My question wasn't so much practical as theoretical.
Its an interesting thought experiment though; if this travelling spacewarp encounters an object which enters the warp field, does that object continue to move relative to the ship generating the field?
Maybe you can answer something thats been puzzling me about those Alcubierre warp drives.
What happens when you hit something?
Suppose that some large, solid object were to impinge on the leading edge of the warp field, penetrate the field and come into contact with the hull of the vessel?
So far as I can tell, anything within the field is effectively in freefall.
Then there are massive tidal effects at the leading and trailing edges of the field.
I'm wondering because I've assumed that any interstellar travel that actually crosses the space between the stars would have to plough through large amounts of crap (theres your oort cloud, then theres that of your destination and of any other stars whose clouds happen to extend across your route. And so forth).
So who do you think launched those nukes against Japan? Was it Haiti?
That the USA *HAS* weapons of mass destruction -- that the weapons do exist -- is as incontrovertable a fact as the use of chemical weapons in World War I.
Figure it out; these weapons are bad *whoever* has them.
Then (when you are using LVM) theres turnaround time on a resize operation.
XFS doesn't even require an unmount; just xfs_growfs on a live filesystem with your clients 'must never go down! well ok you can schedule downtime at 3am on sunday' database.
"What clients? You mean bloody pirates who did not pay a dime?"
No, I'm referring to their paying customers who, because pirated copies would be less secure and therefore rife with viruses and trojans.
Thereby their *paying* customers have a somewhat harder time using the internet due to bandwidth consumption, the constant barrage of portscans etc etc.
Everyone loses including their paying customers.
Also... if they do stop pirate copies from installing security patches, its also quite possible that even more people will turn to Linux thereby boosting the exposure of Linux to a wider audience. MS couldn't tolerate that, surely...
Sure, our genome is full of introns and complexity and has potential for future mutations but there is little diversity within the general human population.
A troupe of chimps may well have more genetic diversity than the entire human race.
We've been through a rather tight genetic bottleneck probably some time in the last 10000 years.
Actually, I've been wondering if the rate of speciation may be dropping as genomes become more resistant to mutation...
For a humvee to be truly considered an ATV it would need to carry a supply of high explosive to remove gates, trees, rocks and a digger arm to widen the road where necessary.
Sounds good though I read through the FAQs at gentoo.org and found out that one can never statically link with glib because libnss is always linked dynamically.
Supposedly this is because libnss has to be 'special' for that specific machine or something...?
Bizarre!
And there was me thinking I was being clever making statically linked versions of sshd, rsync etc...
Would I be right in thinking that Gentoo would allow me to specify certain sets of binaries to be statically linked? Easily?
I have bucketloads of space. Having critical things like tar, emerge, vgscan et al statically linked is *well* worth the few K or *gasp* maybe even a few *M*
Even unintelligent organic life forms are quite good at self repairing.
What you are probably thinking of is programmers who think that they are smarter than you and that they can create a self repairing system that will repair itself better than you could repair it.
The software doesn't think that its smarter than you (Don't anthropomorphise software, it doesn't like it).
Anyway, just because something is an effective self repairing system, doesn't mean that there is any cleverness to it.
For what its worth, Windows XP restore points have saved my behind many times. I think its a good start.
In a very real sense, journalling filesystems are self repairing systems.
Of course there are *some*, very very few, truly advanced users would sometimes be heard to say "damn this software thinks it's smarter than I am" when running;
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You want to go to G'tmo?
Free holidays in Cuba for anyone caught breaking the laws off physics!
Right, then suck the H in and use it as fuel.
:-\
uh, if thats not already patented, I'd like to patent that idea, thanks World.
"No, the only safety concern that I have with Hydrogen is that it tends to escape from a confined space much more quickly than does Helium."
I wonder if one could use H for the blimp and when you get into space, suck it all in and use it to fuel thrusters or something.
From blimp to spaceship.
My question wasn't so much practical as theoretical.
Its an interesting thought experiment though; if this travelling spacewarp encounters an object which enters the warp field, does that object continue to move relative to the ship generating the field?
Maybe you can answer something thats been puzzling me about those Alcubierre warp drives.
What happens when you hit something?
Suppose that some large, solid object were to impinge on the leading edge of the warp field, penetrate the field and come into contact with the hull of the vessel?
So far as I can tell, anything within the field is effectively in freefall.
Then there are massive tidal effects at the leading and trailing edges of the field.
I'm wondering because I've assumed that any interstellar travel that actually crosses the space between the stars would have to plough through large amounts of crap (theres your oort cloud, then theres that of your destination and of any other stars whose clouds happen to extend across your route. And so forth).
Indeed, it appears that this /. article may effectively be an advert for a new tech tv show premiering this week;
e /
http://www.techtv.com/unscrewed/ihateyou/archiv
So who do you think launched those nukes against Japan? Was it Haiti?
