I wonder how many lines of dead code or megabytes of jpg's of the development team, pets etc. the "MS distro" will include.
I talked with someone that had worked on a military implementation of Win2000 where they stripped out stuff they didn't need for their application. There were vast amounts of pure junk....to the point that one wonders if they used to do that so people felt they were getting a good value ($'s/MB if you will).
Sprawl is an unfortunate outcome of our amatuer local governments. In my township a developer is in the middle of negotiating having an area rezoned to accomodate 3400 homes. There is no way the infrastructure can support that, but the developers can afford better lawyers and can steamroll the township.
A typical township may deal with this scenario 2 times in 10 years. A big development company does this 20-100 times/year. Who is going to come out with the better deal 90% of the time?
With the centralized government in China with centuries of top down culture things don't work like that.
You're right. China is about the only place they could pull this off socially/politically/culturally... And even then they will need to be quick about it. They have caught the car culture bug. This planet cannot cope with another billion people consuming like us Americans.
A few forces in the corporate world coupled with the evolution of network computing will work in favor of Linux.
True collaboration is hard to achieve if folks have files in "My Documents"...Not to mention the fear on the part of legal staff and executive management of ever being able to enforce Information Lifecycle/Document Retention policies.
Many business apps are Thin Client to Web Server to App Server to DB/Filestore. The client is a commodity that is a very low common denominator (why would executive budgeting for thousands of workstations want to meet the RAM/Disk/OS License requirements of XP let alone Longhorn for this use case.
Documents are black holes for information and the board room is starting (barely) to realize that. A 2000 page requirement specification is useless. A product such as Teamcenter Requirements makes the information useful TcR
These and other factors may help move Linux from the raised floor area onto the desktop...but likely in a blade / web appliance form factor with the storage centrally managed.
To be a great performer there has to be an interaction with the audience. Last night on PBS's Soundstage John Mayer and Buddy Guy had the crowd in the palm of their hands. They cycled the volume DOWN until they were just brushing the strings with their finger tips. There was a silent tension I have never seen in a blues/pop/rock concert. No robot would pull that off!
SSN is both the public and the private part of the ID
I was just thinking about this after reviewing deployment of shared security infrastructure at a large company.
If the US government made SSN the unique public key, what would it take to establish a system with private key counterpart? You might be able to secure a system for IRS, SS, Military, Government pensions etc, but how could you have it work for commerce? What would it take to get people to take care of their own private key (although the more serious breaches are compromised databases)?
Logic at its finest! If something was a bad idea in the past it is OK if the same behavior is repeated?
...The frat bully mentality (freshmen hazed to belong so they can have their turn to sodomize some poor bastard the next couple of years) Bush has been operating under since he was in college...
The most interesting interview I heard leading up to the last election was with Garry Trudeau (granted he is on the left politically). He recalled his first contact with GWB at school when Garry was a freshman. He had an immediate visceral reaction that Bush was a mean spirited bully (Niedermeyer without the muscles). Used affectionate put downs that weren't so affectionate etc. I was struck that it was completely consistent with my gut reaction when I first saw Bush in about 1992. He was at a Spurs game and as he gave the thumbs up to the camera I thought "Dogger"...and to this day I see no improvement.
His tactics and policies have been consistent all along. On the surface everything is goodness and virtue...below the veneer it is ugly and mean spirited. Why don't more people see through that? Or do 40% share this view, 40% don't and the remaining 20% don't give a crap?
To steal my favorite +5 Funny Slashdot ever, 15 years would be fine if..."His cellmate had a lifetime supply of penis enlargement cream and herbal viagra."
You know you can be opposed to the war (Vietnam or Iraq) without putting down the military or the men and women serving in it. I have a whole lot more respect for them then I do for some nameless face running his mouth on Slashdot.
I whole heartedly agree. As I hear and read interviews of those that have served in Iraq and elsewhere my gut reaction is
"Our reckless old men puppeteering our commander and chief don't deserver the level of honor and dedication that these men and women selflessly give."
Mod parent up. This wouldn't be unprecedented behavior either. In the Nam era they had spooks hanging out in the student unions taking notes on student activities. I read some extracts of some of that several years ago that came out under FIA.
