Back in the 80s, the space shuttle control software was 80+mln lines
I don't know where you are getting your information, but according to this article the flight control software for the Space Shuttle is 420,000 lines. Since this software has to be perfectly debugged, 80,000,000 lines would be insane.
I recently signed up for a connection through Utopia that is both faster (15Mbps/15Mbps vs 4.5Mbps/384Kbps) and cheaper ($38 vs $48) than my previous cable connection.
Comcast and Qwest fought tooth and nail to stop Utopia, I'm glad that there are still some people that don't bend over when big corps demand it. It's about time some cities did an end run around the last-mile duopoly of the telco/cable companies. It created a level playing field for smaller companies to compete with the big boys. Currently I am only subscribing to data service but you can also get phone and television services over the network.
Community networks like Utopia prevent abuse by the major companies. Networks like this remove the last-mile leverage that is currently exerted by the existing players. Let the telcos play their "tiered internet" game, if they get too oppressive the people will just remove them from the equation.
Some people depend on their computers to feed themselves.
Anyone who is on critical life support, and has a computer controlling their feeding intervals, is most-definitely NOT running Microsoft Windows.
I believe the grandparent was referring to somebody who makes money using their computer (i.e. programmer, graphic designer, etc.), not people who have computers feed them...
...There is natural selection and sexual selection. As long as ugly people, stupid people and politians* keep getting laid we will always be a race of second rate homo sapiens.
* (also people who drive slow in the fast lane, people that try to take out a second mortgage through the ATM machine...
Also people who say "ATM machine" and "PIN number".
Also, I haven't needed to waste resources with a virus checker because I know how not to get viruses.
Also, I haven't needed to waste resources with a virus checker because I know how to spread viruses.
Fixed your post. You're welcome. (hint - the most common vectors for modern viruses are email clients and web browsers... do you have ports 25/80/110/143/443 firewalled?)
What's sad is that DesertWolf offers a reasonable response and the Slashdot community mods him down as 'Troll'. Instead of hiding behind your mod points, stand up and offer a rebuttal!
I agree. That is totally uncalled for and I hope it gets reversed in metamod. I am an athiest that thinks all religion is fantasy but to mod a post as a troll just because you don't agree with the poster's beliefs is close-minded and childish.
The current concept of HTPC can't last. The average home has multiple TVs and even more viewers...a decentralized entertainment system makes no sense at all.
I envision (using existing methods and technology) a "server" with massive amounts of storage and six or so TV decoders. It will handle all the requests for media, from live TV to DVDs (in a carousel? since they don't want us copying them) to recorded TV to music and stream those out to what amounts to a thin client connected to the TV.
Hmm, sounds like MythTV. However in MythTV, you simply rip your DVDs and CDs to storage rather than having them in a carousel. My backend only has 4 tuners and 1TB of storage, but 6 tuners and "massive storage" is certainly feasible.
Microsoft is starting to do this with the XBOX 360 and its connectivity with MCE, but the problem there is that the 360 doesn't really extend the functions; as I understand it, it only has limited playback abilities. Imagine if the 360 could connect to MCE, select a channel, and display it...or schedule a show to be recorded by the server while you continue gaming.
Yep, sounds exactly like MythTV. My frontend boxes are XBoxen, I can do what I like on the frontend while the backend is working.
My big problem with using a MCE machine is all the DRM involved. If I want to watch what I have recorded/ripped/bought wherever/whenever I like my computer shouldn't stop be from doing it by "managing my rights". My rights don't need management, they were doing just fine on their own.
We're just scratching the surface of how networking is going to affect the way we distribute and view television and movies.
The surface has been scratched and the subsurface looks good. My one worry is that as DRMed devices become more prevalent the average buyer will start to think "that's just the way it is" when they run into DRM limitations/restrictions. Give me MPEG or give me death.
I couldn't order a coffee the same way in the USA as in Australia without being called a racist
Marge: I'll just have a cup of coffee. Bartender: Beer, it is.
Marge: No, I said "coffee". Bartender: "Beer"?
Marge: [slowly] Coff-ee. Bartender: Be-er?
Marge: C -- O -- Bartender: B -- E --
such as being able to middle-click on the page and let it scroll for me (I don't know what this feature is called, but I use it a lot).
