I would say that you are believing way too much propaganda. Iraq isn't winning the war the US did win that war. Right now Irag is loosing the peace. The number of Iraqi civilian deaths is high thanks to the actions of Iraqi militants and others. What you say I am afraid is nothing but a nice dream. World War II in Europe sure was ended with weapons and not words. World War II in Japan was ended with weapons and not words. Unless you are going to say "I surrender" counts. Here is the sad truth. The only way to win a war is with weapons.
Well since it is at head level I don't know how effective it would be for a blind person. I can see it being put into things like hard hats. Anything that can help avoid a head injury is a good thing.
"Damn it, I want my fast, multi-core, and CHEAP processors already;-)" Pick up an AMD 3800 X2 or 4400X2. Last time I checked they where the cost of a good meal. People these cpus are still bloody fast for what most people use a PC for. Just about the only thing a home user would ever notice the difference is in video trans coding and or super high end gaming. Get an X2, more ram, and a better video card for your best bang for the buck.
Yep and if these developers really don't like it why not work on Koffice? I am sure that some people are frustrated. I know as a user I am frustrated over some of OOs short comings. However I think it is a pretty dang good system so far.
Well while I don't think his pencil in the eye comment was in any way useful the reaction to it was just as useless. Apple fans like way to many Linux fans make comments about the security of there OS that are just silly to the point of dangerous. I am a Linux user and while it is my experience that Linux systems tend to be much more secure than Windows systems they are not perfect. The same is true for OS/X. The NDA does bother me. I think he should have at least been able to say. This card has a security issue and the manufacture has been notified and given an example of the exploit. It would then be up to the manufacture to produce a fix in a reasonable amount of time and then identify the exploit. As to publicity? Well Apple users should understand the value of publicity, Apple sure does.
Even then they didn't explode. A an explosive charge runs down the side of the SRBs like a seam. When it is detonated it opens and the hot gases can escape. The SRBs where pretty much intact even after the destruct. The goal of the destruct isn't really to blow the vehicles into a million little pieces but to keep it from flying over a populated area. Yes the RSO position is one of great responsibility. But I have no doubt that they would do what must be done and the crews do understand his position.
Well unless they are lucky enough to run a cable from the tap to a shore station then the taps must be serviced and the data recovered. Take a look at the USS. Jimmy Carter. That is the sub that will most likely be servicing any tap. So depending on the type of intel they could be serviced once a month to once a year. Twenty years is more than long enough since they will probably need to upgrade the tap to keep up with changing technology. Fiber optic cables are harder to tap. In the copper days you could use induction to tap the cable. My guess is that still use induction but they have to find the amplifiers along the cable and use induction to read those. But that is just a guess.
Only undersea cables that have a shore station in very friendly countries. Also if you just make a tap at the shore station then you have to worry about the locals getting bent or having to share the intel. I really doubt that Indonesia is very cooperative about tapping and they are probably a big target. Sigint birds have no need for RTGs since they are really to big to hide anyway. And just about every cell call that goes over seas will end up on a cable.
When Caldera first came out it was actually pretty interesting. It just died on the vine over time. Heck I really thought Red Hat was over rated and it has managed to do well. I think Caldera could have been a big hit if they had managed it correctly. They had DR-DOS so they could have bundled a Dos runtime environment. While by 96 DOS was pretty dead that would have been a nice feature for some users.They could have been a contender but failed to find any focus.
"The Space Shuttle Challenger didn't initiate the explosion, the solid rocket boosters did, which was because they were being used at too cold of an environmental temperature and, against warnings from the manufacturer, the shuttle was launched anyway (human error once again, but not in the design, in the use of the machine in question)." Actually the SRB didn't explode. It it was more of a structural failure of the External Tank that caused the loss of of Challenger. If I remember correctly the hot gas leak burned through the Hydrogen tank and ignited the hydrogen. The burning hydrogen then burned through the bottom support for the SRB. When the bottom support failed the SRB then completely ruptured the ET causing the loss of the orbiter when it tumbled in the hypersonic air stream. It was torn apart. The actual explosion of the Hydrogen and Oxygen was pretty low order and did very little damage to the orbiter. I am sorry to say that it wasn't blown to pieces but torn to pieces. And yes I was there and yes I know way more about than I really want too.
Actually probably not to spy sats. They where probably going to undersea cable taps. If you are going to tap a cable you want a long lasting power source that will work well deep in the ocean. RTGs fit that bill perfectly. Plus the NSA is far more interested in signal intelligence than imagery. Actually this is technically COMINT and not SIGINT but close enough for Slashdot.
