Scientists and inventors do not scour literature looking for devices and ideas to turn from fantasy into reality, which means that Sci-Fi has had zero effect upon what gadgets get invented.
More simply, engineers don't sit around waiting for writers to come up with the ideas.
A better thesis would be, "What ideas have been foretold by science fiction writers years before technology made it possible?"
Or, "Since writers tend to take the social aspects of technology under consideration more often than engineers, what novels and authors have correctly identified social and techonological necessities long before engineers invented the device that created the situation?"
I've found the WTS "Remote Admin" mode to be totally worthless when the server freezes a process, but is otherwise responsive. Usually there's the dying message of the server process or daemon still up on the screen. Write the error down, click OK, reboot, and report the error to the vendor. Rinse and repeat.
If it's Windows 2000, enable the Terminal Services with remote management option (which legally allows you to not buy WTS client licenses). You can then use the web-based terminal services ActiveX, or the normal Windows Terminal Server client.
If it's NT 4.0, see about an upgrade to Win2000.
Only thing this won't give you is access to the attached terminal process, which if you're running something like SQL or Lotus Domino, and you want to see the process console -- well, that's a walk to the server room.
Also remember you can admin Win2000 boxes from any Win2000 box. Right-click on My Computer, go to Manage, then Action...Connect to Another Computer. Gives you access to services, logs, storage, user/group accounts....
Actually, the primary drive of electric is the better system. Gas engines run at "optimal" conditions, which is a really narrow RPM band. Narrower still for diesels. You basically want it to hit a certain RPM, and stay there.
As for electrics, they have no real relationship between speed and torque. (Horsepower is torque times RPM, btw.) Electric motors supply almost the same amount of torque at any speed, up to a point (inverse geometric). Gas engines supply more torque with more RPM, up to a point (hyerbolic). So, from a dead stop, it's more energy efficient to use the electrics to get going.
So, the most efficient thing is to use electric all the time, gas when charging gets low, or when extra power is needed, and to switch the gas engine (power source) on and off constantly to meet demands.
Several of the large ships use diesels to generate power, and then electric motors to drive the ship. Nuclear-powered carriers are an example (they have big backup diesels if the nuclear reactor goes offline).
Until my current client, I was a dedicated cyclist commuter. Rode my bicycle to school, and then to work, until 3 years ago (when my company placed me with a client 45 miles from where I live). So, 28 years cycling experience. (Nothing makes you feel old like counting the years.)
Once you get riding a bike, even in foul, cold weather, keep in mind that the two biggest muscles in your body are pumping away to move you. It warms you up in a hurry. Even on really cold mornings (zero degrees F), I had to slow down to avoid breaking a sweat. Most winter clothing breathes less than lighter clothing, so I was actually hotter when I wore warmer clothes (which makes sense), but in colder weather.
Good clothing really makes the difference, but with goretex, and zip-off goretex pants, you can ride in anything. Biggest nuisance and threat in bad weather are: drivers of autos, drivers who refuse to scrape their windows, unplowed shoulders.
I think modern tanks have better visibility through their little periscopes than most motorists in winter.
The best way is not to use technical terms, but to relate the topic in everyday terms.
First, mention that the use of a quality prophylactic (an anti-virus program) can prevent a lot of harm. However, someone can still walk in on you and your attachment, and then you'll have a lot of explaining to do. Plus, no prophylactic, aside from abstention, is 100% reliable. (For an extra laugh, mention that abstention has only one known case where it didn't work, and that happened to this nice lady named Mary about 2,000 years ago. It may take several people a long time to get the joke.)
Second, whenever you're at a party, and there's food you've never seen before, you always ask, "What's in it?" If someone hands you an email attachment, email back, and ask what it is, just as you would if they handed you mystery food. If they're the type of person to spike the punch, or bring hash-brownies, don't open it, and delete the message. But even then, make sure you've got a good anti-virus program.
It's my primitive understanding of the court system that during a trial, the records of phone calls may be entered into evidence. This is not the actual content of the call, and who made the calls is not part of the evidence. Just the fact that one telephone called another telephone.
