Somebody needs to point this guy to Mozilla Labs and tell him to join the community and start working on his own dreams instead of proposing/forcing them on the community.
This is my biggest complaint with many Open Source "lusers" and it happens all the time. I often see bug reports which look like, "Please fix ABC or add new feature XYZ ASAP. It shouldn't be too hard to fix. This ticket is priority important because I need this feature yesterday." People seem to think that Open Source means that programmers will magically write the software they need for free.
They don't know their history. It only took Mozilla nearly five years to release something that resembled a better web browser, and even then the early releases were slow and sometime buggy.
The good news was that after five years of no competition, Internet Explorer's team had been cut to the bone and IE was so stagnant that it took a few years before Microsoft could effectively restart the team. Somehow I don't think they'll let that happen to their office suite, as that's where they make most of their money (as opposed to IE which was a give-away product released only for competitive purposes).
Something tells me that the on/off cycling of a turbine would nearly nullify any efficiency gain you might recoup by coupling a turbine to a hybrid drive train.
It's because Bjarne Stroustrup spent 23 years at Bell Labs, and ran the Large-Scale Programming Research Department there.
Bell Labs was the birth-place of Unix, and was always Unix central. Anyone even cursorily familiar with these facts would be a bit surprised to see someone who was so close to such a Unix stronghold for so long running a non-POSIX compatible system for day-to-day use.
Windows is Posixly comfatable. No, that's not a typo.
Video can already be manipulated without restoring to high-tech wizardry. There's been plenty of examples of news reporters "on scene" when they're just in front of a blue screen. Cinema (which has much higher resolution, so it is harder to fake) constantly amazes us with simple tricks like flattening the depth of field, rotating the camera to make small inclines look like cliffs, adjusting zoom while moving the camera to distort depth perceptions, etc.
And we aren't even getting close to the easier techniques of look-alikes, shooting in constructed sets instead of on-site, etc. Basically if you believe this will shake your faith in video, you're faith in video is already built on a foundation as stable as quicksand.
Racing competitions, NFL, etc. own the copyright to the original footage. They're not going to license broadcast of that footage to any television station which threatens their revenue model, unless the station is going to pay so dearly that their previously existing revenue stream looks paltry in comparison.
Even if the TV stations were to put more cash on the table, they still might not agree to such a practice as it gives a large degree of control to a single party (which means more finiancial risk if the party becomes unable to maintain the agreement).
Do you think that power outlets are only available on the inside of houses? Might take a look at the external outlets sometimes. The only thing that keeps the homeless from using them is people chasing them off premises.
It sounds nice in theory, but you can't make the power company accountable for the existing laws of physics. Sure, they could insulate more, but they'll still leak power, it is just a fact of nature.
The disaster they most encounter and must recover from is hurricane induced flooding. Tapes do not perform well when wet. Optical media can be recovered from a flooded storage area. They are probably using a Optical Jukebox much like a tape library. Even if they lose the machine, they can unpack the other one (in a sealed plastic bag) and be running in under an hour. With tapes, the water will loosen the magnetic film, or provide enough adhesive properties as it dries to damage magnetic coatings where the tape comes in contact with itself. "Better tapes" means higher density which are more prone to damage.
That said, they might have gone with sealing their tapes in plastic bags when not in use. My guess is that such a practice relies on manpower and they've seen people slip up and not follow through with due diligence in the past.
You run your payroll for 190K employees on your cell phone? I didn't think so.
With transportation we seldom make the same mistakes we make with computers. All transportation is equivalent, but depending on distance, people to convey, time available, existing infrastructure, etc. some forms of transportation are infinitely superior.
Good luck having your employees submit all their time cards using your cell phone's touch screen keyboard. Just because they both compute doesn't mean they are equivalent until you remove all the requirements. A system with no requirements is not a used (or usable) system.
Maybe because private enterprise can't be trusted with public (yet sensitive) data? Maybe because the other nearby companies are underwater during the same outage periods? Maybe because it actually costs more?
You can't assume that it's cheaper just because a corporation does it. With plenty of competition, sometimes the corporation is cheaper; but, that doesn't mean it's always cheaper (or that there is even sufficient competition in your area).
They only tell the hero the plans because the director isn't good enough to show the action without explanation. Directors know that pre-screening is critical, and due to their past laziness they have a flaccid audience which expects everything explained in detail. Thus they feel that they need to explain even the obvious stuff or they might land an audience that finds the film confusing.
Killing the hero slowly is to build up justification in the Hero's brutal execution of the villain. Basically it is an emotional argument based on revenge. The hero must suffer so he doesn't look like a thug when he dispatches the villain.
