If I could borrow a cooking pot from my mother, why would I buy my own?
Huh??? This is physical...I'm not talking about borrowing...I'm talking about distributing...if your mom gives you her cooking pot, she can't use it...but if you copy a video of a show, you can both watch it...
If I could borrow a CD why would I buy my own (although lots of people do...)
Yea, of course noone listens to MP3s ripped from this CD do they?
If I could borrow a vhs tape of my friends taping of Altons Browns latest diatribe on protiens and salt, why would I watch the show? But I would watch the show and I would buy the DVD if it was good programming!!
Well, there is some advantage to watching new shows...because if it's very popular, everyone's gonna be talking about it tommorrow...
But I think the widespread distribution of ripped DVDs and Telecined/Telesynced first-run movies tells you this answer...
And why would you buy DVDs? Well, extra features, higher quality, and no commercials for a start...
Probably because, the plans were stolen from NASA back during the cold war...and following the cold war, the project ran out of funding...
Since we are talking about a project that only had 1 successful (unmanned) space flight versus a program with over 20 years experience in shuttle use and design, I don't think they could offer much in the way of help...
Yea, it was an interesting program, but I think the use of the Soyuz capsule speaks for the success of the project...
TiVo has been very good to the hacking community...they have supported efforts to add broadband functionality (including adding support to new software revisions), recompile of kernels, ftp and http support, extra harddrive, etc...
But the reason why they have been hesitant to support the reading (and backup) of the recorded video is that they are concerned with implications of distribution. The first and most obvious reason is that if someone can distribute commercial free recordings of TV shows recorded directly from a TiVo it could be argued that it is helping to facilitate piracy. The other reason would be that it would hurt sales...if you can get new episodes from your TiVo owning friend, why buy a TiVo???
As such, most respectable members of the hacking community will not encourage this hack...which is really a testament to the advantages of a company working with the hacking community.
I hope you're right, but anyone who labels themself as an "expert" and gives you any kind of time line on an unknown is not an "expert". The truth is, NASA isn't going to be in any hurry to get the shuttle back up there. If the shuttle program does continue, they have to be damned sure it never happens again...not for a long time to come...
Don't forget, NASA is funded directly by public opinion and to be honest, if this was indeed an oversight...they will have to earn the confidence of the public again.
This doesn't even include the Senate hearings that are bound to happen...
Yea, I still think the 3 year figure is about right...
I think it's been mentioned before...there is a Soyuz space capsule constantly docked with the ISS (to serve as an "emergency escape vehicle"... replaced every 6 months).
So, the immediate assumption is that they will probably "Moth-Ball" the ISS...as far as I know, all of the systems on board can be operated from ground control...
The Russians might be able to use their next Soyuz flight (scheduled for some time in 2005 I think) to do maintenence on the station...That having been said, I think we have ~6 months before the ISS would have to be temorarily abandoned.
Now, realising that if they used the escape capsule, they couldn't really go back up there without having another "lifeboat", we would have to wait for the Russians to finish another capsule for the "lifeboat"...
Considering all this, I'm going to guess that the shuttle program will be out of commission for at least 3 years this time.
And...considering the current political climate, economics, war, etc...I'm sad to say that I don't think it will fly for a long time to come (if ever again).
As for what will likely happen to the ISS...the Russians will probably operate the ISS with the Soyuz space capsules for the time being.
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Same reason why you can see the Whurled Cup here in the US...American soccer is just about as popular here as football in Germany. There are also a few rather large American military bases in Germany...and I'm betting most (or all) the soldiers could care less about soccer, but they will all watch the Super Bowl...they spend money too (and not all of it is spent at the base)...
As for who would want to see ads? Well, lets see...some ppl want to catch previews of new movies (if you don't like or look forward to any movies, you wouldn't understand this one)...as for the other ones...Super Bowl commercials (as with all good commercials) tend to be funny, over the top, and above all entertaining (noone is going to buy your products if your commercial makes them bored)...
The best Super Bowl commercials tend to revolve around animals (Sierra Mist) or celebrities (Pepsi Twist) or are way over the top like the Monster.com commercial with the driverless truck.
