Perhaps one better... redirect all/. requests to a Google-cache of your webpage (assuming you're lucky enough to have the page cached before someone notices).
Exactly. The subscription is only needed if you want to run major chunks of the Sun ONE server stack. If you want the traditional Solaris pricing (ie, bundled with 1 CPU, single license fee for multiple CPUs), it's not going away.
This change is not forced upon anyone, it just adds another option.
Also note that they are planning a Linux version of project Orion, showing a lot more support for Sun ONE on Linux than has existed in the past.
This is my normal daily browsing routine, in general order:
Netscape Messenger Yahoo! Mail/. and whatever sites that takes me to CNN.com News.com
Googling for work and whatever sites that takes me to... after an hour or two of work it's time for relaxing
Boners.com (less and less, not alot of updates lately) DailyRotten.com and whatever sites that takes me to Games-Workshop.com to see if there's anything new Portent.net to check on 40K rumors
Googling for curiousity and whatever sites that takes me to... Rinse and repeat the first block... Rinse and repeat the second block... ???... Profit!
Given the previous article talking about RFID tags in tires (which is much more insidious to me than having an RFID tag in the packaging of the underwear I buy), it brings up a question.
Given how low-power these things are, and that they seem to be standardizing on the way they transmit, is there a way to create RFID countermeasures?
The best would be a passive device like the RFID tags that can be powered by the same mechanism as the RFID tags themselves, since that would mean it would always activate when you were in range. However, I would assume an active countermeasure could be powered for a very long time from a small battery.
For those interested in the same things with this player, I posted my feedback (with some additions) on their forums. It should be more productive to do feature requests there if you are willing to register for their forums.
I've been waiting for that portable that has a balance of features that work for me... the Neuros almost has "it" (see this page for the Neuros list of features/specs) . The things that would perfect it for me:
1) Linux synchronization software (they currently claim to only support Windows). Normally I would figure on the community to support the device, but this one looks like it probably has some sync features that need to come from the device owner (like the HiSi feature that lets you ID songs from the FM tuner).
2) USB 2.0... Neuros is a USB 1.1 device... transferring 5000 songs on 1.1 is going to be slow. I don't have a USB 2.0 PC yet, but I will shortly. I'm not to concerned with firewire support.
3) (not a demand but they suggested it and I want it) timed recording of FM stations... like a TiVo for NPR... I've wanted this in an easy to use format for a LONG time. I dearly hope it can record FM while playing other recordings... schweet if so.
4) Ogg support, but this is what this article was about so I'll be optimistic.
Otherwise, the unit has everything else I've been looking for (I really like that the HD is removable while the unit is still playable via the internal storage). I'm probably going to wait 6 months to see if they add any of these features, but if not it's feature-rich enough that I'll happily get this thing.
Intel has already been developing an x86-64-like chip (I forget the name). They are simply keeping it under wraps. This is sound business strategy (though not something most of us like). Let AMD take the risk with their chip, if it fails, AMD hurts badly. If it succeeds, Intel comes out with their own chip and is immediately in the running because of their market clout. AMD gets the 1st mover advantage -and- disadvantage. I think Intel is willing to live with that.
I'm perfectly willing to pay between $14 and $20 for a decent CD. However, I'm not willing to give the majority of that to recording/distribution companies. If I felt at least 50% of my money was supporting the artist, I'd be a lot happier.
Bah, forget timesheet inflation, the engineer was supposed to have worked all of the hours on the sheet. That makes the joke more ironic since the inflating lawyer would have more deserved an early death but not heaven, whereas the engineer worked hard early and deserved heaven but not so soon.
The title is misleading, IMO. If anyone can use it and it is not personalized to the true owner... it's still cash to me. It may be on a different media, but this is in no way cashless.
Plus, given the incompatibilities in currencies like this from various places, it just brings back many of the problems that occurred before centralized banking.
Doesn't sound like much of a good thing to me... maybe a step, but a small one overall.
I still work for Sun and have never seen anything like this memo. Java is still used daily for internal projects, still hyped strong and developed strong, and I've never seen a Sun person try and dissuade another from using it.
