Course their *is* a way to overcome this. A local ISP in my hometown (lincoln, Nebraska) just recently unveiled high-speed wireless (bout dsl speeds) thereby completely bypassing the phone company. Of course you have to be LOS and within 2-3 miles of the tower for it to work BUT all in all it rocks - especially in rural area's.
Been awhile since taking physics.. needed a refresher course =).
I forgot to mention the possibility of using the maglev to accelerate the ship to ramjet/scramjet speeds (Mach 10 I believe?) which would vastly reduce the amount of fuel needed to be carried and maitnence since a ramjet containts no moving parts and could be accomplished on a let's see here..
.5 * 4000 m/s (roughly Mach 12 sealevel)/68.6 (7g's) = 29.15 Km track a much more reasonable figure.
Of course this could, and probably is, quite off(Hell, 50% error still only gives you a 45km track) since the Nasa website on RamJet's gives a quite long formula for determing Ramjet performance, thrust, etc.
Erp, I forgot to mention that for manned launches a maglev track of around 40-50km should be enough to accelerate the craft to ramjet/scramjet speeds and making space travel relatively easier (no need to carry large amounts of fuel, no real 'engines' less maintence, etc.)
As for the 'cheapness' I was pointing out relative to the shuttle or expendable rockets. Both of which are very expensive because A.) they waste large amounts of componets B:) they can't really carry that much since most of the wieght is in fuel.
I forgot to mention the (Critical) point was that maglev should be used for *unmanned* launches. Manned launches would require a very long launch platform (over 100km) while, depending upon the stress's a unmanned launch vehicle could withstand, it could be much shorter (perhaps less than 25km assuming the vehicle could withstand 30-40 g's.
I would imagine for manned launches they would use the maglev track of about 25km to accelerate the craft to Ramjet/Scramjet speeds greatly reducing the amount of fuel needed to be carried.
In theory they hope to use this to totally replace rocket launches as it would be
A. Safer
- all equipment on ground easy to maintain and in case of a failed launch or problem the rail would still result in a partial launch - meaning the pilot could presumably guide the plane/wahtever to a landing.
- No need to carry volatile chemicals
B. Cheaper since, once agian, everything is on the ground - no need for throwaway boosters, etc Indeed once you pay for the construction all that is left is electricity and maintence.
C. The plan isn't to accelerate them vertically as the G forces would kill a man to obtain earth orbit you have to have a speed of (I think) 25 Km/Sec which would, in a vertical launch scenario of say a 1000 meter tower, result in way over the 9-10 G's a human can survie. Instead they will be launched off of a gradually ascending slope spanning a couple of kilometers.
However, and this is a big iffy, in all honesty this technology will go nowhere without superconducting materials to use in the rail. Without these existing, or any future, non-superconducting material cannot hope to maintain the power output/magnetic field necassary to propel an object to Earth Orbit or Near Earth Orbit (NEO).
Argh can't slashdot start caching pages so we don't have to deal with the ever-present slashdot effect.
Any find a google cached page of this? I couldn't but I don't have mad-uberGoogle skillz.
Ok.. this is a shady on the ethical side BUT here is what you do. Do all the work for him but leave yourself a 'backdoor.' A open port, a root user only you know about, etc. Once you get paid destroy the whole damm thing. Not only do you end spam but you can actually cost them MORE money (and maybe earn yourself some more money in the process).
Their freedoms are not being restricted in any way - they can still send the e-mail but must include a way out of it. Also, fradulent claims, illegal offers, pyramid schemes etc are all excluded from free speach since they are illegal. Also note that corporations don't have the same free speach rights as individuals - they can be regulated more heavily than people.
Futhermore, free speach HAS TO BE CONSENSUAL. You *must* opt-in, or agree to, 'listen.' Example: You are walking by and see a Nazi (or some other vastly offensive to most people)rally. You stand in abject horror for a few moments and then walk away - you are CHOOSING not to hear their speech. That is freedom. Spam is the equivalent of being strapped to a chair against your will and being forced to listen to the Nazi's against your will.
