It was an optional component for a great deal of time, but eventually became the default shell by popular demand. (TCSH was the previous default.) Somehow I don't think that the iPhone will have much use for a BASH installation.:-/
Yes, but it's not part of the OS. So it should be recompilable without changes. Which means that Apple would point you here when you asked for source code.
Re:"source would have to be made available" ?
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The majority of OS X (including the kernel) is based on BSD, GNU and other Open Source code that never originated within Apple.
BSD does not require that modified source code be released. AFAIK, there is no GNU software in the mainline distribution of OS X. The only significant piece of GNU software that I'm aware of is the optional GCC compiler. Since Apple is unlikely to ship GCC on their iPhone, they're almost certainly free and clear.
Darwin/OSX is based on the FreeBSD userland. The kernel is based on Mach.
Mach is not a complete kernel. It's a superset of microkernel functions for the BSD 4 kernels. FreeBSD was used as the new base-kernel so that Apple wouldn't have to use the (rather ancient) BSD 4.3/4.4 code base.
I preferred episodes like Shuttlepod One (which was admittedly a bit rough) that concetrated on two or three characters in adverse situations, where the characters were allowed to introduce some of their histories and flesh themselves out as people instead of something on a flat screen.
*cringe*
Geez. Couldn't you pick a better example? Like Darmok or Inner Light? Hell, even Brothers or Attached are better than that tripe. You didn't hear Picard say that Beverly "has a nice bum", did you?
Let's all just pretend that Enterprise didn't happen. It will make life a lot easier and more enjoyable for everyone.:-/
One could have the Borg as a metaphor for a modern United States.
See, I always saw the Klingons as metaphors for the Russian/Communist threat, the Romulans as a metaphor for espionage, and the Borg as a metaphor for socialism.
Each fits surprisingly well. In the original series, the Klingons were the major threat, but were held at bay by tenuous treaties like the Organian Peace Treaty. When NextGen came along, it reflected how Russia was no longer a threat to world peace and even suggested cooporation between the peoples. Which was rather earth shattering at a time when Russians were mostly portrayed in movies as arrogant and ultra-competitive. Yet today, it's kind of hard to think of that "mean Russian" image that was so popular during the 80's.
The Romulans go on to show how powerful yet ugly the very idea of espionage is. In the original series, it was portrayed as a battle of wits with the loser losing something very precious indeed. (Be it their new Plasma weapon or the Cloaking Generator.) NextGen expanded on this by adding the Tal'Shiar (sp?) element to the Romulans, making them even sneakier and uglier to work with. It also added the dimension of the "normal" people getting caught up in the problems created by espionage.
The Borg were very simply an overpowering force that sought to equalize and harmonize the universe at the expense of individuality and free expression. I 5hink that describes socialism pretty well, don't you?;)
Oh, and the Borg are not cyborgs. They are merely "organically challenged".:P
If they had any balls at all they would have gone with the idea of having Captain Riker commanding the Titan in a time when the federation is being systematically destroyed in a major war (ie, the feds are losing). To see the federation being destroyed and fighting for it's life by spiting out warships would have been interesting to me.
It would have also permanently killed the series. The good Star Trek has always been a platform for commentary about everything from the human condition to modern politics. Since I sincerely doubt that anyone today can identify with a "major war" (which would be something along the lines of a WWII scenario IN SPACE!), the commentary aspect of Star Trek would be completely lost. In addition, it would further destroy Roddenberry's vision of a better tomorrow.
The end result is that you'd get Yet Another Action Show(TM) that's all fluff and no substance.
If you really want a good TV show about "major war", get the networks to reboot Space: Above and Beyond.
So, what should the shuttle crew do? Live debugging in space?
To a certain degree, yes. Assuming there is no physical damage to the sat (which can only be confirmed by visual inspection at this point) they could use physical access to ensure that the sat is powered, operating, and pointing in the right direction. If they can manually coax it for a while, the ground crew can look at the logs and figure out exactly what went wrong. Then a patch could be uploaded to either figure out the problem or compensate for it.
Who came up with the idea of making a connector appear round, if it can only be put in one way?
DIN Connectors go back decades as a standard connector for audio equipment. This standard connector style showed up in the early computer world in the form of serial interfaces known as "SIO ports". For some reason (probably the wide availability of parts), IBM decided to use the DIN connector for their detachable keyboards.
