I'm afraid this totally rocks. This is why Microsoft is so rich... they keep doing things that totally rock. Wow. It greives me to say it... but wow.
It doesn't matter if Linux can do HDTV over a network and do it better (as if it could). It doesn't matter because Microsoft will be there first for the most people. They'll be there the most. They'll have all the deals locked in from server to client. They'll totally shut out HDTV over IP competition before it gets born. If you read Cringely at all then you know that at least one if not a few Linux hackers have done this type of thing in the small.
But it doesn't matter now. Microsoft is a true kung-foo master. Unless the world changes radically and it becomes illegal to force people to use whatever EULA you want or to force out competition from your market place by using innovative and strategic business deals... Microsoft is unstoppable. It's like a dinosaur. What could stop the dinosaurs?
MSIE was embracing and extending your new syntax. They were effectively defining their own JavaScript variant. Meaning their JavaScript was a SuperSet of the real JavaScript standard. That means you can more easily fall into the trap of writing MSIE only JavaScript and inadverdently force your clients/customers/company to adopt MSIE as your standard browser.
The same person tells us that Apache sucks when compared with IIS. Does this mean we've all been wrong about Microsoft products? If we take Microsofts word for it we have indeed and should seriously consider switching back to IIS. After all, [THE FOLLOWING IS SARCASM:] this conclusively proves that IIS is far superior to the Linux Apache Mysql Perl/Python/Php system.
A 90-day return trip implies speeds much faster than "traditional" propulsion systems would give. The "burn" that pusher-start/rocket-stop ship would need for Mars orbital insertion would be enormous.
I thought it was only abut twice as fast as previous applied technologies (it's not approaching a tenth the speed of light or anything crazy is it?) so why wouldn't something like a combined burn and air-breaking strategy work?
The cost and difficulty of shipping all of that material out to a Mars orbit, and maintaining it so it will be ready to deccelerate an incoming spacecraft would be Absolutely Enormous.
The article appears slashdotted. But,
Using this system means that you can't use conventional rockets and air-breaking to slow you vessel? Why can't the craft get a massive push from Earth orbit, then slow down using another form of propulsion once it gets to its destination?
Granted it makes coming home a major pain. Now you have to come home the old fashioned way. But, getting there isn't so bad... and sending supplies out to outposts doesn't take too much either.
The first few trips is to Mars in 45 days, to earth in 6 months. You can send all you want out to Mars or to meet a craft in transit in 45 days or less. Going home is a bigger problem.
Think... boot strapping... start small... build up infrastructure. Eventually when enough infrastructure is built up at a remote location you can do Plasma Jets both ways.
About ten to twenty years from now a GA revolution will strike as humnity truly begins to understand and play around with genetics. The result will be abominations and opuses to the genius of humanity. The digital rights expressed now and in machine code, rights such as those embodied in OSS, FSF, and the GPL or the Microsoft EULA will begin to have real impact and real tradgic meaning.
Instead of just being able to leverage control of the the digital rights of the masses, powerful corporations will begin to leverage control over the chemical lives of the masses. People's rights will be in question. The right to chemical privacy, genetic privacy, and the ownership of genes themselves.
If I or my offspring posess a unique genetic trait that makes our genes desirable do we have the right to sell or license those genes for profit? Do we have the right to remake our bodies after gestation? Do we have the right to demand that others remake thier bodies to be hypo-allergenic or somehow more compatable to our conceptions?
If I can chemically control personality through drugs. If phermones can control mating behavior and desire. Can I use genes, chemicals, and phermones to cause people to do things I want them to? Can I alter someone's sexuality? What are the ramifications of forcing a homosexual to take a "straight-pill" what if a "straight-pill" actually worked?
What if in the future it becomes undesirable to be white? Could we give the entire white population a "color" pill? Could we make dumb people smarter?
If chemicals can control brain function. If brain function controls mood. If brain function, mood, or emotive response, maps on to political beliefs or tendencies... can I control a percentage of the population's voting habits through chemicals in their twinkies?
Suppose the traits that make a person a good hacker... or some of them... can be tied to a focus, disposition, and certain chemical balances in the brain. Suppose a pill like ridilin could cause a person who is normal to hyper-focus allowing them to perform better than normal. Suppose that you could get this drug on the street. Suppose that it really did give people an unfair advantage in school, work, and play. Suppose that it was copyrighted and extremely addictive. Suppose that Bill Gates owned the patent.
What if enough people took the super-brain pill that you couldn't hope to compete without it. Like the Olympics and steroids. What if it became not such a big deal.
What if that chemical also made you have an undying loyalty to the company that made it? Or what if you couldn't live without it after taking it for a while. And, now you're compromised. Blackmail. Senators and Presidents hooked on a perscription drug... that only one company controls the supply of. And they begin to crack down. They begin to prevent people from getting it. From selling it freely. You have to register every dose. You have to register every time you take the pill every pill has a serial number, every user has to register the dose and pill or risk being cut off.