I do think that X is the current bottleneck but I am not so sure that there is one perfect scheduler for every machine from a cell phone to an S390, and a 2048 core monster. I think the idea of plug in schedulers isn't a terrible one. I think it's day will come. What I really don't like is the dismissing of the idea of a fork in the kernel as wrong and dumb. I don't think that it will solve the problem of desktop responsiveness. To sound old fashioned what I really want to say is, "Let us reason with each other and not be rude and dismissive to those that do not agree."
I think that right now the majority of development at the kernel level is server based. It is only logical after all since the majority of paying Linux systems are servers. When I mean paying I mean paying their way. The technical question is can one scheduler work well for both server loads and desktop loads. Is there an ideal scheduler that works every where? We know that isn't true when you are dealing with real-time systems so is it true for the desktop? I don't think this is a dumb question I just happen to think that currently there isn't a need to fork the kernel. I happen to think that currently there isn't really a need to fork the Kernel into a server and desktop version. I feel that most of the performance problems with Linux on the desktop are in X and not in the kernel. I think more work needs to be done in X to solve the problem than the Kernel.
I have become fond of IBMs. They just always seemed to be better built than most other makes IMHO. Yea doing more with less is always a source of pride IMHO. Too bad that 68k didn't have Xeinx on it:)
When I was a pupil back in the 80's, I had to brew my own text processor (cp/m computer, wordprocessor still to be invented...). Ummm Wordstar which was the wordprocessor for cp/m hit 1.0 in 1978. I was high school student in the 80s and wrote some of my papers on WordPro on my C64 in 1983. You may have created your own but not because they where not available.
". You didn't typically get contributions to philosophy and the sciences from the poor because they didn't have the free time for any kind of productive recreational pursuits. They were lucky to have an hour for some beer before passing out before the next 12 hour workday. But these kids of the wealthy, they had the best minds of the day hired as tutors. You look at their accomplishments and think "Holy shit, they were geniuses beyond compare!"" I think you should read some more. What about Edison? He wasn't from the upper class. I think you will find that for the most part the upper class really contributed very little. What we would consider the middle class tended to be the ones that contributed the most to science, engineering, and just about every other pursuit. The upper classes tend to contribute very little but capital. Nope the children of the rich seem to be for the most part a huge waste of resources. They tend have no real motivation to do anything. As Andrew Carnegie was right, inherited wealth is a curse not a blessing.
Really why not if they want to. Maybe they thing they have a better idea. Maybe the don't want to work under the FSF and the GPL.
It could be that they really don't like the direction that GPL is going. Sure right now programs compiled under the GCC don't have to be released under the GPL but when GPL V4 comes out that might change.
Or maybe they just don't want RMS to start ranting about how they should call BSD GNUBSD since the kernel and the user space programs are only part of an OS. It takes a compiler and things like KDE and GNOME to make a usable OS and given that without those GPL programs there couldn't be BSD the BSD should give GNU it's fair share of the credit.
Lots of reasons. 1. They don't cost a lot more than any comparable player. 2. The ITunes Store does allow an easy painless way to buy songs. So easy and painless that it is easier to buy them than to get them through P2P a lot of the time. 3. Integration with car stereos. Just about everyone works with IPod these days. 4. Accessories. Want a carrying case for it? Just go to any store and pick one out. And I do mean any store. IPod Accessories are everywhere and you can always find one that you like. 5. They are very popular. That means that you can expect support for them for a long time. I can not go to Radio Shack and get an igo plug tip that will work with my Rio Karma. It comes down to a good product at a reasonable price with lots of support. Now as to sticking Linux on one. Well that is just because you can. It also allows for you to add support for things like Speex and Ogg.
I have a Karma. I have to say that I didn't use it as much as I do my Ipod. I think the Karma could have been a world beater but they did some dumb things right off the bat. 1. It had Ethernet! Brilliant but I couldn't mount it as a shared drive and I couldn't stream from it! What a waste. 2. It didn't work as a Mass storage device. 3. Lack on integration. Why didn't they open up the interface so car stereo people could interface to it. 4. ITunes was better than the interface software that came with the Karma.
I have a real love hate relationship with the Karma. They don't make them anymore so I will probably get an 80gb IPod soon.
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I would say that you are believing way too much propaganda.
Iraq isn't winning the war the US did win that war. Right now Irag is loosing the peace. The number of Iraqi civilian deaths is high thanks to the actions of Iraqi militants and others.
What you say I am afraid is nothing but a nice dream. World War II in Europe sure was ended with weapons and not words. World War II in Japan was ended with weapons and not words. Unless you are going to say "I surrender" counts.
