"Because I have no idea how networking and file systems even come into the same picture."
Appearantly niether does Microsoft.
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WinFS Gets the Axe
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I do think that OS 8 had one thing going for it that Vista wont:
The combination of a significant increase in the amount of PPC native code in the System & Finder's internals and an improved 68k emulator meant that lots of people's computers performed faster than they did with the previous release.
MS will accomplish that feat shortly after they cure the common cold.
Another way of looking at it:
a: Businesses use networks
b: Microsoft's target customer is business
c: WinFS had difficulty functionning over a network
Therefore Microsoft's design methodology is so deeply flawed that they couldn't architecht themselves out of a paper-bag.
I mean really, can you imagine a filesystem designed in the 21st century that doesn't have networking as a major design proirity?
For the given model of the object, it works, but if you make other assumptions about it's composition, it doesn't. As you say, much depends upon just out of what the thing is made.
Actually, I saw a paper presented back in the late 90's that fairly convincingly made the case for a mostly iron meteor. The author's contention was that the object slowed due to air resistance, it would heat up. As is heated, the metal would have softenned. As it softenned, the metal would start to pancake like a dum-dum bullet. As it pancakes, its air resistance increases, causing it to slow down even more and heat up even faster, causing it to pancake even more... until you get an airbirst at an altitude with on the order of magnitude suggested by the tree angles at Tunguska. If you acept his hypothesis about the meteor's composition, there were no major contradictions in the evidence.
This is the sort of test that the previous one purported to be. The other test had the system configured to allow anyone to create shell accounts by remote connections, thus quickly becoming a local security test rather than a test of srver robustness. It probably got forkbbombed or something similar. Not many systems can hold up against a serious attack from the inside.
This time around the machine seems to be in a more typical web server configuration. This is still fairly close to default setup rather than a specifically hardenned one. Let us see.
If the Telcos did business more or less privately like any normal business, you'd have a good point. However, that is far from the case.
The Telcos have been the beneficiaries of large grants of land siezed or given to them by the government. The government taxes their customers and then hands that money to the Telcos to pay for capital improvements in less profitable geogephic markets. The Telcos benefit from government regulation that places enourmous barriers to entry for competitors attempting to enter their markets.
So yeah, the are subject to congressional oversight. If they don't like that they should'nt have gone to Congress in the first place for all the freebies and just conducted business in an open market.
It really hacks me off when whiney corps try to have it both ways.
"Scientology" is based on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard. They claim that their "Dianetic" practices free you from spiritual baggage left over from an alien massacre before the dawn of history, and that psychology is a horrible fraud. They're the ones who sue people all the time, recruit celebrities, and have big ostentatious temples. Find out more at Operation Clambake.
"Christian Science" is based on the teachings of Jesus, as interpreted by Mary Baker Eddy. They're kind of like gnostics, is gnosticism were invented by a Presbyterian woman in the Southeast in the 19th century. They believe in solving worldly problems through spiritual means so as to trancend the illusion of the material world and grow closer to God (that's why they don't go to the doctor). They operate quiet reading rooms and an highly respected news organization
Like most "fair use" scenarios, there are guidelines that have evolved through practice and care law.
In the example you cite, the hub would only be OK if the works were not replicated in their entirity and were only made available to other teachers and their students in the context of a music theory class or similar.
"Excerptation for the purpose of pedagogy" is one of the cornerstones of the "fair use" exemption. I applaud playing hardball against disingenuous idealogues dressing their dogma up in a patina of science (if ID were such a great theory, where were its proponents BEFORE the SCOTUS ruled against the teaching of "Creation Science?"). On the other hand, this sort of thing is not OK.
They're using copyright as a stick to silence people who disagree with them.
It's wrong when the Scientologists do it, and its wrong here too.
If that reference had been available 5 years ago, millions of people with DOCSIS compliant cable modems wouldn't have had to suffer through MS's bass-ackwards DHCP handshaking. Especially if it's NT4 back-end + Cisco/Arris DOCSIS. No IP for you!
MS's look but don't touch liscences are textbook "embrace-extend" moves though.
So neither attempt actually used a parabolic...
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Archimedes Death Ray
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While a large array of flat mirrors can approximate the behavior of a single parabolic reflector, both attempts suffered from problems of light dispersion due to the Sun not-quite being a point source, and due to the difficulties of focussing the many elements of the array with the necessary degree of precision.An actual parabolic reflector would solve both of these problems.
Remember, this was a siege defense weapon. Archimedes would've had acess to Syracuse's best mason's and smiths to construct his Death-Ray, and the King's coffers to fund it.
It would not be inconceivable for him to have started by carefully sculpting large clay molds to very precise tolerances, using the molds to cast the bronze dish, polishing it, and then coating the dish with a clear or white glaze to increase its reflectance (and thus efficienncy/output power).
Such a scenario would require several skilled craftsmen, but presumably such were available. MIT and Mythbusters both went for the quick&easy way, and not surprisingly encountered difficulties.
