But mainframes which haven't been upgraded in 25 years are incredibly rare. Just like any other type of computer, every few years you upgrade the hardware with a new version.
Big question, why would we want to expand our horizons for manned missions to other planets?
An unmanned mission can acomplish much more at a much lower cost. A single shuttle launch costs $450 million, and spends about a week in orbit. Mars Pathfinder cost $265 million, and spent over 3 months exploring it's bit of Mars.
NASA asked for $450 billion in 1989 for a manned Mars mission, I'm not sure of how long it would spend on mars, but it would be 90 days from launch to land. That amount of money would allow about 2000 Mars Pathfinder missions, and could spend almost 500 exploration years on Mars - and that's assuming no improvements due to expierence and assembly line production.
No, Mir was a dead end station, it was well past it's design life (7 years) and degrading badly. However that doesn't mean that I think the ISS is paving anything. It's one thing to live in orbit around the Earth where you're one short progress trip home. It's a totally different thing to actually go somewhere.
Regardless of the exams, there is a perception that Microsoft is easier to administrate. It's certainly easier to bluder around the start menu. However, that's different from a real admin, who can fix problems. In my experience, it's about equal to find a good Unix admin to finding a good Windows admin.
No I couldn't, because passport is server based, not browser based. I go into my browser's preferences and configure my prefered languages. I should be able to go into my browser and configure my preferences about personal information and what I want to give out, and when I click on a signon page, that information is transfered automatically to register and sign me onto the site. If we don't have agreement on what information we want to exchange (eg if I don't want to expose my email address and the site wants it), then the automatic registration would fail.
No, but Unicode would. I think the principle is the same. Keep it as simple as possible, and not in propriatary binary file formats. I can read 30 year old ASCII source code a lot easier than I can read a 5 year old word processor file.
Historically, a lock manufacturer with a lock which is too easily circumvented has had to go out and invent a better lock. That's how we've got better and better locks.
No they wouldn't. Whoever currently owns the Acorn copyrights could sue them.
The BBC wanted a micro which they could use in their educational stuff. They went to Acorn, who was a successful manufacturer of the Atom, and basically they agreed that the next generation computer, which was to be called the Proton could be called the BBC Micro. This gave Acorn exposure and extra sales, and the BBC the machine they were looking for. For about a decade, you saw BBC micro's popping up in BBC shows including Dr Who. Acorn later made the Electron, and then the Archimedies, before going bankrupt.
Therefore the BBC do not own the copyright on the ROM's in the BBC micro.
I'd say that the major problem is a lack of natural language understanding algorythmns. It really takes an 'AI' approach for a program to break down a page's content into the the useful stuff. For example, take the typical slashdot page. If I had a screenreader, I wouldn't want the nav bars to be read out. In this reply window I wouldn't want the 'important stuff' to be read out, I might want the quote at the bottom of the page. None of these have any markup which would help a program understand what they are.
It's safe to say that in nearly every case, a feature added for accessability benefits everyone. Wheelchair ramps can be used by people with pushchairs. Electric doors can be used by people carrying large packages. ToggleKeys can be used by people who don't WANT TO TYPE LONG PASSAGES WITH THE CAPSLOCK KEY STUCK ON.
Mouse gestures can be turned off. Preferences/Accessability/Enable Mouse Gestures. There is nothing wrong with having something optional which may or may not be benefical.
Code signing is not a good defense. Most code signing schemes only prove that an app came from the supplier it says it did. There is nothing to prevent a malicious supplier putting in code to do these things. The only good defense would be an OS which prevented unauthorized apps from doing dangerous things. That's why all decent OS's built in say the last 40 years have had restrictions on what a program can do.
When even disabled themed sites such as The Terry Fox Foundation have flash animation and other non-accessable features, I have to wonder if we'll ever win the battle. As you can see when you read stories on sites like slashdot when stories about accessability come up, there are a large number of people who aren't just ambivilant about accessability, they are actively hostile. Will we ever get to a state when accessability is as natural as IE compatability?
That would help, but I don't think it would cure the problem. If the original story has a link to the register and the repost has a link to news.com, then it's not going to be kicked up. I'd exclude noise words in the summary, and do an automatic search on the rest, and display the top matches. A search on "Tivo" and "profiling" does display the two matches in this case, and so does "face" and "transplant" in the other example.
OSS should threaten Intels position. If you have the source, you can recompile it for a different architecture, if you've got the binary, then you're stuck with whatever it's compiled from.
I'd really recommend a legend or a vista instead. The mapping function really does make it much more fun and useable than the straight coords available on the Etrek.
It doesn't have to be explosive to be dangerous. A pressurized container of any sort can vent unexpectantly in the cargo bay, causing potential damage.
Well it can't stay in orbit forever. In the orbit it's in, it's affected by atmospheric drag, which is why it has to be reboosted by Progress cargo craft.
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UNIX is unsuitable for this platform.
IBM obviously disagree. Not only do they have Linux, OS/390 is the only non-AT&T code OS to be UNIX95 certified.
But mainframes which haven't been upgraded in 25 years are incredibly rare. Just like any other type of computer, every few years you upgrade the hardware with a new version.
