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Goddammit - myths like this get perpetuated until they gain the patina of the truth - but please make it stop!
This bunch of me-too hacks makes 1960s Japan look like innovators.
They simply lie in wait - for the DOS (QDOS . MSDOS) , for the GUI (Mac > Win), for the browser (pick one > IE) for cross platform execution (Oak/Java >.net) and then claim to be the standard bearer thanks to sheer mass.
Boo-freaking-hoo. They deserve what they get.
When an otherwise brilliant person like Myhrvold ends up being just another shill for Bill - it's just sad. Nathan, Alan Kay, Danny Hillis and Ray Kurzweil should be holed up in a think tank for a few quarters - untethered to any one vendor - and be told not to come out until they have a shipping turnkey system... And hey - Nathan could cook for everyone, Ray could supply the entertainment.
this stuff's been in science education supply houses for some time. it's very cool, and you can approximate it with very ancient drained engine oil - iron block of course - and of course if your jalopy yeilds much of this stuff, you're going to have another challenge on your hands soon enough, an old junkyard with otherwise shot engines are a good source.
remember, used engine oil is not very pleasant stuff...
to visualize field lines, larger iron particles in mineral oil in a clear plastic vial is cool too.
I used to sit in the dining room and watch the TV in the next room thru $20 binoculars. It looked huuuuge!
And since we only had a 1963 B&W set, the color fringing from the glasses made it a "color" TV!
I was five at the time, but hey.
of course this is hindsight
but how about just making it SOP to dump all but enough fuel to land as soon as the bad guys demand control of the plane.
tanker planes used to practice doing this at otis afb regularly.
of course the 30 years of dumped fuel is now percolating thru much of cape cod, but they *do* know how to do it
(their point was emergency landings with as little fuel on board as possible)
OK - Shorten the opening -maybe half the heroes, punch up the theme.
Remember, this is the first step of what developed into Kirk/Picard/Sisko/Janeway's world.
The tension between us and the Vulcans / Klingons, etc. is to be expected and explored here - yes, we know how Spock etc. got on with the "A" crew - this is how it got to that point.
OK - the physics is sloppy. So are the principles behind most movie chase / fight scenes and we don't stop watching them.
But ya gotta love a captain who says he'll "knock you on your ass" within the first fifteen minutes.
And has a dog on board.
Filming actual life on board a spacecraft would be so monumentally boring that they have to make shortcuts, add tension, use cliches... Keep it far enough away from Plan 9 and Madison County and I'll watch it develop.
I grew up on the foam rubber sets of TOS, saw/suffered thru all the movies, and quite honestly never gave STNG much credit until The Best of Both Worlds aired. So ya never know. Plenty of promise, and on the high end of production and watchability.
...is that IM is an irresistable force - this is the modern equivalent of students who carve the desks, plus imagine you were trying to teach with a tv in the corner with mtv on... i don't care who you are or what you're presenting, you're toast. in a Mac lab, you can at least run ANAT and lock all the screens with a message ("pay attention")... i have successfully taught web-centric courses, in a lab, with engaged students, with a whiteboard also, and then came along IM technology and streaming video and it basically sucks the eyeballs out of any class. undergrad, that is - the grads have a little more balance. add to that dual T1s that slowed to a 56K effective speed thanks to napster downloads, and you're ready to get out the paintball gun. we don't let students bury their nose in the NYTimes, listen to CDs, eat a five course meal in class, why shoud this distraction be any different? our wires, our rules. don't like it? stay home and surf, or take an online course. or get a life.
At the courthouse Friday, Egghead Chief Executive Jeff Sheahan said he thinks the company can transfer the data, calling the laws surrounding such privacy statements "very fluid."
"I think we are doing the responsible thing here. We're informing people of what we are doing," Sheahan said. "This is a very gray area of the law."
Why, Beavis - er - Jeff - because you say it is?
