It is a little ignorant because I am not a heavy OS dependent coder. I basically designed routines and methods with C/C++ before heading over to Java when my department switched. The early swing classes were a pain in the ass but the later revisions and even the first 1.2 distro were excellent in terms of how slick they worked. I haven't done many Servlets or Enterprise Level Beans, so I am a little ignorant about that. But what I do know, is even the most basic app code could stand to have a few OS dependent features.
MS did an OK thing to me with the J/Direct because you could turn it off with a flip of the switch and have pure java. If I could have a IDE that gave you an option that compiled an program into a OS dependent (With multiple OS choices) executable, then I would use it. If I could leave it as is and run it as an interpreted app, then I would use it again. I like options.
VB is no longer an option since Java has matured to the point where VB looks raw and immature when compared together.
One of the points of Java is cross platform yes. But Java is limited in some ways due to the security model. Now if you were a windows only coder, hooks into the OS would be a very nice thing to have. But the current Java implementation doesn't allow that. I would love to write native "java-style" code to a native OS for optimization (optimisation for you euros) reasons. I want the best of both worlds. I learned Java after C/C++ and love the simplicity of the code compared to it's parent.
It is just that there are very few specs to go along with the drive to make an accurate judgement. The FAT, Scandisk, and defrag points are quite valid. There isn't a file system out there that is efficient at that level. Until we can get seek/read/write times, the other points are something to question.
1. If FAT16 is wasteful on a 2+ gig drive, and FAT32 is wasteful on a 20+ gig drive, imagine how wasteful it would be on a 216 gig drive. (1mb clusters anyone?)
2. Seek Time? Random Read Time? Not mentioned... I really don't want something in my computer spinning at 200k rpm
3. Defrag??? It takes me the better part of a weekend to defrag my 4 hd's. (~30 gigs). There goes February.
4. Scandisk. Fstab. Imagine accidently shutting the computer down instead of a proper one. Say goodbye to the work day.
5. Formatting?
You get the idea...
RB
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I am so pissed, I didn't hit the right button
I can't disagree with you more. Space travel is NOTORIOUSLY inefficient--it costs millions upon millions of dollars per component on each shuttle and probe NASA and other space agencies send into orbit. I should know, I work for Lockheed Martin. Absolutely nothing within the current world socioeconomic and scientific structure suggests that space travel is going to be feasible on a large scale any time in the year future--the space program has been active for decades and the price per mission keeps going up, not down.
You may work for Lockheed Martin, but apparently not in a function relating to the HSF (Human Space Flight) program. Under the SFOC (Space Flight Operations Contract) that NASA has signed with United Space Alliance (Lockheed and Boeing Parnership), mission cost have been declining! Yes! Declining! Consolidating all of the operations from planning to launch to landing is performed by one company that has and will continue to reduce the cost of running the space program.
Also, apparently you haven't heard of a little trend happening in NASA pushing towards the small, quick, and cheap. Pathfinder was merely the start. Many other programs are already nearing completion under that same paradigm.
We made a manned moon landing in 1969, 30 years ago. It's a really big rock. There's nothing there. If there was, we'd still be going there.
Why the hell are we crashing a probe into the surface then? Hmm? For grins? Please.
We've been to Mars, via several unmanned probes. What's the point of sending people there? Again, it's just a big rock. If there was anything interesting, our super-expensive, super-accurate probes and surveying equipment would have picked it up by now.
There are things on the bottom of the ocean being discovered every year. And the current generation of probes are nowhere near "super-accurate". Nothing like using the five senses that we as humans have.
We know what asteroids are made of. Scientists have been studying impact sites of landed meteorites for years. Guess what? They're rocks. Metallic rocks perhaps, but certainly not rare enough to justify SPENDING millions upon millions of dollars to retrieve them.
Yeah, they are rocks. They tell us about our past and can help us predict the future. The rocks discovered barely tell the story of space. There have been traces of nearly every element in the periodic table found in the fragments. That means economic possibilities do exist for extra terrestrial mining.
You claim that "if there is a push in the direction of Space it will sprout new industries to support itself thereby rendering the enconomic issue a moot point." Why is this? Things aren't going to get less expensive just because we have private companies footing the bill instead of NASA. Besides, there's still nowhere to go, and no point in going there.
See above. Cheaper by the mission. Private companies just add to the competition. Competition lead to lower prices and more efficient ways od doing things. Also, with private entities entering the field, more of the expensive components gets produced, also leading to lower prices. As for a place to go, look up. Many places to go, many things to see...
