this will allow me to pretend to be someone else, and be trusted as such. Think about it, this is hardware whose state is gathered by software and used as authentication information. Devices can be emulated, and I could change my identity every few seconds.
Have a wireless broadcast only network throughout the area, and use the lights strictly for location information and downloading to the palm. It would be easy to have a master computer doing everything. Even alerting emergency prodedures to individuals.
Not enough atmosphere on the moon, and if you think we will build city's under a dome, you are crazy. The moon is not a good place to colonize. Maybe we would be able to colonize mars, but then again, the atmospheric pressure on mars is something like 1/8 that on earth. Also, Mars, being more than twice the distance from the sun that the earth is gets 1/4 of the sunlight intensity. The atmosphere is thinner, but thus far we haven't really identified how bright the sunlight is on the surface of mars. On the moon, because there is no real atmosphere, the sunlight is extreemly bright (200+ degrees in direct light). So, if we did colonize the moon, we would need to make a moving enclosed colony, which would be always on the edge of the sunlight as to make it survivable.
Hold on a second, they can make thier own internal changes, and they can choose to keep thier changes internal and not distribute thier modified GPL'd code. Remember, just because software is GPL'd doesn't mean that if I modify it I need to distribute my changes. That is complete ludricusy, and this is the issue which needs to be emphasised to prevent MS FUK like this from being believed by business execs. They will be happy that thier internal people can tailor the software to suit thier needs.
Ok, we need to think more about this. Does anyone know who is being hurt by napster? The artists aren't really hurt, because they increase thier listening population and it allows them to fill venues at thier concerts, except for the huge block buster artists whose shows are always sold out. Therefore, the artists are not especially hurt by Napster usage. The RIAA record labels, on the other hand, are. Remember, these are companies which do not make a penny unless the music is purchased, and music downloaded is not music purchased. They want artists like britney spears, which gets pushed on the radio like nobody's business, to be sucessful. What about bands whose music is not played on the radio? They don't want them to suceede. That is why they kill napster, not because they are losing money, they want to defend thier business as being the only source of music. The Radio is a HUGE advertising scheme for them, they make money on the sales of the music to the radio station, and they reap the benifits when the music is played repetivly until people buy the music. It has nothing to do with music to them, its about profit. When is there going to be a lawsuit against the RIAA for dominating the radio medium? Probally never, they are the only music anyone has ever known.
why the hell does everyone think slackware is so damn advanced of a linux distribution? I've been using slackware for 7 years, I believe that is since slack 2.0, and I never thought slackware as being difficult to handle in any way. The installation is easier than anyone's goofy GUI installs. I tried installing mandrake once because I had a CD, it was such a pain in the ass, I downloaded the slackware tree and stuck it on one of my partitions. debian was the same way, the installation sucked.
Ok, people, look at your refridgirator, air conditioner, or something please. How do they work? The "coolant" is cooled by being highly presurized (squeezing heat out) and then quickly depresurized, causing it to absorb a great deal of heat. Any student of thermodynamics would be able to tell you that. So, what they will do with the liquid nitrogen is exactly what they do in your air conditioner, except capable of cooling to levels which the freon or amonia (some ac's) would freeze solid. Why do you think this liquid nitrogen will ever exist at room temperature after it is initially cooled. Refrigerant/ac systems use internally cycled refrigerant, which always stays cold. Better performing AC's use a method observed in fish's gills increase O2 intake, running un-oxygenated and oxygenated blood in oposite directions through the gills. The same could be done with liquid nitrogen, running it both ways through a bi-layered pipe, or a pipe composed of woven tubes.
Closed source, closed ears. By that I mean that customer service persons do not care if a customer finds a serious bug in the software, and doesn't listen. I've tried to find the source for windows on sunsite.unc.edu and cdrom.com so I would be able to fix some glaring programming errors which I could identify from the behavior of the binary release. Oh, well, I guess I'll just not use it, its like a car which I need to replace every 3000 miles, because they forgot to put an oil plug in the oil pan.
Microsoft, start listening to your customers, maybe then they will listen to you.
Ok, so we all see that cisco et. all what to make ipv6 happen, but can't afford to promote it until everyone on the internet is owning them, or forced to own that particular hardware. From thier point of view, until people start requesting this hardware, we can't afford to make that hardware.
