Russian space exploration = the art of crashing safely?:-)
Hmm... something is wrong with that picture. They shouldn't be crashing in the first place. America should take control of the de-orbiting of the Mir, at least then we'd know it WOULD be done safely. I don't think the Russians can manage that on their own.
And polluting the ocean with the Mir space-junk is a better option?
All I can say is that I'm going to be out of Sydney on the day this thing deorbits, coz I don't trust the russians with this sort of thing.
I think the manned mission has also got to make sure that the mir space-junk is SAFE to de-orbit (ie : will not contaminate Earth with anything we do not already have.)...
Actually... Almost all of the international links out of Australia go out of Perth - something like 85 percent of it. It's a major hub for our international traffic...
Perth is also closer to the rest of the world than the eastern states...
There are so many things going in Perth's favor that the only thing going against it is its' severe lack of population and its' backward mindset (It's full of whingers).
As I'm a Sydneysider who originates from Perth, I feel I'm qualified to say this. Perth IS a hole, but its' only because the people there won't embrace progress.
No. It's not that you can't do those calculations really fast in your head - your mind does them all the time automatically. It's learning how to do them in a specific way...
Umm no...because the intended platform for the java programs (being the java VM) is still in existance and still being produced, whereas the intended platform for for C64 software is in most cases a C64, *NOT* a C64 emulator.
What's the deal with copyright anyway? Does copyright lapse once the person/company having filed the copyright ceases to exist (assuming that it has not been transferred to another person/company)?
Yeah I remember that too...I can remember buying ZZAP! and entering programs from that...
'cept I never had a floppy disk-drive (I can remember really enjoying listening to the music in the loader programs), nor did I ever get hold of a proper ASM monitor. I had to enter a program to allow me to execute ASM and THEN enter the ASM code! I believe the only way to enter asm code for this loader to run was to put it into a whole lot of DATA comments...talk about painful!:-)
I still have a commie 64, commie 128, and Amiga lying around...:-)
Oh the fun:-)
Ok so what if it's not legal?? How in heavens' name could they catch you anyway!?
Some places (mainly notebook computer manufacturers) preinstall windowz and also provide a shrink-wrapped copy of the OS as well (with licensing agreement). I can then go and use this piece of software on another computer. Are the two copies of the software treated as two seperate programs with two seperate licenses, or one program with the one license agreement for both copies?
Thius was my thought exactly...
There is no incentive to publish content. Perhaps if it were to include some form of content rating system (eg : "you downloaded this file. Please help us by rating it"), and mojo is added or taken away from the posters' account depending on the quality of what they post? Or perhaps content servers could have a tiered file-storing cost according to your rating? That way at least people who consistantly post useful content are rewarded for having to pay less to publish their content.
Only problem then is that, since the files' source must be stored somewhere, there goes your privacy once you've published something... UNLESS you make it so hard to decode who published the items that it isn't worth anyone's time finding out.
I could probly put up with the region-encoding scheme if I could get what I wanted in region 4 coding. Unfortunately, being in the much-ignored region-4, I often can't... or if I can, I have to pay over 40 dollars for it. I don't understand the MPAA's reasoning. Sure, if you're in region 1 you may get a lot more content available, but then you've got a lot more content available to you in the first place.
So I'm forced to buy a multi-region DVD player...
Only to find out it may not be able to read the region 1 discs I buy for it in the future...
They want to control WHAT INFORMATION you can have, WHEN you can have it and HOW you can have it. Oh, and they want to control the access method.
It's disgusting and immoral. Only, these guys don't have morals.
I've come to the conclusion that these multi-BILLION dollar information companies (Don't fool yourself - this is EXACTLY what they are! And once you control the flow of information you do not live in a free society anymore.) just want to twist and pull at every opportunity they can get, and the governments' only real purpose is to hold us down while they do it...
This is only the MICROSCOPIC tip of a MEGALITHIC iceberg! Don't let it happen!
Well... If you're stupid enough to browse Pr0n on your company itntra/internet connection AND stupid enough to get caught, then bravo to you! You give us a reason to laugh and ensure that people who don't deserve to have jobs don't get (or keep) them.
Having said that, I must confess to being a chronic web-browser myself...both at work and at home... HOWEVER I do not browse "innappropriate content" at work. I keep my browsing at work to items relating to the work I do.
Hmm..
Best region-code defeating mechanism I can think of would be one where the player reads the region-code of the disc and sets its' code to that which the DVD is expecting BEFORE letting the DVD query IT'S code...
This sort of region-defeating would, IMHO, be almost impossible to trick without changing the DVD-encoding stadard...
I can see why they do that tho...
If they were to unveil all the details of their chip, it's instruction-set, etc... They would be attacked by the vultures in no time.
Keeping things proprietry for the time being ensures they don't have Intel and AMD stealing their ideas...It's a lot harder to copy something if you don't know how it does what it does.
It's a smart move IMHO, and I hope they succeed.