Your romantic notions are, well, romantic, but they have absolutely no scientific basis behind them.
Gee, what the hell have we been doing in the past ~40 years? Sticking our thumbs in our asses? I suggest you stop working for L-M. Your heart doesn't seem to be with the rest of the team.
I can't disagree with you more. Space travel is NOTORIOUSLY inefficient--it costs millions upon millions of dollars per component on each shuttle and probe NASA and other space agencies send into orbit. I should know, I work for Lockheed Martin. Absolutely nothing within the current world socioeconomic and scientific structure suggests that space travel is going to be feasible on a large scale any time in the year future--the space program has been active for decades and the price per mission keeps going up, not down.
You may work for Lockheed Martin, but apparently not in a function relating to the HSF (Human Space Flight) program. Under the SFOC (Space Flight Operations Contract) that NASA has signed with United Space Alliance (Lockheed and Boeing Parnership), mission cost have been declining! Yes! Declining! Consolidating all of the operations from planning to launch to landing is performed by one company that has and will continue to reduce the cost of running the space program.
Also, apparently you haven't heard of a little trend happening in NASA pushing towards the small, quick, and cheap. Pathfinder was merely the start. Many other programs are already nearing completion under that same paradigm.
We made a manned moon landing in 1969, 30 years ago. It's a really big rock. There's nothing there. If there was, we'd still be going there.
Why the hell are we crashing a probe into the surface then? Hmm? For grins? Please.
We've been to Mars, via several unmanned probes. What's the point of sending people there? Again, it's just a big rock. If there was anything interesting, our super-expensive, super-accurate probes and surveying equipment would have picked it up by now.
There are things on the bottom of the ocean being discovered every year. And the current generation of probes are nowhere near "super-accurate". Nothing like using the five senses that we as humans have.
We know what asteroids are made of. Scientists have been studying impact sites of landed meteorites for years. Guess what? They're rocks. Metallic rocks perhaps, but certainly not rare enough to justify SPENDING millions upon millions of dollars to retrieve them.
Yeah, they are rocks. They tell us about our past and can help us predict the future. The rocks discovered barely tell the story of space. There have been traces of nearly every element in the periodic table found in the fragments. That means economic possibilities do exist for extra terrestrial mining.
You claim that "if there is a push in the direction of Space it will sprout new industries to support itself thereby rendering the enconomic issue a moot point." Why is this? Things aren't going to get less expensive just because we have private companies footing the bill instead of NASA. Besides, there's still nowhere to go, and no point in going there.
See above. Cheaper by the mission. Private companies just add to the competition. Competition lead to lower prices and more efficient ways od doing things. Also, with private entities entering the field, more of the expensive components gets produced, also leading to lower prices. As for a place to go, look up. Many places to go, many things to see...
Your romantic notions are, well, romantic, but they have absolutely no scientific basis behind them.
Gee, what the hell have we been doing in the past ~40 years? Sticking our thumbs in our asses? I suggest you stop working for L-M. Your heart doesn't seem to be with the rest of the team.
Well, "Massive PR Exploits like the space station" keep NASA in the news and funded to do things like this. The number of new technologies and new techniques that have been developed to build ISS are staggering. Any new program that NASA undertakes usually has massive tech spinoffs that can be used in the private sector. People said the same thing about the Apollo program in the 1960's and huge technological benefits such as microcomputers and smaller IC's were gained with it. ISS is providing the same as we speak.
Do you have any idea what the ISS is for? Unmanned probes cannot conduct long term experiments that require direct human intervention. The ISS can. What about the Shuttle you say? Well, the longest period of time it can stay in space is around two weeks, which really is not long term. ISS is one of the best things the world (Yes, the world, NASA, NASDA, ESA, and the RSA are working on it together) is doing.
It isn't always reaching the destination that is the goal, but the path along which you take to get there.
RB
BTW, Part of the human space flight program (ISS, Shuttle) involves AI development which has been pretty sucessful so far.
if a person is actually hacking and understanding the source, then they might just be mature enough to understand that "fuck" is a proper engineering term in some cases. Not your average joe uses linux right now. Mosty Linux users could be considered technically savvy and most of those people can be considered "more mature" intellectually.
BTW, I have played with the source and that word pops up in my head a lot during that quality time.
