actually, flash based drivers are more suitable for use in micro gravity situations than spinning hard drives. the problems associated with cosmic radiation can be reduced by sheilding the drive and using multiple drives in parallel for detecting single bit errors. placing a flash drive in a low power laptop that doesn't require convection based cooling such as a fan would make it much more suitable for use in the space based market.
I'm sorry, but you've been duped. This is a fake story, of this I am certain.
The Intel build of Mac OS X only runs on the chipset supplied in the development machines, so it won't run on *any* x86 machine. Furthermore, outside of Adobe and a few other companies none of the other developers would have receieved their Intel Dev Kits yet. Lastly, all builds would have had digital fingerprints inserted on the CD and in vital binaries to trace any leaks (If not then Apple are stupid).
If someone leaked this then they are likely to be sued for hundreds of millions of dollars. This would mean any company stupid enough to let their employees leak it would be in dire trouble. Hence, my reasoning for saying that this is fake.
wow, i wish i had mod points right now. I read that article in new scientist also.
all this nano-stuff is great in theory, but we've little enough experience with it to have it floating around outside of labs, especially for sale in a mass consumer fashion store.
teflon, amongst other substances, is great, but do you really want your cells absorbing it, or it getting into your lungs, eyes, etc. especially if you can't get rid of it? no, neither do i.
but i would like a few pairs of non-staining, anti-wrinkle pants... however i think i'll wait to see the long term effects once they've been tested on big rich dumb animals in the united states of gimme-everything-now:-)
are cheap low power displays that can fold up, such as electronic paper, etc. that we've all been told about. If you look at the simputer and all the other desktop PC replacements that are touted as the 3rd world's answer to computing they either use a TFT/LCD screen or a big bulky monitor.
If you could have a device the size of a text book that could fold open and be used as a computer that wasn't expensive (so no sony vaio's) and didn't draw a lot of power (so it could be charged cheaply via solar power) then you've moved a long way towards universal computer access.
The actual operating system these machine will use is irrelevant. Yes they will probably be an open source OS available, but that's not stopping the likes of IBM, MS, Sun, Apple, Sony, Palm, Symbian, etc. making an OS for such a device and it shouldn't either.
When I first heard about the new BG I didn't fancy watching it. I'd heard all sorts of bullshit about it and tuned out. I live in the UK and don't have satelite or cable (because of the area I live in and the building rules about dishes).
I'd then heard lots of good stuff about the show later on and decided to check it out. After watching a few episodes and got into it. After downloading them all and being disappointed that there weren't more episodes I discovered that they're making a second season.
Yesterday I saw the DVD boxset in the supermarket for the first season I picked it up right away. I loved the show and wanted to show my support. I didn't watch it on Sky or SciFi but wanted the makers of the show to know that it had support. Now I have the DVD's I can lend them to my friends and spread the word.
I know it was technically wrong to download them, but I felt no guilt whatsoever, as I knew that if I liked the show I'd probably buy it when it came out on DVD. I did exactly the same for Enterprise - bought the first Season boxset at the same time as BG - as well as the Star Wars Clone Wars DVD.
I don't normally purchase so many DVD's, especially two boxsets in one month as money is slightly tight at the moment, but these shows are amongst my faves.
One thing I know is that when the next seaons come out I'll be buying those too.... although I'll be downloading the episodes again beforehand.
Interesting reply. If you notice I am reckoning on nano-tech being fed into the development of space planes as well as other items such as the space elevator, cars, computers, electronic wires, beer glasses... you name it. This is one of the reasons that the craft will get lighter. The other is the technology for storing fuel (take a look at the proposed VentureStar X33 fuel tanks). Actually to go off on a tangent the VentureStar design failled mainly becuase the engineers had proposed to do stuff in ways that had never been tried before - starting with a clean sheet of paper and ran into problems with manufacturing and testing. Nano-tech fabrication could solve many of those problems from what I understand.
As far as space planes being decades away I'm not sure that I wouldn't describe SpaceShipOne as a space plane, at least marginally, wouldn't you?
First of all, who wants to spend over a week travelling to geo-stationery orbit, when a faster method exists? In the near future (within 15-20 years) most space planes will be similar to passenger jets. Lighter, more efficient and with virtually zero cargo - just passengers.