Now look at it from the part of the internet as a whole. Make it so that the top level of the internet only speaks ipv6. The ipv4 protocol of the lower network hierchy will need to be NAT'd to ipv6 addressing and packets modified as required. This could work, but it would require amazing machines for converting protocols on the fly, but I think with a creative use of division of labour, it could be acomplished sucessfully.
This would likely cause performance problems for networks outside of the core of the internet, whoever, you could just push the adoption of real ipv6 further down the network heirachy, until even the end users are using ipv6.
This would solve everyone's problems, because internet traffic would always be ipv6, but relatively local network traffic could remain in an ipv4 block of adresses. Each subdivision would be able to use the entier range of ipv4 adresses space, so nobody in the smaller portions of the network would need to change over right away. Softening the economic blow to the majority of the internet.
I could see small ipv4 network segments surviving for at least 10 years, while the core internet traffic is exclusively ipv6.
we all know that mir is very large, but, why didn't they divide it up for re-entry. Small pieces would burn up on re-entry, while large pieces would make it to earth. Mir is in what, 10 pieces, all hooked together. Wouldn't it make sense to send each individual piece down seperately? When I was in high school, I was able to tour a rejected mir module, which a russian friend of mine helped engineer. They are not very large, about the size of a vw mini-bus or two for the longer sections.
Ok, maybe nobody's thought of this, I guess I'll need to patent it.:)
Oh shit, I'll need to pay royalties on that:) thingie.
Anyhow, to get on with the rant, what I really want is a small device which has a simple keyboard and a pen-like pointing device that I can run vncviewer or X on. That way, I would be able to use my computer while someone else is using it. It would be a simple device, no real capabilities, just network and the ability to run one or two simple programs.
The best part, is that I would be able to write a paper while my girlfriend is serfing the web and my mother is writing email to her friends.
Listen to what the consumers want, I already have a computer, so enhance the way I use my computer, not develop a device to replace my computer.
Please?
cummon, if the consumer is going to buy it, the hardware company should listen to them and what they want.
Dood, no oxygen. Think about it. When the rock is vaporized at the bottom, there will be oxygen, but not a significant amount, as most of it would be tied up in compounds. Would there be an explosion? Probally, will it be strong enough to do more than cough, no.
Cummon, we all know that the pacific ocean as a whole has been cooling over the last 15 years, especially cooler in the past 2 years. They were measuring as if the ocean temperature was constant, we all know that it was not. Not all of the changes in their readings would be due to changes in the atmosphere. This is fud.
I understood that the goal of tile based rendering would be that the tiles would be able to be devided between multiple cpu's so the tiles could be rendered in parallel. OR is this just the future of tile based rendering? Graphics chip designers really have an advantage over cpu's, they can easilly provide enough registers on thier gpu's as well as very small instruction sets. Lucky bastards.
This reminds me of an idea which I had for a multi-cpu machine, which would be faster than other current multicpu systems. It was observed that simple cpu's can run a great deal quicker than more complicated cpu's. I think this technology would work well for this idea for a cpu.
My idea was to have a single datapipeline and two exception pipelines. Lay them out like parallel roads and lay a bunch of brutally simple cpu's along the opposite sides of the data pipeline (center). Have the two "exception" pipelines go directly to the front at the input side of the pipeline. These pipelines would need to be very complicated, they would need to understand wether they are holding data, instructions, or nothing. If they are holding nothing, they need to be able to signal the previous stage in the pipeline to come down the pipe one. This will be come obvious in a second.
The simple cpu's will need to read in an instruction from the pipeline, and two optional data words. (at this time the pipeline will need to forward to the last empty spot before the next instruction.) They will then perform thier calculation and output the result onto the pipeline. Any exceptions generated (or new instructions?) could be output onto the exception pipeline to be reinserted at the input side of the pipeline. Having 8 cpu's in such a system would allow the cpu's to operate, however, having fast enough pipeline throughput would be a major problem.
I couldn't think of solutions to some of the hard questions this idea gave me, I just don't know enough about the electronics and what they can do. I was hoping that the speed limit on the input pipeline would be able to be fast enough that instructions would always be available. However, I also thought that it would allow for a very efficient cpu. While the system was idle, there wouldn't be very many instructions on the pipeline, and nearly all of those could be handled by the first couple of cpu's on the pipeline, allowing the others to lie dormant. This sounds a lot like a turing machine, doesn't it!
