You seem to have missed many points in that book. In Mists of Avalon, most women had no rights. It was only the few holdouts at Avalon that continued to execise any real power. The story was effectively at the end of the time when women had any rights.
This is an internet wake. We're all sitting around our computers posting eulogies to Slashdot about someone many many geeks held in high regard. If this isn't a net wake/funeral, I don't know what is.
One of my favorites, along with it's prequille, Hunters of the Red Moon. Those two would have to be at the top of my list of her works. They were just purely excellent. Red Moon is a good thriller and Survivors makes a good mystery. I just wich I could remember the saurians name; somethink like Aknarak.
Just as she was creating some interesting events on Darkover, too! Exile's Song and The Shadow Matrix were creating some interesting possiblitities, and now they're gone, unless she got something out since. She was a good writer. May her works always be regarded as the classics they are.
Mists of Avalon King Aurthur from the POV of the female characters (particularly Morgrain (sp?))
The Firebrand a story about the Trojan war
Hunters of the Red Moon and The Survivors, two excelent books, IMHO
Sword and Sorceress (editor) a series of female oriented fantasy short stories
many others...
I would recommend reading anything with her name on it, they're all good. Some are better than others, of course, but I enjoyed every single book of hers that I read (Red Moon and Survivors are my two favorites). This is very sad news for me: I've been a fan of her's for the last ten or so years and I'm saddened that she will no longer be writing new stories or helping new writers get started (many contributers to the S&S books went on to become big names (eg Mercedes Lackey (sp?) and Charles de Lint)).
*Sigh*, time to work on finishing my MZB collection.
It's certainly 802.3 minus negotiation at the electrical level. I can't tell from the specs about the data level as my ethernet knowledges is so rusty it'll collapse any moment, but it looks like they're butchering the address fields, plus maybe a few others. I'm gonna hafta re-read that chapter in the book I've got. It goes into enough details at the data level to know what's going on. Anyway, the spec has so far been interesting reading.
To interface to a plain nic, you'ld probably have to put it into promiscuous mode and even then I'm not sure how well it will work.
According to the specs (section 2.3), it uses plain old 100mb ethernet of it's electrical transport, so it looks like you could just plug one of their instruments into a standard 100mb nic, but I'm not certain if the nic will be able to handle the packets. However, it looks like MIDI control packets is explicitly supported, so all that should be needed is a dongle between your MIDI instrument and the GMICS network.
Hmm, isn't IEEE 802.3 the ethernet packet spec? If so, it looks like a nic might be able to pase the packets up to the OS afterall. Dang, I wish I knew more about the ethernet protocol, then I could give a good comparison, but thinks look promising.
Contrary to my previous posting (#3), this definitly looks worthwhile.
I just realized, this could be an excelent tech for control systems, eg robotics. 32 bits @ 192kHz would be fast enough for just about any mechanical aplication and 8 chanels going down one wire would certainly help cut costs. I'm liking this more and more. And as another poster stated, that phantom power certainly looks interesting (500mA@9V, hmm, 4.5 Watts, more than enough to power a StrongARM or 4).
I realy should have read the article first, but they way I read Hemos' intro was that it was for broadcasting ultra hifi audio over the local network (I've been thinking about setting up an mp3 server for just this purpose (though not ultra hifi of course), hence the confusion).
BTW, looks pretty open (though I don't know about patents). I just downloaded the specs from this page (look at the bottom for the pdf) and just glancing through the table of contents looks promising from the sw developer's POV. You'll probably need special hw (one of their chips), but that kindof goes with a new wire protocol. Anyway, having something like this closed would only hurt acceptance.
That's only (?!) 49.152Mbps. Half 100baseT. I could just as easliy do this by doing something like "cat song.wav | rsh client.host aplay -" assuming aplay can play from stdin (if not, substitue with a program that can). Ok, this is rate limited only by the destinations TCP buffers filling up as the audio tool consumes the data at a certain rate, but really, anybody that wanted to transmit lossless high quality audio over cat5 can do it with ease.
Maybe I should go read the article, I'm probably missing some vital concept.
I have my wife (an art dropout (too dumb for her, she's a geek in hiding)) who knows a little about computers, but only from the '89 era, and only the basics using Linux. She plays doom, surfs the web and reads/sends email. She doesn't know or care how it works other than: login, doom [options] or startx, right click move mouse left click, browse. She needs to use xterm to get xpat, but other than that she usually doesn't do much with it unless I talk her through it (usually over the phone ("Biiill, the sound's broken again"...)).
Also, my 7 year old daughter happily plays doom and xjewel without any problems.
It wasn't anywhere near 5.5GB (more like 200-300MB), but I did it with no floppy and no cd. This was on a sparc (Red Hat 6.0) using `boot net'. Super cool and I learned alot about rarp, nfs, etc.
