Flying a plane isn't that hard. The problem is knowing what all the knobs do. For example on a prop plane there are three levers. One controls the fuel flow into the engine, one controls the ratio of air to fuel and the other controls the slant on the prop. Engines with two planes have two sets of these controls. To fly a plane so that it will last a long time, you want to get both engines in sync but it will fly if they aren't. The fact of the mater is you can push all the levers forward and then pull back on the black ones till the plane is going the right speed. Planes fly themsevles, the pilots are just there to direct where they go.
Once you get up to about 20 hrs of flight time in a small cessna like plane, you will learn just how well a plane can fly its self. At the run way, go full throttle, maintain the heading till you get 400 ft above the runway, turn left 90 degrees. When the runway is 45 degrees to your left, turn another 90 degrees to the left. Drop the throttle to about 1700 and trim for 70 knots. When the plane is 45 degrees off the other end of the runway, drop one knotch of flaps, drop the throttle to about 1200, trim for 65 make a left turn. Drop the flaps down another knotch, trim for 60 and drop the throttle. When your 10 ft above the ground pull back on that yoke thing and the wheels should touch the ground. A cessna with an simple autopilot tied into a gps could do the turns for you. The problem is throttle and flaps but a PDA could tell you when to set those and to what position. The only other bit is the landing flair.
What needs to happen is some opensouce product needs to pattent everything its developers think about. It needs to be done in a country where you don't get to pay for each claim. So someone will need to submit a half million claim patent and see what happens. The reason IBM doesn't get sued over patents is they have a huge database of prior art in their approved and rejected patents. MS hasn't been playing the patent game but I expect they are wakeing up to the idea.
Its not the vertical force that causes the most damage, its the horizontal force and that has very little to do with how many wheels as far as most cars and trucks are concerned. Thats the reason that older bridges have very low speed limits for heavy trucks, the bridge can't cope with the horzontal loading.
In my attempts to show the powers that be how pathetic MS is, I've got a small test network that is running what our clients tend to run. That means only patches that windows update decides should be installed get installed.
This test network is sort of behind a firewall, meaning its behind a bsd box that watches for stupid things and then disconnects. So the Win XP, Win 2K, NT and Win 98 box all have all sorts of "extra" software on it. Sometimes the anti-virus software even finds it.
The XP box got hit by something so I slap the media in and reinstall (using the install/repair), The result is it was nailed before it got finished with the setup. Second attempt was without the network open to the world. It was all installed and I clicked the "windows update" and plugged in the lan. Before the critical update could get installed, the box is owned. The third time involved plugging it into the other port of the bsd box to firewall it since there is no chance this thing is going on any of the production networks, and the install and updates could be completed without it going over to the darker side of being a spamers tool chest.
The result is I can't see how most of our customers can clean up their machines in the current enviroment.
A solution for this is for MS to come up with a new CD that has an core install for Win 98/ME/XP or whatever. If they are worried about piracy they can insist you feed it the original CD but they should have install CD's at my local computer shop for $10 that will take care of this nonsense.
Iv'e also been wondering how much money does MS make because of this? I've got a few clients that are upgrading from win98 to win ME because of this threat so I'm assuming there are more. How many people got their old computer messed up and just decided nows the time to upgrade? MS is not hurting at all from this and they know it.
Meanwhile I've only got two Windows boxes on the production network at one site and three left on the critial production network at the other site. Too bad there are too many workstations still running the crud.
I need some "windows kill" stickers to put on the new X1 server. It's killed 4 windows boxes to date and one more is in its crosshairs.
A Saturn V is overkill for a capsule unless you want to get it to the moon. Remember a Saturn V put skylab in a higher orbit than the shuttle can fly and skylab was about the same mass as a fully loaded shuttle. The skylab flights (just capsules) were launched with Saturn 1B which is about the same as the 2nd stage of the V.
I've seem most of the Saturn V launches from Coco Beach. They were very impressive.
They were aiming for 1 mi from a specific carrier. As you can see, they were quite good. They didn't want to land too close incase they hit the carrier and they didn't want it too far away because they had to go find it. Remember there had been a questions about capsules sinking. At the time there would be about three carrier groups and would pick one based on the weather.