The Super Bowl also gives you a window into american culture. The pre-game show and all of the fanfare...lately the patriotic thing has been emphasized...the ads give you an idea what companies are going to be spending money on (dot-coms, new movies, cellular, etc)...the half-time show and post-game show is a generally good judge of how the music industry is doing...this year all of the entertainment was older musicians (No Doubt, Sting, Bon Jovi, etc...).
I was not comparing lines of code to performance, but a sustained rate of ~2000 LOC/day for 730 consecutive days is a bit much by any standard...
And as you admitted your example is not as complex as a browser...and even assuming this kid wrote a comment for every line of code that means he would have to sustain a rate of 1000 LOC per day for 2 years *straight*...I'm sure even you would admit that this is not a sustainable rate...
And if you factor in things like compile time, debugging, etc this makes it even more unbelivable.
500 lines of code in a day? What kind of project is this? And I'm talking about something the scale of a browser...not "hello whurled" done in 500 lines...
Turn off HTTP 1.1 in IE's settings and it won't be able to use compression (Mod_GZIP, etc)...
The other explaination is to modify Mod_GZIP or similar on the server side to report as some odd name (Mod_XWEBS might be a nice one):) So that only your client recognises the compression method...this is real easy with Mozilla...and that or something similar is likely to be the real client. Mod_GZIP alone can give up to 12x the speed on a purely text page.
The other features (Built-In TTS, Access to multiple search engines, etc) are all fairly standard in the browser market now.
Now, I don't think it's been said enough...this kid supposedly did 1.5 million lines of code in 2 years...
Which would be ~2054 lines of code per day... or 85 lines of code an hour...
If we assume that he needs a minimum of 6 hours of sleep per night, that brings it to ~115 lines of code per hour...
This doesn't allow for eating, testing, rewrites, attending classes, reading documentation, etc...
Now, even the best coders only do ~100 lines of code per day...
I refuse to belive that this kid could do the work of 20 coders over a 2 year period...
You'ld think that this kid would release a binary only distribution for testing so that everyone would stop doubting his sincerity.
if you have a dedicated powerhouse (~1.5 GHz+) then you might be able to do Realtime encoding under linux. But many ppl (including myself) have experienced A/V sync problems with FFMPEG...
If you have anything less than a dedicated 2GHz machine, you should seriously look into a hardware encoder.
Canopus makes some cheap mpeg encoder cards, but it looks like the Linux support is sparse...the WinTV PVR-250 is fairly cheap ($150) and supports both MPEG1 & MPEG2 encoding.
So...why bother with something that *MIGHT* work and go with something that is certain to work...
In all fairness, some of the AV sync problems with ffmpeg are most likely due to a difference between the buffer sizes of the video and audio...
Ok, so he might simply be a little pissed. You have to realize, this is a JOB for him...and if your boss wanted to treat you like that, would you want to be talking about it all the time? I highly doubt it...
And, in case you didn't remember, there was specifically an incident involving the ending of Generations...apparently Jonathan Frakes let slip about Shatner's death scene and they ended up reshooting the ending because of it...
But since his role was origonally much bigger, he is still paid for the deleted scenes as if they were in the movie.
As for him replying...don't count on it. you can bet Paramount knows he frequents this site...as such, he will probably play it safe and not reply to any comment/articles with TNG attached...in fact, with the wording of most contracts, it actually forbids just that...even if he's talking about something completely different in the comment...
No he can't...at least not for a year or so...most actors have a clause in their contract that keeps them from talking about the film or those involved for a certain amount of time following some sort of release...today it's generally some time after the DeeVeeDee is released...
There are a few reasons for this...actors letting spoilers slip...bad mouthing other actors/director...etc...
There is actually one exception to this clause...they are only allowed to discuss the movie when they appear to market the film ("exclusive" interviews, talk shows, etc)...and they are generally only allowed to answer within specific guidelines...
Scoop is probably the best solution for your needs. Anyone can add articles, the group votes the best ones to the front, and admins can vote announcements/time critical stories to the front page.
I was simply making the assumption that the author could not make the requested change at the DNS end...and while that is true, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't add aliases where you need/want them.
