They should convert the Station from a lame science experiment to a facility to study and practice In Orbit Assembly and Manufacturing. Both of these could help lead us towards space-based power systems, crewed missions to other planets, astroid mining, and material sorting and processing in zero-g. How does one smelt the material recovered from an astroid? Clean and process water ice? Manufacture structural members?
One of the big redesign expenses (besides idiot micro-management from congress) was resolving stability issues in the station's structure. It's very large size and near-earth orbit tended to result in the structure "bucking". The practical prototyping of space structures--such as inflatables, tension systems, and structural components manufactured "on site", could greatly reduce the cost of future missions and provide a much higher confidence level during the design phase of projects.
If we really want to move into space then these are the sorts of activities we need to persue. Once your structures get much larger than the Space Station the current methods of design and construction are inadequate, too costly, and too risky--arguably that is already true.
I suspect that I am a reader of the forum you are talking about.
The product in question is one that has wide respect in its industry (audio speakers). Several other manufacturers re-use the product within their own. The population of the forum is generally intelligent if forceful in their opinions.
From what I've read there the slander has gone nowhere. Is the perp trying to up the ante at other sites?
I think the non-revelation of IP etc. is the right course of action for the site admins even if it is painful. They might consider sending a private message to the perp if he/she/it can be identified.
I've already purchased a license for the music on my CDs (since, according to the RIAA, I don't really "own" anything). Shouldn't I get to trade them in for the new format for the cost of the raw media plus, say, 15% for overhead and profit?
If you buy a dual layer SACD then that is, in essence, what you are doing. Play the CD part now and the SACD part later.
Nope. An increasing number of manufacturers are making SACD-capable players including Philips, Pioneer, Denon, and Marantz. In the near future players that can play pretty much anything round and shiny will be common.
While DVD-A requires a new player you may be surprised to know that most SACDs will play on a CD player just fine. Most SACDs are two layer and the top layer is standard Red Book CD encoding. This means you can buy a SACD now and play it on your current equipment and get the advantages of SACD the next time you replace/upgrade your player. Unlike the Vinyl-->CD transition you won't have to repurchase any software.
Many posters have noted that most consumer stereo systems don't reveal the diferences between CD and the high resolution formats. This may be true now but I wonder if it will be true later. The sound quality of inexpensive stereo equipment has improved massively in the last 20 years. There is no reason to think that this trend won't continue. In fact, as digital amplifiers etc. become more common I suspect the trend to improvement will, if anything, increase its pace.
The quality of mp3-like players is also likely to improve over time. Why not get the best quality of archive you can?
To me, the problem isn't the improved tech, it's the myopic weasels who run the music industry.
For those interested in seeing what kind of software is out there and who supports what format, a good site is:
Perens is right in the short-run: Socialism always does well in the beginning because it lives off the fat of the land that has been stored up. In the long-run though, it drags the economy down.
Your reply makes a common but important mistake: the free/open software movement is not socialist. It's anarchic. Socialism suggests a central government and "official" control and status quo. Anarchy assumes no central point of control and guidence by influence and not the law or power of the status quo.
IMO, free software is the first truly successful anarchy in modern times. It isn't chaos (though people like Mundie would love you to think so). It is entirely and truly compatible with the exchange of goods for like value. Free software in this case is not the commodity but the agent that allows value to be exchanged. This is why successful free software players from IBM to Redhat have focused their businesses on service. Anarchy is, or at least can be, a purer form of capitalism than what we have now.
Microsoft, by virtue of wanting to control its markets and disallow true competition is much closer to being socialist than the free software movement. It's a bit of a stretch but one could look on Bill Gates as the karmic revenge of Stalin...who woulda thought?!;)
Apple's Darwin is largely based on FreeBSD with a smattering of stuff from the others. The Kernal is a modified Mach Kernal. If people can accept it as a legitimate branch on the BSD tree then *BSD will soon be the most common *nix on the planet. And on desktops!
It may be that BSD's future is on the desktop while Linux takes the server space. Or alternatively, that the BSD's remain small but important platforms for special purposes and developing new ideas.
...than did the 4,000+ innocent Afghani citizens which we killed in our raids.
Independent organizations are trying to put a number to the civilian death toll and the current numbers are between 300 and 1300 although some remote areas have not been surveyed yet.
The much higher numbers you are suggesting are based on the Taliban's word. Afgani reporters have said that numbers they reported back to their (Afgan) news groups were doubled, tripled or worse at the insistence of the Taliban.
I'm not trying to justify anyone's point of view but let's at least base our arguments on reliable sources.
If the pictures are displayed in random order and are selected with a mouse (or keyboard: picture "5") then the system offers someprotection against keylogging. Sure a counter-measure can be created but every bit of added code makes it harder to hide the keylogger.
