Has proven it's need. It's helped solve a few different problems that could have been fatal to the shuttle - When you only have a limited number of orbiters, and a limited number of parts for those orbiters, you want to make sure EVERYTHING is accounted for and documented.
warning - opinion follows:
IMHO, they should gut the shuttles and redo them in modern technology - cut the weight of the shuttles (The glass cockpit was a start).. But they still have those N+1 redudant hugeass computers on board - and lots and lots of copper wiring. Apparently with the scrapping of the X-3x projects and the Aerospike engine failure, we're going to be using them for quite a long time - so lets modernize them.
I've always wondered.. Why cant the shuttle be designed to use a different "style" of booster (I know all about the LFB) more like a "Sled".. Have a high-altitude jet aircraft take the shuttle up as far as possible, release it, and let a reusable sled which contains the boosters and fuel tank take it the rest of the way up (and re-enter upon completion). I am obviously not a rocket scientist, and im too tired to think properly right now, and i'm probably grossly overestimating the altitude potential of a jet aircraft capiable of lifting the shuttles bulk.. but, i wanted to stick that theory out and see if it can get chopped off.:)
its a pasttime of slashdot. If someone disagrees with you, and happens to have moderator access, they would rather moderate you down than try to actually mod up the good comments.
I've actually been modded a "troll" for posting something criticizing slashdot. For no other reason THAN that, actually.
I'm not aware of canada's position on Scientology, but perhaps he should seek asylum in Germany? If i remember correctly, Germany isn't too big on the whole scientology thing.
I was on BBS's until they finally gave up the ghost here in nashville.
I miss BBSing. It was a much closer-knit community. I'll never forget the nights of attempting to redial my favorite bbs until i *FINALLY* got connected.. just to grab a.qwk packet and spend the next day or so replying to message after message after message..
The net just hasn't touched the same nerve with me. While the information resources are much more grand, there arent many places which offer the same type of atmosphere as a local BBS. People weren't bombarded with ads from local BBS's, it took a fair amount of clue to be able to get one one, for god sakes - Telix, Terminate, procomm, minicom and tip, bluewave and iceedit, renegade and wildcat. Modemfests and gatherings and making friends and enemies through a highly delayed message board.. memories.. *sigh*
I know this isnt news to anyone, but the install procedure to RealPlayer could be SO streamlined.. however i do feel emotionally and intellectually violated each and every time i have to install the program. Why arent there laws protecting us from constant badgering online? It'd be useful.. a "Stop freaking soliciting me" button in windows control panel that inserted a registry key that made windows stop prompting for confirmation, made installs go quicker by saying "no" to everything that requests you view, start, or reboot something, and, for the love of god, STOP webpages from spawning 4092000e15 popup pr0n windows. Just one checkbox. thats all i ask.
Unfortunately not. If you're heavily depedant on rules, as i was at a previous job, my solution was to use our citrix server to load outlook through a ICA connection.
If thats not an option, you could always just ask them to enable the internet mail connector's IMAP functionality;)
One day i will follow my dream of becoming a master in the field of psycology, and then, between meaningful activities i'll sit down and write a theory on how the collective open-source mind of slashdot operates. and somehow, i think the results of the personality breakdown will be similar to what you just posted.
I calculate about another 2 years until slashdot degrades to the point where a empty story will be posted stating "Microsoft Sucks". CmdrTaco will implement a filter which uses advanced nerual net filtering to decide if a post is pro microsoft, and the post will immediately get rated at the new, (-5, idiot) level. Any pro-linux post will get +5. Truly insightful posters will move onto some new forum. Of course, the trolls will split into two groups, both somehow equally as annoying as before. Shortly thereafter, a singularity will form above RedHat's HQ and suck in all things open-source, As Bob Young rips off his face mask (a-la MI:2) to reveal... Bill Gates.
To quote the book of Sith, passage 30:23, "And the dark lord sayeth, Strike out at me, and become me, for truely I am thyself, with a more menacing outfit."
