The point is, I do not have a sales contract with you, so I am in no way obligated to pay you any commission, only the person/agency I have a contract with (and you don't do anything in R.E. w/o a contract) then the only commission to be paid is to that agency that I do have a contract with.
Further point, why would you even want to expose yourself to a copyright violation when there is not a single farthing in it for you?
Boggles my mind.
So answer me this? What was in it for Rogers Comm. that made it appetizing for them to do this? Some detail in CA law that gives them a payday?
Text, scraped and copied might be gotten away with, but if I took the photo, the copyright is mine and you must negotiate the use of a copy of that photo with me. I have been rather intimately involved with that aspect of photography since the late 40's, and have even won a suit for the theft of my work to the tune of ten grand back in about 1982. That part of copyright law is, at least here in the states, air tight. OTOH, if I post it, I believe that one can link to my picture, but to copy that link and store it on your machine is a clear cut violation.
And would not those subscribers/customers who are doing legit business over the web, and who might suffer many thousands in damages from the disconnect, have standing to sue Rogers for their loss of connectivity when it is not their fault, but Rogers actions that got them disconnected?
It seems to me that that the sauce used for the goose should work equally well for the gander.:)
Yeah, well, I waste a lot more time being forced to do a preview before I can submit the post. It takes at least 5 seconds, and often 10+ seconds to get the damned preview back from/. For me, that is a PITA. When I am ready to post my drivel, even if complete with miss-spellings, I am ready.
No, but when I started that comment, it was first, but I often go back and change the wording a bit, so someone else could well have beat me to the actual first post. No biggie IMO, I was just surprised that I might be first.
I wonder what they were smoking, thinking that was legal to do in the first place?
I know if I was a R.E. agent & somebody scraped all the pictures and other work I had gone to in an attempt to sell a property that I was asked and contracted to sell, I would be yelling copyright violations in court. And if the property was sold, I would normally have a contract that said I got my commission if it was sold within the duration of my contact.
"I can't trust the code that I did totally create myself, either"
Frankly my friend, you cannot actually do that. Why? Simple really. Because even if you look up the hex code in the cpu makers manual, enter it into the system byte by byte, you are still subject to typo's and such in that manual. I have done that, and found errors in the manual regardless of whose logo is on the cover.
The problems of even using an assembler are subject to the same rules, although the assembler coder may have encountered that same typo and fixed it in his assembler, to the extent that using an assembler may give you more accurate results than the first method. But travel beyond the assembler to a higher level language that uses a compiler, and you are well and truly at the mercy of the compiler's authors.
And, one should draw the line I think to ask the question: Did the code do as you told it to when you ran it? Does it do a clean exit for every error it could encounter in the cli options even if 10,000 monkeys were doing the typing? You have pretty damned solid code when you can answer both of those question with a yes.
I ask that because I have written some code in assembly that can modify the executable in ways that are dangerous if the person between the chair and the keyboard types it wrong, but this program did exactly as he requested it to do, and it can just as easily reverse the unintended change _if_ that person can understand that it was he, not the program, that screwed up.
That particular utility I made PD (Copyright me of course) about 17 years ago, and it has been included on the disks shipped by a supporter of that "classic computer" for most of that time since. And in that time, no one has contacted me with a single question about how it runs as I made the help screen as self explanatory as possible.
Put a compiler between the mind writing the code, and the binary code, and suddenly the mind writing the code says an assembler trick that gives exactly the same result, but 200 machine cycles faster cannot work. IMO such folks need to be careful the doorknob doesn't hit them in the ass when they leave, hopefully for some other line of work.
The ultimate result should be personal responsibility. The other side of this is that code that doesn't make mistakes CAN be written. If it was, then there would be no reason for a warranty, or a liability trail of any kind. And that leads back to personal responsibility to see to it that the code you wrote is correct and absolutely robust.
Programmers with an "Its good enough for the girls I go with" attitude should be encouraged to see if they can flip burgers someplace. Else.
Clearly you do not understand the FDA and how it works. One can make a pretty blanket statement that the drug/food with the biggest bucks behind it, found to be ineffective or even dangerous, will be approved, and recommended AND pograms against better performing natural substances will be initiated to protect the profits of the big bucks people.
There are exceptions to any rule, and they will act to take something back off the market when the death count from it achieves both public knowledge, and is becoming an embarrassment to the agency. But it takes both conditions to be true before they act to remove a dangerous drug.