These dopes figure because they didn't SAY they wouldn't, then they simply can.
This is about the same level as a five year old who says "but nobody told me I couldn't wash the sofa with a garden hose..."
I thought only Fry's deserved my derision - turns out Blockhead - er - Egghead gets the same treatment.
> Back in 1987, just after the Apple Lisa had been introduced,
Erm, the Lisa was intro'd in 1983 and discontinued in 1985. I remembered as much, and confirmed it with one google search.
We're supposed to use an interminable text file to make our hard drive look just like Mark's?
Feh.
His simplified web site - though it was ref'd in the article, i failed to find his recipe text file after two levels deep in several links - so much for ease of use.
Considering that installing MacOS 9.1 or 9.2 or adding MacOS X will ditch this folder system by design...
And look at that client list! kozmo.com?!! oooooh.
Any Mac user with half a brain has already streamlined their HD in the fashion that suits their work style.
And Claris eMailer? Please. Trusting your email to a long-dead app may be ok for some crusty original *nix hardcores, but it's risky business for most. eMailer has familiar stability problems, and who ya gonna call these days when it does - and it will - take your mail along with it?
Yes, its performance was impressive, as was skylab's. The crew with Alan Bean set a record for crew task performance that took a loooooong time to match.
And they all fall down eventually.
However, the Skylab crews didn't punch a hole in their own craft by joyriding around it in a return vehicle. Let the jokes fly.
i spent two years working with LEGO enfield thru the FIRST robotics project. they are first class thinkers and engineers. they now recycle those swept up bricks, and spend their time trying to please marketers who are convinced there has to be newer theme-ier sets. and even that stuff is cool - the creativity invloved to make an x-wing out of bricks?
the beauty of LEGO is that it is primordial and you can make and recreate things. mindstorms is chief among these, they flew off the shelves and can do all sorts of things like automate our classroom miniblinds, etc... and still build towers to the ceiling. the only thing hurting the basic bricks is the attention-span-robbing introduction of the model/theme sets - give a kid basic bricks and they'll still make great things.
you can still buy basic buckets at toys-r-us and online you can buy bulk bricks, but not many types.
while we're at it - notice for all the LEGO in the states you've never seen a LEGO semi on the highway? except for a model team rig and a hicube or two for schlepping around enfield, they don't have distribution trucks. everyone comes to enfield with their store's trucks to pick up their lego (walmart and toys-r-us are their two biggest clients as of a few years back) - everyone comes and gets it, LEGO stay out of the truck fixing business.
more cool stuff - their manufacturing and packing lines in enfield have been run with everything from commodores to bare bones PCs, and they improve automation periodically. yet no one has ever been let go because their station was automated - they are put to work in another part of the plant on a new position. that was as of 99 - they have had many company-wide adjustments since then, though. still wonderful stuff. it did my heart good to see kids at FIRST realizing who LEGO chairman peter eio was, and asking him for an autograph!
Forget the fact that at any traditional news outfit you'd be the new copy boy for pulling a stunt like this - where I come from, editors know how to write. To wit:
> "I participated in Linux Today talkbacks anonymously in the past using a pseudonym."
> "It is too important you can trust what you read here."
Judging from the reaction at Slashdot, you went from simply evil to under-qualified and evil.
1. The phone company can and does - here it's $13 home , $32 biz for POTS.
2. The power company does charge different KwH rates for biz - and would YOU cut off a customer other than for supply or credit reasons? I didn't THINK so.
3. You weren't supposed to be using this port, and you signed the TOS / AUP, and they do (@Home at least) send email notifications of changes - price, TOS, etc.
