Unless the math is wrong, or a solar storm changes the track or... and you alter the path to make it hit dead center instead of a grazing shot. That's the problem with orbital mechanics - stuff changes over the years and depending on other gravitational interactions, what you thought was a deflection was a centering action. W00t.
But you *know* there's a rock out there with Humanity's name on it. This one. Another one. Doesn't really matter. If we can't get off this planet in serious numbers before it hits, the universe goes on without us.
Patent reads like a description of IBM's WebSphere, which was on the market in June 1998, long before the September 20, 2000 filing date of the Visto patent. Another USPTO wheeze!
It's highly rated, highly successful by all reports, and might be just the ticket. By all means contact the proprietors of Reading TLC and give them more information about your brother. If they think that the program is not going to be appropriate for him, they won't try to sell it to you anyway. That's a breath of fresh air in and of itself.
Hmmm. The "real link" points to an address in Yahoo's Webhosting address space.
vimes:~$ hostx fedora-redhat.com fedora-redhat.com A 66.218.79.148 fedora-redhat.com A 66.218.79.149 fedora-redhat.com A 66.218.79.155 fedora-redhat.com A 66.218.79.147
Their servers might be harder to slashdot than the average bear's... I've tried to find an explicit abuse@ address for the Yahoo webhosting biz, but there's nothing but that nasty little Customer Care form that doesn't even provide for making a complaint against the webhosting users. I got something accepted, but I'm not sure what'll be done, when.
Dual Athlon MP 1900+ 1G Crucial (2x512) Radion 9700 Pro 128M Creative SBLive
Reasonably playable at 1280x1024, High video-fx setting. Going to test at Medium later, to lose the very occasional stutter at beginning of some engagements.
Rockin' FPS. Good tension building with music, radio background and ambient noise. Clear the place, room by room, let Allah sort them out! Woo Hoo!!!
Here's a screenshot from the prior build 633. It clearly shows that the new version has a program oriented interface rather than the extended desktop with a Napoleon complex that was StarOffice 5.2.
This new interface is shared with StarOffice 6.0 Beta, and it's pretty clean and functional. I've been playing with both for the last couple of days, and I'm reasonably impressed.
Note - the document open in the screenshot is an imported 1.5 Meg Word file with 37 images, footnotes, comments, revisioning, styles and formatting and everything else brought in just dandy.
The T-Shirt is available at Copyleft. Here is the url. $4 US goes to EFF with each purchase. According to the Copyleft page, 1370 of the shirts have been sold as of this writing.
Instead, here's my idea, published in it's under-developed entirety, and placed in the public domain.
*********
Using networked remote computers to execute computer processing tasks,such tasks either done without charge, or at negotiated fee, at times signaled byeither the remote computer or the central computer.
Abstract
A system executes computer processing tasks on a remote computer that communicates with a central computer. The remote computer sends a message of availability to the central computer, or the central computer may send out a signal requesting processing time. Following the initial contact message, the central computer may negotiate a fee with the remote computer for processing time. If negotiation is successful, the central computer sends a task and possibly the associated raw data to the remote computer. The remote computer generates processed data, and stores the processed data. Finally, the remote computer sends a complete message to the central computer, and the processed data is returned to the central computer if that is required.
**********
This differs from both the Intel patent and the current implementation of distributed.net and Seti@Home. The premise here is that the processor time of my system will have value to some other organization, let's say my ISP, but that value is variable based upon both the loading on my system, my preferences and the load on the ISP. Should my system be busy serving content directly when the ISP needs my processor's services, a higher micro-payment will be negotiated. When, on the other hand, my computer signals availability, and the ISP's load is relatively low, a lower micro-payment would be appropriate.
Clearly, this is not just a LAN implementation, although it could be. It would imply persistent connections (such as this DSL line), and could possibly be a method of funding part of the expense of a persistent connection. It does allow me to offer my computer's services for free to some effort like Seti@Home, while selling my processor time to an ISP or other content provider, as appropriate.
> his idea of "cybernetic philosophies" which > view the universe as a computer program > run to discover the answer to some question.
Didn't Doug Adams do this, to come up with the question which had an answer of 42? Isn't the question still in Arthur Dent's brain?