In the meantime they shut down the kids summertime lemonade stands, or take a swat team into a dairy farm and destroy 1000 gallons of fresh milk because its raw milk. I was raised on it, I raised my kids on it and I will shortly achieve the age where the actuarial tables say I should fall over.
It is an agency that needs an overseer with common sense, which is apparently very uncommon in DC these days.
When those MBA's occupy the GM's office, their insistence on micro-managing is quite simply a huge roadblock in the way. Because they think like Sears, accounts payable don't get paid for at least 6 months, and in order for me to keep a half a million in equipment in working condition, I was forced to order parts, some of which are several thousand a copy, COD. Guess who caught hell when a 20 pound package walked in the front door & needed a $7k check on the spot?
My point when I called the owner (we are still good friends even though I retired in 2002) over one particular chewing out was that they hired me to do a job, and this jerk was preventing it. He threatened to fire me for insubordination at one point, a move that backfired because he was the one who got fired.
Unlike most tv broadcast CE's, who are good organizers but likely packers and shippers, sending the broken cameras and such back to the manufacturer for service, I am a C.E.T. and very little went out of house for repairs, including optical stuff. And because I was trouble shooting to the part/design level, I would fix something the makers way twice, the 3rd time it got fixed right. More than one well known makers high priced design engineer has been told the best part of him ran down his mothers leg on my watch.
Yes, I have a reputation for being difficult to folks who think that I can walk on water, and will do it again & make everything work, but I can't do it without the parts that wear out, bend, break or blow. I also have a reputation for being right about things technical when I have dug deeper into the circuit than the designer did when he left unused input gates of a quad NAND gate chip floating. And I have been doing it for a long time (62 years now, I'll be 77 this fall) on an 8th grade education.
The most famous place I have left fingerprints is in the tv cameras that worked well on the US Navies Trieste, which went down into the mohole (37k+ feet deep in the Pacific Ocean) in Feb. 1960. I was the lowly bench tech at Oceanographic Engineering that helped build those cameras.
You talk in future tense, and that is a basic mistake. We are in fact watching it now, with more and more of the 'content' producers, the source of our art, electing to see if they can make a living without selling their soul to the MAFIAA, where you can sell 10 million cd's and wind up owing the MAFIAA half a million because of their MBA driven creative accounting.
Having worked under 2 people that went on to become MBA's and having knew them both before and after, both of those people lost their humanity and their ability to see that there was more than one way to get the cat skinned by getting a degree. One so much so that the owner came in and had the sheriff escort him from the building. There were rumors the books didn't balance either.
A good manager trusts those to whom he gives responsibility, and is willing to discuss ways of achieving the common goal. Once the degree was awarded, neither one was ever again approachable on matters that at times included legal responsibilities the government licensing agencies assigned to my job title.
IMO we either need to change the MBA curriculum, or just declare a bounty on MBA's.
You don't understand. It's not like an airplane that you can deflect off the atmosphere. In two-body mechanics, the only way to change plane is direct thrusting with the engines. Gravity potential and aerodynamic losses of a LEO launch are only going to cost about 15% of the total delta-v budget. The rest is going to go into achieving orbital velocity. During a 90 plane change, your budget will be roughly 1.4 times your orbital velocity. Thus, a 90 plane change will be roughly 20% more expensive than getting to the same orbit from the ground. Note that is expense rated in delta-v, and actual fuel costs will be measured exponentially from that. Add into that your not-insignificant insertion burn coming off the elevator, and there's simply no purpose to it. </i>
Where did you learn your orbital mechanics? No one in their right mind would even consider doing that directly unless time was very very precious, and fuel delivered to orbit was $3.899/gallon.
By using the elevator we've been talking about for a decade or more to get to a lunar circumnavigation launch when the cable is released, that 90 degree plane change can be done with only enough delta-V to take you above or below the moon, and enough to fiddle it to perfect your polar orbit once you have used the moon for a slingshot. Maybe 10% by the time you've adjusted your speed coming back to assure capture by the earth in a LEO polar orbit. A decent computer program could probably cut that 10% to 3 or 4%. So it takes 4 or 5 days each way, BFD, its cheap, and a whole lot more do able with the available hardware. The missing piece of course is the elevator. But I suspect that this material, despite its touted strength, will be found wanting for lack of a method to bind it together in our Macro-sized world. Being 200 times stronger than steel isn't worth squat if the maximum length of the cable is 200 nanometers.
