This comes at a time when private American companies are gearing up their attempts at creating viable and cheap methods at putting men in space.
Sure, it isn't orbit, but how far off could orbit be if Armadillo Aero and Rutan are successful at the stage they are at now?
I know that it is a huge leap from going to where the X Prize competitors are going and orbit, but the point that I am trying to underline is that fact that we have privately funded companies making what looks to be viable attempts (except for the Rocket Guy hehe)at getting into space.
I would be excited about this if they were using all home grown hardware, but as it stands it's just a remake of former U.S.S.R. accomplishments.
This is no trivial feat to be sure, but it would have meant a lot more if they had done it say, 20 years ago using their own hardware and launch infrastructure.
So, congratulations Russia on being the first country to put another country into space!
I did this last November using a trial edition of Sound Forge and their lp restoral plug in.
It took a few hours' worth of fiddling (even with the plug in), but I finally constructed a digitized version of a recording made in the late 40's and it sounded excellent, save for the last disk which had an off center hole. It had varying pitch, which I was still able to tone down a bit.
The rest of the lps in the collection were in very good condition, but still had poor sound attributed to its 50+ year age.
I am unfamiliar with the results that the professionals produce, but even a simple trial version of Sound Forge can work wonders on old LP's for merely the cost of electricity and a blank cd.
"What I am, however, is concerned about how Redmond intends to safeguard my privacy, my right to use an operating system as I see fit, and my rights of fair use. I am, in fact, very concerned."
Then he goes on to say, a paragrah later, "Right now, Linux has yet to offer me any reason why I should go to the monumental hassle of switching and re-training myself to the new OS..."
You must NOT be all that concerned about your privacy, the right to use the OS as you see fit (Click on Agree or Decline after reading the EULA? A thought), or your rights of fair use if you blindly click through the EULA and install their product.
RTFEULA. Worried about all that and still agreeing to MS's EULA and being too lazy to learn an OS that's free from all that just befuddles me.
And since when did learning Linux become a monumental effort? Rocketing into space is a monumental effort. Learning Linux is akin to Bellybutton Lint Removal 101.
Anything good for you is something you most certainly won't feel in a day.
If you are feeling it in a day, be alarmed. Ultra high doses of caffeine, super saturated sugar and butt load of carbohydrates *will* make you feel better in a day, all the while ignoring or masking the ill effects of ODing on such.
Yeah, you can OD on sugar and carbos. I won't explain how, because it is so simple to see.
Effervescent creatine. Hahahahaha. Is that like effervescent RDNA? Ion exchange? HAHAHAHAHA. Oh, yeah, but it is ISOPURE. Beam me up, Scotty.
He goes on to say that another common method of adding energy is to add dextrose to the mix. Yeah! Hello! Super-sutrated sugar in an 8 ounce can will light up an elephant for a week! Ya, wonder why it spikes your insulin level? Diabetic yet?
I do agree that MS will use its marketshare to kill off Java.
I do care about other platforms, Linux and MacOS whatever.
I do not want to see Net vs Java like I've seen DirectX vs OpenGL.
But, I don't want one ego company using lawyers as a tool for advancing their technology on the backs of a leader. I want that tech to carry its own weight, such as Java has done. But, I'm not blind to the fact that Sun will throw a Sabot into all of our gears 5 years from now when it is the standard.
Perhaps they will, perhaps, they won't. Given Sun's rather sad propensity to not really give a hoot, I'd rather see Sun realeasing Java as a Halo Project for free to all and riding the waves of public acceptance and not paying dollars to the shore.
On second thought, let's abandon Sun. I dislike any company that relies upon its lawyers to do the R&D work.
Can't innovate? Can't produce? No problem, we'll sue!
Don't mod me down on this. This isn't a flame per se, it is my viewpoint on the current situation.
I love genuine R&D work that is done by researchers, not lawyers. I love technology that works and works well for everyone.