I don't give a rat's ass about using a living-room based server, but I do mind all these people whining about someone making it hard to do something they were told not to do. Obey the rules or get them changed. This never-never-land attitude of people who want to get away with something as long as they can by any means and then complain when caught is getting old fast. Right up there with kiddies at the food court claiming to be world-saving white hats... you like making things go *bleenk* and poking your nose in places. I can deal with that, just lose the sanctimony.
if you want a profitable internet, pay for it and raise the bar. but don't chase everyone else off the road... this is like them saying they need to find way to make highways profitable. it's a road. leave it be, improve it, find a way of making money from it without steamrolling the rest of the world....
i'm a cyclist. somehow the companies of america have figured out a way to make the roads profiable - and still let everyone drive what they want, and still get where they want, i can ride my bike, they can have their semis and do what they want on their limitedf access roads.
Argonne, Sandia, etc... have acres of stuff that they use for a contract then can't actually sell - it's a major drool factor that one can get their hands on... Then there's the surplus Buran shuttle that the Russians had to dump a few years back. Don't remember who got it. Maybe Cosmosphere in Kansas?
OK - so they aren't perfect - but Apple has yet to make it so that every layer on this machine can and does talk to every other layer, across apps, to the point where an email attachment can tell your finance software to dredge your disk and blab your data to the world... where the scripting language in the browser and the email tool is the same language that can run file operations and launch apps... this was probably once a very cool thing at a demo, and a very bad thing when everyone who feels like it can send you any payload they want... Just becausse something *can* be done doesn't mean it *should* be done. *sigh* of course when the only identifier needed to decide app or data is a three letter extension, what were you expecting? isn't there anyone who can dope-slap otherwise intelligent people like Myhrvold and get a responsible OS going? The more I learn about WIN the more it is simply a black-hat's dream.
1. A "GPS beacon" in the target would gather the target's position with a GPS receiver (now accurate to feet, now that the SA signal is usually gone) and re-transmit LOCATION & TRACK (not raw GPS satellite data) via some standard carrier signal.
2. The attacker would not need to receive and decode a GPS signal, just that simple carrier saying "this is my X/Y/Z"...
3. Go find it. Solve a path to ***WITHIN THE BLAST RADIUS OF THE ATTACKER*** Good GPS can do this. The miliary has the best.
EVEN SIMPLER, the beacon doesn't have to broadcast GPS coordinates. It could be singing "My Dog Has Fleas" and you could find it at certain speeds.
Nobody has said what the speeds are yet. "Vas this zee slow fuse, or zee fast fuse?"
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Goddammit - myths like this get perpetuated until they gain the patina of the truth - but please make it stop!
.net) and then claim to be the standard bearer thanks to sheer mass.
This bunch of me-too hacks makes 1960s Japan look like innovators.
They simply lie in wait - for the DOS (QDOS . MSDOS) , for the GUI (Mac > Win), for the browser (pick one > IE) for cross platform execution (Oak/Java >
Boo-freaking-hoo. They deserve what they get.
When an otherwise brilliant person like Myhrvold ends up being just another shill for Bill - it's just sad. Nathan, Alan Kay, Danny Hillis and Ray Kurzweil should be holed up in a think tank for a few quarters - untethered to any one vendor - and be told not to come out until they have a shipping turnkey system... And hey - Nathan could cook for everyone, Ray could supply the entertainment.
But fer chrissake INNOVATE! I gotta lie down.
this stuff's been in science education supply houses for some time. it's very cool, and you can approximate it with very ancient drained engine oil - iron block of course - and of course if your jalopy yeilds much of this stuff, you're going to have another challenge on your hands soon enough, an old junkyard with otherwise shot engines are a good source.
remember, used engine oil is not very pleasant stuff...
to visualize field lines, larger iron particles in mineral oil in a clear plastic vial is cool too.
edmunds, fisher sci, carolina have these.
I used to sit in the dining room and watch the TV in the next room thru $20 binoculars. It looked huuuuge!
And since we only had a 1963 B&W set, the color fringing from the glasses made it a "color" TV!
