You might want to read up on orbital mechanics. A straight line is very, very expensive as a way of flying between planets.
Yes, it's the most expensive, but also most convenient way. We are now limited to the cheapest (fuel/energy-wise) Hohmann's trajectories, however it is now. Once we get better propulsion systems, even basic thermal-nuclear engines, it will change.
If you allow typical SF level of space travel technology, straight-line becomes simple, and you don't even have to solve the n-body problem - just fire the engines some more to correct flightpath.
You'll find that none of these paths intersect in space and time - often not even in just space - except at, or possibly very near, the destination.
Well, I don't expect ships running into each other;-) but there will be some "close" fly-bys (for various values of "close"). Unless it's that hyperspace highway the Vogons are building, there are constant traffic jams around the Betelgeuse exit.
It may be, because the "type manager" software that exists is extremely dumb. I tried, for example, Google's Picasa. Interesting concept, but the thing pays attention mostly to date of pictures which means it's good for some photos but not much else (esp. collections of "pictures I like for some strange reason" or "quite disgusting stuff I keep to send to jerks so they would vomit all over keyboard" were strewn all over the catalog, since their creation dates are pretty much random).
Sensible automatic organizing of collection of non-textual files require metadata in files and close to AI level reasoning. First requirement is not (generally) fulfilled today, second is, as always, just 20 years in the future.
I think the guy used some half decent file manager that found some of his "lost" files so he thinks it's a new technological miracle. Back in the day, people thought the same about Norton Commander.
Besides, every time I see another system to automatically categorize data collections like this, I consider it "catering to the stupid". If someone is too dumb to keep his files in some basic order, it's his fault, not the end of the universe as we know it.
But don't worry, we will be long dead before IPv6 actually comes to use outside of the labs. This is another "solution in search for a problem"... a long search it will be.
Many of the major distributions have set kernels that modules can be compiled for (Red Hat, Linspire), so it's not like a hardware manufacturer can't release a closed source driver module, it just may not work for users that are compiling their own kernel.
Oh yeah? It works as long as you never ever update the kernel. Not even bugfix from the distro. Update with bugfix release - your binary drivers won't load. I've had this problem many times.
Fighting against binary drivers is stupid. Do you realize, what would happen, if all the equpiment had open source drivers? 10 GB kernel source and who's going to support and debug that? Not to mentiong the fact, that many equipment manufacturers don't have rights to open their source.
Linus' thinking is what makes, for example, keeping wireless networking to be so much PITA under Linux.
But let's keep Linux for the programmers with reverse engineering skills only. It's so cool when other people can't use it with off the shelf hardware.
Probably he had some rights in the program, if he didn't, the justification would be "you do not have copyright get lost", not about usage rights.
I think the more important issue is that the court affirmed basic rights of a copy owner. These are under attack from EULAs and other directions. Good to see them recognized.
To solve the problem of people breaking the law, they pass more laws. If it's illegal to do something, and people are still doing it, making it a little more illegal isn't going to stop anyone.
It is easier to pass a lot of laws than to actually deal with the problem. And much cheaper.
Also, there's a factor called "magical thinking", where state officials' faith in the power of laws makes them believa that outlawing something actually stops the proscribed activity.
With ever-expanding term of protection it becomes like the property. When copyright was limited to 14+14 years (or sth like that) it was obvious it's not a property.
Seems it has to first get worse to get better later. Hope we live to see that...
No, seriously, consider that Greece lies in part of the world getting a lot of sunshine. If they want definitive result, they should match try it near the place Archimedes did it.
The result might be quite different. Especially if it seems to be borderline case.
Yes it does. Killing a process from task manager is the same thing as kill -9.
ROTFL.
Unix "kill -9" will terminate any process, regardless of the process' attempts to keep going. Windows task manager will kill almost any, but not all processes, most of the time. But when you really need it, it turns out you hit that "almost" part.
The difference is, in unix type systems, SIGTERM and SIGKILL are handled by the OS and the process is only informed of them (so it can try to shut down properly), in Windows, the process is being asked nicely to close. Windows process is free to ignore these events.
Thus it's quite easy to end up with unkillable process. Not to mention that some processes are considered system (or something) and task manager will refuse to kill them flat out. On Linux you can kill even init if you like (not a wise thing to do - but you can).
There is no unconditional forced kill in Windows. Even MS admits that.
Yeah! Connect everything, fridge, washing mashine, toaster, vacuum cleaner, microwave, just everything. Then get it 0wn3d next day... as the manufacturers of these devices have zero experience in network security.
The benefits of IPv6 are numerous, however. Cisco marketing rep: NOBODY expects the IPv6! Our chief benefit is length... greater length of the packet header and and unrememberable addresses... Our two benefits are greater length of packet header and unrememberable addresses... and rewrite of all network apps.... Our three benefits are length of packet header and unrememberable addresses... and rewrite of all network apps.... and an almost fanatical devotion to some broken standard.... Our four... no... Amongst our benefits... Amongst our array of benefits... are such elements as greater length of packet header and unrememberable addresses... I'll come in again.