What I have is a distaste for is companies to burn valuable money on crap like endless ego litigation instead of making a product fly.
Someday, like on Stardate 20192.7, Earth companies learned to share their intellectual wealth for the betterment of all, instead of paying the salaries of talking heads on a spring.
If Sun wants Java to be automatically included with Windows, then they should have to pay for it.
Now, if Sun were to do something bold like making Java a free bit of kit with no charge whatsoever to anyone from here until the universe dies out, then perhaps the courts can persuade Microsoft to include it at no charge and we can go on being happy with things.
But if Sun wants to turn this into a $monopoly$ play whinerant so that they can secure their share of the market on the back of their competitor, screw em.
Why should we feel guilty because we are simply better than most everyone else at making a living for ourselves?
I feel sorry for the children in places where they don't have the benefit of making a good life for themselves, but beyond that, sorry. I don't care.
The adage that states, "Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." holds true.
We earn our daily bread and more. That we have spare time to do things other than looking for food is the result of many generations working harder than the one before so the one following will have a better standard of life.
Wow. It's not like I didn't read this story the first *two* times that slashdot posted it. I think I'll go for THREE.
This was posted a week ago? Ugh.
Please be a little more careful with the news postings.
Mmm. SPAMNet, I love you. I get 1-2 SPAM e-mails a day, down from 20 or 30.
Windows Messaging Service has been turned off by me minutes after installing XP, thank you.
He'll do this, it'll be a pain for a week, then Steve Gibson at GRC.com will slap some binary together that will turn off WMS for those people that don't know how. It'll then show up all over the web and people careful about their computing environment won't be bothered by this SPAM shit.
There should be laws against this!
This is fairly interesting. The board that they managed to boot is based upon the SiS 630e chip, which supports Pentium III/Celeron CPUs up to 1 GHz.
I imagine you can scrounge one of these up with a Celeron for about $100.
I wouldn't want to test this out on anything that isn't disposable and isn't anything other than a test platform. Still, having a spare BIOS chip laying around wouldn't hurt either.
I wouldn't recommend trying this on any old board with any old chipset, unless you are willing to lose functionality of it either temporarily or permanently. A failed BIOS flash means that your system will have no way of bootstrapping itself unless you have a spare BIOS chip laying around (peovided that no hardware was damaged). This BIOS chip should have the BIOS version suitable for the board its made for.
If you don't have access to a BIOS chip programmer, and you are somewhat of a cowboy, and you didn't reboot the PC with the failed BIOS flash, AND if you have a BIOS chip that is compatible with the one in the machine, gently pull the fragged BIOS out, put the new on in and flash it back to the factory AMI BIOS.
BIOS r Fun.
I hate them.
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This comes at a time when private American companies are gearing up their attempts at creating viable and cheap methods at putting men in space.
Sure, it isn't orbit, but how far off could orbit be if Armadillo Aero and Rutan are successful at the stage they are at now?
I know that it is a huge leap from going to where the X Prize competitors are going and orbit, but the point that I am trying to underline is that fact that we have privately funded companies making what looks to be viable attempts (except for the Rocket Guy hehe)at getting into space.
I would be excited about this if they were using all home grown hardware, but as it stands it's just a remake of former U.S.S.R. accomplishments.
This is no trivial feat to be sure, but it would have meant a lot more if they had done it say, 20 years ago using their own hardware and launch infrastructure.
So, congratulations Russia on being the first country to put another country into space!
I had one of these.
;).
Load SCRAM into the cassette drive, and go ride the BMX bike (with mag rims!) around for 45 minutes while it loaded, return and scram the core
Seriously though, has anyone considered putting a PC into *gasp* a PC chassis?
I did this last November using a trial edition of Sound Forge and their lp restoral plug in.
It took a few hours' worth of fiddling (even with the plug in), but I finally constructed a digitized version of a recording made in the late 40's and it sounded excellent, save for the last disk which had an off center hole. It had varying pitch, which I was still able to tone down a bit.