You can (at least in my area of SE Texas) can opt for Metered or Basic Service with SW Bell. Metered means a basic charge per "unit" and you get so many units per month included. For a little more, you can get basic service which is 100% unlimited local calling.
Sprint, which controls a small region of the SE Texas area, has only Metered Unit service (Last time I checked ~9 months ago).
if both fields are perfectly aligned and tuned in the same exact way, then they merge and you have a normal fender bender.
Except at FTL speed (So much for normal 8> ).
If they are not aligned, then I could see an interaction between the fields (ala magnetics) and either:
They deflect each other (Hope that Intertial Dampening system that someone said that is not needed is there... Otherwise blue haired grandma is paste upon a bulkhead)
The fields collapse immediately and good bye blue haired grandma in the 2110 Eldorado.
Field Theory is a nasty subject left to people that can process 64 digit numbers in their sleep.
And some older than that. Heck you could put the Shuttle in the museum. The total power of that thing is less than that of a Palm Pilot. They are finally getting upgraded to ~Modern (80-90's) computers. Remember, even though most of the shuttles were built in 79-80, the contracts were awarded in 72. Eeek.
Here (I think) is the amendment that enables the.au govt to regulate the internet. Here is an ~summary~ of it. I don't have the time now to fully disseminate it or learn the ramifications of it but I will try later when I do have the time. Glancing through the summary, here is what I my take on it:
-Purpose of the amendments to the Broadcast Services act is to enable regulation and control of the internet as it pertains to the.au domain (As in where the.au govt has control).
Amendment 5:
The first component of the proposed scheme is proposed Schedule 5 to the BSA contained in the Bill as proposed to be amended. Under this component, the Commonwealth will be responsible for regulating Internet content service providers and Internet content hosts. This component does not impose any obligations on producers of content on the Internet or persons who upload or access such content.
-It aims to go after the HOSTS of the content, rather than the PRODUCERS (I think that is totally wrong) or consumers.
The next line of the summary causes a mindpuck The second component of the proposed scheme is proposed uniform State and Territory laws that will create offences for the publication and transmission of proscribed material by producers of content on the Internet or persons who upload or access such content. It is intended under the national scheme that the States and Territories will be primarily responsible for regulating the activities of persons who create, upload or access content.
-Does this mean they say the govt goes after the hosts while the local and "state" go after everybody else?
Launching a satellite is pretty far fetched -- he'd need to buy a piece of the radio spectrum he could use, and it'd have to be a fairly high power transmission, all things that are very unlikely to be allowed. Low power (DSS-like) transmissions are too prone to signal fade during rain and things like that -- and no theater owner in their right mind would risk being unable to show a film during a rainy day (when it seems to me to be the best time to see them!)
Actually, current transmisson methods would work quite well for movie theaters. How do you think HDTV gets into your house now?
He really wouldn't need to launch his own satellite (That is hard to do since nearly all of the parking spots in orbit are bought, taken, or useless). He could buy transponder space from a C, Ku, or DBS sat currently in orbit. There are many free channels to spare. And satellites basically just relay whatever is fed to them.
DBS (DSS, EchoStar...) would be perfect for it. It has HDTV capability, MPEG-1 Transmisson and can handle Dolby 5.1. All is needed is a upgrade to Mpeg-2 (In the works), and massive encryption, and you would have a pretty reliable system for delivery.
Rain Fade can be nearly eliminated with the use of large (10'-20') dishes instead of the puny 18" ones.
As I see it, he could do it right now if he wanted to by just implementing some high level bit encryption and one [random, unknown to public] broadcast. The theatres can store it on a large computer and hit play any time they wanted to.
From Merriam-Webster Main Entry: paradigm Pronunciation: 'par-&-"dIm also -"dim Function: noun Etymology: Late Latin paradigma, from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknynai to show side by side, from para- + deiknynai to show -- more at DICTION Date: 15th century 1 : EXAMPLE, PATTERN; especially : an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype
Could be.
2 : an example of a conjugation or declension showing a word in all its inflectional forms
Probably not
3 : a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated
Now here is something. GNU is nice, but you would have to admit, Linux has pushed the GNU movement ahead by leaps and bounds. Linux could be considered the framework
Did he start the whole "put out there and share the code" or the Free Software or Open Source idea?
No, he didn't invent it, only helped it.
Did he rewrite an improved Unix implimentation all by himself based on new ingenious concepts?
