Well, I think that given that the economy crowd essentially is ruling the world, the only thing that may cause a change today is to somehow convert the very long term changes caused by our changes to planetary physics into something that the economy crowd understands. This also have to be something that works in their timescale.
In my understanding, this is what the Kyoto protcol attempts to.
If it succeeds is another question. If it does, It's probably a Good Thing. Maybe not particularly for the US economy, but for the planet as a whole.
If it doesn't we will have to come up with something else.
It is very likely that it wouldn't have been possible to receive the Huygens signal att all here at Earth using 1990's technology.
From the article, it seems like there were now two receivers in the world that can detect the signal in real time. This equipment seems to use an immense lot of computing power, which is something we all know have changed drastically the last 15 years.
It is interesting, though, to see that receiving Huygens directly was part ot the plan now in order to measure the doppler shifts along the Titan-Earth axis. The other axis would have been the Huygens-Cassini axis, combining these data would have given some kind of 3D profile of Huygens path to Titan's surface.
As I understand it, the loss of Channel A was at least partly remedied by the VLBI folks who were able to pinpoint Huygens path, as seen from Earth, albeit with a lower accuracy.
So in principle, the doppler data gives the Z-axis, and the VLBI data gives the X and Y axes. That gives some 3D to Huygens position, that would otherwise have been lost.
Another interesting piece of information is the Huygens transmitter power, 3,5 watts. That is about the average power of an ordinary cellphone. What range do you get with that, probably less than 1200 million kms.
Some clarification. It's not just the DCE RPC that has been released, it's the whole schebang, including:
* The build environment (ODE) * The vast documentation with specs * Threads (Ugh!, Please don't use) * RPC * Directory services * Security services * Time sync * File service (DFS) including the Episode file system. * Test procedures * The various administration tools * The tools needed to make DCE applications.
The code is old, however and building this is not for the faint of heart, but there's lots of good stuff in there.
It's not because Windows is GUI oriented that it isn't suitable.
It's beacuse it is still single-user-oriented. If you cannot be root (ahem, Administrator) you cannot do much with it.
That's the difference between Windows and MacOS X.
However, these new results are based on a much lower number of observations (118). When it was on Torino 4, it was based on at lease 179 obeservations IIRC.
How does this work ?
Well, that's my feeling too. Whenever I've been to the U.S. I've felt totally isolated from the rest of the world. When I get back, my folks at home seems to have a pretty good view of what has happened in the U.S. so there seems to exist a one-way filter somewhere...
1) In 2000, national voter turnout was 51.3%.
Of these, George got 47.87% and Al got 48.38%.
Doing the math, George's mandate rests on 24.5 % of the voting age population.
Do you think you have the President you deserve ?
Well, same thing here in Sweden.
Last election to the parliament got 80.1% which was down 1.3% from 1998, and was considered a failure, more or less...
Can't beleive you need all that bureaucracy. Send your voters a voting card if they are allowed to vote, all of them.
If you violate the GPL, you suddenly distributed Copyrighted non-GPL code, and you have a Copyright infringement case, nothing else.
This is what IBM is trying against SCO now.
GPL gives you rights to do things you otherwise wouldn't have. If you violate it, you lose those rights. It doesn't have to stand up in court. If it falls, you lose rights, you don't get any.
If they respond like 1. they have still violated the GPL and are thus open to lawsuits from other copyright holders than IBM, and the court battle with IBM is the test whereby the violation is proven. Other copyright holders would merely have to refer to case between SCO and IBM.
You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.
Does this mean that if SCO violates the GPL for one program (Linux) they have also violated GPL for any other programs they may want to distribute ?
The frequency discussion is relevant. However, hams also use the frequencies around the 802.11b band and they can acheive distances far beyond line of sight there too. This is mostly due to phenomena in the lower parts of the atmosphere causing ducts to form that acts as "natural waveguides"
These phenomena are however highly weather dependant which means that they can't do this all the time. Thus, it is perfecty possible to set up a link between, say, Denmark and UK, if you're satisfied with having the link working a few hours on five days per year.
OTOH if you want a link to be up 99% of the time, you cannot rely on special atmospheric conditions, which roughly means line of sight distances.
Btw, another trick hams do is bouncing the signals off the moon. That could give a theoretical uptime of about 50%, but you'll need a laaarge dish at both ends to do that with ordinary WLAN equipment. Also, the ping time would be in the range of 4000ms:-)
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I wouldn't expect Sun to give Solaris 2.10 for free, but they are doing exactly that anyway!
And they have had it for ....
But you are comparing Apples to Oranges. 15% of the market in 1995 was way less computers that 3% of the market today.
