...or even most of it. It won't get good radio in my car on a rural Minnesota highway, or in my airplane - much less getting me weather in my airplane.
It's not the storm cloud in front of me that XM's good for. It's the storm cloud 50 miles away that I can't see yet: it lets me know in advance the weather's going to pot, so I can land safely before I get to it. It's also good for letting me know that cloud layer I'm about to fly over is just a band of clouds that goes away in 10 miles, so I don't have to descend and get under it. It gives VFR cross-country pilots a lot more information and a lot more options.
I've got XM weather in my airplane (via a Garmin GPSmap 496). So do lots and lots of other people. There's no terrestrial replacement for that. I won't fly without it any more, as it allows me to keep an eye on the weather myself while I'm in the air.
I also have had XM radio in my car since December 2001, and love it: you don't have to go hunting around for decent programming every time you drive out of a station's coverage area on a road trip.
XM is worth every penny of the subscription fee, to me.
Who says they're only going to do two ads with him? That $9 million (the number I heard) was for total exclusivity: he'll do no ads but Microsoft for the next year, as I understand the situation. We almost certainly haven't seen the full extent of the campaign yet. That $300 million is worth a lot more than we've seen so far.
Valleywag and those who agreed with it missed the boat. The Seinfeld ads weren't pulled because they failed. They were pulled because they did their job - getting people to talk about Microsoft - and that phase of the campaign was over.
No, this isn't just Microsoft's spin on things. As has been noted, I'm included in the campaign. My participation began a month ago, well before the first Seinfeld/Gates commercial aired.
Actually, the unique ID from a mode S transponder is not used for anything by the FAA's air traffic control system except for allowing it to send the position and direction of nearby aircraft to a cockpit display. The callsign is not retained in the system at all. My airplane's mode S transponder was about $2500 more than the same model of mode C transponder, and while having traffic information is nice, I'm not sure I'd make the same decision again knowing what I do now.
The SPITBOL interpreter is available under the GPL, and a turnkey version of the OS it ran under is available. One of these days, if we can ever turn up a copy of the original INTERCAL compiler, I want to turn out an ISO image that's an IPLable, running OS and tools to run INTERCAL under Hercules...
The court did mandate that the FCC conduct a new comment period, with the entire content of the studies they relied on entered into the record, and that they either explain their total rejection of one interference measurement parameter that they solicited comments on, or ellse adopt a different one and explain that....de K5ZC
No kidding. A 10-foot diameter sphere has a volume of 14,826,654 cc. I couldn't find a figure for density of molten sodium, but even if it is (as is likely) less dense than the solid form's 0.97 grams per cc, that's still upwards of 10,000 metric tonnes of molten sodium.
Where is this? I'm staying the hell out of that city...
Hercules shows that it's possible to emulate hardware that's quite different from the usual PC on a PC-class machine and get reasonable performance out of it. Assuming that the source on the MIT page is complete, it should be possible to work from there, along with whatever hardware docs are available, to emulate enough of the machine to get MULTICS running.
You don't have to emulate the entire machine in every last detail. You only have to emulate those pieces of it that the OS talks to. You can also get away with not emulating the error detection and reporting features of the architecture any more than is required to deal with normal operation; the emulator will not encounter a failing instruction, for example.
The biggest problem in getting it running is much more likely to be getting the software into a form the emulator can execute. There are binary images on the site; if those are enough to bootstrap your way into a running system, then the problem is manageable - you only have to create an emulated disk image that contains the files in the form that MULTICS expects to see. If you have to recreate things from source, you wind up having to build a cross-compiler - a much harder task.
I'd love to see it running. It's possible, but a lot of work. There does seem to be a dedicated MULTICS crowd on the net, and I won't be at all surprised to see them take on the job.
Wikipedia is not getting a cent of my money or a minute of my time until they reform. I got run off by an overzealous admin who misinterpreted and misapplied a policy, and when it went to RfC, he was widely supported - and the policy was not rewritten to support what he actually did.