Random picture order does remove one form of memory retrieval though: the pattern of keys/pics that one selects. For instance, I remember my bank PIN and most telephone numbers by the pattern they make on the keyboard and not the actual numbers. When I need to know the numbers specifically my fingers tend to do a little dance...
MPT, thanks for the hard work. As a web designer I've been delighted with Moziila for the last several milestones at least. Some of the javascript preference panels being suggested to you are very detailed with many choices. I'd like to suggest something simpler:
Slashdot Mirror
One of the big redesign expenses (besides idiot micro-management from congress) was resolving stability issues in the station's structure. It's very large size and near-earth orbit tended to result in the structure "bucking". The practical prototyping of space structures--such as inflatables, tension systems, and structural components manufactured "on site", could greatly reduce the cost of future missions and provide a much higher confidence level during the design phase of projects.
If we really want to move into space then these are the sorts of activities we need to persue. Once your structures get much larger than the Space Station the current methods of design and construction are inadequate, too costly, and too risky--arguably that is already true.
The product in question is one that has wide respect in its industry (audio speakers). Several other manufacturers re-use the product within their own. The population of the forum is generally intelligent if forceful in their opinions.
From what I've read there the slander has gone nowhere. Is the perp trying to up the ante at other sites?
I think the non-revelation of IP etc. is the right course of action for the site admins even if it is painful. They might consider sending a private message to the perp if he/she/it can be identified.
If you buy a dual layer SACD then that is, in essence, what you are doing. Play the CD part now and the SACD part later.
Nope. An increasing number of manufacturers are making SACD-capable players including Philips, Pioneer, Denon, and Marantz. In the near future players that can play pretty much anything round and shiny will be common.
While DVD-A requires a new player you may be surprised to know that most SACDs will play on a CD player just fine. Most SACDs are two layer and the top layer is standard Red Book CD encoding. This means you can buy a SACD now and play it on your current equipment and get the advantages of SACD the next time you replace/upgrade your player. Unlike the Vinyl-->CD transition you won't have to repurchase any software.
Many posters have noted that most consumer stereo systems don't reveal the diferences between CD and the high resolution formats. This may be true now but I wonder if it will be true later. The sound quality of inexpensive stereo equipment has improved massively in the last 20 years. There is no reason to think that this trend won't continue. In fact, as digital amplifiers etc. become more common I suspect the trend to improvement will, if anything, increase its pace.
The quality of mp3-like players is also likely to improve over time. Why not get the best quality of archive you can?
To me, the problem isn't the improved tech, it's the myopic weasels who run the music industry.
For those interested in seeing what kind of software is out there and who supports what format, a good site is:
http://www.highfidelityreview.com/
Photographic enlargers sometimes us "cold" lights. They are very carefully colour balanced as well. Check at your local photo supply store.
Your reply makes a common but important mistake: the free/open software movement is not socialist. It's anarchic. Socialism suggests a central government and "official" control and status quo. Anarchy assumes no central point of control and guidence by influence and not the law or power of the status quo.
IMO, free software is the first truly successful anarchy in modern times. It isn't chaos (though people like Mundie would love you to think so). It is entirely and truly compatible with the exchange of goods for like value. Free software in this case is not the commodity but the agent that allows value to be exchanged. This is why successful free software players from IBM to Redhat have focused their businesses on service. Anarchy is, or at least can be, a purer form of capitalism than what we have now.
Microsoft, by virtue of wanting to control its markets and disallow true competition is much closer to being socialist than the free software movement. It's a bit of a stretch but one could look on Bill Gates as the karmic revenge of Stalin...who woulda thought?! ;)
It may be that BSD's future is on the desktop while Linux takes the server space. Or alternatively, that the BSD's remain small but important platforms for special purposes and developing new ideas.
So what's dying?
Independent organizations are trying to put a number to the civilian death toll and the current numbers are between 300 and 1300 although some remote areas have not been surveyed yet.
The much higher numbers you are suggesting are based on the Taliban's word. Afgani reporters have said that numbers they reported back to their (Afgan) news groups were doubled, tripled or worse at the insistence of the Taliban.
I'm not trying to justify anyone's point of view but let's at least base our arguments on reliable sources.
If the pictures are displayed in random order and are selected with a mouse (or keyboard: picture "5") then the system offers someprotection against keylogging. Sure a counter-measure can be created but every bit of added code makes it harder to hide the keylogger. Random picture order does remove one form of memory retrieval though: the pattern of keys/pics that one selects. For instance, I remember my bank PIN and most telephone numbers by the pattern they make on the keyboard and not the actual numbers. When I need to know the numbers specifically my fingers tend to do a little dance...
Omnigroup's Omniweb browser (for OSX) gives very simple choices:
Javascript is enabled disabled
Scripts are allowed to open new windows...
- always
- only in response to a link being clicked
- never
Advanced javascript preferences...- do security checks
- display panel for errors
- show debugging console
Its clear and important stuff like "do security checks" are on by default.