Twitter has problems. Twitter isn't social media. Twitter is one way communications. It's the AM radio in the land of walkie talkies. Plus, any URL on twitter is going to show up in compressed form. You have no idea where you're going until you get there.
I wish someone would rebuild facebook as it was 20 months ago. That was social media.
Sure, I'll give you the data. But I wasn't funded to put the data in a format that's easy to understand. I've also got a job, and I don't get paid to support a competitor's data analysis attempts. Good luck.
The assumption of most SETI searches is that we are looking for a deliberate transmission and that a deliberate transmission will be sent in a form that is easy to detect. We've never had the capability of detecting earth's leakage signals even out to the nearest stars, even at our noisiest.
Suppose you're on a tiny deserted island. On your island, you have a cell phone, a laptop computer, a flash light, a book of matches, and ample driftwood. In the distance you can see a large island or part of a land mass. How are you going to attract the attention of any of its inhabitants? There's only one real option: Use the lowest technology available.
Repeat after me... Jill Tarter is director of the SETI Institute. Despite their desire to be called SETI, they are not SETI. SETI is a scientific discipline. The SETI institute is an organization.
Jill Tarter doesn't direct me, and, unlike most of the people at the SETI Institute, I actually do SETI.
If you're really serious, the best thing you can do is write a small multitasking OS kernel that you can run under a VM or under an emulator like QEMU or Bochs. Read some reference material, design it, write it, and make it work. Then figure out what you did wrong and how you'd make it better. Think about what you would need to do to implement more advanced features (demand paged VM, threading, modular device drivers).
Then you're ready to start reading kernel code for Linux and the BSDs.
Ares/Constellation was attempting to create a new 'modern' rocket versus 1970's technology.
But the Ares booster was welfare to keep ATK (formerly Thiokol) in business by giving them a huge but unnecessary solid fueled booster to build. Although I must admit the rain of burning solid propellant following a failure would have been pretty.
I think it depends upon what he means by "when OS/2 was released," "viable," and "operating system."
By "released" lets assume we mean when the first version of OS/2 with a graphical environment was released (OS/2 1.1)
By "operating system" lets assume we mean a task switching or multitasking environment (so we can ignore DOS versions) that would work on a 8088, 80286 or 80386 class PC.
By "viable" lets say useful, and common enough to be available for several years.
So... Off the top of my head...
Windows 1.04
Windows 2.1
DESQview
SoftwareCarousel, DoubleDOS and a variety of other DOS task switchers
GEM
386/ix
SCO Xenix 2.1.1 (286) or 2.3.1 (386)
If you were willing to go outside of x86 land you could get Atari TOS, AmigaOS, MacOS, AT&T UnixPC and others I'm sure I'm forgetting. I guess the other question is are there 4 now (MacOS, Linux, BSD, Windows) or does every Linux or BSD distribution count as another operating system.
Personally, I agree with you. I doubt the OS landscape is more diverse now than it was in 1987.
Neil Armstrong doesn't talk very much. When he does, people should listen.
Yes, a former member of the Thiokol board, who stands to lose a buttload of money because of the cancellation of Constellation is exactly who we should go to for space policy advice.
Neil Armstrong was on the Corporate Board of Thiokol, which became ATK Launch Systems Group. ATK Launch Systems Group was contracted to provide the solid fueled booster for Constellation. With its cancellation, ATK Launch Systems Group is losing value. Now ask yourself, how many shares of ATK Launch Systems Group does Neil Armstrong own from his time on the board? Somehow, I don't think Neil will be coming forth with the answer.
It's amazing how the responsible people I know never got in trouble with the real estate bust.... yet those who lived beyond their means got bit in the ass.
And of course the best way to determine whether someone was responsible or lived beyond their means is whether they got into trouble with the real estate bust. Kind of a self fulfilling prophesy.
Anyway, Constellation was a welfare program for corporations. You do know that Neil Armstrong sat on the board of ATK Launch Systems Group (formerly Thiokol) and that ATK is a big loser in the Constellation cancellation. I wonder how many shares of ATK Neil has?
