Well, I'm sure outrage would fade to apathy within a couple of weeks.
But the the Chinese would announce another launch, and they'd sell media coverage in the U.S. to Fox. So then every American out there would be glued to their tv for the "Skanky Pop Stars Who Cannot Really Sing Pre-Launch Show". And there'd be a fricken huge Pepsi logo on the side of the first stage. And during each press conference, live from the space vehicle, the astronauts would be seen eating Pizza Hut pizza, and wearing Nike space suits.
Afterall, why actually do anything like take a risk, when you can simply profit off of someone else who is doing so?
Tetris for instance is the next best thing to a virus, afterall, think of how simple and yet utterly addictive it was until attention deficit disorder offered us a cure.
Do we have to make games INTO life forms?
I'm not sure which is more disturbing...
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...the fact that someone spent the time/creativity to create the website... ...or the fact that it's currently/.'ed.
Take note how it says "One of my trackers made the sound". It makes no mention of how far away the researcher was. The natural scientific explaination is that the trackers are expendible and easily replaced.
This hypothisis was demonstrated beatifully in the old "Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom" shows when I was a kid. The host would always be standing well out of range of the king cobra while saying "Now watch as my assistant charms the snake using body motions".
Now I'll have even more in-duh-viduals showing up to ask questions, all full of smugness because they've read this book.... in-duh-vidual: "Oh yes, I've been using UNIX for months now. But I've got a question about how I should launch this "Corn Shell" thing. me:What about it? in-duh-vidual: "Well, everytime I type in/bin/ksh all I get is a prompt, it never seems to run the GUI. me:Hmm, let me check.... output of ps command: luser 2597 2596 0 13:15:52 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2599 2598 0 13:15:53 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2596 2581 0 13:15:51 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2600 2599 0 13:15:53 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2598 2597 0 13:15:52 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2601 2600 0 13:15:54 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2602 2601 0 13:15:55 pts/10 0:00 ksh
Given enough time, I've no doubt that a finite number of monkeys banging on a finite number of keyboards could recreate all Microsoft products. So we can avoid having to worry about archiving them.
I wouldn't mind if they rigged it so that it would delete music acquired outside the US upon my return home. That way I could ensure that any Celine Dion songs that my wife acquired in Canada would be gone when we return home from vacation.
"use[d] or attempt[d] to use the service from outside of the [United States]'. This includes Canada."
Whew, for a second there I was thinking that we'd annexed Canada. Eh? I think that to be more clear, they should also specifically state that Mexico is outside the US. And, for those who are still in denial, they should state that New Jersey IS part of the United States.
Even if it works, it will spawn nothing but a bunch of millionaires named Biff or Muffy sitting on teak paneled solar yachts cluttering up space while going for a weekend jaunt to the moon.
Cue the Rodney Dangerfield quotes from Caddy Shack...
...as all good programmers would tell you!
Seriously though, I've got a Zaurus, and while I haven't spent that much time scanning the hardware specs, I doubt that there's very much error correction packed in there.
As a proof of concept, I suggest overclocking your PC's memory, or up the PCI bus speed about 10Mhz.
Anyone care to guess that's part of why true UNIX hardware costs so damn much? Sun, for instance, implements CRC and stuff on the RAM, the memory bus, and the I/O bus. And I can definitely count the total number of times my Ultra 10 has crash in the last 5 years on 1 hand. Not including the thumb.
As alternative to this hypothesis consider:
feed a business technology proposal through gzip
A very high compression ratio indicates that the proposal was likely to be written by consultants. As supported by the fact that they usually re-use the same buzz phrases over and over.
A moderate compression ratio indicates that the proposal was written by engineers. Typically they use large words, and unique phrases that are already compressed. I.E. SNMP, J2EE, WWW, and so on.
A zero to negative compression ratio indicates that the proposal was likely to be written by a PHB, and hence void of all indications of intelligent life. As evidenced by most PHB's having a hard time using buzz phrases and keywords in context, so they won't recycle enough words to form a good compression dictionary.
It's a matter of scaling up the design w/o inducing drag penalties for one thing. Look at the front side of, say, a 777. The fuselage is a big cone, and the wing is a sharp edged box about 2 feet thick.
A BWB however isn't as pointy at the front. So you get much higher drag. Think Ferrari vs. Cadillac shapes.
There is nothing inherantly unstable about a flying wing. This was proven by the Germans in the 1930's. Where a flying wing is unstable is in the yaw axis. It has very very little vertical area, so traditional rudders would have to be friggin huge to keep it from wandering left/right. This was easily handled by an attentive pilot in the 1950's, and now with fly by wire it isn't even much of an issue any more.