Secondly, if it was just a matter of 'reinforcing' the tether and using more shielding (making it heavier) then i'm sure that would have been proposed already. Eventually it may be possible, but for now I propose that we use the elevator like we do transporter ships and use space planes/rockets to get passengers to space.
In general people don't travel on a freight train, container ship or transporter plane - they use passenger transport like cars, subway trains, cruise ships, passenger jets, motorbikes, etc. The division of labour between cargo and people vehicles is for reasons for convenience and efficiency. I think we should do the same for space flight as well.
I hate to break it to you guys, but don't expect poeple to be travelling on the space elevator once it comes into service. It will travel extremey slowly compred to traditional orbital insertion techniques. Expect it to take days to reach geo-stationary orbit.
Travelling through the upper atmosphere at such a slow speed will vastly increase your exposure to raidiation (van allen belt) and electrical storms. This technology is designed for lifting material into space, not passengers. We are still discovering much about the upper atmosphere, including huge electrical storms - as seen in national geographic a few years ago) so don't think that everything is completely accounted for and solved.
Later on, I would expect a faster model capable of lifting less weight but at much higher speeds to allow for human transport.
Once we can actually get a lot more material into orbit then we can build larger solar power collectors in space and power this passenger space lift. If I only has to lift 2 tonnes, rather than 20, then it should be able to move 10 times quicker. With materials science improving as we go better raidation shielding should also be possible.
The elevator won't mean the end of ballistic rocket launches. But hopefully the nano-tech that is in development will also help reduce the weight of horizontal take-off and landing space planes at the same time. Lighter materials for the hull and super-structure of the plane, as well as better fuel tanks, lighter wiring, more efficient engines, etc.
now all I need is for Apple to buy Adobe once they have Macromedia.
In one foul stroke they can make sure that the Mac version of all these programs continues, is the best version and that all new features come to the Mac platform first.
They can continue to support windows but as a second class citizen - where it belongs.
I just hope this gets integrated into Adium or Fire on Mac OS X. The official MSN client sucks at the moment and MS are talking about dropping support for it entirely.
I long for the day I can use iChat Av to chat to Yahoo, AIM and MSN users.
I for one am grateful to our Polish voting overlords.
It's about time one of the countries in Europe had a government with a spine. I'm from the UK and ours doesn't, unless it's about introducing draconian ID card measures without listening to anyone and ignoring any consultation it required and dismissing it as irrelivant.
Don't any of the emergency services such as sea rescue (coastgaurd?), air ambulances (helicopters & choppers), etc. use GPS at all?
What about all the civilian air and sea traffic that uses it as well?
Seems a very dumb idea to me. Terrorists are unlikely to depend upon GPS data for attacks anyway. They know the location of the points they want to hit in advance wouldn't they?
And as for it shutting down the European GPS system as well (once it's built) that's just plain silly.
Well if they don't like it they'll just have to lump it. If they chose the GPL which is a license that allows coders and users freedom to port software to any platform.
If most users started using open source and free (as in freedom) on Windows and then discovered that the software that they'd come to rely on is available on other platforms, such as Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, ReactOS, etc. then they'd be more likely to consider switching.
If all they have experience of are Microsoft product then the chance of them switching to anything else would be reduced.
Take FireFox as a case in point. Windows users has benefited massively from using it rather than IE. If they look at another platform and see FireFox on that platform they will feel less frightened by it as it comes with an application that they feel comfortable with.
I think everyone wins, including both Windows and Linux users.
JavaLord (680960) wrote: America invented the personal computer. ..
Oh, in that case you win every argument, hands down. I retire my slashdot posting privileges and am prepared to absorb whatever you write here in the future. Sorry to have bothered our American personal computer overlords. sheesh.
how about plumber, electrician, painter & decorator, mechanic, etc.
I for one feel that I was lied to growing up and that guys who use their hands rather than their brains make more money and have more opporutinities to get work. Around here it's difficult to get a plumber or plasterer when you want one.
Yeah, I've noticed the same thing. It was all over the Mac news websites a few months ago. I just did a search on the apple developer and main sites and came up blank on open talk as well. I will investigate further when i attend a OS X 10.4 Tiger developer event next week.