Not exactly no. He wrote the orginal kernel which started all this nice AltOS movement. Things don't have to be ingenious to recieve praise. They just have to work better.
did he start a small kernel based on existing and tested ideas and then have thousands of people expand it, imnprove it and make it grow?
Not bad for a college student from Finland who speaks Swedish and has a thing for Penguins.
is he an excellent programmer (probably 100x better than me)?
Never seen ya program... He has a good work ethic and that is what makes a programmer who he is.
You can do anything you want to it pretty much. Worms, trojans, viruses. It is sad that I can think of 6 different ways to do each and every one of your items and have them work.
Well, it's that time of the year and all the stations are trying to out do themselves trying to get ratings. They thought they had the next Monica Lewinsky and ran with it without verifying their sources (Breaking a cardnial rule in Journalism). It is amazing what some "news" stations will do to get you to watch Here in Texas, A few things:
Win $X dollars on Watch2Win (Other station followed suit in a week) Sex on the Internet: A Special Report What to do when your car is on fire
And I haven't even been watching the news!
It is sad that the only reliable source of news is your own two eyes.
I read it in my history text in college and in some newspapers dated from that time. While it does state that he is a citizen of Berlin, A Berliner was a popular pastry at the time in the 60's. I am not sure if it is today. A few people interviewed after the speech laughed at that reference when asked about it.
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Check out Home Theater Forum. They are going more apeshit that /. is over this. They are loving it :)
:)
BTW, the current theory is that the Divx contracts have a "escape" clause on the death of Divx and allow companies to revert to Open-DVD.
Wait a minute, there is only DVD's now! Don't have to use "Open-"
This rocks!
SP
First, Divx dies (Woohoo!), then a court gets a ruling right (Woohoo!). What's next? MS v DOJ Trial ends? (DOH!).
This will now pave the way for bigger and much better players since companies won't be worried about this looming overhead.
RB
It is a little ignorant because I am not a heavy OS dependent coder. I basically designed routines and methods with C/C++ before heading over to Java when my department switched. The early swing classes were a pain in the ass but the later revisions and even the first 1.2 distro were excellent in terms of how slick they worked. I haven't done many Servlets or Enterprise Level Beans, so I am a little ignorant about that. But what I do know, is even the most basic app code could stand to have a few OS dependent features.
MS did an OK thing to me with the J/Direct because you could turn it off with a flip of the switch and have pure java. If I could have a IDE that gave you an option that compiled an program into a OS dependent (With multiple OS choices) executable, then I would use it. If I could leave it as is and run it as an interpreted app, then I would use it again. I like options.
VB is no longer an option since Java has matured to the point where VB looks raw and immature when compared together.
RB
JonKatz has Multiple Personality Disorder.
What else can explain the Hellmouth Series and then the TPM Review?
RB
One of the points of Java is cross platform yes. But Java is limited in some ways due to the security model. Now if you were a windows only coder, hooks into the OS would be a very nice thing to have. But the current Java implementation doesn't allow that. I would love to write native "java-style" code to a native OS for optimization (optimisation for you euros) reasons. I want the best of both worlds. I learned Java after C/C++ and love the simplicity of the code compared to it's parent.
RB
It is just that there are very few specs to go along with the drive to make an accurate judgement. The FAT, Scandisk, and defrag points are quite valid. There isn't a file system out there that is efficient at that level. Until we can get seek/read/write times, the other points are something to question.
RB
1. If FAT16 is wasteful on a 2+ gig drive, and FAT32 is wasteful on a 20+ gig drive, imagine how wasteful it would be on a 216 gig drive. (1mb clusters anyone?)
2. Seek Time? Random Read Time? Not mentioned...
I really don't want something in my computer spinning at 200k rpm
3. Defrag??? It takes me the better part of a weekend to defrag my 4 hd's. (~30 gigs). There goes February.
4. Scandisk. Fstab. Imagine accidently shutting the computer down instead of a proper one. Say goodbye to the work day.
5. Formatting?
You get the idea...
RB
Right here
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(and don't close that pop up, you might miss it
RB
I am so pissed, I didn't hit the right button
I can't disagree with you more. Space travel is NOTORIOUSLY inefficient--it costs millions upon millions of dollars per component on each shuttle and probe NASA and other space agencies send into orbit. I should know, I work for Lockheed Martin. Absolutely nothing within the current world socioeconomic and scientific structure suggests that space travel is going to be feasible on a large scale any time in the year future--the space program has been active for decades and the price per mission keeps going up, not down.