The basic problem with flying wings/blended wing bodies is that traditional aerodynamics don't quite fit them. It's their industries' equivelant to Prolog progamming.;-)
Will the clone have "Patent Pending" tattoed on it's butt shortly after birth?
Is this just another publicity stunt for Star Wars Episode II?
Will it's name have to be printed with a Trademark symbol next to it?
Will the clone have 5 asses? If not, what use will it be?
If it will have accelerated aging issues, will it be told about it's incept date and longevity? Will it know it's a clone? Will it someday hunt down it's creator and squish his skull?
I have to agree that his writing is flawed. I usually find his columns too shallow, and focusing on the wrong issues.
Firstly go to Amazon and look for accessories for a Palm m515...Ahhh, there are only memory cards. No 802.11, 56K modems, cell modems, GPS cards. Hmmm... so is it still valid to compare the two products?
Second: "And when you use the slide-open keyboard, the unit stretches to about 6.75 inches in length, which makes it the Shaquille O'Neal of PDAs." Ok, and you keep the keyboard open how often? That's like saying a car's truck blocks the rear view mirror when it's open. DUH!
Third: there's not much software. Well yes, that would be a brand new product. Perhaps he should use the way-back-machine to find out how many Palm & WinCE apps were available at their launch? (I'm not defending Sharp here, just asking the obvious question.)
Battery life: Look at the specs for this unit. Look at the spec's for IPAQ, and Journada. Notice anything similar? They all use the same guts! Only the packaging, I/O, and batteries are really different. So is the Zaurus' batter life much different than it's competition?
Being a Linux geek, I have issues with his review. But I also have to agree that the product needs work, then again show me a 1.0 product that doesn't? Windows 3.11? DOS 1.0? PalmOS? WinCE?
His complaints are largely subjective, and hence controversial. I pre-ordered my developer's Zaurus before they went on sale, and hence was in the first batch of users. The unit has matured tremendously since then, and I have no doubts that it will only get better as the software matures.
Of his quantitative comments I can only say that I disagree totally. How does having the keyboard open make the unit too bulky? Does the keyboard stay open while stored in my shirt pocket, organizer, or laptop bag? Is the unit (w/802.11 card) bulkier than an IPAQ w/expansion sleeve?
quote: I can't think of a drug he could have taken where he would have disintegrated in 15 weeks.
This is a challenge to all drug chemists/dealers out there. You're losing market share to the evil corporate machine! They're using these games to subvert your customers into other interests, and the games aren't even subject to the legal issues that the Man imposes on your products either.
You must quickly find something more addictive and easier (legally speaking) to distribute that will allow you to compete in the new "e"-conomy.
I'll disagree heartily. Hostnames full of encoded location/department/vendor info are nonsense. By definition a hostname is used to identify a host to a network. Nowhere in the TCP/IP RFCs do they say that "hostnames are keys to asset management systems" or "hostnames are keys to Visio diagrams of the machine room".
Hostnames should be meaningfull to their users. "helpdesk.some.domain.com", "email.mylocation.domain.com" are ok for servers that any hacker would find in about 2 seconds.
Choose something fun and totally meaningless for more important hosts. Nothing stands out more in a sniffer than "important-corporate-financial-data.domain.com". Projects I've been on choose a theme early on, the discussion often helps to bind the disparate OS, DB, and app teams into one.
Use extra domain info to help make them more unique. And create some documentation about which systems are where, which network switches are where, where network cables go, and so on. If you cannot track down a server using nothing more than it's IP address then you're doomed.
If you're building a server farm then use then domain info to indicate what quadrant of the machine room the system is in. And choose generic linear hostnames for the systems, i.e. "web01"-"web99". You can always add aliases to link "helpdesk.my.domain.com" to "web14.farm1.domain.com" if you have too.
Well I'm not actually claiming any relation to Java and viruses but, go check the slb.com link in the parent I'm replying to. Specifically check out the Bronze winner: "an advertisement platform that depends on peer-to-peer viral marketing to send SMS advertisement messages"
Hopefully phone providers won't bundle such crap into the base phone's ROM.
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...15 days on the way up? Wow, that would give pleny of time to join the mile high club. And the 10 mile high club. And the 20 mile high club. And ...
Well, I'm sure outrage would fade to apathy within a couple of weeks.
