"I agree. Government policies that close doors to competition are bad. Linux might work in some situations, but not in others. There are plenty of good software packages out there to use, and plenty of specific packages for government, that wont exist in OSS until someone is paid (gobs of cash) to write them."
But Open source is the the only software that can be independenty audited, and should be required for government work. Any thing else is a black box that could be filled with back doors or other nasty suprizes
Besides open source projects do not give the author a monolopy on any given project. If some one fails to deliver, another vendor can pick up whrer they left off with minimum disruption.
There are many good alternatives to slow tools. But protools was first and because compatility with other studios was important, it became the defacto standard. I Record with SAWstudio because It is great. but there are many other systems that work fine.
What is needed is a standard way to save edit lists, to allow interchange between diffrent packages.Don't expect any help or support from protools. But ardour should shake things up a bit.
The only problem with this example is that elvis didn't write anything. so he only got performance royalties. And they riped off most of the original authors of the songs.
The last time Slash dot covered this I posted a link to the air ship list (I have some weird friends) I got this response
I don't know if you were watching the list a couple weeks ago when a related press release came up.
If you weren't--I said it was kind of neat and supplied a link to the Sanswire site so people could see pictures and read the data. A number of people thought it was a hyped lie, because 1) they've seen this hype and others before and 2) Sanswire claimed the hull is made of Kevlar. Kevlar (like all aramids) has problems being formed into any kind of cloth suitable for holding lift gas--see the experts for what they are, has to due with brittleness or something. If the problem were solved, it would be a big deal and the company that did it could do more than just launch a com craft.
I've inquired with the company about what they are selling--can I buy an account at what price. I figured that puts them on the spot to give answers.
All this was before Dec 11, the test date in Arizona. You see that post toward the end, by the guy who said he saw it there in AZ and heard someone claim it blew away?
Of course it could be that it did go on an unscheduled flight but was brought down eventually. Or that could be pure embroidery.
But Sanswire is less visible on the net. The "Stratellite" page is being reconstructed. As it might be after a successful test--or as it might be forever, after an unsuccessful one.
I wrote the CEO, sounding nervous. We'll see what his flunkies say.
Have you heard any more about it?
The basic idea is perfectly great. Maybe not with a Kevlar hull, but if that wasn't a lie then they did make it fly after all. Well somebody's got to make the breakthrough someday.
I thought all those Venetian blind things by the props were the solar panels but I went to the manufacturer's site and they were featured on other craft that weren't supposed to be solar powered. Maybe they are the radiators for the engines?
As nobody at slashdot pointed out clearly, winds at high altitude may be fast but because the air is thin a strong enough engine on a well-streamlined enough hull can hope to overcome them. It would be about two scale heights, a seventh or so surface density--Roughly, take whatever speed the wind is blowing at 20 km up and divide it by three to get an idea of the equivalent sea level wind.
> From: Christopher Blood > Reply-To: chris@sonictrout.com > Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:40:23 -0500 > To: airship-list@lists.colorado.edu > Subject: Slashdot | Airships Tested As Two-Way Telecom Beacons > > Thought this was of interest. It's a good idea. > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/001206 &mode=flat&tid=126&threshold > =1 > d=1> > >
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I talked to a salesman from EMC and some sis admin from att(diffrent times). They both told me the same thing. The raid systems they had tried prooved to be expensive and not as reliable as they had hoped. They both had switched to a big cluster of 1U low end servers on a gigabit network. Then they implimented redundancy with whole machines duplicating each other . If any thing they used raid 0 for in the boxes for speed and swaped out whole machines when problems occured.
I have the latest mozilla and it thells me to 'upgrade'
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The big corporate radio does "market reasearch" to determine what music is "Good" and then they force all of there stations to play only the "good" music. What is needed for the suits to demographicly rate DJ's instead of songs and give the dj's the freedom to make their own playlists again. The overly homogenized crap on the radio is part of why napster was so popular. It is also why the record industry is in a nose dive. Very frustrating.
I did say they had a better os. Mac users are always whining about how superior it is So assuming this is true, if the intel version was released, it would quickly gain market share. I admit they had a better shot in 1992 when system 7 would have gone up agianst WFW 3.0 (yes there was an intel version of system 7) But people hate microsoft. The people at Apple can't see the forest for the trees. Profits on hardware will allways be a niche market.