Also, as another commentator noted, this isn't available at Amazon, although Neverness is... bn.com doesn't carry either, but does have War in Heaven, another book set in the same universe, published in 1998.
One Microsoft-positive paragraph out of the whole of the Findings of Fact, and MS/brother Bill latch onto those few words as indicative of the Judge understanding their perspective? What are they smoking, up there in Redmond. Did they not read the rest of the document? Clearly, MS is in no mood to attempt to settle this dispute.
This will drag on and on, and by the time it is over, the judgements and rulings will probably be irrelevant, because the world will have moved on. The scrutiny that Microsoft will have to work under in the interim will serve to open the doors for quality competition from Linux, Sun, Apache and many others. The purpose will have been served.
that Toshiba did something heinous and horrid by perpetuating this error-prone floppy controller chip for a decade, while the error was known, is it possible that we could pay the lawyers a little more, for the service that they have provided to mankind, nay, the whole universe. It would be worth putting several quality hardware vendors out of business just to help those guys buy a couple of new Mercedes... </sarcasm>
But really, rather than the lawyers, or the justice system, doesn't the public also have a part to play in the ridiculous levels of awards (odd word choice, that) at trial? It is the jury that will award multi-billion dollar punitive damages - thus leading to exagerated settlements like the above. The lawyers work for a percentage, and will always be overpaid. But an under-educated, unthinking, under-clued jury is at the root of these types of settlements. It is the jury who says "These people are just awful - let's fine them 10 billion dollars", as if awards of that magnitude don't have social costs of their own. If juries were reasonable, then... oh, forgive me, what AM I saying.
but simply Beowulf Clusters, simply because it is more challenging to convince (even) a politician to give you $80M to get a lot of copies of a free OS running on really inexpensive hardware. Even 128 nice quad Xeon boxes aren't going to cost you more than a couple of million.
...most of these comments from author and concerned citizen Dr. Jerry Pournelle (along with a number of the contributors to his website) - Nasa's mission in life is to preserve the bureaucracy that is Nasa... this is why the cuts will affect programs and science - NOT JOBS! Nasa is run by the criminals who took two working Saturn boosters and laid them down as lawn ornaments (and destroy'd all the plans to build them - yup - we paid for those.) I cannot claim to know what is best for the space program, but I do not believe that Nasa has any answers, either.
I say, let'm make cuts, but put bureaucrats out to pasture and save the science.
Ya, but much legislation passed is set to take effect at the beginning of the following calendar year... usually with the effect of lawsuits being filed (ACLU or the Aussie equivalent) which prevent the beast from ever going into effect.
with type enhancements, either based upon operating environment or "level" of skill or contribution...
Many other good suggestions have been made, but most of them end up being perjorative in one mode or another. Cowboy is similar, but the media is just clue'd enough to know about Gibson's version ( now I am annoyed - I can't find either copy of Neuromancer - sigh) - and a made-up word, or a word too deep within the lexicon may never break the surface tension of public consciousness...
My only wonder in this situation is that overall, uber code head cyber cowboy geeks (whatever) as a group or class of citizen ARE feared overall - not just the cracker subset of the hackers...
y'all (I would like to say "we" but I ain't that good) are the shamen ( & wimmen) of the tribal tech world we are aborning here... Shamen have always had respect... AND fear... and when the crops failed, the shaman ended up in pieces in the fields, both for being "wrong", and to provide extra fertilizer for next year. Be a shaman at your own risk, and call yourself whatever feels right.
"Intelligence" Community (US) home page is at this location. And a couple of levels down is a single frame's worth of info on NRO (whose EXISTENCE was declassified in 1992 !!!) And surprise, surprise, the NSA frame doesn't mention Echelon:)
the creation of Project Echelon, or if not congress, at least some Select Joint Intelligence Subcommittee (ya, the ones that DO get briefed on "Black" projects)... So this current congress CAN whine and moan about such a thing - but of course, they have to now, since similar legislative bodies in other countries are doing the same thing... Politicians are behaving like politicians, and formally (probably) Echelon will be shut down... but the hardware will still be in place, and someone will still be using it, but they may wear different uniforms, or report to a different office in the NSA...