MS's actual failure here is their QA and legal staff. Think logically. Microsoft would never, ever release software that intentionally had a security hole in it. Yes, there are bugs in and out. Yes, there are [accused] NSA Backdoors. HOWEVER, planting a LEGIT hole in software is like beating on the doorway to the DOJ screaming "TAKE ME NOW!". AntiTrust suit aside, this has no abiguity. Microsoft, purposefully sticking a backdoor in their software and keeping it hidden from their customers, seems to me to be 100% illegal
It then makes no sense for MS to let this pass. The financial reprecussions are severe. As i stated above, QA should have caught this. So, if anything, microsofts development methodology, and NOT its legal practices are likely to blame in this case.
Disclaimer: Yes, i know posting a microsoft-postive message on Slashdot is begging for a (-1, Flamebait) rating. If the idea to mod me down has crossed your mind, congratulations, you're a bigot.
1: The technology, though set in the "past", will look somewhat futuristic (The same guy who did the designs on DS9, NG and Voyager has signed on to do the designs here.)
2: There will eventually be some tip of the hat to Quantum Leap. Prepare for the comptuer to be called "Ziggy".
3: There will be time travel involved somehow. This is a star trek "Must Do" nowadays, they have to give some form of reference to future enterprise crew, even if 200 years in the future.
4: Warp speed will be just as fast as always.
5: The borg will probably make an appearance, looking even MORE menacing than in the future as budgets increase.
6: The klingons will still have the head ridge.
7: And the plots [probably] will [not] have some meat to them, instead of appearing to be out of a cookie cutter.
Actually, i think, a better title would be "Everyone: The Honeymoon is Over"..
About the only thing that could hurt the industry more is amazon giving a final death heave... Then the investors would run away, whole companies would collapse at a faster rate than current, thousands of sysadmins will be flipping burgers while a lucky few retain their jobs with a pay cut, and the world regresses to 1950, right before the we blow ourselves up as Gee Dubya Shrubya wonders what the little red button does..
(The above post is not smiley captioned. Take it with a grain of salt.)
Will the klingons in the theoretical new series have the ridge on their head, or not? Then we move into the theories about "The original series klingons were actually a subspecies of the klingon race...":)
No matter how much the world hates microsoft, that gives NOBODY the right to pirate their software. Microsoft is only protecting their interests. Now, apparently, they're taking "harder" steps to ensure that they get adequate payment, and it has been indicated that it will be fair and you will have some manner in which to move your licenses.. but it will assure that your license is yours. That seems pretty fair to me. Other software has done this for quite some time...
That said, rest assured, those of you out there who simply hate the idea of paying for anything in this capitalist country we call the USA, someone will have a keygen out within a few weeks.
Something i've found pretty useful..
The stealth kernel patch..
It's not a panacea, it certainly has its problems... but, it is a nice utility, and can be tweaked on the fly. Slows portscans down quite a bit, and prevents other nifty things from happening.. There are other ways to do this, of course, but.. Judge for yourself.
Its time those of us at risk of losing or home server and our way of life, to take up arms against these heathens. I say it is to be war between us! We shall do as our fathers did and our fathers before that! We shall point our mice and click the buttons, type the commands, and speak the words that send Millions upon Millions of brave packets to sacrifice their lives to protect our way of life, our dignity, and our porn downloads, and teach those evil bastards a lesson they will never forget!!!!!!!!
While i normally don't pay any attention to trolls, i feel the need to reply that napster is a business, and not a government. For the purposes of the above post, i was speaking in terms of the/government/. If you can find information showing me the government is forcing napster to remove any nazi-related music, i'd be glad to listen - or send it ot the ACLU, even. Thank you, goodnight.
"Free" is used relatively here - Sometimes, in the light of things such as the DMCA, we forget how much freedom we/do/ have, such as the freedom to move around the country at will (with a few notable exceptions). Freedom to listen to music which has antiestablishment messages without worry of government-sanctioned censorship. Freedom to complain about our government.
