Solar Sails dont hold much promise yet though, debris can tear the sails to shreds, the payloads are insanely small and maneuvering is (as this article shows) very hard. Im more interested in the plasma engines bound for mars in 5 years.
You continue to put a face on the otherwise cold, beige Slahdot. Keep up the good work and ignore the assholes who flame you, they were probably bullied and now feel they need to seek revenge.
To all of you who must just search for Katz articles to blast . . . you're ignorant children and deserve whatever ass-kickings or social shunning you're obviously getting to make you so angry. Post your numbers and ill report you to W.A.V.E.
This story is a VERY important social commentary for what is probably the majority of Slashdotters. Just because it doesnt announce the release of a new kernel or the discovery of asteroid b125k39fb*! doesnt mean it isnt newsworthy and applicable to readers. Katz would get alot more respect if the bashers actually posted instead of just scanning headlines for stuff they can impress/scare their non-techie friends with. READ the stories posted here - dont just follow link headlines!
My college (as can be inferred from the address above) teaches EVERY CS course in Java cause were a big public school that receives funding from SUN. It was cute like 5 years ago but now its just bull. And short of the Xterms in teh lab (we're not aloud to X in from anywhere else) you kinda have to use linux for anything important. The problem isnt linux - Javas slow as frozen piss on every platform.
. . . Is what this is all about. Napsters obviously using Emusic as a contractor. Emusic shares their data to the mutual benefit of both companies - Emusic (as was posted earlier) gets a foot in the door as another Napster-type service with a different format and Napster uses the data to pitch the RIAA on its new micropayment system. This information is going to be the metric that decides how profitable micropayment will be. EVERYONE (including the RIAA) is drooling over this and Napster is of course eager to be the first on the block to cash in. My 2 cents.
My good friend and first IT boss worked at a firm where JUST such a thing happened in his department. Just like the case mentioned on the first page, it was a tip-off from a disgruntled individual that prompted it. The Department was distributing software without official endorsement from the company but it was the company that ate the costs because of the audit. My 2 cents.
. . . but after reading all of the recent insane patent/copyright/censorship articles and listening to the 2600 radio show tonight where I FINALLY heard the audio of the reasoning behind the DeCSS decision, I just cant rejoice about this. In 15 years Ill have a shiny new quantum machine that I can play freecell on and write papers that automatically get mailed to m$.
Hooray! were all doomed it seems.
with the switch from shared to switched band Local Area Networks snooping is almost impossible anymore. On Cisco equipment, monitoring all traffic types is only possible if you have enable priveleges. Bosses usually dont and if they do they wouldnt know how to set up the nescessary listening apps (tcp, udp). Not to blow my cover but LAN admins usually can snoop quite well because of their access rights and know-how. Weve fired two people from telecomm at my University for just such intrusions.
keep in mind when assessing the "damage" done to global backbone networks that backbone switches and routers cant just reconfigure themselves with simple dynamic routing updates to find alternate routes. Some technologies like ATM or even FDDI are to a point self-healing but the really fat pipes at the center of the internetwork use technologies so new they dont have the capability to reconfigure themselves. Most use tag switching or labeled packet-swithing schemes to reduce network overhead and increase speed. Once a packet comes off of a local line and hits a switch that tags or labels it routes become largely static - meaning that a severed route means death with almost no recourse for that frame. Yikes!
Just got back from PC expo and I'd like to start off by saying that LINUS was THERE. Not only was he there but apparently like me and a whole of six other people knew who he was paid him much attention. He wasnt up on a pedestal giving some keynote or anything, he was just out on the floor at the transmeta booth giving interviews to reporters and talking to the few of us that know his face. I ran down to the linux pavillion and bought a tux polo for him to sign and though he didnt seem that happy about signing a cotton shirt with a ballpoint pen he nonetheless obliged. Anyway onto the products. . . They had a few (no more than ten) notebooks at the pavillion and a working webpad that really knocked my socks off. The notebooks were VIAO-like in form factor and even at the end of teh day were very cool to the touch. They were running NT (I THINK - dont remember very well) and were each a different cutesy color. WHile the engineer said named the fore-mentioned big four producing the books this year, I saw nothing but Hitcahi prototypes on the floor. They were running some type of movie on power consumption of crusoe vs. a speed-stepped PIII while decoding DVD. Judge hype-worthiness for yourself, but the running graphs showed that as soon as the DVD decoding starts, the Crusoe adjusts accordingly for power down to an average of circa 1 watt while the PIII kept eating power at the same rate it started at. I was told the tiny translucent pink laptop I was using could run for a full seven hours of normal use but then again they were all plugged in. The webpad on the other hand was NOT a hands on demo but was a real knock out. We were all close enough to know that it was real but not close enough to know what it was running. Anyway - my two cents - they have a good product -looking at the chip prices quoted at the original press conference months ago these things should take a significant part of the market away from chipzilla and as an economics student Im happy to see another player successfully enter the market.
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Solar Sails dont hold much promise yet though, debris can tear the sails to shreds, the payloads are insanely small and maneuvering is (as this article shows) very hard. Im more interested in the plasma engines bound for mars in 5 years.
The reason you can't find Appalaichann Farewell is because the song is named "Ashoken Farewell." Fire up Napster :).