But the the Chinese would announce another launch, and they'd sell media coverage in the U.S. to Fox. So then every American out there would be glued to their tv for the "Skanky Pop Stars Who Cannot Really Sing Pre-Launch Show". And there'd be a fricken huge Pepsi logo on the side of the first stage. And during each press conference, live from the space vehicle, the astronauts would be seen eating Pizza Hut pizza, and wearing Nike space suits.
Afterall, why actually do anything like take a risk, when you can simply profit off of someone else who is doing so?
This would make a great new reality show on Discovery Channel.
Perhaps they can bring in 4 developers and give them 5 days to bring the OS up to a new flashier state.
If they suceed they get a prize pack worth over $699 of Linux licenses.
Aren't games already enough like life forms?
Tetris for instance is the next best thing to a virus, afterall, think of how simple and yet utterly addictive it was until attention deficit disorder offered us a cure.
Do we have to make games INTO life forms?
...the fact that someone spent the time/creativity to create the website...
...or the fact that it's currently /.'ed.
Take note how it says "One of my trackers made the sound". It makes no mention of how far away the researcher was. The natural scientific explaination is that the trackers are expendible and easily replaced.
This hypothisis was demonstrated beatifully in the old "Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom" shows when I was a kid. The host would always be standing well out of range of the king cobra while saying "Now watch as my assistant charms the snake using body motions".
Now I'll have even more in-duh-viduals showing up to ask questions, all full of smugness because they've read this book.... /bin/ksh all I get is a prompt, it never seems to run the GUI.
in-duh-vidual: "Oh yes, I've been using UNIX for months now. But I've got a question about how I should launch this "Corn Shell" thing.
me:What about it?
in-duh-vidual: "Well, everytime I type in
me:Hmm, let me check....
output of ps command:
luser 2597 2596 0 13:15:52 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2599 2598 0 13:15:53 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2596 2581 0 13:15:51 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2600 2599 0 13:15:53 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2598 2597 0 13:15:52 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2601 2600 0 13:15:54 pts/10 0:00 ksh
luser 2602 2601 0 13:15:55 pts/10 0:00 ksh
Given enough time, I've no doubt that a finite number of monkeys banging on a finite number of keyboards could recreate all Microsoft products.
So we can avoid having to worry about archiving them.
I wouldn't mind if they rigged it so that it would delete music acquired outside the US upon my return home. That way I could ensure that any Celine Dion songs that my wife acquired in Canada would be gone when we return home from vacation.
"use[d] or attempt[d] to use the service from outside of the [United States]'. This includes Canada."
Whew, for a second there I was thinking that we'd annexed Canada. Eh? I think that to be more clear, they should also specifically state that Mexico is outside the US. And, for those who are still in denial, they should state that New Jersey IS part of the United States.
then check out the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB in Ohio. They've got an amazing selection of military aircraft.
Even if it works, it will spawn nothing but a bunch of millionaires named Biff or Muffy sitting on teak paneled solar yachts cluttering up space while going for a weekend jaunt to the moon.
Cue the Rodney Dangerfield quotes from Caddy Shack...
Note that SCO's stock close down around 2.5% today, while IBM closed up around 2.1%.
Apparently no one else cares too much about SCO's claims either.
The original article says that the system is based on lattitude and longitude.
So, should you live in L.A. your code might be "xxxxx xxxxx", but AFTER the next earth quake, your code would change to "xyxxx xxxxx".
Not very practical if you ask me ;-)
Seriously though, I've got a Zaurus, and while I haven't spent that much time scanning the hardware specs, I doubt that there's very much error correction packed in there.
As a proof of concept, I suggest overclocking your PC's memory, or up the PCI bus speed about 10Mhz.
Anyone care to guess that's part of why true UNIX hardware costs so damn much? Sun, for instance, implements CRC and stuff on the RAM, the memory bus, and the I/O bus. And I can definitely count the total number of times my Ultra 10 has crash in the last 5 years on 1 hand. Not including the thumb.
For mp3 jukebox and internet audio I like the Slim Devices audio player. It's cat5 only, but it still is pretty sweet.
Now I'm thinking about getting one of the Via Epia based mini-pcs for fileserver/jukebox usage
feed a business technology proposal through gzip
I would suggest that in reality it would be more like Distributed Internet Security Hole unless they're very carefull in the design/implementation.
It's a matter of scaling up the design w/o inducing drag penalties for one thing. Look at the front side of, say, a 777. The fuselage is a big cone, and the wing is a sharp edged box about 2 feet thick.