For instance, the company I used to work for would have addresses for servers like d12stg034.atlanta.xxx.com... now, if I knew this was the staging server for North America, it was much easier to make an alias...say "nastag"...and depending on the team you were on, "nastag" might have a different meaning...
A DNS is not an excuse for not maintaining a hosts file...
Maybe this is due to the fact that Linux is used in more "Mission Critical" applications. Therefore, the companies running Linux boxen are going to be more likely to keep their boxen secure and up to date.
For instance, most corporations have went to using Win2k for their desktops, yet it is rare to find a desktop Linux box. The TCO of a desktop is certainly less than that of a web server!!!
I'm going to guess that the lack of detail is intentional...
Of course with a little sleuthing, you can find out they're running IIS...and this page describes themselves as a marketing company (hey, it's the same company that owns TechWeb).
Go a little further and you find they're handing out awards for M$... but I think they way their site held up to a good slashdotting shows how good Win2k solutions are...
Massachusetts is easy... M$ competition = More tech jobs = More tax money...
West Virginia is only difficult if you don't know anything about West Virginia's past... In WV it's always been "US vs. Them" and WV has the "scars" (exploited workers, poverty, and blood shed) to prove it...
Yes, I understand that PalmOS apps designed for current B&W Palm Handhelds are much smaller, but...
Current apps are only designed to use 180x180 resolution (and most only use 2-bit color)... the new hardware has 320x320 resolution and 16-bit color...
Current apps can only make "beeps and blips" with the internal speaker... the new hardware has a "real speaker" that can play OGGs/MP3s (Palm meant to include an MP3 player with it, but it wasn't available for the release deadline)...
Both of these will serve to make future apps larger. This can already be seen in some of the color apps for the older Palms... For instance, Rapid Race for the B&W Palms comes in at just under 70k, while the Color version (no changes except for color support) weighs in at just over 400k!!!
The higher resolutions and better sound is also likely to make apps larger...before too long a decent game is probably going to require 1M (or more) to install...
Since this is only for the Tungsten T, this will only be available to the early adopters.
As for my Palm, I currently have no intention of getting rid of my Palm IIIxe. I know that alot of ppl are waiting for the Tungsten T to gain that "killer app" that they can't find on their old Palm (or in some cases Pocket PC)...
One of the biggest hurdles for the Tungsten T to overcome is the fact that HackMaster is not compatible with the new hardware. ~80% of the current PalmOS apps will work with the Tungsten T...or to put it another way, ~20% of the apps will not work with the Tungsten T...you can bet that 20% includes all of those popular hacks currently available for the Motorola-based Palms.
The price is also about $100 more than the same speed iPAQ with about twice the memory (4M ROM and 16M RAM vs. 32M ROM and 64M RAM)...This comparison was not valid when palms had 180x180 displays and low-quality sound...but with these new features (faster processor speed, 320x320 resolution, Color, and "high-quality" sound), owners will demand use of the higher resolution, Color (already available on some Motorola-based Palms) and higher quality sound...all of which slows the system and increases application size...
So, what's all of this mean??? I'm pretty sure that 16M is going to start looking pretty small when the new apps come along...
You laugh, but Sony admitted to doing just that with more than a few of their movies. And not just total crap like "The Animal", but "ok" movies like "Hollow Man" and "Vertical Limit"...
Likewise, to assume that a magazine published by Time-Warner wouldn't give the new James Bond film a top rating is ignoring the obvious...
And as well, if a website/magazine featured advertisements for UT2k3 do you think that magazine/site is going to give it a bad review?
This happenes all of the time...hardware, music, movie, video game reviews, etc...anyone who labels themself as a "reviewer" is courted by big companies...and is offered everything short of free sex to give a good review...
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If I could borrow a cooking pot from my mother, why would I buy my own?
Huh??? This is physical...I'm not talking about borrowing...I'm talking about distributing...if your mom gives you her cooking pot, she can't use it...but if you copy a video of a show, you can both watch it...
If I could borrow a CD why would I buy my own (although lots of people do...)
Yea, of course noone listens to MP3s ripped from this CD do they?
If I could borrow a vhs tape of my friends taping of Altons Browns latest diatribe on protiens and salt, why would I watch the show? But I would watch the show and I would buy the DVD if it was good programming!!
