THE BRAKES! THE BRAKES!
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As far as I can see, it's designed to make you fall over when you hit the brakes. Either that or you just go ahead and plough into that old granny at 20mph anyway[1].
Copenhagen airport has push scooters, you see people whizzing up and down the the airport. Very weird.
Then the US government should break up NASA. NASA is now a great big lead weight on the progress of space flight. Ever since the "low cost" shuttle was created.
One mail server - Unix scales.
One web server - Unix scales.
One print server - Unix scales.
One file server - Unix scales.
One Oracle database server - Unix scales.
One middleware hub - Unix scales.
Three DNS servers - On different networks.
And one system to manage them all.
I have no second level admins. For a similar number of users - about 800.
It's just me and "It all just works". You feel free to go on running yourself ragged with crap systems. Eventually you'll get fired or burnt out and someone who knows what they're doing will fix it.
I mean, really. Are they putting a gun to your head and saying "buy our next round of products or die Scum!"?
No they are not. So what's the problem? You don't want to pay? Then don't use their software.
It's as if some sheep genes are implanted into I.T. managers when they are hired.
Seems very mad to me. The problem with the journey to Mars is a human problem. There should be no issue with sending a continual supply of food and materials. Leave them in orbit round mars till needed. Then either dock with the mother ship when it arrives or drop through the atmosphere for delivery on planet as needed.
Nothing to do with altruism. I'm lazy, I like to get something for nothing and with Open Source, I'm onto a good thing.
Lets say my boss wants me to solve some problem using software.
First of all, I don't go out and re-implement the wheel. Only an idiot would do that. I look round for something that someone else has done that solves most of what I need.
Then I take all of the hard work that they've done and I do any code fixes or customisations that I need for my own purposes, then I take credit for it all with my boss. I also give my updates back to the original author since I've already made the changes and I might as well. If he likes them, he'll include them. Hell, if he includes them, it means we don't have to make the changes again next time - less work for me.
If when I look round, there's nothing which does what I need then it means that I just have to write the code - that's work - Bummer.
However, I know that if I put my code up on a web site and publicise it to other developers, they might also need to do what I need to, they can download the code and use it, after all, I've written it already, no skin off my nose.
The cool thing is, they debug it for me! Is that cool or what? I get other people to do my work for me. All I have to do is fix the bugs or apply their patches. If it becomes *really* popular, I can sit back and take all the glory from the management for doing nothing!
CPU looooong ago stopped being a bottleneck. These days when you sit waiting for Internet Exploder 5.5 to appear after pressing the button, it's the disk that you're waiting for.
Sure, chuck in 128Mb of RAM, that'll cache the disk and solve the problem. Umm. nope. The CPU's are still 10 times faster than the RAM so it's still sitting around spinning, waiting for the data. And Windblow$ is terrible at managing it's paging so it still grinds away at the disk whenever you switch windows anyway.
Sure chuck in 10Mb of level one cache, that'll cache the memory and solve the problem. Have *seen* how expensive CPU's with massive L1 caches are?
My home system is an AMD Ksomething at 500MHz with loads of RAM and the fastest disks and SCSI bus I can afford. It still easily beats the latest and greatest 1.5GHz ATA/5400rpm based systems.
It's lifting capacity is defined by the *volume* of helium it can hold. i.e. the lifting capacity goes up by the cube of the size while it's own weight increases with the surface area of the gas bag, i.e. with the square of the size.
So, yes, you can have rooms, restaurants, viewing platforms, theatres etc. Just make it big.
The Zeppelin NT is a *fraction* of the size of the rigid airships of the 30s and 40s.
The Zeppelin NT isn't a stratospheric solar powered airship. It's a passenger carrying airship.
It's like saying that a 747 wouldn't make a good stratospheric communications platform because it's too heavy, can't fly that high, doesn't have enough fuel to stay up for 6 months - well Doh.
An airship doesn't need to supply power just to stay in the air. It only needs the power to hold position and supply power to the payload, the mass of which is irrelevant because the helium is holding it up.
It's the aerodynamics that matter and there *are* plans in the works for comunications airships that fly in the stratosphere.
The fabric of the skin may have been the ignition source but carrying half a billion cubic feet of hydrogen to fuel the blaze doesn't help when you have a spark.
The airship market was utterly devastated by the Hindenberg tragedy. For 70 years, nobody's beeen able to think of an airship without thinking of the film footage of the ship burning and falling out of the sky.
It has literally taken *70 years* to even begin to recover and we are even now, no where near the level of sophistication that the ships were in those days.
However, if you're interested, there's CargoLifter and Advanced Technologies who're pushing now:
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As far as I can see, it's designed to make you fall over when you hit the brakes. Either that or you just go ahead and plough into that old granny at 20mph anyway[1].
Copenhagen airport has push scooters, you see people whizzing up and down the the airport. Very weird.
[1] Grannies are 50 points you know.
Then the US government should break up NASA. NASA is now a great big lead weight on the progress of space flight. Ever since the "low cost" shuttle was created.
Big contractors making billions out of the Government? Hmm?
99% accurate in laboratory conditions with controlled lighting and camera settings.
One mail server - Unix scales.
One web server - Unix scales.
One print server - Unix scales.
One file server - Unix scales.
One Oracle database server - Unix scales.
One middleware hub - Unix scales.
Three DNS servers - On different networks.
And one system to manage them all.
I have no second level admins. For a similar number of users - about 800.
It's just me and "It all just works". You feel free to go on running yourself ragged with crap systems. Eventually you'll get fired or burnt out and someone who knows what they're doing will fix it.