And there's no competition. There's no other viable alternative. One company supplies 95% of all the smart-pills and only stupid people don't have smart pills. Only naturally-super-smart people don't need the name-brand smart-pills.
And that company's name is MicroGene or GenetiSoft or something.
Of course Rutan didn't perform any of the fundamental research that lead to the first manned flights, so his efforts are piggy-backing on those of NASA.
You know... the same is true for the modern NASA now. So why's it take so much to make a Shuttle substitue or a Space station ferry?
Having said all that, I expect the slashdot crowd to be a bit more educated and aware than the average American. Maturity...well, that is another story. So even if the ideas I raise are ridiculed or dismissed, they should at least be understood, and perhaps appreciated.
Oh, don't misunderstand. I'm just a pessimist. There isn't a single human technology that hasn't become bent toward supporting or waging warfare in the whole of human history. To think otherwise is truly naivete...
<snip>
I remember reading that JFK was completely floored when, soon after becoming president, he was presented by the military with one of the many plans developed to handle a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. Looking at the maps and statistics, he was reported to have uttered something to the effect, "...and we consider ourselves human beings..."
</snip>
those plans existed in the first place and if JFK were not the person he was perhaps he would have thought, "We can win this!" and merely thought of the death toll as a virtuous sacrifice for the victory of good against evil.
If you take for granted that humanity will eventually beable to make serious forays into space... then...
It is only a matter of time before wars are fought in space. It is comforting to think that humanity would try to push back the potential for space-borne conflict as far into the distant future as possible. However, this may be naive... as naive as assuming that people would never use a nuclear bomb.
Worked well because there were lots of annoying errors popping up: people picking nondescriptive variable names in a for loop then forgetting to actually use the incrementing variable (declaring a descriptive incrementing variable elsewhere that never changed! Genius!)
Wow. Sometimes it's better to just slow down and not make stupid mistakes like that to begin with. When I start to do that I go home... and post on slashdot.
... if you are not both effective communicators then pair programming will only be painful. You must be able to handle criticism, give criticism, and do so in a constructive way. If you can't do that then you're too old skool programmer for the new skool programmer ways.
Not the first time Sun has taken a stance that if not carefully balanced was self-damning. Sun hasn't made one of these work yet. One of these days they'll get a cohesive corporate strategy because they'll either get it right or get left behind in such a small niche there'll be no self-damning stances to take.
IE:
*) If the goal of Java was to make lots of money, then they failed. If the goal was to be really "cool" and sell books and classes then they succeeded.
*) If the goal of selling Linux was to take the Linux marked... fail. If the goal of selling Linux was to have a cheaper to maintain 'nix to sell... success.
Sabotaging the Linux market may be in the best short-term intrest of Sun because they win more dollars than if the Linux market was thriving. But, it's not a good long-term strategy because they'l have to work against their own press.
It's like demanding a handi-cap for your team because it's your ball and if you don't get it you're going home. Then when you get beat bad enough getting mad and asking for the rules to be changed. It won't make you many friends. But, then you may not care about friends... you may just care about winning.
Now, if you were playing a ball game for you life wouldn't you think about cheating too?
for use in the ImmersaDesk system. I called it "Head Woggle Navigation" and the user's head attitude synced up display navigations with wand input (3d mouse) never caught on though. But I do see things like this from time to time.
I've been a network admin for years (well over 10 now), so trust me, I know what I am talking about when I say XP is stable.
As compared to what? Did you install all your service packs or did you leave it vulnerable to attack? (because either way you'll be screwed eventually) Have you ever had to admin IIS?
No. I think I still call Bullsh*t. You have no basis for comparison.
I'll bet you've never even played with linux outside of a half-hearted mandrake or redhat install. Then wave your hands about how hard it is to use linux.
Trust me, I have nearly 10 years professional working experience on both windows and various unix-like systems... windows is not stable compared to any of the venerable unix systems out there.
I've seen unix boxes run for years. Hell, I've seen DOS boxes run for years.
Oh, and BTW: I just finished up a Gentoo install on that laptop tonight... Linux likes that laptop just fine.
Slashdot Mirror
Or giant rocks. To the head. From outer-space.
Nah, they'll just use the whole, "Hey, Baby I'm Microsoft" thang and all the Teleco's will swoon.
I'm afraid this totally rocks. This is why Microsoft is so rich... they keep doing things that totally rock. Wow. It greives me to say it ... but wow.
It doesn't matter if Linux can do HDTV over a network and do it better (as if it could). It doesn't matter because Microsoft will be there first for the most people. They'll be there the most. They'll have all the deals locked in from server to client. They'll totally shut out HDTV over IP competition before it gets born. If you read Cringely at all then you know that at least one if not a few Linux hackers have done this type of thing in the small.