Well, there is some advantage to watching new shows...because if it's very popular, everyone's gonna be talking about it tommorrow...
But I think the widespread distribution of ripped DVDs and Telecined/Telesynced first-run movies tells you this answer...
And why would you buy DVDs? Well, extra features, higher quality, and no commercials for a start...
Probably because, the plans were stolen from NASA back during the cold war...and following the cold war, the project ran out of funding...
Since we are talking about a project that only had 1 successful (unmanned) space flight versus a program with over 20 years experience in shuttle use and design, I don't think they could offer much in the way of help...
Yea, it was an interesting program, but I think the use of the Soyuz capsule speaks for the success of the project...
TiVo has been very good to the hacking community...they have supported efforts to add broadband functionality (including adding support to new software revisions), recompile of kernels, ftp and http support, extra harddrive, etc...
But the reason why they have been hesitant to support the reading (and backup) of the recorded video is that they are concerned with implications of distribution. The first and most obvious reason is that if someone can distribute commercial free recordings of TV shows recorded directly from a TiVo it could be argued that it is helping to facilitate piracy. The other reason would be that it would hurt sales...if you can get new episodes from your TiVo owning friend, why buy a TiVo???
As such, most respectable members of the hacking community will not encourage this hack...which is really a testament to the advantages of a company working with the hacking community.
What OS is running the software for that radar???
:)
Knowing M$, it's probably BSD...
Either that or it's the same Radar they used to kill GEOS, OS2, etc and it's running on Xenix
I hope you're right, but anyone who labels themself as an "expert" and gives you any kind of time line on an unknown is not an "expert". The truth is, NASA isn't going to be in any hurry to get the shuttle back up there. If the shuttle program does continue, they have to be damned sure it never happens again...not for a long time to come...
Don't forget, NASA is funded directly by public opinion and to be honest, if this was indeed an oversight...they will have to earn the confidence of the public again.
This doesn't even include the Senate hearings that are bound to happen...
Yea, I still think the 3 year figure is about right...
I think it's been mentioned before...there is a Soyuz space capsule constantly docked with the ISS (to serve as an "emergency escape vehicle" ... replaced every 6 months).
So, the immediate assumption is that they will probably "Moth-Ball" the ISS...as far as I know, all of the systems on board can be operated from ground control...
The Russians might be able to use their next Soyuz flight (scheduled for some time in 2005 I think) to do maintenence on the station...That having been said, I think we have ~6 months before the ISS would have to be temorarily abandoned.
Now, realising that if they used the escape capsule, they couldn't really go back up there without having another "lifeboat", we would have to wait for the Russians to finish another capsule for the "lifeboat"...
Considering all this, I'm going to guess that the shuttle program will be out of commission for at least 3 years this time.
And...considering the current political climate, economics, war, etc...I'm sad to say that I don't think it will fly for a long time to come (if ever again).
As for what will likely happen to the ISS...the Russians will probably operate the ISS with the Soyuz space capsules for the time being.
Same reason why you can see the Whurled Cup here in the US...American soccer is just about as popular here as football in Germany. There are also a few rather large American military bases in Germany...and I'm betting most (or all) the soldiers could care less about soccer, but they will all watch the Super Bowl...they spend money too (and not all of it is spent at the base)...
As for who would want to see ads? Well, lets see...some ppl want to catch previews of new movies (if you don't like or look forward to any movies, you wouldn't understand this one)...as for the other ones...Super Bowl commercials (as with all good commercials) tend to be funny, over the top, and above all entertaining (noone is going to buy your products if your commercial makes them bored)...
The best Super Bowl commercials tend to revolve around animals (Sierra Mist) or celebrities (Pepsi Twist) or are way over the top like the Monster.com commercial with the driverless truck.
The Super Bowl also gives you a window into american culture. The pre-game show and all of the fanfare...lately the patriotic thing has been emphasized...the ads give you an idea what companies are going to be spending money on (dot-coms, new movies, cellular, etc)...the half-time show and post-game show is a generally good judge of how the music industry is doing...this year all of the entertainment was older musicians (No Doubt, Sting, Bon Jovi, etc...).
I write more than 100 lines per day. and that includes time for debugging, testing, etc.
