I don't have an answer for you, but I think that the idea of powering a ion thruster with nuclear material is an interesting one. The question is whether the mass required to generate power for a reasonable amount of time is more than the mass of solar panels to power it for a similar amount of time.
It seems like such a logical design change that I am sure it has been considered. It would totally kill the level of complexity though, which may be enough to kick it out of practicality regardless.
Cool stuff in general though. The idea of low levels of constant acceleration is very attractive for long distance probes. Not necessarily fast enough for manned missions though.
"Sun was founded on the principle of open source."
This seems patently false. I could be wrong about this, but his claims that Solaris contains huge amounts of open source seems like a purposefully misleading comment.
He lists a bunch of programs, but none of them were developed by Sun. Can anyone correct me on this, or is he just Mr. Marketing?
I think that everyone who is comparing this chipset with the high end ATI and Nvidia chipsets is missing the point.
The stated market for this thing is OEM sales to Mainboard producers. Doesn't it seem obvious that the inclusion of passable 3d and the ability to output to HDTV natively is positioning this for the set top box market?
How many discussions have there been of the new set top box market, or how to build your own PVR, on Slashdot in the last couple of months?
This chipset isn't for playing doom 3 on your dual monitor winxp system (though it might do that too), it is for using as a capable midrange chip in mini-itx systems, etc.
The US's time as primary space-capable superpower is growing short. We need to kick it into high gear and get cracking if we want to keep the honor.
Time to get moving, and fund Nasa appropriately. Heaven knows that the payoffs from the R & D alone will be worth the money spent. The materials tech from the first space race is still filtering down to civilian life.
Regardless, It is 1957, and shenzou 5 is China's sputnik.
This is exactly right. Apple whould reward Moto's record of reliability in delivering the chips, and their research investments in advancing the chip design. (sarcasm)
Reward them by dropping moto entirely and just using the IBM stuff.
God knows the chip is probably faster than the standard G4 and cooler to boot.
Come on Apple, give me a nice power-sipping G3 in my next powerbook... Please! You can even clock it up to 1+ ghz if you want...
I imagine that this is not actually related to comcast, as the article implies, but rather to the fact that portland is currently trying to get a major league team into the stadium.
The reason I think this might be a problem, is that major league teams have been shying away from portland because of its reputation as a place with high taxes and ultra-left wing views. Major league baseball is just another huge corporate entity, and these kinds of tweaks are exactly what they are afraid of. The portland city government, and pge park don't want the perception that they are out of control, as it will negatively impact MLB's view of Portland.
So I say- GO For it free wireless guys! I don't want to see my taxes raised again for a useless baseball team. Especially when unemployment is almost 10% and our taxes are increasing already!
I have had pretty decent results with the spamnet client on our mail clients. They are now using the data that the free clients generate to block at the server. The product is called Authority, or something like that.
I receive about 50-70 spam mails per day, and the client has been blocking 98 percent of them every day. I have been very impressed by it.
See if their server product is appropriate for you. It simply uses a consensus derived list from client users to block messages at the server. Kind of a blacklist thing.
You will be exhausted at first. Don't try to be goal oriented and work while the kid sleeps... Sleep when they do, it is more important than a perfect house, or whatever you are hacking on.
Trust me, Sleep is priority one for the first few weeks.
Korn is a great shell, and he is constantly working on it, so it is getting better and better.
It is the shell I find most often on the commercial boxen that I need to work with, so I use it on linux and freebsd too. I'm certain that there is a version available for netbsd too. pdksh is a distant second to the real thing, so go grab the official ksh! It isn't pure from an open source viewpoint, but I am answering in terms of practicality not idealism.
You can grab it from att labs' page if I remember correctly. It is the gold standard for 'correct' behavior as far as I am concerned, and is what you will find on a whole slew of different *nix boxes.
I try to avoid bash, because though it is a really nice shell, I never find it on commercial systems, and I want my shell to behave consistently wherever I am.
True enough. But discovering biological material, especially active or vigorous material, would lend credence to the theory. I suppose I phrased my comment badly, as I didn't really mean "PROVE" in the full scientific sense.
I was mainly spewing out a thinking point, and the fact that I am impressed with the project.
Don't get me wrong about the theory either, I am actually a detractor of the 'Life seeded by comets' theory. I just think it would be uber interesting to find and examine extra-terrestrial life. At least till the lander runs out of power, or out of range.
How many more of these sort of discoveries will we have made?
I just read that the AD-36 virus and related variants have been shown to be a contributing factor in 30% of the obesity in the world. Now I see this article on Cancer.
Wild. How many of our daily problems are caused by these little rna splicing machines we call viruses?
Makes you think. I just hope that this is well tested enough for my daughter to use it in 10 or 15 years.
Proven in court. Why would they turn away from monopolistic behavior when their punishment for it is negligable?
Office is the cash cow, and they have done their best to eliminate viable competition.