Here is the sad truth. The only way to win a war is with weapons.
Well since it is at head level I don't know how effective it would be for a blind person. I can see it being put into things like hard hats. Anything that can help avoid a head injury is a good thing.
"Damn it, I want my fast, multi-core, and CHEAP processors already ;-)"
Pick up an AMD 3800 X2 or 4400X2. Last time I checked they where the cost of a good meal.
People these cpus are still bloody fast for what most people use a PC for. Just about the only thing a home user would ever notice the difference is in video trans coding and or super high end gaming.
Get an X2, more ram, and a better video card for your best bang for the buck.
Yep and if these developers really don't like it why not work on Koffice?
I am sure that some people are frustrated. I know as a user I am frustrated over some of OOs short comings.
However I think it is a pretty dang good system so far.
Well while I don't think his pencil in the eye comment was in any way useful the reaction to it was just as useless. Apple fans like way to many Linux fans make comments about the security of there OS that are just silly to the point of dangerous. I am a Linux user and while it is my experience that Linux systems tend to be much more secure than Windows systems they are not perfect. The same is true for OS/X.
The NDA does bother me. I think he should have at least been able to say. This card has a security issue and the manufacture has been notified and given an example of the exploit.
It would then be up to the manufacture to produce a fix in a reasonable amount of time and then identify the exploit.
As to publicity? Well Apple users should understand the value of publicity, Apple sure does.
Actually it was a reference to the Princess Bride.
Notice I said pretty dead which means a little bit alive. Hence it would have been a nice feature for some users.
Even then they didn't explode. A an explosive charge runs down the side of the SRBs like a seam. When it is detonated it opens and the hot gases can escape. The SRBs where pretty much intact even after the destruct. The goal of the destruct isn't really to blow the vehicles into a million little pieces but to keep it from flying over a populated area.
Yes the RSO position is one of great responsibility. But I have no doubt that they would do what must be done and the crews do understand his position.
Well unless they are lucky enough to run a cable from the tap to a shore station then the taps must be serviced and the data recovered. Take a look at the USS. Jimmy Carter.
That is the sub that will most likely be servicing any tap. So depending on the type of intel they could be serviced once a month to once a year. Twenty years is more than long enough since they will probably need to upgrade the tap to keep up with changing technology.
Fiber optic cables are harder to tap. In the copper days you could use induction to tap the cable. My guess is that still use induction but they have to find the amplifiers along the cable and use induction to read those.
But that is just a guess.
Only undersea cables that have a shore station in very friendly countries. Also if you just make a tap at the shore station then you have to worry about the locals getting bent or having to share the intel. I really doubt that Indonesia is very cooperative about tapping and they are probably a big target. Sigint birds have no need for RTGs since they are really to big to hide anyway. And just about every cell call that goes over seas will end up on a cable.
When Caldera first came out it was actually pretty interesting. It just died on the vine over time. Heck I really thought Red Hat was over rated and it has managed to do well. I think Caldera could have been a big hit if they had managed it correctly. They had DR-DOS so they could have bundled a Dos runtime environment. While by 96 DOS was pretty dead that would have been a nice feature for some users.They could have been a contender but failed to find any focus.
"The Space Shuttle Challenger didn't initiate the explosion, the solid rocket boosters did, which was because they were being used at too cold of an environmental temperature and, against warnings from the manufacturer, the shuttle was launched anyway (human error once again, but not in the design, in the use of the machine in question)."
Actually the SRB didn't explode. It it was more of a structural failure of the External Tank that caused the loss of of Challenger. If I remember correctly the hot gas leak burned through the Hydrogen tank and ignited the hydrogen. The burning hydrogen then burned through the bottom support for the SRB. When the bottom support failed the SRB then completely ruptured the ET causing the loss of the orbiter when it tumbled in the hypersonic air stream. It was torn apart. The actual explosion of the Hydrogen and Oxygen was pretty low order and did very little damage to the orbiter. I am sorry to say that it wasn't blown to pieces but torn to pieces. And yes I was there and yes I know way more about than I really want too.
Other than the details I agree with you.
Actually probably not to spy sats.
They where probably going to undersea cable taps.
If you are going to tap a cable you want a long lasting power source that will work well deep in the ocean. RTGs fit that bill perfectly. Plus the NSA is far more interested in signal intelligence than imagery.
Actually this is technically COMINT and not SIGINT but close enough for Slashdot.