So have you ever figured out what your sustained rate is? I mean, over like months???
And if you've never ran into problems that took you a day or longer to solve, that's not real programming.
We're not talking about something simple...and at 1.5 million lines of code, some of the more difficult bugs are going to be hard to track down...
I was not comparing lines of code to performance, but a sustained rate of ~2000 LOC/day for 730 consecutive days is a bit much by any standard...
And as you admitted your example is not as complex as a browser...and even assuming this kid wrote a comment for every line of code that means he would have to sustain a rate of 1000 LOC per day for 2 years *straight*...I'm sure even you would admit that this is not a sustainable rate...
And if you factor in things like compile time, debugging, etc this makes it even more unbelivable.
500 lines of code in a day? What kind of project is this? And I'm talking about something the scale of a browser...not "hello whurled" done in 500 lines...
Doubtful, but it could be something like this...
All you'ld need is a broadband connection and a proxy to compress all data with Mod_GZIP...
Turn off HTTP 1.1 in IE's settings and it won't be able to use compression (Mod_GZIP, etc)...
:) So that only your client recognises the compression method...this is real easy with Mozilla...and that or something similar is likely to be the real client. Mod_GZIP alone can give up to 12x the speed on a purely text page.
The other explaination is to modify Mod_GZIP or similar on the server side to report as some odd name (Mod_XWEBS might be a nice one)
The other features (Built-In TTS, Access to multiple search engines, etc) are all fairly standard in the browser market now.
Now, I don't think it's been said enough...this kid supposedly did 1.5 million lines of code in 2 years...
Which would be ~2054 lines of code per day... or 85 lines of code an hour...
If we assume that he needs a minimum of 6 hours of sleep per night, that brings it to ~115 lines of code per hour...
This doesn't allow for eating, testing, rewrites, attending classes, reading documentation, etc...
Now, even the best coders only do ~100 lines of code per day...
I refuse to belive that this kid could do the work of 20 coders over a 2 year period...
You'ld think that this kid would release a binary only distribution for testing so that everyone would stop doubting his sincerity.
if you have a dedicated powerhouse (~1.5 GHz+) then you might be able to do Realtime encoding under linux. But many ppl (including myself) have experienced A/V sync problems with FFMPEG...
If you have anything less than a dedicated 2GHz machine, you should seriously look into a hardware encoder.
Canopus makes some cheap mpeg encoder cards, but it looks like the Linux support is sparse...the WinTV PVR-250 is fairly cheap ($150) and supports both MPEG1 & MPEG2 encoding.
So...why bother with something that *MIGHT* work and go with something that is certain to work...
In all fairness, some of the AV sync problems with ffmpeg are most likely due to a difference between the buffer sizes of the video and audio...
Ok, so he might simply be a little pissed. You have to realize, this is a JOB for him...and if your boss wanted to treat you like that, would you want to be talking about it all the time? I highly doubt it...
And, in case you didn't remember, there was specifically an incident involving the ending of Generations...apparently Jonathan Frakes let slip about Shatner's death scene and they ended up reshooting the ending because of it...
But since his role was origonally much bigger, he is still paid for the deleted scenes as if they were in the movie.
As for him replying...don't count on it. you can bet Paramount knows he frequents this site...as such, he will probably play it safe and not reply to any comment/articles with TNG attached...in fact, with the wording of most contracts, it actually forbids just that...even if he's talking about something completely different in the comment...
I guess CleverNickName can tell us.
No he can't...at least not for a year or so...most actors have a clause in their contract that keeps them from talking about the film or those involved for a certain amount of time following some sort of release...today it's generally some time after the DeeVeeDee is released...
There are a few reasons for this...actors letting spoilers slip...bad mouthing other actors/director...etc...
There is actually one exception to this clause...they are only allowed to discuss the movie when they appear to market the film ("exclusive" interviews, talk shows, etc)...and they are generally only allowed to answer within specific guidelines...
Scoop is probably the best solution for your needs. Anyone can add articles, the group votes the best ones to the front, and admins can vote announcements/time critical stories to the front page.
I was simply making the assumption that the author could not make the requested change at the DNS end...and while that is true, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't add aliases where you need/want them.
