I saw an article on CNN about NZ having cell phone problems, but it wasn't directly related to Y2K. There were so many people calling at once that the system was getting overloaded.
"If this is done I will support Mars colonization, otherwise if we are just going to pay for toys and a few lucky ass Major-Toms to fly there and back or live up there sending emails to schoolkids I'd say scrap the project and put the money just into feeding people."
I'd want to see a colony on the Moon before Mars. That way you can use the Moon as a staging point, while still having a colony that can start working toward harvesting the solar power, asteroid mining and other resources.
If you're interested take a look at http://www.asi.org .
Perhaps more importantly, setting up a base on the Moon lets us know if we can do it. It's well and fine to ship people off to Mars, but how much experience do we have at building and running a space colony?
Build a colony on the Moon, -THEN- go to the rest of the Universe.
"If these clowns are the guys who are supposed to take us to Mars, it simply isn't going to happen. The technological breakthroughs to keep people alive that long in a big-damn-plastic-bubble are already going to stretch engineering and scientific ingenuity to the limit (viz. Biosphere II). The cost of doing business NASA-style will keep this project in never-never land long past 2015, in my opinion."
If you're interested in a non-government run space exploration organization, take a look at the Artemis Project (http://www.asi.org). The "Project" is the commercial launch, the organization is the non-profit coordinating (for lack of a better term ATT) things.
Does anyone get the feeling that Corel knows more about what they are doing than they lead us to believe? I wouldn't be suprised if this is all a trap to give Debian, Linux, GPL, and related things (opensource namely) a bad name in the media.
No, but lately I'd be half-tempted to think about it the other way around. Corel has been getting screwed on Slashdot these days.
Man, everyone says that it's because you have to be 18 to enter a legally binding contract. That's all well and good, but a minor can go buy windows without this restriction.
I'm not certain, but it might have something to do with Corel being a Canadian company and MSFT being a US company. There could be different requirements and restrictions.
All I've seen is Word Perfect, which isn't worth a shit anyhow.
There's the work they've been doing with WINE as well. In addition to helping promote and adopt Linux when other companies were still "on the fence" taking a wait-and-see approach.
They can't beat MS with Dr. DOS, so they're going to try and cash in on Linux since its bound to take over.
Dr. DOS? I think you have the wrong company. Corel has never developed an operating system before. They have had an interesting history though, check out a book called "Random Excess" if you're interested.
They bought Dr. DOS and WordPerfect after DOS and WordPerfect weren't cool anymore (not that dos ever was). I dunno, they suck.
No, they didn't. Caldera still has Dr. DOS and it's doing rather well in the embeded space from what I've heard. IMO, WordPerfect is hands-down the best word processor there is, the only problem is that I seldom have a need for a word processor anymore..everything is usually typed in email.
I do not believe for one second that Corel and Michael Cowpland are supporting Linux out of altruism, or because they "believe" in it. It is for money, pure and simple, and if they can change the licensing without people suing them, they damn well will.
Absolutely, but you are forgetting a few things.
Corel needs to stay on the good side of the developers, or someone else will come along and fill the role for them. Sure they are ultimately after money, they are a public company after all. IMO, they might be having some problems, but do you really think any other company, having gone to the extent of using "OpenSource" software, wouldn't have run into the same problems? IMO, it would be smarter for Corel to want to use the current licenses, rather than try and make loop-holes. This would prevent anyone else from comming along later and using one of the loop-holes against them.
"The 50-nanometer transistor - roughly 2,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair - is known as a ``vertical'' transistor because all of its components are built on top of a silicon wafer and its current flows vertically. In today's conventional transistors, which typically measure 180 nanometers, the current flows horizontally and the transistors are formed within the wafer itself."
"Although many researchers have tried to build vertical transistors during the last 25 years, the Bell Labs approach has several advantages over previous designs; it can accommodate ultra-thin insulating layers, and the channel and gate are closely aligned. Because the Bell Labs vertical transistor provides a solid foundation, it may be possible to add additional layers of transistors to silicon chips, resulting in so-called high-rise chips -- one of the holy grails of semiconductor manufacturing."