No its not operational folks, its been broken, spending far more than they had for 40+ years now. This 37 billion they brag about cutting is equ to your cutting your weekly grocery budget of $100, by about.025 cents. That's 2.5 hundredths of a cent folks. What is really needed is to cut it by 20 or 30 bucks so there is something left to pay on the principle of our national debt. And even if they do manage that, the next 3 generations of working folks will never see the day where they don't owe 6 months worth of a years income just to pay the interest on this debt. That's pure BS folks, and even my great-grandchildren are old enough they can tell you that.
But its not going to get fixed without good people running for office, and a revolution in truth telling in the MSM so the sheeple are well enough informed that they will vote the good people into office. That's asking a lot, but its the only way it will get fixed without a lot of bloodshed.
Every time you catch the MSM in a lie, hold their supporting advertisers feet to the fire, it works, see the current Glenn Beck situation playing out as we watch.
So, if b12 has no set release date aside from "when there are no more hard blockers", why release it with 9 or 10 hard blockers remaining, with the promise of a b13 down the road? The entire point of not having a release date was so you could actually finish the thing.
Perhaps I am ignorant in the ways of software releasing, but this release doesn't seem to have much of a purpose.</quote>
You must be new here then. I first heard it said sometime back in cpm days, what, 30 years ago, that the only time a program was ever declared finished was when someone shot the last developer.
I think it is still a basic truism.
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) NT (as in Windows NT) is short for Nasty Technology
I watched it blow up, live, on the monitors in the control room of the tv station where I was the CE at the time.
I was dumbfounded and speechless just like Walter was for a few seconds, and once my eyes had cleared, my thoughts drifted back to the Apollo 1 fire that killed those 3 men in like 17 seconds.
If there ever was a prosecutable event, at least for manslaughter but I would have called it murder, that was one because the idea to do that test was some upper level manager who wanted to have the paperwork to prove it worked, but whose knowledge of the chemistry involved was criminally lacking, and he should never have been allowed to rise to a level in the management that would have given him the authority to over-ride what should have been common sense knowledge of what could, and would happen should a spark occur in a 20 psia pure oxygen environment WITH a gravitational field of 1G present.
FWIW folks, that fire would have been a non-event in orbit, for 2 reasons.
1. That in orbit is a zero G environment, and without gravity to cause the hot gas to rise, thereby pulling in fresh oxygen to further feed the fire, it would have self-extinguished, being smothered in its own combustion products in a second or 2, and
2; at 5 psia the burn rate would have been much slower.
That person knows he fucked up, big time, but was not even reprimanded to my knowledge. I personally hoped he never had another nightmare free nights sleep the rest of his life. I don't know if that person was ever named, but he knows who he is.
My hat gets dipped in the direction of every one of those folks who, in the name of getting the job done, allow themselves to be strapped into those chairs attached to a million plus pounds of explosives to go do that job, knowing full well it could be the last thing they ever do. That takes a certain type of person that 99% of us will never fully understand.
I'm not in a position to migrate from OO to LO yet: my work is too dependent on documents received from others whose cleanliness is sometimes suspect. I look forward to migrating once LO is in the Ubuntu repositories and I can be sure of not missing any security patches. Not that I really trust Oracle to patch any security holes OO... I don't think the wait for LO in Ubuntu will be a long one.
<b>While this version has not reached the repos yet, LO is in fact part of some distributions right now. PCLOS stays about as current as any, at the cost of not supporting a lot of legacy stuff unless there is nothing to replace it. I'll be curious to see when this version makes the update queue. Your remark about others cleanliness I can't address as I'm now retired and don't have to put up with the crap clueless windows users on the 2nd floor send me, with 5 megs of doc wrapped around a 20 word memo.
"looking for brains" nice summation/quote, love it , "play nice or play alone", reality
Its the latter that Ellison will do. Sun java is dead, but the autopsy and last rights may be 5 years in the making as it slowly starves to death.
With ASF gone from the java development scene, but their software running 95% of the worlds web servers these days, you will I think, see something like Ruby/python, perhaps even perl, to come in to do all the stuff java has been asked to do, and when that gets to where its actually usable for a 'purty' web page, maybe as quickly as 2 years if enough bodies are working on it, java will be gone from the web for the same reason one buries a dead mule, to get rid of the stink.
Ever more exploits will be found & unless Oracle finds the bodies to maintain the fixes required, and shoves them out the door at zero cost to the users, java will have self-destructed because people will turn it off forever without that instant support, some portion of which I'm sure ASF has written the paychecks for. So Oracle will have to assume those costs in order to just maintain java's market penetration. I don't see that happening either.