Why then must the Feds know what is in a message? If the fact of tranmission of a message is adequate, at least in the courts, then why does the content need to be known?
Also, why does the Government beleive that it should have the right to be a party to all conversations? If the Feds had a time machine, and could travel back in time and listen in on any conversation, I beleive that would be ruled an invasion of privacy. How then is decrypting a message any different?
When I lived out in Montana, it was $500 minimum for a ticket that left the state. At least that much just to get to Minneapolis, or Chicago, which are hubs. Only could ever afford to fly twice when I lived there.
As for conferences, I've never seriously considered one. Waaay too expensive. Someone mentions going to a conference, and my reaction is, "No thanks, I'd like to pay my rent this month." Plus the major speakers are frequently people that I don't want to hear speak.
CIO isn't an acronym for "Compellingly Interesting Orator."
1. SuSE is big in Europe (posted above).
2. SuSE actually bundles Lotus Domino server (IBM owns Lotus), if you want it, for Linux. see http://www.suse.com/us/products/index.html
3. It also support DB2, and comes bundled (but RedHat does that, too).
4. Oh, and you can buy an S/390 version.
5. They contributed a lot to various Linux projects, especially Matrox video drivers (but that's my personal bias).
I tried RedHat in the beginning, and then I tried SuSE. I found SuSE to be better, smoother implimentation of Linux, and I found the YAST sysadmin tool to be great at reminding me where to find things (transitioning from OSF/1 and AIX). Plus my hardware was never fully supported in RedHat, but it was in SuSE (which never made sense to me).
Plus, I find it easier to rally behind the bad rendering of a cartoonish gecko than to rally behind a hat. (I mean, if we're talking kewl logos....)
1. Any record that you could normally see, or have the "right" to see, is made public via the Internet.
2. Anyone can go look at any of these records.
3. Access to the records requires a validated identity (which means a login and password).
4. To get a validated login, you must show up at a public place, prove your identity, and a smart card (or similar) will be issued to you.
5. You get a report sent to you of who looked at your records, and when.
If people know who's looking at their records, it would ease a lot of fears. It would also prevent abuse of the records (like marketers). People would then realize that their records aren't being looked at, or would be horrified at how often the information is requested.
The main thing here is: the information is public, but there is no right of anonymity when reviewing those records.
Lotus Domino can use Perl. Off-topic, I know, but this is to help out folks.
1. Make sure your server is not using IIS (since life is easier that way.
2. Install Perl from perl.com. You don't need the ISAPI stuff. Make sure perl is in the path.
3. add a file association on the OS level for.ida files pointing to the perl interpreter. (copy what you see for.pl files)
4. create a URL -> URL mapping of/default.ida to/cgi-bin/default.ida
5. place the default.ida script in your Lotus\Domino\Data\domino\cgi-bin directory.
6. restart the domino server.
7. Test it with http://myserver/default.ida?one_arg
Not all of us use Apapche, so save the flames. Some of us have to stick with what the company we work for requires us to use.
I mean, seriously. The way to end all this domain squatting is simple.
Anyone who has a trademark gets that.TLD domain. Coca Cola gets.coke,.cocacola,.dietcoke, and all those. If it's a word -- in any language, then someone can lay claim to it.
Thus if Coca Cola Corporation wants people to go to http://I.Love.Dietcoke, then they have to run a DNS server that serves up the.dietcoke domain.
I don't think it's impossible. I think that the root servers would wind up being a big dictionary, with the IPs of the various DNS servers for the various words. It could easily be extended to be mulitlingual (beyond what Unicode would allow), and it'd make everyone happy.
It would also simplify claims. It would be legal for me to use http://I.hate.dietcoke.mydomain because that's fair use. International trademarks, etc., would be decided in whatever legal forum it is that those sort of fuzzy property rights are decided in.
But I'm willing to wager that the quality of service, and the most bandwidth, will go to those with the most money and control. The fact that they're asking about it means they're already forming World Domination Plans (tm). I would like you for telling them to fuck off. However, if Cisco figures out how to do the whole billing with some slick little IOS, then your arguments are gone. It may not take a slick little widget -- it may just take congressional interference, probably under the guise of protecting innocent children from anonymous villains; and thus is born end-to-end packet tracking and logging.
