Surely Slashdot can think up better ways to make use of a multimillion dollar room of fully immersive 3D interaction, besides FPS games?
I've never personally used a CAVE, but after looking over some of the reading material and the caveQuake site I can honestly say that I probably wouldn't be able to play FPS's in a CAVE.
The head tracking sounds good at first, until I think of how much twisting and turning I actually put my gun-toting avatars through; if I had to do that with my neck I'd either be in a neck brace or I'd be able to out-headbang Metallica. Maybe if it tracked my eye movements I'd go for controls other than my trusty keyboard and mouse, but I'd rather hit the park for some hacky-sack than to try and play some weird FPS version of Dance Dance Quake.
The other main problem I see with this is it could actually be too immersive for many gamers, perhaps myself included. I'm not especially susceptible to vertigo or motion sickness, however one of the nice things about a single large screen is that it is very immersive while you stay focused but it's also easy to maintain that level while not becoming ill.
Tim Searcy of the ATA was quoted in The Los Angeles Times as saying that the impact of the Do Not Call Registry would be (I did not make this quote up) ''like an asteroid hitting the earth.'' Yes. An asteroid!
Is this some weird variation of the Chewbacca Defense, if they can't cold call anymore there will be a change not unlike an asteroid hitting and presumably destroying some middling to large section of our beloved Earth? Do tell!
Guess what telemarketers, not too many years ago I worked for fat biz's in and around Michigan's little tech corridor. I did alot of special projects, first for a few years contracting thru Interim Technologies, switching companies every 9 to 18 months, then as an outside consultant for a now dead ISP. Tech doesn't have a huge stronghold here in MI, and the past 3-5 years have done quite a bit of damage, including lost jobs and closed businesses of course. But new opportunities have opened for smaller, leaner companies; for example trading that large office space for a SOHO combined with on-site service calls. Come up with something that works within the new rules and the new times, because your fat biz time is over.
My technical computer background started in home environments back in the DOS days and is still pretty heavy towards the Win/MS side, with my Linux knowledge mostly from the various firewall implementations. However I've had great success with installing apps on my CC box, such as the NWN and TeamSpeak servers I mentioned in the above comment, as well as mySQL. And while I haven't installed any FAX software, several posts on the CC forums say they've installed Hylafax using the given instructions on it's site. ClarkConnect is based on RedHat 9 and has rpm and apt-get, or you can compile new programs from source if that's what you prefer.
Users don't really want or care about this functionality, however I'll tell you who does: administrators and programmers. In a biz environment where you may have hundreds or thousands of users version control and updating are very important issues, especially so when it comes to in-house applications or virus scan updates.
I spent about three weeks once working on a scripted install of Acrobat Reader, Netscape, VirusScan, NTSP4 and a few in-house apps; all with custom setup files/registry keys and setup for our in-house programmers to do their own "pushes" of updates to the call center computers. Over the course of a weekend 6 techs working at 3 locations (HQ, call center, print/packing center) updated over 5,000 computers by simply rebooting and letting the login script do all the work, then coming by and checking for errors. We ended up with 2 machines that had serious problems after the upgrade and another 10 or so that had minor issues, which is most likely less than we would of had if the techs would of had to do the procedure by hand on each machine.
Properly used, automatic updates are a wonderful thing. However it's alot harder to implement outside the corporate structure, since most users who are burned once by an auto-update tend to mistrust all such methods. Even companies that require all users to be patched to the latest version for the large online games such as Ultima Online or Everquest occasionally get bit by the "patch bug" and make alot of enemies in their userbase whenever it happens.
Power consumtion is simply not a problem for anything under the level of "major appliance", ie fridge, air cond, etc. Since my AC is off for the season (and my heat/stove is gas) my electric bills has dropped to around $30 a month, and that includes running 3 computers 24/7 with NO power management enabled. Of course my ClarkConnect firewall box rarely has a monitor attached to it, and my Video/Jukebox/eMule machine only has the monitor on for a few hours each day.
OSNews was tipped off that OEone (previous stories: 1, 2, 3),
creators of the desktop HomeBase SUITE (based on Linux, X and Mozilla's APIs), now are moving to server space. Next week they are going to announce an exciting new product (under a new brand name: "Axentra Rumba Server") which puts Linux back to the server space, but with the form of a user-friendly and cute-looking appliance.
