Really shouldn't the Operating System be using hardware rendering for graphics calls? Yes I know that they are probably using D2D or DirectX to handle this but don't the hardware graphics calls in Windows use hardware acceleration already? I hope that Xwindows does I know that OpenGL does but over all an application shouldn't have to care about "hardware" at all! That is why we have Operating Systems.
That has got to be the most expensive data center for m^2 on the planet. They don't care about power or heat it all would comedown to foot print. I bet IBM sells a lot of POWER cpus there.
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Really? Let's take a look at Jobs innovations. The Mac? Both the Mac and the Lisa before it where "inspired by" the work at Xerox Parc AKA the XeroxStar. The iPod sure wasn't the first mp3 player. The iPhone? It sure wasn't the first smartphone. Apple really has not innovated much at all. What they tended to do was take what others have done and make it work very well. Even NeXTStep which became OS/X was inspired by the work of Alan Kay. Bill Gates really did do a lot to create a common platform on the PC which most people today use. Microsoft also tends to take others ideas and make them work well for the most part. The truth is both Jobs and Gates live by the old motto. Pioneers get slaughtered settlers become rich. If the Gates pull off cureing or controlling Malaria no one will remember that he founded Microsoft. All the will remember is the he saved millions of lives and will be considered a saint. When Jobs is gone I doubt that many people will remember him. Even if Apple stays super successful he will fad from memory like the founders of GM, Boeing, Lockheed, GE, ABC, NBC, and CBS. Even though Boeing and Lockheed have the names of their founder almost nobody knows a thing about them. The same will probably happen with Steve Jobs unless he does more than make toys and movies with his life. And lets be honest that is what he is doing right now. As I said both have a lot to be proud about but I feel you have way over inflated Steve Jobs contributions to the planet.
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"You do, however, need an iPad with 3G to have GPS" No. If you have an iPad with 3G it includes GPS. If Apple allowed it you could use a Bluetooth GPS with the iPad or use one that interfaces through the syncing port. That therefor part is what got me. Like you must have a 3G data connection to have GPS.
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I am not a big Gates fan or Jobs fan but really? Compare things created: Jobs: GUI"Xerox Star", Macs "maybe" , iPod, iPhone, iPad I will give you those three, and Pixar"He invested in it". Gates: Windows. Guys, we have a clear winner here. Well you forgot Microsoft Basic which was the standard for a long time, XBox, MS-DOS"as much as Jobs invented the GUI", Word, Excel, And yes Windows which has what market share??? Both men have a lot to take pride in.
Gates I think figured out that he had done enough and really doesn't need to keep trying to make Microsoft bigger. Jobs will not let go until he is dead.
I don't know these men but trying to say one is more successful than the other is just odd. They are both so out there that it really doesn't matter.
"Back in Woz's day, it was important to have a BASIC interpreter on your personal computer" Because there was almost not software available. I was around back then. You almost always had to write your own software or at least some of it back then. Truth is that computers are more open now than then are at as. Today if you want to program for Windows, Linux, or the Mac you have a huge selection of tools, languages, and documentation available to you. Now the iPod, iPad, and iPhone are not really computers. They are accessories and yes they are not super open but they are also not that closed. The MacOS doesn't come with Basic it comes with XCode and compilers.
Now hardware is a lot more closed off then it used to be that I will give you but on the software side things are really pretty sweet. When I got my C64 back in 82 I heard about this cool OS called Unix but everybody said it was too big and complex to ever run on a Home Computer. That is what we called them before they where all X86 based. A PC meant an IBM. How things have changed. Don't fall into that "things where better back in the day trap". In 82 an AppleII with a floppy was over a $1000 and that was when a $1000 was a lot of money. Most people I knew had C64s, Ataris, and a few had TiIs. Apples where cool but just not that common. What people forget is that Apples really took off when the first "Killer App" just happened to run on it. Yea it was fun but things are not bad now.