Well, I think that given that the economy crowd essentially is ruling the world, the only thing that may cause a change today is to somehow convert the very long term changes caused by our changes to planetary physics into something that the economy crowd understands.
This also have to be something that works in their timescale.
In my understanding, this is what the Kyoto protcol attempts to.
If it succeeds is another question. If it does, It's probably a Good Thing. Maybe not particularly for the US economy, but for the planet as a whole.
If it doesn't we will have to come up with something else.
Problem is:
The economy crowd's horizon is the next quarterly report
The ecology crowd's horizon is the next quarter millennium.
It is very likely that it wouldn't have been possible to receive the Huygens signal att all here at Earth using 1990's technology.
From the article, it seems like there were now two receivers in the world that can detect the signal in real time. This equipment seems to use an immense lot of computing power, which is something we all know have changed drastically the last 15 years.
It is interesting, though, to see that receiving Huygens directly was part ot the plan now in order to measure the doppler shifts along the Titan-Earth axis. The other axis would have been the Huygens-Cassini axis, combining these data would have given some kind of 3D profile of Huygens path to Titan's surface.
As I understand it, the loss of Channel A was at least partly remedied by the VLBI folks who were able to pinpoint Huygens path, as seen from Earth, albeit with a lower accuracy.
So in principle, the doppler data gives the Z-axis, and the VLBI data gives the X and Y axes. That gives some 3D to Huygens position, that would otherwise have been lost.
Another interesting piece of information is the Huygens transmitter power, 3,5 watts. That is about the average power of an ordinary cellphone. What range do you get with that, probably less than 1200 million kms.
Some clarification.
It's not just the DCE RPC that has been released, it's the whole schebang, including:
* The build environment (ODE)
* The vast documentation with specs
* Threads (Ugh!, Please don't use)
* RPC
* Directory services
* Security services
* Time sync
* File service (DFS) including the Episode file system.
* Test procedures
* The various administration tools
* The tools needed to make DCE applications.
The code is old, however and building this is not for the faint of heart, but there's lots of good stuff in there.
It's not because Windows is GUI oriented that it isn't suitable.
It's beacuse it is still single-user-oriented. If you cannot be root (ahem, Administrator) you cannot do much with it.
That's the difference between Windows and MacOS X.
However, these new results are based on a much lower number of observations (118). When it was on Torino 4, it was based on at lease 179 obeservations IIRC.
How does this work ?
C'mon guys, haven't you ever seen a meridian from below before ?
Anyway, to get news form the rest of the world, try http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/BBC.
What does the "liberal" blogs has to do with it? This has been headline news here in the EU.
I thought these things were meant to be fast...
Heatsink/Fan $1 This must be what all mfgrs use, considering how long the fans last...
See http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/10/12/supreme/in dex.php/?lsrc=mcrss-1004
Patenting their theft of the meta-IP (the playlists), /. YRO section going for years...
That could keep the
1) In 2000, national voter turnout was 51.3%. Of these, George got 47.87% and Al got 48.38%. Doing the math, George's mandate rests on 24.5 % of the voting age population. Do you think you have the President you deserve ?
Well, same thing here in Sweden. Last election to the parliament got 80.1% which was down 1.3% from 1998, and was considered a failure, more or less... Can't beleive you need all that bureaucracy. Send your voters a voting card if they are allowed to vote, all of them.
But make sure they contain something *you* Copyrighted. Then sue them because they claim to be authorized by the copyright owner, i.e. you!
I think you would end up as a very, very dead person very very quickly if you publish a way to crack RSA in a very very short time.
Somebody put together an SMTP based file system please!
This is what IBM is trying against SCO now.
GPL gives you rights to do things you otherwise wouldn't have. If you violate it, you lose those rights. It doesn't have to stand up in court. If it falls, you lose rights, you don't get any.
If they respond like 1. they have still violated the GPL and are thus open to lawsuits from other copyright holders than IBM, and the court battle with IBM is the test whereby the violation is proven. Other copyright holders would merely have to refer to case between SCO and IBM.
You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License .
Does this mean that if SCO violates the GPL for one program (Linux) they have also violated GPL for any other programs they may want to distribute ?
These phenomena are however highly weather dependant which means that they can't do this all the time. Thus, it is perfecty possible to set up a link between, say, Denmark and UK, if you're satisfied with having the link working a few hours on five days per year.
OTOH if you want a link to be up 99% of the time, you cannot rely on special atmospheric conditions, which roughly means line of sight distances.
Btw, another trick hams do is bouncing the signals off the moon. That could give a theoretical uptime of about 50%, but you'll need a laaarge dish at both ends to do that with ordinary WLAN equipment. Also, the ping time would be in the range of 4000ms :-)