If the terrorists extract another drop of blood for 20 years they have already won if you put stock in the most idiotic statement since 9/11 "They Hate Us For Our Freedom" - GWB Fall 2001. If this is REALLY what our administration believes why turn away from that chartet to adopt domestic policies to erode personal liberty, detain people (even US citizens) indefinitely without charge or trial, prop up undemocratic governments in Egypt and Lebanon for fear of "unfriendly" Islamist leaders that would likely win a free election?
And this is the nonsense logic I am concerned with. It is not relevant that they had rice pilaf with their chicken breast fillet, New York strip or a 2 year old MRE.
My concern over this is that there is very limited access to information and tons of ass covering. Bush has been "shocked" by each of the dozen or so disclosures over the last year and a bit and claims it is the action of a few bad apples, Cheney pretty much says he doesn't give a damn with a "kill'em all and let the devil sort them out" attitude, Rumsfeld says I approved these "interogation techniques" but only based on Kafka "The Trial" like criteria for when the rules apply and when they do not...don't ask don't tell but don't blame me if you are confused and cross the line. As tight as this gang is I would expect a more consistent story line.
Do not for a moment think that I am sympathetic to the terrorists and their methods. My concern is when our government speaks in terms of vengence and measuring moral conduct with a scale where GOOD is anything north of PURE EVIL we begin to sound and act like them.
And like today people are prepared to measure moral conduct on a relative scale. Sure we torture people...but they are bad people and we are good so that makes it OK. This story shows that the world is a better place with full disclosure. How can one make intelligent policy decisions if with an awareness of conscequences.
Right you are that engine noise is not the big issue...but you're a little confused about going around South America. For NY to Tokyo the great circle route would be over the arctic not around the south end (stretch a string point to point on a globe).
In the 1995 timeframe I was at Boeing working on the HSCT program (Mach 2.4, 300 passengers...). The performance numbers were working out pretty well. Economics were encouraging to the point that it would slay the super jumbo since their markets overlapped (who would do choose a 14 hour flight if a 5 hour one was the same cost?). With respect to takeoff performance the wing loading at takeoff is light enough that noise profiles can be managed. Also, since this sort of airplane is likely to primarily operate out of large airports takeoff/noise performance is not the issue. In the day, overland would be down around Mach 1.4 - 1.7 rather than design point 2.4.
The big technical challenges were:
materials (although this was workable)
emissions - not so much the quantity versus transonic aircraft but due to flying at 60,000 feet instead of at 35,000 ft. I am not an expert on the atmospheric sciences, but if I recall there was concern with triggering cloud formation and Nit. Oxide causing ozone depletion.
I did write an AIAA paper on analysis methods for predicting boom propogation and the issue was that even trans-pacific there are a lot of islands and ships out there regardless of how big and open it looks on a map, not to mention marine life (whales, seals, sea bird rookeries) issues. Some things can be done to soften the boom, but you just can't completely mitigate the physics of the shock wave of a 600,000 lb object traveling at Mach 2.4.
Boeing executives were little bit wary about outsourcing so much of the 777's fine machine work and wing structural work to Japanese firms - partially because they knew Japan would one day be ready to build large aircraft on their own.
Consider Boeing has to "bet the company" laying out the $10-15 BILLION for a new airplane program while the biggies in Japan have cash reserves of that magnitude. Then consider that a huge portion of the airplane market is Pacific rim. Put the two together and you have a scary potential 3rd player in a field big enough for two (there is a reason Lockheed and McD are either out of the commercial business or merged).
The extra detail can be very useful. Consider this use case: Friday (tomorrow) I am driving from Michigan to Sheboygan Wisconsin, picking up my sister at the Airport in Milwaukee. There is a park on Lake Michigan a few minutes away from the airport I will use to entertain my kids in the event that I get through Chicago ruch hour traffic with time to spare.
So with respect to the park, from the satellite image I was able to determine there is a beach, it is not apparent that access is controlled (i.e. state or county pass required at some sort of gate house), I can see which entrance serves the beach and picnic area and which is for the golf course, I have a visual idea of the lay of the land so I can drive right in like I have been there before.
