"What if I lived in Pakistan and wasn't a Muslim (or Buddist, or whatever) and WANTED to look at porn, but couldn't because the government regulated my internet traffic?"
You're precisely proving my point. The simple fact is that Pakistan (or for that matter Thailand, Singapore or India) treats it's citizens as just that - citizens. Their personal beliefs and values are respected within their homes and places of worship - society has a uniform set of values. (Okay - this is abused in a few countries, but generally this is the unwritten belief). To sum up, it least matters what your personal faith is, it's important that you're a Pakistani. And as they say, while in Rome, do as the Romans do.
" And NEVER trust the government, because they're the only group that can legally kill you and everyone you ever met "for the common good". I'd rather trust people concerned with money than people that could kill me for not trusting them... "
I didn't know killing was one of the rights of the govt. I'd imagine if they did it on a large scale, someone would stand up for them and put them in order (Iraq, for instance, assuming the horror stories were true). OTOH, what has Corporate America done to prevent spam and porn from reaching kids? Why can't there be a simple legislation requiring all adult content to be registered under a.adult domain? Simple - the firms making money over porn wouldn't stand for it.
"Suppose I have a kid. Suppose that child is playing games too much. Suppose I tell them to stop. Much easier than having a curfew and other governmental actions imposed right?"
I really suppose you have a kid (I do, and can state my personal thoughts on this matter). There's very little chance of parental censorhip succeeding with kids - why? Bcos kids are kids, that's all. This is a matter where Western and Eastern thinking differs a lot - the value of state censorship.
Western societies are generally more tolerant - lax, according to the Earterners, and are driven by capitalism. They tend to focus on rights, rather than duties. This could explain the recent orders permitting gays and lesbians, as well as the inaction on spam.
Earterners generally focus on duties, role models, censorship and even punbishment for acts considered normal in the West. The internet brigs out this dichotomy bcos it's an open network. Thus govt. censorship is a preferred and better solution in Eastern societies - Thailand being one.
Do you ever know where such parental censorship has worked? I can name several where govt. censorhip has worked / is working well for all concerned. Pakistan, for instance, is developing a free porn-blocking s/w at the govt. level.
Never trust monopolists and capitalists to work for the good of you or your kids.The only values they understand are dollars and share-prices.
would be to impose curfew on MSware and promote Linux... wait, Thailand did try that, but HP backed off their cheap Linux offering and MS gives away Office and Windows for $36!.. too bad, His Billness apparently wants everyone to play games with their systems, and not learn/do anything worthwhile:-(
What did I expect? Oh yeah.. well, lemme think, ahem.., here I go:
1. I expected a woman (Kollar Cotelly) would be a good judge, and would make us proud. 2. I expected MS would be fined $2 bn., ordered to open the source for public inspection. 3. I expected "Breakfast with Bill" would mean Bill comes to my place, and fixes my system with the latest Service Pack CD. 4. I expected that the judgment would be in the best interests of the world computing community, and not just a narrow American interest. 5. I expected His Billness to say "I'm sorry" 6. I expected RMS, Linus, ESR and a few others to have received meritorious awards from the Presidents of the respective countries. 7. I expected that MS would stop naming OSes after years, as if they wrote different ones every year. 8. I expected that.Net was officially declared "Dead and Buried" 9. I expected Java would be fast, flexible and open source. 10. I expected more of the Slashdotters to have seen that the whole trial was just a farce - 9 States dissenting was a stage-managed stunt, the female lawyer was not 'randomly' selected, that the evidence shown and arguments had no effect or relevance on the judgment and compliance.....and, and.. well: I expected all of these would have been obvious to all but the few astro-turfing MS apologists and shills that infest the forums over here. In short, I expected justice,dignity and fair-play from a gorilla, and I was a fool - just like most of us.
From the ref article: "One condition that caused particular outcry was Microsoft charging an upfront fee of $100,000 for rivals to examine the code to see whether they want to buy it. If they don't, they only get $50,000 back."