When IBM redesigned the computer as the PS/2, they moved to the smaller DIN standard known as "mini-DIN" rather than devising a new connector. In addition, they added a dedicated mouse port to the PC, which helped solidify the mouse as a standard PC interface. Since the keyboard and mouse were both input devices, IBM felt it made sense to unify them into a single connector. Thus the keyboard connector was transferred to the mouse.
This is how we got the PS/2 mouse and keyboard interface we all know today. Unfortuantely, IBM hadn't considered that anyone would want to hotplug their mouse or keyboard like they had been doing with serial cables. As a result, the PS/2 standard was woefully inappropriate for the original task. Thus the USB standard was developed to provide a single, unified, hot-pluggable connector for all manner of serial device. (Including mice and keyboards.) The result is actually quite good, even though USB is a pain for hardware designers to implement.
That price tag includes the enormous R&D costs. Making an n+1 copy of the satellite will be far cheaper.
Only if the platform is standardized. If it was specialized equipment, then there's a huge cost in pulling the team back together to develop, test, and deploy a new unit. Especially since they didn't know what caused it to fail the first time around. So the savings of making an N+1 copy may not be as significant as one might think.
it it almost certainly cheaper to build and launch a new satelite then it is to send someone up to fix this one.
At "hundreds of millions of dollars", I'd say it's a toss-up given the Shuttle's current launch cost of $450 million. If the additional stop to check on the sat doesn't detract significantly from the original mission, then it might even be cost effective. In the Space Shuttle's more nominal cost per launch days, it would have been much cheaper to go have a looksee. (Like was done with the Hubble.) There's also the consideration of whether the expense to get the existing sat up and running NOW is worth the cost over waiting five years for a replacement to be launched.
The CEV's simpler design will almost certainly be cheaper than launching new spy sats.
Anyone remember the pioneering days when real men (and women) weren't afraid to light a giant roman candle under their posteriors? Back in those days, we would have retasked a spaceflight, go and check the sat out, and get it running again. What I woudln't give for that space capability again.;)
Cisco *has* to challenge Apple. If Cisco didn't challenge it, their claim to it would become tenuous.
No they don't. Apple and Cisco have been in licensing talks for years now, and Apple is not yet selling the product under that name. Cisco doesn't have to do anything other than continue the licensing arrangements. A court would consider that to be active protection of a mark. If the talks broke down, THEN Cisco must challenge the mark, first in communications and then (if necessary) in court.
All Cisco is doing right now is grandstanding. Especially with their poor attempts to tighten their tenuous hold on the mark by releasing a new product under that name barely a few weeks ago.
This means that in 6 weeks Sony managed to outsell the XBox360 in its first few months of sales. Despite the massively higher price tag. Despite HD not being as new and shiny.
In defense of Microsoft, their initial sales were also constrained by supply problems. So just barely edging out Microsoft's 2005 sales isn't much of a victory for Sony. It might make for some nice headlines, though. God knows that Sony needs some positive press.
The NPD figures are USA only too. The Wii would have sold more but Nintendo shuffled some half a million into Europe for a launch there.
Not just Europe. The Wii was also launched in Australia, New Zealand, Russia (weird?), and South America; placing rather massive demands on Nintendo's already strained production capabilities. Apparently, the Wii became the fastest selling console ever in Australia, adding to its record shattering sales in the UK and the rest of Europe. So far, the Wii has been a license to print money for Nintendo.
The figures on nexgenwars.com are clearly pulled from thin air though.
You have no idea how correct you are. The nitty-gritty of it is as follows:
It basically just takes time and research to estimate the numbers as closely as possible.
Now for the new consoles it is a little harder since there is no previous sales data to go off of. What I do for these is research how many they are expecting to have on launch and by the end of the year. For the launch counter I get it to around the number expected, and then I slow it down to pace it so that it will reach a good estimate for the end of the year, and as usual I will adjust anything if any official word comes in.
Analysts were also skeptical, with some believing that the Wii sold more than NPD reported. "I don't understand how US Wii sell-through could be 1.1 million cumulatively, with Nintendo saying that they shipped half of their 4 million here and zero inventory on retail shelves at year end," said Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael Pachter. "Where are the other 900,000 units? I assume 200,000 are in transit, but this number makes no sense to me at all."
If the 1.1 million figure was just December, then it would make more sense. But 1.1 million since launch? That seems incredibly low no matter which way you cut it.
(Of course, that probably means that the PS3 and Xbox360 numbers are low as well.)