WP utterly fails as an advertising medium. If you read the link to Howard's blog posting, you'll see that, of 293781 referrals to Schlock Mercenary in September, exactly 401 came from WP. That's 0.136%.
People don't go to WP to look for new stuff. They go to WP to find out about stuff they've already discovered elsewhere.
Indeed it is. I know, dislike, and distrust the GPL v2, and the stated objectives of v3 are such that I absolutely trust it as an attempt to accomplish a goal I believe to be fundamentally evil: the destruction of the software industry as we know it, and the livelihoods of millions upon millions of programmers along with it.
OTOH, the plain language of the Ms-[PR]L leaves me with a comfortable feeling, as the plain words do little to nothing to advance Microsoft's monopolistic power.
Larry Niven has a point when he says that there is no idea so good that you won't find a fool, or an asshole, who supports it. Not even Microsoft is universally evil. You can't discount the licenses just because they were written by Microsoft's lawyers.
FWIW, I don't trust Eben Moglen any farther than I trust Microsoft; they both have biases that I have severe problems with.
The Ms-PL looks basically like the same terms as the BSD/MIT license with a patent peace clause, and the Ms-RL looks like the same thing with a Mozilla PL-like reciprocal clause. Neither one looks like the GPL. That's an unalloyed good thing.
Personally, I think there may well be more than a grain of truth in Calvin's Commentary: "The best proof that there is intelligent life out there is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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...or even most of it. It won't get good radio in my car on a rural Minnesota highway, or in my airplane - much less getting me weather in my airplane.
It's not the storm cloud in front of me that XM's good for. It's the storm cloud 50 miles away that I can't see yet: it lets me know in advance the weather's going to pot, so I can land safely before I get to it. It's also good for letting me know that cloud layer I'm about to fly over is just a band of clouds that goes away in 10 miles, so I don't have to descend and get under it. It gives VFR cross-country pilots a lot more information and a lot more options.
I've got XM weather in my airplane (via a Garmin GPSmap 496). So do lots and lots of other people. There's no terrestrial replacement for that. I won't fly without it any more, as it allows me to keep an eye on the weather myself while I'm in the air.
I also have had XM radio in my car since December 2001, and love it: you don't have to go hunting around for decent programming every time you drive out of a station's coverage area on a road trip.
XM is worth every penny of the subscription fee, to me.
...that Stallman wasn't out to destroy the software industry as we know it. Now, his own words condemn him.
argh. Stallman is out to destroy the software industry.
...that Stallman wasn't out to destroy the software industry as we know it. Now, his own words condemn him.
Who says they're only going to do two ads with him? That $9 million (the number I heard) was for total exclusivity: he'll do no ads but Microsoft for the next year, as I understand the situation. We almost certainly haven't seen the full extent of the campaign yet. That $300 million is worth a lot more than we've seen so far.
Valleywag and those who agreed with it missed the boat. The Seinfeld ads weren't pulled because they failed. They were pulled because they did their job - getting people to talk about Microsoft - and that phase of the campaign was over.
No, this isn't just Microsoft's spin on things. As has been noted, I'm included in the campaign. My participation began a month ago, well before the first Seinfeld/Gates commercial aired.
Actually, the unique ID from a mode S transponder is not used for anything by the FAA's air traffic control system except for allowing it to send the position and direction of nearby aircraft to a cockpit display. The callsign is not retained in the system at all. My airplane's mode S transponder was about $2500 more than the same model of mode C transponder, and while having traffic information is nice, I'm not sure I'd make the same decision again knowing what I do now.
To answer the inevitable questions: No, they haven't asked me to participate yet. Yes, if they ask, I'll do it.
The SPITBOL interpreter is available under the GPL, and a turnkey version of the OS it ran under is available. One of these days, if we can ever turn up a copy of the original INTERCAL compiler, I want to turn out an ISO image that's an IPLable, running OS and tools to run INTERCAL under Hercules...