But seriously, if IPv6 was so good, it would not require so much pushing. If the IPv4 exhaustion was real and imminent, it would not rquire so much pushing.
You need to use a real bank. 4 hours of maintenance daily is a fucking joke.
When real bank has this long downtime, they announce it 2 weeks in advance. Daily backup/whatever that is run at night shouldn't even block basic operations. What do they use? Flat file "database" on 4.77 MHz XT?
Its not the American government that controls it, its a company that has had a great deal of success.
Said company being subject to US laws, and operating by grant of authority from US govt. Which pretty much makes it a division on that goverment... The fact that there was no pressure on ICANN to force something does not mean there won't be. At least with the kind of people that rule US, no guarantee at all.
I would also like to point out that laws are not carved in stone and are subject to change.
Remember the "Gold Rule"? Who has gold, makes the rules. If the laws were for people, there would be no DMCA and probably very limited copyright. Certainly most of the people believe that it's OK to download and share stuff - why isn't law following the public view? But laws are against people and for corporations. Shows clearly who's country is this (and it applies to most countries - in US it's just more obvious).
Oh right, so thanks to daylight savings I can enjoy more daylight... um, wait... if it's winter I still get up while it's dark (and have to turn on the lights anyway) and get back from work after dark. So I'm saving exactly nothing.
Where's the benefit here?
On the other hand, I can see the cost of this. And it's no small cost.
And the fact that government claims it will help is unconvincing, to say the least.
I mean, the most important case upgrade is beer opener. Who wants anything else? OK, maybe next he'll want a dildo, using vibrations from fans...
And wireless everything is so cool! I want EMI everywhere, so all the devices operate at minimum speed with at least 50% packet retransmits.
And when you have big fancy case, with bottle opener and all, giant silent fans etc, then you will truly need smaller disks, so the case will be 99% empty inside, just like TFA author's head.
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It doesn't make that much difference, whether lies are ordered by the govt or bought by the corporate money. They're still lies.
In fact govt agency is sort of more honest - lying openly, where US media pretend to be honest, while lying secretly.
The original book is in Polish. The first movie version is Russian.
Not all good science fiction is American, you know...
And if the English edition is translated not from the original, I can only try to imagine how much was lost.
You might want to read up on orbital mechanics. A straight line is very, very expensive as a way of flying between planets.
;-) but there will be some "close" fly-bys (for various values of "close"). Unless it's that hyperspace highway the Vogons are building, there are constant traffic jams around the Betelgeuse exit.
Yes, it's the most expensive, but also most convenient way. We are now limited to the cheapest (fuel/energy-wise) Hohmann's trajectories, however it is now. Once we get better propulsion systems, even basic thermal-nuclear engines, it will change.
If you allow typical SF level of space travel technology, straight-line becomes simple, and you don't even have to solve the n-body problem - just
fire the engines some more to correct flightpath.
You'll find that none of these paths intersect in space and time - often not even in just space - except at, or possibly very near, the destination.
Well, I don't expect ships running into each other
It may be, because the "type manager" software that exists is extremely dumb. I tried, for example, Google's Picasa. Interesting concept, but the thing pays attention mostly to date of pictures which means it's good for some photos but not much else (esp. collections of "pictures I like for some strange reason" or "quite disgusting stuff I keep to send to jerks so they would vomit all over keyboard" were strewn all over the catalog, since their creation dates are pretty much random).
Sensible automatic organizing of collection of non-textual files require metadata in files and close to AI level reasoning. First requirement is not (generally) fulfilled today, second is, as always, just 20 years in the future.
I think the guy used some half decent file manager that found some of his "lost" files so he thinks it's a new technological miracle. Back in the day, people thought the same about Norton Commander.
Besides, every time I see another system to automatically categorize data collections like this, I consider it "catering to the stupid". If someone is too dumb to keep his files in some basic order, it's his fault, not the end of the universe as we know it.
stfu n00b! ;-)
But don't worry, we will be long dead before IPv6 actually comes to use outside of the labs. This is another "solution in search for a problem"... a long search it will be.
Could you share your modprobe version with us? I'd like it to magically create drivers for my wireless card and some other hardware I have.
Many of the major distributions have set kernels that modules can be compiled for (Red Hat, Linspire), so it's not like a hardware manufacturer can't release a closed source driver module, it just may not work for users that are compiling their own kernel.
Oh yeah? It works as long as you never ever update the kernel. Not even bugfix from the distro. Update with bugfix release - your binary drivers won't load. I've had this problem many times.
Fighting against binary drivers is stupid. Do you realize, what would happen, if all the equpiment had open source drivers? 10 GB kernel source and who's going to support and debug that? Not to mentiong the fact, that many equipment manufacturers don't have rights to open their source.