1. Entertainment value mildly related to the topic at hand.
2. Showing just how diluted caffeine is in our softdrinks not to kill us. About 150 grams would do the trick, but through safe use, we are able to use caffeine without harm.
Sorry, I should have made that a bit more clear. Especially since I was planning to pair it with this article about the supposed dangers of Plutonium. Unfortunately, posts on Slashdot tend to be posted in rather short periods of time, so I didn't notice the flaw in my argument in time to correct it. Most posters seem to have understood the point, however.
For example, there was no way to type anything at all into it. It didn't detect when I turned it sideways or adjust to ambient brightness. I didn't notice any digital camera, web browser or e-mail client, or wireless capability for that matter, either.
Yeah. That would be... oh, I dunno... the phone part they added on top of the iPod? Here on my RAZR, I have a digital camera, web browser, email client, and wireless capability. Which gets back to my point about this being an iPod + Phone. The only reason why iPods don't currently have the aforementioned list is that they're not phones. Ergo, a web browser wouldn't be very useful. Nor would an email client. An wireless capability is pretty much a phone thing. Sorry.
iPods can run all those programs today. (You may have noticed the ability to download applications from iTunes?) It's just that without wireless capabilities, they're not very useful.
Again, Apple has put phone functionality on top of an iPod, and taken advantage of their new touchscreen interface. However, it is not a PDA any more than an iPod is, and it is not a full-blown computer any more than my RAZR is.
I repeat, it is the lastest generation of iPod with a phone on top. Period, end of story, stop with the fanboyisms already. Oh, and I can't wait until they're affordable.:P
Do NOT do a Hohmann Transfer -OR- a simply decellerate. Both are Delta-V expensive. Instead, elongate your orbit of the sun until your orbit is a flat ellipse. The resulting effect is that the craft would use the sun's gaseous emissions for aerobraking. After one or two passes, the craft would be well disintegrated and/or drawn into the sun's gravity well.
And since you wouldn't need to get there very fast, you could propel the space junk using Solar Panels to power a FEEP thruster. It's even less powerful than Ion Engines, but the efficiency of the drive more than makes up for it.
As for saying it's "just an iPod", I don't think so dude. Can you really say that?
Yes. Have you used recent models of iPods? They work exactly like this phone, save for the touch-wheel instead of the screen interface. This just adds regular phone features on top of an iPod, but does it right.
For example, it drives me nuts that I still have to dial in to check my voice mail. We have perfectly good wireless networks for communicating traffic, why do we have to do this the old POTS way? Well, Apple corrected that little oversight. Similarly, they used the touchscreen to solve the common keypad-for-text-messaging problem.
This thing being what it is, I can see myself picking it up and using it in cases where I might use my notebook instead; checking my e-mail or the weather over breakfast.
Phones (and Blackberries) do this already. The novelty of it tends to wear off after you realize that the interface is totally unsuited to properly handling email and web. I sincerely hope that Apple has improved on the interface to a sufficient degree to make it feasible. But technology-wise these features already exist in phones today. It's just that you won't notice them if you don't have at least a RAZR or better.
But the fact is, you could remove all the phone-related features from this product and it would still be worth $499. It's a PDA and a music and video player and a web browser and a digital camera. It's practically a desktop computer for all the things casual users need.
Whoa! Tone it down there a bit. All it really is, is the touchscreen iPod we've all been promised for the last year or two, but with (some rather sweet) phone capabilities added in. As a first-gen of a new iPod it would definitely worth $499 to a lot of people. But let's not go overboard and describe it as something it hasn't been shown to be.
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It was an optional component for a great deal of time, but eventually became the default shell by popular demand. (TCSH was the previous default.) Somehow I don't think that the iPhone will have much use for a BASH installation. :-/
Yes, but it's not part of the OS. So it should be recompilable without changes. Which means that Apple would point you here when you asked for source code.
BSD does not require that modified source code be released. AFAIK, there is no GNU software in the mainline distribution of OS X. The only significant piece of GNU software that I'm aware of is the optional GCC compiler. Since Apple is unlikely to ship GCC on their iPhone, they're almost certainly free and clear.
Mach is not a complete kernel. It's a superset of microkernel functions for the BSD 4 kernels. FreeBSD was used as the new base-kernel so that Apple wouldn't have to use the (rather ancient) BSD 4.3/4.4 code base.
Hah! I wish!
*cringe*
Geez. Couldn't you pick a better example? Like Darmok or Inner Light? Hell, even Brothers or Attached are better than that tripe. You didn't hear Picard say that Beverly "has a nice bum", did you?
