So, am I worried about media consolidation? No. Am I worried about Internet censorship and Internet Provider consolidation? Yes. Actually a lot more worried.
Unfortunately for you, many of the several million americans who do get their news from television also vote.
Uh, he's not asking for free fuel. He's trying to BUY it. Both the US and New Zealand's are capitalist countries.... What happened the the much talked about free market?
And what is wrong with using existing facilities as fuel dumps? Presumably when you drive somewhere you use existing cities/towns as fuel/rest stops. You're saying this guy should have to act as if no existing human settlements exist? Essentially you're saying only the very rich or government/company backed individuals should be allowed to get anywhere near Antarctica.
I work at a 21" Sony Trinitron roughly 4 days a week. I notice the wires about once a month (usually on annoying white-background web pages). My reaction is usually one of "Oh, there's the stabilization wire, huh. Wish I didn't have to squint at this bright white background."
It's still a glorious monitor. No LCD can match it's 2048x1536.
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The linux IDE driver has an option which controls whether it masks or unmasks non-ide interrupts during disk transfers...this option makes a huge difference in the amount of cpu time disk access consumes.
This problem has been stumbled upon and solved three times now. Each time, however, it's taken something akin to a mutiny to bring about the solution.
It'll all be worked out decently in a few weeks. ground control will go on trying to micro-manage every waking second (like they did with skylab 2) until the crew gets fed up and takes a day or two off (just like skylab...) then ground control will lighten up and start providing general task lists and useful information, not moment by moment orders.
Which communist country has ever managed to grow food sustainably? If anything communism has shown a remarkabe lack of respect for the enviornment, far exceeding even capitalism...
Our airplane fleet is indeed quite old (dangerously old according to many), but remember that these airplanes are constantly inspected and repaired... Pioneer 10 hasn't been seen by anyone since it was launched.
It's longevity is due to it's simplistic design and it's RTG power sources. The most likely reason for it's (suspected) failure is the final exausting of those RTGs. The voltage has just finally dropped below the absolute minimum necessary to power the transmitter. It's been running very close to the limit for the last several years...
DS1 is solar powered... not really much hope for it much beyond jupiter or so (and even thats really pushing it)... Deep space missions basically require nuclear energy sources, no other alternatives exist.
I used to sometimes carry around small MS-DOS executables on my HP48-Sx
calculator. It had kermit, after all. Things like that marvel of utilites: Dirmagic, which
was like 8K bytes.
8K? Ouch! I had a 48G...so I only had 32K to work with. I rarely had more then 3K free at any one time...what with Tetris, Columns, Xmodem, and a stack enhancer...
But if that holding tank was any indication of general design practices, Skylab was incapable of indefinite occupation.
Thats not really a strike against it, though. Skylab was not built to be replenished. It was built on a very tight budget out of left over Apollo hardware.
Given the facts that it was: a) NASA's first space station, b) built with a very small budget, c) made heavy use of old hardware (for instance, the EVA hatch was an old Gemini hatch), and they built TWO flight-worthy vehicles, it was one of NASA's most impressive achievements.
The russians didn't match it until Mir in 1981.
ISS won't match it for total habitable volume for quite some time.
And at the end of Skylab 4 (the last mission) there were supplies for another 60 days of operations.
It's too bad nasa has forgotten all they learned from the building and operation of skylab...they've managed to make almost all of the same mistakes all over again with ISS...Lets see if it takes another on-orbit mutiny to remind them of the final Skylab lession...
First, rockets back then were *gasp*! less reliable than they are now. A fault on launch, with a bomb capable of an explosion that could have been seen a few =million= miles away would have turned more than the launch-pad into toast.
Decently designed nuclear devices are not nearly that easy to set off. Even badly designed ones don't deliver full yield unless they are intentionally set off. Nuclear bombs are NOT like regular explosives...they don't just go off...the ignition sequence is very delicate...if you get it wrong usually all tha happens is you spray your nuclear materials around the general vicinity. You do not get an explosion.
Remember that several actual, live, exploding nuclear warheads HAVE been launched on rockets over the years. The US has even suffered a launch failure of at least one of these. (During the Starfish operation...one of the high-altitude shots' boosters exploded on the pad. The warhead did not go off.)