You know I find it very amusing that someone can defend Apples buisness model with a strait face. 10 years ago Apple and Micro$oft were about the same size and apple had a better OS. One company focused on software while the other company focused on "profits from hardware" Now we all know what happened since and who had to be bailed out.
The ONLY way osX will succeed is if Apple realizes it is a software company and licences osX. It is a difficult transition to make but the profits that are possible from software are much greater than hardware. Just ask microsoft.
This is the closed mind line of thought that has been the ruin of many a company.
Just look at where apple and Micro$oft were 10 years ago (about the same size) and where they are now and tell me again about the profits on hardware. If Apple had just a little more vision in 1990 we would all be using an apple OS and they would have the bilions to toss around instead of microsoft. Remember, in 90 or 91, System 7 was ported to intel hardware with Novel's help and if they had releaased it, It would have faired quite well against windows 3.1. They don't make any money on software because the closed market is too small but software profits scale better that hardware because the cost is allin development so even with a modest market share, the software will start to turn a profit quickly. Just ask Bill Gates.
water is being recreated just as fast as it is used so it will not be depleted. 4/5's of our planet is water so this is not a problem. But the real problem is platuinum. It is needed for electrolisis and it is in short supply.
This is a regulatory problem and it is very complicated. The phone company uses a fiber drop to consolidate many phone lines together. They put the fiber transcevier in a cement box underground and fan copper out to a whole block from one fiber. So in order to provide dsl, they need to upgrade all the fiber tranceviers in the field.
Meanwhile the rboc (regional bell operating companies) were obliged by the government to allow the competition into their Central Offices so they could locate equiptment. If they upgrade the tranceviers in the cement colverts, they will need to offer the same access to the competition, something that is difficult and not desireable. I think some one is testing it in court and every other rboc is sitting on there hands waiting for the results. One trick is to ask for an alarm line. They would then run copper the whole way back to the co. Then check if you qualify again
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"I agree. Government policies that close doors to competition are bad. Linux might work in some situations, but not in others. There are plenty of good software packages out there to use, and plenty of specific packages for government, that wont exist in OSS until someone is paid (gobs of cash) to write them."
But Open source is the the only software that can be independenty audited, and should be required for government work. Any thing else is a black box that could be filled with back doors or other nasty suprizes
Besides open source projects do not give the author a monolopy on any given project. If some one fails to deliver, another vendor can pick up whrer they left off with minimum disruption.
There are many good alternatives to slow tools. But protools was first and because compatility with other studios was important, it became the defacto standard. I Record with SAWstudio because It is great. but there are many other systems that work fine.
What is needed is a standard way to save edit lists, to allow interchange between diffrent packages.Don't expect any help or support from protools. But ardour should shake things up a bit.
The only problem with this example is that elvis didn't write anything. so he only got performance royalties. And they riped off most of the original authors of the songs.
Hey at least I log in and take credit for my post.
I actually had not considered this, I just clicked on the closest link to post but it did work pretty well.
Lots of independent record labels have websites like mine http://www.sonictrout.com/bands
The last time Slash dot covered this I posted a link to the air ship list (I have some weird friends) I got this response
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I don't know if you were watching the list a couple weeks ago when a related
press release came up.
If you weren't--I said it was kind of neat and supplied a link to the
Sanswire site so people could see pictures and read the data. A number of
people thought it was a hyped lie, because 1) they've seen this hype and
others before and 2) Sanswire claimed the hull is made of Kevlar. Kevlar
(like all aramids) has problems being formed into any kind of cloth suitable
for holding lift gas--see the experts for what they are, has to due with
brittleness or something. If the problem were solved, it would be a big deal
and the company that did it could do more than just launch a com craft.
I've inquired with the company about what they are selling--can I buy an
account at what price. I figured that puts them on the spot to give answers.
All this was before Dec 11, the test date in Arizona. You see that post
toward the end, by the guy who said he saw it there in AZ and heard someone
claim it blew away?
Of course it could be that it did go on an unscheduled flight but was
brought down eventually. Or that could be pure embroidery.
But Sanswire is less visible on the net. The "Stratellite" page is being
reconstructed. As it might be after a successful test--or as it might be
forever, after an unsuccessful one.
I wrote the CEO, sounding nervous. We'll see what his flunkies say.
Have you heard any more about it?
The basic idea is perfectly great. Maybe not with a Kevlar hull, but if that
wasn't a lie then they did make it fly after all. Well somebody's got to
make the breakthrough someday.