I mean, everyone with an OC3 or a T1 more or less gets treated the same as anyone else with an OC3 or a T1. What if you're a user on MSN. Will Microsoft guarantee you the same access speeds to non-Microsoft content?
The real thing with this quality of service is that major content providers will be able to strike deals with backbone providers. Select content providers will see faster, guaranteed access for people consuming their content, and smaller content providers, who can not afford to bribe backbone providers, will see small and dismal access rates. Gigabit+ speed if I'm visiting msnbc.com, 300 baud if I'm visiting abcnews.com. The ultimate killing machine for small businesses, and the guarantee of the end of competition.
The guarantee of access and speed (via Cisco's slick new routers) will allow moneyed monopolies to create even greater monopolies on the Internet. Limiting access speed is an effective method preventing consumption.
You can have your poorer competing product, but only at the rate that the richest competitor allows you to consume it. Thus the monopoly controls not just what you consume, but it also controls how you consume competing products.
1. About every 10 years, the Bering Strait freezes over, so you don't have to wait for an ice age to cross.
2. Northern cultures have been using small boats for a long time, so you don't have to wait for an ice age to cross.
3. If I'm walking from Japan to Wyoming across mile-deep glaciers (as the "they walked here" theory states, what the hell were they eating? Or am I supposed to beleive each walker carried several months of food and fuel (to melt ice for water). A six-month supply of 2,000 calories per day of fish or meat jerky weighs how much? A ton? Two tons?
4. 100,000 years ago, there were thriving pine forests in Antarctica. If it was that warm there, then it was that warm up North, and the whole north coast of Russia and Canada was probably a great place to live.
5. The glaciers destroyed almost all evidence of human habitation in the north.
6. Nomadic cultures use little, and waste even less. Most of what we find from older cultures is from their burial grounds, or from what they have abandoned. Inuit leave very little behind, and a couple decades of winter storms erases almost everything.
and I'll stop there. If you want more, search for Pre-Columbian new world contacts.
1. Binaural recording are rare.
2. They do sound better than stereo -- through headphones.
3. I think I'd have to record binaural with castings of my ears to make it sound the way my ears would hear it. Since everyone's ears are different.... Maybe someone can come up with a realtime filter that modifies the sound according to how each listener's ears would hear it.
All those curves and curls in your ears focus different frequencies differently according to where the noise is located. That's part of what you spend your childhood doing. When there's a noise, your eyes search for it, and your brain remembers, "that's what a sound, from that direction, sounds like." In order to determine direction, the sound needs to have frequencies that your ear can attenuate so that you can determine direction.
That's part of why music through headphones doesn't sound like it's coming from somewhere (nothing reflects off your ears). Throw in tone purity (purer tones being directionless), and you'll see the problem. Some songbirds you really have to look for when they sing. Crows, on the other hand, with their non-pure calls, you know where they are right away.
....that everyone and their dog will be suing bionic ear owners for illegally decoding their product from sound waves into eletronic pulses. They will consider it another illegal, "perfect" digital copy.
Sort of. One identity, and several of you choose, or choose not to, accept the identity. Email address should be unique enough for a login, which then allows that user to create a different identity on each website. Now we just need a widget to pass keys. Should be able to do some nice handshaking here with public and private keys.
The really scary part about this is, no matter how cool it is, and how much I'd like using it, the Feds' WILL get a vague warrant from one of those judges that loves passing them out, and then dig deeper into some poor sap's life than the Constitution intended.
While the average person has nothing to hide, that doesn't waive fourth amendment rights.
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Scientists and inventors do not scour literature looking for devices and ideas to turn from fantasy into reality, which means that Sci-Fi has had zero effect upon what gadgets get invented.
More simply, engineers don't sit around waiting for writers to come up with the ideas.
A better thesis would be, "What ideas have been foretold by science fiction writers years before technology made it possible?"
Or, "Since writers tend to take the social aspects of technology under consideration more often than engineers, what novels and authors have correctly identified social and techonological necessities long before engineers invented the device that created the situation?"