The court did mandate that the FCC conduct a new comment period, with the entire content of the studies they relied on entered into the record, and that they either explain their total rejection of one interference measurement parameter that they solicited comments on, or ellse adopt a different one and explain that. ...de K5ZC
Hm. Somehow, I couldn't turn up that number.
Yeah, my conversion from grams to tonnes was off, too...but even so, 13.77 tonnes of liquid sodium is something I want to be nowhere close to.
No kidding. A 10-foot diameter sphere has a volume of 14,826,654 cc. I couldn't find a figure for density of molten sodium, but even if it is (as is likely) less dense than the solid form's 0.97 grams per cc, that's still upwards of 10,000 metric tonnes of molten sodium.
Where is this? I'm staying the hell out of that city...
I would expect that the approved bags, like the TSA-approved luggage locks, would display a special, readily-identifiable logo.
Novell is now assured of getting every penny they've got coming to them.
Hercules shows that it's possible to emulate hardware that's quite different from the usual PC on a PC-class machine and get reasonable performance out of it. Assuming that the source on the MIT page is complete, it should be possible to work from there, along with whatever hardware docs are available, to emulate enough of the machine to get MULTICS running.
You don't have to emulate the entire machine in every last detail. You only have to emulate those pieces of it that the OS talks to. You can also get away with not emulating the error detection and reporting features of the architecture any more than is required to deal with normal operation; the emulator will not encounter a failing instruction, for example.
The biggest problem in getting it running is much more likely to be getting the software into a form the emulator can execute. There are binary images on the site; if those are enough to bootstrap your way into a running system, then the problem is manageable - you only have to create an emulated disk image that contains the files in the form that MULTICS expects to see. If you have to recreate things from source, you wind up having to build a cross-compiler - a much harder task.
I'd love to see it running. It's possible, but a lot of work. There does seem to be a dedicated MULTICS crowd on the net, and I won't be at all surprised to see them take on the job.
Wikipedia is not getting a cent of my money or a minute of my time until they reform. I got run off by an overzealous admin who misinterpreted and misapplied a policy, and when it went to RfC, he was widely supported - and the policy was not rewritten to support what he actually did.
WP utterly fails as an advertising medium. If you read the link to Howard's blog posting, you'll see that, of 293781 referrals to Schlock Mercenary in September, exactly 401 came from WP. That's 0.136%.
People don't go to WP to look for new stuff. They go to WP to find out about stuff they've already discovered elsewhere.
On Slashdot? No.
Indeed it is. I know, dislike, and distrust the GPL v2, and the stated objectives of v3 are such that I absolutely trust it as an attempt to accomplish a goal I believe to be fundamentally evil: the destruction of the software industry as we know it, and the livelihoods of millions upon millions of programmers along with it.
OTOH, the plain language of the Ms-[PR]L leaves me with a comfortable feeling, as the plain words do little to nothing to advance Microsoft's monopolistic power.
Larry Niven has a point when he says that there is no idea so good that you won't find a fool, or an asshole, who supports it. Not even Microsoft is universally evil. You can't discount the licenses just because they were written by Microsoft's lawyers.
FWIW, I don't trust Eben Moglen any farther than I trust Microsoft; they both have biases that I have severe problems with.
The Ms-PL looks basically like the same terms as the BSD/MIT license with a patent peace clause, and the Ms-RL looks like the same thing with a Mozilla PL-like reciprocal clause. Neither one looks like the GPL. That's an unalloyed good thing.
Personally, I think there may well be more than a grain of truth in Calvin's Commentary: "The best proof that there is intelligent life out there is that none of it has tried to contact us."
If they asked me to be a test subject, I'd go...
Exactly. Updating the effects to 2007 capabilities would destroy the atmosphere of a remake.
Now, a sequel, updated to the current environment, could go to CGI - especially with real actors mixed in - and look really good...