I mean, really. Are they putting a gun to your head and saying "buy our next round of products or die Scum!"?
No they are not. So what's the problem? You don't want to pay? Then don't use their software.
It's as if some sheep genes are implanted into I.T. managers when they are hired.
www.gpg.org
www.winpt.org
Get the latest of both.
WinPT is an easy to use Windows front end to the GPG command line. It acts on the clipboard and lives in the Windows tray.
Select text, copy, click on winpt, encrypt clipboard, paste into document/email/news post etc.
Easy.
Only the people who want to use Microsoft software and agree to the license terms are bound by them.
It doesn't affect the rest of the world.
If you don't like the terms, don't use the software.
Bluetooth and 802.11b are for entirely different purposes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let me see you have a mobile phone headset talk to a mobile phone via 802.11b. Do you use ethernet to plug your mouse/keyboard into your PC?
Cheeeerist, that bloody Intel twit has a lot to answer for.
Government official: Damn, we're paying too much for all this social housing. How can we make more money off of poor people?
Engineer: I know, make them live in power stations.
Seems very mad to me. The problem with the journey to Mars is a human problem. There should be no issue with sending a continual supply of food and materials. Leave them in orbit round mars till needed. Then either dock with the mother ship when it arrives or drop through the atmosphere for delivery on planet as needed.
More worthy, full document management system than the efforts being put into word processing.
Conglomerate
Nothing to do with altruism. I'm lazy, I like to get something for nothing and with Open Source, I'm onto a good thing.
Lets say my boss wants me to solve some problem using software.
First of all, I don't go out and re-implement the wheel. Only an idiot would do that. I look round for something that someone else has done that solves most of what I need.
Then I take all of the hard work that they've done and I do any code fixes or customisations that I need for my own purposes, then I take credit for it all with my boss. I also give my updates back to the original author since I've already made the changes and I might as well. If he likes them, he'll include them. Hell, if he includes them, it means we don't have to make the changes again next time - less work for me.
If when I look round, there's nothing which does what I need then it means that I just have to write the code - that's work - Bummer.
However, I know that if I put my code up on a web site and publicise it to other developers, they might also need to do what I need to, they can download the code and use it, after all, I've written it already, no skin off my nose.
The cool thing is, they debug it for me! Is that cool or what? I get other people to do my work for me. All I have to do is fix the bugs or apply their patches. If it becomes *really* popular, I can sit back and take all the glory from the management for doing nothing!
http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/
Single signon/login is a great idea on a secure, managed corporate network where all the applications can be trusted and crackers don't have access.
But what kind of moron says, this is a good idea for my corporation so it must be a good idea for the entire internet?
So it says in the article.
Could this announcement be to boost the share price?
CPU looooong ago stopped being a bottleneck. These days when you sit waiting for Internet Exploder 5.5 to appear after pressing the button, it's the disk that you're waiting for.
Sure, chuck in 128Mb of RAM, that'll cache the disk and solve the problem. Umm. nope. The CPU's are still 10 times faster than the RAM so it's still sitting around spinning, waiting for the data. And Windblow$ is terrible at managing it's paging so it still grinds away at the disk whenever you switch windows anyway.
Sure chuck in 10Mb of level one cache, that'll cache the memory and solve the problem. Have *seen* how expensive CPU's with massive L1 caches are?
My home system is an AMD Ksomething at 500MHz with loads of RAM and the fastest disks and SCSI bus I can afford. It still easily beats the latest and greatest 1.5GHz ATA/5400rpm based systems.
But they're adding multimodal freight to the picture as well so it'll probably end up competing with freight aircraft like the 747 and Antonovs.
It's a completely new paradigm so we'll see.
Existing blimps are *tiny* advertising platforms or small passenger carriers.
http://www.cargolifter.com/
Need I say more?
The bigger an airship gets, the better.
It's lifting capacity is defined by the *volume* of helium it can hold. i.e. the lifting capacity goes up by the cube of the size while it's own weight increases with the surface area of the gas bag, i.e. with the square of the size.
So, yes, you can have rooms, restaurants, viewing platforms, theatres etc. Just make it big.
The Zeppelin NT is a *fraction* of the size of the rigid airships of the 30s and 40s.
The Zeppelin NT isn't a stratospheric solar powered airship. It's a passenger carrying airship.
It's like saying that a 747 wouldn't make a good stratospheric communications platform because it's too heavy, can't fly that high, doesn't have enough fuel to stay up for 6 months - well Doh.
An airship doesn't need to supply power just to stay in the air. It only needs the power to hold position and supply power to the payload, the mass of which is irrelevant because the helium is holding it up.
It's the aerodynamics that matter and there *are* plans in the works for comunications airships that fly in the stratosphere.
http://www.airship.com/
The fabric of the skin may have been the ignition source but carrying half a billion cubic feet of hydrogen to fuel the blaze doesn't help when you have a spark.
http://www.airship.com/
The airship market was utterly devastated by the Hindenberg tragedy. For 70 years, nobody's beeen able to think of an airship without thinking of the film footage of the ship burning and falling out of the sky.
It has literally taken *70 years* to even begin to recover and we are even now, no where near the level of sophistication that the ships were in those days.
However, if you're interested, there's CargoLifter and Advanced Technologies who're pushing now:
http://www.cargolifter.com/
http://www.airship.com/
and of course Zeppelin:
http://www.zeppelin-nt.com/
Totally different markets.
The nearest market would be the helicopter market or pleasure boat market.
Cargolifter OTOH, will compete with 747s for freight cargos.
http://www.cargolifter.com/