There is already one out by Nokia, that runs on *BSD. They harden the box and install the software, all you do is plug it in and configure the firewall.
I've wondered quite often when such a site would come online, some way to keep track of which companies to boycott (with the reasons for them being in the database)....have a way for people to "sign" the petitions and hopefully follow-through and not purchase any.
I'd have to agree with you on reading the book, it's got some interesting stuff in it (haven't finished all of it yet though). Especially concerning site design, planning and different ways to design the site.
Do you honestly think you could trust people not to repost it if you just said 'please don't do it'? I seriously doubt that the license would be effective either, someone will post it on a site or IRC.
Have a look at 'squishdot' (http://squishdot.org), some people are recreating the layout in Python and Zope (I'm not involved in the development). It's being released under the GPL.
The main area of the web site is the Data Book (http://www.asi.org/adb), in addition to keeping the site so that any browser can render it.
:: think this is a scam. This looks like the type of operation that will draw in a bunch of hoodwinked investors and then suddenly disappear. ::
ASI has been around for several years, this is not a project that was just thrown together to rob people.
:: I could be wrong (we'll see if they go public), but I'm not scheduling any vacation time in 2010 just yet, and my investments are staying with much safer tech startups (relatively speaking). ::
ASI will never go public, it's a non-profit organization. ASI spins off other 'daughter' companies that may or may not go public. However, the only ties these daughter companies have to ASI is that's where they started.
Slashdot Mirror
I saw an article on CNN about NZ having cell phone problems, but it wasn't directly related to Y2K. There were so many people calling at once that the system was getting overloaded.
Wayne
"If this is done I will support Mars colonization, otherwise if we are just going to pay for toys and a few lucky ass Major-Toms to fly there and back or live up there sending emails to schoolkids I'd say scrap the project and put the money just into feeding people."
I'd want to see a colony on the Moon before Mars. That way you can use the Moon as a staging point, while still having a colony that can start working toward harvesting the solar power, asteroid mining and other resources.
If you're interested take a look at http://www.asi.org .
Wayne
Perhaps more importantly, setting up a base on the Moon lets us know if we can do it. It's well and fine to ship people off to Mars, but how much experience do we have at building and running a space colony?
Build a colony on the Moon, -THEN- go to the rest of the Universe.
Wayne
http://www.asi.org
"If these clowns are the guys who are supposed to take us to Mars, it simply isn't going to happen. The technological breakthroughs to keep people alive that long in a big-damn-plastic-bubble are already going to stretch engineering and scientific ingenuity to the limit (viz. Biosphere II). The cost of doing business NASA-style will keep this project in never-never land long past 2015, in my opinion."
If you're interested in a non-government run space exploration organization, take a look at the Artemis Project (http://www.asi.org). The "Project" is the commercial launch, the organization is the non-profit coordinating (for lack of a better term ATT) things.
Opinions and thoughts are always welcome.
Wayne
No, but lately I'd be half-tempted to think about it the other way around. Corel has been getting screwed on Slashdot these days.
Wayne
I'm not certain, but it might have something to do with Corel being a Canadian company and MSFT being a US company. There could be different requirements and restrictions.
All I've seen is Word Perfect, which isn't worth a shit anyhow.
There's the work they've been doing with WINE as well. In addition to helping promote and adopt Linux when other companies were still "on the fence" taking a wait-and-see approach.
They can't beat MS with Dr. DOS, so they're going to try and cash in on Linux since its bound to take over.
Dr. DOS? I think you have the wrong company. Corel has never developed an operating system before. They have had an interesting history though, check out a book called "Random Excess" if you're interested.
They bought Dr. DOS and WordPerfect after DOS and WordPerfect weren't cool anymore (not that dos ever was). I dunno, they suck.