Let's all just pretend that Enterprise didn't happen. It will make life a lot easier and more enjoyable for everyone.
See, I always saw the Klingons as metaphors for the Russian/Communist threat, the Romulans as a metaphor for espionage, and the Borg as a metaphor for socialism.
Each fits surprisingly well. In the original series, the Klingons were the major threat, but were held at bay by tenuous treaties like the Organian Peace Treaty. When NextGen came along, it reflected how Russia was no longer a threat to world peace and even suggested cooporation between the peoples. Which was rather earth shattering at a time when Russians were mostly portrayed in movies as arrogant and ultra-competitive. Yet today, it's kind of hard to think of that "mean Russian" image that was so popular during the 80's.
The Romulans go on to show how powerful yet ugly the very idea of espionage is. In the original series, it was portrayed as a battle of wits with the loser losing something very precious indeed. (Be it their new Plasma weapon or the Cloaking Generator.) NextGen expanded on this by adding the Tal'Shiar (sp?) element to the Romulans, making them even sneakier and uglier to work with. It also added the dimension of the "normal" people getting caught up in the problems created by espionage.
The Borg were very simply an overpowering force that sought to equalize and harmonize the universe at the expense of individuality and free expression. I 5hink that describes socialism pretty well, don't you?
Oh, and the Borg are not cyborgs. They are merely "organically challenged".
It would have also permanently killed the series. The good Star Trek has always been a platform for commentary about everything from the human condition to modern politics. Since I sincerely doubt that anyone today can identify with a "major war" (which would be something along the lines of a WWII scenario IN SPACE!), the commentary aspect of Star Trek would be completely lost. In addition, it would further destroy Roddenberry's vision of a better tomorrow.
The end result is that you'd get Yet Another Action Show(TM) that's all fluff and no substance.
If you really want a good TV show about "major war", get the networks to reboot Space: Above and Beyond.
That would have been so much better as a Youtube video.
To a certain degree, yes. Assuming there is no physical damage to the sat (which can only be confirmed by visual inspection at this point) they could use physical access to ensure that the sat is powered, operating, and pointing in the right direction. If they can manually coax it for a while, the ground crew can look at the logs and figure out exactly what went wrong. Then a patch could be uploaded to either figure out the problem or compensate for it.
It's not like this is rocket science or anything.
Err...
DIN Connectors go back decades as a standard connector for audio equipment. This standard connector style showed up in the early computer world in the form of serial interfaces known as "SIO ports". For some reason (probably the wide availability of parts), IBM decided to use the DIN connector for their detachable keyboards.
When IBM redesigned the computer as the PS/2, they moved to the smaller DIN standard known as "mini-DIN" rather than devising a new connector. In addition, they added a dedicated mouse port to the PC, which helped solidify the mouse as a standard PC interface. Since the keyboard and mouse were both input devices, IBM felt it made sense to unify them into a single connector. Thus the keyboard connector was transferred to the mouse.
This is how we got the PS/2 mouse and keyboard interface we all know today. Unfortuantely, IBM hadn't considered that anyone would want to hotplug their mouse or keyboard like they had been doing with serial cables. As a result, the PS/2 standard was woefully inappropriate for the original task. Thus the USB standard was developed to provide a single, unified, hot-pluggable connector for all manner of serial device. (Including mice and keyboards.) The result is actually quite good, even though USB is a pain for hardware designers to implement.
Only if the platform is standardized. If it was specialized equipment, then there's a huge cost in pulling the team back together to develop, test, and deploy a new unit. Especially since they didn't know what caused it to fail the first time around. So the savings of making an N+1 copy may not be as significant as one might think.
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At "hundreds of millions of dollars", I'd say it's a toss-up given the Shuttle's current launch cost of $450 million. If the additional stop to check on the sat doesn't detract significantly from the original mission, then it might even be cost effective. In the Space Shuttle's more nominal cost per launch days, it would have been much cheaper to go have a looksee. (Like was done with the Hubble.) There's also the consideration of whether the expense to get the existing sat up and running NOW is worth the cost over waiting five years for a replacement to be launched.
The CEV's simpler design will almost certainly be cheaper than launching new spy sats.
Oh, they got the memo. Halfway through development in Imperial units. Whoops.