Apple have stopped using the name Rendezvous in favour of 'OpenTalk'. ZeroConf is the another name for the same protocol used by the open source version of the project.
Another company owns the trademark on the work Rednezvous when used in relation to networking.
talking about sheet music pircacy, I actually discovered a sheet music bittorrent site this week (www.pianosheets.org) whilst looking for a program that teaches piano by eMagic.
OT: I went into the Apple store to buy it and they don't stock it - only the guitar versions. So I went to the Apple online store - nope not there either. So I tried Amazon, not there either. So, I had to download it to 'evaluate it'. I can't play keyboard but was thinking of buying a USB keyboard to use GarageBand with on my PoweBook.
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my friends have been downloading american series for years because we haveto wait ages for them to show in the UK. also you need cable or satelite to get many of the new shows and tennacy agreements do not allow you to put up a satelite dish in most instances and cable tv is only available in limited areas.
I watch enterprise, SG1, atlantis, alias, etc. before they're shown on tv over here. eventually when the dvd's become available i end up buying quite a few of them as well. i don't think the studios are loosing anything major whilst this is happening. in fact they're building a bigger fan base than they would have anyway. it's the tb stations that loose out on the advertising revenue
Firstly I don't do work on a Windows machine for free. If it's for friends I let them buy me a meal or treat me to something nice. If it's for family I tend to do some quick cleaning for free but then arrange to sort out the rest of the mess at a more convienient time at a set block of time in the near future. I recommend getting a Mac to everyone I deal with, as when i show them my 17"PB and tell them I've never had a virus, trojan, worm, spyware or anything resembling the 100+ pieces of crap I've just extracted from their machines they become more receptive to the idea.
for windows users I install firefox, spybot, XP SP2 (if on XP) and all the other bits and pieces required. It's got to the point that I have all this (and some product key tools) on my usb pen-drive on me all the time.
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actually, flash based drivers are more suitable for use in micro gravity situations than spinning hard drives. the problems associated with cosmic radiation can be reduced by sheilding the drive and using multiple drives in parallel for detecting single bit errors. placing a flash drive in a low power laptop that doesn't require convection based cooling such as a fan would make it much more suitable for use in the space based market.
I'm sorry, but you've been duped. This is a fake story, of this I am certain.
The Intel build of Mac OS X only runs on the chipset supplied in the development machines, so it won't run on *any* x86 machine. Furthermore, outside of Adobe and a few other companies none of the other developers would have receieved their Intel Dev Kits yet. Lastly, all builds would have had digital fingerprints inserted on the CD and in vital binaries to trace any leaks (If not then Apple are stupid).
If someone leaked this then they are likely to be sued for hundreds of millions of dollars. This would mean any company stupid enough to let their employees leak it would be in dire trouble. Hence, my reasoning for saying that this is fake.
wow, i wish i had mod points right now. I read that article in new scientist also.
:-)
all this nano-stuff is great in theory, but we've little enough experience with it to have it floating around outside of labs, especially for sale in a mass consumer fashion store.
teflon, amongst other substances, is great, but do you really want your cells absorbing it, or it getting into your lungs, eyes, etc. especially if you can't get rid of it? no, neither do i.
but i would like a few pairs of non-staining, anti-wrinkle pants... however i think i'll wait to see the long term effects once they've been tested on big rich dumb animals in the united states of gimme-everything-now
I've got season 1 on DVD, got it from my local store over a month ago. Region 2 of course.
are cheap low power displays that can fold up, such as electronic paper, etc. that we've all been told about. If you look at the simputer and all the other desktop PC replacements that are touted as the 3rd world's answer to computing they either use a TFT/LCD screen or a big bulky monitor.
If you could have a device the size of a text book that could fold open and be used as a computer that wasn't expensive (so no sony vaio's) and didn't draw a lot of power (so it could be charged cheaply via solar power) then you've moved a long way towards universal computer access.
The actual operating system these machine will use is irrelevant. Yes they will probably be an open source OS available, but that's not stopping the likes of IBM, MS, Sun, Apple, Sony, Palm, Symbian, etc. making an OS for such a device and it shouldn't either.