That the USA *HAS* weapons of mass destruction -- that the weapons do exist -- is as incontrovertable a fact as the use of chemical weapons in World War I.
Figure it out; these weapons are bad *whoever* has them.
Then (when you are using LVM) theres turnaround time on a resize operation.
XFS doesn't even require an unmount; just xfs_growfs on a live filesystem with your clients 'must never go down! well ok you can schedule downtime at 3am on sunday' database.
ext3? all the rest? Have to unmount. Oops outage!
"It's so simple, I don't know why nobody has seen this before. The solution to Fermat's Last Theorem is....Gak"
I fail to see what Klingon cuisine has to do with mathematics?
"What clients? You mean bloody pirates who did not pay a dime?"
No, I'm referring to their paying customers who, because pirated copies would be less secure and therefore rife with viruses and trojans.
Thereby their *paying* customers have a somewhat harder time using the internet due to bandwidth consumption, the constant barrage of portscans etc etc.
Everyone loses including their paying customers.
Also... if they do stop pirate copies from installing security patches, its also quite possible that even more people will turn to Linux thereby boosting the exposure of Linux to a wider audience. MS couldn't tolerate that, surely...
"Microsoft gets to act on piracy ( which I suspect deep down they're a bit soft on anyway - so this probably won't happen ),"
Absolutely.
Piracy only helps maintain their monopoly.
That this is up for discussion shows how little Microsoft cares about the common good of the worlds internet users and therefore their customers.
Who was it said 'EULAs are what you use against your clients'?
Hey, *Americans* wanting in (or *having* in) on rockets capable of doubling as ICBMs worries *me*!
Sure, our genome is full of introns and complexity and has potential for future mutations but there is little diversity within the general human population.
A troupe of chimps may well have more genetic diversity than the entire human race.
We've been through a rather tight genetic bottleneck probably some time in the last 10000 years.
Actually, I've been wondering if the rate of speciation may be dropping as genomes become more resistant to mutation...
"Diversity is essential to survival"
Indeed and humans are not very genetically diverse.
Almost as bad as cheetahs. Well, maybe not *that* bad.
For all the different races of human, we have little genetic diversity; it might not be enough to save our asses.
Interbreed, damn you! Diversify! Embrace mutation!
Seriously.
For a humvee to be truly considered an ATV it would need to carry a supply of high explosive to remove gates, trees, rocks and a digger arm to widen the road where necessary.
Sounds good though I read through the FAQs at gentoo.org and found out that one can never statically link with glib because libnss is always linked dynamically.
Supposedly this is because libnss has to be 'special' for that specific machine or something...?
Bizarre!
And there was me thinking I was being clever making statically linked versions of sshd, rsync etc...
Would I be right in thinking that Gentoo would allow me to specify certain sets of binaries to be statically linked? Easily?
I have bucketloads of space. Having critical things like tar, emerge, vgscan et al statically linked is *well* worth the few K or *gasp* maybe even a few *M*
/usr/sfw/bin? What sort of place is that?
/bin and /lib being symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr/lib. *symlinks!*
/usr mounted?
Its almost as insane as
Ever tried booting a solaris box with no
MADNESS!!!
Not a gnu utility, but it took www.sunfreeware.com quite some time before they had a patched ssh package.
/usr/local. Sheesh.
Not fast enough for our requirements.
And as for the gnu utils, the least they could do is install them by default into
and stopped wasting time developing and maintaining, for example, their own version of tar or find.
The versions of these utilities that come with proprietary Unices are, frankly, CRAP.
openssh is another one; think back to last year... and the flurry of ssh patches. Linux easy! Solaris hard! Go figure.
Planescape: Torment.
Can anyone who has played this game doubt that it would make the most awesome movie?
If only they could get the voice actors from the game to act in the movie!
"the software thinks it's smarter than I am."
/dev/hda1
Even unintelligent organic life forms are quite good at self repairing.
What you are probably thinking of is programmers who think that they are smarter than you and that they can create a self repairing system that will repair itself better than you could repair it.
The software doesn't think that its smarter than you (Don't anthropomorphise software, it doesn't like it).
Anyway, just because something is an effective self repairing system, doesn't mean that there is any cleverness to it.
For what its worth, Windows XP restore points have saved my behind many times. I think its a good start.
In a very real sense, journalling filesystems are self repairing systems.
Of course there are *some*, very very few, truly advanced users would sometimes be heard to say "damn this software thinks it's smarter than I am" when running;
# fsck.ext3 -fy
I doubt it.
My first thoughts were "Ok, wheres the download link. Oh theres no download link. So how am I supposed to tell whether or not this is a heap of shit?"
Take someones word I guess...
NOT.
(Software is presumed to be shit until proved otherwise, preferably by actual useage).
419-baiter baiter...?