And once again, Larry will be king of his his own domain, but it will not be the 800 pound gorilla on the web that apache is now. By then I may be gone since I'm already 76, so if it doesn't happen that way, it will only be because Ellison finally understands how the web actually works. Based on past performances over the last 20 years, I don't see that happening.
My $0.02 worth in 1934 dollars, adjust for inflation.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) There are three kinds of people: men, women, and unix.
One thing that no one has acknowledged so far in this discussion, is just how tight a grip on GM's gonads the Chinese have, a grip that gets ever tighter as the Chinese cut back on their Lithium exports because they need more and more of it themselves.
We do have, here in the US, some promising Lithium deposits, but only one mine, now nearly abandoned, has actually been slightly developed. Bringing these online and producing the usable Lithium to build these batteries with will take an estimated 10 years if the industry is left to its own devices.
This is clearly a place where some federal dollars to underwrite the cost of machinery etc to get this up to speed in say 3 years, would be taxpayer monies very well spent as it will remove one of the bigger hammers the Chinese are holding over our heads.
That may have a bearing on why we are still in Afghanistan since there is millions of tons of ore just waiting for a willing worker to shovel it into his donkey cart and get it to where we can load it on a boat without the Taliban blowing everyone all to hell. Since that, while attractive, is not a good bet for the Afghan workers lifespan, we'd be far better off to develop our own known reserves, which I'm told are actually quite considerable.
Why its not being done as we speak, is fscking beyond me.
-- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to do a logical right shift? A: 33. 1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register.
All I can add to that is a +1000. You sir, hit it precisely. You as a parent, should be your child's first hero, by never lying to him/her, and knowing where to quickly get your child a knowledgeable answer for the questions he/she may ask that are beyond your sphere of knowledge.
A side excursion here: That was one of the things my own mother was good at 70 years ago when I asked her to explain what gravity was. The next trip to town hit the library, bringing high school physics books home for a 6 year old to try and understand, and in many cases we learned together. Gravity as a force is of course characterized to about 3000 decimal places these days, but 70 years later we still don't really know what it is. Who knows, maybe the LHC will find that particle even if it doesn't find the Higgs Boson.
Do that, establishing a reputation for usually being correct, and you will be your child's hero.
That doesn't mean running out and buying him everything he asks for either, a truthfully explained but firm no is still a valid answer. There is no "too early" age to let the child know that there are budget, moral, or legal problems with what it is they are wanting.
It appears that the use of the long connecting rods from a common crankshaft will do away with the gear couple crankshafts use by Westinghouse in their natural gas underground storage facilities of 5 decades ago. Those engines, mounted with the cylinders vertical, had the cranks geared together via a long shaft with bevel gears on each end. It was very efficient, with a 6 cylinder model whose pistons were about a foot in diameter, was also a two stroke IIRC, with fixed port timing. It ran at the then unheard of 600 rpm, and developed several thousand horsepower, keeping a 12" natural gas pipeline full, whether it was pumping it into the underground storage dome, or pulling it out during the winter. The most memorable thing I recall about it was its mechanical noise, largely from the the poor mesh of the bevel gears, combined with the ignition as it was essentially a diesel that ran on natural gas. No one allowed in the building without company issued ear muffs that were at least as effective as the 30db Silencio's I wear at the rifle range.
However, go back to those long connecting rods. I see a huge, destroy the engine problem when the resonant frequency of the con rod matches the rpms. That will break the con rods in the middle, as quick or quicker than the now ancient mopar slant 6 engine, and which mopar left the harmonic balance on the design table. This engine was quite capable of goodly amounts of horsepower in a race car, but until a balancer was approved by the racing authorities, the drivers had to be very careful to not let then stand at 7700 rpm for more than a fraction of a second else they coasted to the wall with a 2 or more piece crankshaft.. I can see the same effect in the length of the outside con rods, but I do not have a solution for it either short of switching to a short rod like the center rods, which is attached to a slider that moves in a straight line and reaches on out to the outside pistons long wrist pins. And there goes half the simplicity of the design, right straight into the toilet.
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The point is, I do not have a sales contract with you, so I am in no way obligated to pay you any commission, only the person/agency I have a contract with (and you don't do anything in R.E. w/o a contract) then the only commission to be paid is to that agency that I do have a contract with.
Further point, why would you even want to expose yourself to a copyright violation when there is not a single farthing in it for you?
Boggles my mind.