So what's the fee to take one single look at the pile of crap and say " Holy crap! This costs $100,000??"
Bride wants to marry IBM and screw Linux. Brother MS willing to pay any dowry.
How many among the four parties are simply 'front' operations, supported and sponsored by Microsoft? Backup and storage are two areas where MS has done poorly on purpose, looks like they might be aiming to buy two of the 4 cos. that licensed their protocols.
"I doubt that anyone working on xbox-linux would have both the skills and the interest to work on Abiword."
Read what you've written. And you'll u'stand you've gone and made a complete fool of yourself. So, someone who knows about North Bridge-South Bridge, 128-bit encryption, bootstrap process etc. (an XBox hacker for you) has less than enuff skills for a word-processor? Crazy.
"You do realize that people do this shit for fun, right?"
Spending $200 for an XBox - not to play games, but to somehow get Linux working on it is some sort of fun game? Breaking securtiy keys, understanding 600 page books on Xbox design, believing all these cock-and-bull logic of MS losing money and sleep over this XBox - only lunatics could call this 'shit for fun'.
"If I can have fun improving abiword, I'll do it."
Some of us do it for money, as well as fun. And a few of us (like me) send some money to help such projects along.
"If I can have more fun hacking the xbox (a decidedly more interesting activity), then I'll do that."
Judging by your post, I doubt you even nkow the architecture of the thing.
"Shut up, stop bitching, read a programming book, and start contributing yourself. That's how free software works."
There are many aspects to free software. They also contribute -- who use, send bug reports, a few dollars and help other misguided folk from wasting their talents and energy from promoting proprietary shit.
Neither the Palmtops nor the cellphones (running Symbian) pretend to be PCs. The XBox may be just a console, but it's architecture so closely resembles that of the PC. Putting Linux on the XBox could actually be a huge favor to MS. If they somehow make the GPL invalid, then in one stroke they could kill the entire PC industry and become an even bigger h/w and s/w monopoly. A 1600lb gorilla, if you will.
"my warranty is intact. When that runs out, I run the same risks of non-support that I would if I used the xbox only as a console."
This entire discussion is about Linux on the XBox. Not XBox as a console.
"In my own situation, I have no real need for a Linux box. I have this xbox. Running linux on it is of equal if not better entertainment value to playing games on it."
Your situation has little relevance to the topic being discussed, and the points I made at the top.
" I am speaking only of my own situation. I don't have any answers for other people."
And yet, you asked "Why shouldn't we develop Linux on the XBox?" When very few people are in similar situations like you, there's no motivation, that's why.
"linux is "supported" by thousands, across the globe, who publish their support. I have little need for immediate support."
Very few, if any are working on Linux for the XBox. None of the big name distros or IRCs would help you on this.
"Again, I have no answers for others. I would not recommend to a corporate entity that they run a mission-critical web server on an xbox!"
And that's the primary motivation for coders to pay attention to a platform. When this motivation does not exist, they'll boycott the whole effort.
"The fact is, they do. As long as they do, I am grateful."
No, they don't. This whole story is made to appear as if there's lots of people queing up to hack the XBox. Nothing can be farther from reality.
MS after: Shut up! Sue them! This kind of thing is why we hate open source. They want to take our intellectual property and turn it into an experimental plaything.
RMS, ESR, Linus Torvalds: We told you so! Stop wasting time on this XBox stuff. Now, they've taken your experimental thing, and turned into an intellectual property. Just forget the whole thing, and look into some useful GNU/Linux work!
"I actually won it in a contest run by Taco Bell... in all likelihood these hacks (and improved ones based on them) will continue be operable on my hardware indefinitely."
You are assuming: 1. Your hardware will work and/or be supported in it's present form, indefinitely by Microsoft. 2.You'd rather wait for these and better hacks to run Linux, rather than spend $200 for a Walmrt Linux box with warranty. 3. A large number of people get these XBoxes as a gift.
