Failed to detect. The theory said something should be there, but at what relitive strenght? How much closer (Newtonionan) object be to have to eminate a wave that can be measured. They are looking on the order of a thousanths of a diameter of a neculus, over the length of 4Km.
Is Mickelson Morley repeathing itself?
"The Mickelson-Morley Experiment failed to recognize that the round trip regardless of the direction would be the same and yet at the same time we know..."
Couldnt we just look at their data? Did a large event happen when they were looking at light beams? We just repeated their experment to an extrodinary accuracy.
Just as soon as someone comes up with something else that is a lateral improvment, ( this type of data architecture is a definate improvement. ) someone comes up with the incompatible argument.
HEY! GET A MAC!
It is a definate MISNOMBER to label this type of data architecture 'unreliable.' The failsafe and reliability only make failure a little bit slower. The redundancy is *IMPROVED* by multiple fallover.
I hope this technology takes the industry by storm, making all those 350Lb Database admins actually crack a book.
I mentioned to a java friend of mine, about he was adding interoperability in his CRM to SAP, and I said what a PIG SAP was. He said "No one cares about efficency or formats anymore, its only interoperability, and most of that is just minor 'get this, configure this'
Of course, Being sceptible, I asked a PeopleSoft programmer about interoperability, and the thing she said was "Interoperability is a done deal, we worked that all out with the y3k problem. Its only the us, the programmers that worry about having the data move between clouds. The DBAs dont really care. The real danger to this industury is the EXPENSIVE house of cards that the database infrastructure is, and how cheap/free upstarts like MySQL are making what costs tens of thousands of dollars avaible for free. "
Can you imagine Google Earth as a database browser, like Apples ProjectX/Hot Sauce? ( very very obscure refrence folks ).
Ok. I saw pong when it first came out, but I think my first game was Lunar Lander, or Hamarabi, on TSB, Time Shared Basic on the DataGeneral Nova, at Lawrence Hall of Science c September 1970.
That winter, we got a remote terminal, and wrote Monopoly from scratch.
It wasnt until 1972 that we got StarTrek.
I saw Doug Engelbart at XParc. What ever happened to the below desk paddles.
Since I am never going to fly again anyway. ( ozone destruction ). Its kinda sad, that they could have used hash codes for tatoos. Your never going to get rid of that...
Virus Encryption is so increadibly rare... Those were the ones that held your data hostage... Well, If you didnt do backups... Virus Encryption = HD crash. Same effect, same result.
Since the MBR code is in FDISK...Its write protected, and executable compressed. ( kinda old stuff, but hey... they are extremely unlikely to figure that one out. Much better targets for storm bots....but I did get one from an old rescued HD...::)) It was kinda cute to fight it off, and see who won. ( I did eventually, Thank you HiREM.. )
I wanted to say, that ONLY my current Gaming RIG. Abit motherboard does NOT have this feature. The Shuttle SB51 Motherboard HAS this feature. and it works well. I put an infected Win98 HD in it and it was lightning up like a chrismas tree. DENY DENY DENY.
Its no longer an issue, and I am ditching my Abit board.
A hardware solution is the only real solution, as Windows cannot tell its *SS from a hole in the ground. The scheduler blows CHUNKS. I am working on a scheduler handler, along the lines of Alan Cox's suggestions for the changes made to the early SGI Linux implementations. ( I have the Kernel book, and its a tough read, even after taking the OS design class...)
Thank you DHS for the contribution to FOSS! We get all the bug fixes, and it will become that much more robust. Too bad that Windows will never get this kind of review.
It probibly has a few less bugs per line, but not much hope of getting those fixed.
On second thought, Mr Allen, I challenge you to compare! I am willing to bet that FOSS software, just because of its nature of peer review, and from my experence of reading ALen Cox's work on the Kernel, that it has less bugs than Windows.
Wow! I thought I was retro with Windows 2000! Turns out this patch MS08-0001 is Patch NUMBER 100! Yea! Yea! Yes! Finally, the number of patches to Windows 2000 is in TRIPLE DIGITS! ( actually, for us, 2K users, there are two patches, KB941644 and KB943485 ) ( I found the actual patch count from a Winternals System informataion program ) ( WinTernals is my bestest friend! )
Since you can 'blind' Windows 2000 to look like vista, ( if you have the graphics hardware ), or you can 'blind' Windows 2000 to look like Windows98, I have the best of both worlds. but ALL MY PATCH COLLECTION CDs ARE NOW OUT OF DATE.