You may work for Lockheed Martin, but apparently not in a function relating to the HSF (Human Space Flight) program. Under the SFOC (Space Flight Operations Contract) that NASA has signed with United Space Alliance (Lockheed and Boeing Parnership), mission cost have been declining! Yes! Declining! Consolidating all of the operations from planning to launch to landing is performed by one company that has and will continue to reduce the cost of running the space program.
Also, apparently you haven't heard of a little trend happening in NASA pushing towards the small, quick, and cheap. Pathfinder was merely the start. Many other programs are already nearing completion under that same paradigm.
We made a manned moon landing in 1969, 30 years ago. It's a really big rock. There's nothing there. If there was, we'd still be going there.
Why the hell are we crashing a probe into the surface then? Hmm? For grins? Please.
We've been to Mars, via several unmanned probes. What's the point of sending people there? Again, it's just a big rock. If there was anything interesting, our super-expensive, super-accurate probes and surveying equipment would have picked it up by now.
There are things on the bottom of the ocean being discovered every year. And the current generation of probes are nowhere near "super-accurate". Nothing like using the five senses that we as humans have.
We know what asteroids are made of. Scientists have been studying impact sites of landed meteorites for years. Guess what? They're rocks. Metallic rocks perhaps, but certainly not rare enough to justify SPENDING millions upon millions of dollars to retrieve them.
Yeah, they are rocks. They tell us about our past and can help us predict the future. The rocks discovered barely tell the story of space. There have been traces of nearly every element in the periodic table found in the fragments. That means economic possibilities do exist for extra terrestrial mining.
You claim that "if there is a push in the direction of Space it will sprout new industries to support itself thereby rendering the enconomic issue a moot point." Why is this? Things aren't going to get less expensive just because we have private companies footing the bill instead of NASA. Besides, there's still nowhere to go, and no point in going there.
See above. Cheaper by the mission. Private companies just add to the competition. Competition lead to lower prices and more efficient ways od doing things. Also, with private entities entering the field, more of the expensive components gets produced, also leading to lower prices. As for a place to go, look up. Many places to go, many things to see...
Your romantic notions are, well, romantic, but they have absolutely no scientific basis behind them.
Gee, what the hell have we been doing in the past ~40 years? Sticking our thumbs in our asses? I suggest you stop working for L-M. Your heart doesn't seem to be with the rest of the team.
RB
I can't disagree with you more. Space travel is NOTORIOUSLY inefficient--it costs millions upon millions of dollars per component on each shuttle and probe NASA and other space agencies send into orbit. I should know, I work for Lockheed Martin. Absolutely nothing within the current world socioeconomic and scientific structure suggests that space travel is going to be feasible on a large scale any time in the year future--the space program has been active for decades and the price per mission keeps going up, not down.
You may work for Lockheed Martin, but apparently not in a function relating to the HSF (Human Space Flight) program. Under the SFOC (Space Flight Operations Contract) that NASA has signed with United Space Alliance (Lockheed and Boeing Parnership), mission cost have been declining! Yes! Declining! Consolidating all of the operations from planning to launch to landing is performed by one company that has and will continue to reduce the cost of running the space program.
Also, apparently you haven't heard of a little trend happening in NASA pushing towards the small, quick, and cheap. Pathfinder was merely the start. Many other programs are already nearing completion under that same paradigm.
We made a manned moon landing in 1969, 30 years ago. It's a really big rock. There's nothing there. If there was, we'd still be going there.
Why the hell are we crashing a probe into the surface then? Hmm? For grins? Please.
We've been to Mars, via several unmanned probes. What's the point of sending people there? Again, it's just a big rock. If there was anything interesting, our super-expensive, super-accurate probes and surveying equipment would have picked it up by now.
There are things on the bottom of the ocean being discovered every year. And the current generation of probes are nowhere near "super-accurate". Nothing like using the five senses that we as humans have.
We know what asteroids are made of. Scientists have been studying impact sites of landed meteorites for years. Guess what? They're rocks. Metallic rocks perhaps, but certainly not rare enough to justify SPENDING millions upon millions of dollars to retrieve them.
Yeah, they are rocks. They tell us about our past and can help us predict the future. The rocks discovered barely tell the story of space. There have been traces of nearly every element in the periodic table found in the fragments. That means economic possibilities do exist for extra terrestrial mining.
