In the Star Wars movies there are many references to the Jedi being the guardians of the galaxy for thousands of generations. If you take a generation as 20 years and thousands of years to be at least 2000 years you come to 40,000 years at a minimum.
The game starts in the last 10% of the old republic's life span, maybe less. I can see the game leading to the downfall of the republic and sequals of the game taking you through Episode I - Episode VI. I'd be really interested if they include the Clone Wars. That would be very interesting IMHO.
You are forgetting about serindipidity. The pursuit of unknown properties of physics that may never benefit man will most definitely lead to other discoveries that will. The knowledge that man kind gains from this research will probably lead others down different paths to develop things never imagined before. What ever it is they develop may not be directly related to research into the neutrino but it will never have happened unless the research on the neutrino was conducted.
Then the other side of it is the new tools developed for studying the neutrino have most definitely progressed the sensitivity of measurement devices. These new devices, or more precisely, the technology gained from the development of these new devices will lead science and hence man kind into new wonderful directions never dreamed of before.
Just because it doesn't appear to give any results doesn't mean that it won't or already hasn't. The research into the neutrino has already impacted society more than anybody can measure.
When looking at everything in the software industry you have to take out the shining reviews and the FUD reviews. In the middle of thoes extremes is where you will find somthing close to the truth.
But who do you trust? When it comes to Linux I trust my self. Right now I have a server that has been running for 95 days now! It is running Apache, VNC, DNS, FTP, SSH, MySQL, and many other things. Nothing has crashed. In fact when netscape pre6 came out I put a mirror and it withstood the/. effect:)
I trust my self. I trust the fact that my development cycle on Linux is faster than MS. I trust the fact that I can run more software with less hardware than I can with MS because I am doing it.
I trust the fact that Linux and most of the applications for it are more stable than MS crap because it has been running for 3x longer than MS ever has and under a heavier load.
I trust these things because of my experienc. Not because of some company praising Linux or Micro$oft.
If you are in doubt of which is a better product, review them your self. Or like I said discount the stunning reviews and the FUD then you may come to a somwhat truthfull conclusion.
Nonsense. It's a song either way. One way, you download one file, the other way, you buy one CD. I disagree with those who have the misguided belief that we need to throw away all of our laws and principles because of the so-called "information age".
Did I say that we need to throw our principles away? All that I was saying is that for the delivery of music in electronic format the music companys have to adapt. And IMHO I believe that music over the web will become a legitamite sevice business that people pay money for. Like the ISP business.
I also did not say that we should give up our current way of doing things. I do not believe that music on a physical media will die. It is just too convenient to carry a CD over to a friends house for a party or something like that. I do believe that new forms of distribution will evolve.
Until recently music has been a Measurable Commodity. You go to the store buy a physical item, a medium for carrying music/information, which contains music. Recently, though, the digitization of music has made it an Immeasurable Commodity, the medium for carrying music has evolved into electrons traveling over a wire, which cannot be measured.
The ISP industry was almost the same thing. When bandwidth with was limited it was expensive for an ISP to allow for extended periods of time for a customer to use its services. We as a customer paid by the minute for the use of bandwidth. As technology improved the price for bandwidth plummeted and bandwidth moved from a Measurable Commodity to an Immeasurable Commodity. We now pay a flat rate, by the month, for the service of delivering bandwidth.
Music has made the transition from a Measurable Commodity to an Immeasurable Commodity so the the mechanism for payment has to change, like the payment for bandwidth changed. The big music companies of the future are going to provide a service that you pay $10 to $20 a month for and you are allowed to download as much music as you like. But then again this IJMHO.
You bring up a good point but Transmetta still has a card up their sleeve.
If there is a problem with the chip ( somthing like the FDIV bug of intel ) they can distribute a hot patch for the interpreting code of the chip to work around the bug. This would give them time to fixt the bug and replace the defective parts. It would also keep the customer partially happy due to the fact that the bug is no longer a hinderance; now they only have a performance hit that, depending on the problem, may not be noticable.
I could be wrong, someone correct me if I am, but I thought an idea could not be patented, only an implementation of an idea.
