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guess they should have given some duct tape to those 3 Russian cosmonauts who asphyxiated because their capsule depressurized too soon during reentry. The design of the Russian capsule was so brilliant that there was no room for the cosmonauts to wear spacesuits, but heck, who needs 'em, we're talking simple, reliable Russian technology here!
But you are dredging up history from over 30 years ago.
Should we go back and include Apollo 1 in evaluating NASA's safety record?
Not one person has been killed during a manned Soyuz launch since 1971. I believe the last fatality related to the space program over there was some ground crew when one of their unmanned rockets exploded on the launch pad last year.
I'd take their modern safety record over NASA's any day.
The Russians don't get fancy. They figured out what works and stuck with the same design with only very slight evolution over the decades. That helps eliminate the variables. No foam or O-rings or other nonsense.
Even when things do go wrong like it did with the ballistic descent of the Soyuz coming back from the ISS, it only resulted in minor injury for the capsule crew.
I think it would take quite a dramatic mishap for a Soyuz to actually disintegrate on re-entry the way Columbia did.
IMHO, if a CPU is fast enough to play DVDs or DIVX and multitask a web browser, IM client, and email program without glitching the video then it's fast enough for me.
I think most 1GHZ+ machines qualify on that basis.
That's really simplistic. How do you define "sensible foreign policy"? You make it sound as though if we shift our foreign policy slightly then suddenly everyone's going to love us? I think our enemies have made up their mind to hate us because they envy our prosperity and through our support of Israel we deny them their ultimate aims to exterminate the Jews. Don't buy their rationalizations.
Given the direction the rest of the industry is doing, NASA should just "offshore" their operations--to Russia. The Soyuz program has a far better safety record than the Shuttle.
It's not necessarily how much memory is used, it's what it's used for.
Longhorn is going to have an embedded SQL server in its filesystem, right? Well, SQL server uses a lot of RAM. So that's one thing. It will also have.NET "managed" code at the core of the OS. If it's anything like Java, then this also uses a lot of RAM.
The RAM usage really should be itemized and MS should provide ways to turn off features that people might never use that just eat up RAM in the background.
I think this is just PR on his part. At least I hope it is, but it wouldn't be the first time that an auteur's instincts were wrong (queue Lucas).
I haven't read anywhere that he actually dislikes the EE's. Because of the timing of the movies and the DVDs, PJ kinda has to dismiss the EEs until they come out to maximize the return on the theatrical editions.
I'm reserving final judgment on the entire trilogy until the ROTK EE comes out. The general assumption is that ROTK has the most good stuff cut from it that could show up in the EE (like the death of Saruman, Houses of Healing, etc..)
But so far I like FOTR best for similar reasons that I like the first Star Wars movie best. It starts with a clean slate and introduces you to the world in a coming-of-age sort of framework that works best for fantasy.
Maybe this is just my opinion, but to me, the style of The Hobbit shifts so that by the Battle of Five Armies the tone really isn't that far off from The Lord of the Rings.
Apple was never known for their great in-house graphics chipsets. The Apple really didn't truly catch up with the PC until they started supplying PCI slots so you could buy commodity graphics cards for them.
The Amiga, on the other hand, was designed from the ground up with video and audio in mind. The operating system came later.
When you fall in love in a long distance relationship you are falling in love with your imagined ideal of the other person. It's not based on anything tangible.
That's why when people meet it breaks the spell.
Let me know how well the relationship goes after you've met her in real life.
I listened to the live simulcast of Pink Floyd The Wall that Roger Waters did in Germany and the background track screwed up and they had to start over again.
I don't think any record of this is in the CD or DVD of the event, but it was pretty shocking to hear this sloppy mistake live on the radio.
That's what the CDDB project is all about. It only takes one person to categorize something and assuming he did a good job, he should be able to share his definition to the rest of the world.
I think the solution to that is to start using ports more wisely. If you want each of your 50 machines to have an FTP server, have them all serve through a different port instead of the default FTP port.
I don't think computers use more than a tiny fraction of available ports even if they are running every kind of server application at once.
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Then what's the next step?
The Shuttle design sucks.
Spaceplanes are pretty far off if they ever appear.
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guess they should have given some duct tape to those 3 Russian cosmonauts who asphyxiated because their capsule depressurized too soon during reentry. The design of the Russian capsule was so brilliant that there was no room for the cosmonauts to wear spacesuits, but heck, who needs 'em, we're talking simple, reliable Russian technology here!
But you are dredging up history from over 30 years ago.
Should we go back and include Apollo 1 in evaluating NASA's safety record?
Not one person has been killed during a manned Soyuz launch since 1971. I believe the last fatality related to the space program over there was some ground crew when one of their unmanned rockets exploded on the launch pad last year.
I'd take their modern safety record over NASA's any day.
The Russians don't get fancy. They figured out what works and stuck with the same design with only very slight evolution over the decades. That helps eliminate the variables. No foam or O-rings or other nonsense.