Also recognise that it wouldn't take a very large device to be visible from the earth. 5 to 10 MT should do it. Not a small explosion, by any means, but not quite big as some that were tested on earth in the 50s...
Humanity is confined to Earth and dies of stagnation...
Gee, some might argue that this is already happening... We haven't advanced much beyond 60s era technology, after all...
Ebcdic was proprietary. ASCII is a 30 or 40 year old WORLD standard...
Ebcdic is hardly unreadable even today...any unix machine has the software needed to translate it into ascii.
The only real problem is with the use of proprietary formats. Were the LoC to turn all it's books into Word documents, then we would be in trouble. But if they use an open non-binary format then they won't have any trouble at all.
The virtue of hard books is that so MANY are printed.
Uh, this only applies to mass market books. the vast majority of written works are not printed in any great numbers... The situation would be greatly improved if more books were made availble in digital formats.
I guess you don't know that some of the very first CDs pressed are already deteriorating due to delamination of the substrate.
Thats really a special case, though. The problem was caused by the fact that the aluminum layer on these early disks extended all the way from the inner edge of the hole to the outer edge of the disk. As the aluminum was exposed at these points, it would oxidize...
Modern disks have sealed edges...so this isn't a problem. There are now 20 year old CDs which are still in perfect condition.
Of course, CD-Rs haven't been tested nearly as well...
You can't own or take over parts of space - this whole thing is very wrong at a fundimental level.
Umm...why? Whats wrong with someone owning a chunk of space? There is certainly enough to go around... If nothing else, then property rights in space will encourage people to put effort into development. Would you build a home if you knew that anyone else could come along and take it from you?
Did the human race evolve to a certain point and then suddenly start to degenerate?
Well, duh! At one point a few years ago we could walk on the moon and were well on the way to infinite sources of clean energy...now we're stuck on one planet (we can't even reliably get into orbit) with essentially no advanced power generation research going on.
But your dissinformation point kind of falls apart when you note that the US spent billions of dollars on SDI research. We were not treating it as a dissinformation campaign, we treated it as a technology development project. SDI-derived technology is still leaking out to this day, and will be for many years to come.
The failure of SDI had more to do with crappy management and politics then it did with any physical limits on whats doable.
Seems your initial decision to go with a proprietary solution is the problem. If a business makes a stupid decision, then they are going to have to cough up the money to dig their way out of it, one way or another.
Cobbling something together to make use of a buggy windows device driver isn't going to buy you anything. The only way to get truly bug-free software and drivers is to make all the specs free and open. And the only way to do that is to stop buying products made by stupid companies who refuse to properly document their stuff.
"Yes it's my gun, but *I* didn't shoot him! This 8 year old friend of my kids did!"
Your analogy is invalid. A gun is final hardware. Source code is information. A correct analogy would be: "Yes, those are plans for my nail gun, but I didn't shoot him..."
"Yes I wrote SATAN, but *I* didn't crack those root nameservers and bring down the net! That evil script kiddie did!"
What tools do you use to secure your machines? SATAN and tools like it are the only reason those root nameservers are still operating.
Just keep on blaming everyone else for what they do with your creations, but someday, you won't be able to pass the buck.
Do you really see no difference between raw information and the intent behind how it is used? Perhaps fire-making knowledge should be hidden, since after all, thats how arsonists burn down buildings...never mind all the other people who will freeze to death.
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Uh. Didn't actually read the article did you? Or maybe you were using lynx and didn't note the [image] on top?
So, am I worried about media consolidation? No. Am I worried about Internet censorship and Internet Provider consolidation? Yes. Actually a lot more worried.
Unfortunately for you, many of the several million americans who do get their news from television also vote.
Uh, he's not asking for free fuel. He's trying to BUY it. Both the US and New Zealand's are capitalist countries.... What happened the the much talked about free market?
And what is wrong with using existing facilities as fuel dumps? Presumably when you drive somewhere you use existing cities/towns as fuel/rest stops. You're saying this guy should have to act as if no existing human settlements exist? Essentially you're saying only the very rich or government/company backed individuals should be allowed to get anywhere near Antarctica.
Remeber that this is only a problem with CRT projectors.
One of the greatest sights in life is seeing GTA: Vice City on an
8' screen...
