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Someone with WAAAAAYYYY too much time on their hands once did an ASCII art/curses animated version of Star Wars. Unfortunately, I've lost the URL. Has anyone seen it?
That's the thing. Your acceleration isn't increasing, your velocity is -- that's acceleration.
The point is that these things can burn essentially forever (for the purposes of your flight, anyways), so you can have real low acceleration (a fraction of a g if you want), and still get really really high speeds. Instead of the current usage of rockets, which is get all your speed up front and then coast the rest of the way.
Remember, with constant acceleration, the distance covered is directly proportional to the SQUARE of the timeframe used. Current rockets, the distance covered is directly proportional to the timeframe. So, given a long enough trip (and I'd say Mars probably qualifies), your trip under constant acceleration would be much shorter, but because the acceleration is CONSTANT, you don't need to run at anything above 1g.
Of course, going from Earth to Mars you're going away from the Sun, so the radiation pressure assists you somewhat. On the return journey you have to fight the radiation pressure.
Win-win #4 "Improving security..." Although the article doesn't indicate to what extent this effort will be, it's certainly a good move. Since when did you hear the other vendors claim they are working on improving security issues. Maybe SCO will help fund the linux kernel security auditing project?
SCO has a C2 level product, and I believe that they may have a B level product. I'm not sure.
What I really want to know is will they be porting STREAMS to Linux?
Interesting point. Wouldn't that mean that anyone who tried to return Windows and didn't get their refund was no longer bound by ANY of the terms of the license, since Microsoft essentially voided the contract?
Virtual consoles, one of the delights of many a Linux user, don't exist for DOS, Windows, or many flavours of Unix.
SCO (yes, SCO) has had virtual consoles since at least 1987 with the Xenix 2.2 system. Which, incidentally ran on a 286 (it used swapping, not paging).
But now, war is so detached and distant that we're isolated from consequences. Thus, we are isolated from the effects of what winning or losing a war even means.
At the risk of sounding like a total nerd with no life...
Didn't Star Trek address this very issue back in the '60s with the episode where they were fighting a [insert dramatic pause here] VIRTUAL WAR?
Perhaps part of it is the (stereotypical) lifestyle. Older people "have a life". They have a spouse, maybe kids. They don't WANT to spend 60-80 hours a day living on Jolt and video games. They want to spend time with their families.
I know that I raise this issue up front when I'm interviewing. I explain that occasional OT is okay, but I don't want to work 50-60 hours regularly.
Here's one that it looks like Jon didn't really touch - looks like he stayed more on the copyright issue.
What about our long lost privacy on the net? It used to be the standard joke that "Online, nobody knows you're a dog". Now with all the DoubleClick style tracking and so forth, it seems to be that "Online, EVERYBODY knows you're a dog."
This frightens me almost as much as the implications of AOL/TW/DISNEY/SONY trying to control what I can see or say online.
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I vaguely recall some article months back about Disney contracting it so that theaters couldn't play competing animation if they wanted to run F2K
Isn't that sort of contract the thing that got Microsoft into trouble? DOJ are you listening?
No, NO, NO!
It an Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modula-TOR!
I'f you're going to make a joke, get it right!
Didn't he sign some of the Apple IIGS series?
Ah for the days of Zilog's LDIR instruction..
Don't forget the alternate register set! EXX and EX AF, AF' rocked for interrupt processing!
They already did. Haven't you heard of "Talk to Me Barbie"? It plugs into a serial port.
(BTW who's seen the ASCII version?)
Someone with WAAAAAYYYY too much time on their hands once did an ASCII art/curses animated version of Star Wars. Unfortunately, I've lost the URL. Has anyone seen it?
Yeah, but you gotta make sure you get the proportions right...
1::4::9, and don't just stop in 3 dimensions
Build a full scale model of Babbage's Analytical Engine! It's been done in wood, now we need to use Legos!
Maybe then the case will get a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Of course, she might just order Microsoft to "Take out the TCP"!
Sock it to me!
That's the thing. Your acceleration isn't increasing, your velocity is -- that's acceleration.
The point is that these things can burn essentially forever (for the purposes of your flight, anyways), so you can have real low acceleration (a fraction of a g if you want), and still get really really high speeds. Instead of the current usage of rockets, which is get all your speed up front and then coast the rest of the way.
Remember, with constant acceleration, the distance covered is directly proportional to the SQUARE of the timeframe used. Current rockets, the distance covered is directly proportional to the timeframe. So, given a long enough trip (and I'd say Mars probably qualifies), your trip under constant acceleration would be much shorter, but because the acceleration is CONSTANT, you don't need to run at anything above 1g.
Of course, going from Earth to Mars you're going away from the Sun, so the radiation pressure assists you somewhat. On the return journey you have to fight the radiation pressure.
Yeah, but you get a gravity assist.
And how long before the same fool (or his estate) files a lawsuit against NASA?
Although the article doesn't indicate to what extent this effort will be, it's certainly a good move. Since when did you hear the other vendors claim they are working on improving security issues. Maybe SCO will help fund the linux kernel security auditing project?
SCO has a C2 level product, and I believe that they may have a B level product. I'm not sure.
What I really want to know is will they be porting STREAMS to Linux?
I blew my chance to moderate this topic with this post, but who cares...
There is the classic comment in the Unix V6 process switching code: "You are not expected to understand this".
Sometimes the oldies are the best.
You can get your very own copy of old Unix sources from SCO at their Ancient Unix Page. Yeah, it's a click-thru license. But let's not go there now.
Interesting point. Wouldn't that mean that anyone who tried to return Windows and didn't get their refund was no longer bound by ANY of the terms of the license, since Microsoft essentially voided the contract?
Outlook is part of Office. Do we really want Outlook for Linux? VBS SUX!!!!
Even though these books were "Unauthorized", they fall well under the fair use criteria.
According to Wired, Napster reached an accomodation with Offspring
SCO (yes, SCO) has had virtual consoles since at least 1987 with the Xenix 2.2 system. Which, incidentally ran on a 286 (it used swapping, not paging).
You forgot Jon Postel!
Is this the contrapositive of "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"?
I.e. "Somebody got fired for NOT buying IBM"?
At the risk of sounding like a total nerd with no life...
Didn't Star Trek address this very issue back in the '60s with the episode where they were fighting a [insert dramatic pause here] VIRTUAL WAR?
Once again, life imitates art...
Perhaps part of it is the (stereotypical) lifestyle. Older people "have a life". They have a spouse, maybe kids. They don't WANT to spend 60-80 hours a day living on Jolt and video games. They want to spend time with their families.
I know that I raise this issue up front when I'm interviewing. I explain that occasional OT is okay, but I don't want to work 50-60 hours regularly.
Here's one that it looks like Jon didn't really touch - looks like he stayed more on the copyright issue.
What about our long lost privacy on the net? It used to be the standard joke that "Online, nobody knows you're a dog". Now with all the DoubleClick style tracking and so forth, it seems to be that "Online, EVERYBODY knows you're a dog."
This frightens me almost as much as the implications of AOL/TW/DISNEY/SONY trying to control what I can see or say online.