When I first heard about the new BG I didn't fancy watching it. I'd heard all sorts of bullshit about it and tuned out. I live in the UK and don't have satelite or cable (because of the area I live in and the building rules about dishes).
I'd then heard lots of good stuff about the show later on and decided to check it out. After watching a few episodes and got into it. After downloading them all and being disappointed that there weren't more episodes I discovered that they're making a second season.
Yesterday I saw the DVD boxset in the supermarket for the first season I picked it up right away. I loved the show and wanted to show my support. I didn't watch it on Sky or SciFi but wanted the makers of the show to know that it had support. Now I have the DVD's I can lend them to my friends and spread the word.
I know it was technically wrong to download them, but I felt no guilt whatsoever, as I knew that if I liked the show I'd probably buy it when it came out on DVD. I did exactly the same for Enterprise - bought the first Season boxset at the same time as BG - as well as the Star Wars Clone Wars DVD.
I don't normally purchase so many DVD's, especially two boxsets in one month as money is slightly tight at the moment, but these shows are amongst my faves.
One thing I know is that when the next seaons come out I'll be buying those too.... although I'll be downloading the episodes again beforehand.
Interesting reply. If you notice I am reckoning on nano-tech being fed into the development of space planes as well as other items such as the space elevator, cars, computers, electronic wires, beer glasses... you name it. This is one of the reasons that the craft will get lighter. The other is the technology for storing fuel (take a look at the proposed VentureStar X33 fuel tanks). Actually to go off on a tangent the VentureStar design failled mainly becuase the engineers had proposed to do stuff in ways that had never been tried before - starting with a clean sheet of paper and ran into problems with manufacturing and testing. Nano-tech fabrication could solve many of those problems from what I understand.
As far as space planes being decades away I'm not sure that I wouldn't describe SpaceShipOne as a space plane, at least marginally, wouldn't you?
First of all, who wants to spend over a week travelling to geo-stationery orbit, when a faster method exists? In the near future (within 15-20 years) most space planes will be similar to passenger jets. Lighter, more efficient and with virtually zero cargo - just passengers.
Secondly, if it was just a matter of 'reinforcing' the tether and using more shielding (making it heavier) then i'm sure that would have been proposed already. Eventually it may be possible, but for now I propose that we use the elevator like we do transporter ships and use space planes/rockets to get passengers to space.
In general people don't travel on a freight train, container ship or transporter plane - they use passenger transport like cars, subway trains, cruise ships, passenger jets, motorbikes, etc. The division of labour between cargo and people vehicles is for reasons for convenience and efficiency. I think we should do the same for space flight as well.
I hate to break it to you guys, but don't expect poeple to be travelling on the space elevator once it comes into service. It will travel extremey slowly compred to traditional orbital insertion techniques. Expect it to take days to reach geo-stationary orbit.
Travelling through the upper atmosphere at such a slow speed will vastly increase your exposure to raidiation (van allen belt) and electrical storms. This technology is designed for lifting material into space, not passengers. We are still discovering much about the upper atmosphere, including huge electrical storms - as seen in national geographic a few years ago) so don't think that everything is completely accounted for and solved.
Later on, I would expect a faster model capable of lifting less weight but at much higher speeds to allow for human transport.
Once we can actually get a lot more material into orbit then we can build larger solar power collectors in space and power this passenger space lift. If I only has to lift 2 tonnes, rather than 20, then it should be able to move 10 times quicker. With materials science improving as we go better raidation shielding should also be possible.
The elevator won't mean the end of ballistic rocket launches. But hopefully the nano-tech that is in development will also help reduce the weight of horizontal take-off and landing space planes at the same time. Lighter materials for the hull and super-structure of the plane, as well as better fuel tanks, lighter wiring, more efficient engines, etc.
now all I need is for Apple to buy Adobe once they have Macromedia.
In one foul stroke they can make sure that the Mac version of all these programs continues, is the best version and that all new features come to the Mac platform first.
They can continue to support windows but as a second class citizen - where it belongs.
thanks for the book. i've just downloaded and started reading it. very good so far. all the best with your writing.
I just hope this gets integrated into Adium or Fire on Mac OS X. The official MSN client sucks at the moment and MS are talking about dropping support for it entirely.
