While I am not involved in the BlueOS project, I think my work is complementary to theirs. Eventually, it should be possible to boot from a BeFS volume, compile and run BeOS apps, and not know that it is the linux kernel underneath it all.
Why do you think breathing a 2psi atmosphere would be painful? It wouldn't be a problem in a 100% O2 environment. As a previous poster pointed out, the partial pressure of O2 in the stuff you are breathing right now is 3PSI (0.21 * 14.7 = 3). That poster also pointed out that the pressure in flight was to be 5PSI, so it would have been richer in O2 than the air at sealevel.
While..."Even More Surprised By Poverty" would be part of a good title for an Onion story, it actually doesn't really fly. Seems to me that ESR was entirely realistic about the fact that stock isn't worth anything untill you actually sell it.
The second is a good point. One way to keep that from being an issue would be to have a closed loop of cpu coolant (with toxic shit in it), that dumps its heat to the fish tank through a heat exchanger (perhaps spliced into the return line from a canister filter, so as to keep most fish crap out of it).
Of course, if the heat exchanger coils leak, your fish will die and bacteria will grow in your waterblock. But that is a risk you take for being l33t.
Back in the 30s (IIRC), the feds used this very tactic against doctors who were prescribing "too many" narcotics. They initially charged several perfectly legitimate doctors with violations of the Harrison narcotics act, but the courts kept aquiting them.
So the feds waited until they caught some slimebag selling narcotics presriptions with no medical justification. They prosecuted that guy and won. Which is only sensible, since no jury wants to aquit some slimebag dope pusher.
However, that case effectivly set the precident that the feds had the power to regulate what real doctors could and could not prescribe for their patients.
Vaguely recalled source: "Drug Crazy", by Mike Gray.
For things like.iso files, where the user needs the whole file before they can use any of it, there is no need to start from the begining of the file.
Server sends the file over and over again, as long as there is at least one member of the mulitcast group.
Clients join the mulitcast group and start recording wherever in the file they happen to find themselves. When the file stream ends, it simply starts from the beginning again and the client procedes to capture the part that it missed the first time around before disconnecting.
Everything has a design lifetime. Parts wear out. It's a fact of life. I admit, for an expensive item such as this, I would want a longer lifetime before investing in it. Hopefully, they can improve this in future products.
From their statement, however, one can assume that the unit doesn't need to be cycled on and off to prevent overheating or anything like that.
Hmm. I wonder what the operating lifetime of a small (1.2kW) gasoline generator is?
Another remark, this law (and the DMCA too in lesser extent) reminds me of what happened when alcohol was banned in America : the maffia jumped on it and sold suddenly 'illegal' goods to the masses.
If the US was capable of remembering the harsh lessons of prohibition, we wouldn't have had a 20 year long "war on some drug users", now would we?
It tells us that the article's author, Eugenia Loli-Queru, is a longtime BeOS community member (and married to a [former?] Be employee). So it is only natural for her to think that BeFS rocks.
In fact, the BeFS's convient arbitrary meta-data attributes and indexing are a big reason that I still spend about half my time booted into BeOS. I'm really glad that ReiserFS is moving in that direction.
I'm not the author of the original post, but I'll take a stab at it.
Crack houses => Warez channels (places where lowlife scum hang out to do the things that the gov finds so reprehensible)
Driveby shootings over drug disputes => driveby shootings over warez deals gone bad
Meth labs up in flames => Uhh. I dunno. I don't think that bulk CD/DVD presses are particularly prone to combust. On the otherhand, they could outlaw CDRs. Some of the dyes they use are composed of nasty chemicals. Then before you know it, illegal CDR factories are having messy accidents all over the place.
In fact, I'm kinda surprised we haven't seen federal civil forfiture law applied to servers that host warez (even when the owners weren't aware of it).
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Jeez. Name one thing that couldn't be called "potentially lethal". Not to jump on your case, but that phrase just pisses me off.
Anyway: my main point.
One objective way to define the "safety" of a drug is to take the ratio of the minimum effective dose to the toxic dose (usually the LD50, the dosage level that causes 50% of lab rats to die). It is not unusual for a drug that is sold without prescription to have a toxic dose of 10-15 times the recommended dose. This is an acceptable margin of safety for our society, it seems.
LSD is much safer than MDMA, or just about any other drug (recreational or otherwise) that is in use today. The effective does is on the order of 100 micrograms. The toxic dose is on the order of 100 milligrams (0.1 grams). That is a saftey margin of 10000 doses. There was one famous case where a few people snorted ~1 gram each of pure LSD tartrate (apparently thinking it was coke). They all survived the experience (although I belive they were hospitalized for some time for ergot posioning).
The doseage level for MDMA where neurotoxixity has been observed in rats is about twice the typical recrational doseage level for people. Of course, rat brains are not a very good model of the human brain... And the rats didn't show any behavior changes... YMMV.