The rest of the lps in the collection were in very good condition, but still had poor sound attributed to its 50+ year age.
I am unfamiliar with the results that the professionals produce, but even a simple trial version of Sound Forge can work wonders on old LP's for merely the cost of electricity and a blank cd.
"What I am, however, is concerned about how Redmond intends to safeguard my privacy, my right to use an operating system as I see fit, and my rights of fair use. I am, in fact, very concerned."
Then he goes on to say, a paragrah later, "Right now, Linux has yet to offer me any reason why I should go to the monumental hassle of switching and re-training myself to the new OS..."
You must NOT be all that concerned about your privacy, the right to use the OS as you see fit (Click on Agree or Decline after reading the EULA? A thought), or your rights of fair use if you blindly click through the EULA and install their product.
RTFEULA. Worried about all that and still agreeing to MS's EULA and being too lazy to learn an OS that's free from all that just befuddles me.
And since when did learning Linux become a monumental effort? Rocketing into space is a monumental effort. Learning Linux is akin to Bellybutton Lint Removal 101.
How does this crap make the news, anyhow?
How did this shit get moderated up?
Anything good for you is something you most certainly won't feel in a day.
If you are feeling it in a day, be alarmed. Ultra high doses of caffeine, super saturated sugar and butt load of carbohydrates *will* make you feel better in a day, all the while ignoring or masking the ill effects of ODing on such.
Yeah, you can OD on sugar and carbos. I won't explain how, because it is so simple to see.
Effervescent creatine. Hahahahaha. Is that like effervescent RDNA? Ion exchange? HAHAHAHAHA. Oh, yeah, but it is ISOPURE. Beam me up, Scotty.
He goes on to say that another common method of adding energy is to add dextrose to the mix. Yeah! Hello! Super-sutrated sugar in an 8 ounce can will light up an elephant for a week! Ya, wonder why it spikes your insulin level? Diabetic yet?
Ha.
Nice mod work, assholes!
Loosen up just a *tiny* bit so people won't be tempted to your your spincters as diamond factories.
Wow! Slow news day!
Send them to Alan Ralsky !
Old news, guys. This was posted a YEAR ago almost to the month on Slashdot.
The same comments apply today as they did then.
6K for something that you can't really get fuel for. And if you can get it, you will pay for it. Dearly.
Powering and paying for this thing for a day on Hydrogen makes Diesel look like the fuel of the future.
It is a step in the right direction in terms of science. But in terms of people wanting to pay for it?
No, I didn't think so.
My posts have a certain, "You have got to know me" about them.
:).
I write with a large amount of sometimes very subtle sarcasm in my posts. And I do mean subtle.
Not that I expect everyone to see this, but the ones that do see it as funny.
Once you get me, you get me, and you mod me up
I do agree that MS will use its marketshare to kill off Java.
I do care about other platforms, Linux and MacOS whatever.
I do not want to see Net vs Java like I've seen DirectX vs OpenGL.
But, I don't want one ego company using lawyers as a tool for advancing their technology on the backs of a leader. I want that tech to carry its own weight, such as Java has done. But, I'm not blind to the fact that Sun will throw a Sabot into all of our gears 5 years from now when it is the standard.
Perhaps they will, perhaps, they won't. Given Sun's rather sad propensity to not really give a hoot, I'd rather see Sun realeasing Java as a Halo Project for free to all and riding the waves of public acceptance and not paying dollars to the shore.
On second thought, let's abandon Sun. I dislike any company that relies upon its lawyers to do the R&D work.
Can't innovate? Can't produce? No problem, we'll sue!
Don't mod me down on this. This isn't a flame per se, it is my viewpoint on the current situation.
I love genuine R&D work that is done by researchers, not lawyers. I love technology that works and works well for everyone.
What I have is a distaste for is companies to burn valuable money on crap like endless ego litigation instead of making a product fly.