" Xbox hardware is cheap compared to similar commodity machines (for now). Why shouldn't we run linux on them?"
As Microsoft says often, think 3 years down. XBox may be cheap to acquire, but who supports the Linux? Why should GNU coders take interest in a proprietary plaform controlled by the gorilla they love to hate? Why invite the wrath of MS over a platform they control, rather than devlop on a platform (Intel/AMD) where they don't have a say?
Some desirable things may be illegal, and not all ileegal acts are desirable.
Getting Linux on the XBox without modifications, could very well be an MS effort to compete with HP IBM and possibly even Dell, on the desktop hardware platform. So far, they've made only unwieldly mice, broken keyboards and complicated home WiFi gear in hardware.
The XBox so closely resembles the PC architecture, it could be an MS attempt to make BIOS, motherboard and PC makers superfluous. MS would package the XBox for $100 and offer Linux on a desktop PC! All this subterfuge and publishing hacks is just a way to generate some mometum behind the development of their proprietary piece of junk into a viable desktop platform.
Too late, yes... the industry has moved along, users and partners have become smarter to MS tricks, and the game is up. Sorry MS.
I think MS is appealing to the 'supposed' crooked instincts of the Gnu folks.
The chief reason for the success of GNU, Linux and indeed saome flavors of BSD, is that the hardware is a commodity item and available from multiple vendors. Thus the hardware is an open platform and true competition drives down prices to make it affordable, viable and immune to monopolization.
Now, the XBox is a proprietary piece of shit, and is controlled by a single gorilla (of course, with contributions from a few chimps). What's the motivation of getting GNU and Linux running on this proprietary junk?
MS loses money since they make losses on hardware? Crap! Unless the XBox is sold for under $50, this assumption is ridiculous. Geeks get a sense of revenge when they try to annoy MS? Sorry - MS is too smart for that. If they felt XBox hacks were truly threatening their margins, they'd have let loose SCO or some other SCUD litigation.
Doing geeky things is not the primary or only objective of the GNU connosieurs - the more important reason is to make the software AND the hardware free of encumbrances and/or lock-ins.
The best hacks for the XBox will become meaningless if MS comes out with a new design. The devious statements and logic emanating from the press about the XBox and the hacks - does in fact indicate that some kind of social engg. is at work. It's like all the brouhaha about the latest Harry Potter - how it's getting stolen, how many millions have sold in the first week, how some cheap folks are trying to obtain illegal copies, etc. It's promoting by making an appeal to criminal insticts.
Cracking an XBox to run Linux is like using a 500MB word-processor to write a 1 page letter. Waste of resources and effort, it profits only MS. Better contribute to some useful GNU projects, such as AbiWord - there's many of them out there that need attention.
The chief reason for the success of GNU, Linux and indeed saome flavors of BSD, is that the hardware is a commodity item and available from multiple vendors. Thus the hardware is an open platform and true competition drives down prices to make it affordable, viable and immune to monopolization.
Now, the XBox is a proprietary piece of shit, and is controlled by a single gorilla (of course, with contributions from a few chimps). What's the motivation of getting GNU and Linux running on this proprietary junk?
MS loses money since they make losses on hardware? Crap! Unless the XBox is sold for under $50, this assumption is ridiculous. Geeks get a sense of revenge when they try to annoy MS? Sorry - MS is too smart for that. If they felt XBox hacks were truly threatening their margins, they'd have let loose SCO or some other SCUD litigation.
Doing geeky things is not the primary or only objective of the GNU connosieurs - the more important reason is to make the software AND the hardware free of encumbrances and/or lock-ins.