285,573,701 from the US Census page (www.census.gov).
As for the population of France, the 1999 French Census came up with 60.185.831 people, which I'll round up to 61 million.
But, yes, point taken. The U.S. has about 4 times as many people as the French.
I've found the WTS "Remote Admin" mode to be totally worthless when the server freezes a process, but is otherwise responsive. Usually there's the dying message of the server process or daemon still up on the screen. Write the error down, click OK, reboot, and report the error to the vendor. Rinse and repeat.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/06/24/1657205.shtm l
Offers both FREE reporting, and advanced "you pay for it" filtering (which I think is based upon volume -- but still very cheap).
Works great for me. And it digs through the mail headers to see who really sent the emails.
http://spamcop.net
If it's Windows 2000, enable the Terminal Services with remote management option (which legally allows you to not buy WTS client licenses). You can then use the web-based terminal services ActiveX, or the normal Windows Terminal Server client.
If it's NT 4.0, see about an upgrade to Win2000.
Only thing this won't give you is access to the attached terminal process, which if you're running something like SQL or Lotus Domino, and you want to see the process console -- well, that's a walk to the server room.
Also remember you can admin Win2000 boxes from any Win2000 box. Right-click on My Computer, go to Manage, then Action...Connect to Another Computer. Gives you access to services, logs, storage, user/group accounts....
Actually, the primary drive of electric is the better system. Gas engines run at "optimal" conditions, which is a really narrow RPM band. Narrower still for diesels. You basically want it to hit a certain RPM, and stay there.
As for electrics, they have no real relationship between speed and torque. (Horsepower is torque times RPM, btw.) Electric motors supply almost the same amount of torque at any speed, up to a point (inverse geometric). Gas engines supply more torque with more RPM, up to a point (hyerbolic). So, from a dead stop, it's more energy efficient to use the electrics to get going.
So, the most efficient thing is to use electric all the time, gas when charging gets low, or when extra power is needed, and to switch the gas engine (power source) on and off constantly to meet demands.
Several of the large ships use diesels to generate power, and then electric motors to drive the ship. Nuclear-powered carriers are an example (they have big backup diesels if the nuclear reactor goes offline).
Until my current client, I was a dedicated cyclist commuter. Rode my bicycle to school, and then to work, until 3 years ago (when my company placed me with a client 45 miles from where I live). So, 28 years cycling experience. (Nothing makes you feel old like counting the years.)
Once you get riding a bike, even in foul, cold weather, keep in mind that the two biggest muscles in your body are pumping away to move you. It warms you up in a hurry. Even on really cold mornings (zero degrees F), I had to slow down to avoid breaking a sweat. Most winter clothing breathes less than lighter clothing, so I was actually hotter when I wore warmer clothes (which makes sense), but in colder weather.
Good clothing really makes the difference, but with goretex, and zip-off goretex pants, you can ride in anything. Biggest nuisance and threat in bad weather are: drivers of autos, drivers who refuse to scrape their windows, unplowed shoulders.
I think modern tanks have better visibility through their little periscopes than most motorists in winter.
There's a big difference between the two.
The best way is not to use technical terms, but to relate the topic in everyday terms.
First, mention that the use of a quality prophylactic (an anti-virus program) can prevent a lot of harm. However, someone can still walk in on you and your attachment, and then you'll have a lot of explaining to do. Plus, no prophylactic, aside from abstention, is 100% reliable. (For an extra laugh, mention that abstention has only one known case where it didn't work, and that happened to this nice lady named Mary about 2,000 years ago. It may take several people a long time to get the joke.)
Second, whenever you're at a party, and there's food you've never seen before, you always ask, "What's in it?" If someone hands you an email attachment, email back, and ask what it is, just as you would if they handed you mystery food. If they're the type of person to spike the punch, or bring hash-brownies, don't open it, and delete the message. But even then, make sure you've got a good anti-virus program.
It's my primitive understanding of the court system that during a trial, the records of phone calls may be entered into evidence. This is not the actual content of the call, and who made the calls is not part of the evidence. Just the fact that one telephone called another telephone.