Futhermore spam takes up your time and your computing resources - how much of internet traffic do you suppose spam consumes? Let's see I get an average of 10 a day (after my filters). At, say, 5kb a piece that translates into 50kb a day for ONE person. Times that time around 75 million that are estimated to have an email account in the use. What do you get? 46.78 terabytes a day. Imagine that. FORTY SIX TERABYTES! now you can say not everybody recieves that much spam etc.. ok.. take a tenth of that FOUR terabytes! Let's see to transfer that much.. oh hell you get the point. It's a phenominal amount.
Also, the US supreme court ruled long ago that the Internet is a *private domain* not a public domain so certain free speach rules do NOT apply since it is privately controlled. (This is how things like the Real Time Blackhole List are able to survive - since the equipment etc is privately controlled it is not forced to obey by government free speach type controls, much like private schools and prayer.)
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I wish. Man do I really wish. Just think: a unix command-line enviroment, ultra-cool interface, and a great suite of applications.
Oh wait.. that kindof sounds like a linux killer doesn't it?
=)
I remember seeing something on this awhile ago it basically involves that every CD has 100 points assigned to it. Now, like 4-5 dollars is taken in as profit by the end seller which leaves roughly 9 bucks left. After that something like 25-30 points is taken by the record compan , 10-15 for marketing, 5-10 for the producer, 15 or 20 so for the cost of manufacturing/distrubuting and the rest is to the artist (varies on your contract - artist's like Jackson and Springsteen get lke 40 points while no-name bands get like 10, the remainder is taken by the record comapny.
But what about people's existing.mp3 files? Are these going to have to be converted into.nap files to be able to be shared? Or ar they going to somehow filter out all of a user's existing.mp3's?
better yet they turn up the volume on their laptop just to add to the fun as the cart rolls on buy
*Cover me!*
BOOM!
*Need backup*
RAT-TAT-TAT
*The Bomb has been planted*
At this point I imagine their would be some sort of incident.. involving sedation. and belts.
The statement I made should've been phrased better: Can the 12-o'clock flashers install linux, the and the answer to that (mandrake included) is no - not without about 20 tech support calls that is.
WindowsXP, no matter how evil it is, is a breeze to install on every machine I've done it on (upwards of 40 now).
I've installed linux four times, total, so I don't have all that much expereince (compared to hundreds of windows installations)but every single time it is a headache. USB devices are a half hour project to get working. Integrated sound *snicker* yeah right. Oh sure it will install - just no sound and no USB (I managed to get my zip drive working finally no luck on my scanner or printer). The sad, sad part of this is I first installed linux when it was at kernel.4 (i think)... and things haven't gotten that much better since then.
I've never installed MacOSX so I can't really comment on it's installition.
Now can 12 o'clock flashers USE linux effectively: of course they can. A properly configured and set up linux box is just as effective as a windows box, that is not in question. BUT to get a nicely set-up linux box for hte flasher's you have to either get one from the OEM or have one at work. Remember dell's expeirement pre-loading linux? It failed.. utterly because of lack of demand. Before we can start getting peeps to use linux you have to make it more user friendly/compatible. As soon as you do that then maybe you will see more OEM's shippin' linux boxes - not before. The linux community desperately needs to achieve "critical mass" i.e. about 7-10% of market share of desktop computers to start gaining more apps, better support, etc. It doesn't have that and will not have that if they don't improve compatibility, ease-of use and installation, and (man I feel like i'm selling my soul) some type of plug-and-pray where users don't have to worry if their brand new digital camera will work. They pulg it in and it works (think of how popular those IPOD's are with the commercials showing how easy they are to use.. think people would buy them if they had to recompile the kernel, troll usenet groups, and mess around with arcane settings to get them to work?)