I'd much rather take an older computer and throw ClarkConnect on it. Comparing the feature list above with CC's features:
Security
* Stateful Firewall * Intrusion detection with Snort * Secure shell via SSH * IPsec VPN (Office Edition only) * PPTP VPN (Office Edition only) Web Server
* Apache web server * Support for CGI and PHP * Secure/SSL support File Services
* Journalled file system with ext3 * FTP server * Windows file server * AppleShare file server E-mail
* POP and IMAP servers * SMTP server Filtering
* Banner ad blocking * Web proxy * Content filtering (Office Edition only) Printing
* Print server support * Printer sharing for Samba/Windows networks Easy Configuration * Web-based configuration* Optional Webmin package Network Support
* DSL (including PPPoE) * Cable Modem * 802.11b Wireless (Office Edition only) * Internal DHCP server * Caching nameserver
There's a few not listed on the quick info page, such as Gallery and SpamAssassin, but you get the picture. Not to say that you couldn't add on to the software on the Rumba, after all it is Linux based, but who says they'll make it easy for you to do so. I have no problems adding new goodies to my ClarkConnect box, such as a NWN and TeamSpeak server for my gaming friends or SliMP3 server for around the house music, and I wouldn't give that up.
To give fair time to two other Linux firewall distros I've used in the past and like almost as much as ClarkConnect, check out Smoothwall and IPCop.
SoftImage is also a big part of why Half Life 2 looks so damn good, I recommend some of the E3 demonstrations such as Half-Life 2 Technical Movie Walls or Alyx (BitTorrent). It's really quite amazing, in Walls they compress approx 22K polygons down into one which has a "baked in lightmap" which allows it to still look and act like a high poly object.
"Midway through the production of Half-Life 2," says Gabe Newell, Managing Director at Valve Software, "we realized that our tools were hamstringing our artists. We decided that we needed to go find the right set of tools to build the game. We evaluated all of the tools we could have used for Half-Life 2, and, when we looked at the combination of the products and the companies that were standing behind them, XSI and Softimage were head and shoulders above any of the other options."
Anyone who was lucky enough to see the previews of the work that Valve did with SOFTIMAGE|XSI on Half-Life 2 at E3 knows that the team made the right choice. original link w/more info
Of course those torrents above are the previews Gabe's reffering to. Also on GameTab Torrent are a complete listing of Half Life 2 Movies.
Hollywood and Video Games have been moving closer and closer together, but where we're going to see the first total unification of the two industries is definately software and it's underlying technologies.
I'm really sick of the space program, especially the US one. While I agree that safety is very important, I really feel that too much money is being spent to make overly complicated transport vehicles that address some safety concerns while opening up a whole new slew of things that can go wrong.
If there was more money to be made from going into space, more people would be willing to take greater risks in order to do so. I can't help wondering if there will eventually be a "wagon train to the stars" (to crib from Gene Roddenberry [usrbingeek.com]) where ordinary men and women put their lives on the line in simple, inexpensive rockets in order to reap the rewards of space. What were the odds of an early settler heading across the US in one of those original wagon trains, bound for new lands and most importantly new money? Personally I'd probably strap into a rocket if the odds were 50%, just to get into space; and I know I'd do it if the odds were up around 70% without a second thought.
The only real hope I see for space is the X-Prize [xprize.org], which of course gets heavy coverage here. However I'd like to include a snippet from their factsheet [xprize.org] which has particular relavence here:
Historical Analog:
By 1929, governments, individuals, newspapers and major corporations had offered more than 50 major aeronautical prizes. Among them was the Orteig Prize, a $25,000 cash prize sponsored by a wealthy hotel owner, Raymond Orteig, for the first person or persons to fly non-stop between New York and Paris. The Orteig Prize stimulated not one, but nine separate attempts to cross the Atlantic. To initiate the flights, competitors raised and spent some $400,000, or 16 times the amount of the prize. As a result of these early aviation prizes, the world's $250 Billion aviation industry was created. The X PRIZE hopes to spur the creation of a vibrant commercial space industry through the $10M competition.