I do think that X is the current bottleneck but I am not so sure that there is one perfect scheduler for every machine from a cell phone to an S390, and a 2048 core monster. I think the idea of plug in schedulers isn't a terrible one. I think it's day will come. What I really don't like is the dismissing of the idea of a fork in the kernel as wrong and dumb.
I don't think that it will solve the problem of desktop responsiveness. To sound old fashioned what I really want to say is, "Let us reason with each other and not be rude and dismissive to those that do not agree."
I think that right now the majority of development at the kernel level is server based. It is only logical after all since the majority of paying Linux systems are servers. When I mean paying I mean paying their way. The technical question is can one scheduler work well for both server loads and desktop loads. Is there an ideal scheduler that works every where? We know that isn't true when you are dealing with real-time systems so is it true for the desktop?
I don't think this is a dumb question I just happen to think that currently there isn't a need to fork the kernel.
I happen to think that currently there isn't really a need to fork the Kernel into a server and desktop version. I feel that most of the performance problems with Linux on the desktop are in X and not in the kernel. I think more work needs to be done in X to solve the problem than the Kernel.
I have become fond of IBMs. They just always seemed to be better built than most other makes IMHO. Yea doing more with less is always a source of pride IMHO. :)
Too bad that 68k didn't have Xeinx on it
Well you where very lucky to have a 68k back then. CP/M 68k was a rare beast.
Who makes MP3 players that support Play for Sure?
Not Apple or Microsoft?
Yea cool sign me up.
When I was a pupil back in the 80's, I had to brew my own text processor (cp/m computer, wordprocessor still to be invented...).
Ummm Wordstar which was the wordprocessor for cp/m hit 1.0 in 1978.
I was high school student in the 80s and wrote some of my papers on WordPro on my C64 in 1983.
You may have created your own but not because they where not available.
". You didn't typically get contributions to philosophy and the sciences from the poor because they didn't have the free time for any kind of productive recreational pursuits. They were lucky to have an hour for some beer before passing out before the next 12 hour workday. But these kids of the wealthy, they had the best minds of the day hired as tutors. You look at their accomplishments and think "Holy shit, they were geniuses beyond compare!""
I think you should read some more.
What about Edison? He wasn't from the upper class.
I think you will find that for the most part the upper class really contributed very little. What we would consider the middle class tended to be the ones that contributed the most to science, engineering, and just about every other pursuit. The upper classes tend to contribute very little but capital. Nope the children of the rich seem to be for the most part a huge waste of resources. They tend have no real motivation to do anything. As Andrew Carnegie was right, inherited wealth is a curse not a blessing.
Really why not if they want to.
Maybe they thing they have a better idea.
Maybe the don't want to work under the FSF and the GPL.
It could be that they really don't like the direction that GPL is going. Sure right now programs compiled under the GCC don't have to be released under the GPL but when GPL V4 comes out that might change.
Or maybe they just don't want RMS to start ranting about how they should call BSD GNUBSD since the kernel and the user space programs are only part of an OS. It takes a compiler and things like KDE and GNOME to make a usable OS and given that without those GPL programs there couldn't be BSD the BSD should give GNU it's fair share of the credit.
Lots of reasons.
1. They don't cost a lot more than any comparable player.
2. The ITunes Store does allow an easy painless way to buy songs. So easy and painless that it is easier to buy them than to get them through P2P a lot of the time.
3. Integration with car stereos. Just about everyone works with IPod these days.
4. Accessories. Want a carrying case for it? Just go to any store and pick one out. And I do mean any store. IPod Accessories are everywhere and you can always find one that you like.
5. They are very popular. That means that you can expect support for them for a long time. I can not go to Radio Shack and get an igo plug tip that will work with my Rio Karma.
It comes down to a good product at a reasonable price with lots of support.
Now as to sticking Linux on one. Well that is just because you can. It also allows for you to add support for things like Speex and Ogg.
I have a Karma. I have to say that I didn't use it as much as I do my Ipod. I think the Karma could have been a world beater but they did some dumb things right off the bat.
1. It had Ethernet! Brilliant but I couldn't mount it as a shared drive and I couldn't stream from it! What a waste.
2. It didn't work as a Mass storage device.
3. Lack on integration. Why didn't they open up the interface so car stereo people could interface to it.
4. ITunes was better than the interface software that came with the Karma.
I have a real love hate relationship with the Karma. They don't make them anymore so I will probably get an 80gb IPod soon.
Well according to the NFL I can not tell you about the Miami vs Dallas game that I watched last night. Well if I get their permission I can.
As Jerry A. Taylor found out, the Internet means that asmall public abuse power and or stupidity can result in you looking like fool on a planetary scale.