But it doesn't matter now. Microsoft is a true kung-foo master. Unless the world changes radically and it becomes illegal to force people to use whatever EULA you want or to force out competition from your market place by using innovative and strategic business deals... Microsoft is unstoppable. It's like a dinosaur. What could stop the dinosaurs?
Personal favorite pet peeve:
http://mindprod.com/unmainnaming.html
28. o_apple obj_apple
: Use an "o" or "obj" prefix for each instance of the class to show that you're thinking of the big, polymorphic picture.
Love that one. I see it all damn day.
No. I don't. I meant LAMP systems.
I think I was using "()" instead of "[]".
MSIE was embracing and extending your new syntax. They were effectively defining their own JavaScript variant. Meaning their JavaScript was a SuperSet of the real JavaScript standard. That means you can more easily fall into the trap of writing MSIE only JavaScript and inadverdently force your clients/customers/company to adopt MSIE as your standard browser.
The same person tells us that Apache sucks when compared with IIS. Does this mean we've all been wrong about Microsoft products? If we take Microsofts word for it we have indeed and should seriously consider switching back to IIS. After all, [THE FOLLOWING IS SARCASM:] this conclusively proves that IIS is far superior to the Linux Apache Mysql Perl/Python/Php system.
A 90-day return trip implies speeds much faster than "traditional" propulsion systems would give. The "burn" that pusher-start/rocket-stop ship would need for Mars orbital insertion would be enormous.
I thought it was only abut twice as fast as previous applied technologies (it's not approaching a tenth the speed of light or anything crazy is it?) so why wouldn't something like a combined burn and air-breaking strategy work?
The cost and difficulty of shipping all of that material out to a Mars orbit, and maintaining it so it will be ready to deccelerate an incoming spacecraft would be Absolutely Enormous.
The article appears slashdotted. But,
Using this system means that you can't use conventional rockets and air-breaking to slow you vessel? Why can't the craft get a massive push from Earth orbit, then slow down using another form of propulsion once it gets to its destination?
Granted it makes coming home a major pain. Now you have to come home the old fashioned way. But, getting there isn't so bad... and sending supplies out to outposts doesn't take too much either.
The first few trips is to Mars in 45 days, to earth in 6 months. You can send all you want out to Mars or to meet a craft in transit in 45 days or less. Going home is a bigger problem.
Think... boot strapping... start small... build up infrastructure. Eventually when enough infrastructure is built up at a remote location you can do Plasma Jets both ways.
Open Source Biology NOW! This time it's people's very lives not just programs and video games!
you get a +1 insightful from me.
About ten to twenty years from now a GA revolution will strike as humnity truly begins to understand and play around with genetics. The result will be abominations and opuses to the genius of humanity. The digital rights expressed now and in machine code, rights such as those embodied in OSS, FSF, and the GPL or the Microsoft EULA will begin to have real impact and real tradgic meaning.
... or some of them ... can be tied to a focus, disposition, and certain chemical balances in the brain. Suppose a pill like ridilin could cause a person who is normal to hyper-focus allowing them to perform better than normal. Suppose that you could get this drug on the street. Suppose that it really did give people an unfair advantage in school, work, and play. Suppose that it was copyrighted and extremely addictive. Suppose that Bill Gates owned the patent.
Instead of just being able to leverage control of the the digital rights of the masses, powerful corporations will begin to leverage control over the chemical lives of the masses. People's rights will be in question. The right to chemical privacy, genetic privacy, and the ownership of genes themselves.
If I or my offspring posess a unique genetic trait that makes our genes desirable do we have the right to sell or license those genes for profit? Do we have the right to remake our bodies after gestation? Do we have the right to demand that others remake thier bodies to be hypo-allergenic or somehow more compatable to our conceptions?
If I can chemically control personality through drugs. If phermones can control mating behavior and desire. Can I use genes, chemicals, and phermones to cause people to do things I want them to? Can I alter someone's sexuality? What are the ramifications of forcing a homosexual to take a "straight-pill" what if a "straight-pill" actually worked?
What if in the future it becomes undesirable to be white? Could we give the entire white population a "color" pill? Could we make dumb people smarter?
If chemicals can control brain function. If brain function controls mood. If brain function, mood, or emotive response, maps on to political beliefs or tendencies... can I control a percentage of the population's voting habits through chemicals in their twinkies?
Suppose the traits that make a person a good hacker
What if enough people took the super-brain pill that you couldn't hope to compete without it. Like the Olympics and steroids. What if it became not such a big deal.
What if that chemical also made you have an undying loyalty to the company that made it? Or what if you couldn't live without it after taking it for a while. And, now you're compromised. Blackmail. Senators and Presidents hooked on a perscription drug... that only one company controls the supply of. And they begin to crack down. They begin to prevent people from getting it. From selling it freely. You have to register every dose. You have to register every time you take the pill every pill has a serial number, every user has to register the dose and pill or risk being cut off.