The idea of hyperlinking cannot be patented but the implementation can be. So the questions are what is the implementation that is patented and who is using it?
I'm not going to mention the name of the ISP, a pretty big one, but they are running a Linux box that is servicing over 60 web sites that hasn't been backed up in 3 months and has absoutly no firewall on it.
All of their servers are wide open, i.e. NO FIREWALL! I've just started to administer them (only in extreme circumstances) and I keep pushing for a firewall. Their disregard for security is alarming. They have telnet wide open on every unix machine.
I'm being sub-contracted right now and reciently they were cracked by a script kiddy. They are now finally replacing telnet with ssh but SLOWLY. So in my experience ISP farms are not well-secured they only try to make you feel that way.
You're right! I didn't think of it that way. I should have knowing that is how WINE has been developed. They have to emulate the hidden API calles to get apps such as Word97 to run.
Anyway try to explain that to a legal councel/judge/lawyer and them understand it.
I have a few questions for the people who think that the MS source code should be released...
Which version(s)?
Which Service Pack(s)?
Which hot fixe(s)
Should applications be released?
If the software isn't released how will you know if it uses the "Hidden APIs"
IF the software is released you completely take away MS competitive advantage (which is their right.) Then the government will be forced to pay for the losses which comes directly out of our pockets. Plus if we pay for the software in the future we have paid for it twice.
What about the code MS has that is licensed from other Companies? This code cannot be released." Without this code you will never be able to make heads or tails out of their code.
If the source code is released what kind of supporting documentation should be released with it? If there are no restrictions on the documentation MS will strip out all comments and only the greatest hackers of our time will be able to decipher it, and the greatest hackers of this time will never take the time to look at it. If there is documentation how much? If all the documentation is released then just to get through that would take eons. Where is a middle ground. MS has already shown them selves to be uncooperative. They would release as little as possible.
With all those point and others I haven't thought of it would take years to resolve this and MS would be continuing on there way as they always have before. Then the source code that is released would be obsolete. Putting us right back where we are.
I work with ISS frequently and view them to be a very professional and ethical firm.
I did not mean to imply that ISS did anything. I did not mean to finger anyone specifically. I do believe that anti-virus companies have released viriuses for more revenue.
I do agree with the kiddies having written the ILOVEYOU and it variants.
During the last couple of months, firms like ISS had a huge increase in sales. With the Love Bug and copycat viruses I'm sure the AV companies are also seeing increased profits.
They are the ones probably writing the viruses to get the increased profits.
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Speaking of Metallica...
Today on the way to work one of their songs came on the raido. I like metallica but after the mp3 thing I just got this sick feeling. I like the music but ever since the Napster thing I just cannot listen to them any more.
Seriously though, I just saw the post by the AC and couldnt' resist! He was bating and I grabbed. I almost moderated it down to off topic but I posted instead here and somewhere else.
I've had experience with Oracle and Sybase and Postgres and MySql and MS SQL Server. The only one that is bad is SQL Server. The others have there strong points and their negative points. But except for SQL Server they are all really good DBs.
They are not a monopoly and have competition from more than one company/community! The only Large Unamed corporation that has little/no cometition that pumps out bad software is Microsoft. Your logic is flawed.
When the competition is winning and you know you will lose then throw in the towel early, give out the source code for free and recive the kudos/PR for doing so.
A year or two ago releasing Motif would have been great but now we have lesstif, which does a really good job. We also have GTK+ and QT, both soon to rival Motif.
This will help the open soucre movement but, sadly, not as much if it had been a year or two ago.
The cost of a vehicle like the space shuttle is enormous. I don't have the figure at hand, but it is on the order of a million dollars (taxpayer money) each flight. Just getting up and going down. Tough to make a profit with those sort of costs.
Yea the cost is enormous now. So was a pentium when it first came out. Point maid? If not in the future cheaper and alternate ways of getting stuff from space will be developed. As someone else posted...
The Chinese have returned probes with heat shields composed of compressed walnut shells (if memory serves), the Russians have successfully tested inflatable heat-shields for reusable probes, and most goods (especially electronics) can handle tens or hundreds of G's if properly packed.