A similar annoyance for me is also my middle click, which in Mozilla is used to open the link in a new tab. While I could right click the link and select Open in new tab, the middle click has no effect. There is no way I could use this as my search engine as I almost always open possibly relevant results in a seperate tab so I can leave my search page intact.
Oh man. I sure hope you're in the group that isn't producing a lot of offspring.
Quick bullet point summary:
* Poor != stupid * Wealthy != intelligent
Actually, there are many studies that inversely correlate intelligence (or at least IQ scores) with poverty rates. While wealthy != intelligent, if you are intelligent you are more likely to be wealthy.
* Evolution != progression to a superior being * Evolution == reaction to environmental stress
Evolution is the progression to a being that is more suitable to the environment in which it resides. Superior? For the environment it is in - yes!
* Religion != absence of rational thought
You're right, religion is a "selected suspension" of rational thought;-)
If "intelligent" people are choosing not to have offspring, then their genes are commiting suicide, and good riddance.
Very true. Just because intelligence was a trait that was selected for in the past does not mean it will continue to be a useful trait in the current environment (although I suspect it still will be).
However, I would say that you wouldn't find a difference between USian and African IQs, for example (each ==100 by definition).
While it certainly isn't politically correct to say, some studies have suggested that may not be the case. However, I believe the article to which I linked mostly discusses studies of people in the US from different racial backgrounds rather than the currect regional populations. The cause of the observed differences may not be genetic in nature but it may very well be related to the "microcephaly" genes discussed in the NY Times article or other genetic factors.
I realize that's what the guide says, but do you know of such a warranty the guide says exists?
Nope, that is my point. There are many places in the guide where it describes some percieved downside to OSS when in fact it is either standard for the industry or more premissive than proprietary software.
I just mentioned it to say that commercial software doesn't indemnify it's users any more than open source software does.
According to TFA it does: Exposure to faults and intellectual property claims
25 There is a risk that open source software contains functional defects, or breaches a third party's intellectual property rights (e.g. where it contains code misappropriated from proprietary software or functionality in breach of a patent). The absence of warranties and indemnities in most open source licences means the licensee bears this risk. This can be contrasted with the protection usually available under commercial software licences. `
instead of actually showing us as much of as many events as possible (the reason I want to watch the Olympics), they waste precious hours of their limited coverage with lame feel-good stories that TV reporters seem to love so much.
You must be new here....
Seriously, I cannot remember an Olympics where the "human interest" stories were not the bulk of the coverage. I doubt NBC has cornered this market.
Think about email applications, Internet-aware clients like the AOL Explorer or even Microsoft Money that use IE to render HTML in the application.
Am I the only one who doesn't want my financial package rendering HTML from the internet?
For example, when a remote site is accessed, the site will not have privileges to install software, copy files to the user's Startup folder, or hijack the settings for the browser's homepage or search provider.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH. This is a NEW feature???????????????? Why the hell does a website EVER need any of these capabilities?
The other thing added is something we call protected admin. This is a mode that administrators run in by default. If someone is configured as an admin, their basic execution happens as a standard user. When they try to do something that requires the administrator privilege, the system prompts them to see if they want to elevate to admin to complete the task, and if they consent, just that task is elevated (this is more secure that SUPERUSR ON in Unix that elevates the entire session). When the task completes, the high privileged process is torn down. The system can also be configured to require a password on elevation.
Well, at least they finally figured out how to use sudo.
designed for developers to kick the proverbal tires and then comparing them to the full version of MySQL.
The DBs they showed from IBM and Oracle ran into the thousands of dollars for licensing. I don't know where you work, but where I work I am not allowed to spend thousands of dollars to "kick the tires".
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Back in the 80s, the space shuttle control software was 80+mln lines
I don't know where you are getting your information, but according to this article the flight control software for the Space Shuttle is 420,000 lines. Since this software has to be perfectly debugged, 80,000,000 lines would be insane.
I recently signed up for a connection through Utopia that is both faster (15Mbps/15Mbps vs 4.5Mbps/384Kbps) and cheaper ($38 vs $48) than my previous cable connection.