One easy way around this would be to have a ROM with the original microcode for the processor on the motherboard. If a microcode download onto the Crusoe failed or a virus attacked the microcode, the BIOS would give you the option of restoring the chips' microcode to it's original version.
This is almost something you would imagine to be required in the BIOS for the crusoe chip. I would be VERY surprised if it wasn't already implimented.
I'mm afraid he's correct.
The best thing to come out of this would be a direct-x-like gaming toolkit. A linux-based console is pointless....The last thing we need is another 500 buck-plus console! A console would be a waste of Linux.
My idea is this :
Redhat buys Indrema. Builds Indrema technology into Red-hat (thus we get proper 3d drivers for our video cards, a proper GUI - read working and easy-to-use -, etc..).
Red-hat could have two modes - full workstation mode, or console mode. Console mode cuts out a lot of the crap such as multiuser, command-line etc leaving a streamlined OS for graphics. console-mode could boot into a graphical-menu where you select the game you wish to play out of the ones you have installed on your hard-disk, or load a game off CD-ROM/DVD-ROM. Workstation has the works plus a direct-x equilavent.
The result? BYO console out of spare computer parts! Shove mobo, cpu, memory, 3d graphics card, hard-disk, keyboard and mouse/joystick together and away you go!
Read the fsck'ing webpage. For your two grand, you get 24*7 tech support for a year, plus access to updates as they come out (no doubt before the non-paying users.)...
PLUS, if you read the web-page, you'd also discover that that particular distro of Red-Hat is available FREE-OF-CHARGE on Red-hat's site, albeit without the support. Also take a look at the rating ZDnet gave it... No less than a B on any of the points covered - Not bad for a first shot! Not bad at all!
Now take into account the fact that win2000 enterprise server (?) costs at least twice as much, is probly more than three times as buggy, and that the cost of Win2000 undoubtedly does not include the level of support RedHat are willing to provide, and I'd actually say that redhat high availability Server is exceptional value for money!
Please DO NOT BAG RED-HAT! Without them, I don't think Linux would be as popular as it is today in the mainstream.... And thanks to their efforts, it's likely to become even more popular. Mainstream popularity for Linux is not a bad thing - it provides a viable alternative to Micro$loth.
The only reason this is so expensive is because it isn't in true mass-production. I say build one of these things into a mobile phone, phrow in one of those new tiny LCD displays and we can get rid of WAP forever!
Who wants WAP when you can have real HTML?
Also, imagine how many contacts/phone numbers you could store in that 340mb HDD:-)
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Russian space exploration = the art of crashing safely? :-)
Hmm... something is wrong with that picture. They shouldn't be crashing in the first place. America should take control of the de-orbiting of the Mir, at least then we'd know it WOULD be done safely. I don't think the Russians can manage that on their own.
And polluting the ocean with the Mir space-junk is a better option? All I can say is that I'm going to be out of Sydney on the day this thing deorbits, coz I don't trust the russians with this sort of thing. I think the manned mission has also got to make sure that the mir space-junk is SAFE to de-orbit (ie : will not contaminate Earth with anything we do not already have.)...
Actually... Almost all of the international links out of Australia go out of Perth - something like 85 percent of it. It's a major hub for our international traffic... Perth is also closer to the rest of the world than the eastern states... There are so many things going in Perth's favor that the only thing going against it is its' severe lack of population and its' backward mindset (It's full of whingers). As I'm a Sydneysider who originates from Perth, I feel I'm qualified to say this. Perth IS a hole, but its' only because the people there won't embrace progress.
No. It's not that you can't do those calculations really fast in your head - your mind does them all the time automatically. It's learning how to do them in a specific way...
Umm no...because the intended platform for the java programs (being the java VM) is still in existance and still being produced, whereas the intended platform for for C64 software is in most cases a C64, *NOT* a C64 emulator. What's the deal with copyright anyway? Does copyright lapse once the person/company having filed the copyright ceases to exist (assuming that it has not been transferred to another person/company)?
Yeah I remember that too...I can remember buying ZZAP! and entering programs from that... 'cept I never had a floppy disk-drive (I can remember really enjoying listening to the music in the loader programs), nor did I ever get hold of a proper ASM monitor. I had to enter a program to allow me to execute ASM and THEN enter the ASM code! I believe the only way to enter asm code for this loader to run was to put it into a whole lot of DATA comments...talk about painful! :-)
I still have a commie 64, commie 128, and Amiga lying around... :-)
Oh the fun :-)
You're not kidding. Talk about the government overstepping the boundaries...
Ok so what if it's not legal?? How in heavens' name could they catch you anyway!? Some places (mainly notebook computer manufacturers) preinstall windowz and also provide a shrink-wrapped copy of the OS as well (with licensing agreement). I can then go and use this piece of software on another computer. Are the two copies of the software treated as two seperate programs with two seperate licenses, or one program with the one license agreement for both copies?