From the people that I know who delt with him at the time who do not work for MS will not back up that statment. Its sort fo like when the boss decides he wants to "help out" and someone with a clue says "oh heres a function we need fixed" and hands him a bit of code that will get pulled out just as soon as the new bit your working on is finished. Of course the bosses code gets left in the product for a long time but never called.
I've heard in once case were a an assembler wasn't accepting an instruction so the guy called up and Gates answered the phone. The result was Billy fixed the code. The new assembler would now take the op code if it was in all caps and didn't have opcodes. It turns out he didn't put it in the opcode table, he hard coded a check for it.
Why does this get moded up every time it comes up? If you want this, go get your self an X.400 email address and you won't have spam problems and you'll get to pay per message too.
At $.01 per message for leagal messages means that any message will be legal if its paid for.
I've worked for compaines that have dumped $10,000,000 on some ad campaigns. At your rate thats a billion messages.
Besides who gets the money? There is no way to get it to the small ISP and the only other choice is some govt funded scam or slush fund.
Its the businesses that are pusing for this law. Business customers don't get much "free" downloads on their DLS links. For example, Telstra Bigpond Direct charges AU$250/mo and that gets you 500mb on a 1.5/256 link. Anything extra is charged at $.1 to $.15 per megabyte. In the downtown areas (aka CBD), you can get other providers but most of them are a joke too. I've got one link thats 2mb for $600/mo and I get 2 whole gigabytes on that except there are two bozos on the same link that are pinging my/24 at a rate that will eat up that 2 gig by the end of the month.
Add in the fact that I have everything to run a wireless ISP but to sell service, I need a $10,000/yr telecomunications license.
If you feed these things caffeine with the sugar they are much more efficent but they get a bit edgy particularly in the morning if they don't get all the caffeine they are used to.
If there were any unix gurus around here, then they would know about AT&T's documentors workbench. Too bad that isn't open source. Its spell checker works much better than ispell ever will. It seems to know about errors such as nearby keys as well as other things. If you type "the" as "rgw" it will know that. If you perfer to type it as "qaz" it will learn that too and cope. It also seems to know about gramer and word tense. Too bad there isn't anything opensource that is even close and I'm not sure who even owns it now.
In Austrlaia the European offsping are now learning Mandarin much like students in the US learn Spanish. Its interesting that many people of Chinese decent that have family the speak Nadarin can't (or won't) speak it.
In the past months I've seen far more products that now have Chinese script on them. Years ago there might be Kanji but not full old stye script. Its also interesing that this is appearing on more and more expensive goods. I'm guessing that years ago the marketing people wouldn't want it on the prodcuts because it my imply a low cost product. Now the goods coming out of China are the best on the market because they are the only ones on the market in most cases. Every try to buy a toaster or small kitchen appliance that isn't made in China? I've only found one elec kettle and it was made in Kiwi land.
At one time I was the thrid or 4th youngest person to ever pass the written test but I can't copy morse at a rate fast enough for the adanced licenses. The result of the stupid requirement is that I never did much with radio and I didn't do any research at all even though I grew up in a house where I had all the tools including good scopes and spectrum analizers and I had access to the best test gear that exists. However the "old boys club" rules about morse keep me from using any of the frequency that was allocated for research. Once the no-code frequencies came it, it just was a 2 meter CB system and you couldn't do any cool stuff like APRS until it had become mainstream. Now if the numebrs of members don't increase quickly soon, all the frequency will get allocated to other things. That will be bad for research but how many hams do that? The EE's I knew that were all the Extras are no longer with us and I don't know too many General class people who could still pass the CW test.
In Melbourne Australia I hear more Mandarin than English on most days that I don't watch the TV. Its kind of like when I call a power company I invested in years ago in Florida, I can't get the info I need unless I speak Spanish. Your argument that Mandarin won't become a major language is much the same as how the French felt 80 years ago about English as language for treaties.