If the memo is real, then it's being kept in a very small group.
If it's fake, they did a good job with the language and examples.
Your first two points are very valid to me. However, your personalized rant trying to empower people to pirate software is going to cause people to overlook your good points. Consider posting twice or simply leaving out the troll bits.
Assuming they don't comply with the GPL in a timely manner, by either removing the code or releasing the code they used under the GPL, what precisely would you want to happen next if not a lawsuit?
If you're using Solaris SPARC, you purchased hardware from Sun. Therefore at some point in the past they have recouped the download costs by rolling it into the hardware purchase.
If you're using the x86 version, unless you have an LX50, you have not contributed anything to the cost of deploying the rather large disk images.
I see no problem with this personally, but I also feel that it will probably hamper the adoption of Solaris x86 since the extremely cost-conscious users (or, in other words, cheap Linux geeks;) will not bother. I suppose it means Sun doesn't care so much for that crowd and that makes some sense since Linux has a pretty good lock there.
The world would also be a better place if we spent all of our time and money on socio-political issues and stopped writing software altogether, or at least stopped reading/. and upgrading our computers to play games. I don't see that happening, either.
He mentioned that he was submitting this, which means it's probably a contract proposal. In that case, he very well may need the 8x to show that he is as buzzword compliant as the next guy.
I worked in Huntsville as a Camp counselor (elementary 4th through 6th grades) and Parent+Child counselor in 1991 and 1992.
I don't know if you listened to NPR yesterday, but Mr. Mullane was one of the folks they pulled in as an expert for awhile. It was a bit of trip to hear him speak again, except for the context.
My question is this: if, say, they knew they had a tile problem (not that they did in this case), couldn't they in special circumstances change their reentry trajectory so it would be more gradual in some way so that the tiles would take less heat?
Not significantly, no, the aerodynamics of the shuttle don't give many options for re-entry.
Besides, from what I understand the heat is less an issue than, once some of the tiles have been damaged or are missing, the shearing forces on the nearby tiles and equipment can cause a cascade of problems.
Even with no significant heat build-up, the aerodynamic forces at Mach 18 (the speed when they broke up) are immense.
I saw another post earlier that I can't find now that mentioned that the shuttle was going relatively slow when it broke up and so this shouldn't have played a part. This is false. Mach 18 is over 13,500mph. Orbital speeds are around 17,500mph and escape velocity is around 24,000mph. Even in the almost negligible atmosphere at 200,000 feet (38 miles), Mach 18 is a killer. Even if they had been able to escape the craft, the speed would have removed any chance of survival.
I remember working as a Space Camp counselor 10 years ago and talking briefly with Mike Mullane and it seemed pretty obvious that except for a -very- small portion of the takeoff (first few seconds) and landing phase (last minute or two), there really is no chance of survival of a catastrophic event.
What's worse is owning a -real- Yahoo! email address that someone uses at random. My yahoo address (Jahf) is apparently really easy to randomly type in.
Every month or two I get a bunch of bounced messages because someone signed my email address to the SPAM they sent.
PC-VMS existed to run VMS on PC machines since at -least- 1986, when I can remember seeing it sitting in my father's desk drawer next to our 8088 PC.
It may never have gotten popular, but it did exist. And the versions of Unix for the PC that got popular didn't do so until the 80286 with it's enhanced memory modes.
Personally, I hate VMS from a usability point of view, I never got the hang of it very well whereas Unix seemed to just make sense to me. However, I know plenty of folk (including a couple of relatives) who would strongly argue in VMS' favor.
Unix getting popular in the 80's and 90's had very little to do with PCs until Linux kernel 2.0 came out. Unix getting popular had to do with it being relatively easy to learn to navigate combined with being on nearly every (non-PC) server/workstation of the day.
No, that one's quite simple. Bush is an incompetent who luckily (for him) listened to advice and staffed his cabinet with people who =are= crafty. He just took the idea of speech writer one step further and has policy writers.
Then again, I have strong doubts that the whole "Project Prometheus" was ever more than misdirection. I'll be proved wrong if it gets announced, but I just don't see it. I just enjoyed a nice bout of devil's advocations.