It is the middle of no where. Probably why they decided to put a huge pile of molten sulfur and sodium there. If it blows the damages will be next to nothing.
1. Is April Fool's day even a tradition in Jordan? 2. And if communications where taken out isn't it possible that a newspaper would be the only source? Yes to you and I it is all very unlikely but considering how many stupid things I see on Slashdot everyday it only seems about average for the human condition. Now the suing part is as stupid as that idiot town controller that threatened CentOS but the initial reaction I would put as only average.
Well the link you gave called TurboHercules the "commercial version" of Hercules. So I do have to wonder. Am not really surprised by IBM getting upset at TurboHercules. TH is using a loop hole in the IBM license to make money. TH is claiming that that there commercial offerings are just for Disaster Recovery. Which is kind of funny if you bother to read the FOSS Hercules FAQ where it says that it would be unwise to use Hercules for disaster recovery! From the website.
2.02 What operating systems can I run legally?
3. Running under the terms of a disaster recovery provision of the OS license (but I really don't recommend depending on Hercules to be your disaster recovery solution!).
I hate to say it but the entire TurboHercules thing seems very murky to me. You have a company saying one thing and the FAQ from the FOSS project saying something entirely differn't!
" All that was required was the GPS coordinates of the launch facility and the coordinates of the target area... the actual flight path was calculated by the missile's computer using the on-board gyro's input and programed coordinates of both the target and the launch site. " There was no GPS back then. "Since the propellant was solid there was no way to extinguish it once it started burning so the need of the retro-rocket technique used to separate the 3rd stage and the warhead/guidance package." Actually you can. A pressure release in the combustion chamber will cause a solid rocket to "flame out" This is often used in Solids for targeting control. In fact the ability to shut down a solid was one of the big problems in moving from liquid fueled to solids.
Not only that but the law suit looks to not be the FOSS Hurcules project at all but the Commercial company TurboHercules. Does TurboHercules==Hercules? Are TurboHurcules offerings FOSS or is this a closed fork? If it is a closed fork then IBM is not attacking FOSS at all and is keeping it's promise. If not then we may have an issue but right now I am not so sure.
I would have used the term guidance thruster as well. All in all the story was terrible and nothing but rehashed stories and really unworthy of the front page of Slashdot. That is why I said I would have liked to see more info than the story provided. All in all just a shoddy story and not wroth the effort to read.
True what bothers me is that they are lieing and saying that 248 meters is deep. For a scuba diver yes but is less than the test death of most nuclear attack subs and a lot shallower than most what most ROVs and research subs can reach. It really is in pretty shallow water which scares me.
I didn't say that we had good air defense in the 80s. Most interceptors these days are maned by the ANG or the reserves. You are right about when the Nike system started to go away. Thanks to good old McNamara and his MAD policy. Hey it is cheaper and it did work with the Soviets but right now we have next to no Air Defense in the US. In theory it wasn't needed as much when the USSR moved to ICBMs but now in the age of Cruise Missiles and Drones I feel we are way under protected.
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"My iPad has no 3G, therefore it has no GPS. "... Huh? You don't need 3G to have GPS. Heck you don't have to have any cell phone connection to have a GPS. You need a GPS to have GPS.
Actually they have not. Actually had a there been a Nike system active in New York and if they had been given permission to fire then the second tower would not have been hit. BTW they also had conventional warheads on most of the Nike missiles.
After 9/11 the Navy ships in New York Harbor where used to provide temporary SAM coverage. Frankly I would not call reactivating SAM sites a knee jerk reaction at all. The current Air Defenses of the US are frankly terrible. More and more of the bases that used to provide interceptor coverage for the US have been shutdown. Only Alaska and Hawaii have a lot in the way of air defenses.
True but in space flight retro rockets are usually large thrusters used for deorbiting and landing. ICBMs don't deorbit or land. Smaller rockets that face forward are typically just called thrusters.
