Konfabulator makes every applet a complete application, with all the memory and startup overhead of an application. Scripts and desk accessories should be lightweight, not full-sized applications.
The purpose of Dashboard is to have little widgets (ie Konfabulator) that are quick to look at and get rid of.
Being *able* to get rid of them (like, say, pulldowns from the menu) is useful. being *forced* to is a different kettle of marine animals of your choice.
That would completely destroy the purpose of Dashboard.
The purpose of Dashboard is to have a better scripting API for making nice-looking gadgets. Having those gadgets vanish whenever you work on regular apps so you can't, like REFER to them... that's so stupid I can't think of a good analogy for it. It's stupid as... a stupid thing... something very stupid...
I'm looking forward to whoever is the first to liberate Dashboard applets from the stupid Dashboard layer and let them intermingle with the rest of the world.
if in the 1800's people had managed to find a high density propelant they should have devoted a significant fraction of their resources to building colonies on the moon out of welded metal and rivets?
They spent the resources on finding out how to live in Antarctica long enough to get to the South Pole... which is in many ways a harsher environment for them than the moon is for us. If they could have made it to the moon, I imagine they would have tried... it was that kind of time. Who knows, maybe we would have Cavorite-powered Mars shuttles by now...
Soon as you can convince the people who control the money that it would be profitable or entertaining to let you. That's the REAL missing component, after all.
On the other hand, if we DO do it now, and all human life on Earth is destroyed in the same time frame, the colonies will slowly starve to death, because they are not yet self-sustaining.
The longer we wait, the less chance we have for getting the colonies self-sustaining before Lucifer's Hammer hits. See, "because they are not yet self-sustaining" becomes an eternally self-fulfilling prophecy as long as you make that a requirement before you start working on a colony...
My body contains many adaptations to deal with living in a cold climate. Those adaptations include a brain that can figure out how to put on clothing when it is cold. (Though my body doesn't need as much as someone more equipped for a more temperate region)
Well, how about that. YOU have evolved the necessary adaptations for living in space! How about that?
You're forgetting that billions of years of evolution have equiped us to deal quite well with the conditions found here on Earth and nowhere else in the solar system.
The post I was responding to claimed that there is NO REAL ESTATE ON EARTH as hard to deal with as that in space. None. Well, that's not true... billions of years of evolution have suited us well to temperate forests and plains. A few thousand years of technology have taken care of the rest. Humans are not suited to survive in the arctic, in the desert, on coral attols, on the great plains or in the himalayas. It takes technology to deal with the heat and the cold, the lack of natural fresh water, and there are parts of the Earth, like Siberia in the winter, where even space suits aren't good enough... places that people live and are harsher... except for the presence of "oxygen too cheap to meter"... than the surface of Mars.
If you want people to only live where they have evolved to live, then let's hurry up and abandon the majority of the USA, large portions of South America, Canada, most of Europe, most of Russia, and go back to Central America, Africa, and South Asia.
I can't think of a better Episode I or II plot outline
Leaving out C3PO and R2D2 would have been an instant win. They're only there for geek fan service, and they don't need to be there and don't make a lot of sense unless you have them basically being killed (wiped, reprogrammed, whatever) which is a pretty cold thing to do to such likable and inexplicably lucky characters. The droids also made Anakin too much a polymath... Darth Vader is powerful in the force, charismatic, and a whiz-bang pilot, but there's no indication in the original series that he's a freakishly brilliant technical guy as well. It's unnecessary (even for the pod racing sequence) and only there to retcon the droids in.
The worst real estate on earth is better than the best anywhere else in the solar system.
Is it? let's see:
Gravity. Earth has the strongest surface gravity of any accessible real estate in the system. This means that just moving around puts more strain on your system than anywheer else you're likely to be able to live.
Atmosphere. The thick atmosphere means that you can save a little on radiation shielding: you can get away with a few inches of brick or wood instead of a few meters of stone. Still, stone is pretty cheap on any large-body surfaces.