An unmanned mission can acomplish much more at a much lower cost. A single shuttle launch costs $450 million, and spends about a week in orbit. Mars Pathfinder cost $265 million, and spent over 3 months exploring it's bit of Mars.
NASA asked for $450 billion in 1989 for a manned Mars mission, I'm not sure of how long it would spend on mars, but it would be 90 days from launch to land. That amount of money would allow about 2000 Mars Pathfinder missions, and could spend almost 500 exploration years on Mars - and that's assuming no improvements due to expierence and assembly line production.
No, Mir was a dead end station, it was well past it's design life (7 years) and degrading badly. However that doesn't mean that I think the ISS is paving anything. It's one thing to live in orbit around the Earth where you're one short progress trip home. It's a totally different thing to actually go somewhere.
Regardless of the exams, there is a perception that Microsoft is easier to administrate. It's certainly easier to bluder around the start menu. However, that's different from a real admin, who can fix problems. In my experience, it's about equal to find a good Unix admin to finding a good Windows admin.
No I couldn't, because passport is server based, not browser based. I go into my browser's preferences and configure my prefered languages. I should be able to go into my browser and configure my preferences about personal information and what I want to give out, and when I click on a signon page, that information is transfered automatically to register and sign me onto the site. If we don't have agreement on what information we want to exchange (eg if I don't want to expose my email address and the site wants it), then the automatic registration would fail.
No, ARM was an independant company, originally wholely owned by Acorn, then floated off.
No, but Unicode would. I think the principle is the same. Keep it as simple as possible, and not in propriatary binary file formats. I can read 30 year old ASCII source code a lot easier than I can read a 5 year old word processor file.
Historically, a lock manufacturer with a lock which is too easily circumvented has had to go out and invent a better lock. That's how we've got better and better locks.
The BBC wanted a micro which they could use in their educational stuff. They went to Acorn, who was a successful manufacturer of the Atom, and basically they agreed that the next generation computer, which was to be called the Proton could be called the BBC Micro. This gave Acorn exposure and extra sales, and the BBC the machine they were looking for. For about a decade, you saw BBC micro's popping up in BBC shows including Dr Who. Acorn later made the Electron, and then the Archimedies, before going bankrupt.
Therefore the BBC do not own the copyright on the ROM's in the BBC micro.
There is already the ability to negotiate image formats, languages and authentication schemes. Adding in registration shouldn't be a problem.
I'd say that the major problem is a lack of natural language understanding algorythmns. It really takes an 'AI' approach for a program to break down a page's content into the the useful stuff. For example, take the typical slashdot page. If I had a screenreader, I wouldn't want the nav bars to be read out. In this reply window I wouldn't want the 'important stuff' to be read out, I might want the quote at the bottom of the page. None of these have any markup which would help a program understand what they are.
It's safe to say that in nearly every case, a feature added for accessability benefits everyone. Wheelchair ramps can be used by people with pushchairs. Electric doors can be used by people carrying large packages. ToggleKeys can be used by people who don't WANT TO TYPE LONG PASSAGES WITH THE CAPSLOCK KEY STUCK ON.
Mouse gestures can be turned off. Preferences/Accessability/Enable Mouse Gestures. There is nothing wrong with having something optional which may or may not be benefical.
Code signing is not a good defense. Most code signing schemes only prove that an app came from the supplier it says it did. There is nothing to prevent a malicious supplier putting in code to do these things. The only good defense would be an OS which prevented unauthorized apps from doing dangerous things. That's why all decent OS's built in say the last 40 years have had restrictions on what a program can do.
I think this says a lot more about you than it does about Apple.
When even disabled themed sites such as The Terry Fox Foundation have flash animation and other non-accessable features, I have to wonder if we'll ever win the battle. As you can see when you read stories on sites like slashdot when stories about accessability come up, there are a large number of people who aren't just ambivilant about accessability, they are actively hostile. Will we ever get to a state when accessability is as natural as IE compatability?
That would help, but I don't think it would cure the problem. If the original story has a link to the register and the repost has a link to news.com, then it's not going to be kicked up. I'd exclude noise words in the summary, and do an automatic search on the rest, and display the top matches. A search on "Tivo" and "profiling" does display the two matches in this case, and so does "face" and "transplant" in the other example.
OSS should threaten Intels position. If you have the source, you can recompile it for a different architecture, if you've got the binary, then you're stuck with whatever it's compiled from.
I'd really recommend a legend or a vista instead. The mapping function really does make it much more fun and useable than the straight coords available on the Etrek.
It doesn't have to be explosive to be dangerous. A pressurized container of any sort can vent unexpectantly in the cargo bay, causing potential damage.
I've already got a GPS which will tell me where the nearest pizza hut is. Garmin Vista loaded with Mapquest Metroguide.
Well it can't stay in orbit forever. In the orbit it's in, it's affected by atmospheric drag, which is why it has to be reboosted by Progress cargo craft.
There is no question about it, the science value is zero. The permanant crew have no time other than keeping the station going.
No, they KNEW if they got a quicker and therefore cheaper way to India they would make a profit.