Sometimes you just have to marvel at how damn useful this stuff can be.
Does Jacko still own a substantial portion of the Fab Four?
He sold this off several years ago. The king of pop has had his money bled off for years dealing with legal issues, having his skin replaced with the flesh of flensed babies, building a theme park for stupid parents to send their children to be vicitms...
The local news station did a fun, yet unscientific experiment. They had 3 drivers going point to point in rush hour with different strategies. One stayed to the right and went with the flow. Another bailed at the first sign of back-ups and found alternate route. A third changed lanes whenever an adjacent lane was moving faster. The tortoise won the race. The lane changer switched lanes over 10x/mile and arrived about 90 seconds later. The route changer ran into a road closed for construction so that was a bad data point.
More to the point of this article. Even if they throw out the blood alcohol reading they can still get you for impaired.
In other words the primary usage for the computer being in the house.
We don't have a console system because:
it puts the mess in front of the one TV in the house and precludes other people watching TV while it is being played
consoles not only cost much more than the graphics card in my PC, but they go through a planned obsolescence cycle faster
having a PC that happens to have some games sets a different more balanced tone than having a game system strung all over the family room (easier to send kids outside to play)
many of the interesting games for a casual user are never going to hit the console market
Slashdot Mirror
I talked with someone that had worked on a military implementation of Win2000 where they stripped out stuff they didn't need for their application. There were vast amounts of pure junk....to the point that one wonders if they used to do that so people felt they were getting a good value ($'s/MB if you will).
A typical township may deal with this scenario 2 times in 10 years. A big development company does this 20-100 times/year. Who is going to come out with the better deal 90% of the time?
With the centralized government in China with centuries of top down culture things don't work like that.
You're right. China is about the only place they could pull this off socially/politically/culturally... And even then they will need to be quick about it. They have caught the car culture bug. This planet cannot cope with another billion people consuming like us Americans.
These and other factors may help move Linux from the raised floor area onto the desktop...but likely in a blade / web appliance form factor with the storage centrally managed.
To be a great performer there has to be an interaction with the audience. Last night on PBS's Soundstage John Mayer and Buddy Guy had the crowd in the palm of their hands. They cycled the volume DOWN until they were just brushing the strings with their finger tips. There was a silent tension I have never seen in a blues/pop/rock concert. No robot would pull that off!
I would have been more convinced by a farsical aquatic ceremony myself.
My cell phone always seems to be falling out of my pocket and my wrist watch gets whacked against stuff all too often.
I was just thinking about this after reviewing deployment of shared security infrastructure at a large company.
If the US government made SSN the unique public key, what would it take to establish a system with private key counterpart? You might be able to secure a system for IRS, SS, Military, Government pensions etc, but how could you have it work for commerce? What would it take to get people to take care of their own private key (although the more serious breaches are compromised databases)?
...The frat bully mentality (freshmen hazed to belong so they can have their turn to sodomize some poor bastard the next couple of years) Bush has been operating under since he was in college...
The most interesting interview I heard leading up to the last election was with Garry Trudeau (granted he is on the left politically). He recalled his first contact with GWB at school when Garry was a freshman. He had an immediate visceral reaction that Bush was a mean spirited bully (Niedermeyer without the muscles). Used affectionate put downs that weren't so affectionate etc. I was struck that it was completely consistent with my gut reaction when I first saw Bush in about 1992. He was at a Spurs game and as he gave the thumbs up to the camera I thought "Dogger"...and to this day I see no improvement.
His tactics and policies have been consistent all along. On the surface everything is goodness and virtue...below the veneer it is ugly and mean spirited. Why don't more people see through that? Or do 40% share this view, 40% don't and the remaining 20% don't give a crap?
To steal my favorite +5 Funny Slashdot ever, 15 years would be fine if..."His cellmate had a lifetime supply of penis enlargement cream and herbal viagra."
Because of the mob and our fear of drug traffic money flows.