So answer me this? What was in it for Rogers Comm. that made it appetizing for them to do this? Some detail in CA law that gives them a payday?
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I like your sig. ;)
Text, scraped and copied might be gotten away with, but if I took the photo, the copyright is mine and you must negotiate the use of a copy of that photo with me. I have been rather intimately involved with that aspect of photography since the late 40's, and have even won a suit for the theft of my work to the tune of ten grand back in about 1982. That part of copyright law is, at least here in the states, air tight. OTOH, if I post it, I believe that one can link to my picture, but to copy that link and store it on your machine is a clear cut violation.
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I wondered why, by the time I had posted 3 times, the response was much faster. thanks for that inofo.
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And would not those subscribers/customers who are doing legit business over the web, and who might suffer many thousands in damages from the disconnect, have standing to sue Rogers for their loss of connectivity when it is not their fault, but Rogers actions that got them disconnected?
:)
It seems to me that that the sauce used for the goose should work equally well for the gander.
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I agree with this sentiment. A weeks internet black hole for Rogers Comm. would send a message their greedy board members will never forget.
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Precisely my point. One could even get lead poisoned doing that.
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Yeah, well, I waste a lot more time being forced to do a preview before I can submit the post. It takes at least 5 seconds, and often 10+ seconds to get the damned preview back from /. For me, that is a PITA. When I am ready to post my drivel, even if complete with miss-spellings, I am ready.
Oh, and yes, firefox-7.01
No, but when I started that comment, it was first, but I often go back and change the wording a bit, so someone else could well have beat me to the actual first post. No biggie IMO, I was just surprised that I might be first.
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I wonder what they were smoking, thinking that was legal to do in the first place?
I know if I was a R.E. agent & somebody scraped all the pictures and other work I had gone to in an attempt to sell a property that I was asked and contracted to sell, I would be yelling copyright violations in court. And if the property was sold, I would normally have a contract that said I got my commission if it was sold within the duration of my contact.
They walk among us, and breed too!
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"I can't trust the code that I did totally create myself, either"
Frankly my friend, you cannot actually do that. Why? Simple really. Because even if you look up the hex code in the cpu makers manual, enter it into the system byte by byte, you are still subject to typo's and such in that manual. I have done that, and found errors in the manual regardless of whose logo is on the cover.
The problems of even using an assembler are subject to the same rules, although the assembler coder may have encountered that same typo and fixed it in his assembler, to the extent that using an assembler may give you more accurate results than the first method. But travel beyond the assembler to a higher level language that uses a compiler, and you are well and truly at the mercy of the compiler's authors.
And, one should draw the line I think to ask the question: Did the code do as you told it to when you ran it? Does it do a clean exit for every error it could encounter in the cli options even if 10,000 monkeys were doing the typing? You have pretty damned solid code when you can answer both of those question with a yes.
I ask that because I have written some code in assembly that can modify the executable in ways that are dangerous if the person between the chair and the keyboard types it wrong, but this program did exactly as he requested it to do, and it can just as easily reverse the unintended change _if_ that person can understand that it was he, not the program, that screwed up.
That particular utility I made PD (Copyright me of course) about 17 years ago, and it has been included on the disks shipped by a supporter of that "classic computer" for most of that time since. And in that time, no one has contacted me with a single question about how it runs as I made the help screen as self explanatory as possible.
Put a compiler between the mind writing the code, and the binary code, and suddenly the mind writing the code says an assembler trick that gives exactly the same result, but 200 machine cycles faster cannot work. IMO such folks need to be careful the doorknob doesn't hit them in the ass when they leave, hopefully for some other line of work.
The ultimate result should be personal responsibility. The other side of this is that code that doesn't make mistakes CAN be written. If it was, then there would be no reason for a warranty, or a liability trail of any kind. And that leads back to personal responsibility to see to it that the code you wrote is correct and absolutely robust.
Programmers with an "Its good enough for the girls I go with" attitude should be encouraged to see if they can flip burgers someplace. Else.
Cheers, Gene.
+1,000,000
But since it almost makes sense, there will be congressmen retiring as billionaires that voted to defeat it.
I hope I live long enough to see the next revolution.
Cheers, Gene
Clearly you do not understand the FDA and how it works. One can make a pretty blanket statement that the drug/food with the biggest bucks behind it, found to be ineffective or even dangerous, will be approved, and recommended AND pograms against better performing natural substances will be initiated to protect the profits of the big bucks people.