Actually, there is one feature I need that Office 97 doesnt have, and that is the ability to read Office 2007 excel files. So, its Win2k and Office 2k for me. ( btw, I am going to set up a DOS machine to play some old games...:)
The 'Folding @ Home' link you provided in your sig is the *PERFECT* example of a peice of software with a well intentioned design, who's implememtation falls completely flat. COMPLETELY. Lack of check pointing (after about 1 weeks of worth, it crashed on its own, corrputing its datafiles, which it retrives from the internet anyway leaving a WEEK OF LOST PROCESSING)(FYI did you know that IBM mainframes in the 50s did checkpointing? That you could run for hours, and step forward to the EXACT instruction that caused the failure? ), poor graphics port rendering,( Dont get me started on the UI, which "blows Chunks" ) as well its handling of priortitization? I am not short of experence in the use of either distributed computation, like OGR and primenet, or rendering with network rendering packages.
If Folding @ Home is the best example of acedemic developed software, contrast it to the history of Multics. It is a theoretical TOY, and in its current implementation a shining example of bad implementation. How much more productive it could be with just a few minor changes, but, you may rationalize, all that lost work is insignificant.
Folding @ Home BLOWS. ( The idea of getting others to contribute to your efforts at rational drug design is a good one, especially if you can get others to do the work to come up with something like the gene amplification patent, but why not just fool the SETI @ home people into thinking they are actually doing something worthwhile? )
This RANT will come up again, to those who INSIST on promoting something that is in such stark contrast to the discussion.
"If universities don't produce well-rounded educated people where will they come frmo?" They will come frmo liberal arts colleges, lead artistic lives, and create corporate sclupture.
In all the years of virus hunting and gathering, I only got a boot sector virus once. Now, I just fdisk/MBR in the startup sequence. I may have had anynumber of boot sector viruses. I dont know. They all disappear before I have a chance to detect them.
Windows cannot protect the MBR if windows is running or not AND THEY SHOUDLNT. Its really up to the hardware vendors.
Put it into BIOS or have a jumper on the drive. ( Simple effortless fix, vs MAJOR CLUSTER F*** ) ( I used to turn it off, and then fdisk/MBR then turn it back on in the bios. ) I always thought it was a nice feature. Where the hell did it go?
The spike at lunch time around the globe is four fold. People checking email before they go to lunch, people checking email after they come back from lunch, and the same two crowds checking headlines.
What is really disturbing about this, is that now sound bites, now called 'McSound Bites(tm)' have to fit into a 5 1/4 min time frame so as not to loose the attention of a scarfing moron, irregardless of the depth of the story, let alone 'The Chief' is either gone to sleep at the wheel, and begun at drooling at this point, or has become distracted by... Hey! is that a bird?
"wake the liberal masses up to this massive cultural threat!" http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/don+henley/dirty+laundry_20042033.html Dirty Laundry Lyrics
Jason Lanier is NOT of interest because of his LOW-bound mentality. FireFox is going like gangbusters. Linux Distros like Slackware and Gentoo, and Ubuntoo? Feroda?
Vanishingly Small? Ultra-microscopic is more like it.
I told ATI/AMD, when I bought my video card, that I requested open source drivers for Gentoo Linux. Their 'motions' in this direction are to be commended. BUT, the whole codec thing. Unisys started it all with trying to enforce the 'intellectual property' of gif files. JMPEG followed that lead, and now codecs come and go from WMP/Quicktime, faster than blondes through Jim Bakers cell door.
What is really needed is a video driver, with an OPEN plug-in codec architecture, that you can pick and choose weather you are going to use proprietry codecs. Problem is that its going to be rough going for a few iteresations, and we may need to do some reverse engineering like DeCSS. Open source codecs on tee-shirts! Im buying! I need something to hang beside my DeCSS tee...
But really the key is, is this going to p*ss off a video driver god? Nothing you can do p*sses off the linux network driver god, Walter somethingorother...
If you get them by the g*n*ds, their hearts and minds will follow.