We can only hope that the space industry sees such a revolution take place. Although the The Dawn of the Space Age [nasa.gov] began October 4, 1957 with the launch of Sputnik I, the sun still hasn't moved that far from the horizon in all those years.
I believe your thinking of this Slashback story with a response from the Linksys PR rep.
Calm down that jerking knee, then apply ice. In response a post which raised the question of
whether Linksys was in violation of the GPL by not distributing, nor offering links to, the source code for the software controlling their 802.11g base stations. A representative from Linksys-PR sent in this note about the "missing" source code:
Linksys is a strong proponent of both Linux and the Open Source movement. The code within our routers is using User Space code without linking dynamically or statically to any GPL (GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE) code. Any code which does not have a static or dynamic link to anything covered by the General Public License is not GPL'ed, and can be considered closed source.
We regret it took some time to respond to this posting. To assure timely responses to inquiries like this in the future, please use the following procedure which complies with the requirements of the General Public License:
1. Please put your request in writing or in an email addressed to info@Linksys.com
2. You have to request the code for the specific modules you want. It is not valid to issue a request for any "code you may be using."
3. Technically, you are also supposed to provide us with a self-addressed stamped envelope, along with funds to cover the cost of providing the code to you. But Linksys will handle requests on a case-by-case basis. Thank you."
However there's been a couple of additional stories since then about new Linksys GPL releases.
Obviously this is something that's going to take awhile to work out, not only with Linksys but other companies that are enjoying the riches of open source code.
Not to get into the nit picking, but your argument, containing some trivia and some truth, is itself fallacious.
*Of note is that therobot 4-LOM stood for "For love of Money". And where money is the motivating factor, I don't think we can entirely rule out the last trilogy ever being made.
Although Lucas himself probably won't do the last three, I'm sure he'll have someone do them, thereby enriching himself once again.
The name was developed as an acronym of sorts for: "for love of money," quite fitting for a bounty hunter.
This is simple creative wordplay by the writer, especially helpful in a situation where you've already had to think up a bunch of weird droid names. I won't say he's not motivated by money, of course he is, but drawing the connection between an aptly named droid and such money motivation doesn't work.
checking for the domain names on the TLD servers once per second, downloading various files from the site once per second, and sending email to themselves once per second.
They obviously haven't been in the monitoring biz that long, at least not long enough to get a bill for all the bandwidth they're sucking down.
Our first response was to talk to them and explain what we needed them to do, including a list of IPs that we used for customers so they could adjust their monitoring to suit what we thought was reasonable. They chose to ignore the first discussion and continued to abuse the servers. After the email server required a half-day of cleanup, the CTO simply shut them off at the firewalls. Rather than using the contact information they had, they chose to complain to our mutual customers instead. (I should note we do significant monitoring of the servers ourselves, and typically know if something is wrong within minutes of the event.)
Sounds like your company is reasonable, and therefore expecting this possibly "fly-by-night" monitoring company to also be reasonable.
Is this typical behavior of monitoring service companies? I know some of them are not reputable at all (due to spamming) however these guys seem to know what they are doing, and yet managed to effectively attack our mail and web servers, as well as doing some things I would not do to the TLD servers.
I just checked out ClarkConnect's monitoring page (I use their free Linux firewall but not these pay services) and their lowest monitoring interval is 2 minutes for $45/mth, then 5 for $30/mth, 20 for $10/mth and finally 60 mins for $40/yr being the cheapest. Obviously they know such continuous monitoring justifies passing that cost along to the consumer.
It is hard to feel justified to shutting off someone else's cash-flow, but at the same time we need to defend servers from over zealous monitoring."
Thier own biz practices will be the death of them, don't shed any tears over a company that makes this large of a mistake and uses dirty methods to contact customers. I wonder if your now going to have to charge your hosted sites that used the services for the excess bandwidth they used? Maybe cut them a "goodwill" deal on the excess charges?
I'm really sick of the space program, especially the US one. While I agree that safety is very important, I really feel that too much money is being spent to make overly complicated transport vehicles that address some safety concerns while opening up a whole new slew of things that can go wrong.