The fact that these formula have been used so many times that they are now being parodied only indicates the poor quality of most film development. As long a enough people pay to watch poor quality films, expect to see more of them as their costs are easy to calculate; and, the money spent on development will always be 50% lower than the projected earnings.
This stable but broken dynamic is what keeps independent and foreign film alive. As long as Hollywood only knows how to make smash hits and blockbusters, everyone else is free to explore the not-so-feel-good movies, or the ones which leave you with more questions than answers.
Every day we pay attention to traffic signals, but monitoring if we tell the stop signs that we see them isn't the best way to know if we're paying attention to stop signs.
Because that's what the US Military did. Selinux was the contribution that eventually came to being due to effort on the part of the NIS.
They want a different code base. It has a lot to do with security by obscurity. Basically NIS knows the pros and cons of something like selinux, and India has to master selinux to really know where the attacks might lie, and how to monitor for them. To them, there is less risk of an unknown leak if they write the whole thing from scratch.
Then the probably looked at the software they were mostly using and decided that the new OS must be compatible to reduce costs.
It is going to be a massive duplication of effort, but at this point in time it is all "on paper", aka requirements. Wait until they get into the details of the implementation where they will likely discover independently that many of the required APIs to run their software require insecure processing to support their compatibility requirements.
They might even know it is a massive duplication of effort. They might even guess that it is not possible. Remember that India has earned a less-than-stellar reputation for outsourcing, so this might be a combined military pork project / public works program. They can't keep graduating programmers at the rate they do and expect all of them to get an overseas contracting job. This is compounded by programming being seen as an "easy paycheck" and their universities printing diplomas as fast as possible for people who are in it only for the money.
Exactly how is Congress screwing over NASA? This joker wouldn't have is job, much less an entire pseudo-branch of the government if it wasn't for Congress.
NASA stuff quickly gets into national security stuff. If you can put a man in that capsule, you can put a weapon in it. Congress should act swiftly and replace this joke of a director. Congress (for better or worse) runs the country, not NASA.
If Congress decides tomorrow to shut down every branch of NASA, it would suck; but, even then it would be the will of the people as reflected through their congressmen. If a director wants to disregard that, then he doesn't deserve his position. Would you prefer to have the director of NASA run roughshod over the government; because, allowing such a thing sets a dangerous precedent.
A large genome might mean more copies of the same protein encoded, but it might also mean more proteins to do the same job.
There could be a lot of "two step" processes, where a one step process is possible.
There could be a mutation which generates an extra lethal chemical. Dominate genes exist, and they are not always beneficial.
I'd stick with the article's premise that while there's more possibility to resist failure, there's also more moving parts to fail, and the cost to replicate the redundancies is more expensive than just having one good working gene.
Not to burst your bubble, but Mozilla didn't save us from a close proprietary web browser, Netscape did. Netscape donated the code and set up the foundation. After nearly a year of getting nowhere, the foundation's decision was to complete a rewrite of the layout engine. Four years after the decision, the first Mozilla was released.
Now Mozilla Foundation acts as a protection against abusive practices possible by other web browser manufacturers; but, in the beginning Netscape saved us from the abusive practices which were impacting their private closed browser (and company).
It sounds like they should try a second attempt. They need to put a second auto-inflatable balloon in the compartment with the iPhone. That way their two-stage balloon rocket will go 38 miles into space and quell all these anti-plucky determination naysayers.
But by using an iPhone, you ride the tailcoats of Apple's marketing. The media currently has a disproportionate love affair with Apple, so you might get your story out a bit further with a iPhone than a Boost phone.
4) because I prefer to get my bits from the official location. Yea, I know a checksum should be good enough but I'm old school here.
Don't discount the power of #4.
I can see a lot of juicy social engineering attacks becoming possible by providing certain items via bit-torrent only. Bit-torrent doesn't stop someone else from posting a "patch" or "security fix" to your product. Such not-quite-from-my-distributor patches could be responsible for disrupting operations, possibly stealing data, and definitely overloading the customer support lines.
Adam Smith did a coin trick at an Economics summit way back when. After taking the Prime Minister's gold piece in one hand and making it appear in another, then sending it back to the other hand without apparently moving it; he opened both hands and the coin was gone. The Prime Minister was amused, and after a few minutes, the Prime Minister politely asked for his coin back. Adam Smith replied that it was in his invisible hand, and if only he could locate that hand, could he actually return it.
The rest is history, heavily edited and re-edited as it's been misreported over the ages.
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Somebody needs to point this guy to Mozilla Labs and tell him to join the community and start working on his own dreams instead of proposing/forcing them on the community.