The internet is redrawing geography. It is a world mostly without borders and without government. It is for all intents and purposes an exercise in anarchy. It does have its positives (Unlimited freedom) and occasional negatives (Violations of other peoples freedoms.) China's moves to censor the internet may very well work, in the short term. But humans have a nack for eventually overcoming opression, whatever its form may be. The natural world works by slow evolution - slowly, some of the opressed of today (the majority of the country, im assuming) will enter into their government, affecting change, slowly but surely.
The "new geography" of the internet may allow this change to happen much quicker - the electronic world works by rapid microevolution. From this outsiders view, the elder chineese are comfortable in their way of life - they view the world differently than their children. Some of their children view the world with youthful vigor and rebellion - they see the grass on the other side of the ocean, and see that it is greener - or rather, it is different. They want that to be part of their world. They will probably grow up to be part of the machine - but a slightly "flawed" part of that machine, one that may slowly affect the change to democracy, or a completely different, better system of government, in the future.
Just my two cents.
Democracy is the worst system of government created, except for all others - Winston Churchill
Ok.. by the time this is posted, the story will be old, and there will be hundreds of stories like this, but i feel obliged to give my POV..
3 years ago i worked for a callcenter. Not technical support for an ISP, but we delt with some of the most highly irate people you can imagine - truck drivers. These people for the most part are easily fired up, and hard to calm down. They have the biggest case of road rage you've ever imagined. And they're talking to you because they have no money. And you are the person they blame.
Now with the background out of the way, let me tell you what irritates me. 99.95% of the time, there was no way we could help this person. WHen we tried, we were repremanded by our manager for nto going "by the book".. teh book was written, of course, by someone who had never ran a single transaction or tried to help a single person. All they cared about was our talk times. Incredibly draconian. A person is not a number. My philosophy was i will help this person. I will do everything in my power. I will turn as many problems as i can into something resembling a solution. I got repremanded for this course of action.
Bottom line, if anyone is listening. Empower your tech support people to help. Make sure they know what they are doing. Verse them in the technology they are supporting. I am so sick of calling @home and getting some halfwit who does not know the difference between a switch and a hub walking me through checking my TCP/IP stack when i've already established by very good evidince and correlation between other customers and myself that the problem is that their DNS server has stopped responding to queries, or there is a router down. Thats another thing.. Do not treat all customers like they are children. Some of us would like technical details - such as "Our service is interrupted in nashville due to a router outage. Our network administrators are working to correct the issue, and we expect a resolution within the next hour." I know that this may not ever happen, and i can even think of some arguments against it (i.e. it may force them to at one time admit that they have some incompetent sysadmins, somewhere, or use flawed technology) - but as long as im still paying for that time, i want to know why i can't check my e-mail, or monitor my servers at work, or.. you get the idea. And a simple "oh, theres a problem, and it will be resolved sometime in the next year" simply doesnt do it for me. If i could get DSL, i would.. sigh.. but i figure the same tech support issues exist everywhere. I am not a child. I am not a number. I do not enjoy being treated as such.
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Open source could be considered software communism...
Has proven it's need. It's helped solve a few different problems that could have been fatal to the shuttle - When you only have a limited number of orbiters, and a limited number of parts for those orbiters, you want to make sure EVERYTHING is accounted for and documented.
:)
/.
warning - opinion follows:
IMHO, they should gut the shuttles and redo them in modern technology - cut the weight of the shuttles (The glass cockpit was a start).. But they still have those N+1 redudant hugeass computers on board - and lots and lots of copper wiring. Apparently with the scrapping of the X-3x projects and the Aerospike engine failure, we're going to be using them for quite a long time - so lets modernize them.