If three-way redundant connections for each major host were still the norm, no one could screw around like this. The profit motive is what stole the network's resiliance.
My first email adress was "p057@nemomus"
What's that? Doesn't look like you could resolve that address?
Well, from that new-fangled "internet" you could type in "p057@nemomus.bitnet" and it would come through just fine.
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Appearantly niether does Microsoft.
The combination of a significant increase in the amount of PPC native code in the System & Finder's internals and an improved 68k emulator meant that lots of people's computers performed faster than they did with the previous release.
MS will accomplish that feat shortly after they cure the common cold.
Another way of looking at it: a: Businesses use networks b: Microsoft's target customer is business c: WinFS had difficulty functionning over a network Therefore Microsoft's design methodology is so deeply flawed that they couldn't architecht themselves out of a paper-bag. I mean really, can you imagine a filesystem designed in the 21st century that doesn't have networking as a major design proirity?
What's really sad is that BeOS had a woking usable dbFS TEN YEARS AGO!!!! I bet Visa idles more RAM and CPU resources than an BeBox had to begin with.
Maybe it was supposed to be "WhenFS?" (FP?)
In a related announcement, Microsoft announced that Raynard D. Fox will be their new Executive Vice-President for Henhouse Security.
Mel would certainly not care for interpereted languages.
I've had a hanckerin' for a monosword for years.
For the given model of the object, it works, but if you make other assumptions about it's composition, it doesn't. As you say, much depends upon just out of what the thing is made.
Actually, I saw a paper presented back in the late 90's that fairly convincingly made the case for a mostly iron meteor. The author's contention was that the object slowed due to air resistance, it would heat up. As is heated, the metal would have softenned. As it softenned, the metal would start to pancake like a dum-dum bullet. As it pancakes, its air resistance increases, causing it to slow down even more and heat up even faster, causing it to pancake even more... until you get an airbirst at an altitude with on the order of magnitude suggested by the tree angles at Tunguska. If you acept his hypothesis about the meteor's composition, there were no major contradictions in the evidence.
Philip Jose Farmer predicted "batacitors" in his novels decades ago. Chalk annother one up for life imitating science fiction.
The answer should be obvious.
This is the sort of test that the previous one purported to be. The other test had the system configured to allow anyone to create shell accounts by remote connections, thus quickly becoming a local security test rather than a test of srver robustness. It probably got forkbbombed or something similar. Not many systems can hold up against a serious attack from the inside. This time around the machine seems to be in a more typical web server configuration. This is still fairly close to default setup rather than a specifically hardenned one. Let us see.
The Telcos have been the beneficiaries of large grants of land siezed or given to them by the government. The government taxes their customers and then hands that money to the Telcos to pay for capital improvements in less profitable geogephic markets. The Telcos benefit from government regulation that places enourmous barriers to entry for competitors attempting to enter their markets.
So yeah, the are subject to congressional oversight. If they don't like that they should'nt have gone to Congress in the first place for all the freebies and just conducted business in an open market.
It really hacks me off when whiney corps try to have it both ways.
"Christian Science" is based on the teachings of Jesus, as interpreted by Mary Baker Eddy. They're kind of like gnostics, is gnosticism were invented by a Presbyterian woman in the Southeast in the 19th century. They believe in solving worldly problems through spiritual means so as to trancend the illusion of the material world and grow closer to God (that's why they don't go to the doctor). They operate quiet reading rooms and an highly respected news organization
Big difference.
Like most "fair use" scenarios, there are guidelines that have evolved through practice and care law. In the example you cite, the hub would only be OK if the works were not replicated in their entirity and were only made available to other teachers and their students in the context of a music theory class or similar.
They're using copyright as a stick to silence people who disagree with them. It's wrong when the Scientologists do it, and its wrong here too.
MS's look but don't touch liscences are textbook "embrace-extend" moves though.
Remember, this was a siege defense weapon. Archimedes would've had acess to Syracuse's best mason's and smiths to construct his Death-Ray, and the King's coffers to fund it.
It would not be inconceivable for him to have started by carefully sculpting large clay molds to very precise tolerances, using the molds to cast the bronze dish, polishing it, and then coating the dish with a clear or white glaze to increase its reflectance (and thus efficienncy/output power).
Such a scenario would require several skilled craftsmen, but presumably such were available. MIT and Mythbusters both went for the quick&easy way, and not surprisingly encountered difficulties.
Word has also leaked that Google is in negotiations with Bill Brasky to come on board as their new Chief Whoopass Officer.
If three-way redundant connections for each major host were still the norm, no one could screw around like this. The profit motive is what stole the network's resiliance.
My first email adress was "p057@nemomus" What's that? Doesn't look like you could resolve that address? Well, from that new-fangled "internet" you could type in "p057@nemomus.bitnet" and it would come through just fine.
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You mean like most of California?
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