Why then must the Feds know what is in a message? If the fact of tranmission of a message is adequate, at least in the courts, then why does the content need to be known?
Also, why does the Government beleive that it should have the right to be a party to all conversations? If the Feds had a time machine, and could travel back in time and listen in on any conversation, I beleive that would be ruled an invasion of privacy. How then is decrypting a message any different?
then it'll get right through the U.S. Border.
You don't need missiles to bomb the U.S. You just need a pickup truck to carry what you smuggle in.
When I lived out in Montana, it was $500 minimum for a ticket that left the state. At least that much just to get to Minneapolis, or Chicago, which are hubs. Only could ever afford to fly twice when I lived there.
As for conferences, I've never seriously considered one. Waaay too expensive. Someone mentions going to a conference, and my reaction is, "No thanks, I'd like to pay my rent this month." Plus the major speakers are frequently people that I don't want to hear speak.
CIO isn't an acronym for "Compellingly Interesting Orator."
This is not a troll. I'm quite serious.
.au or .wav file of it.
How does one pronounce Dmitri Sklyarov's last name?
There used to be the controversy of Linus' first name (and of Linux), and Linus thankfully provided us all with a
Spasibo.
1. SuSE is big in Europe (posted above).
2. SuSE actually bundles Lotus Domino server (IBM owns Lotus), if you want it, for Linux. see http://www.suse.com/us/products/index.html
3. It also support DB2, and comes bundled (but RedHat does that, too).
4. Oh, and you can buy an S/390 version.
5. They contributed a lot to various Linux projects, especially Matrox video drivers (but that's my personal bias).
I tried RedHat in the beginning, and then I tried SuSE. I found SuSE to be better, smoother implimentation of Linux, and I found the YAST sysadmin tool to be great at reminding me where to find things (transitioning from OSF/1 and AIX). Plus my hardware was never fully supported in RedHat, but it was in SuSE (which never made sense to me).
Plus, I find it easier to rally behind the bad rendering of a cartoonish gecko than to rally behind a hat. (I mean, if we're talking kewl logos....)
1. Any record that you could normally see, or have the "right" to see, is made public via the Internet.
2. Anyone can go look at any of these records.
3. Access to the records requires a validated identity (which means a login and password).
4. To get a validated login, you must show up at a public place, prove your identity, and a smart card (or similar) will be issued to you.
5. You get a report sent to you of who looked at your records, and when.
If people know who's looking at their records, it would ease a lot of fears. It would also prevent abuse of the records (like marketers). People would then realize that their records aren't being looked at, or would be horrified at how often the information is requested.
The main thing here is: the information is public, but there is no right of anonymity when reviewing those records.
Lotus Domino can use Perl. Off-topic, I know, but this is to help out folks.
.ida files pointing to the perl interpreter. (copy what you see for .pl files)
/default.ida to /cgi-bin/default.ida
1. Make sure your server is not using IIS (since life is easier that way.
2. Install Perl from perl.com. You don't need the ISAPI stuff. Make sure perl is in the path.
3. add a file association on the OS level for
4. create a URL -> URL mapping of
5. place the default.ida script in your Lotus\Domino\Data\domino\cgi-bin directory.
6. restart the domino server.
7. Test it with http://myserver/default.ida?one_arg
Not all of us use Apapche, so save the flames. Some of us have to stick with what the company we work for requires us to use.
I mean, seriously. The way to end all this domain squatting is simple.
.TLD domain. Coca Cola gets .coke, .cocacola, .dietcoke, and all those. If it's a word -- in any language, then someone can lay claim to it.
.dietcoke domain.
Anyone who has a trademark gets that
Thus if Coca Cola Corporation wants people to go to http://I.Love.Dietcoke, then they have to run a DNS server that serves up the
I don't think it's impossible. I think that the root servers would wind up being a big dictionary, with the IPs of the various DNS servers for the various words. It could easily be extended to be mulitlingual (beyond what Unicode would allow), and it'd make everyone happy.
It would also simplify claims. It would be legal for me to use http://I.hate.dietcoke.mydomain because that's fair use. International trademarks, etc., would be decided in whatever legal forum it is that those sort of fuzzy property rights are decided in.