" the accidental firing of a retrorocket on an ICBM;" You use retro rockets to de orbit. ICBMs don't go into orbit they use a ballistic trajectory. I would like to know more details about that little comment. Frankly this is a big so what. None of the listed accidents are new and I think they are all in the Wikipedia and have been listed for years. They left out the Titan II explosion in the 80s that blew a multi mega warhead a good distance from the silo and caused the Air Force to retire the Titan II. Hey on the bright side in the 50s and 60s every major US city was ringed with Nike SAM sites and some of them had nuclear warheads on them. They have all been retired for a good long while.
This is so not news it is at best a badly written history lesson. Actually it is nothing but political diatribe on how evil nuclear weapons are. Frankly this should be pushed to the politics page or just not on Slashdot since it tells us nothing new. Heck the freaking learning channel covered this a few years ago.
Well What apps do you "need" actually almost all phone apps are wants and not needs but there are a few people that do need some phone apps. The simple answer is Google it. Pandora for Android http://www.pandora.com/android A pod catcher http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=1905 Really it just isn't that hard. And I didn't trip over that mole hill. I have an Android phone and have all the apps I want.
No but an idiot that would try it might not think of the same solutions I would. I am sure that I am not alone if figuring out better ways to do this but hopefully I am also not alone in being bright enough not do want to do it.
But you use the marketplace on the phone.... And I have no problems using it from the phone. It would be nice if you could search the marketplace on line from your PC but that is really not a big deal. That I think is a clear case of making a mountain out of a mole hill.
There are dozens of more effective ways to do this. And after thinking about it I will list none of them. This guy was really a nut case thank goodness he wasn't all that bright.
Which makes one wonder just how many people us NFS anymore. I know that even when I am using a Linux workstation I use Samba for networking and not NFS.
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Really shouldn't the Operating System be using hardware rendering for graphics calls?
Yes I know that they are probably using D2D or DirectX to handle this but don't the hardware graphics calls in Windows use hardware acceleration already?
I hope that Xwindows does I know that OpenGL does but over all an application shouldn't have to care about "hardware" at all! That is why we have Operating Systems.
That has got to be the most expensive data center for m^2 on the planet.
They don't care about power or heat it all would comedown to foot print.
I bet IBM sells a lot of POWER cpus there.
Really? Let's take a look at Jobs innovations.
The Mac? Both the Mac and the Lisa before it where "inspired by" the work at Xerox Parc AKA the XeroxStar.
The iPod sure wasn't the first mp3 player.
The iPhone? It sure wasn't the first smartphone.
Apple really has not innovated much at all. What they tended to do was take what others have done and make it work very well. Even NeXTStep which became OS/X was inspired by the work of Alan Kay.
Bill Gates really did do a lot to create a common platform on the PC which most people today use. Microsoft also tends to take others ideas and make them work well for the most part.
The truth is both Jobs and Gates live by the old motto. Pioneers get slaughtered settlers become rich.
If the Gates pull off cureing or controlling Malaria no one will remember that he founded Microsoft. All the will remember is the he saved millions of lives and will be considered a saint.
When Jobs is gone I doubt that many people will remember him. Even if Apple stays super successful he will fad from memory like the founders of GM, Boeing, Lockheed, GE, ABC, NBC, and CBS. Even though Boeing and Lockheed have the names of their founder almost nobody knows a thing about them.
The same will probably happen with Steve Jobs unless he does more than make toys and movies with his life.
And lets be honest that is what he is doing right now.
As I said both have a lot to be proud about but I feel you have way over inflated Steve Jobs contributions to the planet.
"You do, however, need an iPad with 3G to have GPS"
No. If you have an iPad with 3G it includes GPS.
If Apple allowed it you could use a Bluetooth GPS with the iPad or use one that interfaces through the syncing port.
That therefor part is what got me. Like you must have a 3G data connection to have GPS.
I am not a big Gates fan or Jobs fan but really?
Compare things created: Jobs: GUI"Xerox Star", Macs "maybe" , iPod, iPhone, iPad I will give you those three, and Pixar"He invested in it".