Life support. Most places on earth you need less complex life-support systems than in space, but you can't get away with them altogether except in fairly narrow temperate bands. Plus, you need to be prepared for unexpected and unpredictable changes in temperature, pressure, and humidity... so even your industrial plant and other secondary life-support systems need radiation and chemical sheilding.
No, there's really only one sense in which Earth's surface is more hospitable... the oxygen is too cheap to meter! Other resources, though, are comparably difficult or MUCH more difficult to acquire. You wouldn't believe what Earthlings have to do to get electricity, for example, with that heavy atmosphere blocking most of the radiation from the sun.
Ove the very short term, until there's an ongoing space-based economy, life support will be a big problem. Long term, though, it's a minor issue.
Is it just me, or is the idea of weapon systems build on opensource software troubleing?
It's just you, and in any case LynxOS isn't open source... it just provides linux emulation so you can run non-open-source Linux applications on top of it.
So you can sleep easy, because your basic assumptions are all wrong: FOSS isn't less secure, and this isn't FOSS anyway.
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Why would I want to see Dashboard widgets all the time?
Not "all the time" but "some of the time that you're working on other windows".
Calendar, flight info, weather, I can see situations where you'd want to keep an eye on or refer to all of these while you're working on other things.
Simply open the package in the browser and it's liberated.
I hope not, the security implications of being able to have full local system access from browser applets are Microsoftian at best.
Konfabulator makes every applet a complete application, with all the memory and startup overhead of an application. Scripts and desk accessories should be lightweight, not full-sized applications.
The purpose of Dashboard is to have little widgets (ie Konfabulator) that are quick to look at and get rid of.
Being *able* to get rid of them (like, say, pulldowns from the menu) is useful. being *forced* to is a different kettle of marine animals of your choice.
That would completely destroy the purpose of Dashboard.
... that's so stupid I can't think of a good analogy for it. It's stupid as... a stupid thing... something very stupid...
The purpose of Dashboard is to have a better scripting API for making nice-looking gadgets. Having those gadgets vanish whenever you work on regular apps so you can't, like REFER to them
I'm especially looking forward to Dashboard
Why? It's pure eye-candy.
I'm looking forward to whoever is the first to liberate Dashboard applets from the stupid Dashboard layer and let them intermingle with the rest of the world.
if in the 1800's people had managed to find a high density propelant they should have devoted a significant fraction of their resources to building colonies on the moon out of welded metal and rivets?
They spent the resources on finding out how to live in Antarctica long enough to get to the South Pole... which is in many ways a harsher environment for them than the moon is for us. If they could have made it to the moon, I imagine they would have tried... it was that kind of time. Who knows, maybe we would have Cavorite-powered Mars shuttles by now...
Cool! When do I get to go?
Soon as you can convince the people who control the money that it would be profitable or entertaining to let you. That's the REAL missing component, after all.
If you did episodes 7-9, though, you'd need whole new characters
...
Keanu Reeves as Han Solo.
McCauly Culkin as Luke Skywalker.
On the other hand, if we DO do it now, and all human life on Earth is destroyed in the same time frame, the colonies will slowly starve to death, because they are not yet self-sustaining.
The longer we wait, the less chance we have for getting the colonies self-sustaining before Lucifer's Hammer hits. See, "because they are not yet self-sustaining" becomes an eternally self-fulfilling prophecy as long as you make that a requirement before you start working on a colony...
FreeBSD is the most polished and user-friendly BSD for your x86 box, by far.
My body contains many adaptations to deal with living in a cold climate. Those adaptations include a brain that can figure out how to put on clothing when it is cold. (Though my body doesn't need as much as someone more equipped for a more temperate region)
Well, how about that. YOU have evolved the necessary adaptations for living in space! How about that?
Very will, "killall(), root will know his own."
Lucas ... will not do episodes 7-9.
OK, how about the Wacharski Brothers then?