That is what I was trying to say about Mac OS X - it's pretty (yeah.. that matters to most idiots), has very good hardware support, not up to windows standards but close, and has a built in unix kernel. Do those points sound familiar - that is what the linux community has been trying to do for the past 4-5 years!
Is it just me or is he (and everybody else) prediciting that linux will become a desktop os because someday (maybe) it just might come true and they don't want to miss it.
Linux is no closer to being a user-friendly, capable desktop app than it had been in the last 3 years. Try telling the 12 o'clock flashers about compiling a kernel and mounting hard drives and they will give you the "blank stare of doom".
In truth, MacOS X is what Linux needs to become if it ever wants to succed as a desktop OS for the average joe (i.e good apps, nice interface, seemless hardware support, and a good unix command line just in case).
The key to this is "for the arts." For the government to do this they would have to classify open source software as art which, btw, would be a beautiful thing as it would entitle open source software to all sorts of legal benefits/protections not currently granted.
Of course it would also mean M$ could apply for a grant also..
Sounds great - but the problem that I have (and the poeple in Australia and other places have) is when NetAdmin's do this without informing the customers or violating an existing contract.
Case in point a local ISP in my hometown decided to start capping DSL @ 3.0gb/month. However they did this even though the existing customer contracts stated unlimited bandwith. Hundreds of customers where charged.20cents/megabyte and got mighty angry. TO make a long story short they got sued and lost thousands. I will pay the extra money or whatever for unlimited bandwith but what I *dont* like is when ISP's decide to randomly change their terms-of-service etc.
Except when you consider the problem from a language (syntax perspective). Most chinese keyboards are very, very different. from Roman Char. keyboards. Chinese keyboards contain hundreds of different component symbols to make up the language. Which means that the average web programmer would either have to remap his keyboard for roman characters to program in HTML or switch keyboards all together.
The WWW has done more to advance Enlish as the 'universal language' than anything other than (perhaps) US's status as superpower.
part of the problem (for an chinese perspective) is that the HTML/XML/ETc tags have to be in English otherwise the browsers won't translate right (as well as being the W3C standard.
Meaning, in affect, you have to know some english to develop the webpages anyways.
I do believe (If I am wrong or if somebody knows the language better than I please correct me) that a number of basic symbols are common to the language. For instance 50% of characters contain a/, 30% containt a -, 20% containt a *, etc.
Well a chinese keyboard is made up of as many of these common components as possible (three per key I believe) allowing you to construct something like 70% of the language using 100 some common symbols. Unfortunately it's the other 30% that kills you.
In shear mathematical terms they are right -- if they could get by all the problems discussed above. And of course I do believe that they are *still* having problems with developing a chinese keyboard (1 million different symbols). That seems to me to be more of a barrier than anything else (unless you propose to teach the entire population pinyin(?) I believe it is called - chinese language spelled out phonetically in roman characters (think Beijing,Hong Kong,Mao Zedong, etc).
>Well duh... sorry, that sounds rather america->centric.
>Do you really expect everyone else to learn >english so you don't have to learn anything else?
A little spooky to say the least. I just realized that a cousin of mine is autistic and my aunt is a math prof. and my uncle is a retired NASA engineer. The weird thing is though is that she has an identical twin who is perfectly normal.
Oh as for the planned obsolescence of the species? Read Larry Niven's short story The Locust's - all of a sudden the world's children start being born as Neandrathal's; a way for nature to correct the imbalances that humanity has caused. Spooky.
Yes you're right. They are a huge media company. But, like I said they are NOT a monopoly because they don't force you to use their products hand-in hand.
I.E. Oh so you want to watch CNN do you? Well that comes bundled with our AOL package as well as a Time Subscribtion.
They also don't control enough market share. Oh sure they own something like 40% of all TV stations. But that is 40%.. not 90% like MS has for Desktop software.
Don't get the wrong idea - I don't like AOL-Time more than anybody else but they are *not* a monopoly
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Course their *is* a way to overcome this. A local ISP in my hometown (lincoln, Nebraska) just recently unveiled high-speed wireless (bout dsl speeds) thereby completely bypassing the phone company. Of course you have to be LOS and within 2-3 miles of the tower for it to work BUT all in all it rocks - especially in rural area's.