That said, I'd much rather have a child of mine choose to party with the help of MDMA than with any other drug except pot (and I wouldn't want them to smoke it, since smoking any plant material is harmful). I find it disgusting to live in a society where the date-rape drug alcohol is advertised heavily in the media and E users are persecuted.
The problem is the "Pay your money up front" part.
Big looser corporations have cash and spare employees to file speculative patents all day until a tired, underpaid patent clerk lets one slip through. --
Will Dyson
I remember seeing a story a while ago (not nessiarily on slashdot tho) about these people who were making a device that could manipulate your inner ear with electrostatic forces (or something). They were planning on selling these things into the gaming market for the purpose of having a more imersive and better syncronised gaming experinece. That is, when you eyes tell you that you are tilting, your inner ear agrees with them.
Games would have to be written to take advantage of this, but once it becomes available, it should help reduce nausea.
I really wish I could remember the name of the company that was gonna make these things... -- Will Dyson
No, you probably don't want a FireWire keyboard or mouse (or joystick and etc). Its gross overkill for those applications.
However, ask yourself the question "Do I want a USB2 camcorder/diskdrive"? These are the applications that Intel seems to be targeting with its marketing materials for USB2, which is a direct swipe at FireWire's market segment. -- Will Dyson
I think that you are laboring under the misaprehension that BeOS and BeIA are separate code-bases. As I understand it, they share the vast majority of their code.
BeIA is really just a push to make BeOS more useable in low-memory environments, both by reducing the overall memory footprint of the system (R5 uses somewhat less memory on my box than 4.5.2 did) and by making it easier for them to create custom versions of the system with unnessisary components removed (your IA doesn't have sound hardware? then don't run the audio/media server!). Maybe striping some cruft from the various system libraries as well for REALLY low memory usage.
That and a marketing campain directed at IA makers gets you BeIA from BeOS.
The point is: almost any improvement Be could make in BeIA is automaticly part of BeOS as well. For instance, an improved version of Opera (the web browser) would run on both products. Or the improved network stack... -- Will Dyson
The world definatly needs a high-quality frozen burrito. This unit often gets hungry durring a late-night hacking session, but most frozen foods I see in the grocery store look pretty nasty.
However, I find the presence of the dilbert charecters (especially Wally) on the packageing of the Diberito to be disturbing. It would have to be pretty damn good to make up for that. -- Will Dyson
Y'know, I had always assumed that CDs were made the sensible way. But now that I look at a couple of audio CDs (scratched one), I can see that you are correct. Even that R.E.M CD with both sides playable (new adventures in hi-fi, now that I look) is made like that.
This would also explain why putting a CD in the microwave puts cracks in the Ink layer... Shit, I'm feeling pretty unobservant right now.
Does CD-R media suffer from this same flaw (of having the data layer exposed to scratches)? I don't have any handy to check with. -- Will Dyson
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Which the ISP would be using weather or not the original poster actually downloads articles from the news server.
Good one! Thats going in my quotes file, if you don't mind.
While I am not involved in the BlueOS project, I think my work is complementary to theirs. Eventually, it should be possible to boot from a BeFS volume, compile and run BeOS apps, and not know that it is the linux kernel underneath it all.
Also worth a look is the OpenBeOS project, who have their own implementation of the Be Filesystem (which is actually progressing faster than mine).
Why do you think breathing a 2psi atmosphere would be painful? It wouldn't be a problem in a 100% O2 environment. As a previous poster pointed out, the partial pressure of O2 in the stuff you are breathing right now is 3PSI (0.21 * 14.7 = 3). That poster also pointed out that the pressure in flight was to be 5PSI, so it would have been richer in O2 than the air at sealevel.
While ..."Even More Surprised By Poverty" would be part of a good title for an Onion story, it actually doesn't really fly. Seems to me that ESR was entirely realistic about the fact that stock isn't worth anything untill you actually sell it.
The second is a good point. One way to keep that from being an issue would be to have a closed loop of cpu coolant (with toxic shit in it), that dumps its heat to the fish tank through a heat exchanger (perhaps spliced into the return line from a canister filter, so as to keep most fish crap out of it).
Of course, if the heat exchanger coils leak, your fish will die and bacteria will grow in your waterblock. But that is a risk you take for being l33t.
I'd like to introduce you to some of the teachers I had in High School.
Back in the 30s (IIRC), the feds used this very tactic against doctors who were prescribing "too many" narcotics. They initially charged several perfectly legitimate doctors with violations of the Harrison narcotics act, but the courts kept aquiting them.
So the feds waited until they caught some slimebag selling narcotics presriptions with no medical justification. They prosecuted that guy and won. Which is only sensible, since no jury wants to aquit some slimebag dope pusher.
However, that case effectivly set the precident that the feds had the power to regulate what real doctors could and could not prescribe for their patients.
Vaguely recalled source: "Drug Crazy", by Mike Gray.
You think a fuel cell is more complicated than a piston engine?!
Reversible electric moters == brakes.