This type of domain name sniffing and squatting has been happening for years. I 'tested' registration of a domain name on ICANNs biggest contractor. They havent changed their page. and the next morning, as I was paying for the registration, the registration record came up 'owned' by someone else. ( Purchased the following day. Since I tested the name at about 11:15 p.m. It was an automated system, in place and doing its dirty work.) A squatting company in Pasadena, who sold it to someone in Oregon. Nothing has appeared on the site EVER, and that was a way back in 1999, but it kinda angered me that it happened, and I never understood the mechanism, but now see clearly that ICANNs contractors were behind it. There is a domain-name squatters magazine, and a domain-name squatters trade show!
I am ALL for shrinking components to make them more powerfull, but I dont think making them unusable is a selling point.
I just lost a 256MB Mini-SD card, with some pictures of a guys dog who just died. Someone threw it out, that thought it was a little big for a postage stamp, but wasnt any stamp that they recognised.
Well, the Mini-SD card is now found, but I am against the size factor. Faced with the design of floppies, Sony chose the 3 1/2 inch disk? Why 3 1/2? Based upon the size of pockets. Now, Why are mens shirt pockets 3 1/2? Not because of the size of American cigarette packs, but based upon the size of European cigarette pack! The point Im trying to make is that the size should be based upon uselfullness. If your going to make a smart card, why not just standardize on a credit card? or a Pen? Havent Flash drives standardized on double pen size? and now that they have standardized, they are going to expand on design, based upon usibility, vs just utilitarian function.
Look at what happened to the pocket calculator, first there was a lot of diffrentation of utility, then uniformity of function, then diffrentation of usibility. Its the best example, whereas, formula 1 cars have an extrodinary uniformity of design.
With all the formats, (we now have 12-in-one readers at Frys) and ugrades to take advantage of both the size and capacity...new cameras, readers... marketing, sales, infastructure...
How many of us have old format media around? I was looking at a box of 5 1/4 floopies...
Now that this is announced, when will it become obsolute like SmartMedia? After enough people loose their media? ( or it becomes self replicating dust of the diamond age? )
Its the wrong question: The right question: Should mathematical proofs allow slashdot?
This is just simply based upon a "proof' by a beginning geomerty student that you can duplicate a cube, using only a ruler and a compass. ( The proof is left as an excercise... )
After 'cooking' everyplace where he cheated, i.e. used the ruler as a measuring device, he finally stumbled upon a 'special case' ( i.e. a cubic equation that had real roots ), and still hurled insults, coming from of all places, the 'general case' follows from the 'specific case.' Wikipedia is not a place for rigorus scolarly math anymore than Slashdot is. (Neither place being especially good for the spelling chalenged, just that wikipedia claims it is...::))
Here is the SECRET on HOW NOT TO LOOSE DATA IN CARS!
Ready? Really, Ready? No, Are you Really, Really, Ready?
DONT LEAVE YOUR LAPTOP IN YOUR CAR!
Go back and get it.
A friend of mine, decades ago, lost his portfolio on Syquest cartridges, that he left in his car, ( I would have writtten them off already, but I digress ). I learned the lesson from his mistake. NEVER EVER EVER leave your laptop in your car. Take it out before your lunch, If you really had to, you could replace your lunch.
"The NASA budget is so tiny compared to so many other budgets, the solution to achieve things is not to slash and burn, but to fund it. OMG! Look at everything we have gotten out of the space race so far."
"Remember how many things this administration has made happen for short sighted goals that have disastrous mid to long term impacts."
Every once in a Loooong while, I wish that +5 insightfull, were the starting base for a +2 Brilliant. Your post is both insightfull and brilliant!
What, in your opinion, projets have had short term goals, that were disastrous for the mid-term and long term?
Slashdot Mirror
Failed to detect. The theory said something should be there, but at what relitive strenght? How much closer (Newtonionan) object be to have to eminate a wave that can be measured. They are looking on the order of a thousanths of a diameter of a neculus, over the length of 4Km.
..."
Is Mickelson Morley repeathing itself?
"The Mickelson-Morley Experiment failed to recognize that the round trip regardless of the direction would be the same and yet at the same time we know
Couldnt we just look at their data? Did a large event happen when they were looking at light beams? We just repeated their experment to an extrodinary accuracy.