And there's no competition. There's no other viable alternative. One company supplies 95% of all the smart-pills and only stupid people don't have smart pills. Only naturally-super-smart people don't need the name-brand smart-pills.
And that company's name is MicroGene or GenetiSoft or something.
Fun stuff.
clean energy?
Assuming that one's hands get dirty when mining coal.
Of course Rutan didn't perform any of the fundamental research that lead to the first manned flights, so his efforts are piggy-backing on those of NASA.
You know... the same is true for the modern NASA now. So why's it take so much to make a Shuttle substitue or a Space station ferry?
Can't wait for the study proving sugar is sweet.
That's just an old wives tale! Bah! Sugar isn't sweet... it's saccharine.
Having said all that, I expect the slashdot crowd to be a bit more educated and aware than the average American. Maturity...well, that is another story. So even if the ideas I raise are ridiculed or dismissed, they should at least be understood, and perhaps appreciated.
Oh, don't misunderstand. I'm just a pessimist. There isn't a single human technology that hasn't become bent toward supporting or waging warfare in the whole of human history. To think otherwise is truly naivete...
<snip>
I remember reading that JFK was completely floored when, soon after becoming president, he was presented by the military with one of the many plans developed to handle a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. Looking at the maps and statistics, he was reported to have uttered something to the effect, "...and we consider ourselves human beings..."
</snip>
those plans existed in the first place and if JFK were not the person he was perhaps he would have thought, "We can win this!" and merely thought of the death toll as a virtuous sacrifice for the victory of good against evil.
If you take for granted that humanity will eventually beable to make serious forays into space... then... It is only a matter of time before wars are fought in space. It is comforting to think that humanity would try to push back the potential for space-borne conflict as far into the distant future as possible. However, this may be naive... as naive as assuming that people would never use a nuclear bomb.
I have a money clip that's carved out of an old circuit board.
it's good for everybody on the team to figure out that they're not getting paid to stroke their own egos.
They're not? Woah.
Worked well because there were lots of annoying errors popping up: people picking nondescriptive variable names in a for loop then forgetting to actually use the incrementing variable (declaring a descriptive incrementing variable elsewhere that never changed! Genius!)
Wow. Sometimes it's better to just slow down and not make stupid mistakes like that to begin with. When I start to do that I go home... and post on slashdot.
... if you are not both effective communicators then pair programming will only be painful. You must be able to handle criticism, give criticism, and do so in a constructive way. If you can't do that then you're too old skool programmer for the new skool programmer ways.
and i was modded as a troll for saying the same thing, only i did not go in to detail...
;)
The karma points are in the details.
Not the first time Sun has taken a stance that if not carefully balanced was self-damning. Sun hasn't made one of these work yet. One of these days they'll get a cohesive corporate strategy because they'll either get it right or get left behind in such a small niche there'll be no self-damning stances to take.
IE:
*) If the goal of Java was to make lots of money, then they failed. If the goal was to be really "cool" and sell books and classes then they succeeded.
*) If the goal of selling Linux was to take the Linux marked... fail. If the goal of selling Linux was to have a cheaper to maintain 'nix to sell... success.
Sabotaging the Linux market may be in the best short-term intrest of Sun because they win more dollars than if the Linux market was thriving. But, it's not a good long-term strategy because they'l have to work against their own press.
It's like demanding a handi-cap for your team because it's your ball and if you don't get it you're going home. Then when you get beat bad enough getting mad and asking for the rules to be changed. It won't make you many friends. But, then you may not care about friends... you may just care about winning.
Now, if you were playing a ball game for you life wouldn't you think about cheating too?
methinks someone has a new toy that lets them try out image based attacks. I expect this new toy will get a lot of excersize for a few months... no?
for use in the ImmersaDesk system. I called it "Head Woggle Navigation" and the user's head attitude synced up display navigations with wand input (3d mouse) never caught on though. But I do see things like this from time to time.
I've been a network admin for years (well over 10 now), so trust me, I know what I am talking about when I say XP is stable.
As compared to what? Did you install all your service packs or did you leave it vulnerable to attack? (because either way you'll be screwed eventually) Have you ever had to admin IIS? No. I think I still call Bullsh*t. You have no basis for comparison. I'll bet you've never even played with linux outside of a half-hearted mandrake or redhat install. Then wave your hands about how hard it is to use linux.
Trust me, I have nearly 10 years professional working experience on both windows and various unix-like systems... windows is not stable compared to any of the venerable unix systems out there.
I've seen unix boxes run for years. Hell, I've seen DOS boxes run for years.
Oh, and BTW: I just finished up a Gentoo install on that laptop tonight... Linux likes that laptop just fine.