I was five at the time, but hey.
in this case, bait & bail
of course this is hindsight
but how about just making it SOP to dump all but enough fuel to land as soon as the bad guys demand control of the plane.
tanker planes used to practice doing this at otis afb regularly.
of course the 30 years of dumped fuel is now percolating thru much of cape cod, but they *do* know how to do it
(their point was emergency landings with as little fuel on board as possible)
OK - Shorten the opening -maybe half the heroes, punch up the theme.
Remember, this is the first step of what developed into Kirk/Picard/Sisko/Janeway's world.
The tension between us and the Vulcans / Klingons, etc. is to be expected and explored here - yes, we know how Spock etc. got on with the "A" crew - this is how it got to that point.
OK - the physics is sloppy. So are the principles behind most movie chase / fight scenes and we don't stop watching them.
But ya gotta love a captain who says he'll "knock you on your ass" within the first fifteen minutes.
And has a dog on board.
Filming actual life on board a spacecraft would be so monumentally boring that they have to make shortcuts, add tension, use cliches... Keep it far enough away from Plan 9 and Madison County and I'll watch it develop.
I grew up on the foam rubber sets of TOS, saw/suffered thru all the movies, and quite honestly never gave STNG much credit until The Best of Both Worlds aired. So ya never know. Plenty of promise, and on the high end of production and watchability.
...is that IM is an irresistable force - this is the modern equivalent of students who carve the desks, plus imagine you were trying to teach with a tv in the corner with mtv on... i don't care who you are or what you're presenting, you're toast. in a Mac lab, you can at least run ANAT and lock all the screens with a message ("pay attention")... i have successfully taught web-centric courses, in a lab, with engaged students, with a whiteboard also, and then came along IM technology and streaming video and it basically sucks the eyeballs out of any class. undergrad, that is - the grads have a little more balance. add to that dual T1s that slowed to a 56K effective speed thanks to napster downloads, and you're ready to get out the paintball gun. we don't let students bury their nose in the NYTimes, listen to CDs, eat a five course meal in class, why shoud this distraction be any different? our wires, our rules. don't like it? stay home and surf, or take an online course. or get a life.
Why, Beavis - er - Jeff - because you say it is?
These dopes figure because they didn't SAY they wouldn't, then they simply can.
This is about the same level as a five year old who says "but nobody told me I couldn't wash the sofa with a garden hose..."
I thought only Fry's deserved my derision - turns out Blockhead - er - Egghead gets the same treatment.
turn off the tube and call the red cross.
get back to reality and DO SOMETHING.
> Back in 1987, just after the Apple Lisa had been introduced,
Erm, the Lisa was intro'd in 1983 and discontinued in 1985. I remembered as much, and confirmed it with one google search.
We're supposed to use an interminable text file to make our hard drive look just like Mark's?
Feh.
His simplified web site - though it was ref'd in the article, i failed to find his recipe text file after two levels deep in several links - so much for ease of use.
Considering that installing MacOS 9.1 or 9.2 or adding MacOS X will ditch this folder system by design...
And look at that client list! kozmo.com?!! oooooh.
Any Mac user with half a brain has already streamlined their HD in the fashion that suits their work style.
And Claris eMailer? Please. Trusting your email to a long-dead app may be ok for some crusty original *nix hardcores, but it's risky business for most. eMailer has familiar stability problems, and who ya gonna call these days when it does - and it will - take your mail along with it?
...i'd be ecstatic.
if this keeps up can we look forward to LOGO APIs?
;-)
And they all fall down eventually.