Been awhile since taking physics.. needed a refresher course =).
I forgot to mention the possibility of using the maglev to accelerate the ship to ramjet/scramjet speeds (Mach 10 I believe?) which would vastly reduce the amount of fuel needed to be carried and maitnence since a ramjet containts no moving parts and could be accomplished on a let's see here..
.5 * 4000 m/s (roughly Mach 12 sealevel)/68.6 (7g's) = 29.15 Km track a much more reasonable figure.
Of course this could, and probably is, quite off(Hell, 50% error still only gives you a 45km track) since the Nasa website on RamJet's gives a quite long formula for determing Ramjet performance, thrust, etc.
Erp, I forgot to mention that for manned launches a maglev track of around 40-50km should be enough to accelerate the craft to ramjet/scramjet speeds and making space travel relatively easier (no need to carry large amounts of fuel, no real 'engines' less maintence, etc.)
As for the 'cheapness' I was pointing out relative to the shuttle or expendable rockets. Both of which are very expensive because A.) they waste large amounts of componets B:) they can't really carry that much since most of the wieght is in fuel.
I forgot to mention the (Critical) point was that maglev should be used for *unmanned* launches. Manned launches would require a very long launch platform (over 100km) while, depending upon the stress's a unmanned launch vehicle could withstand, it could be much shorter (perhaps less than 25km assuming the vehicle could withstand 30-40 g's.
I would imagine for manned launches they would use the maglev track of about 25km to accelerate the craft to Ramjet/Scramjet speeds greatly reducing the amount of fuel needed to be carried.
That would fulfill my dream of becoming a good-good wizard and turning Jon Katz into a copy of Windows *dramatic pause* 95 FIRST RELEASE!
In theory they hope to use this to totally replace rocket launches as it would be
A. Safer
- all equipment on ground easy to maintain and in case of a failed launch or problem the rail would still result in a partial launch - meaning the pilot could presumably guide the plane/wahtever to a landing.
- No need to carry volatile chemicals
B. Cheaper since, once agian, everything is on the ground - no need for throwaway boosters, etc Indeed once you pay for the construction all that is left is electricity and maintence.
C. The plan isn't to accelerate them vertically as the G forces would kill a man to obtain earth orbit you have to have a speed of (I think) 25 Km/Sec which would, in a vertical launch scenario of say a 1000 meter tower, result in way over the 9-10 G's a human can survie. Instead they will be launched off of a gradually ascending slope spanning a couple of kilometers.
However, and this is a big iffy, in all honesty this technology will go nowhere without superconducting materials to use in the rail. Without these existing, or any future, non-superconducting material cannot hope to maintain the power output/magnetic field necassary to propel an object to Earth Orbit or Near Earth Orbit (NEO).
Argh can't slashdot start caching pages so we don't have to deal with the ever-present slashdot effect.
Any find a google cached page of this? I couldn't but I don't have mad-uberGoogle skillz.
Ok.. this is a shady on the ethical side BUT here is what you do. Do all the work for him but leave yourself a 'backdoor.' A open port, a root user only you know about, etc. Once you get paid destroy the whole damm thing. Not only do you end spam but you can actually cost them MORE money (and maybe earn yourself some more money in the process).
Solves both problems. =)
Their freedoms are not being restricted in any way - they can still send the e-mail but must include a way out of it. Also, fradulent claims, illegal offers, pyramid schemes etc are all excluded from free speach since they are illegal. Also note that corporations don't have the same free speach rights as individuals - they can be regulated more heavily than people.
Futhermore, free speach HAS TO BE CONSENSUAL. You *must* opt-in, or agree to, 'listen.' Example: You are walking by and see a Nazi (or some other vastly offensive to most people)rally. You stand in abject horror for a few moments and then walk away - you are CHOOSING not to hear their speech. That is freedom. Spam is the equivalent of being strapped to a chair against your will and being forced to listen to the Nazi's against your will.