Comcast and Qwest fought tooth and nail to stop Utopia, I'm glad that there are still some people that don't bend over when big corps demand it. It's about time some cities did an end run around the last-mile duopoly of the telco/cable companies. It created a level playing field for smaller companies to compete with the big boys. Currently I am only subscribing to data service but you can also get phone and television services over the network.
Community networks like Utopia prevent abuse by the major companies. Networks like this remove the last-mile leverage that is currently exerted by the existing players. Let the telcos play their "tiered internet" game, if they get too oppressive the people will just remove them from the equation.
I can get 10Mbps cable modem service right now ($44.95/mo)
Is that 10 Mbps both ways or just downstream?
Some people depend on their computers to feed themselves.
Anyone who is on critical life support, and has a computer controlling their feeding intervals, is most-definitely NOT running Microsoft Windows.
I believe the grandparent was referring to somebody who makes money using their computer (i.e. programmer, graphic designer, etc.), not people who have computers feed them...
PI numbers ?
Nah, that would never work. The number to access anyone's bank account would be 3.141 (although in Kansas it would just be 3).
...There is natural selection and sexual selection. As long as ugly people, stupid people and politians* keep getting laid we will always be a race of second rate homo sapiens.
* (also people who drive slow in the fast lane, people that try to take out a second mortgage through the ATM machine...
Also people who say "ATM machine" and "PIN number".
Also, I haven't needed to waste resources with a virus checker because I know how not to get viruses.
Also, I haven't needed to waste resources with a virus checker because I know how to spread viruses.
Fixed your post. You're welcome. (hint - the most common vectors for modern viruses are email clients and web browsers... do you have ports 25/80/110/143/443 firewalled?)
I agree. That is totally uncalled for and I hope it gets reversed in metamod. I am an athiest that thinks all religion is fantasy but to mod a post as a troll just because you don't agree with the poster's beliefs is close-minded and childish.
who else does this? I have been looking for something like this.
MythTV
Hmm, sounds like MythTV. However in MythTV, you simply rip your DVDs and CDs to storage rather than having them in a carousel. My backend only has 4 tuners and 1TB of storage, but 6 tuners and "massive storage" is certainly feasible.
Microsoft is starting to do this with the XBOX 360 and its connectivity with MCE, but the problem there is that the 360 doesn't really extend the functions; as I understand it, it only has limited playback abilities. Imagine if the 360 could connect to MCE, select a channel, and display it...or schedule a show to be recorded by the server while you continue gaming.
Yep, sounds exactly like MythTV. My frontend boxes are XBoxen, I can do what I like on the frontend while the backend is working. My big problem with using a MCE machine is all the DRM involved. If I want to watch what I have recorded/ripped/bought wherever/whenever I like my computer shouldn't stop be from doing it by "managing my rights". My rights don't need management, they were doing just fine on their own.
We're just scratching the surface of how networking is going to affect the way we distribute and view television and movies.
The surface has been scratched and the subsurface looks good. My one worry is that as DRMed devices become more prevalent the average buyer will start to think "that's just the way it is" when they run into DRM limitations/restrictions. Give me MPEG or give me death.
You see that already with the XBox hacks, XBox 360 and Windows Media Center, and networked DVD players
... and MythTV, which has worked that way since it's inception several years ago.
notification when you get a new email, or caller ID information shown on your TV
MythTV already does this (and has better PVR features than the telcos/cablecos).
I couldn't order a coffee the same way in the USA as in Australia without being called a racist
Marge: I'll just have a cup of coffee.
Bartender: Beer, it is.
Marge: No, I said "coffee".
Bartender: "Beer"?
Marge: [slowly] Coff-ee.
Bartender: Be-er?
Marge: C -- O --
Bartender: B -- E --
So how do you order a cup of coffee "down under"?
such as being able to middle-click on the page and let it scroll for me (I don't know what this feature is called, but I use it a lot).
A similar annoyance for me is also my middle click, which in Mozilla is used to open the link in a new tab. While I could right click the link and select Open in new tab, the middle click has no effect. There is no way I could use this as my search engine as I almost always open possibly relevant results in a seperate tab so I can leave my search page intact.
