A compatibility layer with something that they claimed was a national security risk?
The "security risk" was the possibility of 'bad guys' inserting subtle bugs into Linux that could be exploited on the battlefield. On first glance, I'd call that unlikely but possible.
The compatability layer allows software written for embedded Linux to run on Green Hills's OS. Thus eliminating the alleged risk (unless Zambian spies break into the Green Hills office and insert bugs in their code). Am I missing something here?
There's lies, and there's marketing hype. I've only skimmed the "Linux Bad" articles, but what I've seen doesn't seem any worse a distortion of the truth than your typical TV commercial.
I'd expect them to phrase it more tactfully for exactly that reason. Along the lines of "our product is better than Linux because of this, this, and this, and it will cost you next to nothing to port your software over."
Not necessarily. They compatability layer does nothing for devtools (the "there is no linux embedded tools market" article is about a claim that people who are too cheap to buy a 'real' OS are too cheap to buy commercial devtools) - it is so that embedded software originally built to run on embedded Linux will run with minimal modification on Green Hills's "INTEGRITY" RTOS.
This way, they can go to potential customers who are 'misguidedly' building embedded software on Linux and say "Your OS is TEH SUX, but all is not lost! You can switch to our product without having to throw out all your code."
Green Hills makes devtools and OSs for safety-critical embedded systems. They've been vocally anti-Linux-in-safety-critical-embedded-systems because Linux is a competitor (nothing particularly nefarious, just a company trying to make a case that their product has advantages over a competitor).
And now they made a compatability layer so their OS can run software written for their competitors' API. This is a change of heart how?
Especially considering how Green Hills has long had a compatibility layer for their more direct competitor vxWorks.
It would require new transportation technology to make it cost effective. Round trips with conventional rockets carry suprisingly little. Look up the return payloads of the Apollo missions if you don't believe me.
The article says 25 tonnes is enought to power the US for a full year. Apollo 17 returned 110 kg of moonrock plus 3 astronauts and their equipment. Call it 1/3 of a tonne. So that makes 75 Apollo round trips to retrieve the fuel for one year of power.
One Apollo mission cost $110 billion in today's dollars (20 billion in 1970, adjusted using the inflation calculator). So the total transportation costs run about $8.25 trillion. Or about 75% of GDP. I don't know how much we spend on power, but I don't think it's that much.
Conclusion: yup, transportation costs will be a killer. Not the conclusion I expected when I started fact-checking you.
I got a SECRET clearance last year. It took three months and cost my employer nothing (fully subsidized by the DoD). While it was being processed, I had an interm clearance which was granted the day after I applied.
I have a clean credit record and little history of foreign travel. Your mileage may vary.
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To the song, "In the Jungle"
In R'Lyeh, the sunken city, Cthulhu sleeps to-night. From R'Lyeh, the sunken city, Cthulhu will rise tonight.
Hup! Hup! Hup!
A weema whep A weema whep A weema whep A weema whep A weema whep A weema whep A weema whep A weema whep A weema whem A weema whep A weema whep A weema whep
Start screeming child, scream my child. Cthulhu rises to-night! Screem my child, start screeming child. Cthulhu rises to-night!
The fewest pitches you can through and still pitch a complete game is 25. Playing at another team's ballpark, you pitch 8 innings of all first pitch groundouts/lineouts/flyouts. The opposing pitcher throws a shutout. Bottom of the ninth, your first pitch is hit for a walkout home run.
First they take over our water supply, then they develop the ability to fold thousands of paper cranes. And what better method than paper cranes to release billions of doses of LSD into our nation's reservoirs? Doesn't anyone watch movies anymore?
It took Adam Arkin and David Schaffer just $200,000 and a grad student to develop a potential treatment for AIDS.
Did they USE $200,000 and a grad student, or did they EXPEND $200,000 and a grad student? An important distinction, especially from the grad student's perspective.
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LOTR (obviously)
Read books long before movie.
Harry Potter (When did you read Sorcerer's Stone)
The night before the movie opened.
My Slashdot ID is lower than yours (Sub-groups here are 3-digit, 4-5 digit, low 6 digit IDs)
Low 6 digit.
People who had to watch Soprano's Season 1 after Season 2.
Season 1 first
People who first watched the Matrix on DVD.
Watched it on a press pass (college newspaper) a week before it opened.
Anyone born after Carter left office.
DAMMIT! Seven frikkin months into the Reagan administration!
The report you link cites four studies which find that ethanol is energy negative and six studies which find that ethanol is energy positive. The authors of the report give their reasons for preferring the positive side, but it seems to me that the balance of other studies shows that there is room for debate.
Actually, goatse.cx has been down for several months. No, really. This isn't just a ploy to get you to visit it anyway!
$ ping goatse.cx
Pinging goatse.cx [203.119.12.252] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out. Reply from 203.63.130.49: Destination net unreachable. Reply from 203.63.130.49: Destination net unreachable. Reply from 203.63.130.49: Destination net unreachable.
Ping statistics for 203.119.12.252:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
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I didn't believe you, but my skepticism was unfounded.
The Gnostics were considered heretics by mainstream early Christians. Among other things, Gnostics belived that the world was created by an evil being, the 'orginal sin' was a desirable act of rebellion by Adam and Eve against the evil creator (the Demiurge), and Jesus did not have a material body (source).
Most Christians, then and now, would consider themselves "not Gnostics".
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A compatibility layer with something that they claimed was a national security risk?