Gates: Windows. Guys, we have a clear winner here. Well you forgot Microsoft Basic which was the standard for a long time, XBox, MS-DOS"as much as Jobs invented the GUI", Word, Excel, And yes Windows which has what market share???
Both men have a lot to take pride in.
Gates I think figured out that he had done enough and really doesn't need to keep trying to make Microsoft bigger. Jobs will not let go until he is dead.
I don't know these men but trying to say one is more successful than the other is just odd. They are both so out there that it really doesn't matter.
"Back in Woz's day, it was important to have a BASIC interpreter on your personal computer"
Because there was almost not software available.
I was around back then. You almost always had to write your own software or at least some of it back then.
Truth is that computers are more open now than then are at as.
Today if you want to program for Windows, Linux, or the Mac you have a huge selection of tools, languages, and documentation available to you.
Now the iPod, iPad, and iPhone are not really computers. They are accessories and yes they are not super open but they are also not that closed.
The MacOS doesn't come with Basic it comes with XCode and compilers.
Now hardware is a lot more closed off then it used to be that I will give you but on the software side things are really pretty sweet.
When I got my C64 back in 82 I heard about this cool OS called Unix but everybody said it was too big and complex to ever run on a Home Computer. That is what we called them before they where all X86 based. A PC meant an IBM. How things have changed. Don't fall into that "things where better back in the day trap". In 82 an AppleII with a floppy was over a $1000 and that was when a $1000 was a lot of money. Most people I knew had C64s, Ataris, and a few had TiIs. Apples where cool but just not that common. What people forget is that Apples really took off when the first "Killer App" just happened to run on it.
Yea it was fun but things are not bad now.
It is the middle of no where. Probably why they decided to put a huge pile of molten sulfur and sodium there.
If it blows the damages will be next to nothing.
1. Is April Fool's day even a tradition in Jordan?
2. And if communications where taken out isn't it possible that a newspaper would be the only source?
Yes to you and I it is all very unlikely but considering how many stupid things I see on Slashdot everyday it only seems about average for the human condition.
Now the suing part is as stupid as that idiot town controller that threatened CentOS but the initial reaction I would put as only average.
Well the link you gave called TurboHercules the "commercial version" of Hercules. So I do have to wonder.
Am not really surprised by IBM getting upset at TurboHercules. TH is using a loop hole in the IBM license to make money. TH is claiming that that there commercial offerings are just for Disaster Recovery.
Which is kind of funny if you bother to read the FOSS Hercules FAQ where it says that it would be unwise to use Hercules for disaster recovery!
From the website.
2.02 What operating systems can I run legally?
3. Running under the terms of a disaster recovery provision of the OS license (but I really don't recommend depending on Hercules to be your disaster recovery solution!).
I hate to say it but the entire TurboHercules thing seems very murky to me.
You have a company saying one thing and the FAQ from the FOSS project saying something entirely differn't!
" All that was required was the GPS coordinates of the launch facility and the coordinates of the target area... the actual flight path was calculated by the missile's computer using the on-board gyro's input and programed coordinates of both the target and the launch site. "
There was no GPS back then.
"Since the propellant was solid there was no way to extinguish it once it started burning so the need of the retro-rocket technique used to separate the 3rd stage and the warhead/guidance package."
Actually you can. A pressure release in the combustion chamber will cause a solid rocket to "flame out" This is often used in Solids for targeting control.
In fact the ability to shut down a solid was one of the big problems in moving from liquid fueled to solids.
Not only that but the law suit looks to not be the FOSS Hurcules project at all but the Commercial company TurboHercules.
Does TurboHercules==Hercules? Are TurboHurcules offerings FOSS or is this a closed fork?
If it is a closed fork then IBM is not attacking FOSS at all and is keeping it's promise.
If not then we may have an issue but right now I am not so sure.
So this was a Minuteman I missile that had this problem.