Oh man. I sure hope you're in the group that isn't producing a lot of offspring.
;-)
Quick bullet point summary:
* Poor != stupid
* Wealthy != intelligent
Actually, there are many studies that inversely correlate intelligence (or at least IQ scores) with poverty rates. While wealthy != intelligent, if you are intelligent you are more likely to be wealthy.
* Evolution != progression to a superior being
* Evolution == reaction to environmental stress
Evolution is the progression to a being that is more suitable to the environment in which it resides. Superior? For the environment it is in - yes!
* Religion != absence of rational thought
You're right, religion is a "selected suspension" of rational thought
If "intelligent" people are choosing not to have offspring, then their genes are commiting suicide, and good riddance.
Very true. Just because intelligence was a trait that was selected for in the past does not mean it will continue to be a useful trait in the current environment (although I suspect it still will be).
However, I would say that you wouldn't find a difference between USian and African IQs, for example (each ==100 by definition).
While it certainly isn't politically correct to say, some studies have suggested that may not be the case. However, I believe the article to which I linked mostly discusses studies of people in the US from different racial backgrounds rather than the currect regional populations. The cause of the observed differences may not be genetic in nature but it may very well be related to the "microcephaly" genes discussed in the NY Times article or other genetic factors.
While I can't speak for The Core
<pedantic>
Isn't that The Corps?
</pedantic>
I realize that's what the guide says, but do you know of such a warranty the guide says exists?
Nope, that is my point. There are many places in the guide where it describes some percieved downside to OSS when in fact it is either standard for the industry or more premissive than proprietary software.
I just mentioned it to say that commercial software doesn't indemnify it's users any more than open source software does.
According to TFA it does:
Exposure to faults and intellectual property claims
25 There is a risk that open source software contains functional defects, or breaches a third party's intellectual property rights (e.g. where it contains code misappropriated from proprietary software or functionality in breach of a patent). The absence of warranties and indemnities in most open source licences means the licensee bears this risk. This can be contrasted with the protection usually available under commercial software licences. `
(my emphasis)
Actually from TFA: "this guide was prepared for the State Services Commission (SSC) by Chapmann Tripp" (my emphasis).
And if you browse Chapman-Tripp's website you'll notice a prominent client:
Advising Microsoft Corporation on a number of e-commerce initiatives.
I don't notice any open-source companies in their list of clients, what makes this firm an expert in open source?
instead of actually showing us as much of as many events as possible (the reason I want to watch the Olympics), they waste precious hours of their limited coverage with lame feel-good stories that TV reporters seem to love so much.
You must be new here....
Seriously, I cannot remember an Olympics where the "human interest" stories were not the bulk of the coverage. I doubt NBC has cornered this market.
Think about email applications, Internet-aware clients like the AOL Explorer or even Microsoft Money that use IE to render HTML in the application.
G GGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH. This is a NEW feature???????????????? Why the hell does a website EVER need any of these capabilities?
Am I the only one who doesn't want my financial package rendering HTML from the internet?
For example, when a remote site is accessed, the site will not have privileges to install software, copy files to the user's Startup folder, or hijack the settings for the browser's homepage or search provider.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGG
The other thing added is something we call protected admin. This is a mode that administrators run in by default. If someone is configured as an admin, their basic execution happens as a standard user. When they try to do something that requires the administrator privilege, the system prompts them to see if they want to elevate to admin to complete the task, and if they consent, just that task is elevated (this is more secure that SUPERUSR ON in Unix that elevates the entire session). When the task completes, the high privileged process is torn down. The system can also be configured to require a password on elevation.
Well, at least they finally figured out how to use sudo.
In roulette, you wouldn't bet on the numbers if they only paid even money, instead of 36-to-1.
Or, if you know how to do math you wouldn't play roulette at all.
designed for developers to kick the proverbal tires and then comparing them to the full version of MySQL.
The DBs they showed from IBM and Oracle ran into the thousands of dollars for licensing. I don't know where you work, but where I work I am not allowed to spend thousands of dollars to "kick the tires".
if you are giving up your rights such as freedom of speech to attend a university then you must be compensated somehow.
How about compensated with an education? Although, in my mind the value of an education from this particular school just dropped...