I've always wondered.. Why cant the shuttle be designed to use a different "style" of booster (I know all about the LFB) more like a "Sled".. Have a high-altitude jet aircraft take the shuttle up as far as possible, release it, and let a reusable sled which contains the boosters and fuel tank take it the rest of the way up (and re-enter upon completion). I am obviously not a rocket scientist, and im too tired to think properly right now, and i'm probably grossly overestimating the altitude potential of a jet aircraft capiable of lifting the shuttles bulk.. but, i wanted to stick that theory out and see if it can get chopped off.
Goodnight
its a pasttime of slashdot. If someone disagrees with you, and happens to have moderator access, they would rather moderate you down than try to actually mod up the good comments.
I've actually been modded a "troll" for posting something criticizing slashdot. For no other reason THAN that, actually.
When is there too much anonymity? At what point are we willing to sacrifice our implied rights so that others aren't exploited?
My right to swing my fist ends where the other mans nose begins... O. W. Holmes.
Hang from the celing of your boss's office. Spy on meetings.
Hang from celing of womens bathroom. Find out why they always take so long.
Hide from/ambush DBA's who want to work you to death 5 minutes before you leave.
Get a extremely large set of these, attach entire desk to celing. Work inverted all day long. pass out.
attach to airplane before takeoff. Free trip, anywhere. Hint: dress warmly, carry a parachute, just in case..
Climb buildings, save kitties, become hero of many young children.
Climb kitties, save buildings, $%*@* off PETA.
paint body like lizard. spend entire day on wall, sticking tonge out at people.
I'm not aware of canada's position on Scientology, but perhaps he should seek asylum in Germany? If i remember correctly, Germany isn't too big on the whole scientology thing.
I was still on BBS's.
.qwk packet and spend the next day or so replying to message after message after message..
I was on BBS's until they finally gave up the ghost here in nashville.
I miss BBSing. It was a much closer-knit community. I'll never forget the nights of attempting to redial my favorite bbs until i *FINALLY* got connected.. just to grab a
The net just hasn't touched the same nerve with me. While the information resources are much more grand, there arent many places which offer the same type of atmosphere as a local BBS. People weren't bombarded with ads from local BBS's, it took a fair amount of clue to be able to get one one, for god sakes - Telix, Terminate, procomm, minicom and tip, bluewave and iceedit, renegade and wildcat. Modemfests and gatherings and making friends and enemies through a highly delayed message board.. memories.. *sigh*
Oh, sorry... Nostalgia kicked in.
I know this isnt news to anyone, but the install procedure to RealPlayer could be SO streamlined.. however i do feel emotionally and intellectually violated each and every time i have to install the program. Why arent there laws protecting us from constant badgering online? It'd be useful.. a "Stop freaking soliciting me" button in windows control panel that inserted a registry key that made windows stop prompting for confirmation, made installs go quicker by saying "no" to everything that requests you view, start, or reboot something, and, for the love of god, STOP webpages from spawning 4092000e15 popup pr0n windows. Just one checkbox. thats all i ask.
Wow.. seems any dissenting opinions of slashdot are immediately a "troll"..
The unibrain of slashdot just fell an IQ point.
Sorting rules are generally client-only.
Unfortunately not. If you're heavily depedant on rules, as i was at a previous job, my solution was to use our citrix server to load outlook through a ICA connection.
;)
If thats not an option, you could always just ask them to enable the internet mail connector's IMAP functionality
Outlook Web Access works great for those of us (like me) who use their Ultra 5 at work (like i do).
Almost all the functionality of Outlook, cross-platform. Speed is sacrificed, but, it beats the alternative.
:)
1. CEO Fired [How fast can you find a new one?]
2. CFO Fired [How fast can you forge his signature all those PO's you've been wanting.]
3. Stock Devaluation [Speed selling]
4. Stock Devaluation at a dot com [Resume update]
One day i will follow my dream of becoming a master in the field of psycology, and then, between meaningful activities i'll sit down and write a theory on how the collective open-source mind of slashdot operates. and somehow, i think the results of the personality breakdown will be similar to what you just posted.