This is all very true. I've been through it myself. However, I would like to state that it is possible for the smart ones to remain good tech supports, but only if they've got the talent. By this, I mean that even though they thouroughly understand the system, they can still get that understanding across to the newbie. Unfortunatly, this requires extreme talent and such people are vary rare, and I'm certainly not one of them as I have problems explaining things myself. I just grok whatever it is; puting it into words is sometimes very difficult if not impossible.
I agree, a newbie is the best possible person to use for usability studies. That is actually one thing MS got right: pop in the cd, wait, press the install button, fill in a few fields, (usually) reboot and off you go. Anoying for the advanced user, but extremly easy for the newbie (this is after my recent experiences of installing both NT and 95). However, anything more complicated (eg downloaded drivers), their model just doesn't work as well, nor for installing the os.
Wouldn't know, I'm not home yet:( Soon, though. I just got this linux box setup at work and I can go home now (first post from this machine:). Hmm, wonder if I'll still be able to boot NT and W95. Oh, the joys of tripple booting.
I might have to see if I can get the real* stuff going.
It's between 36 and 53 light minutes from Earth to Jupiter, depending on the time of year. I'm basing this on my memory of Jupiter's year being 12 Earth years which puts Jupiter at about 5.24 AUs (Earth orbits) from the sun ( y2/y1 = (d2/d1)^1.5). 10 light minutes a about 1.2 AUs; I'm not sure if that will get you from Jupiter to the asteroid belt and probably not Mars, even on a good day (can somebody give me Mars' and the asteroid belt's obital distances or periods?).
I already `score' aticles in my head using something like log(a/n) where a is some constant depending on my mood and n is the number of comments (being carefull when n=0). I suspect the first posters do something like this but forget to take care when n=0, thus causing an overflow resulting in an undesirable urge to shout `FIRST POST'.
Back in the dim dark ages when I was still using Windows, many CGI `scripts' for that platform were actually.exe programs (ie written in C/C++/whatever) simply because Windows (and dos) didn't come with decent scripting. Though I don't know what ebay actually uses, but it is entirely possible that their CGI stuff is actually compiled programs rather than scripts. Otherwise, I agree with you, I just wanted to point out this possibility.
Is a 386 with 16MB ram and 500MB hard drive (vast open expanses) low end enough? syslogd has problems keeping up with fetchmail/qmail, but otherwise it does it's job extremely well (firewall/ipmasq). I'm inclined to disagree that Linux has forgotten the low end, but it does work extremely well on modern hardware.
Efficiency is Efficiency. If it works well on a pentium, it will work well on a 386, just a lot slower.
I think I understand your point. Basicly, parents must take the responsiblility for bringing up their kids the way they with them to be brought up, and not leave it to others. I agree with this, with the addition that parents should not allow their kids to be brought up by somebody else, though this one is sticky, as a smart parent will, at times, encourage their child to seek the views of others. Hmm, this is where parents discussing things with children is vital. Ugh, parenting is a difficult, tangled mess. I have two kids and though I want them to grow up with good, strong values, I also feel I have little or no right to dictate those values to them, mostly because the only two values that I consider to be universal are honesty and kindness to others. I suppose if I stick to those two and allow my kids to figure out for themselves how to implement them (with help) I won't be being too hypocritical. Gack, it's this conflict of having to teach my kids, yet needing to allow them to be themselves that makes parenting such a difficult task for me. Note, however, that difficult as it may be, I am not going to give up:)
BTW, I think a good analogy for your argument is like what Heinlein said in Time Enough for Love (either somewhere in the Dorris chapters, or the Lazaris notes, I think): shoot your own dog, don't leave it to others.
Ahhh, thank you very much! I've been putting a lot of thought into just what `freedom' is and how it can work. I believe this has given me an important concept, namely that for freedom to exist, it must go both ways.
Hmm, I wonder... If you restrict someones freedom, do you still have freedom yourself?
Isn't that via a compatability layer rather than true similarities? I believe the BSD API is sufficiently different from the SYSV/Linux (not quite the same thing) API that one side or the other would have to either change their entire API (yeah, right, hell will go through several cycles of freazing/thawing before that happens), or provide some sort of compatability layer, possibly through dynamic linking. I don't actually know enough to give an authorative answer.
They don't. Infact, one jost got moderated down for being off topic, as did onother severl weeks ago, and I wouldn't be supprised if this one did too, it certainly deserves it. Usually they stay put, even though some of them deserve to go down.
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You seem to have missed many points in that book. In Mists of Avalon, most women had no rights. It was only the few holdouts at Avalon that continued to execise any real power. The story was effectively at the end of the time when women had any rights.
This is an internet wake. We're all sitting around our computers posting eulogies to Slashdot about someone many many geeks held in high regard. If this isn't a net wake/funeral, I don't know what is.
One of my favorites, along with it's prequille, Hunters of the Red Moon. Those two would have to be at the top of my list of her works. They were just purely excellent. Red Moon is a good thriller and Survivors makes a good mystery. I just wich I could remember the saurians name; somethink like Aknarak.