I studied the carbon buckyballs for a while once, and as the class was going through it I asked the question of if a buckyball could be used as an effective transistor. The professor was not positive, but he hypothized that the carbon shell would protect atoms inside too well, and would end up being far to unreliable to use as a transistor component. However, he said if carbon had a lesser electron affinity, it might work. Silicon fits into this category.
I am often amazed by how quickly kde/gnome development occurs, considering how many developers there are and how many new ideas they implement.
However, if these two projects were merged it would not work. They have many fundamental differences, differences that would nearly require one project to be completely dumped. We all agree that this would not be a good thing.
I am a KDE user, and I am damn proud of it, but many of my friends use gnome, which is thier preference (its too slow for me).
The competition between the two projects has had an effect on each of them, encouraging adoptation of similar ideas, and generation of new ideas, ideas which might not have made it into the source code otherwise.
The competition between kde and gnome is a good thing, even if both groups didn't care about the existence of each other, it is nice to have more than one option.
Those of you calling for a merging of kde and gnome, think about this, what if we merged the linux kernel and a bsd kernel. It probally wouldn't work for a few years. Think about it.
They just patened a tech (is it?) that I have been using on one of my programming projects for almost two years. Yes, I did write a web based email application. Now that they have a patent on something which I use, what the hell do I do?
Last semester I had the privlidge of knowing a student who worked with the engineers at NASA on the US version of this project.
He talked quite a bit about how cheap the engine is to make, its very simple, with no moving parts, so it shouldn't be expensive to make.
However, making a cargo area large enough to carry anything of consequence is very expensive.
It is expensive because very few materials hold up very well at such high speeds, and essentially requred engineering a new technology to withstand the extreeme pressure felt at the tip of the craft.
Think about it, this is intended to handle speeds far greater than the mach 7.6 speed the aussies are testing thier engine at.
Um, the radiation is not the largest problem caused by nuclear holocaust, the largest problem is the effects nuclear holocaust would have on the atmosphere, causing heat from the sun to be reflected in to space, leaving the surface of the earth very cold. These bugs will not be able to generate enough heat to keep us alive. They can seperate dangerous metals from soil and storage facilities, which is very good, but we still all die in nuclear holocaust. If we could find a way to keep us warm and make food, all would be good.
In the event of a nuclear holocaust we would need to develop a widescale heating and food creation system in a very short time, just a guess, but maybe about a year or two.
The dinosaurs didn't survive the cooling of the earth due to atmospheric changes, we might be able to survive it, but with no preperation in advance, I doubt it.
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I can understand high prices, partly, they do have very large development and research costs. Its the companies that make generic drugs, pay no research or development, and sell them at 75% the price of the companies that developed them that makes me sick. They should be charging 25% or less, not so damn much.
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this will allow me to pretend to be someone else, and be trusted as such. Think about it, this is hardware whose state is gathered by software and used as authentication information. Devices can be emulated, and I could change my identity every few seconds.
Have a wireless broadcast only network throughout the area, and use the lights strictly for location information and downloading to the palm. It would be easy to have a master computer doing everything. Even alerting emergency prodedures to individuals.
Not enough atmosphere on the moon, and if you think we will build city's under a dome, you are crazy. The moon is not a good place to colonize. Maybe we would be able to colonize mars, but then again, the atmospheric pressure on mars is something like 1/8 that on earth. Also, Mars, being more than twice the distance from the sun that the earth is gets 1/4 of the sunlight intensity. The atmosphere is thinner, but thus far we haven't really identified how bright the sunlight is on the surface of mars. On the moon, because there is no real atmosphere, the sunlight is extreemly bright (200+ degrees in direct light). So, if we did colonize the moon, we would need to make a moving enclosed colony, which would be always on the edge of the sunlight as to make it survivable.
Hold on a second, they can make thier own internal changes, and they can choose to keep thier changes internal and not distribute thier modified GPL'd code. Remember, just because software is GPL'd doesn't mean that if I modify it I need to distribute my changes. That is complete ludricusy, and this is the issue which needs to be emphasised to prevent MS FUK like this from being believed by business execs. They will be happy that thier internal people can tailor the software to suit thier needs.