I thought all those Venetian blind things by the props were the solar panels
but I went to the manufacturer's site and they were featured on other craft
that weren't supposed to be solar powered. Maybe they are the radiators for
the engines?
As nobody at slashdot pointed out clearly, winds at high altitude may be
fast but because the air is thin a strong enough engine on a
well-streamlined enough hull can hope to overcome them. It would be about
two scale heights, a seventh or so surface density--Roughly, take whatever
speed the wind is blowing at 20 km up and divide it by three to get an idea
of the equivalent sea level wind.
> From: Christopher Blood
> Reply-To: chris@sonictrout.com
> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:40:23 -0500
> To: airship-list@lists.colorado.edu
> Subject: Slashdot | Airships Tested As Two-Way Telecom Beacons
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> Thought this was of interest. It's a good idea.
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/17/00120
> =1
> d=1>
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I talked to a salesman from EMC and some sis admin from att(diffrent times). They both told me the same thing. The raid systems they had tried prooved to be expensive and not as reliable as they had hoped. They both had switched to a big cluster of 1U low end servers on a gigabit network. Then they implimented redundancy with whole machines duplicating each other . If any thing they used raid 0 for in the boxes for speed and swaped out whole machines when problems occured.
The news here is that microsoft paid for a study that concluded that linux is a better web server. Do we care about the other part?
"It's an MS-owned technology, the specs to which aren't terribly open in terms of what's coming down the 'pike. "
smb is an IBM protocol. It existed long before microsoft started mangling it.
It's an Internet Explorer site.
I have the latest mozilla and it thells me to 'upgrade'
The big corporate radio does "market reasearch" to determine what music is "Good" and then they force all of there stations to play only the "good" music. What is needed for the suits to demographicly rate DJ's instead of songs and give the dj's the freedom to make their own playlists again. The overly homogenized crap on the radio is part of why napster was so popular. It is also why the record industry is in a nose dive. Very frustrating.
I did say they had a better os. Mac users are always whining about how superior it is So assuming this is true, if the intel version was released, it would quickly gain market share. I admit they had a better shot in 1992 when system 7 would have gone up agianst WFW 3.0 (yes there was an intel version of system 7) But people hate microsoft. The people at Apple can't see the forest for the trees. Profits on hardware will allways be a niche market.
You know I find it very amusing that someone can defend Apples buisness model with a strait face. 10 years ago Apple and Micro$oft were about the same size and apple had a better OS. One company focused on software while the other company focused on "profits from hardware" Now we all know what happened since and who had to be bailed out.
The ONLY way osX will succeed is if Apple realizes it is a software company and licences osX. It is a difficult transition to make but the profits that are possible from software are much greater than hardware. Just ask microsoft.
Profits on Hardware?
This is the closed mind line of thought that has been the ruin of many a company.
Just look at where apple and Micro$oft were 10 years ago (about the same size) and where they are now and tell me again about the profits on hardware. If Apple had just a little more vision in 1990 we would all be using an apple OS and they would have the bilions to toss around instead of microsoft. Remember, in 90 or 91, System 7 was ported to intel hardware with Novel's help and if they had releaased it, It would have faired quite well against windows 3.1. They don't make any money on software because the closed market is too small but software profits scale better that hardware because the cost is allin development so even with a modest market share, the software will start to turn a profit quickly. Just ask Bill Gates.
Those who can't do teach. A lot of silly things pass for education (those who can't teach, teach gym.)
water is being recreated just as fast as it is used so it will not be depleted. 4/5's of our planet is water so this is not a problem. But the real problem is platuinum. It is needed for electrolisis and it is in short supply.
How about data compression? A three min video clip that is 177 megs? This better be good.
This is a regulatory problem and it is very complicated. The phone company uses a fiber drop to consolidate many phone lines together. They put the fiber transcevier in a cement box underground and fan copper out to a whole block from one fiber. So in order to provide dsl, they need to upgrade all the fiber tranceviers in the field. Meanwhile the rboc (regional bell operating companies) were obliged by the government to allow the competition into their Central Offices so they could locate equiptment. If they upgrade the tranceviers in the cement colverts, they will need to offer the same access to the competition, something that is difficult and not desireable. I think some one is testing it in court and every other rboc is sitting on there hands waiting for the results. One trick is to ask for an alarm line. They would then run copper the whole way back to the co. Then check if you qualify again