Anyone remember the pioneering days when real men (and women) weren't afraid to light a giant roman candle under their posteriors? Back in those days, we would have retasked a spaceflight, go and check the sat out, and get it running again. What I woudln't give for that space capability again. ;)
No they don't. Apple and Cisco have been in licensing talks for years now, and Apple is not yet selling the product under that name. Cisco doesn't have to do anything other than continue the licensing arrangements. A court would consider that to be active protection of a mark. If the talks broke down, THEN Cisco must challenge the mark, first in communications and then (if necessary) in court.
All Cisco is doing right now is grandstanding. Especially with their poor attempts to tighten their tenuous hold on the mark by releasing a new product under that name barely a few weeks ago.
In defense of Microsoft, their initial sales were also constrained by supply problems. So just barely edging out Microsoft's 2005 sales isn't much of a victory for Sony. It might make for some nice headlines, though. God knows that Sony needs some positive press.
Not just Europe. The Wii was also launched in Australia, New Zealand, Russia (weird?), and South America; placing rather massive demands on Nintendo's already strained production capabilities. Apparently, the Wii became the fastest selling console ever in Australia, adding to its record shattering sales in the UK and the rest of Europe. So far, the Wii has been a license to print money for Nintendo.
You have no idea how correct you are. The nitty-gritty of it is as follows:
If the 1.1 million figure was just December, then it would make more sense. But 1.1 million since launch? That seems incredibly low no matter which way you cut it.
(Of course, that probably means that the PS3 and Xbox360 numbers are low as well.)
The link serves two purposes:
1. Entertainment value mildly related to the topic at hand.
2. Showing just how diluted caffeine is in our softdrinks not to kill us. About 150 grams would do the trick, but through safe use, we are able to use caffeine without harm.
Sorry, I should have made that a bit more clear. Especially since I was planning to pair it with this article about the supposed dangers of Plutonium. Unfortunately, posts on Slashdot tend to be posted in rather short periods of time, so I didn't notice the flaw in my argument in time to correct it. Most posters seem to have understood the point, however.
P.S. Smile. You're on iPod Camera.
Yeah. That would be... oh, I dunno... the phone part they added on top of the iPod? Here on my RAZR, I have a digital camera, web browser, email client, and wireless capability. Which gets back to my point about this being an iPod + Phone. The only reason why iPods don't currently have the aforementioned list is that they're not phones. Ergo, a web browser wouldn't be very useful. Nor would an email client. An wireless capability is pretty much a phone thing. Sorry.
iPods can run all those programs today. (You may have noticed the ability to download applications from iTunes?) It's just that without wireless capabilities, they're not very useful.
Again, Apple has put phone functionality on top of an iPod, and taken advantage of their new touchscreen interface. However, it is not a PDA any more than an iPod is, and it is not a full-blown computer any more than my RAZR is.
I repeat, it is the lastest generation of iPod with a phone on top. Period, end of story, stop with the fanboyisms already. Oh, and I can't wait until they're affordable.
Do NOT do a Hohmann Transfer -OR- a simply decellerate. Both are Delta-V expensive. Instead, elongate your orbit of the sun until your orbit is a flat ellipse. The resulting effect is that the craft would use the sun's gaseous emissions for aerobraking. After one or two passes, the craft would be well disintegrated and/or drawn into the sun's gravity well.
And since you wouldn't need to get there very fast, you could propel the space junk using Solar Panels to power a FEEP thruster. It's even less powerful than Ion Engines, but the efficiency of the drive more than makes up for it.
Yes. Have you used recent models of iPods? They work exactly like this phone, save for the touch-wheel instead of the screen interface. This just adds regular phone features on top of an iPod, but does it right.
For example, it drives me nuts that I still have to dial in to check my voice mail. We have perfectly good wireless networks for communicating traffic, why do we have to do this the old POTS way? Well, Apple corrected that little oversight. Similarly, they used the touchscreen to solve the common keypad-for-text-messaging problem.
Phones (and Blackberries) do this already. The novelty of it tends to wear off after you realize that the interface is totally unsuited to properly handling email and web. I sincerely hope that Apple has improved on the interface to a sufficient degree to make it feasible. But technology-wise these features already exist in phones today. It's just that you won't notice them if you don't have at least a RAZR or better.
Whoa! Tone it down there a bit. All it really is, is the touchscreen iPod we've all been promised for the last year or two, but with (some rather sweet) phone capabilities added in. As a first-gen of a new iPod it would definitely worth $499 to a lot of people. But let's not go overboard and describe it as something it hasn't been shown to be.
*deeep breath* Remember. It's just an iPod. Ok?