For a similar example - look at military base closings... Moffitt (sp?) Field here near SF was "closed" and is now a "Federal Airfield" with jets and P3's flying touch and go's every day - I sure am glad they saved THAT money >chuckle...
No, we can't trust the bums, but they are the only bums we got. you did baby, you did... >grin
My best understanding is that while mass will accumulate faster than the physical radius of the object, the physical radius is relatively meaningless... theoretically, the black hole is a point entity, having no physical radius at all. The Schwartschild radius, on the other hand, is calculated by Rsch = (2GM)/(c^2) is apparently synonomous with the "event horizon", that radius from the center of mass at which light is captured.
Reference (one among several) http://www.nd.edu/~bennett/Phys171/mid_rev.html and find in page for Black Holes...
"Linux already has won the hearts of techies the world over, and lately, the free operating system has carved out a place on corporate servers. Could the typical office worker's desktop be the next stop?"
The above is a quote from today's (6/3/99) SF Chronicle... mainstream enough for me.:)
Unformatted (no CGI access) story here. Or track it thru www.sfgate.com, headline Wrestling with the Desktop, link OS Mania (this may all be gone by tomorrow... sigh)
dunno if he is still using it or not. That was the machine I first learned to program on - initially it was just the box, and I programmed it in machine code, using the switches and reading the lights on the front panel. Then we got an adm3a terminal, an external 8" floppy drive, and an extra 12k of ram (bringing the total up to 64K) and we ran CPM on the dang thing. I know that he kept the company books on that machine for a number of years, but I think it is gathering dust on a shelf, now.
Slashdot Mirror
The Mythbusters did that already, in Episode 76 (http://mythbustersresults.com/episode76). So we know that works already...
But ... but my dominant hand keeps taking the mouse back again!
Unless the math is wrong, or a solar storm changes the track or ... and you alter the path to make it hit dead center instead of a grazing shot. That's the problem with orbital mechanics - stuff changes over the years and depending on other gravitational interactions, what you thought was a deflection was a centering action. W00t.
But you *know* there's a rock out there with Humanity's name on it. This one. Another one. Doesn't really matter. If we can't get off this planet in serious numbers before it hits, the universe goes on without us.
Patent reads like a description of IBM's WebSphere, which was on the market in June 1998, long before the September 20, 2000 filing date of the Visto patent. Another USPTO wheeze!
Shandon
It's highly rated, highly successful by all reports, and might be just the ticket. By all means contact the proprietors of Reading TLC and give them more information about your brother. If they think that the program is not going to be appropriate for him, they won't try to sell it to you anyway. That's a breath of fresh air in and of itself.
http://www.readingtlc.com/
Best of luck!
Hmmm. The "real link" points to an address in Yahoo's Webhosting address space.
.
... I've tried to find an explicit abuse@ address for the Yahoo webhosting biz, but there's nothing but that nasty little Customer Care form that doesn't even provide for making a complaint against the webhosting users. I got something accepted, but I'm not sure what'll be done, when.
vimes:~$ hostx fedora-redhat.com
fedora-redhat.com A 66.218.79.148
fedora-redhat.com A 66.218.79.149
fedora-redhat.com A 66.218.79.155
fedora-redhat.com A 66.218.79.147
vimes:~$ hostx 66.218.79.148
Name: p4w2.geo.scd.yahoo.com
Address: 66.218.79.148
Arin sez:
NetRange: 66.218.64.0 - 66.218.95.255
CIDR: 66.218.64.0/19
NetName: A-YAHOO-U23
NetHandle: NET-66-218-64-0-1
Parent: NET-66-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
. .
Their servers might be harder to slashdot than the average bear's
-- shandon
Data looks contradictory, but also be wary of the joe-job. Raymond Jackson may be an unpopular name to have right about now...
> women to be a completely different species.....
They aren't??? Eeeeesh. Okay then, it's WWE tickets for EVERYBODY this Christmas!
-- Shandon Silverlock
Dual Athlon MP 1900+
1G Crucial (2x512)
Radion 9700 Pro 128M
Creative SBLive
Reasonably playable at 1280x1024, High video-fx setting. Going to test at Medium later, to lose the very occasional stutter at beginning of some engagements.