Futhermore spam takes up your time and your computing resources - how much of internet traffic do you suppose spam consumes? Let's see I get an average of 10 a day (after my filters). At, say, 5kb a piece that translates into 50kb a day for ONE person. Times that time around 75 million that are estimated to have an email account in the use. What do you get? 46.78 terabytes a day. Imagine that. FORTY SIX TERABYTES! now you can say not everybody recieves that much spam etc.. ok.. take a tenth of that FOUR terabytes! Let's see to transfer that much.. oh hell you get the point. It's a phenominal amount.
Also, the US supreme court ruled long ago that the Internet is a *private domain* not a public domain so certain free speach rules do NOT apply since it is privately controlled. (This is how things like the Real Time Blackhole List are able to survive - since the equipment etc is privately controlled it is not forced to obey by government free speach type controls, much like private schools and prayer.)
I wish. Man do I really wish. Just think: a unix command-line enviroment, ultra-cool interface, and a great suite of applications.
Oh wait.. that kindof sounds like a linux killer doesn't it?
=)
I remember seeing something on this awhile ago it basically involves that every CD has 100 points assigned to it. Now, like 4-5 dollars is taken in as profit by the end seller which leaves roughly 9 bucks left. After that something like 25-30 points is taken by the record compan , 10-15 for marketing, 5-10 for the producer, 15 or 20 so for the cost of manufacturing/distrubuting and the rest is to the artist (varies on your contract - artist's like Jackson and Springsteen get lke 40 points while no-name bands get like 10, the remainder is taken by the record comapny.
But what about people's existing .mp3 files? Are these going to have to be converted into .nap files to be able to be shared? Or ar they going to somehow filter out all of a user's existing .mp3's?
better yet they turn up the volume on their laptop just to add to the fun as the cart rolls on buy
*Cover me!*
BOOM!
*Need backup*
RAT-TAT-TAT
*The Bomb has been planted*
At this point I imagine their would be some sort of incident.. involving sedation. and belts.
The statement I made should've been phrased better: Can the 12-o'clock flashers install linux, the and the answer to that (mandrake included) is no - not without about 20 tech support calls that is.
.4 (i think)... and things haven't gotten that much better since then.
WindowsXP, no matter how evil it is, is a breeze to install on every machine I've done it on (upwards of 40 now).
I've installed linux four times, total, so I don't have all that much expereince (compared to hundreds of windows installations)but every single time it is a headache. USB devices are a half hour project to get working. Integrated sound *snicker* yeah right. Oh sure it will install - just no sound and no USB (I managed to get my zip drive working finally no luck on my scanner or printer). The sad, sad part of this is I first installed linux when it was at kernel
I've never installed MacOSX so I can't really comment on it's installition.
Now can 12 o'clock flashers USE linux effectively: of course they can. A properly configured and set up linux box is just as effective as a windows box, that is not in question. BUT to get a nicely set-up linux box for hte flasher's you have to either get one from the OEM or have one at work. Remember dell's expeirement pre-loading linux? It failed.. utterly because of lack of demand. Before we can start getting peeps to use linux you have to make it more user friendly/compatible. As soon as you do that then maybe you will see more OEM's shippin' linux boxes - not before. The linux community desperately needs to achieve "critical mass" i.e. about 7-10% of market share of desktop computers to start gaining more apps, better support, etc. It doesn't have that and will not have that if they don't improve compatibility, ease-of use and installation, and (man I feel like i'm selling my soul) some type of plug-and-pray where users don't have to worry if their brand new digital camera will work. They pulg it in and it works (think of how popular those IPOD's are with the commercials showing how easy they are to use.. think people would buy them if they had to recompile the kernel, troll usenet groups, and mess around with arcane settings to get them to work?)