As to the water you said...
As to the comment about water being on the moon, I believe another reader answered it. At this point, no one knows.
That is correct nobody knows for sure. But NASA as a strong belief. I to believe that there is water on the moon for a couple of reasons.
It is a definite that there is hydrogen. In the universe hydrogen gas is the most abundant matter. Hydrogen gas is defiantly not on the moon. So what else could be there? With the abundance of water in comets I do believe that there is water on the moon deposited by a comet. However this is pure conjecture but most times the simplest explanation is most often the case. With all the facts and all the possibilities there is probably water on the moon.
Anyway thanks for your coments it is not often that I find someon so knowledgable in the area of space and space exploration who is willing to debate!
BTW, sorry about the troll thing, I couldn't resist;)
I first asked my self, "Why would a corporation be interested in making an extremely detailed map of the mood?" Then it just hit me.
An extremely detailed map would allow for planning a more in-depth mission. Possibly for mineral/metal prospecting for future mining missions. For a corporation the moon may be the most valuable untapped resource EVER.
They wouldn't have any government regulations. How can you pollute an already lethally radioactive environment? You cannot pollute an atmosphere because there isn't one.
You have the stability of a huge body (not an asteroid with almost no gravity) with low gravity. The low gravity would allow for cheaper movement and processing of the minerals on the moon. The minerals produced would be much stronger due to the low gravity and the vacuum of space. You also have water, which was recently found on the southern poll.
After you have set up shop you must get the goods back to earth. Well the low gravity of the moon and vacuum of space presents a rely cool option. You can build a huge catapult that would launch the goods at tremendous speeds, kinda like they have on an aircraft carrier. These goods would fall into orbit around the earth and be used for whatever... A space station or brought back to earth for sale.
The possibilities are endless and mankind finally has the technology to explore them.
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In the Star Wars movies there are many references to the Jedi being the guardians of the galaxy for thousands of generations. If you take a generation as 20 years and thousands of years to be at least 2000 years you come to 40,000 years at a minimum.
The game starts in the last 10% of the old republic's life span, maybe less. I can see the game leading to the downfall of the republic and sequals of the game taking you through Episode I - Episode VI. I'd be really interested if they include the Clone Wars. That would be very interesting IMHO.
You are forgetting about serindipidity. The pursuit of unknown properties of physics that may never benefit man will most definitely lead to other discoveries that will. The knowledge that man kind gains from this research will probably lead others down different paths to develop things never imagined before. What ever it is they develop may not be directly related to research into the neutrino but it will never have happened unless the research on the neutrino was conducted.
Then the other side of it is the new tools developed for studying the neutrino have most definitely progressed the sensitivity of measurement devices. These new devices, or more precisely, the technology gained from the development of these new devices will lead science and hence man kind into new wonderful directions never dreamed of before.
Just because it doesn't appear to give any results doesn't mean that it won't or already hasn't. The research into the neutrino has already impacted society more than anybody can measure.
There is a summary of the article on Linuxtoday.com.
X bloated? I really don't think so...
Checke this out
A linux distro that is about 8 MB. It includes X and networking capabilities.
If this is bloat then all the software in the world is bloated. And windows is just obese.
When looking at everything in the software industry you have to take out the shining reviews and the FUD reviews. In the middle of thoes extremes is where you will find somthing close to the truth.
/. effect:)
But who do you trust? When it comes to Linux I trust my self. Right now I have a server that has been running for 95 days now! It is running Apache, VNC, DNS, FTP, SSH, MySQL, and many other things. Nothing has crashed. In fact when netscape pre6 came out I put a mirror and it withstood the
I trust my self. I trust the fact that my development cycle on Linux is faster than MS. I trust the fact that I can run more software with less hardware than I can with MS because I am doing it.
I trust the fact that Linux and most of the applications for it are more stable than MS crap because it has been running for 3x longer than MS ever has and under a heavier load.
I trust these things because of my experienc. Not because of some company praising Linux or Micro$oft.
If you are in doubt of which is a better product, review them your self. Or like I said discount the stunning reviews and the FUD then you may come to a somwhat truthfull conclusion.