Someday, like on Stardate 20192.7, Earth companies learned to share their intellectual wealth for the betterment of all, instead of paying the salaries of talking heads on a spring.
Two weeks later, the Vulcans arrived.
This is stupid.
If Sun wants Java to be automatically included with Windows, then they should have to pay for it.
Now, if Sun were to do something bold like making Java a free bit of kit with no charge whatsoever to anyone from here until the universe dies out, then perhaps the courts can persuade Microsoft to include it at no charge and we can go on being happy with things.
But if Sun wants to turn this into a $monopoly$ play whinerant so that they can secure their share of the market on the back of their competitor, screw em.
Java itself is good. Net is, well, MS.
Halo product anyone? Java would be good at this.
Man, what the FUCK is wrong with you people. It was a JOKE. A bad one, but it was a joke.
...I've never read the books.
Where can I get the Cliff's Notes?
64bit CPU, 64bit color depth in my Radeon 12500/64 Pro, 64bit bus! Doom64 with 64bit giblets!
What did Bill Gates say about bits a few years ago? That 64bit ought to be too much for everybody?
So what?
Why should we feel guilty because we are simply better than most everyone else at making a living for ourselves?
I feel sorry for the children in places where they don't have the benefit of making a good life for themselves, but beyond that, sorry. I don't care.
The adage that states, "Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime." holds true.
We earn our daily bread and more. That we have spare time to do things other than looking for food is the result of many generations working harder than the one before so the one following will have a better standard of life.
Slashdot, where the random rant becomes an education.
e =f aq-general
http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/index.php?pag
Thanks for the info, Fusiongyro.
=D
Note that this is GNU-Darwin, not Apple's Darwin.
;).
It's a shitty distro with ripped off GUI graphics.
I hope they are based in China, because Apple's lawyers are going to have a field day with this one.
It is Linux with a reskin.
Let's all have a party and download the tarballs from them for a week.
That ought to put them under
Yo Yo Ma got married to a very nice woman from Hong Kong.
Newspapers print the message as Yo Yo Ma Marries Yo Ma Ma.
Before you mod me down, please consider that I told this joke in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei, and everyone got it and everyone loved it.
Damn. I left out the block quotes. Sorry.
Wow. It's not like I didn't read this story the first *two* times that slashdot posted it. I think I'll go for THREE. This was posted a week ago? Ugh. Please be a little more careful with the news postings.
Mmm. SPAMNet, I love you. I get 1-2 SPAM e-mails a day, down from 20 or 30. Windows Messaging Service has been turned off by me minutes after installing XP, thank you. He'll do this, it'll be a pain for a week, then Steve Gibson at GRC.com will slap some binary together that will turn off WMS for those people that don't know how. It'll then show up all over the web and people careful about their computing environment won't be bothered by this SPAM shit. There should be laws against this!
This is fairly interesting. The board that they managed to boot is based upon the SiS 630e chip, which supports Pentium III/Celeron CPUs up to 1 GHz. I imagine you can scrounge one of these up with a Celeron for about $100. I wouldn't want to test this out on anything that isn't disposable and isn't anything other than a test platform. Still, having a spare BIOS chip laying around wouldn't hurt either. I wouldn't recommend trying this on any old board with any old chipset, unless you are willing to lose functionality of it either temporarily or permanently. A failed BIOS flash means that your system will have no way of bootstrapping itself unless you have a spare BIOS chip laying around (peovided that no hardware was damaged). This BIOS chip should have the BIOS version suitable for the board its made for. If you don't have access to a BIOS chip programmer, and you are somewhat of a cowboy, and you didn't reboot the PC with the failed BIOS flash, AND if you have a BIOS chip that is compatible with the one in the machine, gently pull the fragged BIOS out, put the new on in and flash it back to the factory AMI BIOS. BIOS r Fun. I hate them.
On a side note, what's with the cheapo racks they have em on? This whole thing looks to be one seismic wiggle away from disaster.