In Ascii Animation. Call the kid Ski... Ahh, Ski.
Da-bum.
Just found the old codes to get light green on black.
Love that stuff.
ECHO (ESC)[10;0
Too bad, Im looking for a GUI Girl
Just as soon as someone comes up with something else that is a lateral improvment, ( this type of data architecture is a definate improvement. ) someone comes up with the incompatible argument.
HEY! GET A MAC!
It is a definate MISNOMBER to label this type of data architecture 'unreliable.' The failsafe and reliability only make failure a little bit slower. The redundancy is *IMPROVED* by multiple fallover.
I hope this technology takes the industry by storm, making all those 350Lb Database admins actually crack a book.
I mentioned to a java friend of mine, about he was adding interoperability in his CRM to SAP, and I said what a PIG SAP was. He said "No one cares about efficency or formats anymore, its only interoperability, and most of that is just minor 'get this, configure this'
Of course, Being sceptible, I asked a PeopleSoft programmer about interoperability, and the thing she said was "Interoperability is a done deal, we worked that all out with the y3k problem. Its only the us, the programmers that worry about having the data move between clouds. The DBAs dont really care. The real danger to this industury is the EXPENSIVE house of cards that the database infrastructure is, and how cheap/free upstarts like MySQL are making what costs tens of thousands of dollars avaible for free. "
Can you imagine Google Earth as a database browser, like Apples ProjectX/Hot Sauce? ( very very obscure refrence folks ).
Wasnt it called Adventure then?
Ok. I saw pong when it first came out,
but I think my first game was Lunar Lander, or Hamarabi,
on TSB, Time Shared Basic on the DataGeneral Nova,
at Lawrence Hall of Science c September 1970.
That winter, we got a remote terminal, and wrote Monopoly from scratch.
It wasnt until 1972 that we got StarTrek.
I saw Doug Engelbart at XParc. What ever happened to the below desk paddles.
Sirs:
:(
Ill have the double lamb chop burger. They are calling it a Double Dolly!
( Opps, Dolly was the test tube sheep
Are you suffering from Tourettes? It is treatable? Can you have typing Tourettes?
Since I am never going to fly again anyway. ( ozone destruction ).
Its kinda sad, that they could have used hash codes for tatoos.
Your never going to get rid of that...
Why wasnt France the first to object? Even the asthestics suck. They should be the ultimate UI freaks!
News: Charles is switching to opensource...
Virus Encryption is so increadibly rare...
::)) It was kinda cute to fight it off, and see who won. ( I did eventually, Thank you HiREM.. )
Those were the ones that held your data hostage...
Well, If you didnt do backups...
Virus Encryption = HD crash. Same effect, same result.
Since the MBR code is in FDISK...Its write protected, and executable compressed. ( kinda old stuff, but hey... they are extremely unlikely to figure that one out. Much better targets for storm bots....but I did get one from an old rescued HD...
I wanted to say, that ONLY my current Gaming RIG. Abit motherboard does NOT have this feature. The Shuttle SB51 Motherboard HAS this feature. and it works well. I put an infected Win98 HD in it and it was lightning up like a chrismas tree. DENY DENY DENY.
Its no longer an issue, and I am ditching my Abit board.
A hardware solution is the only real solution, as Windows cannot tell its *SS from a hole in the ground. The scheduler blows CHUNKS. I am working on a scheduler handler, along the lines of Alan Cox's suggestions for the changes made to the early SGI Linux implementations. ( I have the Kernel book, and its a tough read, even after taking the OS design class...)
Thanks
Wow! Thanks Good idea.
What are you recommendations w/ links?
Thank you DHS for the contribution to FOSS!
We get all the bug fixes, and it will become that much more robust.
Too bad that Windows will never get this kind of review.
It probibly has a few less bugs per line,
but not much hope of getting those fixed.
On second thought, Mr Allen, I challenge you to compare!
I am willing to bet that FOSS software,
just because of its nature of peer review,
and from my experence of reading ALen Cox's work on the Kernel,
that it has less bugs than Windows.
Wow! I thought I was retro with Windows 2000!
:)
Turns out this patch MS08-0001 is Patch NUMBER 100! Yea! Yea! Yes!
Finally, the number of patches to Windows 2000 is in TRIPLE DIGITS!