The only reason that Corel Wordperfect lives on is the legal community, and a few bullheaded supporters that will not change. (not that refusal to change is bad in this case.)
Why would anyone logically think that they would embrace a standard that will put their competitors on an equal playing field?
A standard that they cannot "extend" easily at this point without lots of bad publicity.
I think that they are going to "wait and see" if it flies, then embrace and extend it after it sticks. It is in their benefit to wait for it to fail, or for more time between their conviction and their extension of this standard. They don't want to get their hand slapped again so soon.
Slack allows you to install a much leaner system than debian does.
I like the install tools on debian, but it kills me that there are so many hard-linked dependencies. It is like library/dll hell all over again.
It was like pulling teeth to install anything, and I always ended up grabbing the source. I don't want 30 different libraries every time I sneeze.
Don't get me wrong, Debian mostly does the right thing, I just can't use it because it tries to add too much stuff to my system, and doesn't give me the transparent control that I have with slack or one of the BSDs.
I work for a software company whose core business is on pick databases. They are pretty stable, and pretty fast when you run the pick layer on Unix.
If anyone is interested in a look at pick, have a look at www.jbase.com. They provide a free copy of their software for Linux. It is a well known pick implementation. The other one is Universe (also for *nix) which is well known for being damn near indestructible.
Lots of big companies use pick databases. They aren't a new technology, but they are a good working multidimensional database. In many ways they are still inferior to modern transactional-relational databases though.
EDS used to specialize in them, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were more than a few in use within the Navy right now.
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This should provide evidence that they have tried to grind their competitors into the ground through monopoly techniques rather than fair competition.
I will be interested to see if they find a direct series of actions that can be connected with the failure of TransMeta as a chip maker.
Beyond that, there should be some interesting material in there relating to AMD.
K
I've used QTparted to resize ntfs. Perhaps he is referring to one of the offshoots of parted.
K
You sir are a genius. I completely agree.
Not only is she incredibly good looking, but she appears to have some acting skill. She also has the physical presence to do it convincingly.
K
I don't have an answer for you, but I think that the idea of powering a ion thruster with nuclear material is an interesting one. The question is whether the mass required to generate power for a reasonable amount of time is more than the mass of solar panels to power it for a similar amount of time.
It seems like such a logical design change that I am sure it has been considered. It would totally kill the level of complexity though, which may be enough to kick it out of practicality regardless.
Cool stuff in general though. The idea of low levels of constant acceleration is very attractive for long distance probes. Not necessarily fast enough for manned missions though.
Cuchullain
"Sun was founded on the principle of open source."
This seems patently false. I could be wrong about this, but his claims that Solaris contains huge amounts of open source seems like a purposefully misleading comment.
He lists a bunch of programs, but none of them were developed by Sun. Can anyone correct me on this, or is he just Mr. Marketing?
Cuchullain
In a nutshell, the thing that has amazed me is how easy it was to set up. I was running slack with dropline, and this was a transparent replacement.
Mind you, I reinstalled rather than upgraded, but it was frighteningly simple to get EVERY device on my thinkpad working, including the wireless.
It just works. Beyond that they have kept the amount of stuff installed to a reasonable minimum, so that I don't have to fish through 10,000 packages.
That is why there is such a furor over the 'disputed' artwork in my opinion. The distro works so well that people have nothing else to bitch about.
K
This is a superb idea, and one that I have often wondered about. Mod this fellow up!
Do they make the 'supported' version of linux available to people other than employees?
I think that everyone who is comparing this chipset with the high end ATI and Nvidia chipsets is missing the point.
The stated market for this thing is OEM sales to Mainboard producers. Doesn't it seem obvious that the inclusion of passable 3d and the ability to output to HDTV natively is positioning this for the set top box market?
How many discussions have there been of the new set top box market, or how to build your own PVR, on Slashdot in the last couple of months?
This chipset isn't for playing doom 3 on your dual monitor winxp system (though it might do that too), it is for using as a capable midrange chip in mini-itx systems, etc.
Just my $.02.
K
Good point. Roll that clock forward several years.
Cuchullain
The US's time as primary space-capable superpower is growing short. We need to kick it into high gear and get cracking if we want to keep the honor.
Time to get moving, and fund Nasa appropriately. Heaven knows that the payoffs from the R & D alone will be worth the money spent. The materials tech from the first space race is still filtering down to civilian life.
Regardless, It is 1957, and shenzou 5 is China's sputnik.
Cuchullain
This is exactly right. Apple whould reward Moto's record of reliability in delivering the chips, and their research investments in advancing the chip design. (sarcasm)
Reward them by dropping moto entirely and just using the IBM stuff.
God knows the chip is probably faster than the standard G4 and cooler to boot.
Come on Apple, give me a nice power-sipping G3 in my next powerbook... Please! You can even clock it up to 1+ ghz if you want...
Cuchullain
This is great!
I imagine that this is not actually related to comcast, as the article implies, but rather to the fact that portland is currently trying to get a major league team into the stadium.