The best hacks for the XBox will become meaningless if MS comes out with a new design. The devious statements and logic emanating from the press about the XBox and the hacks - does in fact indicate that some kind of social engg. is at work. It's like all the brouhaha about the latest Harry Potter - how it's getting stolen, how many millions have sold in the first week, how some cheap folks are trying to obtain illegal copies, etc. It's promoting by making an appeal to criminal insticts.
Cracking an XBox to run Linux is like using a 500MB word-processor to write a 1 page letter. Waste of resources and effort, it profits only MS. Better contribute to some useful GNU projects, such as AbiWord - there's many of them out there that need attention.
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This is the FIRST site I can still access, full 15 minutes after a Slashdot article! Maybe a lesson in it for all bloatware.
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Faster than IIS, I should add. Reminds me of a naive qn. I used to ask: If a 486@66MHz and 20MB RAM can run Win95, and pretty fast as well, why can't we have 100 times faster response with a PentiumIV@ 2.4GHz running WinXP (which is upposed to be faster than Win2K, which in turn is supposed to be faster than Win98 which in turn is supposed to be faster than Win95)
"The sun provides negligable energy out past the orbit of Mars"
I doubt this approach uses light as a form of energy. The idea here is to think of the light photons as 'mass' rather than 'energy'. Since E=mc^2, it follows: m=E/c^2. since c=velocity of light (10 power 10) and E could be 10 power -24, the mass of a photon could be infinitesmally small, and negligible.
My chief concern here would be, if a satellite can be propelled by reflecting photons, then the 'deflection' caused by a single hydrogen atom (of which there could be lots in space, besides dust and gases) could cause deviations, millions of times greater in magnitude compared to the desired motion.
Simply stated - unworkable, but then, try telling that to 'scientists', specially those reading Slashdot!
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"What if I lived in Pakistan and wasn't a Muslim (or Buddist, or whatever) and WANTED to look at porn, but couldn't because the government regulated my internet traffic?"
.adult domain? Simple - the firms making money over porn wouldn't stand for it.
You're precisely proving my point. The simple fact is that Pakistan (or for that matter Thailand, Singapore or India) treats it's citizens as just that - citizens. Their personal beliefs and values are respected within their homes and places of worship - society has a uniform set of values. (Okay - this is abused in a few countries, but generally this is the unwritten belief). To sum up, it least matters what your personal faith is, it's important that you're a Pakistani. And as they say, while in Rome, do as the Romans do.
" And NEVER trust the government, because they're the only group that can legally kill you and everyone you ever met "for the common good". I'd rather trust people concerned with money than people that could kill me for not trusting them... "
I didn't know killing was one of the rights of the govt. I'd imagine if they did it on a large scale, someone would stand up for them and put them in order (Iraq, for instance, assuming the horror stories were true). OTOH, what has Corporate America done to prevent spam and porn from reaching kids? Why can't there be a simple legislation requiring all adult content to be registered under a
"Suppose I have a kid. Suppose that child is playing games too much. Suppose I tell them to stop. Much easier than having a curfew and other governmental actions imposed right?"
I really suppose you have a kid (I do, and can state my personal thoughts on this matter). There's very little chance of parental censorhip succeeding with kids - why? Bcos kids are kids, that's all. This is a matter where Western and Eastern thinking differs a lot - the value of state censorship.
Western societies are generally more tolerant - lax, according to the Earterners, and are driven by capitalism. They tend to focus on rights, rather than duties. This could explain the recent orders permitting gays and lesbians, as well as the inaction on spam.
Earterners generally focus on duties, role models, censorship and even punbishment for acts considered normal in the West. The internet brigs out this dichotomy bcos it's an open network. Thus govt. censorship is a preferred and better solution in Eastern societies - Thailand being one.
Do you ever know where such parental censorship has worked? I can name several where govt. censorhip has worked / is working well for all concerned. Pakistan, for instance, is developing a free porn-blocking s/w at the govt. level.