However, the Skylab crews didn't punch a hole in their own craft by joyriding around it in a return vehicle. Let the jokes fly.
the beauty of LEGO is that it is primordial and you can make and recreate things. mindstorms is chief among these, they flew off the shelves and can do all sorts of things like automate our classroom miniblinds, etc... and still build towers to the ceiling. the only thing hurting the basic bricks is the attention-span-robbing introduction of the model/theme sets - give a kid basic bricks and they'll still make great things.
you can still buy basic buckets at toys-r-us and online you can buy bulk bricks, but not many types.
while we're at it - notice for all the LEGO in the states you've never seen a LEGO semi on the highway? except for a model team rig and a hicube or two for schlepping around enfield, they don't have distribution trucks. everyone comes to enfield with their store's trucks to pick up their lego (walmart and toys-r-us are their two biggest clients as of a few years back) - everyone comes and gets it, LEGO stay out of the truck fixing business.
more cool stuff - their manufacturing and packing lines in enfield have been run with everything from commodores to bare bones PCs, and they improve automation periodically. yet no one has ever been let go because their station was automated - they are put to work in another part of the plant on a new position. that was as of 99 - they have had many company-wide adjustments since then, though. still wonderful stuff. it did my heart good to see kids at FIRST realizing who LEGO chairman peter eio was, and asking him for an autograph!
giant intelligent inflated ball... "rover"... aiiiiiiieeeeee!!!!!
"the clock starts ticking so no peaking until you're ready to watch it ALL"
Sorry - couldn't resist.
riaa holds a contest to see if anyone can break their standard
(part boast, part free-beta-testing)
someone does
they get mad at the winner?
who put these clowns in charge?
;-)
i have two if they need a spare!
> "I participated in Linux Today talkbacks anonymously in the past using a pseudonym."
> "It is too important you can trust what you read here."
Judging from the reaction at Slashdot, you went from simply evil to under-qualified and evil.
2. The power company does charge different KwH rates for biz - and would YOU cut off a customer other than for supply or credit reasons? I didn't THINK so.
3. You weren't supposed to be using this port, and you signed the TOS / AUP, and they do (@Home at least) send email notifications of changes - price, TOS, etc.
I don't give a rat's ass about using a living-room based server, but I do mind all these people whining about someone making it hard to do something they were told not to do. Obey the rules or get them changed. This never-never-land attitude of people who want to get away with something as long as they can by any means and then complain when caught is getting old fast. Right up there with kiddies at the food court claiming to be world-saving white hats... you like making things go *bleenk* and poking your nose in places. I can deal with that, just lose the sanctimony.
And the A stands for AUP... The prohib against servers on your side is old news. Deal. Switch. Go pro. No crybabies.
i'm a cyclist. somehow the companies of america have figured out a way to make the roads profiable - and still let everyone drive what they want, and still get where they want, i can ride my bike, they can have their semis and do what they want on their limitedf access roads.
Argonne, Sandia, etc... have acres of stuff that they use for a contract then can't actually sell - it's a major drool factor that one can get their hands on... Then there's the surplus Buran shuttle that the Russians had to dump a few years back. Don't remember who got it. Maybe Cosmosphere in Kansas?
OK - so they aren't perfect - but Apple has yet to make it so that every layer on this machine can and does talk to every other layer, across apps, to the point where an email attachment can tell your finance software to dredge your disk and blab your data to the world... where the scripting language in the browser and the email tool is the same language that can run file operations and launch apps... this was probably once a very cool thing at a demo, and a very bad thing when everyone who feels like it can send you any payload they want... Just becausse something *can* be done doesn't mean it *should* be done. *sigh* of course when the only identifier needed to decide app or data is a three letter extension, what were you expecting? isn't there anyone who can dope-slap otherwise intelligent people like Myhrvold and get a responsible OS going? The more I learn about WIN the more it is simply a black-hat's dream.
2. The attacker would not need to receive and decode a GPS signal, just that simple carrier saying "this is my X/Y/Z"...
3. Go find it. Solve a path to ***WITHIN THE BLAST RADIUS OF THE ATTACKER*** Good GPS can do this. The miliary has the best.
EVEN SIMPLER, the beacon doesn't have to broadcast GPS coordinates. It could be singing "My Dog Has Fleas" and you could find it at certain speeds. Nobody has said what the speeds are yet. "Vas this zee slow fuse, or zee fast fuse?"