The Pope could be too, just by taking a test that even Sarah Palin could pass. That doesn't mean Murdoch, Palin or the Pope have the best interests of the country in mind.
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I've seen a Unix v6 port running on a Z80. Of course you can't do a lot sharing 64K with whatever else is running, but it's definitely "real UNIX" down to the source code. Beyond that it gets to what you consider "real UNIX". Does CROMIX qualify? The early versions ran on Z80 with bank switching memory cards to provide memory protection between sessions. Didn't use the AT&T source, though.
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Ah youngsters.... Thinking that microprocessor MMUs predate UNIX in all cases. There were lots of Unix versions before BSD and System V. I would guess that Unix v7 machines with MMUs were in the minority. Demand paged virtual memory may require an MMU, but there were a lot of unix versions that didn't support demand paged virtual memory.
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Its amazing how much people leave out when they are writing histories. There's not a single mention of the best selling 68000 based Unix workstation of the 1980s in that article, TRS-80 Model 16 (aka Tandy 6000) running Xenix. But the Tandy machines were sold to accountants and small businesses. But we all remember Sun and Apollo, because Sun and Apollo sold their machines to geeks.
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Not till the 286 AFAICR, the MMU in the 8086 was worthless. Real Unix needed at least a 386.
There was no MMU in the 8086. But then again no MMU was required to run "Real Unix". Xenix was a Unix v7 port using the AT&T source, PC/IX was a Unix v7 port using the AT&T source. Coherent was a Unix v7 work alike. No MMU was necessary for any of them.
Unless you want to rewrite history and claim that the first "Real Unix" was BSD or System V.
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That would be a good point, if it weren't wrong. There were several UNIX V7 ports or work-alikes. PC-IX, Xenix, Coherent, Minix to name a few. Some of them were even real branded UNIX based upon the AT&T sources.
Unix didn't start out as a virtual memory based operating system with protected address spaces.
This occurred in 2007. I know Obama was already in control of the shadow government and was already in possession of the keys to the constitution shredder, but Bush was still commander in chief of the armed forces at that time.
In 2007 in Iraq, carrying an AK-47 distinguishes you as "not willing to be kidnapped and held for ransom" it doesn't make you an insurgent. If we killed everyone in Iraq that carried an AK-47, there wouldn't be much of a population left.
If the rules of engagement allowed the Apache to engage upon suspicion that someone had a small caliber weapon then the rules of engagement were stupid and the commanders who wrote them need to be held responsible. If, on the other hand, the rules of engagement were fire if fired upon. Then the pilot and gunner in the Apache are responsible.
At that time a large fraction of the Iraqi population wouldn't go outside without being armed or without armed bodyguards. From the video, one person appeared to have something that might have been an assault rifle. At that point the gunner (I think) says one person has an assault rifle. The pilot then falsely reports to command that there are multiple people with AK-47s. They also falsely report they've been fired upon.
IT was divided into accounting and secretarial services in those days. A systems person would be an "office manager." And, if you were an office manager, you wouldn't get fired for checking out a secretary's code in those days.
So, what you are claiming in the McKinnon case is... If I'm standing in the U.S. near the Canadian border, and I use my assault rifle to shoot someone standing in Canada, then I haven't committed a crime in Canada, because I haven't crossed the border. And I haven't committed a crime in the U.S. because it's not a crime to discharge a firearm.
That's very convenient. Somehow I think I would be arrested and extradited very quickly despite this.
Gary McKinnon allegedly broke into computers in the U.S. Those computers are under U.S. jurisdiction. If the allegation is true, he commited a crime in the U.S. even though he wasn't in the U.S. at the time.
The Sklyarov case is somewhat different in that it was a gross misapplication of an (IMHO) unconstitutional law.
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Twitter has problems. Twitter isn't social media. Twitter is one way communications. It's the AM radio in the land of walkie talkies. Plus, any URL on twitter is going to show up in compressed form. You have no idea where you're going until you get there.