1) The people who are most decisively against GW's politics are also those who are most for space exploration. It gives those folks something positive to see about the president. Think of it as a distraction from the pending war, which is a distraction from the fact that he has no idea how to run foreign policy.
2) Some of GW's closest friends and allies are going to reap billions from the program. Defense companies love space projects... it increases their coffers AND their public relations. Plus, one of the 2 largest space centers is in Texas... good for the local economy for years after he's out of office.
3) There's no way that the program can be finished before 2010 (we'll be VERY lucky to get it by then). That means it gives the voters, if they are pro-space, incentive to re-elect him (this is corrollary to #1 I suppose) since anyone running against him is going to be likely to point out the budget pratfalls in such a program.
Unfortunately, I really like the idea of exploration... it always reaps rewards in the private sector long after the completion of the trip and for much more than the cost of the program. It's just too bad I really can't see this as anything other than a political machination.
Worse... while I believe that Kennedy -also- used it as a political device, at least Kennedy was trying to boost our national pride and point out to the world that we have the best defense technology. I don't see Bush as doing this for anything other than personal reasons and pork barrel politics.
Here's hoping NASA at least finds a way to do it the right way, rather than turning this into a further mess like the ISS turned out to be.
Seriously... the numbers aren't that great. I used to admin a DEC Alpha Digital Unix server running at a whopping 300Mhz and it routinely served over 1.5M hits per day along with email, authentication and accounting for over 5,000 people and we rarely if ever saw it over a 0.5 load average. This was 4 years ago.
It's not apples to apples, since we weren't serving the same set of pages (we had around 500 personal homepages, each with a varied combination of static HTML, images and CGI programs) but honestly, if the numbers in this article are supposed to be impressive, we've grown too accustomed to web server feature bloat.
Slashdot Mirror
Mozilla's Bugzilla does this now.
... redirect all /. requests to a Google-cache of your webpage (assuming you're lucky enough to have the page cached before someone notices).
Perhaps one better
And if everyone monitored every news site, /. would be less than useless. But, we don't, so it's not. I found the article very interesting.
As if anyone cares, but I left out these since they are more of a weekly fare:
www.gentoo.org - checking on news
www.openzaurus.org - checking on news
www.neurosaudio.com - checking on the forums
Exactly. The subscription is only needed if you want to run major chunks of the Sun ONE server stack. If you want the traditional Solaris pricing (ie, bundled with 1 CPU, single license fee for multiple CPUs), it's not going away.
This change is not forced upon anyone, it just adds another option.
Also note that they are planning a Linux version of project Orion, showing a lot more support for Sun ONE on Linux than has existed in the past.
This is my normal daily browsing routine, in general order:
/. and whatever sites that takes me to
... after an hour or two of work it's time for relaxing
... Rinse and repeat the first block ... Rinse and repeat the second block ... ??? ... Profit!
Netscape Messenger
Yahoo! Mail
CNN.com
News.com
Googling for work and whatever sites that takes me to
Boners.com (less and less, not alot of updates lately)
DailyRotten.com and whatever sites that takes me to
Games-Workshop.com to see if there's anything new
Portent.net to check on 40K rumors
Googling for curiousity and whatever sites that takes me to
Given the previous article talking about RFID tags in tires (which is much more insidious to me than having an RFID tag in the packaging of the underwear I buy), it brings up a question.
Given how low-power these things are, and that they seem to be standardizing on the way they transmit, is there a way to create RFID countermeasures?
The best would be a passive device like the RFID tags that can be powered by the same mechanism as the RFID tags themselves, since that would mean it would always activate when you were in range. However, I would assume an active countermeasure could be powered for a very long time from a small battery.
For those interested in the same things with this player, I posted my feedback (with some additions) on their forums. It should be more productive to do feature requests there if you are willing to register for their forums.
1) Linux synchronization software (they currently claim to only support Windows). Normally I would figure on the community to support the device, but this one looks like it probably has some sync features that need to come from the device owner (like the HiSi feature that lets you ID songs from the FM tuner).