There are exceptions to any rule, and they will act to take something back off the market when the death count from it achieves both public knowledge, and is becoming an embarrassment to the agency. But it takes both conditions to be true before they act to remove a dangerous drug.
In the meantime they shut down the kids summertime lemonade stands, or take a swat team into a dairy farm and destroy 1000 gallons of fresh milk because its raw milk. I was raised on it, I raised my kids on it and I will shortly achieve the age where the actuarial tables say I should fall over.
It is an agency that needs an overseer with common sense, which is apparently very uncommon in DC these days.
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When those MBA's occupy the GM's office, their insistence on micro-managing is quite simply a huge roadblock in the way. Because they think like Sears, accounts payable don't get paid for at least 6 months, and in order for me to keep a half a million in equipment in working condition, I was forced to order parts, some of which are several thousand a copy, COD. Guess who caught hell when a 20 pound package walked in the front door & needed a $7k check on the spot?
My point when I called the owner (we are still good friends even though I retired in 2002) over one particular chewing out was that they hired me to do a job, and this jerk was preventing it. He threatened to fire me for insubordination at one point, a move that backfired because he was the one who got fired.
Unlike most tv broadcast CE's, who are good organizers but likely packers and shippers, sending the broken cameras and such back to the manufacturer for service, I am a C.E.T. and very little went out of house for repairs, including optical stuff. And because I was trouble shooting to the part/design level, I would fix something the makers way twice, the 3rd time it got fixed right. More than one well known makers high priced design engineer has been told the best part of him ran down his mothers leg on my watch.
Yes, I have a reputation for being difficult to folks who think that I can walk on water, and will do it again & make everything work, but I can't do it without the parts that wear out, bend, break or blow. I also have a reputation for being right about things technical when I have dug deeper into the circuit than the designer did when he left unused input gates of a quad NAND gate chip floating. And I have been doing it for a long time (62 years now, I'll be 77 this fall) on an 8th grade education.
The most famous place I have left fingerprints is in the tv cameras that worked well on the US Navies Trieste, which went down into the mohole (37k+ feet deep in the Pacific Ocean) in Feb. 1960. I was the lowly bench tech at Oceanographic Engineering that helped build those cameras.
You talk in future tense, and that is a basic mistake. We are in fact watching it now, with more and more of the 'content' producers, the source of our art, electing to see if they can make a living without selling their soul to the MAFIAA, where you can sell 10 million cd's and wind up owing the MAFIAA half a million because of their MBA driven creative accounting.
Cheers, Gene
Having worked under 2 people that went on to become MBA's and having knew them both before and after, both of those people lost their humanity and their ability to see that there was more than one way to get the cat skinned by getting a degree. One so much so that the owner came in and had the sheriff escort him from the building. There were rumors the books didn't balance either.
A good manager trusts those to whom he gives responsibility, and is willing to discuss ways of achieving the common goal. Once the degree was awarded, neither one was ever again approachable on matters that at times included legal responsibilities the government licensing agencies assigned to my job title.
IMO we either need to change the MBA curriculum, or just declare a bounty on MBA's.
Cheers, Gene
Now that makes much better sense. ;-)
Cheers, Gene
You don't understand. It's not like an airplane that you can deflect off the atmosphere. In two-body mechanics, the only way to change plane is direct thrusting with the engines. Gravity potential and aerodynamic losses of a LEO launch are only going to cost about 15% of the total delta-v budget. The rest is going to go into achieving orbital velocity. During a 90 plane change, your budget will be roughly 1.4 times your orbital velocity. Thus, a 90 plane change will be roughly 20% more expensive than getting to the same orbit from the ground. Note that is expense rated in delta-v, and actual fuel costs will be measured exponentially from that. Add into that your not-insignificant insertion burn coming off the elevator, and there's simply no purpose to it.
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Where did you learn your orbital mechanics? No one in their right mind would even consider doing that directly unless time was very very precious, and fuel delivered to orbit was $3.899/gallon.
By using the elevator we've been talking about for a decade or more to get to a lunar circumnavigation launch when the cable is released, that 90 degree plane change can be done with only enough delta-V to take you above or below the moon, and enough to fiddle it to perfect your polar orbit once you have used the moon for a slingshot. Maybe 10% by the time you've adjusted your speed coming back to assure capture by the earth in a LEO polar orbit. A decent computer program could probably cut that 10% to 3 or 4%. So it takes 4 or 5 days each way, BFD, its cheap, and a whole lot more do able with the available hardware. The missing piece of course is the elevator. But I suspect that this material, despite its touted strength, will be found wanting for lack of a method to bind it together in our Macro-sized world. Being 200 times stronger than steel isn't worth squat if the maximum length of the cable is 200 nanometers.