But I'm willing to wager that the quality of service, and the most bandwidth, will go to those with the most money and control. The fact that they're asking about it means they're already forming World Domination Plans (tm). I would like you for telling them to fuck off. However, if Cisco figures out how to do the whole billing with some slick little IOS, then your arguments are gone. It may not take a slick little widget -- it may just take congressional interference, probably under the guise of protecting innocent children from anonymous villains; and thus is born end-to-end packet tracking and logging.
I mean, everyone with an OC3 or a T1 more or less gets treated the same as anyone else with an OC3 or a T1. What if you're a user on MSN. Will Microsoft guarantee you the same access speeds to non-Microsoft content?
Methinks not.
What Big Biz really desires here is pay-per-byte.
The real thing with this quality of service is that major content providers will be able to strike deals with backbone providers. Select content providers will see faster, guaranteed access for people consuming their content, and smaller content providers, who can not afford to bribe backbone providers, will see small and dismal access rates. Gigabit+ speed if I'm visiting msnbc.com, 300 baud if I'm visiting abcnews.com. The ultimate killing machine for small businesses, and the guarantee of the end of competition.
The guarantee of access and speed (via Cisco's slick new routers) will allow moneyed monopolies to create even greater monopolies on the Internet. Limiting access speed is an effective method preventing consumption.
You can have your poorer competing product, but only at the rate that the richest competitor allows you to consume it. Thus the monopoly controls not just what you consume, but it also controls how you consume competing products.
1. About every 10 years, the Bering Strait freezes over, so you don't have to wait for an ice age to cross.
2. Northern cultures have been using small boats for a long time, so you don't have to wait for an ice age to cross.
3. If I'm walking from Japan to Wyoming across mile-deep glaciers (as the "they walked here" theory states, what the hell were they eating? Or am I supposed to beleive each walker carried several months of food and fuel (to melt ice for water). A six-month supply of 2,000 calories per day of fish or meat jerky weighs how much? A ton? Two tons?
4. 100,000 years ago, there were thriving pine forests in Antarctica. If it was that warm there, then it was that warm up North, and the whole north coast of Russia and Canada was probably a great place to live.
5. The glaciers destroyed almost all evidence of human habitation in the north.
6. Nomadic cultures use little, and waste even less. Most of what we find from older cultures is from their burial grounds, or from what they have abandoned. Inuit leave very little behind, and a couple decades of winter storms erases almost everything.
and I'll stop there. If you want more, search for Pre-Columbian new world contacts.
1. Binaural recording are rare.
2. They do sound better than stereo -- through headphones.
3. I think I'd have to record binaural with castings of my ears to make it sound the way my ears would hear it. Since everyone's ears are different.... Maybe someone can come up with a realtime filter that modifies the sound according to how each listener's ears would hear it.
All those curves and curls in your ears focus different frequencies differently according to where the noise is located. That's part of what you spend your childhood doing. When there's a noise, your eyes search for it, and your brain remembers, "that's what a sound, from that direction, sounds like." In order to determine direction, the sound needs to have frequencies that your ear can attenuate so that you can determine direction.
That's part of why music through headphones doesn't sound like it's coming from somewhere (nothing reflects off your ears). Throw in tone purity (purer tones being directionless), and you'll see the problem. Some songbirds you really have to look for when they sing. Crows, on the other hand, with their non-pure calls, you know where they are right away.
....that everyone and their dog will be suing bionic ear owners for illegally decoding their product from sound waves into eletronic pulses. They will consider it another illegal, "perfect" digital copy.
*sigh*
Sort of. One identity, and several of you choose, or choose not to, accept the identity. Email address should be unique enough for a login, which then allows that user to create a different identity on each website. Now we just need a widget to pass keys. Should be able to do some nice handshaking here with public and private keys.
The really scary part about this is, no matter how cool it is, and how much I'd like using it, the Feds' WILL get a vague warrant from one of those judges that loves passing them out, and then dig deeper into some poor sap's life than the Constitution intended.
While the average person has nothing to hide, that doesn't waive fourth amendment rights.