;-)
A BWB however isn't as pointy at the front. So you get much higher drag. Think Ferrari vs. Cadillac shapes.
There is nothing inherantly unstable about a flying wing. This was proven by the Germans in the 1930's. Where a flying wing is unstable is in the yaw axis. It has very very little vertical area, so traditional rudders would have to be friggin huge to keep it from wandering left/right. This was easily handled by an attentive pilot in the 1950's, and now with fly by wire it isn't even much of an issue any more.
The basic problem with flying wings/blended wing bodies is that traditional aerodynamics don't quite fit them. It's their industries' equivelant to Prolog progamming.
Will the clone have "Patent Pending" tattoed on it's butt shortly after birth? Is this just another publicity stunt for Star Wars Episode II? Will it's name have to be printed with a Trademark symbol next to it? Will the clone have 5 asses? If not, what use will it be? If it will have accelerated aging issues, will it be told about it's incept date and longevity? Will it know it's a clone? Will it someday hunt down it's creator and squish his skull?
I have to agree that his writing is flawed. I usually find his columns too shallow, and focusing on the wrong issues. Firstly go to Amazon and look for accessories for a Palm m515...Ahhh, there are only memory cards. No 802.11, 56K modems, cell modems, GPS cards. Hmmm... so is it still valid to compare the two products? Second: "And when you use the slide-open keyboard, the unit stretches to about 6.75 inches in length, which makes it the Shaquille O'Neal of PDAs." Ok, and you keep the keyboard open how often? That's like saying a car's truck blocks the rear view mirror when it's open. DUH! Third: there's not much software. Well yes, that would be a brand new product. Perhaps he should use the way-back-machine to find out how many Palm & WinCE apps were available at their launch? (I'm not defending Sharp here, just asking the obvious question.) Battery life: Look at the specs for this unit. Look at the spec's for IPAQ, and Journada. Notice anything similar? They all use the same guts! Only the packaging, I/O, and batteries are really different. So is the Zaurus' batter life much different than it's competition?
Being a Linux geek, I have issues with his review. But I also have to agree that the product needs work, then again show me a 1.0 product that doesn't? Windows 3.11? DOS 1.0? PalmOS? WinCE?
His complaints are largely subjective, and hence controversial. I pre-ordered my developer's Zaurus before they went on sale, and hence was in the first batch of users. The unit has matured tremendously since then, and I have no doubts that it will only get better as the software matures.
Of his quantitative comments I can only say that I disagree totally. How does having the keyboard open make the unit too bulky? Does the keyboard stay open while stored in my shirt pocket, organizer, or laptop bag? Is the unit (w/802.11 card) bulkier than an IPAQ w/expansion sleeve?
quote: I can't think of a drug he could have taken where he would have disintegrated in 15 weeks.
This is a challenge to all drug chemists/dealers out there. You're losing market share to the evil corporate machine! They're using these games to subvert your customers into other interests, and the games aren't even subject to the legal issues that the Man imposes on your products either.
You must quickly find something more addictive and easier (legally speaking) to distribute that will allow you to compete in the new "e"-conomy.
Fight the Man, freedom to da peeps!
I'll disagree heartily. Hostnames full of encoded location/department/vendor info are nonsense. By definition a hostname is used to identify a host to a network. Nowhere in the TCP/IP RFCs do they say that "hostnames are keys to asset management systems" or "hostnames are keys to Visio diagrams of the machine room".
Hostnames should be meaningfull to their users. "helpdesk.some.domain.com", "email.mylocation.domain.com" are ok for servers that any hacker would find in about 2 seconds.
Choose something fun and totally meaningless for more important hosts. Nothing stands out more in a sniffer than "important-corporate-financial-data.domain.com". Projects I've been on choose a theme early on, the discussion often helps to bind the disparate OS, DB, and app teams into one.
Use extra domain info to help make them more unique. And create some documentation about which systems are where, which network switches are where, where network cables go, and so on. If you cannot track down a server using nothing more than it's IP address then you're doomed.
If you're building a server farm then use then domain info to indicate what quadrant of the machine room the system is in. And choose generic linear hostnames for the systems, i.e. "web01"-"web99". You can always add aliases to link "helpdesk.my.domain.com" to "web14.farm1.domain.com" if you have too.
Well I'm not actually claiming any relation to Java and viruses but, go check the slb.com link in the parent I'm replying to. Specifically check out the Bronze winner: "an advertisement platform that depends on peer-to-peer viral marketing to send SMS advertisement messages" Hopefully phone providers won't bundle such crap into the base phone's ROM.