Nonsense. It's a song either way. One way, you download one file, the other way, you buy one CD. I disagree with those who have the misguided belief that we need to throw away all of our laws and principles because of the so-called "information age".
Did I say that we need to throw our principles away? All that I was saying is that for the delivery of music in electronic format the music companys have to adapt. And IMHO I believe that music over the web will become a legitamite sevice business that people pay money for. Like the ISP business.
I also did not say that we should give up our current way of doing things. I do not believe that music on a physical media will die. It is just too convenient to carry a CD over to a friends house for a party or something like that. I do believe that new forms of distribution will evolve.
That is why the FSF encourages owners of GPLed code to give the copyright to them so these things cannot happen.
Until recently music has been a Measurable Commodity. You go to the store buy a physical item, a medium for carrying music/information, which contains music. Recently, though, the digitization of music has made it an Immeasurable Commodity, the medium for carrying music has evolved into electrons traveling over a wire, which cannot be measured.
The ISP industry was almost the same thing. When bandwidth with was limited it was expensive for an ISP to allow for extended periods of time for a customer to use its services. We as a customer paid by the minute for the use of bandwidth. As technology improved the price for bandwidth plummeted and bandwidth moved from a Measurable Commodity to an Immeasurable Commodity. We now pay a flat rate, by the month, for the service of delivering bandwidth.
Music has made the transition from a Measurable Commodity to an Immeasurable Commodity so the the mechanism for payment has to change, like the payment for bandwidth changed. The big music companies of the future are going to provide a service that you pay $10 to $20 a month for and you are allowed to download as much music as you like. But then again this IJMHO.
I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated.
You bring up a good point but Transmetta still has a card up their sleeve.
If there is a problem with the chip ( somthing like the FDIV bug of intel ) they can distribute a hot patch for the interpreting code of the chip to work around the bug. This would give them time to fixt the bug and replace the defective parts. It would also keep the customer partially happy due to the fact that the bug is no longer a hinderance; now they only have a performance hit that, depending on the problem, may not be noticable.
I could be wrong, someone correct me if I am, but I thought an idea could not be patented, only an implementation of an idea.
The idea of hyperlinking cannot be patented but the implementation can be. So the questions are what is the implementation that is patented and who is using it?
ISP farms are reasonably well-secured.
I'm not going to mention the name of the ISP, a pretty big one, but they are running a Linux box that is servicing over 60 web sites that hasn't been backed up in 3 months and has absoutly no firewall on it.
All of their servers are wide open, i.e. NO FIREWALL! I've just started to administer them (only in extreme circumstances) and I keep pushing for a firewall. Their disregard for security is alarming. They have telnet wide open on every unix machine.
I'm being sub-contracted right now and reciently they were cracked by a script kiddy. They are now finally replacing telnet with ssh but SLOWLY. So in my experience ISP farms are not well-secured they only try to make you feel that way.
You're right! I didn't think of it that way. I should have knowing that is how WINE has been developed. They have to emulate the hidden API calles to get apps such as Word97 to run.
Anyway try to explain that to a legal councel/judge/lawyer and them understand it.
With all those point and others I haven't thought of it would take years to resolve this and MS would be continuing on there way as they always have before. Then the source code that is released would be obsolete. Putting us right back where we are.
I work with ISS frequently and view them to be a very professional and ethical firm.
I did not mean to imply that ISS did anything. I did not mean to finger anyone specifically. I do believe that anti-virus companies have released viriuses for more revenue.
I do agree with the kiddies having written the ILOVEYOU and it variants.
During the last couple of months, firms like ISS had a huge increase in sales. With the Love Bug and copycat viruses I'm sure the AV companies are also seeing increased profits.
They are the ones probably writing the viruses to get the increased profits.
Speaking of Metallica...
Today on the way to work one of their songs came on the raido. I like metallica but after the mp3 thing I just got this sick feeling. I like the music but ever since the Napster thing I just cannot listen to them any more.
I'M NOT UPSET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously though, I just saw the post by the AC and couldnt' resist! He was bating and I grabbed. I almost moderated it down to off topic but I posted instead here and somewhere else.