Never trust monopolists and capitalists to work for the good of you or your kids.The only values they understand are dollars and share-prices.
would be to impose curfew on MSware and promote Linux... wait, Thailand did try that, but HP backed off their cheap Linux offering and MS gives away Office and Windows for $36!.. too bad, His Billness apparently wants everyone to play games with their systems, and not learn/do anything worthwhile :-(
What did I expect? Oh yeah.. well, lemme think, ahem.., here I go:
.Net was officially declared "Dead and Buried"
1. I expected a woman (Kollar Cotelly) would be a good judge, and would make us proud.
2. I expected MS would be fined $2 bn., ordered to open the source for public inspection.
3. I expected "Breakfast with Bill" would mean Bill comes to my place, and fixes my system with the latest Service Pack CD.
4. I expected that the judgment would be in the best interests of the world computing community, and not just a narrow American interest.
5. I expected His Billness to say "I'm sorry"
6. I expected RMS, Linus, ESR and a few others to have received meritorious awards from the Presidents of the respective countries.
7. I expected that MS would stop naming OSes after years, as if they wrote different ones every year.
8. I expected that
9. I expected Java would be fast, flexible and open source.
10. I expected more of the Slashdotters to have seen that the whole trial was just a farce - 9 States dissenting was a stage-managed stunt, the female lawyer was not 'randomly' selected, that the evidence shown and arguments had no effect or relevance on the judgment and compliance.....and, and.. well: I expected all of these would have been obvious to all but the few astro-turfing MS apologists and shills that infest the forums over here. In short, I expected justice,dignity and fair-play from a gorilla, and I was a fool - just like most of us.
From the ref article:
"One condition that caused particular outcry was Microsoft charging an upfront fee of $100,000 for rivals to examine the code to see whether they want to buy it. If they don't, they only get $50,000 back."
So what's the fee to take one single look at the pile of crap and say " Holy crap! This costs $100,000??"
Bride wants to marry IBM and screw Linux. Brother MS willing to pay any dowry.
How many among the four parties are simply 'front' operations, supported and sponsored by Microsoft? Backup and storage are two areas where MS has done poorly on purpose, looks like they might be aiming to buy two of the 4 cos. that licensed their protocols.
"I doubt that anyone working on xbox-linux would have both the skills and the interest to work on Abiword."
Read what you've written. And you'll u'stand you've gone and made a complete fool of yourself. So, someone who knows about North Bridge-South Bridge, 128-bit encryption, bootstrap process etc. (an XBox hacker for you) has less than enuff skills for a word-processor? Crazy.
"You do realize that people do this shit for fun, right?"
Spending $200 for an XBox - not to play games, but to somehow get Linux working on it is some sort of fun game? Breaking securtiy keys, understanding 600 page books on Xbox design, believing all these cock-and-bull logic of MS losing money and sleep over this XBox - only lunatics could call this 'shit for fun'.
"If I can have fun improving abiword, I'll do it."
Some of us do it for money, as well as fun. And a few of us (like me) send some money to help such projects along.
"If I can have more fun hacking the xbox (a decidedly more interesting activity), then I'll do that."
Judging by your post, I doubt you even nkow the architecture of the thing.
"Shut up, stop bitching, read a programming book, and start contributing yourself. That's how free software works."
There are many aspects to free software. They also contribute -- who use, send bug reports, a few dollars and help other misguided folk from wasting their talents and energy from promoting proprietary shit.
You can't - unless you're willing to shell out a few bucks more.
Neither can you get a comfy Linux distro and apps on a $180 XBox. You don't apples for the price of sour oranges?
And what about moving WiFi hotspots?
Neither the Palmtops nor the cellphones (running Symbian) pretend to be PCs. The XBox may be just a console, but it's architecture so closely resembles that of the PC. Putting Linux on the XBox could actually be a huge favor to MS. If they somehow make the GPL invalid, then in one stroke they could kill the entire PC industry and become an even bigger h/w and s/w monopoly. A 1600lb gorilla, if you will.