"Mister... Skywalker. It seems... you have been leading... two lives...."
You're forgetting that billions of years of evolution have equiped us to deal quite well with the conditions found here on Earth and nowhere else in the solar system.
The post I was responding to claimed that there is NO REAL ESTATE ON EARTH as hard to deal with as that in space. None. Well, that's not true... billions of years of evolution have suited us well to temperate forests and plains. A few thousand years of technology have taken care of the rest. Humans are not suited to survive in the arctic, in the desert, on coral attols, on the great plains or in the himalayas. It takes technology to deal with the heat and the cold, the lack of natural fresh water, and there are parts of the Earth, like Siberia in the winter, where even space suits aren't good enough... places that people live and are harsher... except for the presence of "oxygen too cheap to meter"... than the surface of Mars.
If you want people to only live where they have evolved to live, then let's hurry up and abandon the majority of the USA, large portions of South America, Canada, most of Europe, most of Russia, and go back to Central America, Africa, and South Asia.
I can't think of a better Episode I or II plot outline
Leaving out C3PO and R2D2 would have been an instant win. They're only there for geek fan service, and they don't need to be there and don't make a lot of sense unless you have them basically being killed (wiped, reprogrammed, whatever) which is a pretty cold thing to do to such likable and inexplicably lucky characters. The droids also made Anakin too much a polymath... Darth Vader is powerful in the force, charismatic, and a whiz-bang pilot, but there's no indication in the original series that he's a freakishly brilliant technical guy as well. It's unnecessary (even for the pod racing sequence) and only there to retcon the droids in.
Peter Sellers wouldn't have been half bad...
"I'd like a errhm for my druhhhd."
"A what...?"
"A errrhm... for me... and my druhhhd."
"Your what...?"
The worst real estate on earth is better than the best anywhere else in the solar system.
Is it? let's see:
Gravity. Earth has the strongest surface gravity of any accessible real estate in the system. This means that just moving around puts more strain on your system than anywheer else you're likely to be able to live.
Atmosphere. The thick atmosphere means that you can save a little on radiation shielding: you can get away with a few inches of brick or wood instead of a few meters of stone. Still, stone is pretty cheap on any large-body surfaces.
Life support. Most places on earth you need less complex life-support systems than in space, but you can't get away with them altogether except in fairly narrow temperate bands. Plus, you need to be prepared for unexpected and unpredictable changes in temperature, pressure, and humidity... so even your industrial plant and other secondary life-support systems need radiation and chemical sheilding.
No, there's really only one sense in which Earth's surface is more hospitable... the oxygen is too cheap to meter! Other resources, though, are comparably difficult or MUCH more difficult to acquire. You wouldn't believe what Earthlings have to do to get electricity, for example, with that heavy atmosphere blocking most of the radiation from the sun.
Ove the very short term, until there's an ongoing space-based economy, life support will be a big problem. Long term, though, it's a minor issue.
The question is whether it makes sense to send people into space now.
The question is whether if we don't do it now we'll be able to do it later.
Oh, I'm in perfect agreement with you. I was just noting to the OP that Windows had "hippie code" in it as well.
That would be "born to kill()" or "killall() and let god sort them out".
Wouldn't it piss off SCO no end if someone produced a scorun app?
FreeBSD provides both SCO and Linux emulation using a similar technique.
I'm hoping FCS switches back to looking at Red Hat - at least they have a track record.
:)
My experience with Red Hat is that I wouldn't wish the military involved with that track record...
At least you didn't say they have a good one.
If Linux is modified as part of this program,
RTFA, Linux isn't even involved except as an emulated environment.
Is it just me, or is the idea of weapon systems build on opensource software troubleing?
It's just you, and in any case LynxOS isn't open source... it just provides linux emulation so you can run non-open-source Linux applications on top of it.
So you can sleep easy, because your basic assumptions are all wrong: FOSS isn't less secure, and this isn't FOSS anyway.