That is what I was trying to say about Mac OS X - it's pretty (yeah.. that matters to most idiots), has very good hardware support, not up to windows standards but close, and has a built in unix kernel. Do those points sound familiar - that is what the linux community has been trying to do for the past 4-5 years!
Is it just me or is he (and everybody else) prediciting that linux will become a desktop os because someday (maybe) it just might come true and they don't want to miss it.
Linux is no closer to being a user-friendly, capable desktop app than it had been in the last 3 years. Try telling the 12 o'clock flashers about compiling a kernel and mounting hard drives and they will give you the "blank stare of doom".
In truth, MacOS X is what Linux needs to become if it ever wants to succed as a desktop OS for the average joe (i.e good apps, nice interface, seemless hardware support, and a good unix command line just in case).
The key to this is "for the arts." For the government to do this they would have to classify open source software as art which, btw, would be a beautiful thing as it would entitle open source software to all sorts of legal benefits/protections not currently granted.
Of course it would also mean M$ could apply for a grant also..
Sounds great - but the problem that I have (and the poeple in Australia and other places have) is when NetAdmin's do this without informing the customers or violating an existing contract. .20cents/megabyte and got mighty angry. TO make a long story short they got sued and lost thousands. I will pay the extra money or whatever for unlimited bandwith but what I *dont* like is when ISP's decide to randomly change their terms-of-service etc.
Case in point a local ISP in my hometown decided to start capping DSL @ 3.0gb/month. However they did this even though the existing customer contracts stated unlimited bandwith. Hundreds of customers where charged
OPera has had this feature for awhile, and unlike mozilla, doesn't take 35 seconds to load..
Except when you consider the problem from a language (syntax perspective). Most chinese keyboards are very, very different. from Roman Char. keyboards. Chinese keyboards contain hundreds of different component symbols to make up the language. Which means that the average web programmer would either have to remap his keyboard for roman characters to program in HTML or switch keyboards all together.
The WWW has done more to advance Enlish as the 'universal language' than anything other than (perhaps) US's status as superpower.
part of the problem (for an chinese perspective) is that the HTML/XML/ETc tags have to be in English otherwise the browsers won't translate right (as well as being the W3C standard.
Meaning, in affect, you have to know some english to develop the webpages anyways.
I do believe (If I am wrong or if somebody knows the language better than I please correct me) that a number of basic symbols are common to the language. For instance 50% of characters contain a /, 30% containt a -, 20% containt a *, etc.
Well a chinese keyboard is made up of as many of these common components as possible (three per key I believe) allowing you to construct something like 70% of the language using 100 some common symbols. Unfortunately it's the other 30% that kills you.
In shear mathematical terms they are right -- if they could get by all the problems discussed above. And of course I do believe that they are *still* having problems with developing a chinese keyboard (1 million different symbols). That seems to me to be more of a barrier than anything else (unless you propose to teach the entire population pinyin(?) I believe it is called - chinese language spelled out phonetically in roman characters (think Beijing,Hong Kong,Mao Zedong, etc).
>Well duh... sorry, that sounds rather america->centric.
>Do you really expect everyone else to learn >english so you don't have to learn anything else?
A little spooky to say the least. I just realized that a cousin of mine is autistic and my aunt is a math prof. and my uncle is a retired NASA engineer. The weird thing is though is that she has an identical twin who is perfectly normal.
Oh as for the planned obsolescence of the species? Read Larry Niven's short story The Locust's - all of a sudden the world's children start being born as Neandrathal's; a way for nature to correct the imbalances that humanity has caused. Spooky.
Yes you're right. They are a huge media company. But, like I said they are NOT a monopoly because they don't force you to use their products hand-in hand.
I.E. Oh so you want to watch CNN do you? Well that comes bundled with our AOL package as well as a Time Subscribtion.
They also don't control enough market share. Oh sure they own something like 40% of all TV stations. But that is 40%.. not 90% like MS has for Desktop software.
Don't get the wrong idea - I don't like AOL-Time more than anybody else but they are *not* a monopoly