I work at a 21" Sony Trinitron roughly 4 days a week. I notice the wires about once a month (usually on annoying white-background web pages). My reaction is usually one of "Oh, there's the stabilization wire, huh. Wish I didn't have to squint at this bright white background."
It's still a glorious monitor. No LCD can match it's 2048x1536.
Three words: "Irish Car Bomb"
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http://www.cocktail.com/recipes/i/IrishCarBomb.ht
The linux IDE driver has an option which controls whether it masks or unmasks non-ide interrupts during disk transfers...this option makes a huge difference in the amount of cpu time disk access consumes.
Does OS X have something similar?
Selling a product while refusing to tell the purchaser how to use it counts as slimy in my book.
My mp3 player boots over the network using an eepro card using pxe...
/usr/local/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd -r blksize /tftpboot
3 _player_4 /
dhcpd --version
Internet Software Consortium DHCPD $Name: V2-BETA-1 $
Copyright 1995, 1996 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.
Usage: dhcpd [-p ] [-d] [-f] [-cf config-file]
[-lf lease-file] [if0 [...ifN]]
exiting.
(annoying that there's no version number...)
dhcpd.conf:
host music {
hardware ethernet 00:02:b3:39:b5:8e;
fixed-address 192.168.128.200;
filename "/tftpboot/pxelinux.0";
}
(once again no version can be found for the tftp program)
in inetd.conf (I think the blksize bit is important):
tftp dgram udp wait root
And pxelinux grabs the kernel itself...
http://syslinux.hackerdojo.com/pxe.php
The mp3 player itself:
http://audin.dyndns.org/camera/public/mp
It has since been replaced with an audiotron, as I didn't feel like writing software for it.
A more correct subject would be:
"Not learning from Salyut, Mir, or Skylab."
This problem has been stumbled upon and solved three times now. Each time, however, it's taken something akin to a mutiny to bring about the solution.
It'll all be worked out decently in a few weeks. ground control will go on trying to micro-manage every waking second (like they did with skylab 2) until the crew gets fed up and takes a day or two off (just like skylab...) then ground control will lighten up and start providing general task lists and useful information, not moment by moment orders.
Which communist country has ever managed to grow food sustainably? If anything communism has shown a remarkabe lack of respect for the enviornment, far exceeding even capitalism...
Our airplane fleet is indeed quite old (dangerously old according to many), but remember that these airplanes are constantly inspected and repaired... Pioneer 10 hasn't been seen by anyone since it was launched.
It's longevity is due to it's simplistic design and it's RTG power sources. The most likely reason for it's (suspected) failure is the final exausting of those RTGs. The voltage has just finally dropped below the absolute minimum necessary to power the transmitter. It's been running very close to the limit for the last several years...
DS1 is solar powered... not really much hope for it much beyond jupiter or so (and even thats really pushing it)... Deep space missions basically require nuclear energy sources, no other alternatives exist.
I used to sometimes carry around small MS-DOS executables on my HP48-Sx calculator. It had kermit, after all. Things like that marvel of utilites: Dirmagic, which was like 8K bytes.
8K? Ouch! I had a 48G...so I only had 32K to work with. I rarely had more then 3K free at any one time...what with Tetris, Columns, Xmodem, and a stack enhancer...
But if that holding tank was any indication of general design practices, Skylab was incapable of indefinite occupation.
Thats not really a strike against it, though. Skylab was not built to be replenished. It was built on a very tight budget out of left over Apollo hardware.
Given the facts that it was: a) NASA's first space station, b) built with a very small budget, c) made heavy use of old hardware (for instance, the EVA hatch was an old Gemini hatch), and they built TWO flight-worthy vehicles, it was one of NASA's most impressive achievements.
The russians didn't match it until Mir in 1981.
ISS won't match it for total habitable volume for quite some time.
And at the end of Skylab 4 (the last mission) there were supplies for another 60 days of operations.
It's too bad nasa has forgotten all they learned from the building and operation of skylab...they've managed to make almost all of the same mistakes all over again with ISS...Lets see if it takes another on-orbit mutiny to remind them of the final Skylab lession...
Wasn't it turbopump problems? I thought there were metal shavings left in some of the propellant lines...which chewed up the turbine blades...
And these guys figuring out the yield of a nuke have been doing it pretty accurately ever since Trinity.