( actually, for us, 2K users, there are two patches, KB941644 and KB943485 )
( I found the actual patch count from a Winternals System informataion program )
( WinTernals is my bestest friend! )
Since you can 'blind' Windows 2000 to look like vista, ( if you have the graphics hardware ),
or you can 'blind' Windows 2000 to look like Windows98, I have the best of both worlds.
but ALL MY PATCH COLLECTION CDs ARE NOW OUT OF DATE.
Actually, there is one feature I need that Office 97 doesnt have, and that is the ability to read Office 2007 excel files. So, its Win2k and Office 2k for me. ( btw, I am going to set up a DOS machine to play some old games...
The 'Folding @ Home' link you provided in your sig is the *PERFECT* example of a peice of software with a well intentioned design, who's implememtation falls completely flat. COMPLETELY. Lack of check pointing (after about 1 weeks of worth, it crashed on its own, corrputing its datafiles, which it retrives from the internet anyway leaving a WEEK OF LOST PROCESSING)(FYI did you know that IBM mainframes in the 50s did checkpointing? That you could run for hours, and step forward to the EXACT instruction that caused the failure? ), poor graphics port rendering,( Dont get me started on the UI, which "blows Chunks" ) as well its handling of priortitization? I am not short of experence in the use of either distributed computation, like OGR and primenet, or rendering with network rendering packages.
If Folding @ Home is the best example of acedemic developed software, contrast it to the history of Multics. It is a theoretical TOY, and in its current implementation a shining example of bad implementation. How much more productive it could be with just a few minor changes, but, you may rationalize, all that lost work is insignificant.
Folding @ Home BLOWS. ( The idea of getting others to contribute to your efforts at rational drug design is a good one, especially if you can get others to do the work to come up with something like the gene amplification patent, but why not just fool the SETI @ home people into thinking they are actually doing something worthwhile? )
This RANT will come up again, to those who INSIST on promoting something that is in such stark contrast to the discussion.
"If universities don't produce well-rounded educated people where will they come frmo?"
They will come frmo liberal arts colleges, lead artistic lives, and create corporate sclupture.
In all the years of virus hunting and gathering, /MBR in the startup sequence.
/MBR then turn it back on in the bios. )
I only got a boot sector virus once. Now, I just fdisk
I may have had anynumber of boot sector viruses. I dont know. They all disappear
before I have a chance to detect them.
Windows cannot protect the MBR if windows is running or not AND THEY SHOUDLNT.
Its really up to the hardware vendors.
Put it into BIOS or have a jumper on the drive.
( Simple effortless fix, vs MAJOR CLUSTER F*** )
( I used to turn it off, and then fdisk
I always thought it was a nice feature. Where the hell did it go?
Will the teen hacker in Seat 14c relinquish the controls back to me!
Flight simulators are Verboten on this airline!
And "WHERE ARE THE WHITE WOMEN AT?" -Sheriff
... Hey! is that a bird?
The spike at lunch time around the globe is four fold. People checking email before they go to lunch, people checking email after they come back from lunch, and the same two crowds checking headlines.
What is really disturbing about this, is that now sound bites, now called 'McSound Bites(tm)' have to fit into a 5 1/4 min time frame so as not to loose the attention of a scarfing moron, irregardless of the depth of the story, let alone 'The Chief' is either gone to sleep at the wheel, and begun at drooling at this point, or has become distracted by
"wake the liberal masses up to this massive cultural threat!" http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/don+henley/dirty+laundry_20042033.html Dirty Laundry Lyrics
Jason Lanier is NOT of interest because of his LOW-bound mentality.
FireFox is going like gangbusters.
Linux Distros like Slackware and Gentoo, and Ubuntoo? Feroda?
"They Stomp the terra" -Lord Buckly.
Vanishingly Small? Ultra-microscopic is more like it.
I told ATI/AMD, when I bought my video card, that I requested open source
drivers for Gentoo Linux. Their 'motions' in this direction are to be commended.
BUT, the whole codec thing. Unisys started it all with trying to enforce the 'intellectual property' of
gif files. JMPEG followed that lead, and now codecs come and go from WMP/Quicktime, faster than
blondes through Jim Bakers cell door.
What is really needed is a video driver, with an OPEN plug-in codec architecture,
that you can pick and choose weather you are going to use proprietry codecs.