Rockin' FPS. Good tension building with music, radio background and ambient noise. Clear the place, room by room, let Allah sort them out! Woo Hoo!!!
S. Silverlock
Here's a screenshot from the prior build 633. It clearly shows that the new version has a program oriented interface rather than the extended desktop with a Napoleon complex that was StarOffice 5.2.
This new interface is shared with StarOffice 6.0 Beta, and it's pretty clean and functional. I've been playing with both for the last couple of days, and I'm reasonably impressed.
Note - the document open in the screenshot is an imported 1.5 Meg Word file with 37 images, footnotes, comments, revisioning, styles and formatting and everything else brought in just dandy.
The T-Shirt is available at Copyleft. Here is the url. $4 US goes to EFF with each purchase. According to the Copyleft page, 1370 of the shirts have been sold as of this writing.
*********
Using networked remote computers to execute computer processing tasks,such tasks either done without charge, or at negotiated fee, at times signaled byeither the remote computer or the central computer.
Abstract
A system executes computer processing tasks on a remote computer that communicates with a central computer. The remote computer sends a message of availability to the central computer, or the central computer may send out a signal requesting processing time. Following the initial contact message, the central computer may negotiate a fee with the remote computer for processing time. If negotiation is successful, the central computer sends a task and possibly the associated raw data to the remote computer. The remote computer generates processed data, and stores the processed data. Finally, the remote computer sends a complete message to the central computer, and the processed data is returned to the central computer if that is required.
**********
This differs from both the Intel patent and the current implementation of distributed.net and Seti@Home. The premise here is that the processor time of my system will have value to some other organization, let's say my ISP, but that value is variable based upon both the loading on my system, my preferences and the load on the ISP. Should my system be busy serving content directly when the ISP needs my processor's services, a higher micro-payment will be negotiated. When, on the other hand, my computer signals availability, and the ISP's load is relatively low, a lower micro-payment would be appropriate.
Clearly, this is not just a LAN implementation, although it could be. It would imply persistent connections (such as this DSL line), and could possibly be a method of funding part of the expense of a persistent connection. It does allow me to offer my computer's services for free to some effort like Seti@Home, while selling my processor time to an ISP or other content provider, as appropriate.
> his idea of "cybernetic philosophies" which
> view the universe as a computer program
> run to discover the answer to some question.
Didn't Doug Adams do this, to come up with the question which had an answer of 42? Isn't the question still in Arthur Dent's brain?
Also, as another commentator noted, this isn't available at Amazon, although Neverness is... bn.com doesn't carry either, but does have War in Heaven, another book set in the same universe, published in 1998.
One Microsoft-positive paragraph out of the whole of the Findings of Fact, and MS/brother Bill latch onto those few words as indicative of the Judge understanding their perspective? What are they smoking, up there in Redmond. Did they not read the rest of the document? Clearly, MS is in no mood to attempt to settle this dispute.
This will drag on and on, and by the time it is over, the judgements and rulings will probably be irrelevant, because the world will have moved on. The scrutiny that Microsoft will have to work under in the interim will serve to open the doors for quality competition from Linux, Sun, Apache and many others. The purpose will have been served.
that Toshiba did something heinous and horrid by perpetuating this error-prone floppy controller chip for a decade, while the error was known, is it possible that we could pay the lawyers a little more, for the service that they have provided to mankind, nay, the whole universe. It would be worth putting several quality hardware vendors out of business just to help those guys buy a couple of new Mercedes...
</sarcasm>
But really, rather than the lawyers, or the justice system, doesn't the public also have a part to play in the ridiculous levels of awards (odd word choice, that) at trial? It is the jury that will award multi-billion dollar punitive damages - thus leading to exagerated settlements like the above. The lawyers work for a percentage, and will always be overpaid. But an under-educated, unthinking, under-clued jury is at the root of these types of settlements. It is the jury who says "These people are just awful - let's fine them 10 billion dollars", as if awards of that magnitude don't have social costs of their own. If juries were reasonable, then... oh, forgive me, what AM I saying.
but simply Beowulf Clusters, simply because it is more challenging to convince (even) a politician to give you $80M to get a lot of copies of a free OS running on really inexpensive hardware. Even 128 nice quad Xeon boxes aren't going to cost you more than a couple of million.