I wish someone would rebuild facebook as it was 20 months ago. That was social media.
Sure, I'll give you the data. But I wasn't funded to put the data in a format that's easy to understand. I've also got a job, and I don't get paid to support a competitor's data analysis attempts. Good luck.
The assumption of most SETI searches is that we are looking for a deliberate transmission and that a deliberate transmission will be sent in a form that is easy to detect. We've never had the capability of detecting earth's leakage signals even out to the nearest stars, even at our noisiest.
Suppose you're on a tiny deserted island. On your island, you have a cell phone, a laptop computer, a flash light, a book of matches, and ample driftwood. In the distance you can see a large island or part of a land mass. How are you going to attract the attention of any of its inhabitants? There's only one real option: Use the lowest technology available.
Repeat after me... Jill Tarter is director of the SETI Institute. Despite their desire to be called SETI, they are not SETI. SETI is a scientific discipline. The SETI institute is an organization.
Jill Tarter doesn't direct me, and, unlike most of the people at the SETI Institute, I actually do SETI.
If you're really serious, the best thing you can do is write a small multitasking OS kernel that you can run under a VM or under an emulator like QEMU or Bochs. Read some reference material, design it, write it, and make it work. Then figure out what you did wrong and how you'd make it better. Think about what you would need to do to implement more advanced features (demand paged VM, threading, modular device drivers).
Then you're ready to start reading kernel code for Linux and the BSDs.
Ares/Constellation was attempting to create a new 'modern' rocket versus 1970's technology.
But the Ares booster was welfare to keep ATK (formerly Thiokol) in business by giving them a huge but unnecessary solid fueled booster to build. Although I must admit the rain of burning solid propellant following a failure would have been pretty.
I think it depends upon what he means by "when OS/2 was released," "viable," and "operating system."
By "released" lets assume we mean when the first version of OS/2 with a graphical environment was released (OS/2 1.1)
By "operating system" lets assume we mean a task switching or multitasking environment (so we can ignore DOS versions) that would work on a 8088, 80286 or 80386 class PC.
By "viable" lets say useful, and common enough to be available for several years.
So... Off the top of my head...
If you were willing to go outside of x86 land you could get Atari TOS, AmigaOS, MacOS, AT&T UnixPC and others I'm sure I'm forgetting. I guess the other question is are there 4 now (MacOS, Linux, BSD, Windows) or does every Linux or BSD distribution count as another operating system.
Personally, I agree with you. I doubt the OS landscape is more diverse now than it was in 1987.
Neil Armstrong doesn't talk very much. When he does, people should listen.
Yes, a former member of the Thiokol board, who stands to lose a buttload of money because of the cancellation of Constellation is exactly who we should go to for space policy advice.
Neil Armstrong was on the Corporate Board of Thiokol, which became ATK Launch Systems Group. ATK Launch Systems Group was contracted to provide the solid fueled booster for Constellation. With its cancellation, ATK Launch Systems Group is losing value. Now ask yourself, how many shares of ATK Launch Systems Group does Neil Armstrong own from his time on the board? Somehow, I don't think Neil will be coming forth with the answer.
It's amazing how the responsible people I know never got in trouble with the real estate bust.... yet those who lived beyond their means got bit in the ass.
And of course the best way to determine whether someone was responsible or lived beyond their means is whether they got into trouble with the real estate bust. Kind of a self fulfilling prophesy.
Anyway, Constellation was a welfare program for corporations. You do know that Neil Armstrong sat on the board of ATK Launch Systems Group (formerly Thiokol) and that ATK is a big loser in the Constellation cancellation. I wonder how many shares of ATK Neil has?
The Pope could be too, just by taking a test that even Sarah Palin could pass. That doesn't mean Murdoch, Palin or the Pope have the best interests of the country in mind.