I've had experience with Oracle and Sybase and Postgres and MySql and MS SQL Server. The only one that is bad is SQL Server. The others have there strong points and their negative points. But except for SQL Server they are all really good DBs.
They are not a monopoly and have competition from more than one company/community! The only Large Unamed corporation that has little/no cometition that pumps out bad software is Microsoft. Your logic is flawed.
So why am I wasting my time with a troll?
Endless loop... Ummm. No.
for (int i=1; i>0; i++)
your int will wrap arond to a negative number being less than zero and exiting the loop. A less error prone way of doing things would be...
while(1)...
or
for(;;)...
Now this is endless and more efficient (no incrementing!)
When the competition is winning and you know you will lose then throw in the towel early, give out the source code for free and recive the kudos/PR for doing so.
A year or two ago releasing Motif would have been great but now we have lesstif, which does a really good job. We also have GTK+ and QT, both soon to rival Motif.
This will help the open soucre movement but, sadly, not as much if it had been a year or two ago.
The cost of a vehicle like the space shuttle is enormous. I don't have the figure at hand, but it is on the order of a million dollars (taxpayer money) each flight. Just getting up and going down. Tough to make a profit with those sort of costs.
Yea the cost is enormous now. So was a pentium when it first came out. Point maid? If not in the future cheaper and alternate ways of getting stuff from space will be developed. As someone else posted...
The Chinese have returned probes with heat shields composed of compressed walnut shells (if memory serves), the Russians have successfully tested inflatable heat-shields for reusable probes, and most goods (especially electronics) can handle tens or hundreds of G's if properly packed.
As to the water you said...
As to the comment about water being on the moon, I believe another reader answered it. At this point, no one knows.
That is correct nobody knows for sure. But NASA as a strong belief. I to believe that there is water on the moon for a couple of reasons.
It is a definite that there is hydrogen. In the universe hydrogen gas is the most abundant matter. Hydrogen gas is defiantly not on the moon. So what else could be there? With the abundance of water in comets I do believe that there is water on the moon deposited by a comet. However this is pure conjecture but most times the simplest explanation is most often the case. With all the facts and all the possibilities there is probably water on the moon.
Anyway thanks for your coments it is not often that I find someon so knowledgable in the area of space and space exploration who is willing to debate!
BTW, sorry about the troll thing, I couldn't resist;)
The environment is not radioactive.
Yes it is. One of the design issues of the space suites is to protect against radiation from the sun. IMO that is part of the environment.
Water was not found on the moon
Ummmm.... NASA tends to disagree
Other links....
another NASA article
More water than original estimates
Info on Prospector
For instance, goods falling into earth's atmosphere would need to be assured of a safe reentry.
I never said that! Please read what I wrote...
These goods would fall into orbit around the earth and be used for whatever... A space station or brought back to earth for sale.
That is brought back to earth for sale. Most likely by a space craft similar to the space shuttle!
A steel produced in a vacuum is stronger. Read it here
Anyway if you try to refute statements please back them up with facts like this. I was just making a comment not submitting a report.
Maybe I am just responding to a troll.
I first asked my self, "Why would a corporation be interested in making an extremely detailed map of the mood?" Then it just hit me.
An extremely detailed map would allow for planning a more in-depth mission. Possibly for mineral/metal prospecting for future mining missions. For a corporation the moon may be the most valuable untapped resource EVER.
They wouldn't have any government regulations. How can you pollute an already lethally radioactive environment? You cannot pollute an atmosphere because there isn't one.
You have the stability of a huge body (not an asteroid with almost no gravity) with low gravity. The low gravity would allow for cheaper movement and processing of the minerals on the moon. The minerals produced would be much stronger due to the low gravity and the vacuum of space. You also have water, which was recently found on the southern poll.
After you have set up shop you must get the goods back to earth. Well the low gravity of the moon and vacuum of space presents a rely cool option. You can build a huge catapult that would launch the goods at tremendous speeds, kinda like they have on an aircraft carrier. These goods would fall into orbit around the earth and be used for whatever... A space station or brought back to earth for sale.
The possibilities are endless and mankind finally has the technology to explore them.