Ok, we need to think more about this. Does anyone know who is being hurt by napster? The artists aren't really hurt, because they increase thier listening population and it allows them to fill venues at thier concerts, except for the huge block buster artists whose shows are always sold out. Therefore, the artists are not especially hurt by Napster usage. The RIAA record labels, on the other hand, are. Remember, these are companies which do not make a penny unless the music is purchased, and music downloaded is not music purchased. They want artists like britney spears, which gets pushed on the radio like nobody's business, to be sucessful. What about bands whose music is not played on the radio? They don't want them to suceede. That is why they kill napster, not because they are losing money, they want to defend thier business as being the only source of music. The Radio is a HUGE advertising scheme for them, they make money on the sales of the music to the radio station, and they reap the benifits when the music is played repetivly until people buy the music. It has nothing to do with music to them, its about profit. When is there going to be a lawsuit against the RIAA for dominating the radio medium? Probally never, they are the only music anyone has ever known.
I see nothing wrong with an author of OSS from wanting to maintain a little bit of control over thier software.
why the hell does everyone think slackware is so damn advanced of a linux distribution? I've been using slackware for 7 years, I believe that is since slack 2.0, and I never thought slackware as being difficult to handle in any way. The installation is easier than anyone's goofy GUI installs. I tried installing mandrake once because I had a CD, it was such a pain in the ass, I downloaded the slackware tree and stuck it on one of my partitions. debian was the same way, the installation sucked.
anyone else ever notice that internet explorer 5.5+ doesn't properly handle pragma: no-cache? hmm, maybe shitty software? Nah
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Ok, people, look at your refridgirator, air conditioner, or something please. How do they work? The "coolant" is cooled by being highly presurized (squeezing heat out) and then quickly depresurized, causing it to absorb a great deal of heat. Any student of thermodynamics would be able to tell you that. So, what they will do with the liquid nitrogen is exactly what they do in your air conditioner, except capable of cooling to levels which the freon or amonia (some ac's) would freeze solid. Why do you think this liquid nitrogen will ever exist at room temperature after it is initially cooled. Refrigerant/ac systems use internally cycled refrigerant, which always stays cold. Better performing AC's use a method observed in fish's gills increase O2 intake, running un-oxygenated and oxygenated blood in oposite directions through the gills. The same could be done with liquid nitrogen, running it both ways through a bi-layered pipe, or a pipe composed of woven tubes.
Closed source, closed ears. By that I mean that customer service persons do not care if a customer finds a serious bug in the software, and doesn't listen. I've tried to find the source for windows on sunsite.unc.edu and cdrom.com so I would be able to fix some glaring programming errors which I could identify from the behavior of the binary release. Oh, well, I guess I'll just not use it, its like a car which I need to replace every 3000 miles, because they forgot to put an oil plug in the oil pan.
Microsoft, start listening to your customers, maybe then they will listen to you.
Now look at it from the part of the internet as a whole. Make it so that the top level of the internet only speaks ipv6. The ipv4 protocol of the lower network hierchy will need to be NAT'd to ipv6 addressing and packets modified as required. This could work, but it would require amazing machines for converting protocols on the fly, but I think with a creative use of division of labour, it could be acomplished sucessfully.
This would likely cause performance problems for networks outside of the core of the internet, whoever, you could just push the adoption of real ipv6 further down the network heirachy, until even the end users are using ipv6.
This would solve everyone's problems, because internet traffic would always be ipv6, but relatively local network traffic could remain in an ipv4 block of adresses. Each subdivision would be able to use the entier range of ipv4 adresses space, so nobody in the smaller portions of the network would need to change over right away. Softening the economic blow to the majority of the internet.
I could see small ipv4 network segments surviving for at least 10 years, while the core internet traffic is exclusively ipv6.
Now lets see it happen.
we all know that mir is very large, but, why didn't they divide it up for re-entry. Small pieces would burn up on re-entry, while large pieces would make it to earth. Mir is in what, 10 pieces, all hooked together. Wouldn't it make sense to send each individual piece down seperately? When I was in high school, I was able to tour a rejected mir module, which a russian friend of mine helped engineer. They are not very large, about the size of a vw mini-bus or two for the longer sections.
Oh shit, I'll need to pay royalties on that :) thingie.
Anyhow, to get on with the rant, what I really want is a small device which has a simple keyboard and a pen-like pointing device that I can run vncviewer or X on. That way, I would be able to use my computer while someone else is using it. It would be a simple device, no real capabilities, just network and the ability to run one or two simple programs.