You claim that "if there is a push in the direction of Space it will sprout new industries to support itself thereby rendering the enconomic issue a moot point." Why is this? Things aren't going to get less expensive just because we have private companies footing the bill instead of NASA. Besides, there's still nowhere to go, and no point in going there.
See above. Cheaper by the mission. Private companies just add to the competition. Competition lead to lower prices and more efficient ways od doing things. Also, with private entities entering the field, more of the expensive components gets produced, also leading to lower prices. As for a place to go, look up. Many places to go, many things to see...
Your romantic notions are, well, romantic, but they have absolutely no scientific basis behind them.
Gee, what the hell have we been doing in the past ~40 years? Sticking our thumbs in our asses? I suggest you stop working for L-M. Your heart doesn't seem to be with the rest of the team.
RB
Well, "Massive PR Exploits like the space station" keep NASA in the news and funded to do things like this. The number of new technologies and new techniques that have been developed to build ISS are staggering. Any new program that NASA undertakes usually has massive tech spinoffs that can be used in the private sector. People said the same thing about the Apollo program in the 1960's and huge technological benefits such as microcomputers and smaller IC's were gained with it. ISS is providing the same as we speak.
Do you have any idea what the ISS is for?
Unmanned probes cannot conduct long term experiments that require direct human intervention. The ISS can. What about the Shuttle you say? Well, the longest period of time it can stay in space is around two weeks, which really is not long term. ISS is one of the best things the world (Yes, the world, NASA, NASDA, ESA, and the RSA are working on it together) is doing.
It isn't always reaching the destination that is the goal, but the path along which you take to get there.
RB
BTW, Part of the human space flight program (ISS, Shuttle) involves AI development which has been pretty sucessful so far.
if a person is actually hacking and understanding the source, then they might just be mature enough to understand that "fuck" is a proper engineering term in some cases. Not your average joe uses linux right now. Mosty Linux users could be considered technically savvy and most of those people can be considered "more mature" intellectually.
BTW, I have played with the source and that word pops up in my head a lot during that quality time.
RB
You can (at least in my area of SE Texas) can opt for Metered or Basic Service with SW Bell. Metered means a basic charge per "unit" and you get so many units per month included. For a little more, you can get basic service which is 100% unlimited local calling.
Sprint, which controls a small region of the SE Texas area, has only Metered Unit service (Last time I checked ~9 months ago).
So, It is here.
RB
if both fields are perfectly aligned and tuned in the same exact way, then they merge and you have a normal fender bender.
Except at FTL speed (So much for normal 8> ).
If they are not aligned, then I could see an interaction between the fields (ala magnetics) and either:
They deflect each other (Hope that Intertial Dampening system that someone said that is not needed is there... Otherwise blue haired grandma is paste upon a bulkhead)
The fields collapse immediately and good bye blue haired grandma in the 2110 Eldorado.
Field Theory is a nasty subject left to people that can process 64 digit numbers in their sleep.
RB
And some older than that. Heck you could put the Shuttle in the museum. The total power of that thing is less than that of a Palm Pilot. They are finally getting upgraded to ~Modern (80-90's) computers. Remember, even though most of the shuttles were built in 79-80, the contracts were awarded in 72. Eeek.
RB
The bill only regulates the "web" and usenet content. Email and other such services are unaffected. I posted a link to it a few posts
below.
RB
Here (I think) is the amendment that enables the .au govt to regulate the internet. Here is an ~summary~ of it. I don't have the time now to fully disseminate it or learn the ramifications of it but I will try later when I do have the time. Glancing through the summary, here is what I my take on it:
.au domain (As in where the .au govt has control).
-Purpose of the amendments to the Broadcast Services act is to enable regulation and control of the internet as it pertains to the
Amendment 5:
The first component of the proposed scheme is proposed Schedule 5 to the BSA contained in the Bill as proposed to be amended. Under this component, the Commonwealth will be responsible for regulating Internet content service providers and Internet content hosts. This component does not impose any obligations on producers of content on the Internet or persons who upload or access such content.
-It aims to go after the HOSTS of the content, rather than the PRODUCERS (I think that is totally wrong) or consumers.
The next line of the summary causes a mindpuck
The second component of the proposed scheme is proposed uniform State and Territory laws that will create offences for the publication and transmission of proscribed material by producers of content on the Internet or persons who upload or access such content. It is intended under the national scheme that the States and Territories will be primarily responsible for regulating the activities of persons who create, upload or access content.