"my warranty is intact. When that runs out, I run the same risks of non-support that I would if I used the xbox only as a console."
This entire discussion is about Linux on the XBox. Not XBox as a console.
"In my own situation, I have no real need for a Linux box. I have this xbox. Running linux on it is of equal if not better entertainment value to playing games on it."
Your situation has little relevance to the topic being discussed, and the points I made at the top.
" I am speaking only of my own situation. I don't have any answers for other people."
And yet, you asked "Why shouldn't we develop Linux on the XBox?" When very few people are in similar situations like you, there's no motivation, that's why.
"linux is "supported" by thousands, across the globe, who publish their support. I have little need for immediate support."
Very few, if any are working on Linux for the XBox. None of the big name distros or IRCs would help you on this.
"Again, I have no answers for others. I would not recommend to a corporate entity that they run a mission-critical web server on an xbox!"
And that's the primary motivation for coders to pay attention to a platform. When this motivation does not exist, they'll boycott the whole effort.
"The fact is, they do. As long as they do, I am grateful."
No, they don't. This whole story is made to appear as if there's lots of people queing up to hack the XBox. Nothing can be farther from reality.
MS after: Shut up! Sue them! This kind of thing is why we hate open source. They want to take our intellectual property and turn it into an experimental plaything.
RMS, ESR, Linus Torvalds: We told you so! Stop wasting time on this XBox stuff. Now, they've taken your experimental thing, and turned into an intellectual property. Just forget the whole thing, and look into some useful GNU/Linux work!
Geeks, after: Never again we'll touch the XBox.
"I actually won it in a contest run by Taco Bell... in all likelihood these hacks (and improved ones based on them) will continue be operable on my hardware indefinitely."
You are assuming:
1. Your hardware will work and/or be supported in it's present form, indefinitely by Microsoft.
2.You'd rather wait for these and better hacks to run Linux, rather than spend $200 for a Walmrt Linux box with warranty.
3. A large number of people get these XBoxes as a gift.
" Xbox hardware is cheap compared to similar commodity machines (for now). Why shouldn't we run linux on them?"
As Microsoft says often, think 3 years down. XBox may be cheap to acquire, but who supports the Linux?
Why should GNU coders take interest in a proprietary plaform controlled by the gorilla they love to hate?
Why invite the wrath of MS over a platform they control, rather than devlop on a platform (Intel/AMD) where they don't have a say?
Some desirable things may be illegal, and not all ileegal acts are desirable.
Getting Linux on the XBox without modifications, could very well be an MS effort to compete with HP IBM and possibly even Dell, on the desktop hardware platform. So far, they've made only unwieldly mice, broken keyboards and complicated home WiFi gear in hardware.
The XBox so closely resembles the PC architecture, it could be an MS attempt to make BIOS, motherboard and PC makers superfluous. MS would package the XBox for $100 and offer Linux on a desktop PC! All this subterfuge and publishing hacks is just a way to generate some mometum behind the development of their proprietary piece of junk into a viable desktop platform.
Too late, yes... the industry has moved along, users and partners have become smarter to MS tricks, and the game is up. Sorry MS.
I think MS is appealing to the 'supposed' crooked instincts of the Gnu folks.
The chief reason for the success of GNU, Linux and indeed saome flavors of BSD, is that the hardware is a commodity item and available from multiple vendors. Thus the hardware is an open platform and true competition drives down prices to make it affordable, viable and immune to monopolization.
Now, the XBox is a proprietary piece of shit, and is controlled by a single gorilla (of course, with contributions from a few chimps). What's the motivation of getting GNU and Linux running on this proprietary junk?
MS loses money since they make losses on hardware? Crap! Unless the XBox is sold for under $50, this assumption is ridiculous. Geeks get a sense of revenge when they try to annoy MS? Sorry - MS is too smart for that. If they felt XBox hacks were truly threatening their margins, they'd have let loose SCO or some other SCUD litigation.