...most of these comments from author and concerned citizen Dr. Jerry Pournelle (along with a number of the contributors to his website) - Nasa's mission in life is to preserve the bureaucracy that is Nasa... this is why the cuts will affect programs and science - NOT JOBS! Nasa is run by the criminals who took two working Saturn boosters and laid them down as lawn ornaments (and destroy'd all the plans to build them - yup - we paid for those.) I cannot claim to know what is best for the space program, but I do not believe that Nasa has any answers, either.
I say, let'm make cuts, but put bureaucrats out to pasture and save the science.
Ya, but much legislation passed is set to take effect at the beginning of the following calendar year... usually with the effect of lawsuits being filed (ACLU or the Aussie equivalent) which prevent the beast from ever going into effect.
later.
and lots of small, twisty passages :)
with type enhancements, either based upon operating environment or "level" of skill or contribution...
Many other good suggestions have been made, but most of them end up being perjorative in one mode or another. Cowboy is similar, but the media is just clue'd enough to know about Gibson's version ( now I am annoyed - I can't find either copy of Neuromancer - sigh) - and a made-up word, or a word too deep within the lexicon may never break the surface tension of public consciousness...
My only wonder in this situation is that overall, uber code head cyber cowboy geeks (whatever) as a group or class of citizen ARE feared overall - not just the cracker subset of the hackers...
y'all (I would like to say "we" but I ain't that good) are the shamen ( & wimmen) of the tribal tech world we are aborning here... Shamen have always had respect... AND fear... and when the crops failed, the shaman ended up in pieces in the fields, both for being "wrong", and to provide extra fertilizer for next year. Be a shaman at your own risk, and call yourself whatever feels right.
Me
"Intelligence" Community (US) home page is at this :)
location. And a couple of levels down is a single frame's worth of info on NRO (whose EXISTENCE was declassified in 1992 !!!) And surprise, surprise, the NSA frame doesn't mention Echelon
Me
the creation of Project Echelon, or if not congress, at least some Select Joint Intelligence Subcommittee (ya, the ones that DO get briefed on "Black" projects)... So this current congress CAN whine and moan about such a thing - but of course, they have to now, since similar legislative bodies in other countries are doing the same thing... Politicians are behaving like politicians, and formally (probably) Echelon will be shut down... but the hardware will still be in place, and someone will still be using it, but they may wear different uniforms, or report to a different office in the NSA...
For a similar example - look at military base closings... Moffitt (sp?) Field here near SF was "closed" and is now a "Federal Airfield" with jets and P3's flying touch and go's every day - I sure am glad they saved THAT money >chuckle...
No, we can't trust the bums, but they are the only bums we got. you did baby, you did... >grin
My best understanding is that while mass will accumulate faster than the physical radius of the object, the physical radius is relatively meaningless... theoretically, the black hole is a point entity, having no physical radius at all. The Schwartschild radius, on the other hand, is calculated by Rsch = (2GM)/(c^2) is apparently synonomous with the "event horizon", that radius from the center of mass at which light is captured.
...
Reference (one among several)
http://www.nd.edu/~bennett/Phys171/mid_rev.html
and find in page for Black Holes
Shandon
"Linux already has won the hearts of techies the world over, and lately, the free operating system has carved out a place on corporate servers. Could the typical office worker's desktop be the next stop?"
:)
The above is a quote from today's (6/3/99) SF Chronicle... mainstream enough for me.
Unformatted (no CGI access) story here. Or track it thru www.sfgate.com, headline Wrestling with the Desktop, link OS Mania (this may all be gone by tomorrow... sigh)
Shandon
dunno if he is still using it or not. That was the machine I first learned to program on - initially it was just the box, and I programmed it in machine code, using the switches and reading the lights on the front panel. Then we got an adm3a terminal, an external 8" floppy drive, and an extra 12k of ram (bringing the total up to 64K) and we ran CPM on the dang thing. I know that he kept the company books on that machine for a number of years, but I think it is gathering dust on a shelf, now.