I expect it won't be long before the RIAA starts shutting down coverbands. Once that happensns there will be quite a bit of new work out there but of course the RIAA's friends won't even know about it. A few years back there was a contest in Melbourne Australia where bands had to send in original music on a CD. They had 3000 different bands enter and the population of the city was about 3 million. I'm not sure if it has more bands per person on average than the US but that would imply that a guess of a half million bands that can produce a demo CD in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe is not an unreasonable guess. With that much new music basic economics the RIAA can screw over any new band they want since there are more bands than their business model could ever hope to deal with.
yes but 99% are the same aren't they? Its just like VCR vs DVD. Why are DVD's more expensive when their production cost is less than tapes? They still can't stamp out tapes.
They are still overpriced. More than 75% of my CD collection cost less than $10. The other 25% cost more than about $20. The $20 was from small bands or stuff that the US versions of the labels decided I didn't want or where the US label decided they didn't like the artist idea of the song order.
Remember they RIAA doesn't sell music, they sell little plastic things and they are tring to keep a 1950's distribution and production model they can understand and the fact that there are nearly a quart of a million bands in the US that have produced a CD.
I've got a disk full of logs that shows you are not telling the truth. There were versions of msblaster nearly 3 months before any patch came out of MS and since my honeypot tried to delvier nearly a billion spam message I think your claim is total BS.
A friend of mine called MS years ago about a bug in on of their assemblers. It didn't understand an op code. The result is Billy Gates the Supreme coder fixed the bug. He added the op code but since he didn't add it to the opcode table, you had to enter it in upper case and only with a small subset of operands that billy thought about or saw in other nearby code. Mike claims to not have used any MS code since 1974 and hes much less stressed than I am.
I've found that if I figure out how "near" a site is to a usenet site that has been listed for at least a year, that is a good metric to witelist with the exception of a few large ISPs. It will take moer research.
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Flying a plane isn't that hard. The problem is knowing what all the knobs do. For example on a prop plane there are three levers. One controls the fuel flow into the engine, one controls the ratio of air to fuel and the other controls the slant on the prop. Engines with two planes have two sets of these controls. To fly a plane so that it will last a long time, you want to get both engines in sync but it will fly if they aren't. The fact of the mater is you can push all the levers forward and then pull back on the black ones till the plane is going the right speed. Planes fly themsevles, the pilots are just there to direct where they go.
Once you get up to about 20 hrs of flight time in a small cessna like plane, you will learn just how well a plane can fly its self. At the run way, go full throttle, maintain the heading till you get 400 ft above the runway, turn left 90 degrees. When the runway is 45 degrees to your left, turn another 90 degrees to the left. Drop the throttle to about 1700 and trim for 70 knots. When the plane is 45 degrees off the other end of the runway, drop one knotch of flaps, drop the throttle to about 1200, trim for 65 make a left turn. Drop the flaps down another knotch, trim for 60 and drop the throttle. When your 10 ft above the ground pull back on that yoke thing and the wheels should touch the ground. A cessna with an simple autopilot tied into a gps could do the turns for you. The problem is throttle and flaps but a PDA could tell you when to set those and to what position. The only other bit is the landing flair.
What needs to happen is some opensouce product needs to pattent everything its developers think about. It needs to be done in a country where you don't get to pay for each claim. So someone will need to submit a half million claim patent and see what happens. The reason IBM doesn't get sued over patents is they have a huge database of prior art in their approved and rejected patents. MS hasn't been playing the patent game but I expect they are wakeing up to the idea.
Its not the vertical force that causes the most damage, its the horizontal force and that has very little to do with how many wheels as far as most cars and trucks are concerned. Thats the reason that older bridges have very low speed limits for heavy trucks, the bridge can't cope with the horzontal loading.
In my attempts to show the powers that be how pathetic MS is, I've got a small test network that is running what our clients tend to run. That means only patches that windows update decides should be installed get installed.
This test network is sort of behind a firewall, meaning its behind a bsd box that watches for stupid things and then disconnects. So the Win XP, Win 2K, NT and Win 98 box all have all sorts of "extra" software on it. Sometimes the anti-virus software even finds it.