-Does this mean they say the govt goes after the hosts while the local and "state" go after everybody else?
I will try to do a little more digging on this.
Enjoy
RB
Launching a satellite is pretty far fetched -- he'd need to buy a piece of the radio spectrum he could use, and it'd have to be a fairly high power transmission, all things that are very unlikely to be allowed. Low power (DSS-like) transmissions are too prone to signal fade during rain and things like that -- and no theater owner in their right mind would risk being unable to show a film during a rainy day (when it seems to me to be the best time to see them!)
Actually, current transmisson methods would work quite well for movie theaters. How do you think HDTV gets into your house now?
He really wouldn't need to launch his own satellite (That is hard to do since nearly all of the parking spots in orbit are bought, taken, or useless). He could buy transponder space from a C, Ku, or DBS sat currently in orbit. There are many free channels to spare. And satellites basically just relay whatever is fed to them.
DBS (DSS, EchoStar...) would be perfect for it. It has HDTV capability, MPEG-1 Transmisson and can handle Dolby 5.1. All is needed is a upgrade to Mpeg-2 (In the works), and massive encryption, and you would have a pretty reliable system for delivery.
Rain Fade can be nearly eliminated with the use of large (10'-20') dishes instead of the puny 18" ones.
As I see it, he could do it right now if he wanted to by just implementing some high level bit encryption and one [random, unknown to public] broadcast. The theatres can store it on a large computer and hit play any time they wanted to.
RB
Did he design a new OS paradigm?
From Merriam-Webster
Main Entry: paradigm
Pronunciation: 'par-&-"dIm also -"dim
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin paradigma, from Greek paradeigma, from paradeiknynai to show side by side, from para- + deiknynai to show -- more at DICTION
Date: 15th century
1 : EXAMPLE, PATTERN; especially : an outstandingly clear or typical example or archetype
Could be.
2 : an example of a conjugation or declension showing a word in all its inflectional forms
Probably not
3 : a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated
Now here is something. GNU is nice, but you would have to admit, Linux has pushed the GNU movement ahead by leaps and bounds. Linux could be considered the framework
Did he start the whole "put out there and share the code" or the Free Software or Open Source idea?
No, he didn't invent it, only helped it.
Did he rewrite an improved Unix implimentation all by himself based on new ingenious concepts?
Not exactly no. He wrote the orginal kernel which started all this nice AltOS movement. Things don't have to be ingenious to recieve praise. They just have to work better.
did he start a small kernel based on existing and tested ideas and then have thousands of people expand it, imnprove it and make it grow?
Not bad for a college student from Finland who speaks Swedish and has a thing for Penguins.
is he an excellent programmer (probably 100x better than me)?
Never seen ya program...
He has a good work ethic and that is what makes a programmer who he is.
RB
You can do anything you want to it pretty much. Worms, trojans, viruses.
It is sad that I can think of 6 different ways to do each and every one of your items and have them work.
Who knows... One maybe out there now.
RB
Well, it's that time of the year and all the stations are trying to out do themselves trying to get ratings. They thought they had the next Monica Lewinsky and ran with it without verifying their sources (Breaking a cardnial rule in Journalism). It is amazing what some "news" stations will do to get you to watch
Here in Texas, A few things:
Win $X dollars on Watch2Win (Other station followed suit in a week)
Sex on the Internet: A Special Report
What to do when your car is on fire
And I haven't even been watching the news!
It is sad that the only reliable source of news is your own two eyes.
RB
All schools have their little longstanding traditions. MIT has one of something called "Hacks". They are practical jokes that:
A. Are in good taste.
B. Non Destructive.
This is merely an example of one. This is a tradition. And a fun one at that.
RB
Chatting with some of my friends there led me to believe something big was planned for today.
Now I know.
I expected something about SW, but not that
Another Hack in the great tradition.
RB
I read it in my history text in college and in some newspapers dated from that time. While it does state that he is a citizen of Berlin, A Berliner was a popular pastry at the time in the 60's. I am not sure if it is today. A few people interviewed after the speech laughed at that reference when asked about it.
RB
Most people are familiar with the term
Ich Bin Ein
I am a...
from JFK's famous speech (Even though he called himself a jelly donut).
He was mentioning that he uses SuSE. (SuSer)
Since SuSE is from germany.... Sorta fits
RB