This is my biggest complaint with many Open Source "lusers" and it happens all the time. I often see bug reports which look like, "Please fix ABC or add new feature XYZ ASAP. It shouldn't be too hard to fix. This ticket is priority important because I need this feature yesterday." People seem to think that Open Source means that programmers will magically write the software they need for free.
They don't know their history. It only took Mozilla nearly five years to release something that resembled a better web browser, and even then the early releases were slow and sometime buggy.
The good news was that after five years of no competition, Internet Explorer's team had been cut to the bone and IE was so stagnant that it took a few years before Microsoft could effectively restart the team. Somehow I don't think they'll let that happen to their office suite, as that's where they make most of their money (as opposed to IE which was a give-away product released only for competitive purposes).
Something tells me that the on/off cycling of a turbine would nearly nullify any efficiency gain you might recoup by coupling a turbine to a hybrid drive train.
It's because Bjarne Stroustrup spent 23 years at Bell Labs, and ran the Large-Scale Programming Research Department there. Bell Labs was the birth-place of Unix, and was always Unix central. Anyone even cursorily familiar with these facts would be a bit surprised to see someone who was so close to such a Unix stronghold for so long running a non-POSIX compatible system for day-to-day use.
Windows is Posixly comfatable. No, that's not a typo.
With live video, you don't need to doctor it. You just need to convince the audience that your sound stage is really "on-site".
Video can already be manipulated without restoring to high-tech wizardry. There's been plenty of examples of news reporters "on scene" when they're just in front of a blue screen. Cinema (which has much higher resolution, so it is harder to fake) constantly amazes us with simple tricks like flattening the depth of field, rotating the camera to make small inclines look like cliffs, adjusting zoom while moving the camera to distort depth perceptions, etc.
And we aren't even getting close to the easier techniques of look-alikes, shooting in constructed sets instead of on-site, etc. Basically if you believe this will shake your faith in video, you're faith in video is already built on a foundation as stable as quicksand.
Racing competitions, NFL, etc. own the copyright to the original footage. They're not going to license broadcast of that footage to any television station which threatens their revenue model, unless the station is going to pay so dearly that their previously existing revenue stream looks paltry in comparison.
Even if the TV stations were to put more cash on the table, they still might not agree to such a practice as it gives a large degree of control to a single party (which means more finiancial risk if the party becomes unable to maintain the agreement).
Do you think that power outlets are only available on the inside of houses? Might take a look at the external outlets sometimes. The only thing that keeps the homeless from using them is people chasing them off premises.
It sounds nice in theory, but you can't make the power company accountable for the existing laws of physics. Sure, they could insulate more, but they'll still leak power, it is just a fact of nature.
The disaster they most encounter and must recover from is hurricane induced flooding. Tapes do not perform well when wet. Optical media can be recovered from a flooded storage area. They are probably using a Optical Jukebox much like a tape library. Even if they lose the machine, they can unpack the other one (in a sealed plastic bag) and be running in under an hour. With tapes, the water will loosen the magnetic film, or provide enough adhesive properties as it dries to damage magnetic coatings where the tape comes in contact with itself. "Better tapes" means higher density which are more prone to damage.
That said, they might have gone with sealing their tapes in plastic bags when not in use. My guess is that such a practice relies on manpower and they've seen people slip up and not follow through with due diligence in the past.
You run your payroll for 190K employees on your cell phone? I didn't think so.
With transportation we seldom make the same mistakes we make with computers. All transportation is equivalent, but depending on distance, people to convey, time available, existing infrastructure, etc. some forms of transportation are infinitely superior.
Good luck having your employees submit all their time cards using your cell phone's touch screen keyboard. Just because they both compute doesn't mean they are equivalent until you remove all the requirements. A system with no requirements is not a used (or usable) system.
Optical media is water resistant. You just dry it off and perhaps buff off any water spots. Try doing that with tape.
Maybe because private enterprise can't be trusted with public (yet sensitive) data? Maybe because the other nearby companies are underwater during the same outage periods? Maybe because it actually costs more?
You can't assume that it's cheaper just because a corporation does it. With plenty of competition, sometimes the corporation is cheaper; but, that doesn't mean it's always cheaper (or that there is even sufficient competition in your area).
They only tell the hero the plans because the director isn't good enough to show the action without explanation. Directors know that pre-screening is critical, and due to their past laziness they have a flaccid audience which expects everything explained in detail. Thus they feel that they need to explain even the obvious stuff or they might land an audience that finds the film confusing.
Killing the hero slowly is to build up justification in the Hero's brutal execution of the villain. Basically it is an emotional argument based on revenge. The hero must suffer so he doesn't look like a thug when he dispatches the villain.
The fact that these formula have been used so many times that they are now being parodied only indicates the poor quality of most film development. As long a enough people pay to watch poor quality films, expect to see more of them as their costs are easy to calculate; and, the money spent on development will always be 50% lower than the projected earnings.