Thius was my thought exactly... There is no incentive to publish content. Perhaps if it were to include some form of content rating system (eg : "you downloaded this file. Please help us by rating it"), and mojo is added or taken away from the posters' account depending on the quality of what they post? Or perhaps content servers could have a tiered file-storing cost according to your rating? That way at least people who consistantly post useful content are rewarded for having to pay less to publish their content. Only problem then is that, since the files' source must be stored somewhere, there goes your privacy once you've published something... UNLESS you make it so hard to decode who published the items that it isn't worth anyone's time finding out.
I could probly put up with the region-encoding scheme if I could get what I wanted in region 4 coding. Unfortunately, being in the much-ignored region-4, I often can't... or if I can, I have to pay over 40 dollars for it. I don't understand the MPAA's reasoning. Sure, if you're in region 1 you may get a lot more content available, but then you've got a lot more content available to you in the first place. So I'm forced to buy a multi-region DVD player... Only to find out it may not be able to read the region 1 discs I buy for it in the future... They want to control WHAT INFORMATION you can have, WHEN you can have it and HOW you can have it. Oh, and they want to control the access method. It's disgusting and immoral. Only, these guys don't have morals. I've come to the conclusion that these multi-BILLION dollar information companies (Don't fool yourself - this is EXACTLY what they are! And once you control the flow of information you do not live in a free society anymore.) just want to twist and pull at every opportunity they can get, and the governments' only real purpose is to hold us down while they do it... This is only the MICROSCOPIC tip of a MEGALITHIC iceberg! Don't let it happen!
Well... If you're stupid enough to browse Pr0n on your company itntra/internet connection AND stupid enough to get caught, then bravo to you! You give us a reason to laugh and ensure that people who don't deserve to have jobs don't get (or keep) them. Having said that, I must confess to being a chronic web-browser myself...both at work and at home... HOWEVER I do not browse "innappropriate content" at work. I keep my browsing at work to items relating to the work I do.
Hmm.. Best region-code defeating mechanism I can think of would be one where the player reads the region-code of the disc and sets its' code to that which the DVD is expecting BEFORE letting the DVD query IT'S code... This sort of region-defeating would, IMHO, be almost impossible to trick without changing the DVD-encoding stadard...
I can see why they do that tho... If they were to unveil all the details of their chip, it's instruction-set, etc... They would be attacked by the vultures in no time. Keeping things proprietry for the time being ensures they don't have Intel and AMD stealing their ideas...It's a lot harder to copy something if you don't know how it does what it does. It's a smart move IMHO, and I hope they succeed.
One easy way around this would be to have a ROM with the original microcode for the processor on the motherboard. If a microcode download onto the Crusoe failed or a virus attacked the microcode, the BIOS would give you the option of restoring the chips' microcode to it's original version. This is almost something you would imagine to be required in the BIOS for the crusoe chip. I would be VERY surprised if it wasn't already implimented.
I'mm afraid he's correct. The best thing to come out of this would be a direct-x-like gaming toolkit. A linux-based console is pointless....The last thing we need is another 500 buck-plus console! A console would be a waste of Linux. My idea is this : Redhat buys Indrema. Builds Indrema technology into Red-hat (thus we get proper 3d drivers for our video cards, a proper GUI - read working and easy-to-use -, etc..). Red-hat could have two modes - full workstation mode, or console mode. Console mode cuts out a lot of the crap such as multiuser, command-line etc leaving a streamlined OS for graphics. console-mode could boot into a graphical-menu where you select the game you wish to play out of the ones you have installed on your hard-disk, or load a game off CD-ROM/DVD-ROM. Workstation has the works plus a direct-x equilavent. The result? BYO console out of spare computer parts! Shove mobo, cpu, memory, 3d graphics card, hard-disk, keyboard and mouse/joystick together and away you go!
Read the fsck'ing webpage. For your two grand, you get 24*7 tech support for a year, plus access to updates as they come out (no doubt before the non-paying users.)... PLUS, if you read the web-page, you'd also discover that that particular distro of Red-Hat is available FREE-OF-CHARGE on Red-hat's site, albeit without the support. Also take a look at the rating ZDnet gave it... No less than a B on any of the points covered - Not bad for a first shot! Not bad at all! Now take into account the fact that win2000 enterprise server (?) costs at least twice as much, is probly more than three times as buggy, and that the cost of Win2000 undoubtedly does not include the level of support RedHat are willing to provide, and I'd actually say that redhat high availability Server is exceptional value for money! Please DO NOT BAG RED-HAT! Without them, I don't think Linux would be as popular as it is today in the mainstream.... And thanks to their efforts, it's likely to become even more popular. Mainstream popularity for Linux is not a bad thing - it provides a viable alternative to Micro$loth.
The only reason this is so expensive is because it isn't in true mass-production. I say build one of these things into a mobile phone, phrow in one of those new tiny LCD displays and we can get rid of WAP forever! Who wants WAP when you can have real HTML? Also, imagine how many contacts/phone numbers you could store in that 340mb HDD :-)