The best part, is that I would be able to write a paper while my girlfriend is serfing the web and my mother is writing email to her friends.
Listen to what the consumers want, I already have a computer, so enhance the way I use my computer, not develop a device to replace my computer.
Please?
cummon, if the consumer is going to buy it, the hardware company should listen to them and what they want.
What parts of the constitiution does this go against? The constitiution does not give anyone the right to porn, it it not a natural right.
Dood, no oxygen. Think about it. When the rock is vaporized at the bottom, there will be oxygen, but not a significant amount, as most of it would be tied up in compounds. Would there be an explosion? Probally, will it be strong enough to do more than cough, no.
Cummon, we all know that the pacific ocean as a whole has been cooling over the last 15 years, especially cooler in the past 2 years. They were measuring as if the ocean temperature was constant, we all know that it was not. Not all of the changes in their readings would be due to changes in the atmosphere. This is fud.
I understood that the goal of tile based rendering would be that the tiles would be able to be devided between multiple cpu's so the tiles could be rendered in parallel. OR is this just the future of tile based rendering? Graphics chip designers really have an advantage over cpu's, they can easilly provide enough registers on thier gpu's as well as very small instruction sets. Lucky bastards.
My idea was to have a single datapipeline and two exception pipelines. Lay them out like parallel roads and lay a bunch of brutally simple cpu's along the opposite sides of the data pipeline (center). Have the two "exception" pipelines go directly to the front at the input side of the pipeline. These pipelines would need to be very complicated, they would need to understand wether they are holding data, instructions, or nothing. If they are holding nothing, they need to be able to signal the previous stage in the pipeline to come down the pipe one. This will be come obvious in a second.
The simple cpu's will need to read in an instruction from the pipeline, and two optional data words. (at this time the pipeline will need to forward to the last empty spot before the next instruction.) They will then perform thier calculation and output the result onto the pipeline. Any exceptions generated (or new instructions?) could be output onto the exception pipeline to be reinserted at the input side of the pipeline. Having 8 cpu's in such a system would allow the cpu's to operate, however, having fast enough pipeline throughput would be a major problem.
I couldn't think of solutions to some of the hard questions this idea gave me, I just don't know enough about the electronics and what they can do. I was hoping that the speed limit on the input pipeline would be able to be fast enough that instructions would always be available. However, I also thought that it would allow for a very efficient cpu. While the system was idle, there wouldn't be very many instructions on the pipeline, and nearly all of those could be handled by the first couple of cpu's on the pipeline, allowing the others to lie dormant. This sounds a lot like a turing machine, doesn't it!
I never noticed that before.
Very nicely, it seems.
However, if these two projects were merged it would not work. They have many fundamental differences, differences that would nearly require one project to be completely dumped. We all agree that this would not be a good thing.
I am a KDE user, and I am damn proud of it, but many of my friends use gnome, which is thier preference (its too slow for me).
The competition between the two projects has had an effect on each of them, encouraging adoptation of similar ideas, and generation of new ideas, ideas which might not have made it into the source code otherwise.
The competition between kde and gnome is a good thing, even if both groups didn't care about the existence of each other, it is nice to have more than one option.
Those of you calling for a merging of kde and gnome, think about this, what if we merged the linux kernel and a bsd kernel. It probally wouldn't work for a few years. Think about it.
They just patened a tech (is it?) that I have been using on one of my programming projects for almost two years. Yes, I did write a web based email application. Now that they have a patent on something which I use, what the hell do I do?
He talked quite a bit about how cheap the engine is to make, its very simple, with no moving parts, so it shouldn't be expensive to make.
However, making a cargo area large enough to carry anything of consequence is very expensive.
It is expensive because very few materials hold up very well at such high speeds, and essentially requred engineering a new technology to withstand the extreeme pressure felt at the tip of the craft.
Think about it, this is intended to handle speeds far greater than the mach 7.6 speed the aussies are testing thier engine at.
In the event of a nuclear holocaust we would need to develop a widescale heating and food creation system in a very short time, just a guess, but maybe about a year or two.
The dinosaurs didn't survive the cooling of the earth due to atmospheric changes, we might be able to survive it, but with no preperation in advance, I doubt it.
Brian
I can understand high prices, partly, they do have very large development and research costs. Its the companies that make generic drugs, pay no research or development, and sell them at 75% the price of the companies that developed them that makes me sick. They should be charging 25% or less, not so damn much.