Problem is that its going to be rough going for a few iteresations, and we may need to do some reverse engineering like DeCSS. Open source codecs on tee-shirts! Im buying! I need something to hang beside my DeCSS tee...
But really the key is, is this going to p*ss off a video driver god? Nothing you can do p*sses off the linux network driver god, Walter somethingorother...
If you get them by the g*n*ds, their hearts and minds will follow.
This type of domain name sniffing and squatting has been happening for years. I 'tested' registration of a domain name on ICANNs biggest contractor. They havent changed their page. and the next morning, as I was paying for the registration, the registration record came up 'owned' by someone else. ( Purchased the following day. Since I tested the name at about 11:15 p.m. It was an automated system, in place and doing its dirty work.) A squatting company in Pasadena, who sold it to someone in Oregon. Nothing has appeared on the site EVER, and that was a way back in 1999, but it kinda angered me that it happened, and I never understood the mechanism, but now see clearly that ICANNs contractors were behind it. There is a domain-name squatters magazine, and a domain-name squatters trade show!
Is Smaller realy better?
I am ALL for shrinking components to make them more powerfull, but I dont think making them unusable is a selling point.
I just lost a 256MB Mini-SD card, with some pictures of a guys dog who just died. Someone threw it out, that thought it was a little big for a postage stamp, but wasnt any stamp that they recognised.
Well, the Mini-SD card is now found, but I am against the size factor. Faced with the design of floppies, Sony chose the 3 1/2 inch disk? Why 3 1/2? Based upon the size of pockets. Now, Why are mens shirt pockets 3 1/2? Not because of the size of American cigarette packs, but based upon the size of European cigarette pack! The point Im trying to make is that the size should be based upon uselfullness. If your going to make a smart card, why not just standardize on a credit card? or a Pen? Havent Flash drives standardized on double pen size? and now that they have standardized, they are going to expand on design, based upon usibility, vs just utilitarian function.
Look at what happened to the pocket calculator, first there was a lot of diffrentation of utility, then uniformity of function, then diffrentation of usibility. Its the best example, whereas, formula 1 cars have an extrodinary uniformity of design.
With all the formats, (we now have 12-in-one readers at Frys) and ugrades to take advantage of both the size and capacity...new cameras, readers... marketing, sales, infastructure...
How many of us have old format media around? I was looking at a box of 5 1/4 floopies...
Now that this is announced, when will it become obsolute like SmartMedia? After enough people loose their media? ( or it becomes self replicating dust of the diamond age? )
Its the wrong question:
::))
The right question: Should mathematical proofs allow slashdot?
This is just simply based upon a "proof' by a beginning geomerty student that you can duplicate a cube, using only a ruler and a compass. ( The proof is left as an excercise... )
After 'cooking' everyplace where he cheated, i.e. used the ruler as a measuring device, he finally stumbled upon a 'special case' ( i.e. a cubic equation that had real roots ), and still hurled insults, coming from of all places, the 'general case' follows from the 'specific case.' Wikipedia is not a place for rigorus scolarly math anymore than Slashdot is. (Neither place being especially good for the spelling chalenged, just that wikipedia claims it is...
Jeez, put a finger in the dike!
Here is the SECRET on HOW NOT TO LOOSE DATA IN CARS!
Ready?
Really, Ready?
No, Are you Really, Really, Ready?
DONT LEAVE YOUR LAPTOP IN YOUR CAR!
Go back and get it.
A friend of mine, decades ago, lost his portfolio on Syquest cartridges, that he left in his car, ( I would have writtten them off already, but I digress ). I learned the lesson from his mistake. NEVER EVER EVER leave your laptop in your car. Take it out before your lunch, If you really had to, you could replace your lunch.
"The NASA budget is so tiny compared to so many other budgets, the solution to achieve things is not to slash and burn, but to fund it. OMG! Look at everything we have gotten out of the space race so far."
"Remember how many things this administration has made happen for short sighted goals that have disastrous mid to long term impacts."
Every once in a Loooong while, I wish that +5 insightfull, were the starting base for a +2 Brilliant. Your post is both insightfull and brilliant!
What, in your opinion, projets have had short term goals, that were disastrous for the mid-term and long term?