Leave others their otherness. MZB, The Survivors.
I would recommend reading anything with her name on it, they're all good. Some are better than others, of course, but I enjoyed every single book of hers that I read (Red Moon and Survivors are my two favorites). This is very sad news for me: I've been a fan of her's for the last ten or so years and I'm saddened that she will no longer be writing new stories or helping new writers get started (many contributers to the S&S books went on to become big names (eg Mercedes Lackey (sp?) and Charles de Lint)).
*Sigh*, time to work on finishing my MZB collection.
There's a data channel in there as well. I can't find the details right now, but I think it's around 380kBps.
To interface to a plain nic, you'ld probably have to put it into promiscuous mode and even then I'm not sure how well it will work.
Hmm, isn't IEEE 802.3 the ethernet packet spec? If so, it looks like a nic might be able to pase the packets up to the OS afterall. Dang, I wish I knew more about the ethernet protocol, then I could give a good comparison, but thinks look promising.
Contrary to my previous posting (#3), this definitly looks worthwhile.
I just realized, this could be an excelent tech for control systems, eg robotics. 32 bits @ 192kHz would be fast enough for just about any mechanical aplication and 8 chanels going down one wire would certainly help cut costs. I'm liking this more and more. And as another poster stated, that phantom power certainly looks interesting (500mA@9V, hmm, 4.5 Watts, more than enough to power a StrongARM or 4).
BTW, looks pretty open (though I don't know about patents). I just downloaded the specs from this page (look at the bottom for the pdf) and just glancing through the table of contents looks promising from the sw developer's POV. You'll probably need special hw (one of their chips), but that kindof goes with a new wire protocol. Anyway, having something like this closed would only hurt acceptance.
Maybe I should go read the article, I'm probably missing some vital concept.
Also, my 7 year old daughter happily plays doom and xjewel without any problems.
It wasn't anywhere near 5.5GB (more like 200-300MB), but I did it with no floppy and no cd. This was on a sparc (Red Hat 6.0) using `boot net'. Super cool and I learned alot about rarp, nfs, etc.
I agree, a newbie is the best possible person to use for usability studies. That is actually one thing MS got right: pop in the cd, wait, press the install button, fill in a few fields, (usually) reboot and off you go. Anoying for the advanced user, but extremly easy for the newbie (this is after my recent experiences of installing both NT and 95). However, anything more complicated (eg downloaded drivers), their model just doesn't work as well, nor for installing the os.
I might have to see if I can get the real* stuff going.
Hehe, can't wait till I get home so I can listen to it. The previous 9 have been great (listent to them 3 times so far).
It's between 36 and 53 light minutes from Earth to Jupiter, depending on the time of year. I'm basing this on my memory of Jupiter's year being 12 Earth years which puts Jupiter at about 5.24 AUs (Earth orbits) from the sun ( y2/y1 = (d2/d1)^1.5). 10 light minutes a about 1.2 AUs; I'm not sure if that will get you from Jupiter to the asteroid belt and probably not Mars, even on a good day (can somebody give me Mars' and the asteroid belt's obital distances or periods?).
I already `score' aticles in my head using something like log(a/n) where a is some constant depending on my mood and n is the number of comments (being carefull when n=0). I suspect the first posters do something like this but forget to take care when n=0, thus causing an overflow resulting in an undesirable urge to shout `FIRST POST'.
Back in the dim dark ages when I was still using Windows, many CGI `scripts' for that platform were actually .exe programs (ie written in C/C++/whatever) simply because Windows (and dos) didn't come with decent scripting. Though I don't know what ebay actually uses, but it is entirely possible that their CGI stuff is actually compiled programs rather than scripts. Otherwise, I agree with you, I just wanted to point out this possibility.
Efficiency is Efficiency. If it works well on a pentium, it will work well on a 386, just a lot slower.
BTW, I think a good analogy for your argument is like what Heinlein said in Time Enough for Love (either somewhere in the Dorris chapters, or the Lazaris notes, I think): shoot your own dog, don't leave it to others.
- the bible - revelations (?)
- Heinlein - Friday
- Hitler - nuff said
- Hollywood - lots of movies
- ...
Plenty of prior art, but the only good that will do is wreck the patent application. It won't stop this sort of thing from happening.BTW, good one.
Hmm, I wonder... If you restrict someones freedom, do you still have freedom yourself?
Isn't that via a compatability layer rather than true similarities? I believe the BSD API is sufficiently different from the SYSV/Linux (not quite the same thing) API that one side or the other would have to either change their entire API (yeah, right, hell will go through several cycles of freazing/thawing before that happens), or provide some sort of compatability layer, possibly through dynamic linking. I don't actually know enough to give an authorative answer.
They don't. Infact, one jost got moderated down for being off topic, as did onother severl weeks ago, and I wouldn't be supprised if this one did too, it certainly deserves it. Usually they stay put, even though some of them deserve to go down.