No, they didn't. Caldera still has Dr. DOS and it's doing rather well in the embeded space from what I've heard. IMO, WordPerfect is hands-down the best word processor there is, the only problem is that I seldom have a need for a word processor anymore..everything is usually typed in email.
Wayne
Absolutely, but you are forgetting a few things.
Corel needs to stay on the good side of the developers, or someone else will come along and fill the role for them. Sure they are ultimately after money, they are a public company after all. IMO, they might be having some problems, but do you really think any other company, having gone to the extent of using "OpenSource" software, wouldn't have run into the same problems? IMO, it would be smarter for Corel to want to use the current licenses, rather than try and make loop-holes. This would prevent anyone else from comming along later and using one of the loop-holes against them.
Wayne
..so when does Lucent get a logo beside the articles, rather than "News" or "Hardware"?
should have been "this hasn't made it..."
This has to make it through slashdot, so I thought I'd post it here.
link
"The 50-nanometer transistor - roughly 2,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair - is known as a ``vertical'' transistor because all of its components are built on top of a silicon wafer and its current flows vertically. In today's conventional transistors, which typically measure 180 nanometers, the current flows horizontally and the transistors are formed within the wafer itself."
"Although many researchers have tried to build vertical transistors during the last 25 years, the Bell Labs approach has several advantages over previous designs; it can accommodate ultra-thin insulating layers, and the channel and gate are closely aligned. Because the Bell Labs vertical transistor provides a solid foundation, it may be possible to add additional layers of transistors to silicon chips, resulting in so-called high-rise chips -- one of the holy grails of semiconductor manufacturing."
..we need a Lucent logo for articles.
/me
There is already one out by Nokia, that runs on *BSD. They harden the box and install the software, all you do is plug it in and configure the firewall.
Wayne
I've wondered quite often when such a site would come online, some way to keep track of which companies to boycott (with the reasons for them being in the database). ...have a way for people to "sign" the petitions and hopefully follow-through and not purchase any.
Wayne
The only thing I can think of is that they get money from people that license the decryption routines.
Wayne
like this?
http://www.calmec.com
Waye
I wonder if you'd be able to download strong crypto and leave the country?
Would it be an invasion of privacy to scan everybody's implants to see if they are carrying crypto (or other regulated information)?
Wayne
Take a look at eCos, I think it's made by Cygnus. It's an embedded OS under the GPL.
Wayne
I'd have to agree with you on reading the book, it's got some interesting stuff in it (haven't finished all of it yet though). Especially concerning site design, planning and different ways to design the site.
Nice pictures with it too...
Wayne
Do you honestly think you could trust people not to repost it if you just said 'please don't do it'? I seriously doubt that the license would be effective either, someone will post it on a site or IRC.
Wayne
Have a look at 'squishdot' (http://squishdot.org), some people are recreating the layout in Python and Zope (I'm not involved in the development). It's being released under the GPL.
Wayne
::Judging by the rather amateurish website, I
The main area of the web site is the Data Book (http://www.asi.org/adb), in addition to keeping the site so that any browser can render it.
::
think this is a scam. This looks like the type of operation that will draw in a bunch of hoodwinked investors and then suddenly disappear.
::
ASI has been around for several years, this is not a project that was just thrown together to rob people.
::
I could be wrong (we'll see if they go public), but I'm not scheduling any vacation time in 2010 just yet, and my investments are staying with much safer tech startups (relatively speaking).
::
ASI will never go public, it's a non-profit organization. ASI spins off other 'daughter' companies that may or may not go public. However, the only ties these daughter companies have to ASI is that's where they started.
Wayne
ASI Member
How short is short? Is it based upon the number of lines or characters? The same for long comments...any clues for us?
Now we'll probably get a relly long list of "me too"s stringed together.
link
Then register with /. and filter out the topics you don't want to read about.
Wayne
I wonder if BableFish will translate this one?
:)
Wayne
"they're making a program for *Linux*"
Don't they already have a media player for Linux?