The XP box got hit by something so I slap the media in and reinstall (using the install/repair), The result is it was nailed before it got finished with the setup. Second attempt was without the network open to the world. It was all installed and I clicked the "windows update" and plugged in the lan. Before the critical update could get installed, the box is owned. The third time involved plugging it into the other port of the bsd box to firewall it since there is no chance this thing is going on any of the production networks, and the install and updates could be completed without it going over to the darker side of being a spamers tool chest.
The result is I can't see how most of our customers can clean up their machines in the current enviroment.
A solution for this is for MS to come up with a new CD that has an core install for Win 98/ME/XP or whatever. If they are worried about piracy they can insist you feed it the original CD but they should have install CD's at my local computer shop for $10 that will take care of this nonsense.
Iv'e also been wondering how much money does MS make because of this? I've got a few clients that are upgrading from win98 to win ME because of this threat so I'm assuming there are more. How many people got their old computer messed up and just decided nows the time to upgrade? MS is not hurting at all from this and they know it.
Meanwhile I've only got two Windows boxes on the production network at one site and three left on the critial production network at the other site. Too bad there are too many workstations still running the crud.
I need some "windows kill" stickers to put on the new X1 server. It's killed 4 windows boxes to date and one more is in its crosshairs.
A Saturn V is overkill for a capsule unless you want to get it to the moon. Remember a Saturn V put skylab in a higher orbit than the shuttle can fly and skylab was about the same mass as a fully loaded shuttle. The skylab flights (just capsules) were launched with Saturn 1B which is about the same as the 2nd stage of the V.
I've seem most of the Saturn V launches from Coco Beach. They were very impressive.
They were aiming for 1 mi from a specific carrier. As you can see, they were quite good. They didn't want to land too close incase they hit the carrier and they didn't want it too far away because they had to go find it. Remember there had been a questions about capsules sinking. At the time there would be about three carrier groups and would pick one based on the weather.
From the people that I know who delt with him at the time who do not work for MS will not back up that statment. Its sort fo like when the boss decides he wants to "help out" and someone with a clue says "oh heres a function we need fixed" and hands him a bit of code that will get pulled out just as soon as the new bit your working on is finished. Of course the bosses code gets left in the product for a long time but never called.
I've heard in once case were a an assembler wasn't accepting an instruction so the guy called up and Gates answered the phone. The result was Billy fixed the code. The new assembler would now take the op code if it was in all caps and didn't have opcodes. It turns out he didn't put it in the opcode table, he hard coded a check for it.
Why does this get moded up every time it comes up? If you want this, go get your self an X.400 email address and you won't have spam problems and you'll get to pay per message too.
At $.01 per message for leagal messages means that any message will be legal if its paid for.
I've worked for compaines that have dumped $10,000,000 on some ad campaigns. At your rate thats a billion messages.
Besides who gets the money? There is no way to get it to the small ISP and the only other choice is some govt funded scam or slush fund.
Its the businesses that are pusing for this law. Business customers don't get much "free" downloads on their DLS links. For example, Telstra Bigpond Direct charges AU$250/mo and that gets you 500mb on a 1.5/256 link. Anything extra is charged at $.1 to $.15 per megabyte. In the downtown areas (aka CBD), you can get other providers but most of them are a joke too. I've got one link thats 2mb for $600/mo and I get 2 whole gigabytes on that except there are two bozos on the same link that are pinging my /24 at a rate that will eat up that 2 gig by the end of the month.
Add in the fact that I have everything to run a wireless ISP but to sell service, I need a $10,000/yr telecomunications license.
Solar is not almost useable. If there are power shortages this summer we are getting solar planels on the roof.
If you feed these things caffeine with the sugar they are much more efficent but they get a bit edgy particularly in the morning if they don't get all the caffeine they are used to.
If there were any unix gurus around here, then they would know about AT&T's documentors workbench. Too bad that isn't open source. Its spell checker works much better than ispell ever will. It seems to know about errors such as nearby keys as well as other things. If you type "the" as "rgw" it will know that. If you perfer to type it as "qaz" it will learn that too and cope. It also seems to know about gramer and word tense. Too bad there isn't anything opensource that is even close and I'm not sure who even owns it now.