Cheers, Gene
No its not operational folks, its been broken, spending far more than they had for 40+ years now. This 37 billion they brag about cutting is equ to your cutting your weekly grocery budget of $100, by about .025 cents. That's 2.5 hundredths of a cent folks. What is really needed is to cut it by 20 or 30 bucks so there is something left to pay on the principle of our national debt. And even if they do manage that, the next 3 generations of working folks will never see the day where they don't owe 6 months worth of a years income just to pay the interest on this debt. That's pure BS folks, and even my great-grandchildren are old enough they can tell you that.
But its not going to get fixed without good people running for office, and a revolution in truth telling in the MSM so the sheeple are well enough informed that they will vote the good people into office. That's asking a lot, but its the only way it will get fixed without a lot of bloodshed.
Every time you catch the MSM in a lie, hold their supporting advertisers feet to the fire, it works, see the current Glenn Beck situation playing out as we watch.
Cheers, Almost-Retired out.
So, if b12 has no set release date aside from "when there are no more hard blockers", why release it with 9 or 10 hard blockers remaining, with the promise of a b13 down the road? The entire point of not having a release date was so you could actually finish the thing.
Perhaps I am ignorant in the ways of software releasing, but this release doesn't seem to have much of a purpose.</quote>
You must be new here then. I first heard it said sometime back in cpm days, what, 30 years ago, that the only time a program was ever declared finished was when someone shot the last developer.
I think it is still a basic truism.
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Cheers, Gene
There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
NT (as in Windows NT) is short for Nasty Technology
I watched it blow up, live, on the monitors in the control room of the tv station where I was the CE at the time.
I was dumbfounded and speechless just like Walter was for a few seconds, and once my eyes had cleared, my thoughts drifted back to the Apollo 1 fire that killed those 3 men in like 17 seconds.
If there ever was a prosecutable event, at least for manslaughter but I would have called it murder, that was one because the idea to do that test was some upper level manager who wanted to have the paperwork to prove it worked, but whose knowledge of the chemistry involved was criminally lacking, and he should never have been allowed to rise to a level in the management that would have given him the authority to over-ride what should have been common sense knowledge of what could, and would happen should a spark occur in a 20 psia pure oxygen environment WITH a gravitational field of 1G present.
FWIW folks, that fire would have been a non-event in orbit, for 2 reasons.
1. That in orbit is a zero G environment, and without gravity to cause the hot gas to rise, thereby pulling in fresh oxygen to further feed the fire, it would have self-extinguished, being smothered in its own combustion products in a second or 2, and
2; at 5 psia the burn rate would have been much slower.
That person knows he fucked up, big time, but was not even reprimanded to my knowledge. I personally hoped he never had another nightmare free nights sleep the rest of his life. I don't know if that person was ever named, but he knows who he is.
My hat gets dipped in the direction of every one of those folks who, in the name of getting the job done, allow themselves to be strapped into those chairs attached to a million plus pounds of explosives to go do that job, knowing full well it could be the last thing they ever do. That takes a certain type of person that 99% of us will never fully understand.
I'm not in a position to migrate from OO to LO yet: my work is too dependent on documents received from others whose cleanliness is sometimes suspect. I look forward to migrating once LO is in the Ubuntu repositories and I can be sure of not missing any security patches. Not that I really trust Oracle to patch any security holes OO... I don't think the wait for LO in Ubuntu will be a long one.
<b>While this version has not reached the repos yet, LO is in fact part of some distributions right now. PCLOS stays about as current as any, at the cost of not supporting a lot of legacy stuff unless there is nothing to replace it. I'll be curious to see when this version makes the update queue. Your remark about others cleanliness I can't address as I'm now retired and don't have to put up with the crap clueless windows users on the 2nd floor send me, with 5 megs of doc wrapped around a 20 word memo.
Cheers, Gene
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"looking for brains" nice summation/quote, love it , "play nice or play alone", reality
Its the latter that Ellison will do. Sun java is dead, but the autopsy and last rights may be 5 years in the making as it slowly starves to death.
With ASF gone from the java development scene, but their software running 95% of the worlds web servers these days, you will I think, see something like Ruby/python, perhaps even perl, to come in to do all the stuff java has been asked to do, and when that gets to where its actually usable for a 'purty' web page, maybe as quickly as 2 years if enough bodies are working on it, java will be gone from the web for the same reason one buries a dead mule, to get rid of the stink.