... now, if I knew this was the staging server for North America, it was much easier to make an alias...say "nastag"...and depending on the team you were on, "nastag" might have a different meaning...
For instance, the company I used to work for would have addresses for servers like d12stg034.atlanta.xxx.com
A DNS is not an excuse for not maintaining a hosts file...
Add it to your hosts file.../etc/hosts for Linux and your default Windoze directory for that other OS...
Another advantage of using this method is being able to use other abreviations for frequently visited sites...
Maybe this is due to the fact that Linux is used in more "Mission Critical" applications. Therefore, the companies running Linux boxen are going to be more likely to keep their boxen secure and up to date.
... but I think they way their site held up to a good slashdotting shows how good Win2k solutions are...
For instance, most corporations have went to using Win2k for their desktops, yet it is rare to find a desktop Linux box. The TCO of a desktop is certainly less than that of a web server!!!
I'm going to guess that the lack of detail is intentional...
Of course with a little sleuthing, you can find out they're running IIS...and this page describes themselves as a marketing company (hey, it's the same company that owns TechWeb).
Go a little further and you find they're handing out awards for M$
It's simple.
... M$ competition = More tech jobs = More tax money ...
... In WV it's always been "US vs. Them" and WV has the "scars" (exploited workers, poverty, and blood shed) to prove it...
Massachusetts is easy
West Virginia is only difficult if you don't know anything about West Virginia's past
If this had been a problem with the goddamn filesystem (!) in Windows you'd be seeing 900 posts to the tone of "Hah! M$ sucks!!!1!!".
Regardless of your OS, you're stupid if you're putting new kernels on high availibility systems.
Yes, I understand that PalmOS apps designed for current B&W Palm Handhelds are much smaller, but...
... the new hardware has 320x320 resolution and 16-bit color ...
... the new hardware has a "real speaker" that can play OGGs/MP3s (Palm meant to include an MP3 player with it, but it wasn't available for the release deadline) ...
... For instance, Rapid Race for the B&W Palms comes in at just under 70k, while the Color version (no changes except for color support) weighs in at just over 400k!!!
...
Current apps are only designed to use 180x180 resolution (and most only use 2-bit color)
Current apps can only make "beeps and blips" with the internal speaker
Both of these will serve to make future apps larger. This can already be seen in some of the color apps for the older Palms
The higher resolutions and better sound is also likely to make apps larger...before too long a decent game is probably going to require 1M (or more) to install
Since this is only for the Tungsten T, this will only be available to the early adopters.
As for my Palm, I currently have no intention of getting rid of my Palm IIIxe. I know that alot of ppl are waiting for the Tungsten T to gain that "killer app" that they can't find on their old Palm (or in some cases Pocket PC)...
One of the biggest hurdles for the Tungsten T to overcome is the fact that HackMaster is not compatible with the new hardware. ~80% of the current PalmOS apps will work with the Tungsten T...or to put it another way, ~20% of the apps will not work with the Tungsten T...you can bet that 20% includes all of those popular hacks currently available for the Motorola-based Palms.
The price is also about $100 more than the same speed iPAQ with about twice the memory (4M ROM and 16M RAM vs. 32M ROM and 64M RAM)...This comparison was not valid when palms had 180x180 displays and low-quality sound...but with these new features (faster processor speed, 320x320 resolution, Color, and "high-quality" sound), owners will demand use of the higher resolution, Color (already available on some Motorola-based Palms) and higher quality sound...all of which slows the system and increases application size...
So, what's all of this mean??? I'm pretty sure that 16M is going to start looking pretty small when the new apps come along...
You laugh, but Sony admitted to doing just that with more than a few of their movies. And not just total crap like "The Animal", but "ok" movies like "Hollow Man" and "Vertical Limit"...
Likewise, to assume that a magazine published by Time-Warner wouldn't give the new James Bond film a top rating is ignoring the obvious...
And as well, if a website/magazine featured advertisements for UT2k3 do you think that magazine/site is going to give it a bad review?
This happenes all of the time...hardware, music, movie, video game reviews, etc...anyone who labels themself as a "reviewer" is courted by big companies...and is offered everything short of free sex to give a good review...