And what have you done lately mother theresa? Volunteered as a dickhead on slashdot?
Someone PLEASE mod this up. Its worth more than a zero! - off topic but HILARIOUS!
You continue to put a face on the otherwise cold, beige Slahdot. Keep up the good work and ignore the assholes who flame you, they were probably bullied and now feel they need to seek revenge. To all of you who must just search for Katz articles to blast . . . you're ignorant children and deserve whatever ass-kickings or social shunning you're obviously getting to make you so angry. Post your numbers and ill report you to W.A.V.E.
That just might have been the greatest post I have ever seen in my four years of reading Slashdot. But STop knocking Katz, seriously.
This story is a VERY important social commentary for what is probably the majority of Slashdotters. Just because it doesnt announce the release of a new kernel or the discovery of asteroid b125k39fb*! doesnt mean it isnt newsworthy and applicable to readers. Katz would get alot more respect if the bashers actually posted instead of just scanning headlines for stuff they can impress/scare their non-techie friends with. READ the stories posted here - dont just follow link headlines!
My college (as can be inferred from the address above) teaches EVERY CS course in Java cause were a big public school that receives funding from SUN. It was cute like 5 years ago but now its just bull. And short of the Xterms in teh lab (we're not aloud to X in from anywhere else) you kinda have to use linux for anything important. The problem isnt linux - Javas slow as frozen piss on every platform.
. . . Is what this is all about. Napsters obviously using Emusic as a contractor. Emusic shares their data to the mutual benefit of both companies - Emusic (as was posted earlier) gets a foot in the door as another Napster-type service with a different format and Napster uses the data to pitch the RIAA on its new micropayment system. This information is going to be the metric that decides how profitable micropayment will be. EVERYONE (including the RIAA) is drooling over this and Napster is of course eager to be the first on the block to cash in. My 2 cents.
My good friend and first IT boss worked at a firm where JUST such a thing happened in his department. Just like the case mentioned on the first page, it was a tip-off from a disgruntled individual that prompted it. The Department was distributing software without official endorsement from the company but it was the company that ate the costs because of the audit. My 2 cents.
. . . but after reading all of the recent insane patent/copyright/censorship articles and listening to the 2600 radio show tonight where I FINALLY heard the audio of the reasoning behind the DeCSS decision, I just cant rejoice about this. In 15 years Ill have a shiny new quantum machine that I can play freecell on and write papers that automatically get mailed to m$. Hooray! were all doomed it seems.
with the switch from shared to switched band Local Area Networks snooping is almost impossible anymore. On Cisco equipment, monitoring all traffic types is only possible if you have enable priveleges. Bosses usually dont and if they do they wouldnt know how to set up the nescessary listening apps (tcp, udp). Not to blow my cover but LAN admins usually can snoop quite well because of their access rights and know-how. Weve fired two people from telecomm at my University for just such intrusions.
DSL my ass I sit outside the router at a telecomm company Ive nuked 6 T1s at a time
keep in mind when assessing the "damage" done to global backbone networks that backbone switches and routers cant just reconfigure themselves with simple dynamic routing updates to find alternate routes. Some technologies like ATM or even FDDI are to a point self-healing but the really fat pipes at the center of the internetwork use technologies so new they dont have the capability to reconfigure themselves. Most use tag switching or labeled packet-swithing schemes to reduce network overhead and increase speed. Once a packet comes off of a local line and hits a switch that tags or labels it routes become largely static - meaning that a severed route means death with almost no recourse for that frame. Yikes!
Then again most of the fat stuff is domestic >:^]
*cue "Proud to be an American"#
Just got back from PC expo and I'd like to start off by saying that LINUS was THERE. Not only was he there but apparently like me and a whole of six other people knew who he was paid him much attention. He wasnt up on a pedestal giving some keynote or anything, he was just out on the floor at the transmeta booth giving interviews to reporters and talking to the few of us that know his face. I ran down to the linux pavillion and bought a tux polo for him to sign and though he didnt seem that happy about signing a cotton shirt with a ballpoint pen he nonetheless obliged. Anyway onto the products. . . They had a few (no more than ten) notebooks at the pavillion and a working webpad that really knocked my socks off. The notebooks were VIAO-like in form factor and even at the end of teh day were very cool to the touch. They were running NT (I THINK - dont remember very well) and were each a different cutesy color. WHile the engineer said named the fore-mentioned big four producing the books this year, I saw nothing but Hitcahi prototypes on the floor. They were running some type of movie on power consumption of crusoe vs. a speed-stepped PIII while decoding DVD. Judge hype-worthiness for yourself, but the running graphs showed that as soon as the DVD decoding starts, the Crusoe adjusts accordingly for power down to an average of circa 1 watt while the PIII kept eating power at the same rate it started at. I was told the tiny translucent pink laptop I was using could run for a full seven hours of normal use but then again they were all plugged in. The webpad on the other hand was NOT a hands on demo but was a real knock out. We were all close enough to know that it was real but not close enough to know what it was running. Anyway - my two cents - they have a good product -looking at the chip prices quoted at the original press conference months ago these things should take a significant part of the market away from chipzilla and as an economics student Im happy to see another player successfully enter the market.