Ever more exploits will be found & unless Oracle finds the bodies to maintain the fixes required, and shoves them out the door at zero cost to the users, java will have self-destructed because people will turn it off forever without that instant support, some portion of which I'm sure ASF has written the paychecks for. So Oracle will have to assume those costs in order to just maintain java's market penetration. I don't see that happening either.
And once again, Larry will be king of his his own domain, but it will not be the 800 pound gorilla on the web that apache is now. By then I may be gone since I'm already 76, so if it doesn't happen that way, it will only be because Ellison finally understands how the web actually works. Based on past performances over the last 20 years, I don't see that happening.
My $0.02 worth in 1934 dollars, adjust for inflation.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
There are three kinds of people: men, women, and unix.
One thing that no one has acknowledged so far in this discussion, is just how tight a grip on GM's gonads the Chinese have, a grip that gets ever tighter as the Chinese cut back on their Lithium exports because they need more and more of it themselves.
We do have, here in the US, some promising Lithium deposits, but only one mine, now nearly abandoned, has actually been slightly developed. Bringing these online and producing the usable Lithium to build these batteries with will take an estimated 10 years if the industry is left to its own devices.
This is clearly a place where some federal dollars to underwrite the cost of machinery etc to get this up to speed in say 3 years, would be taxpayer monies very well spent as it will remove one of the bigger hammers the Chinese are holding over our heads.
That may have a bearing on why we are still in Afghanistan since there is millions of tons of ore just waiting for a willing worker to shovel it into his donkey cart and get it to where we can load it on a boat without the Taliban blowing everyone all to hell. Since that, while attractive, is not a good bet for the Afghan workers lifespan, we'd be far better off to develop our own known reserves, which I'm told are actually quite considerable.
Why its not being done as we speak, is fscking beyond me.
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Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to do a logical right shift?
A: 33. 1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register.
All I can add to that is a +1000. You sir, hit it precisely. You as a parent, should be your child's first hero, by never lying to him/her, and knowing where to quickly get your child a knowledgeable answer for the questions he/she may ask that are beyond your sphere of knowledge.
A side excursion here: That was one of the things my own mother was good at 70 years ago when I asked her to explain what gravity was. The next trip to town hit the library, bringing high school physics books home for a 6 year old to try and understand, and in many cases we learned together. Gravity as a force is of course characterized to about 3000 decimal places these days, but 70 years later we still don't really know what it is. Who knows, maybe the LHC will find that particle even if it doesn't find the Higgs Boson.
Do that, establishing a reputation for usually being correct, and you will be your child's hero.
That doesn't mean running out and buying him everything he asks for either, a truthfully explained but firm no is still a valid answer. There is no "too early" age to let the child know that there are budget, moral, or legal problems with what it is they are wanting.
It appears that the use of the long connecting rods from a common crankshaft will do away with the gear couple crankshafts use by Westinghouse in their natural gas underground storage facilities of 5 decades ago. Those engines, mounted with the cylinders vertical, had the cranks geared together via a long shaft with bevel gears on each end. It was very efficient, with a 6 cylinder model whose pistons were about a foot in diameter, was also a two stroke IIRC, with fixed port timing. It ran at the then unheard of 600 rpm, and developed several thousand horsepower, keeping a 12" natural gas pipeline full, whether it was pumping it into the underground storage dome, or pulling it out during the winter. The most memorable thing I recall about it was its mechanical noise, largely from the the poor mesh of the bevel gears, combined with the ignition as it was essentially a diesel that ran on natural gas. No one allowed in the building without company issued ear muffs that were at least as effective as the 30db Silencio's I wear at the rifle range.
However, go back to those long connecting rods. I see a huge, destroy the engine problem when the resonant frequency of the con rod matches the rpms. That will break the con rods in the middle, as quick or quicker than the now ancient mopar slant 6 engine, and which mopar left the harmonic balance on the design table. This engine was quite capable of goodly amounts of horsepower in a race car, but until a balancer was approved by the racing authorities, the drivers had to be very careful to not let then stand at 7700 rpm for more than a fraction of a second else they coasted to the wall with a 2 or more piece crankshaft.. I can see the same effect in the length of the outside con rods, but I do not have a solution for it either short of switching to a short rod like the center rods, which is attached to a slider that moves in a straight line and reaches on out to the outside pistons long wrist pins. And there goes half the simplicity of the design, right straight into the toilet.