Linus' thinking is what makes, for example, keeping wireless networking to be so much PITA under Linux.
But let's keep Linux for the programmers with reverse engineering skills only. It's so cool when other people can't use it with off the shelf hardware.
Probably he had some rights in the program, if he didn't, the justification would be "you do not have copyright get lost", not about usage rights.
I think the more important issue is that the court affirmed basic rights of a copy owner. These are under attack from EULAs and other directions. Good to see them recognized.
Your DNA is 50% identical with you father's, 50% identical with your mother's, BUT 99% identical with chimpanzee. Oh, the wonders of science...
To solve the problem of people breaking the law, they pass more laws. If it's illegal to do something, and people are still doing it, making it a little more illegal isn't going to stop anyone.
It is easier to pass a lot of laws than to actually deal with the problem. And much cheaper.
Also, there's a factor called "magical thinking", where state officials' faith in the power of laws makes them believa that outlawing something actually stops the proscribed activity.
With ever-expanding term of protection it becomes like the property. When copyright was limited to 14+14 years (or sth like that) it was obvious it's not a property.
Seems it has to first get worse to get better later. Hope we live to see that...
No, seriously, consider that Greece lies in part of the world getting a lot of sunshine. If they want definitive result, they should match try it near the place Archimedes did it.
The result might be quite different. Especially if it seems to be borderline case.
Yes it does. Killing a process from task manager is the same thing as kill -9.
ROTFL.
Unix "kill -9" will terminate any process, regardless of the process' attempts to keep going. Windows task manager will kill almost any, but not all processes, most of the time. But when you really need it, it turns out you hit that "almost" part.
The difference is, in unix type systems, SIGTERM and SIGKILL are handled by the OS and the process is only informed of them (so it can try to shut down properly), in Windows, the process is being asked nicely to close. Windows process is free to ignore these events.
Thus it's quite easy to end up with unkillable process. Not to mention that some processes are considered system (or something) and task manager will refuse to kill them flat out. On Linux you can kill even init if you like (not a wise thing to do - but you can).
There is no unconditional forced kill in Windows. Even MS admits that.
Yeah! Connect everything, fridge, washing mashine, toaster, vacuum cleaner, microwave, just everything. Then get it 0wn3d next day... as the manufacturers of these devices have zero experience in network security.
The benefits of IPv6 are numerous, however.
Cisco marketing rep:
NOBODY expects the IPv6!
Our chief benefit is length... greater length of the packet header and and unrememberable addresses...
Our two benefits are greater length of packet header and unrememberable addresses... and rewrite of all network apps....
Our three benefits are length of packet header and unrememberable addresses... and rewrite of all network apps.... and an almost fanatical devotion to some broken standard....
Our four... no...
Amongst our benefits... Amongst our array of benefits... are such elements as greater length of packet header and unrememberable addresses...
I'll come in again.
But seriously, if IPv6 was so good, it would not require so much pushing. If the IPv4 exhaustion was real and imminent, it would not rquire so much pushing.
You need to use a real bank. 4 hours of maintenance daily is a fucking joke.
When real bank has this long downtime, they announce it 2 weeks in advance. Daily backup/whatever that is run at night shouldn't even block basic operations. What do they use? Flat file "database" on 4.77 MHz XT?
You now have one year to file...
Its not the American government that controls it, its a company that has had a great deal of success.
:-(
Said company being subject to US laws, and operating by grant of authority from US govt. Which pretty much makes it a division on that goverment... The fact that there was no pressure on ICANN to force something does not mean there won't be. At least with the kind of people that rule US, no guarantee at all.
Not that EU rulers are any better
Firefox has a setting for that: privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
It works great.
Oh right, so thanks to daylight savings I can enjoy more daylight... um, wait... if it's winter I still get up while it's dark (and have to turn on the lights anyway) and get back from work after dark. So I'm saving exactly nothing.
Where's the benefit here?
On the other hand, I can see the cost of this. And it's no small cost.
And the fact that government claims it will help is unconvincing, to say the least.
Actually the whole "dayligh savings" idea has lost it's usefulness years ago. Yet by pure inertia it lives on.
:-(
The savings from the time change are much less than a cost of doing that.
Unfortunately, the cost of eliminating this idiocy is to big now
No way, this is totally serious.
I mean, the most important case upgrade is beer opener. Who wants anything else? OK, maybe next he'll want a dildo, using vibrations from fans...
And wireless everything is so cool! I want EMI everywhere, so all the devices operate at minimum speed with at least 50% packet retransmits.
And when you have big fancy case, with bottle opener and all, giant silent fans etc, then you will truly need smaller disks, so the case will be 99% empty inside, just like TFA author's head.
Don't worry, you'll be able to see all 4 episodes that will remain after "light editing to make it family-friendly".
With perfectly incompatible voices for the dub.
Not even Americans deserve this...