Doing geeky things is not the primary or only objective of the GNU connosieurs - the more important reason is to make the software AND the hardware free of encumbrances and/or lock-ins.
The best hacks for the XBox will become meaningless if MS comes out with a new design. The devious statements and logic emanating from the press about the XBox and the hacks - does in fact indicate that some kind of social engg. is at work.
It's like all the brouhaha about the latest Harry Potter - how it's getting stolen, how many millions have sold in the first week, how some cheap folks are trying to obtain illegal copies, etc. It's promoting by making an appeal to criminal insticts.
Cracking an XBox to run Linux is like using a 500MB word-processor to write a 1 page letter. Waste of resources and effort, it profits only MS. Better contribute to some useful GNU projects, such as AbiWord - there's many of them out there that need attention.
The chief reason for the success of GNU, Linux and indeed saome flavors of BSD, is that the hardware is a commodity item and available from multiple vendors. Thus the hardware is an open platform and true competition drives down prices to make it affordable, viable and immune to monopolization.
Now, the XBox is a proprietary piece of shit, and is controlled by a single gorilla (of course, with contributions from a few chimps). What's the motivation of getting GNU and Linux running on this proprietary junk?
MS loses money since they make losses on hardware? Crap! Unless the XBox is sold for under $50, this assumption is ridiculous. Geeks get a sense of revenge when they try to annoy MS? Sorry - MS is too smart for that. If they felt XBox hacks were truly threatening their margins, they'd have let loose SCO or some other SCUD litigation.
Doing geeky things is not the primary or only objective of the GNU connosieurs - the more important reason is to make the software AND the hardware free of encumbrances and/or lock-ins.
The best hacks for the XBox will become meaningless if MS comes out with a new design. The devious statements and logic emanating from the press about the XBox and the hacks - does in fact indicate that some kind of social engg. is at work.
It's like all the brouhaha about the latest Harry Potter - how it's getting stolen, how many millions have sold in the first week, how some cheap folks are trying to obtain illegal copies, etc. It's promoting by making an appeal to criminal insticts.
Cracking an XBox to run Linux is like using a 500MB word-processor to write a 1 page letter. Waste of resources and effort, it profits only MS. Better contribute to some useful GNU projects, such as AbiWord - there's many of them out there that need attention.
The car tries to go straight up!!
Middle of the road...
This is the FIRST site I can still access, full 15 minutes after a Slashdot article! Maybe a lesson in it for all bloatware.
Faster than IIS, I should add. Reminds me of a naive qn. I used to ask: If a 486@66MHz and 20MB RAM can run Win95, and pretty fast as well, why can't we have 100 times faster response with a PentiumIV@ 2.4GHz running WinXP (which is upposed to be faster than Win2K, which in turn is supposed to be faster than Win98 which in turn is supposed to be faster than Win95)
Just say it's rumored to contian SCOde - all hell will break lose.
"The sun provides negligable energy out past the orbit of Mars"
I doubt this approach uses light as a form of energy. The idea here is to think of the light photons as 'mass' rather than 'energy'. Since E=mc^2, it follows:
m=E/c^2. since c=velocity of light (10 power 10) and E could be 10 power -24, the mass of a photon could be infinitesmally small, and negligible.
My chief concern here would be, if a satellite can be propelled by reflecting photons, then the 'deflection' caused by a single hydrogen atom (of which there could be lots in space, besides dust and gases) could cause deviations, millions of times greater in magnitude compared to the desired motion.
Simply stated - unworkable, but then, try telling that to 'scientists', specially those reading Slashdot!
Great! That should scare anyone else from attempting to go near Mars.
Blowing things up was patented by Micros--t and licensed to the RI*A?
That can only mean.. he's the SCOurge!!
1. SCOurge.
2. Mic---oft.
Actually, item 2 will do I suppose.