IANANP either (just a nuclear power supporter), but if either of us wanted to become one, there are some course materials from a course that covers that stuff.
If an ISP is going to be blocking ports for its customers, one thing is important for me: users should be able to have their ports blocked or unblocked at their request, for free, preferably with a web-based interface to make it easy. If you're really worried about worms automatically unblocking your ports somehow, there are always ways to guard against that. It shouldn't be a matter of jumping through hoops; the internet is supposed to be as free as possible from nasty bureaucracy.
Speaking of commercial Unixes, there's a cool feeling that I get sometimes:
But both of those pale in comparison to the feeling I got in 1995 of handing a complete operating system and a whole bunch of compilers, programs, etc. worth probably millions of dollars if commercial software, to a group of university professors in Suva, Fiji. As I handed them the CD the code was on, I felt a little god-like.
I think that's just cool to be able to get all this great software for free, with the ability to fiddle with the source to your heart's content.
In various books and movies you see scenarios where there are computers everywhere, rather than just a special computer somewhere in the house/building/spaceship/whatever. One of the key things you have to do to reach that point is to get computers with decent performance (I'd say Pentium-M adequately fills that description), that run quietly. That's important: if you can't have it run passively cooled, the noise is going to be terrible. Now, just think of the uses of something like this if we can put it together with a quiet storage medium (non-volatile ram sounds good, but I'd settle for anything that lets me get a few gigs quietly).
TiVo alternatives are fun to think about, as are affordable internet kiosks, digital imaging boxes, and basically anything that could use a full-fledged computer.
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I suggest that you set your threshold to 1, so you won't see the worst of anonymous cowardice.
OTOH (I haven't read the comment you're responding to, threshold 1, remember), it seems like a disconcerting number of people think that peaceful opposition of Israel somehow makes you "anti-semitic". Not that I'm accusing you, but that was just something I've been wanting to get off my chest for a while.:-)
That's why people don't like it when you take their quotes out of context. Quote: "To a large extent, however, poor spellers are also poor thinkers." (emphasis mine). It isn't a simple matter of boolean logic when you consider the entire sentence.
Or perhaps you're just trying to rationalize not capitalizing your sentences.
Example: "I will make sure I have a clear understanding of who is responsible for what in my organization. For example, if my general screws up I will not draw my weapon, point it at him, say 'And here is the price for failure,' then suddenly turn and kill some random underling."
At first when I read your comment, I though about the ethics of murdering someone who has not killed anyone else, but who has done a much lesser crime instead. The I realized that it would just be making an example of the RIAA fsckers, so it's okay. Plus, it will be great to see them trapped by their own rationalization.
After all, what's so unjust about going after poor college students for $50000-150000 if you're just making an example of them?
At least space looks like a nice place to dump high level nuclear waste, if nothing else. Actually, this was proposed as a good method for dealing with waste generated by nuclear powered (no, not Orion-type) rockets: when they're in orbit, give the undesirable stuff a push, and they go flying away; out of sight, out of mind.
Alright, I'm sick of people not knowing the metric system. (Rant coming on...)
I think that some basic knowledge of the metric system is just one of those things that people need to know. It isn't that hard! Atto- through exa- is a decent range to know, and for most values you will be covered. Conversion is trivial if you stick to normal units like kilo- and milli-, and don't get into units like centi- or deci-, and my TI-82 even has a mode to give scientific notation answers with convenient powers of ten, like 10^-6. How could you fail to love the metric system?
The more you dumb it down, the dumber people will get about it. That said, though (end of rant) I don't blame you, and I'm only slightly peeved at Nature.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume that all those used textbooks in bookstores come from a fairly large source of supply: last year's students. If you can offer last year's students a better price than the bookstore would give them, but still lower than the bookstore's marked-up price, and then get the word out, I'd think that you could get a fair amount of supply for the large demand.
The great thing is that they manage to comply with the law while enticing anyone who sees the notice at the botom of the page. I love that sort of clever stuff.
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I agree completely. Screw the current practice of using X as a glorified framebuffer, I want my vector based GUI!
Years ago, I had a vector based GUI. Now, however, that old NeXTSTEP box is just too old and obsolete. It was nice, though, having the whole GUI use PostScript. Now, I don't really care if you want to use PostScript, SVG, or whatever. It would be nice if both were supported somehow, but this should be in some layer of abstraction. Make the basic protocol elegant and extensible---you'll be living with it for quite a while.
And the Wright brothers also terribly abused the patent system. I'm now a Glenn Curtiss fan---those who go with superior engineering instead of monopolistic abuses of the law may not always win, but they're the ones I'm cheering for.