By the fact that the control capsule was remote from the silo and the date.
Just a guess.
I would have used the term guidance thruster as well.
All in all the story was terrible and nothing but rehashed stories and really unworthy of the front page of Slashdot.
That is why I said I would have liked to see more info than the story provided. All in all just a shoddy story and not wroth the effort to read.
True what bothers me is that they are lieing and saying that 248 meters is deep.
For a scuba diver yes but is less than the test death of most nuclear attack subs and a lot shallower than most what most ROVs and research subs can reach.
It really is in pretty shallow water which scares me.
I didn't say that we had good air defense in the 80s. Most interceptors these days are maned by the ANG or the reserves. You are right about when the Nike system started to go away. Thanks to good old McNamara and his MAD policy. Hey it is cheaper and it did work with the Soviets but right now we have next to no Air Defense in the US. In theory it wasn't needed as much when the USSR moved to ICBMs but now in the age of Cruise Missiles and Drones I feel we are way under protected.
"My iPad has no 3G, therefore it has no GPS. "... Huh?
You don't need 3G to have GPS. Heck you don't have to have any cell phone connection to have a GPS. You need a GPS to have GPS.
Actually they have not. Actually had a there been a Nike system active in New York and if they had been given permission to fire then the second tower would not have been hit. BTW they also had conventional warheads on most of the Nike missiles.
After 9/11 the Navy ships in New York Harbor where used to provide temporary SAM coverage.
Frankly I would not call reactivating SAM sites a knee jerk reaction at all.
The current Air Defenses of the US are frankly terrible. More and more of the bases that used to provide interceptor coverage for the US have been shutdown. Only Alaska and Hawaii have a lot in the way of air defenses.
True but in space flight retro rockets are usually large thrusters used for deorbiting and landing.
ICBMs don't deorbit or land.
Smaller rockets that face forward are typically just called thrusters.
" the accidental firing of a retrorocket on an ICBM;" You use retro rockets to de orbit. ICBMs don't go into orbit they use a ballistic trajectory.
I would like to know more details about that little comment.
Frankly this is a big so what. None of the listed accidents are new and I think they are all in the Wikipedia and have been listed for years.
They left out the Titan II explosion in the 80s that blew a multi mega warhead a good distance from the silo and caused the Air Force to retire the Titan II.
Hey on the bright side in the 50s and 60s every major US city was ringed with Nike SAM sites and some of them had nuclear warheads on them. They have all been retired for a good long while.
This is so not news it is at best a badly written history lesson. Actually it is nothing but political diatribe on how evil nuclear weapons are. Frankly this should be pushed to the politics page or just not on Slashdot since it tells us nothing new. Heck the freaking learning channel covered this a few years ago.
Well What apps do you "need" actually almost all phone apps are wants and not needs but there are a few people that do need some phone apps.
The simple answer is Google it.
Pandora for Android http://www.pandora.com/android
A pod catcher http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=1905
Really it just isn't that hard.
And I didn't trip over that mole hill. I have an Android phone and have all the apps I want.
No but an idiot that would try it might not think of the same solutions I would.
I am sure that I am not alone if figuring out better ways to do this but hopefully I am also not alone in being bright enough not do want to do it.
But you use the marketplace on the phone.... And I have no problems using it from the phone.
It would be nice if you could search the marketplace on line from your PC but that is really not a big deal.
That I think is a clear case of making a mountain out of a mole hill.
There are dozens of more effective ways to do this.
And after thinking about it I will list none of them.
This guy was really a nut case thank goodness he wasn't all that bright.
Which makes one wonder just how many people us NFS anymore.
I know that even when I am using a Linux workstation I use Samba for networking and not NFS.
Well what where you doing running consumer grade hardware on your severs? HP and Dell enterpise stuff is actually pretty good.
I have heard that NFS on Linux isn't or wasn't as good as on Solaris or even BSD way back when but I have no real experience with NFS .
Sounds like a lot of issues you are having may be hardware based.