I calculate about another 2 years until slashdot degrades to the point where a empty story will be posted stating "Microsoft Sucks". CmdrTaco will implement a filter which uses advanced nerual net filtering to decide if a post is pro microsoft, and the post will immediately get rated at the new, (-5, idiot) level. Any pro-linux post will get +5. Truly insightful posters will move onto some new forum. Of course, the trolls will split into two groups, both somehow equally as annoying as before. Shortly thereafter, a singularity will form above RedHat's HQ and suck in all things open-source, As Bob Young rips off his face mask (a-la MI:2) to reveal... Bill Gates.
To quote the book of Sith, passage 30:23, "And the dark lord sayeth, Strike out at me, and become me, for truely I am thyself, with a more menacing outfit."
MS's actual failure here is their QA and legal staff. Think logically. Microsoft would never, ever release software that intentionally had a security hole in it. Yes, there are bugs in and out. Yes, there are [accused] NSA Backdoors. HOWEVER, planting a LEGIT hole in software is like beating on the doorway to the DOJ screaming "TAKE ME NOW!". AntiTrust suit aside, this has no abiguity. Microsoft, purposefully sticking a backdoor in their software and keeping it hidden from their customers, seems to me to be 100% illegal
It then makes no sense for MS to let this pass. The financial reprecussions are severe. As i stated above, QA should have caught this. So, if anything, microsofts development methodology, and NOT its legal practices are likely to blame in this case.
Disclaimer: Yes, i know posting a microsoft-postive message on Slashdot is begging for a (-1, Flamebait) rating. If the idea to mod me down has crossed your mind, congratulations, you're a bigot.
I can install nero all day long and XP doesn't mind..
1: The technology, though set in the "past", will look somewhat futuristic (The same guy who did the designs on DS9, NG and Voyager has signed on to do the designs here.)
2: There will eventually be some tip of the hat to Quantum Leap. Prepare for the comptuer to be called "Ziggy".
3: There will be time travel involved somehow. This is a star trek "Must Do" nowadays, they have to give some form of reference to future enterprise crew, even if 200 years in the future.
4: Warp speed will be just as fast as always.
5: The borg will probably make an appearance, looking even MORE menacing than in the future as budgets increase.
6: The klingons will still have the head ridge.
7: And the plots [probably] will [not] have some meat to them, instead of appearing to be out of a cookie cutter.
Actually, i think, a better title would be "Everyone: The Honeymoon is Over"..
About the only thing that could hurt the industry more is amazon giving a final death heave... Then the investors would run away, whole companies would collapse at a faster rate than current, thousands of sysadmins will be flipping burgers while a lucky few retain their jobs with a pay cut, and the world regresses to 1950, right before the we blow ourselves up as Gee Dubya Shrubya wonders what the little red button does..
(The above post is not smiley captioned. Take it with a grain of salt.)
Will the klingons in the theoretical new series have the ridge on their head, or not? Then we move into the theories about "The original series klingons were actually a subspecies of the klingon race..." :)
No matter how much the world hates microsoft, that gives NOBODY the right to pirate their software. Microsoft is only protecting their interests. Now, apparently, they're taking "harder" steps to ensure that they get adequate payment, and it has been indicated that it will be fair and you will have some manner in which to move your licenses.. but it will assure that your license is yours. That seems pretty fair to me. Other software has done this for quite some time...
That said, rest assured, those of you out there who simply hate the idea of paying for anything in this capitalist country we call the USA, someone will have a keygen out within a few weeks.
Something i've found pretty useful.. The stealth kernel patch.. It's not a panacea, it certainly has its problems... but, it is a nice utility, and can be tweaked on the fly. Slows portscans down quite a bit, and prevents other nifty things from happening.. There are other ways to do this, of course, but.. Judge for yourself.
Incredibly Massive Orchestrated Retaliation.