If there was more money to be made from going into space, more people would be willing to take greater risks in order to do so. I can't help wondering if there will eventually be a "wagon train to the stars" (to crib from Gene Roddenberry) where ordinary men and women put their lives on the line in simple, inexpensive rockets in order to reap the rewards of space. What were the odds of an early settler heading across the US in one of those original wagon trains, bound for new lands and most importantly new money? Personally I'd probably strap into a rocket if the odds were 50%, just to get into space; and I know I'd do it if the odds were up around 70% without a second thought.
The only real hope I see for space is the X-Prize, which of course gets heavy coverage here. However I'd like to include a snippet from their factsheet which has particular relavence here:
Historical Analog:
By 1929, governments, individuals, newspapers and major corporations had offered more than 50 major aeronautical prizes. Among them was the Orteig Prize, a $25,000 cash prize sponsored by a wealthy hotel owner, Raymond Orteig, for the first person or persons to fly non-stop between New York and Paris. The Orteig Prize stimulated not one, but nine separate attempts to cross the Atlantic. To initiate the flights, competitors raised and spent some $400,000, or 16 times the amount of the prize. As a result of these early aviation prizes, the world's $250 Billion aviation industry was created. The X PRIZE hopes to spur the creation of a vibrant commercial space industry through the $10M competition.
We can only hope that the space industry sees such a revolution take place. Although the The Dawn of the Space Age began October 4, 1957 with the launch of Sputnik I, the sun still hasn't moved that far from the horizon in all those years.
Grab your favorite smelly hippie and head out to the old outdoor venue, forget about 90+ degree temps when you hop into the Fog Screen 3D!
Based on the "mist tents" seen at Lollapalalaala(TM), you'll trip balls walking thru the 50 foot cube of cooling fog filled with visuals that _may_ have something to do with the music!
Seriously, this is a great idea and I expect we'll see something based on this which gets the audience inside the thing at entertainment venues in the future. I also would like to say I'm glad to see it looking so good in the demo pics.
In Tokyo, meanwhile, Japanese singles can punch up profiles of prospective mates strolling the same stretch of sidewalk.
Not that TechTV is enough to make me an expert on the subject, but they just did a piece on this for the "Wired for Sex" show. Seems the opportunities for meeting new people to date are extremely limited in the Japanese culture, which traditionally has been restricted to older relatives introducing youngsters, and of course further back they simply pre-arranged marriages. This method of "phone meeting" is more like a meet a new friend/dating service in a culture that normally provides very limited opportunities for doing so.
Unfortunately I can't find a transcript of the show, but here's a quick description taken from the shownotes:
Japan's cities teem with people -- and social opportunities. The Japanese dating tool of choice: the cellphone. Unlike Internet portals such as Match.com, which are generally accessed via computer, the Japanese access dating sites Asoboo.com and ImaHima using their cellphones. If a young woman finds herself in Roppongi Hills with no one to buy her a drink, she can access the service to look for a suitable companion. If someone in the vicinity responds positively, global positioning systems, using ringtones, direct the two to each other for an "offkai" (Japanese slang for a meeting off-line).
I'll leave the Orwellian aspects of cellphone tracking to the other threads.;)
I'd definately focus at least half the machines towards basic Internet access, and would probably prefer using old junker (donated?) machines and Linux Terminal Server Project to host it. The other half should be quite a bit more powerful to run games and an "Office" suite. Quite a bit depends on what your target audience is, which currently seems vaguely defined.
Here's the link to the Complete Transcript, Walter Issacson's quote is definately the best: "The intellectual property to this video is totally owned by Hilary Rosen. And it may not be distributed in any way shape or form in digital fashion."
Personally I've always admired the structure of Novell's various user/share schemes but really hated the tools used to interface with them. Of course I'm a bit dated on the issue (Netware 3.x, 4.x, haven't had to really admin a version since then) so I'd hope it's much improved.:) I just did a bit of snooping around on Novell's site but couldn't find any screentshots of their interfaces anywhere, oh well.
Well this blows the good old "kids can't buy nasty things on the internet" excuse the online cigarette resellers use. (As seen recently on TechTV's
Unscrewed interview with the owner of Freedom Tobacco.)
Technology really does make all things possible, unfortunately government and most people believe they are safe because "it can't be done now".
