I'm wondering if the Mars One project hasn't had a more complex working relationship than previously thought. For all we know, Mars One could just be a separatist marketing arm of Elon Musk.
Last time I saw pictures, you and others were working from a home. How is everything structured now? Are you living alone and working from your house, or are there others there, too? How has this affected you long term with your personal life and relationships? What type of job did you have before OpenBSD? Assuming you did before, do you ever miss working in an office?
We need a better F/OSS Platform for this type of development. I would like to see something like GNU/Hurd finally come to fruition and become the one true operating system for embedded devices, upward to desktop/server. With the Mach Kernel, it stands to actually give us a unified kernel that can serve all these purposes without being a giant, sluggish monolithic blob. Once that platform is complete, everyone else can throw their own interfaces and such on top of it.
Android is defective by design, and Ubuntu's solution is right up there with it. QNX is where it's at, but we need a Mach based F/OSS alternative.
The role of the big investor is more important than you'd think. The fact that he or she is there because of their past works creates a system where the company will always make money, and when it doesn't...
One of us needs to buy it from dice and keep it running right. I'm younger than most of you, so I'm not a millionaire yet.
If I've learned anything from the community here, it's that everyone has their shit figured out and runs their own small business which has at least a million dollars of liquid assets.
So a few of slashdot's smart asses need to get said asses in gear and preserve this place for the greater good; maybe even make it profitable.
The working people, including Engineers and Attorneys top out around $120k/yr. If you're going to surpass this ceiling, you must break away and do for yourself. This magic number gives people the illusion of superiority while giving them just enough to remain a slave to society.
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The problem that you describe is just an indicator that our software has not yet evolved for this type of display. Solutions to the problems that you have described are sure to pop up as creative individuals start a race toward different solutions.
Years from now someone will look at this event from lightyears away, and from their telescopes on their planet with a planet wide climate control system, they will see this system and observe a small planet orbiting a star much like their own, with a lot of activity in the radio spectrum being emitted. However, they will dismiss this planet as having intelligent life as the weather patterns are too sporadic to be those from a planet which harbors a civilization; for those who have not yet controlled their planet are simply animals and nothing more.
The parallels here are so obvious it is laughable. He is trying to take control of his life and you're saying that the control should be handled over to a corporation known to abandon support for it's products as people are still making use of them. All due to a broken business model. GNU/Linux and vi should be enough to get such a simple job done.
You're better off heating with a heat pump—it's about three times more efficient than resistive heat, which is what you get out of a light bulb. Of course, if all you have is resistive heat, you're right that it makes no difference, but people who live in cold climates typically don't use resistive heat because it's so bloody expensive. We use oil, or gas, or heat pump, or wood, or some combination of these.
If you have a brain, you got rid of those fucking things more than 5 years ago.
It would be a pretty stupid thing to buy and expensive LED or other bulb to put in a crawlspace, or attic, or even a closet. Payback will never happen. Not enough energy used to make a difference either.
I am not an Electrician, but I'm pretty sure that you aren't supposed to use incandescent lights in a closet because of the fire risk involved. An attic or crawlspace, which will have exposed insulation and other combustibles that aren't behind a firewall (Drywall) like the other parts of your home, probably shouldn't have those in there either. It produces a very real and tangible safety issue. House fires started in concealed places are the worst as you can be in your home and not notice until it's too late.
While you use these for a short amount of time, it is easy to leave one on. Just spend the $5-$25 for the remote possibility of saving a $100,000 - $1,000,000 structure.
It's not just Computer Science that they are doing this to, a lot of American high schools are teaching kids welding and calling it Structural Engineering. All they are doing is lying to kids by showing them the high salaries of the top men in these fields, and then teaching them to be peasants. They used to show us how to get into Engineering while in high school, we called it Calculus.
Yeah, but learning the tools of the industry shouldn't be labeled Science, it should be labeled Technology. The courses should be called "Computer Technology", not Computer Science.
Look at what schools are calling Computer Science / Engineering to boast their names, and you'll find that it includes installing Windows on a whitebox computer and blindly running anti virus software.
These institutions are garbage and should be labeled as such.
Yes, because it's bouncing off of particles and such, however they are measuring the speed at which the signal meets the other end in a point-to-point scenario.
Which begs the question, how much faster would fiber optics be without air in the line? I imagine it would be negligible, but it would be nice to know.
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I'm wondering if the Mars One project hasn't had a more complex working relationship than previously thought. For all we know, Mars One could just be a separatist marketing arm of Elon Musk.
Last time I saw pictures, you and others were working from a home. How is everything structured now? Are you living alone and working from your house, or are there others there, too? How has this affected you long term with your personal life and relationships? What type of job did you have before OpenBSD? Assuming you did before, do you ever miss working in an office?