I long for the day I can use iChat Av to chat to Yahoo, AIM and MSN users.
they did! yum :-)
I for one am grateful to our Polish voting overlords.
It's about time one of the countries in Europe had a government with a spine. I'm from the UK and ours doesn't, unless it's about introducing draconian ID card measures without listening to anyone and ignoring any consultation it required and dismissing it as irrelivant.
Go POLAND!!!
Don't any of the emergency services such as sea rescue (coastgaurd?), air ambulances (helicopters & choppers), etc. use GPS at all?
What about all the civilian air and sea traffic that uses it as well?
Seems a very dumb idea to me. Terrorists are unlikely to depend upon GPS data for attacks anyway. They know the location of the points they want to hit in advance wouldn't they?
And as for it shutting down the European GPS system as well (once it's built) that's just plain silly.
Well if they don't like it they'll just have to lump it. If they chose the GPL which is a license that allows coders and users freedom to port software to any platform.
If most users started using open source and free (as in freedom) on Windows and then discovered that the software that they'd come to rely on is available on other platforms, such as Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, ReactOS, etc. then they'd be more likely to consider switching.
If all they have experience of are Microsoft product then the chance of them switching to anything else would be reduced.
Take FireFox as a case in point. Windows users has benefited massively from using it rather than IE. If they look at another platform and see FireFox on that platform they will feel less frightened by it as it comes with an application that they feel comfortable with.
I think everyone wins, including both Windows and Linux users.
America invented the personal computer. .
Oh, in that case you win every argument, hands down. I retire my slashdot posting privileges and am prepared to absorb whatever you write here in the future. Sorry to have bothered our American personal computer overlords. sheesh.
Wrong! Apple have their own Lossless compressed format called 'ALE' - Apple Lossless Encoding.
how about plumber, electrician, painter & decorator, mechanic, etc.
I for one feel that I was lied to growing up and that guys who use their hands rather than their brains make more money and have more opporutinities to get work. Around here it's difficult to get a plumber or plasterer when you want one.
Yeah, I've noticed the same thing. It was all over the Mac news websites a few months ago. I just did a search on the apple developer and main sites and came up blank on open talk as well. I will investigate further when i attend a OS X 10.4 Tiger developer event next week.
Apple have stopped using the name Rendezvous in favour of 'OpenTalk'. ZeroConf is the another name for the same protocol used by the open source version of the project.
Another company owns the trademark on the work Rednezvous when used in relation to networking.
Sorry to sound like an idiot, but would all this have any affect on Apple with their BSD based OS X?
talking about sheet music pircacy, I actually discovered a sheet music bittorrent site this week (www.pianosheets.org) whilst looking for a program that teaches piano by eMagic.
OT: I went into the Apple store to buy it and they don't stock it - only the guitar versions. So I went to the Apple online store - nope not there either. So I tried Amazon, not there either. So, I had to download it to 'evaluate it'. I can't play keyboard but was thinking of buying a USB keyboard to use GarageBand with on my PoweBook.
my friends have been downloading american series for years because we haveto wait ages for them to show in the UK. also you need cable or satelite to get many of the new shows and tennacy agreements do not allow you to put up a satelite dish in most instances and cable tv is only available in limited areas.
I watch enterprise, SG1, atlantis, alias, etc. before they're shown on tv over here. eventually when the dvd's become available i end up buying quite a few of them as well. i don't think the studios are loosing anything major whilst this is happening. in fact they're building a bigger fan base than they would have anyway. it's the tb stations that loose out on the advertising revenue
Firstly I don't do work on a Windows machine for free. If it's for friends I let them buy me a meal or treat me to something nice. If it's for family I tend to do some quick cleaning for free but then arrange to sort out the rest of the mess at a more convienient time at a set block of time in the near future. I recommend getting a Mac to everyone I deal with, as when i show them my 17"PB and tell them I've never had a virus, trojan, worm, spyware or anything resembling the 100+ pieces of crap I've just extracted from their machines they become more receptive to the idea. for windows users I install firefox, spybot, XP SP2 (if on XP) and all the other bits and pieces required. It's got to the point that I have all this (and some product key tools) on my usb pen-drive on me all the time.