I whole heartedly agree. As I hear and read interviews of those that have served in Iraq and elsewhere my gut reaction is
If the terrorists extract another drop of blood for 20 years they have already won if you put stock in the most idiotic statement since 9/11 "They Hate Us For Our Freedom" - GWB Fall 2001. If this is REALLY what our administration believes why turn away from that chartet to adopt domestic policies to erode personal liberty, detain people (even US citizens) indefinitely without charge or trial, prop up undemocratic governments in Egypt and Lebanon for fear of "unfriendly" Islamist leaders that would likely win a free election?
If the Opera folks did the survey would read "Which Browser do you use IE, IE or IE.
The MS folks would have a 3rd party shill write a column in a trade rag denying the existance of all other software in the marketplace.
The Firefox folks would post a vote for your favorite browser link right be the add for a coooool T-Shirt.
And this is the nonsense logic I am concerned with. It is not relevant that they had rice pilaf with their chicken breast fillet, New York strip or a 2 year old MRE.
My concern over this is that there is very limited access to information and tons of ass covering. Bush has been "shocked" by each of the dozen or so disclosures over the last year and a bit and claims it is the action of a few bad apples, Cheney pretty much says he doesn't give a damn with a "kill'em all and let the devil sort them out" attitude, Rumsfeld says I approved these "interogation techniques" but only based on Kafka "The Trial" like criteria for when the rules apply and when they do not...don't ask don't tell but don't blame me if you are confused and cross the line. As tight as this gang is I would expect a more consistent story line.
Do not for a moment think that I am sympathetic to the terrorists and their methods. My concern is when our government speaks in terms of vengence and measuring moral conduct with a scale where GOOD is anything north of PURE EVIL we begin to sound and act like them.
And like today people are prepared to measure moral conduct on a relative scale. Sure we torture people...but they are bad people and we are good so that makes it OK. This story shows that the world is a better place with full disclosure. How can one make intelligent policy decisions if with an awareness of conscequences.
In the 1995 timeframe I was at Boeing working on the HSCT program (Mach 2.4, 300 passengers...). The performance numbers were working out pretty well. Economics were encouraging to the point that it would slay the super jumbo since their markets overlapped (who would do choose a 14 hour flight if a 5 hour one was the same cost?). With respect to takeoff performance the wing loading at takeoff is light enough that noise profiles can be managed. Also, since this sort of airplane is likely to primarily operate out of large airports takeoff/noise performance is not the issue. In the day, overland would be down around Mach 1.4 - 1.7 rather than design point 2.4.
The big technical challenges were:
Consider Boeing has to "bet the company" laying out the $10-15 BILLION for a new airplane program while the biggies in Japan have cash reserves of that magnitude. Then consider that a huge portion of the airplane market is Pacific rim. Put the two together and you have a scary potential 3rd player in a field big enough for two (there is a reason Lockheed and McD are either out of the commercial business or merged).
So with respect to the park, from the satellite image I was able to determine there is a beach, it is not apparent that access is controlled (i.e. state or county pass required at some sort of gate house), I can see which entrance serves the beach and picnic area and which is for the golf course, I have a visual idea of the lay of the land so I can drive right in like I have been there before.
Sometimes you just have to marvel at how damn useful this stuff can be.
Attach it to your RC ariplane or car, dangle it from a kite, take it white water rafting or into the mosh pit...
The frame rate and resolution may not be great, but if the camera is trashed you won't be out much.
He sold this off several years ago. The king of pop has had his money bled off for years dealing with legal issues, having his skin replaced with the flesh of flensed babies, building a theme park for stupid parents to send their children to be vicitms...
The local news station did a fun, yet unscientific experiment. They had 3 drivers going point to point in rush hour with different strategies. One stayed to the right and went with the flow. Another bailed at the first sign of back-ups and found alternate route. A third changed lanes whenever an adjacent lane was moving faster. The tortoise won the race. The lane changer switched lanes over 10x/mile and arrived about 90 seconds later. The route changer ran into a road closed for construction so that was a bad data point.
More to the point of this article. Even if they throw out the blood alcohol reading they can still get you for impaired.
In other words the primary usage for the computer being in the house.
We don't have a console system because:
Recycle your own, pay a few neighborhood kids to smash them up and melt them down over some burning tires.
So Rush was snorting a morning after nasal spray? You're killing me!