Aside to those who modded the parent Insightful: I never believed it before, but now I'm convinced that (some of) the mods really are on crack.
Fortunately the moderation system was designed with crack snorting mods in mind; the saner majority will straighten things out on most cases. The grandparent comment has now been modded Funny.
So right. Who cares if astronauts don't like thudding into the ground and taking 10 G's for a few seconds? It's better than dying because your spacecraft design is too complicated.
Aluminum, I believe. Various people have suggested such things as slight alterations in the nose cone shape or using foamed metal alloys, but aluminum is cheap and good enough for Armadillo's purposes, and the nose cone is also going with the cheaper (and almost as good) way.
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IANANP either (just a nuclear power supporter), but if either of us wanted to become one, there are some course materials from a course that covers that stuff.
If an ISP is going to be blocking ports for its customers, one thing is important for me: users should be able to have their ports blocked or unblocked at their request, for free, preferably with a web-based interface to make it easy. If you're really worried about worms automatically unblocking your ports somehow, there are always ways to guard against that. It shouldn't be a matter of jumping through hoops; the internet is supposed to be as free as possible from nasty bureaucracy.
Without P2P, how are you supposed to get Matlab and such? Pay for them? Or just get to know some of your dorm mates?
That would probably be worthwhile just for the laughs. You could even submit the story to slashdot!
I just thought that strip was hilarious. Here's a link for those wondering what we're talking about.
TiVo alternatives are fun to think about, as are affordable internet kiosks, digital imaging boxes, and basically anything that could use a full-fledged computer.
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Can't you find the notebooks of lazarus long split in two places in Time Enough for Love? Is the booklet just a convenience/collectable item?
OTOH (I haven't read the comment you're responding to, threshold 1, remember), it seems like a disconcerting number of people think that peaceful opposition of Israel somehow makes you "anti-semitic". Not that I'm accusing you, but that was just something I've been wanting to get off my chest for a while. :-)
Or perhaps you're just trying to rationalize not capitalizing your sentences.
Example: "I will make sure I have a clear understanding of who is responsible for what in my organization. For example, if my general screws up I will not draw my weapon, point it at him, say 'And here is the price for failure,' then suddenly turn and kill some random underling."
After all, what's so unjust about going after poor college students for $50000-150000 if you're just making an example of them?
An interesting page is NuclearSpace.
How do you know she didn't? Anyway, doesn't everybody knw about that one, having heard about it many times in school?
I think that some basic knowledge of the metric system is just one of those things that people need to know. It isn't that hard! Atto- through exa- is a decent range to know, and for most values you will be covered. Conversion is trivial if you stick to normal units like kilo- and milli-, and don't get into units like centi- or deci-, and my TI-82 even has a mode to give scientific notation answers with convenient powers of ten, like 10^-6. How could you fail to love the metric system?
The more you dumb it down, the dumber people will get about it. That said, though (end of rant) I don't blame you, and I'm only slightly peeved at Nature.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume that all those used textbooks in bookstores come from a fairly large source of supply: last year's students. If you can offer last year's students a better price than the bookstore would give them, but still lower than the bookstore's marked-up price, and then get the word out, I'd think that you could get a fair amount of supply for the large demand.
Here are some links: a page discussing the flexible submarine idea with some more links, and a site from some people who actually built such a thing, with pictures.
The great thing is that they manage to comply with the law while enticing anyone who sees the notice at the botom of the page. I love that sort of clever stuff.
Years ago, I had a vector based GUI. Now, however, that old NeXTSTEP box is just too old and obsolete. It was nice, though, having the whole GUI use PostScript. Now, I don't really care if you want to use PostScript, SVG, or whatever. It would be nice if both were supported somehow, but this should be in some layer of abstraction. Make the basic protocol elegant and extensible---you'll be living with it for quite a while.
And the Wright brothers also terribly abused the patent system. I'm now a Glenn Curtiss fan---those who go with superior engineering instead of monopolistic abuses of the law may not always win, but they're the ones I'm cheering for.
Fortunately the moderation system was designed with crack snorting mods in mind; the saner majority will straighten things out on most cases. The grandparent comment has now been modded Funny.
So right. Who cares if astronauts don't like thudding into the ground and taking 10 G's for a few seconds? It's better than dying because your spacecraft design is too complicated.
Aluminum, I believe. Various people have suggested such things as slight alterations in the nose cone shape or using foamed metal alloys, but aluminum is cheap and good enough for Armadillo's purposes, and the nose cone is also going with the cheaper (and almost as good) way.
I believe that KDE has a windows 98 theme, although I don't know how closely it resembles Win98. There are some nice screenshots, though.