We need a better F/OSS Platform for this type of development. I would like to see something like GNU/Hurd finally come to fruition and become the one true operating system for embedded devices, upward to desktop/server. With the Mach Kernel, it stands to actually give us a unified kernel that can serve all these purposes without being a giant, sluggish monolithic blob. Once that platform is complete, everyone else can throw their own interfaces and such on top of it.
Android is defective by design, and Ubuntu's solution is right up there with it. QNX is where it's at, but we need a Mach based F/OSS alternative.
The role of the big investor is more important than you'd think. The fact that he or she is there because of their past works creates a system where the company will always make money, and when it doesn't...
There goes square...
One of us needs to buy it from dice and keep it running right. I'm younger than most of you, so I'm not a millionaire yet.
If I've learned anything from the community here, it's that everyone has their shit figured out and runs their own small business which has at least a million dollars of liquid assets.
So a few of slashdot's smart asses need to get said asses in gear and preserve this place for the greater good; maybe even make it profitable.
298.279949 kilowatts to be more precise
I'm surprised that this wasn't implemented a long time ago. Even Windows has had signed code for quiet some time.
The working people, including Engineers and Attorneys top out around $120k/yr. If you're going to surpass this ceiling, you must break away and do for yourself. This magic number gives people the illusion of superiority while giving them just enough to remain a slave to society.
The problem that you describe is just an indicator that our software has not yet evolved for this type of display. Solutions to the problems that you have described are sure to pop up as creative individuals start a race toward different solutions.
Years from now someone will look at this event from lightyears away, and from their telescopes on their planet with a planet wide climate control system, they will see this system and observe a small planet orbiting a star much like their own, with a lot of activity in the radio spectrum being emitted. However, they will dismiss this planet as having intelligent life as the weather patterns are too sporadic to be those from a planet which harbors a civilization; for those who have not yet controlled their planet are simply animals and nothing more.
I content that emacs is a great Operating System, however it's still missing a good text editor. I'll stick with vi.
The parallels here are so obvious it is laughable. He is trying to take control of his life and you're saying that the control should be handled over to a corporation known to abandon support for it's products as people are still making use of them. All due to a broken business model. GNU/Linux and vi should be enough to get such a simple job done.
You're better off heating with a heat pump—it's about three times more efficient than resistive heat, which is what you get out of a light bulb. Of course, if all you have is resistive heat, you're right that it makes no difference, but people who live in cold climates typically don't use resistive heat because it's so bloody expensive. We use oil, or gas, or heat pump, or wood, or some combination of these.
Heat Pumps don't work when it's below freezing.
If you have a brain, you got rid of those fucking things more than 5 years ago.
It would be a pretty stupid thing to buy and expensive LED or other bulb to put in a crawlspace, or attic, or even a closet. Payback will never happen. Not enough energy used to make a difference either.
I am not an Electrician, but I'm pretty sure that you aren't supposed to use incandescent lights in a closet because of the fire risk involved. An attic or crawlspace, which will have exposed insulation and other combustibles that aren't behind a firewall (Drywall) like the other parts of your home, probably shouldn't have those in there either. It produces a very real and tangible safety issue. House fires started in concealed places are the worst as you can be in your home and not notice until it's too late.
While you use these for a short amount of time, it is easy to leave one on. Just spend the $5-$25 for the remote possibility of saving a $100,000 - $1,000,000 structure.
All I know is that there is little left to talk about now...
Like that Intel NIC that was reliably going offline when receiving a "corrupted" packet?
Suffice to say that this is one of the times that, "It's not a bug, it's a feature" wouldn't apply.
You still have to rely on the trustworthiness of the NICs. Anything contacted to the Internet can not be trusted.
I'm not dead yet!
It's not just Computer Science that they are doing this to, a lot of American high schools are teaching kids welding and calling it Structural Engineering. All they are doing is lying to kids by showing them the high salaries of the top men in these fields, and then teaching them to be peasants. They used to show us how to get into Engineering while in high school, we called it Calculus.
Yeah, but learning the tools of the industry shouldn't be labeled Science, it should be labeled Technology. The courses should be called "Computer Technology", not Computer Science.
Look at what schools are calling Computer Science / Engineering to boast their names, and you'll find that it includes installing Windows on a whitebox computer and blindly running anti virus software.
These institutions are garbage and should be labeled as such.
You missed unstable price fluctuations, no roadmap for ubiquitous deployment, and shady exchanges. I'm sure that there are more.
I'd love to see a Petabyte-Scale Tape Storage System that looked something like this, only modernized: http://youtu.be/Nq3mNYKR7FM
Yes, because it's bouncing off of particles and such, however they are measuring the speed at which the signal meets the other end in a point-to-point scenario.
Which begs the question, how much faster would fiber optics be without air in the line? I imagine it would be negligible, but it would be nice to know.