At least some (many?) of us Feds don't have either on our machines...it's LAN storage, local drives and floppies for us. The pain is awful:(
While such a "closed" environment is great for enforcing management's will upon the end user, like stopping "download/burn/take home" piracy, the productivity hit isn't worth it. No CDR at all means lots of time and hassle, especially if the lowly techs actually need to work on the machine. (LAN access isn't as good as CDR in many situations)
There are quite a few companies here in MI that strip CDRs and/or sound cards from all new systems before deploying. For example the Detroit Medical Center (or at least the areas I'm familiar with, no I don't work there) strips sound cards but leaves CDRs. They also use some of the default M$ policy/login stuff to make sure the important program icons are available and lock out some of the basic things people like to change. The system works fairly well, gameplaying is forbidden but people can install games and play them without sound.
One problem is unrestricted Internet access, although you can't burn CDs and thus chew up bandwidth/etc that way, you can get an interesting assortment of spy/malware on your system. I've seen a couple breakroom computers that were loading all sorts of interesting banners and web pages automatically, good thing they didn't have modems 'cause there was a dialer in there someplace. The policy restricts Joe User from doing anything about it, so it goes to tech support. Too many times companies fixate on certain issues to the exclusion of all else, and it ends up hurting them in the end. Probably one of the main reasons I'm in consulting now, I get paid to tell them in what ways they need to wake up.;)
I'm a resident of MI, and I can honestly say our state gov really sucks. First we make firewalls and VPNs illegal with a super-DMCA-like bill, now we get some tough but unenforceable spam bill?
Of course it could be much worse; like our roads, bridges and public transportation system (ha!) have been for years. Disclaimer: I live in Wayne and travel extensively in the tri county area, so if you live someplace in MI where the roads are nice raise your hand and point to it. For those of you who don't live in MI go look at a map of it to see the best thing about MI, ie how easy it is to show people where you live. Jonah Hex
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The head tracking sounds good at first, until I think of how much twisting and turning I actually put my gun-toting avatars through; if I had to do that with my neck I'd either be in a neck brace or I'd be able to out-headbang Metallica. Maybe if it tracked my eye movements I'd go for controls other than my trusty keyboard and mouse, but I'd rather hit the park for some hacky-sack than to try and play some weird FPS version of Dance Dance Quake.
The other main problem I see with this is it could actually be too immersive for many gamers, perhaps myself included. I'm not especially susceptible to vertigo or motion sickness, however one of the nice things about a single large screen is that it is very immersive while you stay focused but it's also easy to maintain that level while not becoming ill.
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Guess what telemarketers, not too many years ago I worked for fat biz's in and around Michigan's little tech corridor. I did alot of special projects, first for a few years contracting thru Interim Technologies, switching companies every 9 to 18 months, then as an outside consultant for a now dead ISP. Tech doesn't have a huge stronghold here in MI, and the past 3-5 years have done quite a bit of damage, including lost jobs and closed businesses of course. But new opportunities have opened for smaller, leaner companies; for example trading that large office space for a SOHO combined with on-site service calls. Come up with something that works within the new rules and the new times, because your fat biz time is over.
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My technical computer background started in home environments back in the DOS days and is still pretty heavy towards the Win/MS side, with my Linux knowledge mostly from the various firewall implementations. However I've had great success with installing apps on my CC box, such as the NWN and TeamSpeak servers I mentioned in the above comment, as well as mySQL. And while I haven't installed any FAX software, several posts on the CC forums say they've installed Hylafax using the given instructions on it's site. ClarkConnect is based on RedHat 9 and has rpm and apt-get, or you can compile new programs from source if that's what you prefer.
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Users don't really want or care about this functionality, however I'll tell you who does: administrators and programmers. In a biz environment where you may have hundreds or thousands of users version control and updating are very important issues, especially so when it comes to in-house applications or virus scan updates.
