can strike a chord, and product placement is a unique way to familiarize people with our brand and product line. In placements, I want a breadth of exposure - I want to be in the hands of the spy, the president, the girlfriend. I don't want just to be in the hands of the high-tech nerd."
"Our arrangement was simply a loaning of equipment in exchange for exposure in the hands of Meg Ryan," said Suzanne Forlenza, manager of product placement for Apple.
"Mimi wears a lot of blue eyeshadow so at the outset of the season we approached the producers and said the iMac's quite a colorful product, it would be perfect on Mimi's desk," said Suzanne Forlenza, senior manager for product placement and entertainment promotions at Apple. "We aggressively place our products on TV and film as a complement to our other marketing efforts."......... "
Every placement bought and paid for by Apple. Hardly inside knowlege. He just put it straight. On tv, the FCC regs prevent money from changeing hands, but if your job reqires you to use a computer, and Apple offers you a bunch of dual G4s and an ibook for each member of the crew, in exchange for an imac prop that you need anyway, you take the bribe and run...
"Apple Computer outspends all other PC companies in product placement and is perhaps more active in the area than any other technology company outside of Microsoft,"
...and that makes them good???
Hmmm, for $4K I can buy 5 dual processor AMD Servers and fit them in the same 5 Us of rack space. That's 10 CPUs (With 50% more power per CPU, 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports, 5 unit redundancy, 10 GBs of RAM and space for 2.4 TBs of HD...
In other words, about 8 times the power for the same price. Do not use price/performance logic when talking about any apple. You will always loose. Focus on how pretty they are or how slick OS X is.
Why is NASA looking for 8086 chips? Because of proven reliability. Apple is the very new kid on this block. Sun is the proven reliable and accountable adult on this block. Show respect to your betters. If you are looking for price/performance only go with AMD. If image is everything, and reliability, accountability, price and performance is nothing, go with shiny apple.
What was your point again?
Did everyone forget the iCar?
Tell the military they can weaponize this. See how long it takes them to allocate the funds to restart the superconducting supercollider. Just fire a negatively charged strangelet at the chinese and watch the entire country dissapear... sure, the entire planet would be destroyed too, but that was the case with nuclear weapons, and it never stopped their deployment.
C-130 Parachute delivery: $20,000
Poverty wage employees (soldiers): $8,000/year.
Watching the RAU turn into a dirtdart without it's parachute deploying: Priceless!
Great, a new source of energy. How do we tap it? An electricly conductive line hanging from space? A heat pump that works on the temperature differential between the hot zone and orbital shaded vacume?
Sounds like a threat to any potential space elevator too. Or perhaps a space elevator could be used to tap the energy.
spend 100 bucks on ebay.
Install the extention but rename it with a space in the beginning so it executes first thing on boot.
Wait, do you mean money after bad hardware or after bad grandmas?
Once I realized I would not be able to pry my granma's Mac out of her cold dead fingers, upgrade was the only option.
her first quote "This computer is good enough for me"
Her second quote "my computer is broken, it takes to long to show pictures"
Implied quote "You might make 80k as a net admin but I will see to it that you spend at least 2 days a month over here fixing my computer if you do not make it fast and reliable.."
The hundred bucks is so, so, so worth it.
You are a bad son. You should have built her a better machine a long time ago. You could have at least put a Sonnet G4 in her machine.