For things like .iso files, where the user needs the whole file before they can use any of it, there is no need to start from the begining of the file.
Server sends the file over and over again, as long as there is at least one member of the mulitcast group.
Clients join the mulitcast group and start recording wherever in the file they happen to find themselves. When the file stream ends, it simply starts from the beginning again and the client procedes to capture the part that it missed the first time around before disconnecting.
Everything has a design lifetime. Parts wear out. It's a fact of life. I admit, for an expensive item such as this, I would want a longer lifetime before investing in it. Hopefully, they can improve this in future products.
From their statement, however, one can assume that the unit doesn't need to be cycled on and off to prevent overheating or anything like that.
Hmm. I wonder what the operating lifetime of a small (1.2kW) gasoline generator is?
If the US was capable of remembering the harsh lessons of prohibition, we wouldn't have had a 20 year long "war on some drug users", now would we?
Heh. If I ever get one of those CDs, I'll copy it (with whatever raw mode cd ripper) and then return the original as a defective product.
In fact, the BeFS's convient arbitrary meta-data attributes and indexing are a big reason that I still spend about half my time booted into BeOS. I'm really glad that ReiserFS is moving in that direction.
In fact, I'm kinda surprised we haven't seen federal civil forfiture law applied to servers that host warez (even when the owners weren't aware of it).
And since when do the system libraries normally ship with the executable?
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Will Dyson
Anyway: my main point.
One objective way to define the "safety" of a drug is to take the ratio of the minimum effective dose to the toxic dose (usually the LD50, the dosage level that causes 50% of lab rats to die). It is not unusual for a drug that is sold without prescription to have a toxic dose of 10-15 times the recommended dose. This is an acceptable margin of safety for our society, it seems.
LSD is much safer than MDMA, or just about any other drug (recreational or otherwise) that is in use today. The effective does is on the order of 100 micrograms. The toxic dose is on the order of 100 milligrams (0.1 grams). That is a saftey margin of 10000 doses. There was one famous case where a few people snorted ~1 gram each of pure LSD tartrate (apparently thinking it was coke). They all survived the experience (although I belive they were hospitalized for some time for ergot posioning).
The doseage level for MDMA where neurotoxixity has been observed in rats is about twice the typical recrational doseage level for people. Of course, rat brains are not a very good model of the human brain... And the rats didn't show any behavior changes... YMMV.
That said, I'd much rather have a child of mine choose to party with the help of MDMA than with any other drug except pot (and I wouldn't want them to smoke it, since smoking any plant material is harmful). I find it disgusting to live in a society where the date-rape drug alcohol is advertised heavily in the media and E users are persecuted.
--
Will Dyson
Oftentimes, they are not even charged with a crime.
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Will Dyson
The problem is the "Pay your money up front" part.
Big looser corporations have cash and spare employees to file speculative patents all day until a tired, underpaid patent clerk lets one slip through.
--
Will Dyson
Games would have to be written to take advantage of this, but once it becomes available, it should help reduce nausea.
I really wish I could remember the name of the company that was gonna make these things...
--
Will Dyson
No, you probably don't want a FireWire keyboard or mouse (or joystick and etc). Its gross overkill for those applications.
However, ask yourself the question "Do I want a USB2 camcorder/diskdrive"? These are the applications that Intel seems to be targeting with its marketing materials for USB2, which is a direct swipe at FireWire's market segment.
--
Will Dyson
I think that you are laboring under the misaprehension that BeOS and BeIA are separate code-bases. As I understand it, they share the vast majority of their code.
BeIA is really just a push to make BeOS more useable in low-memory environments, both by reducing the overall memory footprint of the system (R5 uses somewhat less memory on my box than 4.5.2 did) and by making it easier for them to create custom versions of the system with unnessisary components removed (your IA doesn't have sound hardware? then don't run the audio/media server!). Maybe striping some cruft from the various system libraries as well for REALLY low memory usage.
That and a marketing campain directed at IA makers gets you BeIA from BeOS.
The point is: almost any improvement Be could make in BeIA is automaticly part of BeOS as well. For instance, an improved version of Opera (the web browser) would run on both products. Or the improved network stack...
--
Will Dyson
The world definatly needs a high-quality frozen burrito. This unit often gets hungry durring a late-night hacking session, but most frozen foods I see in the grocery store look pretty nasty.
However, I find the presence of the dilbert charecters (especially Wally) on the packageing of the Diberito to be disturbing. It would have to be pretty damn good to make up for that.
--
Will Dyson
Y'know, I had always assumed that CDs were made the sensible way. But now that I look at a couple of audio CDs (scratched one), I can see that you are correct. Even that R.E.M CD with both sides playable (new adventures in hi-fi, now that I look) is made like that.
This would also explain why putting a CD in the microwave puts cracks in the Ink layer...
Shit, I'm feeling pretty unobservant right now.
Does CD-R media suffer from this same flaw (of having the data layer exposed to scratches)? I don't have any handy to check with.
--
Will Dyson