I've seen a Unix v6 port running on a Z80. Of course you can't do a lot sharing 64K with whatever else is running, but it's definitely "real UNIX" down to the source code. Beyond that it gets to what you consider "real UNIX". Does CROMIX qualify? The early versions ran on Z80 with bank switching memory cards to provide memory protection between sessions. Didn't use the AT&T source, though.
Ah youngsters.... Thinking that microprocessor MMUs predate UNIX in all cases. There were lots of Unix versions before BSD and System V. I would guess that Unix v7 machines with MMUs were in the minority. Demand paged virtual memory may require an MMU, but there were a lot of unix versions that didn't support demand paged virtual memory.
Its amazing how much people leave out when they are writing histories. There's not a single mention of the best selling 68000 based Unix workstation of the 1980s in that article, TRS-80 Model 16 (aka Tandy 6000) running Xenix. But the Tandy machines were sold to accountants and small businesses. But we all remember Sun and Apollo, because Sun and Apollo sold their machines to geeks.
Not till the 286 AFAICR, the MMU in the 8086 was worthless. Real Unix needed at least a 386.
There was no MMU in the 8086. But then again no MMU was required to run "Real Unix". Xenix was a Unix v7 port using the AT&T source, PC/IX was a Unix v7 port using the AT&T source. Coherent was a Unix v7 work alike. No MMU was necessary for any of them.
Unless you want to rewrite history and claim that the first "Real Unix" was BSD or System V.
That would be a good point, if it weren't wrong. There were several UNIX V7 ports or work-alikes. PC-IX, Xenix, Coherent, Minix to name a few. Some of them were even real branded UNIX based upon the AT&T sources.
Unix didn't start out as a virtual memory based operating system with protected address spaces.
Finally Steve Jobs is listening to what iPhone users want. More ads!
I don't know how many times I've heard an iPhone user saying "It's a great phone, and I love the apps, but I could really use more adware."
I thought most of their PR people were posting on this thread as a means of damage control.
The obvious solution....
6. Don't buy a new product on the first day it's available and expect it to be bug free.
This occurred in 2007. I know Obama was already in control of the shadow government and was already in possession of the keys to the constitution shredder, but Bush was still commander in chief of the armed forces at that time.
So your fine with foreign intelligence agencies telling foreign governments how to manipulate the opinion of your countries people then?
No, but it's going to happen anyway. You didn't think Rupert Murdoch was an American, did you?
In 2007 in Iraq, carrying an AK-47 distinguishes you as "not willing to be kidnapped and held for ransom" it doesn't make you an insurgent. If we killed everyone in Iraq that carried an AK-47, there wouldn't be much of a population left.
If the rules of engagement allowed the Apache to engage upon suspicion that someone had a small caliber weapon then the rules of engagement were stupid and the commanders who wrote them need to be held responsible. If, on the other hand, the rules of engagement were fire if fired upon. Then the pilot and gunner in the Apache are responsible.
At that time a large fraction of the Iraqi population wouldn't go outside without being armed or without armed bodyguards. From the video, one person appeared to have something that might have been an assault rifle. At that point the gunner (I think) says one person has an assault rifle. The pilot then falsely reports to command that there are multiple people with AK-47s. They also falsely report they've been fired upon.
IT was divided into accounting and secretarial services in those days. A systems person would be an "office manager." And, if you were an office manager, you wouldn't get fired for checking out a secretary's code in those days.
So, what you are claiming in the McKinnon case is... If I'm standing in the U.S. near the Canadian border, and I use my assault rifle to shoot someone standing in Canada, then I haven't committed a crime in Canada, because I haven't crossed the border. And I haven't committed a crime in the U.S. because it's not a crime to discharge a firearm.
That's very convenient. Somehow I think I would be arrested and extradited very quickly despite this.
Gary McKinnon allegedly broke into computers in the U.S. Those computers are under U.S. jurisdiction. If the allegation is true, he commited a crime in the U.S. even though he wasn't in the U.S. at the time.
The Sklyarov case is somewhat different in that it was a gross misapplication of an (IMHO) unconstitutional law.