Its time those of us at risk of losing or home server and our way of life, to take up arms against these heathens. I say it is to be war between us! We shall do as our fathers did and our fathers before that! We shall point our mice and click the buttons, type the commands, and speak the words that send Millions upon Millions of brave packets to sacrifice their lives to protect our way of life, our dignity, and our porn downloads, and teach those evil bastards a lesson they will never forget!!!!!!!!
;)
While i normally don't pay any attention to trolls, i feel the need to reply that napster is a business, and not a government. For the purposes of the above post, i was speaking in terms of the /government/. If you can find information showing me the government is forcing napster to remove any nazi-related music, i'd be glad to listen - or send it ot the ACLU, even. Thank you, goodnight.
"Free" is used relatively here - Sometimes, in the light of things such as the DMCA, we forget how much freedom we /do/ have, such as the freedom to move around the country at will (with a few notable exceptions). Freedom to listen to music which has antiestablishment messages without worry of government-sanctioned censorship. Freedom to complain about our government.
The internet is redrawing geography. It is a world mostly without borders and without government. It is for all intents and purposes an exercise in anarchy. It does have its positives (Unlimited freedom) and occasional negatives (Violations of other peoples freedoms.) China's moves to censor the internet may very well work, in the short term. But humans have a nack for eventually overcoming opression, whatever its form may be. The natural world works by slow evolution - slowly, some of the opressed of today (the majority of the country, im assuming) will enter into their government, affecting change, slowly but surely.
The "new geography" of the internet may allow this change to happen much quicker - the electronic world works by rapid microevolution. From this outsiders view, the elder chineese are comfortable in their way of life - they view the world differently than their children. Some of their children view the world with youthful vigor and rebellion - they see the grass on the other side of the ocean, and see that it is greener - or rather, it is different. They want that to be part of their world. They will probably grow up to be part of the machine - but a slightly "flawed" part of that machine, one that may slowly affect the change to democracy, or a completely different, better system of government, in the future.
Just my two cents.
Democracy is the worst system of government created, except for all others - Winston Churchill
Ok.. by the time this is posted, the story will be old, and there will be hundreds of stories like this, but i feel obliged to give my POV..
3 years ago i worked for a callcenter. Not technical support for an ISP, but we delt with some of the most highly irate people you can imagine - truck drivers. These people for the most part are easily fired up, and hard to calm down. They have the biggest case of road rage you've ever imagined. And they're talking to you because they have no money. And you are the person they blame.
Now with the background out of the way, let me tell you what irritates me. 99.95% of the time, there was no way we could help this person. WHen we tried, we were repremanded by our manager for nto going "by the book".. teh book was written, of course, by someone who had never ran a single transaction or tried to help a single person. All they cared about was our talk times. Incredibly draconian. A person is not a number. My philosophy was i will help this person. I will do everything in my power. I will turn as many problems as i can into something resembling a solution. I got repremanded for this course of action.
Bottom line, if anyone is listening. Empower your tech support people to help. Make sure they know what they are doing. Verse them in the technology they are supporting. I am so sick of calling @home and getting some halfwit who does not know the difference between a switch and a hub walking me through checking my TCP/IP stack when i've already established by very good evidince and correlation between other customers and myself that the problem is that their DNS server has stopped responding to queries, or there is a router down. Thats another thing.. Do not treat all customers like they are children. Some of us would like technical details - such as "Our service is interrupted in nashville due to a router outage. Our network administrators are working to correct the issue, and we expect a resolution within the next hour." I know that this may not ever happen, and i can even think of some arguments against it (i.e. it may force them to at one time admit that they have some incompetent sysadmins, somewhere, or use flawed technology) - but as long as im still paying for that time, i want to know why i can't check my e-mail, or monitor my servers at work, or.. you get the idea. And a simple "oh, theres a problem, and it will be resolved sometime in the next year" simply doesnt do it for me. If i could get DSL, i would.. sigh.. but i figure the same tech support issues exist everywhere. I am not a child. I am not a number. I do not enjoy being treated as such.