The reason I think this might be a problem, is that major league teams have been shying away from portland because of its reputation as a place with high taxes and ultra-left wing views. Major league baseball is just another huge corporate entity, and these kinds of tweaks are exactly what they are afraid of. The portland city government, and pge park don't want the perception that they are out of control, as it will negatively impact MLB's view of Portland.
So I say- GO For it free wireless guys! I don't want to see my taxes raised again for a useless baseball team. Especially when unemployment is almost 10% and our taxes are increasing already!
Cuchullain
I have had pretty decent results with the spamnet client on our mail clients. They are now using the data that the free clients generate to block at the server. The product is called Authority, or something like that.
I receive about 50-70 spam mails per day, and the client has been blocking 98 percent of them every day. I have been very impressed by it.
See if their server product is appropriate for you. It simply uses a consensus derived list from client users to block messages at the server. Kind of a blacklist thing.
Cuchullain
You will be exhausted at first. Don't try to be goal oriented and work while the kid sleeps... Sleep when they do, it is more important than a perfect house, or whatever you are hacking on.
Trust me, Sleep is priority one for the first few weeks.
Cuchullain
Korn is a great shell, and he is constantly working on it, so it is getting better and better.
It is the shell I find most often on the commercial boxen that I need to work with, so I use it on linux and freebsd too. I'm certain that there is a version available for netbsd too. pdksh is a distant second to the real thing, so go grab the official ksh! It isn't pure from an open source viewpoint, but I am answering in terms of practicality not idealism.
You can grab it from att labs' page if I remember correctly. It is the gold standard for 'correct' behavior as far as I am concerned, and is what you will find on a whole slew of different *nix boxes.
I try to avoid bash, because though it is a really nice shell, I never find it on commercial systems, and I want my shell to behave consistently wherever I am.
Cuchullain
As they say, 'Jesus saves, and he uses offsite backup'
Cuchullain
True enough. But discovering biological material, especially active or vigorous material, would lend credence to the theory. I suppose I phrased my comment badly, as I didn't really mean "PROVE" in the full scientific sense.
I was mainly spewing out a thinking point, and the fact that I am impressed with the project.
Don't get me wrong about the theory either, I am actually a detractor of the 'Life seeded by comets' theory. I just think it would be uber interesting to find and examine extra-terrestrial life. At least till the lander runs out of power, or out of range.
Cuchullain
I wonder what kind of biological, or pre-biological materials we will find on the comet?
This may either confirm or deny the "life seeded by comets" theories you hear in pop science from time to time.
Either way, VERY COOL, if it works.
Cuchullain
How many more of these sort of discoveries will we have made?
I just read that the AD-36 virus and related variants have been shown to be a contributing factor in 30% of the obesity in the world. Now I see this article on Cancer.
Wild. How many of our daily problems are caused by these little rna splicing machines we call viruses?
Makes you think. I just hope that this is well tested enough for my daughter to use it in 10 or 15 years.
Cuchullain
Proven in court. Why would they turn away from monopolistic behavior when their punishment for it is negligable?
Office is the cash cow, and they have done their best to eliminate viable competition.
The only reason that Corel Wordperfect lives on is the legal community, and a few bullheaded supporters that will not change. (not that refusal to change is bad in this case.)
Why would anyone logically think that they would embrace a standard that will put their competitors on an equal playing field?
A standard that they cannot "extend" easily at this point without lots of bad publicity.
I think that they are going to "wait and see" if it flies, then embrace and extend it after it sticks. It is in their benefit to wait for it to fail, or for more time between their conviction and their extension of this standard. They don't want to get their hand slapped again so soon.
Cuchullain
Hey windows guy!
/Q" only works on floppy drives.
"Format
fdisk is available on either platform...
Cuchullain
Are you smoking Crack? :)
Slack allows you to install a much leaner system than debian does.
I like the install tools on debian, but it kills me that there are so many hard-linked dependencies. It is like library/dll hell all over again.
It was like pulling teeth to install anything, and I always ended up grabbing the source. I don't want 30 different libraries every time I sneeze.
Don't get me wrong, Debian mostly does the right thing, I just can't use it because it tries to add too much stuff to my system, and doesn't give me the transparent control that I have with slack or one of the BSDs.
Cuchullain
I work for a software company whose core business is on pick databases. They are pretty stable, and pretty fast when you run the pick layer on Unix.
If anyone is interested in a look at pick, have a look at www.jbase.com. They provide a free copy of their software for Linux. It is a well known pick implementation. The other one is Universe (also for *nix) which is well known for being damn near indestructible.
Lots of big companies use pick databases. They aren't a new technology, but they are a good working multidimensional database. In many ways they are still inferior to modern transactional-relational databases though.
EDS used to specialize in them, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were more than a few in use within the Navy right now.
Just my $.02
Cuchullain
Better ban genetically enhanced athletes now before the olympic sprints start looking like a roadrunner cartoon...
Cuchullain