Apart from that whole sordid Ivy Mike affair...
First, rockets back then were *gasp*! less reliable than they are now. A fault on launch, with a bomb capable of an explosion that could have been seen a few =million= miles away would have turned more than the launch-pad into toast.
Decently designed nuclear devices are not nearly that easy to set off. Even badly designed ones don't deliver full yield unless they are intentionally set off. Nuclear bombs are NOT like regular explosives...they don't just go off...the ignition sequence is very delicate...if you get it wrong usually all tha happens is you spray your nuclear materials around the general vicinity. You do not get an explosion.
Remember that several actual, live, exploding nuclear warheads HAVE been launched on rockets over the years. The US has even suffered a launch failure of at least one of these. (During the Starfish operation...one of the high-altitude shots' boosters exploded on the pad. The warhead did not go off.)
Also recognise that it wouldn't take a very large device to be visible from the earth. 5 to 10 MT should do it. Not a small explosion, by any means, but not quite big as some that were tested on earth in the 50s...
Humanity is confined to Earth and dies of stagnation...
Gee, some might argue that this is already happening... We haven't advanced much beyond 60s era technology, after all...
Ebcdic was proprietary. ASCII is a 30 or 40 year old WORLD standard...
Ebcdic is hardly unreadable even today...any unix machine has the software needed to translate it into ascii.
The only real problem is with the use of proprietary formats. Were the LoC to turn all it's books into Word documents, then we would be in trouble. But if they use an open non-binary format then they won't have any trouble at all.
The virtue of hard books is that so MANY are printed.
Uh, this only applies to mass market books. the vast majority of written works are not printed in any great numbers... The situation would be greatly improved if more books were made availble in digital formats.
I guess you don't know that some of the very first CDs pressed are already deteriorating due to delamination of the substrate.
Thats really a special case, though. The problem was caused by the fact that the aluminum layer on these early disks extended all the way from the inner edge of the hole to the outer edge of the disk. As the aluminum was exposed at these points, it would oxidize...
Modern disks have sealed edges...so this isn't a problem. There are now 20 year old CDs which are still in perfect condition.
Of course, CD-Rs haven't been tested nearly as well...
You can't own or take over parts of space - this whole thing is very wrong at a fundimental level.
Umm...why? Whats wrong with someone owning a chunk of space? There is certainly enough to go around... If nothing else, then property rights in space will encourage people to put effort into development. Would you build a home if you knew that anyone else could come along and take it from you?
Did the human race evolve to a certain point and then suddenly start to degenerate?
Well, duh! At one point a few years ago we could walk on the moon and were well on the way to infinite sources of clean energy...now we're stuck on one planet (we can't even reliably get into orbit) with essentially no advanced power generation research going on.
But your dissinformation point kind of falls apart when you note that the US spent billions of dollars on SDI research. We were not treating it as a dissinformation campaign, we treated it as a technology development project. SDI-derived technology is still leaking out to this day, and will be for many years to come.
The failure of SDI had more to do with crappy management and politics then it did with any physical limits on whats doable.
Seems your initial decision to go with a proprietary solution is the problem. If a business makes a stupid decision, then they are going to have to cough up the money to dig their way out of it, one way or another.
Cobbling something together to make use of a buggy windows device driver isn't going to buy you anything. The only way to get truly bug-free software and drivers is to make all the specs free and open. And the only way to do that is to stop buying products made by stupid companies who refuse to properly document their stuff.
The solution is simple:
Get a different SCSI interface...
"Yes it's my gun, but *I* didn't shoot him! This 8 year old friend of my kids did!"
Your analogy is invalid. A gun is final hardware. Source code is information. A correct analogy would be: "Yes, those are plans for my nail gun, but I didn't shoot him..."
"Yes I wrote SATAN, but *I* didn't crack those root nameservers and bring down the net! That evil script kiddie did!"
What tools do you use to secure your machines? SATAN and tools like it are the only reason those root nameservers are still operating.
Just keep on blaming everyone else for what they do with your creations, but someday, you won't be able to pass the buck.
Do you really see no difference between raw information and the intent behind how it is used? Perhaps fire-making knowledge should be hidden, since after all, thats how arsonists burn down buildings...never mind all the other people who will freeze to death.