In Austrlaia the European offsping are now learning Mandarin much like students in the US learn Spanish. Its interesting that many people of Chinese decent that have family the speak Nadarin can't (or won't) speak it.
In the past months I've seen far more products that now have Chinese script on them. Years ago there might be Kanji but not full old stye script. Its also interesing that this is appearing on more and more expensive goods. I'm guessing that years ago the marketing people wouldn't want it on the prodcuts because it my imply a low cost product. Now the goods coming out of China are the best on the market because they are the only ones on the market in most cases. Every try to buy a toaster or small kitchen appliance that isn't made in China? I've only found one elec kettle and it was made in Kiwi land.
At one time I was the thrid or 4th youngest person to ever pass the written test but I can't copy morse at a rate fast enough for the adanced licenses. The result of the stupid requirement is that I never did much with radio and I didn't do any research at all even though I grew up in a house where I had all the tools including good scopes and spectrum analizers and I had access to the best test gear that exists. However the "old boys club" rules about morse keep me from using any of the frequency that was allocated for research. Once the no-code frequencies came it, it just was a 2 meter CB system and you couldn't do any cool stuff like APRS until it had become mainstream. Now if the numebrs of members don't increase quickly soon, all the frequency will get allocated to other things. That will be bad for research but how many hams do that? The EE's I knew that were all the Extras are no longer with us and I don't know too many General class people who could still pass the CW test.
You only named the small players. The spamers are winning the Info War game this week.
In Melbourne Australia I hear more Mandarin than English on most days that I don't watch the TV. Its kind of like when I call a power company I invested in years ago in Florida, I can't get the info I need unless I speak Spanish. Your argument that Mandarin won't become a major language is much the same as how the French felt 80 years ago about English as language for treaties.
I expect it won't be long before the RIAA starts shutting down coverbands. Once that happensns there will be quite a bit of new work out there but of course the RIAA's friends won't even know about it. A few years back there was a contest in Melbourne Australia where bands had to send in original music on a CD. They had 3000 different bands enter and the population of the city was about 3 million. I'm not sure if it has more bands per person on average than the US but that would imply that a guess of a half million bands that can produce a demo CD in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe is not an unreasonable guess. With that much new music basic economics the RIAA can screw over any new band they want since there are more bands than their business model could ever hope to deal with.
If its like everything else in the record industry, this will be considered "a promotion" and they don't get anything.
yes but 99% are the same aren't they? Its just like VCR vs DVD. Why are DVD's more expensive when their production cost is less than tapes? They still can't stamp out tapes.
They are still overpriced. More than 75% of my CD collection cost less than $10. The other 25% cost more than about $20. The $20 was from small bands or stuff that the US versions of the labels decided I didn't want or where the US label decided they didn't like the artist idea of the song order.
Remember they RIAA doesn't sell music, they sell little plastic things and they are tring to keep a 1950's distribution and production model they can understand and the fact that there are nearly a quart of a million bands in the US that have produced a CD.
If I tell the truth my boss will feel bad.
And he will tell his wife.
And then she will get on his case about how I'm a bad.
So the boss is just fine. Honest.
I've got a disk full of logs that shows you are not telling the truth. There were versions of msblaster nearly 3 months before any patch came out of MS and since my honeypot tried to delvier nearly a billion spam message I think your claim is total BS.
I've done the falling off the cliff bit but there was much water below.
A friend of mine called MS years ago about a bug in on of their assemblers. It didn't understand an op code. The result is Billy Gates the Supreme coder fixed the bug. He added the op code but since he didn't add it to the opcode table, you had to enter it in upper case and only with a small subset of operands that billy thought about or saw in other nearby code. Mike claims to not have used any MS code since 1974 and hes much less stressed than I am.
I've found that if I figure out how "near" a site is to a usenet site that has been listed for at least a year, that is a good metric to witelist with the exception of a few large ISPs. It will take moer research.