Even when things do go wrong like it did with the ballistic descent of the Soyuz coming back from the ISS, it only resulted in minor injury for the capsule crew.
I think it would take quite a dramatic mishap for a Soyuz to actually disintegrate on re-entry the way Columbia did.
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they're pissed off because
YOU'RE FUCKING BOMBING THEM!!
Hmm. When was the last time we bombed France or Russia, or Saudi Arabia for that matter?
IMHO, if a CPU is fast enough to play DVDs or DIVX and multitask a web browser, IM client, and email program without glitching the video then it's fast enough for me.
I think most 1GHZ+ machines qualify on that basis.
That's really simplistic. How do you define "sensible foreign policy"? You make it sound as though if we shift our foreign policy slightly then suddenly everyone's going to love us? I think our enemies have made up their mind to hate us because they envy our prosperity and through our support of Israel we deny them their ultimate aims to exterminate the Jews. Don't buy their rationalizations.
"The artic is hardly an educational institution."
How would you know? You can't even spell ARCTIC.
Given the direction the rest of the industry is doing, NASA should just "offshore" their operations--to Russia. The Soyuz program has a far better safety record than the Shuttle.
Mozilla isn't clean or efficient, and won't run on a Casio watch.
Opera, on the other hand, appears to scale very nicely down to PDAs.
It's not necessarily how much memory is used, it's what it's used for.
.NET "managed" code at the core of the OS. If it's anything like Java, then this also uses a lot of RAM.
Longhorn is going to have an embedded SQL server in its filesystem, right? Well, SQL server uses a lot of RAM. So that's one thing. It will also have
The RAM usage really should be itemized and MS should provide ways to turn off features that people might never use that just eat up RAM in the background.
I think this is just PR on his part. At least I hope it is, but it wouldn't be the first time that an auteur's instincts were wrong (queue Lucas).
I haven't read anywhere that he actually dislikes the EE's. Because of the timing of the movies and the DVDs, PJ kinda has to dismiss the EEs until they come out to maximize the return on the theatrical editions.
I'm reserving final judgment on the entire trilogy until the ROTK EE comes out. The general assumption is that ROTK has the most good stuff cut from it that could show up in the EE (like the death of Saruman, Houses of Healing, etc..)
But so far I like FOTR best for similar reasons that I like the first Star Wars movie best. It starts with a clean slate and introduces you to the world in a coming-of-age sort of framework that works best for fantasy.
Maybe this is just my opinion, but to me, the style of The Hobbit shifts so that by the Battle of Five Armies the tone really isn't that far off from The Lord of the Rings.
Apple was never known for their great in-house graphics chipsets. The Apple really didn't truly catch up with the PC until they started supplying PCI slots so you could buy commodity graphics cards for them.
The Amiga, on the other hand, was designed from the ground up with video and audio in mind. The operating system came later.
Doesn't VxWorks have a way to run an automatic scheduled task?
Why would this task have to be manually sent all the time?
When you fall in love in a long distance relationship you are falling in love with your imagined ideal of the other person. It's not based on anything tangible.
That's why when people meet it breaks the spell.
Let me know how well the relationship goes after you've met her in real life.
Backing tracks can bite you in the ass.
I listened to the live simulcast of Pink Floyd The Wall that Roger Waters did in Germany and the background track screwed up and they had to start over again.
I don't think any record of this is in the CD or DVD of the event, but it was pretty shocking to hear this sloppy mistake live on the radio.
DJs are for dancing. It's music as social interaction, not for the "performance".
But on the flipside, rushing games to market has been dangerous too, historically speaking.
Look at games like Pac-Man for the 2600 and the damage it did to Atari Inc.
This is where metadata sharing comes in.
That's what the CDDB project is all about. It only takes one person to categorize something and assuming he did a good job, he should be able to share his definition to the rest of the world.
P2P applications are ahead of the curve on this.
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The closest thing to a workable scheme is Gelerntner's Lifestream stuff -- where your system knows that you got married on a certain date
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That's fine for personal photos, but what about MP3s or other acquired media which has no direct association with personal life events?
What you don't appreciate is that with a simple heirarchical filesystem a file only has one heirarchy tree.
A media file can contain mutliple categories. Categories based on the subject, genre, etc...
Other than symbolic links I don't know of any other way to simulate this with a regular filesystem.
The bottom line is that if Kazaa went down, then something else will just take its place ad infinitum, just as Kazaa replaced Napster.
I thought the RIAA realized how pointless it was going after the P2P developers themselves already...
As long as there is a demand for P2P apps, people will gladly readjust to the P2P app du-jour and recreate a network as big as Kazaa currently is.
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Historically good things seem to happen when we have competition.
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The US has a habit of giving up entire industries--PERMANENTLY.
How many VCRs are made in the US?
How many TV sets?
I think the solution to that is to start using ports more wisely. If you want each of your 50 machines to have an FTP server, have them all serve through a different port instead of the default FTP port. I don't think computers use more than a tiny fraction of available ports even if they are running every kind of server application at once.