This stable but broken dynamic is what keeps independent and foreign film alive. As long as Hollywood only knows how to make smash hits and blockbusters, everyone else is free to explore the not-so-feel-good movies, or the ones which leave you with more questions than answers.
Magoo's superpower is that no harm ever befell him. His super weakness was that he never knew!
Every day we pay attention to traffic signals, but monitoring if we tell the stop signs that we see them isn't the best way to know if we're paying attention to stop signs.
I hope the new OS will be a microkernel one, like L4Ka (or L4 in general) or Minix.
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Well, at least then they could join the Hurd.
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Because that's what the US Military did. Selinux was the contribution that eventually came to being due to effort on the part of the NIS.
They want a different code base. It has a lot to do with security by obscurity. Basically NIS knows the pros and cons of something like selinux, and India has to master selinux to really know where the attacks might lie, and how to monitor for them. To them, there is less risk of an unknown leak if they write the whole thing from scratch.
Then the probably looked at the software they were mostly using and decided that the new OS must be compatible to reduce costs.
It is going to be a massive duplication of effort, but at this point in time it is all "on paper", aka requirements. Wait until they get into the details of the implementation where they will likely discover independently that many of the required APIs to run their software require insecure processing to support their compatibility requirements.
They might even know it is a massive duplication of effort. They might even guess that it is not possible. Remember that India has earned a less-than-stellar reputation for outsourcing, so this might be a combined military pork project / public works program. They can't keep graduating programmers at the rate they do and expect all of them to get an overseas contracting job. This is compounded by programming being seen as an "easy paycheck" and their universities printing diplomas as fast as possible for people who are in it only for the money.
Exactly how is Congress screwing over NASA? This joker wouldn't have is job, much less an entire pseudo-branch of the government if it wasn't for Congress.
NASA stuff quickly gets into national security stuff. If you can put a man in that capsule, you can put a weapon in it. Congress should act swiftly and replace this joke of a director. Congress (for better or worse) runs the country, not NASA.
If Congress decides tomorrow to shut down every branch of NASA, it would suck; but, even then it would be the will of the people as reflected through their congressmen. If a director wants to disregard that, then he doesn't deserve his position. Would you prefer to have the director of NASA run roughshod over the government; because, allowing such a thing sets a dangerous precedent.
A large genome might mean more copies of the same protein encoded, but it might also mean more proteins to do the same job.
There could be a lot of "two step" processes, where a one step process is possible.
There could be a mutation which generates an extra lethal chemical. Dominate genes exist, and they are not always beneficial.
I'd stick with the article's premise that while there's more possibility to resist failure, there's also more moving parts to fail, and the cost to replicate the redundancies is more expensive than just having one good working gene.
Not to burst your bubble, but Mozilla didn't save us from a close proprietary web browser, Netscape did. Netscape donated the code and set up the foundation. After nearly a year of getting nowhere, the foundation's decision was to complete a rewrite of the layout engine. Four years after the decision, the first Mozilla was released.
Now Mozilla Foundation acts as a protection against abusive practices possible by other web browser manufacturers; but, in the beginning Netscape saved us from the abusive practices which were impacting their private closed browser (and company).
Hey, I just pulled out my trusty Celestron - I don't see it. Did they mark it with anything?
It's marked with a dotted line, in black chalk.
It sounds like they should try a second attempt. They need to put a second auto-inflatable balloon in the compartment with the iPhone. That way their two-stage balloon rocket will go 38 miles into space and quell all these anti-plucky determination naysayers.
But by using an iPhone, you ride the tailcoats of Apple's marketing. The media currently has a disproportionate love affair with Apple, so you might get your story out a bit further with a iPhone than a Boost phone.
4) because I prefer to get my bits from the official location. Yea, I know a checksum should be good enough but I'm old school here.
Don't discount the power of #4.
I can see a lot of juicy social engineering attacks becoming possible by providing certain items via bit-torrent only. Bit-torrent doesn't stop someone else from posting a "patch" or "security fix" to your product. Such not-quite-from-my-distributor patches could be responsible for disrupting operations, possibly stealing data, and definitely overloading the customer support lines.
Adam Smith did a coin trick at an Economics summit way back when. After taking the Prime Minister's gold piece in one hand and making it appear in another, then sending it back to the other hand without apparently moving it; he opened both hands and the coin was gone. The Prime Minister was amused, and after a few minutes, the Prime Minister politely asked for his coin back. Adam Smith replied that it was in his invisible hand, and if only he could locate that hand, could he actually return it.
The rest is history, heavily edited and re-edited as it's been misreported over the ages.