2) USB 2.0 ... Neuros is a USB 1.1 device ... transferring 5000 songs on 1.1 is going to be slow. I don't have a USB 2.0 PC yet, but I will shortly. I'm not to concerned with firewire support.
3) (not a demand but they suggested it and I want it) timed recording of FM stations ... like a TiVo for NPR ... I've wanted this in an easy to use format for a LONG time. I dearly hope it can record FM while playing other recordings ... schweet if so.
4) Ogg support, but this is what this article was about so I'll be optimistic.
Otherwise, the unit has everything else I've been looking for (I really like that the HD is removable while the unit is still playable via the internal storage). I'm probably going to wait 6 months to see if they add any of these features, but if not it's feature-rich enough that I'll happily get this thing.
Intel has already been developing an x86-64-like chip (I forget the name). They are simply keeping it under wraps. This is sound business strategy (though not something most of us like). Let AMD take the risk with their chip, if it fails, AMD hurts badly. If it succeeds, Intel comes out with their own chip and is immediately in the running because of their market clout. AMD gets the 1st mover advantage -and- disadvantage. I think Intel is willing to live with that.
I'm perfectly willing to pay between $14 and $20 for a decent CD. However, I'm not willing to give the majority of that to recording/distribution companies. If I felt at least 50% of my money was supporting the artist, I'd be a lot happier.
Bah, forget timesheet inflation, the engineer was supposed to have worked all of the hours on the sheet. That makes the joke more ironic since the inflating lawyer would have more deserved an early death but not heaven, whereas the engineer worked hard early and deserved heaven but not so soon.
The title is misleading, IMO. If anyone can use it and it is not personalized to the true owner ... it's still cash to me. It may be on a different media, but this is in no way cashless.
... maybe a step, but a small one overall.
Plus, given the incompatibilities in currencies like this from various places, it just brings back many of the problems that occurred before centralized banking.
Doesn't sound like much of a good thing to me
I still work for Sun and have never seen anything like this memo. Java is still used daily for internal projects, still hyped strong and developed strong, and I've never seen a Sun person try and dissuade another from using it.
If the memo is real, then it's being kept in a very small group.
If it's fake, they did a good job with the language and examples.
Your first two points are very valid to me. However, your personalized rant trying to empower people to pirate software is going to cause people to overlook your good points. Consider posting twice or simply leaving out the troll bits.
Assuming they don't comply with the GPL in a timely manner, by either removing the code or releasing the code they used under the GPL, what precisely would you want to happen next if not a lawsuit?
Don't criticize unless you have an alternative.
If you're using Solaris SPARC, you purchased hardware from Sun. Therefore at some point in the past they have recouped the download costs by rolling it into the hardware purchase.
;) will not bother. I suppose it means Sun doesn't care so much for that crowd and that makes some sense since Linux has a pretty good lock there.
If you're using the x86 version, unless you have an LX50, you have not contributed anything to the cost of deploying the rather large disk images.
I see no problem with this personally, but I also feel that it will probably hamper the adoption of Solaris x86 since the extremely cost-conscious users (or, in other words, cheap Linux geeks
The world would also be a better place if we spent all of our time and money on socio-political issues and stopped writing software altogether, or at least stopped reading /. and upgrading our computers to play games. I don't see that happening, either.
He mentioned that he was submitting this, which means it's probably a contract proposal. In that case, he very well may need the 8x to show that he is as buzzword compliant as the next guy.
I worked in Huntsville as a Camp counselor (elementary 4th through 6th grades) and Parent+Child counselor in 1991 and 1992.
I don't know if you listened to NPR yesterday, but Mr. Mullane was one of the folks they pulled in as an expert for awhile. It was a bit of trip to hear him speak again, except for the context.
My question is this: if, say, they knew they had a tile problem (not that they did in this case), couldn't they in special circumstances change their reentry trajectory so it would be more gradual in some way so that the tiles would take less heat?
Not significantly, no, the aerodynamics of the shuttle don't give many options for re-entry.