The "security risk" was the possibility of 'bad guys' inserting subtle bugs into Linux that could be exploited on the battlefield. On first glance, I'd call that unlikely but possible.
The compatability layer allows software written for embedded Linux to run on Green Hills's OS. Thus eliminating the alleged risk (unless Zambian spies break into the Green Hills office and insert bugs in their code). Am I missing something here?
There's lies, and there's marketing hype. I've only skimmed the "Linux Bad" articles, but what I've seen doesn't seem any worse a distortion of the truth than your typical TV commercial.
I'd expect them to phrase it more tactfully for exactly that reason. Along the lines of "our product is better than Linux because of this, this, and this, and it will cost you next to nothing to port your software over."
Not necessarily. They compatability layer does nothing for devtools (the "there is no linux embedded tools market" article is about a claim that people who are too cheap to buy a 'real' OS are too cheap to buy commercial devtools) - it is so that embedded software originally built to run on embedded Linux will run with minimal modification on Green Hills's "INTEGRITY" RTOS.
This way, they can go to potential customers who are 'misguidedly' building embedded software on Linux and say "Your OS is TEH SUX, but all is not lost! You can switch to our product without having to throw out all your code."
Yeah, I must have misread it. I think the $20 billion was actually the total cost of the Apollo program in 1970 dollars.
Green Hills makes devtools and OSs for safety-critical embedded systems. They've been vocally anti-Linux-in-safety-critical-embedded-systems because Linux is a competitor (nothing particularly nefarious, just a company trying to make a case that their product has advantages over a competitor).
And now they made a compatability layer so their OS can run software written for their competitors' API. This is a change of heart how?
Especially considering how Green Hills has long had a compatibility layer for their more direct competitor vxWorks.
It would require new transportation technology to make it cost effective. Round trips with conventional rockets carry suprisingly little. Look up the return payloads of the Apollo missions if you don't believe me.
The article says 25 tonnes is enought to power the US for a full year. Apollo 17 returned 110 kg of moonrock plus 3 astronauts and their equipment. Call it 1/3 of a tonne. So that makes 75 Apollo round trips to retrieve the fuel for one year of power.
One Apollo mission cost $110 billion in today's dollars (20 billion in 1970, adjusted using the inflation calculator). So the total transportation costs run about $8.25 trillion. Or about 75% of GDP. I don't know how much we spend on power, but I don't think it's that much.
Conclusion: yup, transportation costs will be a killer. Not the conclusion I expected when I started fact-checking you.
I got a SECRET clearance last year. It took three months and cost my employer nothing (fully subsidized by the DoD). While it was being processed, I had an interm clearance which was granted the day after I applied.
I have a clean credit record and little history of foreign travel. Your mileage may vary.
2% of votes were yet to be counted.
Bush was ahead in the partial count by 3-4%.
Just HOW democratic were those counties?
Go Yanks!
I'd like that better if it wasn't during baseball season.
every word, every single one, needs both hands
Every word? Even "I" and "a"?
Sure, many people speak some 'dum pidg3n lol' language
It's spelled "pidg1n". Unless the language you're referring to is the vocalizations of rock doves, in which case it's spelled "pig30n".
I once had a coworker whose work email was a@be.com. No word on how much spam he got.
The ottoman empire brought peace and prosperity to the desert
They also introduced footstools.
The fewest pitches you can through and still pitch a complete game is 25. Playing at another team's ballpark, you pitch 8 innings of all first pitch groundouts/lineouts/flyouts. The opposing pitcher throws a shutout. Bottom of the ninth, your first pitch is hit for a walkout home run.
First they take over our water supply, then they develop the ability to fold thousands of paper cranes. And what better method than paper cranes to release billions of doses of LSD into our nation's reservoirs? Doesn't anyone watch movies anymore?
It took Adam Arkin and David Schaffer just $200,000 and a grad student to develop a potential treatment for AIDS.
Did they USE $200,000 and a grad student, or did they EXPEND $200,000 and a grad student? An important distinction, especially from the grad student's perspective.
LOTR (obviously)
Read books long before movie.
Harry Potter (When did you read Sorcerer's Stone)
The night before the movie opened.
My Slashdot ID is lower than yours (Sub-groups here are 3-digit, 4-5 digit, low 6 digit IDs)
Low 6 digit.
People who had to watch Soprano's Season 1 after Season 2.
Season 1 first
People who first watched the Matrix on DVD.
Watched it on a press pass (college newspaper) a week before it opened.
Anyone born after Carter left office.
DAMMIT! Seven frikkin months into the Reagan administration!
$350 / 2000 hours = 17.5 cents/hour.
Movie from blockbuster = $3 / 2 hours = $1.50/hour
Bulb costs are swamped by content costs.
What proof do you have that it is not?
The report you link cites four studies which find that ethanol is energy negative and six studies which find that ethanol is energy positive. The authors of the report give their reasons for preferring the positive side, but it seems to me that the balance of other studies shows that there is room for debate.
No, really. This isn't just a ploy to get you to visit it anyway! I didn't believe you, but my skepticism was unfounded.
(Still trying to think of a way to string four "that's" in a row.)
Why? Is that "that that 'that'" that you wrote in your post not good enough for you?
The Gnostics were considered heretics by mainstream early Christians. Among other things, Gnostics belived that the world was created by an evil being, the 'orginal sin' was a desirable act of rebellion by Adam and Eve against the evil creator (the Demiurge), and Jesus did not have a material body (source).
Most Christians, then and now, would consider themselves "not Gnostics".