I spent about three weeks once working on a scripted install of Acrobat Reader, Netscape, VirusScan, NTSP4 and a few in-house apps; all with custom setup files/registry keys and setup for our in-house programmers to do their own "pushes" of updates to the call center computers. Over the course of a weekend 6 techs working at 3 locations (HQ, call center, print/packing center) updated over 5,000 computers by simply rebooting and letting the login script do all the work, then coming by and checking for errors. We ended up with 2 machines that had serious problems after the upgrade and another 10 or so that had minor issues, which is most likely less than we would of had if the techs would of had to do the procedure by hand on each machine.
Properly used, automatic updates are a wonderful thing. However it's alot harder to implement outside the corporate structure, since most users who are burned once by an auto-update tend to mistrust all such methods. Even companies that require all users to be patched to the latest version for the large online games such as Ultima Online or Everquest occasionally get bit by the "patch bug" and make alot of enemies in their userbase whenever it happens.
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Power consumtion is simply not a problem for anything under the level of "major appliance", ie fridge, air cond, etc. Since my AC is off for the season (and my heat/stove is gas) my electric bills has dropped to around $30 a month, and that includes running 3 computers 24/7 with NO power management enabled. Of course my ClarkConnect firewall box rarely has a monitor attached to it, and my Video/Jukebox/eMule machine only has the monitor on for a few hours each day.
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I'd much rather take an older computer and throw ClarkConnect on it. Comparing the feature list above with CC's features:
Security
* Stateful Firewall * Intrusion detection with Snort * Secure shell via SSH * IPsec VPN (Office Edition only) * PPTP VPN (Office Edition only)
Web Server
* Apache web server * Support for CGI and PHP * Secure/SSL support
File Services
* Journalled file system with ext3 * FTP server * Windows file server * AppleShare file server
E-mail
* POP and IMAP servers * SMTP server
Filtering
* Banner ad blocking * Web proxy * Content filtering (Office Edition only)
Printing
* Print server support * Printer sharing for Samba/Windows networks
Easy Configuration
* Web-based configuration* Optional Webmin package
Network Support
* DSL (including PPPoE) * Cable Modem * 802.11b Wireless (Office Edition only) * Internal DHCP server * Caching nameserver
There's a few not listed on the quick info page, such as Gallery and SpamAssassin, but you get the picture. Not to say that you couldn't add on to the software on the Rumba, after all it is Linux based, but who says they'll make it easy for you to do so. I have no problems adding new goodies to my ClarkConnect box, such as a NWN and TeamSpeak server for my gaming friends or SliMP3 server for around the house music, and I wouldn't give that up.
To give fair time to two other Linux firewall distros I've used in the past and like almost as much as ClarkConnect, check out Smoothwall and IPCop.
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Hollywood and Video Games have been moving closer and closer together, but where we're going to see the first total unification of the two industries is definately software and it's underlying technologies.
Jonah Hex
If there was more money to be made from going into space, more people would be willing to take greater risks in order to do so. I can't help wondering if there will eventually be a "wagon train to the stars" (to crib from Gene Roddenberry [usrbingeek.com]) where ordinary men and women put their lives on the line in simple, inexpensive rockets in order to reap the rewards of space. What were the odds of an early settler heading across the US in one of those original wagon trains, bound for new lands and most importantly new money? Personally I'd probably strap into a rocket if the odds were 50%, just to get into space; and I know I'd do it if the odds were up around 70% without a second thought.
The only real hope I see for space is the X-Prize [xprize.org], which of course gets heavy coverage here. However I'd like to include a snippet from their factsheet [xprize.org] which has particular relavence here: We can only hope that the space industry sees such a revolution take place. Although the The Dawn of the Space Age [nasa.gov] began October 4, 1957 with the launch of Sputnik I, the sun still hasn't moved that far from the horizon in all those years.
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However there's been a couple of additional stories since then about new Linksys GPL releases.
Linksys Releases GPLed Code for WRT54G They released their code mods on their website.
Linksys and the GPL, Again Missing code mods from the Linksys webpage.
Obviously this is something that's going to take awhile to work out, not only with Linksys but other companies that are enjoying the riches of open source code.