Besides, from what I understand the heat is less an issue than, once some of the tiles have been damaged or are missing, the shearing forces on the nearby tiles and equipment can cause a cascade of problems.
Even with no significant heat build-up, the aerodynamic forces at Mach 18 (the speed when they broke up) are immense.
I saw another post earlier that I can't find now that mentioned that the shuttle was going relatively slow when it broke up and so this shouldn't have played a part. This is false. Mach 18 is over 13,500mph. Orbital speeds are around 17,500mph and escape velocity is around 24,000mph. Even in the almost negligible atmosphere at 200,000 feet (38 miles), Mach 18 is a killer. Even if they had been able to escape the craft, the speed would have removed any chance of survival.
I remember working as a Space Camp counselor 10 years ago and talking briefly with Mike Mullane and it seemed pretty obvious that except for a -very- small portion of the takeoff (first few seconds) and landing phase (last minute or two), there really is no chance of survival of a catastrophic event.
What's worse is owning a -real- Yahoo! email address that someone uses at random. My yahoo address (Jahf) is apparently really easy to randomly type in.
Every month or two I get a bunch of bounced messages because someone signed my email address to the SPAM they sent.
PC-VMS existed to run VMS on PC machines since at -least- 1986, when I can remember seeing it sitting in my father's desk drawer next to our 8088 PC.
It may never have gotten popular, but it did exist. And the versions of Unix for the PC that got popular didn't do so until the 80286 with it's enhanced memory modes.
Personally, I hate VMS from a usability point of view, I never got the hang of it very well whereas Unix seemed to just make sense to me. However, I know plenty of folk (including a couple of relatives) who would strongly argue in VMS' favor.
Unix getting popular in the 80's and 90's had very little to do with PCs until Linux kernel 2.0 came out. Unix getting popular had to do with it being relatively easy to learn to navigate combined with being on nearly every (non-PC) server/workstation of the day.
No, that one's quite simple. Bush is an incompetent who luckily (for him) listened to advice and staffed his cabinet with people who =are= crafty. He just took the idea of speech writer one step further and has policy writers.
Then again, I have strong doubts that the whole "Project Prometheus" was ever more than misdirection. I'll be proved wrong if it gets announced, but I just don't see it. I just enjoyed a nice bout of devil's advocations.
This is a ploy on GW's part ... it's 3-fold:
... it increases their coffers AND their public relations. Plus, one of the 2 largest space centers is in Texas ... good for the local economy for years after he's out of office.
... it always reaps rewards in the private sector long after the completion of the trip and for much more than the cost of the program. It's just too bad I really can't see this as anything other than a political machination.
... while I believe that Kennedy -also- used it as a political device, at least Kennedy was trying to boost our national pride and point out to the world that we have the best defense technology. I don't see Bush as doing this for anything other than personal reasons and pork barrel politics.
1) The people who are most decisively against GW's politics are also those who are most for space exploration. It gives those folks something positive to see about the president. Think of it as a distraction from the pending war, which is a distraction from the fact that he has no idea how to run foreign policy.
2) Some of GW's closest friends and allies are going to reap billions from the program. Defense companies love space projects
3) There's no way that the program can be finished before 2010 (we'll be VERY lucky to get it by then). That means it gives the voters, if they are pro-space, incentive to re-elect him (this is corrollary to #1 I suppose) since anyone running against him is going to be likely to point out the budget pratfalls in such a program.
Unfortunately, I really like the idea of exploration
Worse
Here's hoping NASA at least finds a way to do it the right way, rather than turning this into a further mess like the ISS turned out to be.
Seriously ... the numbers aren't that great. I used to admin a DEC Alpha Digital Unix server running at a whopping 300Mhz and it routinely served over 1.5M hits per day along with email, authentication and accounting for over 5,000 people and we rarely if ever saw it over a 0.5 load average. This was 4 years ago.
It's not apples to apples, since we weren't serving the same set of pages (we had around 500 personal homepages, each with a varied combination of static HTML, images and CGI programs) but honestly, if the numbers in this article are supposed to be impressive, we've grown too accustomed to web server feature bloat.