Probably the size of the transmitters able to send telemety to earth and the associated power supply systems are the big limiting factor - you could make a tiny satellite, but you couldn't talk to it...
Perhaps launching sats with mobile phone style repeaters will be a future solution - the minisats could relay through these, and have much lower power radio gear....
If you use one server, and multiple soundcards, use a different user ID for each zone. XMMS instances for each zone would then have individual playlists, preferences (inc soundcard) etc etc taken from the.xmms file in each user's home directory. A xms -v %filename command from a terminal or whatever would add the file to the playlist of the XMMS instance that the user owns, so it would be added to the correct playlist and played with the correct soundcard.
Actually I think it's from different publishers. It's quite handy - I was told that a book I wanted was no longer published (by a well known bookstore), but after looking on Amazon I found that another publisher had bought the rights and had a new edition out.
Actually AS/400's don't have to be big - I've got one on my desk in front of me. A model 150, it's the same size as a PC, but in black with a red flash...
Single user AS/400s - For when a Sparc isn't exclusive enough.
I've worked for them twice, once as a regular employee, and once as a consultant, and never will again.
They have an office culture that (Here in the UK at least) stifles creativity, they have inflexable rules that seem set arbitarily, and quite frankly all the people I know that are still there are desperate to get out...
In CSC, if you succeed, CSC succeeds. If you make a mistake, YOU make the mistake.
It's a shame but true - American Quake gurus pretty much have online Quake to themselves. Over in Europe (and Australia, I suppose) enthusiasts will not download a 56Mb file over a 56K modem, when you pay for the call, and the latency makes gameplay crap too.
Wait a few more years, while broadband rolls out over here, and another potential 50 million targets will turn up in your sights!
Do you reckon it'll eventually be an Olympic sport? It'll be better than indoor bowls....
Fact: The denser the medium, the more energy needs to be spent for a certain speed.
If this thing's going to use rockets commercially, why not stick them on a 747 sized plane and send it on a ballistic path through near space? Travelling in a near vacuum needs bugger all energy for ridiculous speeds - a far more efficient use of resources.
Also - no one can hear or see them, and no wildlife can get in the way of them.
It might not be the fastest, quietest, smallest, best looking, most cutting edge -
But by God is it reliable.
Once worked for a company with 43 IBM AS/400 machines, one at each of their sites. We had a disk crash about once a month.
Bad? They were all over 10 years old, and had NEVER been rebooted, or turned off. (Oh - and we never lost any data, the diags built into the hardware gave you just enough time to pipe the data off the disk before it went bang).
I would like an industrial IBM machine with Linux please - have it oiled and sent to my room immediately.
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By not rolling out ASDL - bastards.
Probably the size of the transmitters able to send telemety to earth and the associated power supply systems are the big limiting factor - you could make a tiny satellite, but you couldn't talk to it...
Perhaps launching sats with mobile phone style repeaters will be a future solution - the minisats could relay through these, and have much lower power radio gear....
Dunno - what do you think?
He didn't use the word 'paradigm'
With an article like this, the real Katz would not be able to resist...
If you use one server, and multiple soundcards, use a different user ID for each zone. XMMS instances for each zone would then have individual playlists, preferences (inc soundcard) etc etc taken from the .xmms file in each user's home directory. A xms -v %filename command from a terminal or whatever would add the file to the playlist of the XMMS instance that the user owns, so it would be added to the correct playlist and played with the correct soundcard.
Works for me!
I don't think I'll buy an ebook 'till they duplicate the feel and smell and weight of a new unopened book in my hand.
Perhaps my literatuary enjoyment requires the sacrifice of innocent trees...
Mind you -
Actually I think it's from different publishers. It's quite handy - I was told that a book I wanted was no longer published (by a well known bookstore), but after looking on Amazon I found that another publisher had bought the rights and had a new edition out.
Course Amazon know where I live now...Oops
>HP has their own unix OS - you don't get much cheaper than that
If HPUX is so good - why are they using Linux?
>It's ALREADY DONE. They already pay developers
They pay developers to do what? Make Linux bins run on HPUX - That's useful for the open source movement, as we can all see. Not.
>First - why do they owe you anything? Using "your" product helps prove that it's a real product
I am not part of the open source movement - Why do you assume that just because of my viewpoint on this issue?
Teen angst - Err no - sorry, wrong again.
What have HP gained?
ans: A stable cheap operating system
What have they saved?
ans: Shitloads of development money
What has the open source movement gained?
ans: nuffin.
Is this a model for future company involvement in Linux/Open source software?
Answer is an exercise for the student
Just the fact that people like this survive, and reproduce, and not only that get voted into power.
Humankind is poisoning it's future by letting them reproduce!
Isn't it funny that anti-evolutionists are also usually anti-birth control and anti-abortion? It's the only way they can survive and propogate!
We are Linux, your code WILL be incorporated.
Actually AS/400's don't have to be big - I've got one on my desk in front of me. A model 150, it's the same size as a PC, but in black with a red flash...
Single user AS/400s - For when a Sparc isn't exclusive enough.
I've worked for them twice, once as a regular employee, and once as a consultant, and never will again.
They have an office culture that (Here in the UK at least) stifles creativity, they have inflexable rules that seem set arbitarily, and quite frankly all the people I know that are still there are desperate to get out...
In CSC, if you succeed, CSC succeeds. If you make a mistake, YOU make the mistake.
I read this article with no surprise whatsoever.
Lucky git! Stunning scenery AND a fat pipe! (ooer)
ADSL is still in the pipeline down here in sunny (not) Buckinghamshire, and cable still has to rear its head in my town.
Question - what are the little boxes on the back of satellite dishes called?
Answer - Buckinghamshire houses!
It's a shame but true - American Quake gurus pretty much have online Quake to themselves. Over in Europe (and Australia, I suppose) enthusiasts will not download a 56Mb file over a 56K modem, when you pay for the call, and the latency makes gameplay crap too.
Wait a few more years, while broadband rolls out over here, and another potential 50 million targets will turn up in your sights!
Do you reckon it'll eventually be an Olympic sport? It'll be better than indoor bowls....
Fact: The denser the medium, the more energy needs to be spent for a certain speed.
If this thing's going to use rockets commercially, why not stick them on a 747 sized plane and send it on a ballistic path through near space? Travelling in a near vacuum needs bugger all energy for ridiculous speeds - a far more efficient use of resources.
Also - no one can hear or see them, and no wildlife can get in the way of them.
IBM Hardware:
It might not be the fastest, quietest, smallest, best looking, most cutting edge -
But by God is it reliable.
Once worked for a company with 43 IBM AS/400 machines, one at each of their sites. We had a disk crash about once a month.
Bad? They were all over 10 years old, and had NEVER been rebooted, or turned off. (Oh - and we never lost any data, the diags built into the hardware gave you just enough time to pipe the data off the disk before it went bang).
I would like an industrial IBM machine with Linux please - have it oiled and sent to my room immediately.
Why do companies resort to the law courts the minute a challenge to their business plan appears?
In the old days, you cut your price, bettered your service or advertised more...
What next? Ford sueing GM because the new GM Spankit targets the Ford Flubber's market?