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Both of these solutions look great and very mature, I also found the history on NetBar interesting. Bookmarked em both for later use. :)
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If there was more money to be made from going into space, more people would be willing to take greater risks in order to do so. I can't help wondering if there will eventually be a "wagon train to the stars" (to crib from Gene Roddenberry) where ordinary men and women put their lives on the line in simple, inexpensive rockets in order to reap the rewards of space. What were the odds of an early settler heading across the US in one of those original wagon trains, bound for new lands and most importantly new money? Personally I'd probably strap into a rocket if the odds were 50%, just to get into space; and I know I'd do it if the odds were up around 70% without a second thought.
The only real hope I see for space is the X-Prize, which of course gets heavy coverage here. However I'd like to include a snippet from their factsheet which has particular relavence here: We can only hope that the space industry sees such a revolution take place. Although the The Dawn of the Space Age began October 4, 1957 with the launch of Sputnik I, the sun still hasn't moved that far from the horizon in all those years.
Jonah Hex
Grab your favorite smelly hippie and head out to the old outdoor venue, forget about 90+ degree temps when you hop into the Fog Screen 3D!
Based on the "mist tents" seen at Lollapalalaala(TM), you'll trip balls walking thru the 50 foot cube of cooling fog filled with visuals that _may_ have something to do with the music!
Seriously, this is a great idea and I expect we'll see something based on this which gets the audience inside the thing at entertainment venues in the future. I also would like to say I'm glad to see it looking so good in the demo pics.
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Unfortunately I can't find a transcript of the show, but here's a quick description taken from the shownotes: I'll leave the Orwellian aspects of cellphone tracking to the other threads.
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Hmmm $666 with an additional 5% profit margin = 699.3
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I'd definately focus at least half the machines towards basic Internet access, and would probably prefer using old junker (donated?) machines and Linux Terminal Server Project to host it. The other half should be quite a bit more powerful to run games and an "Office" suite. Quite a bit depends on what your target audience is, which currently seems vaguely defined.
Jonah Hex
Here's the link to the Complete Transcript, Walter Issacson's quote is definately the best: "The intellectual property to this video is totally owned by Hilary Rosen. And it may not be distributed in any way shape or form in digital fashion."
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Personally I've always admired the structure of Novell's various user/share schemes but really hated the tools used to interface with them. Of course I'm a bit dated on the issue (Netware 3.x, 4.x, haven't had to really admin a version since then) so I'd hope it's much improved. :) I just did a bit of snooping around on Novell's site but couldn't find any screentshots of their interfaces anywhere, oh well.
Jonah Hex
Well this blows the good old "kids can't buy nasty things on the internet" excuse the online cigarette resellers use. (As seen recently on TechTV's Unscrewed interview with the owner of Freedom Tobacco.)
Technology really does make all things possible, unfortunately government and most people believe they are safe because "it can't be done now".
Jonah Hex
There are quite a few companies here in MI that strip CDRs and/or sound cards from all new systems before deploying. For example the Detroit Medical Center (or at least the areas I'm familiar with, no I don't work there) strips sound cards but leaves CDRs. They also use some of the default M$ policy/login stuff to make sure the important program icons are available and lock out some of the basic things people like to change. The system works fairly well, gameplaying is forbidden but people can install games and play them without sound.
One problem is unrestricted Internet access, although you can't burn CDs and thus chew up bandwidth/etc that way, you can get an interesting assortment of spy/malware on your system. I've seen a couple breakroom computers that were loading all sorts of interesting banners and web pages automatically, good thing they didn't have modems 'cause there was a dialer in there someplace. The policy restricts Joe User from doing anything about it, so it goes to tech support. Too many times companies fixate on certain issues to the exclusion of all else, and it ends up hurting them in the end. Probably one of the main reasons I'm in consulting now, I get paid to tell them in what ways they need to wake up.
Jonah Hex
I'm a resident of MI, and I can honestly say our state gov really sucks. First we make firewalls and VPNs illegal with a super-DMCA-like bill, now we get some tough but unenforceable spam bill?
Of course it could be much worse; like our roads, bridges and public transportation system (ha!) have been for years.
Disclaimer: I live in Wayne and travel extensively in the tri county area, so if you live someplace in MI where the roads are nice raise your hand and point to it. For those of you who don't live in MI go look at a map of it to see the best thing about MI, ie how easy it is to show people where you live.
Jonah Hex
So what's the easiest way to use new versions, use something like Gentoo or Linux From Scratch? Jonah Hex